Building a Bimetallic Tea Monitoring Mechanism

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Fantastic is all that needs to said

You can mount the bell using a sort of cushion so it will have a prolongated song and not just ding

Looks nice, Im a clock repairman and whenever bells are mounted they are fitted with felt washers on the top and bottom where they mount. This prevents the dampening of the sound

If Wallace and Gromit were into machining, this would be their first project!. Lovely project, masterfull cinematography, good narration👌

So british...

Just as a little fun fact, bi-metallic mechanisms are used basically everywhere around us. Most of the time not in the form a strip but in stamped discs that can be made to snap at a temperature with tolerances of less than one degree. Every item in your house that has a heater inside will most likely have a bi metal snap disc, as they are called, in them as safety mechanisms or every simple kettle that switches off when the water is cooking will have between 1-4 of these discs in them. It's actually quite fascinating how they work and how they are manufactured and actually how few companies there are in relation to the billions of discs used all over the world

the madman did it. he actually actually used the thermal expansion equation from physics class.

I can't express how much I love this. The amount of energy, time, materials and money spent on this, solely because you couldn't be bothered to use the timer function on your phone, is so out of proportion to the real-world benefit that it has to be a pure labour of love. And I love that.

Proper English eccentricity. A superb and beautifully made piece of silliness.

All that build up, and we only saw one demonstration of the finished product, and even then, it wasn’t a live-firing situation, but a test run with just water! I need to see this a dozen times with real tea!

This is way over-engineered, yet exactly the type of goofy mechanisms that humans love so much. Perfect. 10/10

Other YouTubers: "We're gonna use an Arduino, Raspberry Pi, several LEDs, and a K-type thermocouple to make a tea temperature alarm." Chronova: Steampunk Heath Robinson Device.

Amazing. I had just returned to my computer after filming, my coffee was cold and this video was in my recommended videos. Maybe google does know everything lol. What an incredible gadget, thanks for showing its construction.

I almost expected Uri Tuchman to come up with something like this. A, sort of, pointless invention that still serves a unique purpose.

A deceptively simple mechanism with an exceptional amount of thought and work put into it... I love this.

The beautiful craftsmanship, design, and camerawork for something that is frankly a ridiculously over-engineered solution well earned my subscription. More please.

It's like a Rube Goldberg machine. An over the top elaborately constructed and complex machine designed to accomplish a mundane task. I absolutely love it! I enjoy fabricating myself and can understand the delight one feels when designing and constructing such a device. One time I saw a group of engineering students who, just for grins and giggles, constructed a machine with over 20 different operations that took 50 seconds to complete. The machine was constructed to place a stamp on an envelope. Marvelous!

As a side benefit, the heat-sink properties of the mechanism will help bring your tea to perfect temperature faster!

This is such a lovely piece of engineering and machining. It also demonstrates a physical phenomenon in a memorable and playful way.