Stuck in British Columbia
Submitted by: Keitaro
Chicken Stick
A non-contact voltage reader, used to safely read voltage without touching high voltage leads.
Submitted by: Angus
Himalayan nylon
It’s what the flooring guy is doing. Also used to describe cheap composition materials.
Submitted by: Dug
Po Dunk
Not just poor but po. And dumb to boot.
Submitted by: Dug
Terry The Torch
Uncle Bumblefuck’s Oxy Acetylene torch. Made a Cameo in Oxy Acetylene cutting, Shake hands with danger and How to recover tungsten carbide from drill bits
Submitted by: Cockfordollie5254
Das blinkenlights
Refers to an old mock warning sign in germna/english from computer rooms in the age of mainframes.
“ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS!
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN.
IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.”
It has it’s own wikipediapage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights
Submitted by: Esben
The room known as the wife’s sewings
Babydoll’s sewing room: This is where uncle bumblefuck does his electronics projects, he keeps his components in here and he keeps some test equipment in here too most notably a Tektronix analog oscilloscope he showed off in one vid.
Submitted by: Cockfordollie5254
Frigol
Rigol: a company who makes cheap electronics test equipment, uncle bumblefucks lcd digital storage oscilloscope is made by rigol and he also has a variable dc power supply made by rigol. “We got the frigol hooked up to er’ now”
Submitted by: Cockfordollie5254
Wheatstone Bridge
A very useful electronic component that turns mechanical energy into electrical, uncle bumblefuck has found them in many things including: a hazard fraud digital torque meter, and pressure transducers. He has used one in his series on testing wrenches until they break where he connected it to the osmelloscope to graph how much torque it took to break the wrench.
Submitted by: Cockfordollie5254
Stools on the tools
The people who actually do work with tools and not design them, machinists, elecchickens, car-painters, plumbers, home gamers, 200 pound gorillas, miners, tradesmen. Often used when uncle bumblefuck is complaining about how it seems like tool designers have never actually used the tool they are designing.
Submitted by: Cockfordollie5254