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This is neat. If someone wants a slightly more comedic take on automotive engine designs, Donut Media has some interesting content. https://www.youtube.com/wa

This is neat. If someone wants a slightly more comedic take on automotive engine designs, Donut Media has some interesting content. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YIDOjD0oBI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YIDOjD0oBI EDIT: Removed erroneous claim.

capableweb 6y ago
> Donut Media pioneered the "suck squeeze bang blow" descriptor of the 4 stroke engine Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but I think I've heard the term "suck squeeze bang blow" way before Feb 23, 2021 and also before 2015 (creation of that Youtube channel) so I find that claim hard to believe.
- bagels 6y ago
  It predates that channel by decades.
- Judgmentality 6y ago
  Sorry, it's just the first place I'd heard it. I'll edit my comment. I wasn't speaking on behalf of them. Weird. I've been talking to people about cars for decades and I'd never heard it before them. Is it just something that people don't say anymore? https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/28682/who-came-up-with-suck-squeeze-bang-blow https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/28682/who-came... I guess for whatever reason it's just not used as much, or at least not enough that I've heard it before.
- pen2l 6y ago
  This text dated 1981 mentions it (page viii): https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-1-349-06976-7%2F1.pdf https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-1-349-06976-... edit: and googling some more, there are instances of in being used it 1950s. And the likely first author of the saying might well be the inventor of the 4 stroke engine himself, Nicolaus Otto, who used a similar saying to describe it: Saugen, Drücken, Knall, Schlag.
  - wizzwizz4 6y ago
    Only source I can find for your last claim is https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/a/28690/33924 https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/a/28690/33924: > Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if the great Nikolaus August Otto, inventor of the four-cycle engine had a similar saying to explain his engine: Saugen, Drücken, Knall, Schlag... So I think this is apocryphal.
    - pen2l 6y ago
      You might be right, I'm not sure. At least in Otto's patent filing (which is found in English here: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/1f/3f/4c/821c6da1070930/US194047.pdf https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/1f/3f/4c/821c6da... ) I don't see such an expression. I do see though that the breakdown of the Otto cycle on most sites including German ones (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottomotor https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottomotor) is usually made in a way that just sorts of lends itself to being transformed that way. Well, thanks for making me go through his writings, this was fun!
- cableclasper 6y ago
  Yeah. I've seen it in an old BBC documentary: The secret life of machines - Internal Combustion Engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfr3_AwuO9Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfr3_AwuO9Y
- NikolaeVarius 6y ago
  Wow screw this channel for such dumb shit.
- mhh__ 6y ago
  Even top gear referred to it as such probably a decade prior
berniemadoff69 6y ago
> If someone wants a slightly more comedic take it seems sort of rare on the Internet, particularly in videos, for someone to NOT be doing a 'comedic' take, along with a jump cut every 5 seconds, background music; all kinds of stuff that feels like it is desperately trying to do everything it can all at once to make someone not hit the back button. ironically, hitting the back button is the first thing i do when a video starts with 'Wats up Guyz' or something along those lines. the original post is a breath of fresh air, straight to the point. I wish the Internet was more like this in general.
- marcodiego 6y ago
  These "jump cut every 5 seconds" is the reason I've been watching less youtube everyday. It completely breaks continuity and are so frequent that a significant part of the video is wasted. Reading and watching an animation is better than video tutorials in almost every regard.
spike021 6y ago
Something to keep in mind: several sources of actual topics have contradicted Donut Media views on certain things and DM has been known to steal video clips without crediting where they got them or use Wikipedia articles as established sources. Not that all their videos have these issues, but some do and it gets pretty ridiculous.

capableweb 6y ago

> Donut Media pioneered the "suck squeeze bang blow" descriptor of the 4 stroke engine Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but I think I've heard the term "suck squeeze bang blow" way before Feb 23, 2021 and also before 2015 (creation of that Youtube channel) so I find that claim hard to believe.

bagels 6y ago
It predates that channel by decades.
Judgmentality 6y ago
Sorry, it's just the first place I'd heard it. I'll edit my comment. I wasn't speaking on behalf of them. Weird. I've been talking to people about cars for decades and I'd never heard it before them. Is it just something that people don't say anymore? https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/28682/who-came-up-with-suck-squeeze-bang-blow https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/28682/who-came... I guess for whatever reason it's just not used as much, or at least not enough that I've heard it before.
pen2l 6y ago
This text dated 1981 mentions it (page viii): https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-1-349-06976-7%2F1.pdf https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-1-349-06976-... edit: and googling some more, there are instances of in being used it 1950s. And the likely first author of the saying might well be the inventor of the 4 stroke engine himself, Nicolaus Otto, who used a similar saying to describe it: Saugen, Drücken, Knall, Schlag.
- wizzwizz4 6y ago
  Only source I can find for your last claim is https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/a/28690/33924 https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/a/28690/33924: > Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if the great Nikolaus August Otto, inventor of the four-cycle engine had a similar saying to explain his engine: Saugen, Drücken, Knall, Schlag... So I think this is apocryphal.
  - pen2l 6y ago
    You might be right, I'm not sure. At least in Otto's patent filing (which is found in English here: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/1f/3f/4c/821c6da1070930/US194047.pdf https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/1f/3f/4c/821c6da... ) I don't see such an expression. I do see though that the breakdown of the Otto cycle on most sites including German ones (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottomotor https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottomotor) is usually made in a way that just sorts of lends itself to being transformed that way. Well, thanks for making me go through his writings, this was fun!
cableclasper 6y ago
Yeah. I've seen it in an old BBC documentary: The secret life of machines - Internal Combustion Engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfr3_AwuO9Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfr3_AwuO9Y
NikolaeVarius 6y ago
Wow screw this channel for such dumb shit.
mhh__ 6y ago
Even top gear referred to it as such probably a decade prior

berniemadoff69 6y ago

> If someone wants a slightly more comedic take it seems sort of rare on the Internet, particularly in videos, for someone to NOT be doing a 'comedic' take, along with a jump cut every 5 seconds, background music; all kinds of stuff that feels like it is desperately trying to do everything it can all at once to make someone not hit the back button. ironically, hitting the back button is the first thing i do when a video starts with 'Wats up Guyz' or something along those lines. the original post is a breath of fresh air, straight to the point. I wish the Internet was more like this in general.

marcodiego 6y ago
These "jump cut every 5 seconds" is the reason I've been watching less youtube everyday. It completely breaks continuity and are so frequent that a significant part of the video is wasted. Reading and watching an animation is better than video tutorials in almost every regard.

spike021 6y ago

Something to keep in mind: several sources of actual topics have contradicted Donut Media views on certain things and DM has been known to steal video clips without crediting where they got them or use Wikipedia articles as established sources. Not that all their videos have these issues, but some do and it gets pretty ridiculous.