Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside to Him. All right you guys, so I am kind of expanding on my first impression pattern review series by adding some indie patterns and I am going to shamelessly use Helen's closet as a resource because she do an amazing job of recapping the new indie patterns that come out from week to week in her series called Wednesday Weekly. In today's video I'm going to cover June so we're scrolling way back to her Wednesday Weekly number 175 and in here she has a lot of really great information here not just new indie patterns but when you scroll down you can see all the new patterns that have been released that week. So I have no idea how many patterns we're going to cover today but let's jump right in I guess. So Seamwork does a couple of new patterns every month. I think that the subscription nowadays is like eight dollars a month or something like that. I have a link in the description box where you can get oh gosh what's the what's the offer. I think it's like three dollars off your first month. I'll put all the details of the Seamwork offer that I have in the description box along with the link so head to that to check that out. But okay so remember we're all the way back here in June like the beginning of summer so it makes a lot of sense that they would have a little swimsuit pattern here. This is the Crosby swimsuit looks to be like I don't typically review swimsuits because I don't typically make swimsuits but this is like a little maybe spaghetti strap wrapped one piece with some ruching and like kind of very low leg. Yeah I mean cute enough for a swimsuit I suppose. The other really cool thing about Seamwork is that sometimes they will give you and I don't know if it's going to be on these pages or not but they'll give you ways to hack this into something else so that's a lot of fun. This little striped one I wish we could see that of her standing up because it looks like it would be really cute with the strike variations. Okay they also released the jean dress G E N E not denim J E A N. This looks to be a very long like mini-length straight probably knit I'm thinking with that little twisty thing that everyone's loving right now myself included. Look how cute that is I'm assuming this would be like ideal for a cover-up ideal for like beach to dinner kind of situation and I can see that. So oh look they even tell the alterations they made to the pattern for this specific model that's kind of cool. Yeah so it is a knit pattern and then yeah so here are the pattern hacks so they'll give you three of them to make a little asymmetrical version a v-neck version and then like a scooped back with this little like panel thing so you kind of really get five patterns every month if you think about it that way but they talk to you about where to get fabric here are some of the details scoop neck seems help to create knot not him details high low relaxed fit cap sleeve and a single fold hem I can imagine if you like shortened this too to raise this up a little bit that would also be cute and then here are some line drawings on like a little croaky model looks very comfortable okay next up is pattern scouts fern top look how cute this little number is lots and lots of pictures that's one thing the nd pattern designers are really great at fern is a boxy top pattern for light to midweight woven fabrics it features a dolman style short sleeve a sectioned bodice and skirt bottom I don't know how I feel about dolman sleeves on a midweight woven it creates a lot of bulky funky stuff up here you know like it's just not super clean I guess these are all really cute versions though the striped one is fun to show off oh look a little pleat that's adorable I love that one super cute version a has a pleated peplum skirt and sleeve cuffs and b has a straight skirt panel on cuff sleeves and then so I'm not seeing any line drawings though so oh no here they are duh how can I see the whole thing click on it oh there we go um so yeah it has a little facing for the neck line here are the cuff sleeves and the little pleats yeah that's cute enough for a little top and I gotta imagine do they have fabric required yeah I gotta imagine it doesn't take a ton of fabric to make this either finish garment measurements in inches they have the length they have different bust cups waist and hem so for all the criticizing I do of the big four for not giving us this information it looks like pattern scout is like on top of it which is awesome and then the yardage is very straightforward I guess most of us would be using 54 inch fashion fabric and so you need half a yard at most depending on your size so that's fun okay now we have the itch to stitch kuai pattern this is cute you know I love a flutter sleeve it's like my favorite thing but it has like this little bib situation with the uh with the buttons and a little pleat here I don't know how I feel about that I mean it's not not cute how do we get to some more pictures oh you just keep scrolling okay this is more like a blog style here I guess and it looks like the buttons are like with the loops like the one side doesn't have button holes it has the little loops so that's kind of fun and all this piping detail is kind of cute and then there's another version with the flutter sleeve which I love the length is okay I would probably shorten it a little bit here's our line drawings it doesn't get any bigger sorry options for different cup sizes button down front bib with button loops center front pleat rounded neckline with bias binding finish so whereas the other one had the facing that you can see on the inside this one has a completely clean finish a little bit more of an advanced technique but if you go slowly you can definitely get uh or achieve a really nice finish there has a shirt tail hem meaning it's like curved and then view a is sleeveless and view b has the ruffle it's cute enough I just don't know oh here's some like everyday people oh her testers okay so here's some other like in the night I kind of like the contrast there I'm not sure that I would have thought if I hadn't seen it this version is the fabric so busy you can't even tell that's kind of cool I'm loving seeing all these different body types and seeing how the shirt fits on different people this is a cool oh yeah sham bray of course for the win always that one you can't really see what's going on yeah I think that the pattern is really helping disguise this seam which I know is kind of like the point of the design but oh love it that's so cute very sweet there's a lot of these so we're just going to stop there okay Amy Nicole studio has the Chelsea party dress this looks like fun the Chelsea party dress is an empire waist gathered and flared dress with plunging neckline and open back this pattern offers two views view a shorter flirty above the knee view b adds a panel for a beautiful dramatic maxi link lighter weight fabrics a good drape but more structured fabrics could work for the bodies okay oh lots of pictures I have to click on them individually hold on there's no oh here we go here we go well that's cute yeah plunging neckline little waistband gathered skirt that's sweet oh it also has a low back with these really long straps that's also nice I will say the proportions feel a little bit off and I can't tell if it's because of this color blocking or if it's the deep v with the maxi let's look at some more pictures that's cute fabric oh there it is short it's real short yeah I would still want to add some length to that but this shorter version I think is cuter in my opinion here are line drawings cute this feels like one of the ready to wear summer patterns that I reviewed I can't remember which one but yeah that's really sweet and then some recommended fabrics here's the siding sizing and yardage that you need finished measurements they do the under bust and the hip and then lots of advice for how to find the right size for yourself and then they also have length okay and then fabric requirements are broken down so that you can kind of like mix and match the pattern pieces where was that line drawing so that you could take you know the bodice and match it with this skirt or this skirt or with the hem band or without I guess because you have the bust the skirt and then him a which I think is this contrast piece here so if you wanted to omit that lengthen this instead you could easily figure out your yardage and be pretty accurate with it so that's cool okay here we have our what would this be that I guess the second week in June we've got four nope five patterns okay starting with Lena Horn or no I'm sorry yeah the Lena Horn pattern by tap of the sewer I remember this one it was like everywhere on Instagram the Lena Horn is a vintage inspired dress with ruffles shoulder straps comes in two lengths above the knee and midi the bodice is slightly fitted with side darts and princess seams the ruffle straps crisscross in the back and the skirt has a gathered waist and narrow hem also includes an invisible side zipper and it has pockets so this is obviously my jam especially when we can get to some of these look at that ruffle bag I'm not enjoying this user interface I have to like scroll down then scroll up so that you can see yeah because when I click the photo it just zooms in so that's annoying but look how cute that is especially that rickrack details a lot of fun there's in the front those are some real big ruffles guys but look how cute that is an adorable dress I also feel like this is one of those dress patterns that you could take into the holidays and like this girl she used that's like a brocade or something you know if you made it longer like a dress length in kind of like a specialty fabric you could for sure have a holiday dress super cute the midi length looks really good now that version looks a lot less you know ruffly huh I wonder what that's about I love how the ruffle kind of makes a little bit of a cap sleeve too that's also really cute detail a little short a little short cute though yeah I think this could be made in a gajillion different fabrics imagine it in a like a tapeta or a dupe only silk would be amazing you can get in polyester too it doesn't have to be silk yeah maybe there are different uh different links for this ruffle or maybe they were editing as they go here's britney j jones and her kind of like color block diversion with the full ruffle cute no line drawings no uh there's a youtube tutorial which is nice um when you purchase then you'll get access to the instructions with the measurements but you have to buy it to see that which that's kind of I don't know how I feel about that um I guess you're just assuming that the size range zero to 24 you're going to be included in I don't know I like seeing it before I buy it I don't know why is that a silly thing it may be one of those things that I'm just like used to so I'm thinking oh yeah absolutely have to see that first but maybe I don't okay next up is the labrea tea from half moon atelier okay pretty basic stuff here um this is just a dolman sleeve hem banded knit top honestly um it says throw it back to the 80s I see that for sure fit your basic t needs plenty of interesting details drafted for both woven and knits raw edges are neatly worked away with french seams and bias facings and yeah okay let's see yeah that's a super cute detail with the you know incorporating the bias it's kind of like a um like a baby's onesie you know how they do their bias finishes there yeah that's cute with the hem band too I'm going to skip the instructions for a second and just look at these pictures oh that tie die is adorable that must be like a woven lightweight woven cute with the necktie yeah okay so here's the what do we have here body measurements in inches so it looks like body measurements yeah so these are so not okay so its size is one through nine on the top row and 10 through 18 on the bottom row no finished garment measurements available before you purchase it maybe after and then here's a glimpse into the kind of instructions that she has I guess yeah pretty straightforward and as usual with indy patterns a lot of information oh here's your fabric requirements perfect okay next up is the rome top or dress from tillie in the buttons upgrade your casual me made wardrobe with a stylish and comfy top and dress the optional back ties are contrast buying add a fun twist to the classic breton or t-shirt dress is that a british thing rome has a modern loose fit a high slash envelope neckline don't know what that means with choice of cap three quarter or four length sleeves for a year-round style design for knit fabrics once you made one you'll be hooked okay let's see same deal with the pictures that's annoying so I get what did she call this envelope neckline I'd never heard that but again it's kind of like the baby onesie thing where it wraps around itself I never knew what that was called that's a nice neckline I like that a lot and then this tie detail of course y'all okay are they only going to show us the dress okay got it here's the oh that's really cute too I like this one and then here's just a little novelty print it's the t t with I guess those are the long sleeves and then here's the back of the t-shirt that's cute okay let's get to some line drawings okay so front view uh version a which is the dress version b which has I guess that's the t-shirt with the contrast uh binding and then version c is the top without the contrast binding and these are long sleeves cap sleeves three quarter sleeves cute and then we also have body measurements and fabric requirements and meters where oh and the guards are in the parentheses okay cool I think that's really cute perfect all right now we've got the jessa trousers or shorts okay that booty booty ultra cool with the 70s twist the jessa trousers shorts high waist curved waistband back darts will flatter your bum while the triangle tab fastening deep patch pockets and faux pocket flap will have you swooning while you sew okay let's see that's that all right that's a cute photo I don't know what's happening there yeah something's going on in the crotch here there's a lot of extra fabric there and that might you know I've said it a thousand times pants are very difficult to fit I don't even know how they do it on these sample models like I have no idea this is a flattering picture um here's the shorts I like the cuff and the patch pockets that's cute we get a back of the shorts nope here they are and I'm assuming corduroy pretty much the same see all this excess fabric you know and if you were going to go out into a store and buy them you'd probably be stoked if you came home when your pants fit as well you know I could be very uber critical of pants and I don't know why working on it work in progress yeah it's cute if I were into making pants I would definitely give these a go I think the shorts are adorable I just don't I don't have any confidence in myself that I could get them to fit in a way that I would be proud of so maybe if I have like a few days where I've got nothing else to do but really like try on on a pants I'll I would give something like this a try but okay so next up abbey dress ooh this is rosy pina patterns abbey is a feminine and flirty day dress or blouse with princess seams extending from the shoulder to the bottom hem that's very flattering choose from link variations and optional patch pockets all dress versions have a center front button closure a line silhouette center back seams and darts at the back waistline the boss is a center front oh it's a top two okay so center front button closure with short peplum flounce okay so here's the dress version I guess these like little websites that they're using don't allow you to like modify how you view all these pictures but this scrolling back and forth is a little annoying yeah I mean it's a cute little flirty did she say flirty yeah flirty day dress I'm I'm all here all for that explanation here it is in like oh what's happening in like a little daisy print that's also cute yeah it's giving me like a real young person vibe like forever 21 you know customer I don't know much about rosy pina patterns but and white on a white background I mean I can't even see what's happening it just feels very fitted also through the hip even though it's supposed to be somewhat a line like all of these versions are you know feeling very tight throughout this upper hip area so that would be something I would look out for when making it oh okay I thought the peplum was going to start at the waistline but I was obviously wrong here's the back there's just a lot of excess fabric in the back and again it could be this model hard to say here's let's skip to the line drawings yeah I mean the line drawings are cuter than the than some of the photographs in this oh my god I can't even point I can't use my cursor to point at anything so I'm going to try and use my words whoo wish me luck um the princess seams on the front seem to come in really close to the center front not over the bust apex at all so that's interesting there's also not a waistline or waist seam in the front only in the back not that that's unusual or anything just something to point out I guess you know given that they should have been able to give her a better fit if there is a seam there they should have altered this in my opinion but what do I know okay so it looks like this is also knit medium weight stretch knit fabrics such as jersey rib knit and ponty huh I assumed it was woven does she say knit feminine flirty dress no okay all right so let's see what else there was back in June are we here yes mid-June we've got the ashton top the donovan skirt raspberry jumpsuit all right guys you know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna split this up into I'm gonna do this every month I didn't realize there were so many patterns being released every single month this is insane I'm already at like 15 and we're only halfway through the month okay first up we have the ashton top is this made by Helen's closet oh yeah Helen's closet released the ashton top and the donovan skirt okay that's cool um the ashton top is an all season wardrobe staple it's easy to sew and wear wear it during the cooler months with jeans and a cardigan or pair it with shorts for the summer bust starts a line shape hip length or crop top okay option to finish the neck and arms with an all-in-one facing or bias binding I like an all-in-one facing okay oh and look the pictures work yay I love a carousel thank you so here we are this must be the cropped version does she say bust starts I think there's bust starts there cute cute little outfit those some kool-ots yeah it fits her really well I don't know about that fabric looks like a bunch of donuts to me oh look she's laughing at my joke thanks is it high low I didn't realize that either we got to get to some scene scene what are they called line drawings here shortly very nice that's got to be some one of those like rayon twills or something maybe a linen it is giving me willow tank vibes oh and since I've already perfected the fit of that you know I'll probably just keep using that one but look how cute and sassy lots of pictures oh no that's the longer length okay cute oh there it is tucked in tucked in again okay so yeah pretty straightforward I do appreciate and I'm sorry about this huge magnifying glass instead of a cursor but I do like how the shoulders are cut in that's very flattering and then it's got kind of a high neck and then you've got your hip length and your waist length sorry I'm still getting over this chest cold it's been like a week and a half I'm not even kidding okay um what else oh lord okay now we've got your yard in I guess that's your yardage your fabric requirements and then maybe shoot is this finished or body measurements why can't I see the whole thing oh my gosh how do I get out of this ah oh here it is here's the x let's go back to this oh it doesn't say that's weird is it I don't know if this is finished garment measurements or body measurements so sorry um okay oh here's the size chart let's see for the ashton top cute cute cute okay okay okay this must be body measurements and you get two cup sizes b or d fabric requirements yeah that's it okay oh no here we go here's finished garment measurements all right cool what does blue pink and green mean though oh my god this is so complicated oh okay okay let's see now oh my word okay yeah so you have your finished garment measurements that's cool and then there it is for the d cup range okay awesome nice next up we have the donovan skirt and I feel like this is what some of the that ashton top was being paired with yeah yeah it's a um elastic waist skirt a perfect amount of fullness and works in many different fabrics roomy pockets optional drawstring and two views midi length with modern side slit and a summary above the knee length cute enough a little you know both of these patterns kind of a little basic but that's okay because basics are nice especially when they're drafted well and they fit you well this is not so flattering it makes it look like her boobs are way down here cute I just love this picture so much cute yeah and literally any fabric under the sun you could make this out of oh that wasn't cool lots that was a skirt all along okay this would be probably a good stash buster let's see do I not get to the end of the picture yet they have so many pictures okay here we go the longer length and then the summary knee length and then here's your size chart that's your body measurements so it looks like it goes from a hip of waist uh a hip of 33 up to 58 I would fall in like the 16 18 range finished garment measurements in inches yeah it's pretty full it's pretty full this would give me oh gosh like yeah 10 inches in the hip and then the waist is kind of like it's a drawstring and elastic so you can just pull it in as you need okay cute like I said a little basic but everyone can benefit from some basic patterns okay cocoa wawa crafts I gotta say I've never heard of them before where are their pictures oh please technical difficulties let's refresh hmm their picture player is not working well that's annoying oh here we go this is a raspberry jumpsuit play suit and dress sewing pattern uh shirt bodice I've been wanting to learn that honestly with the new summer pattern from cocoa wawa the three options available okay got it pattern comes with okay well that isn't a very big description what is up with the pictures well guys I don't know none of these are coming up there's one cute I love how it defines her shape can I get this one okay so wow okay interesting I actually just bought bought a pattern or sorry bought a top very very similar to this but it just has a little peplum top it's not actually pants beautiful jumpsuit with a play suit and dress options perfect for the hot months shirt bodice the change comes with a comfy loose trouser option one short one and also a dress easy to fit and the perfect pattern to up your game fabric requirements sizes we have updater size range which goes from us 2 to 20 fine inspiration for your raspberry pattern and see how it fits okay let's do that okay here we are here's all the pictures that's cute it's a little long wasted fun she had a little belt there's the shorts look how adorable that is hey girl brave for making that in stripes that one's fun this is adorable look at that so cute I love that little flounce on the bottom too yep yep I like this one is that like a seersucker maybe I don't know anyways very cute um let's see we didn't get any information about like she says the sizing goes up to 20 but I don't know what that means there's no oh here we go and the little sizing picture isn't showing up that's annoying that in the websites like real good is it down here yeah I don't know what's happening sorry if you're interested in this there was an email address somewhere yeah at this high at cocawabacrafts.com where you can ask her about the sizing okay this is the oh beyond patterns still something I've never heard of before another company I've ever heard of the valiant trousers high-waisted carrot trousers what does that mean in shorts with the center seam on the front and back leg and diagonal front pockets belt loops and patch pockets okay okay oh carrot trousers I've never heard that before so it looks like princess seams in the front and the back oh okay good princess seams in the front and the back little itty bitty pockets that are not very long yeah just not the most um I don't know they're just not so well or fly front diagonal pockets I do like the diagonal pockets a lot ankle length flat felt seams carrot shape what is carrot shape is it like this when it's rounded at the hip like a cigarette pant but but of course in America we would use the term cigarette and then in other countries they would use a vegetable because vegetables are certainly a better thing for you than cigarettes if that's really what's going on I'm so annoyed with us right now Americans and then we have a waistband belt loops patch pockets mid thigh yeah I'm just feeling like they weren't so very well and the you know the picture is kind of dark I don't know I mean that picture is better that actually fits a lot better too I don't know what happened on these shorts lots of pictures let's go back to the show yeah see here this is though there's a lot happening here so I don't know if that would be naturally better for me or not hmm pretty affordable though okay do we have recommended fabrics measurement chart in inches oh no in centimeters but not in inches yeah that seems like a lot of work and a lot of brain power for me that I really just don't have all right let's move on so how seven free range slacks oh these are cute okay slacks are defined as trousers for casual wear while we don't hear that term much these days we think it's time to embrace it again you will feel okay so comfortable multitude of fabrics okay a tapered leg version and a straight cropped version both have an elastic high waist side panels and front pockets that are top stitched in place from behind and an optional back patch pocket the tapered legs look great rolled up so the finished garment measurements show rolled and unrolled measurements and the instructions include options for french and flat felled leg seams okay bought it lots of pictures let's see no carousels so let's keep scrolling up and down all right so yeah I like the wide elastic waistband that's nice the slant pockets are ideal for me if you have a curvy figure it really prevents them from like poking open you know like they can inside seam pockets and then oh that's the rolled version the straight leg version and then you have fabric requirements and body measurements recommended fabrics linen cotton cotton twill rayon blends lightweight denim tensile twill cotton poplin wool gabardine okay yeah so obviously you could make these and transition them into fall of course they don't have to be summer pants I kind of like the cropped straight version this yellow version here that's cute okay I don't feel like we need to look at every picture it's like it's like big four gives you two pictures and then indy gives you 200 pictures so if you were interested you can certainly head over why do you want to see the back version let's take a look yeah you know high waisted uh kind of loose fitting trousers always have this get trade off with how flattering it is on your bomb because there's no like definition in like the there's no darting or anything like that to pull it in right above your bomb but I don't I mean that pocket seems a little low but other than that I think these look you know as good as pants design like this can look you know what I mean all right and then that is it it's all we're gonna get from sew house seven on this pattern next up is the hermosa shorts digital sewing pattern again from itch to stitch okay so this is her version of like jean shorts high waisted shorts are designed for bottom weight women fabric with a touch of stretch they will keep up with you while you zoom through your busy day these descriptions are so cute front and back hatch pockets three links zipper fly front and button fly front okay cute I'm assuming this is like a stretch twill or like a cotton satin or something this fabric the waistband is really big too which I like you don't see that very often I don't love the longer link oh the mid length this is the longer link that kind of looks like a skirt there we go yeah I'm digging that waistband for sure okay that's it on the photos let's you know what she's the one that does all the pictures from her pattern testers where are those this let's see some other people wearing them anybody okay here we go that's a cute link button fly that looks cute ooh a little sex kitten yeah because they have the fabric requirement is stretch woven stretch bottom weight you can really get a close fit if you want it looks to be drafted kind of close fitting anyways I don't know hers hers are more loose fitting at least in the hem cute okay enough of that we get it right let's go back to the let's see size chart body measurements finished garment measurements I'm barely fitting into her size chart based on the well let's see there's only one and three quarter inches of ease in the hip that hardly seems like enough so yeah they're they're drafted to be fitted fitted shorts um you could let out the hem a little bit if you didn't want them to come in so much but to be like so tight on your thigh but yeah these are pretty fitted I don't know these little short length ones look pretty loose on hers I guess you just have to muslin as always and figure out from there and we will go to Wednesday weekly 178 right here this is going to be the last set of them and then I'll just stay on top of this and do this every month um so we don't have so many probably should have started with August I don't know what I was thinking clearly clearly I wasn't I was thinking honestly that I would be able to get June July and August all in one I had no no understanding that indie patterns were coming out five a week like I'm shocked to hear that okay workroom social clary bell jeans okay I guess it's this um designed for women with larger hip to waist ratio that's me we'll look at the um garment measurements and the body measurements here shortly five pocket classic jean with modern lines mid-ride designed to sit below your natural waist right below your belly button close fitting through the waist hip and thigh forward side seams which is nice meaning the side seams come more forward on the body leaving room for the bum modern back yoke shape three different back pocket sizes that's also nice for three different presumably three different bum sizes legs have extra ease for calves that's also nice I always have to make that adjustment uh 31 inch finished inseam multi-piece fly front and zipper construction classic jeans top stitching hardware applications okay designed to be close fitting at the waist hip and thigh with ease of the knee and calf the pattern is designed for denim with slight stretch think jean's not checking so okay got it oh a little video this is fun yeah those look really good on her okay there's some pattern pieces I would say the look the rise is probably a little low for me personally just because I do carry some weight in my belly and you see this crease that's right here I'm I'm wondering if that's happening because the front waistband is kind of like rolling over when she sits down that happens to me all the time um and if for me if I have a higher waist it stays nice and flat I am inspired by the description um you know the larger hip to waist ratio let's get to the nitty gritty here that's your reach all right size chart and finish garment measurements so if you have oh gosh I can't use my cursor to point uh oh body jeans body jeans body jeans okay so if you let's just presume we're size zero uh there is 25.5 to 27 so two and a quarter inches of ease so okay that's not making any sense in my mind let me see my oh that's waist the hip is actually two inches of negative ease so I'm like 46 inch hip I mean I guess do you want negative ease on jeans see I don't know I don't know how this all works that seems to make sense to me it's not like you know your body measurement it's 46 and then the jeans are 36 like I've seen before so I don't know those of you that have made jeans those curvy girls out there who have made jeans does this what does this this mean anything to you meanwhile fresh press patterns release the carolina or carolina dress I'd like to see it oh here it is all right sizes extra small to 3x carolina is high on style low on fussy so fussy sewing that's hard to say fussy sewing fussy sewing combine two fabrics a woven and a knit it can be a great stash buster an elastic waistband at the back centers you in while the front waist ties add attention so look it's like woven in the back and knit in the front that's kind of cool do we like that I like this little sentry waistband thing in the back that's cute here's the line drawing interesting very interesting this is the size chart in centimeters here it is in inches I'm wondering if the top row is body and the bottom row is oh no those are the sizes zero two four six okay okay and then the alpha numerical size next to it okay I'm with you now so for this one I mean hip matters a little bit but bust also matters so am I in the same bust as hip no interesting okay it's it's a really cool concept I would just be overly concerned with the woven fabric and the knit fabric kind of like matching I mean she went with navy which in my opinion is kind of like a bit of a contrast that back piece is reading way more like light blue or white even so it really stands out but maybe that was the point of all of that so that you could really tell in her promotional pictures but the high neckline the dolman sleeve yeah it really is pretty simple so so that's fun okay now we've got the indigo bodysuit by leila jane lj that's like me um it looks like a little raglan sleeve there's no description three styles of bodysuits suits deep v neck henley off shoulder or mock tonic oh some member all season for real snap closure three sleeve links okay I mean I love I love the turtleneck version oh here we go here's the v oh it has little buttons too also cute yeah I like that is that what she's calling off the shoulder it's just wide you know what I mean it's not totally off the shoulder here's your garment measurements possibly different cup sizes waist hip and then also your your high hip and your full hip that's cool I'm sorry you guys can't really see this is this better not really okay and then letter sizing I mean it goes all the way up to an e-cup guys I mean that's impressive and then your full hip which is what most other companies call just hip goes from 34 up to 58 so I would still fall in the extra large situation but that also matches my hip which is nice meaning this is graded for you know a curvier person the bust yeah since I'm pair my bust is like a medium so oh no we never saw that version oh we did but it was like up on her shoulder a little bit okay okay okay I think that's what that black one is let's look at the pictures again yeah so you can either pull that down over your the you know cup of your shoulder or you can leave it up like that which is also nice I don't know after making that bodysuit for the Sommicher fabric spring style tour I dig them I dig them a lot and since this one is made from knit I don't know that you need those snaps I might just sew it like you know closed at the bottom and then just take it on and off from the neckline I mean the neckline huge I guess with the the turtleneck one yeah you definitely couldn't do that but this one you could this one you need the snaps though okay so DIY has their Layla skirt pattern featuring elastic waist straight silhouette split hem oh mix and match for a total of 18 different designs gently curved hem exaggerated curved hem or straight hem you can also choose between inseam pockets angled pockets or scoop pockets I like scoop pockets oh okay it's straight but still roomy and you know I guess whenever you pull this in at your waist it becomes curvy if you've got a curvy figure you know what I mean but if the pattern pieces are literally rectangles with little curves on the bottom I don't know that you need a pattern for that really well it is only $12 so maybe it would just be easier to buy that's how my crazy mind works woven fabrics and then all of this these notions um here's some body measurements and finished garment measurements for the hip so she's got six inches of ease built in which is a lot so my body measurement is here I would make a size 20 and have six inches of ease built in so that's a lot um they don't have the finished waist measurement though so I don't know how much I'd be having to like really pull in that elastic but it could work oh designed for a height of 5 10 my goodness well there you go tall girls 5 10 wow okay rad patterns the length is broken what did she say it was the rosy dress rosy rosy well she's got a lot of patterns let's can you search no oh search rosy no results for rosy oh that's sad what happened oh well the rosy's done okay so there were all of our indie patterns for the month of June like I said a lot of them are still very appropriate even as we go into fall there was several pants patterns dresses with different lengths you know here's two three different four different pants patterns um this week or that could be with this jumpsuit um so yeah still very uh relevant and timely so I don't feel so bad about starting with June for some crazy reason anyways I will be back for what was released in July and then do a separate video on what was released in August and then we'll be all caught up and I will do um I'll start doing these every at the end of every month it'll be another fun video series for us but like I said be sure to check the description box for um links to 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So my name is Jeffrey Soviati and I'm a postdoc at Mike Gilson's lab and today I'll be talking about two potential functions to host guys finding data. You have to click it first. Okay, no, no. So just a brief outline. I have to be louder. I'll try. So just, is that good? Yeah, just the outline of my talk. So I'll just give a background and motivation for this project. And I'll show results that optimizing the privacy host guys finding following followed by the benchmark to protein ligand binding and hydration free and this. And last I'll show the results of what happens when we try to optimize the both hydration free energies and host guys finding it. So just a little background. I think this is what we want. We want a force field that can describe protein ligand binding accurately. This is the holy grail for what we want to do in the application of but not limited to computer aided drug design. So most force fields are related to Q and data, especially for the balance parameters, but there's been recent efforts to optimize them to physical data directly. So for example, small micro crystals and state purpose. So for example, sage 2.0.0 was at the manager's refitted to condense phase mixture deal. So for this project, the question is, why don't we target binding data directly? So the the aim of this project is to target host guest binding instead of protein ligand. So we use host guest system as a surrogate for protein ligand systems. And as a case study, we'll optimize an implicit solvent model. So just a background by host guest systems, why are they useful? The obvious reason is it's smaller than a protein ligand system. So there are some similar chemistries involved in host guest binding. The bindings affinities are comparable to protein ligand and some are even tidal binder. And they are less ambiguous in terms of like protonation states. So we know them in the protonation states of this host. And they've been used in sample blind challenges as a test of force field and a test of methods. Okay, so just to give you a little background about the infrastructure. This is my rendering. I hope I do justice to it. So this is in courtesy to Salman Boothroyd who did a lot of the heavy lifting here. So our main program is the open effect evaluator. So evaluator will, given a force field, you can estimate certain properties. So the one that was used for sage is just made densities mixing, which takes in data from the new thermal ML database. But evaluator can also estimate two other properties that depends on external supports. So the first one is hydration free energies, which depends on yet and takes in data from the free soil database. If I'm not mistaken, there are about 650 small molecules in free soil. And the other one is host guest binding that depends on paprika that takes in data from the type room database. I'll explain that in the next few slides. So the ones we have as properties estimated and the reference data, we feed that into force balance and force balance gives us the optimized parameters. Okay, so just a little background about the host guest binding. We estimated the absolute binding free energy using the attached pool release method. So this method is developed in the Gilson lab.  We physically pull the guest out of the host molecule, and we estimate the free energy concept of applying this restraints. And that's also done with a Python program called paprika developed in Gilson lab. And this method was used to benchmark the Smirnoff 99 Frost which is a precursor to parsley and sage. And we show that this is a robust method to estimate the binding free energy for the host guest systems. So it's a bit about the type room database. I've curated about 126 host guest complexes, the comprises of psychodextrins, gukubitrules and octaacids. Most of these were curated from the sample black challenges. And the guest molecules range from simple cyclic alcohols, carboxylate acids to drug-like molecules. And I've hand selected 36 of these complexes as the training method that trainees said. And we've made these available online and on GitHub. So to test this, we use the open FF sage 2.0.0. As a force field, the partial charges, we use aim one VCC of 10 using the open eye toolkit. And for the generalized bond increases solvent, you just select the OBC2 model. So without getting too much into details, the generalized bond increases solvent trace each atom as a van der Waals sphere embedded in a continued medium. So the larger the radius, the less solvated the atom becomes. And the smaller the radius, the more solvated the atom becomes. So for the radii, we, as the initial values, we use the M bond to radii set. So basically, this is a five atom type base. The four of them are the elements, a hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and with an extra type for a hydrogen atom down to a nitrogen atom. And we want to optimize all five of these radii. Okay. So with that said, oh, just a reference. This is a comparison of running the simulation in open MM on the RTX 3090. With implicit solvent, we get about two markers seconds a day. With explicit solvent, with about 3000 water molecules, we're getting 690 seconds a day. So we're getting a factor of three times faster. So these are the estimated binding free energies with the original radii sage. And what we see here is that the calculation overestimates the binding free energies compared to experiment, especially for the cuckoo patrols. So for the cuckoo patrols, we're getting about minus 50 kTel. I tested this with explicit solvent, same protocol. And we also get an overbinding. But with explicit solvent, we're getting about minus 20 to minus 30. So it's still getting overbinding with explicit water as well. Now we fit this into force balance, and force balance converge after 21 iterations.  So the RMSD drove from about 21 kTel to about three. But we do see the R-squared deteriorated a bit, so from 0.7 to about 0.5. So these are the results for the training set. For the test set, we see the same thing with the original radii, an overestimation of the binding free energy for cuckoo patrols. Now when we use the host gas optimized radii from the previous slide, we get a much better result. So what we see is that the RMSD dropped to about 1.8 kTel per mole, and the R-squared increased to about 0.85. So what we see is that the optimized radii performed better on the test set than on the training set. Now if we look at what changed in terms of the parameters, as I'm showing here, the GBA radii before and after optimization. So most of it, three of them are minor changes, and the biggest change is with hydrogen and nitrogen. So nitrogen dropped from 1.55 axiom to about 0.53 axiom. This is very unphysical, but if we look at the results again, most of the host gas complex that contains the nitrogen radii are the cuckoo patrols. And since those are the most overbinding results, these systems are driving the optimization. Okay, so even though it's very unphysical, let's see how well it works on the benchmark on a protein ligand system. So for the test case, I chose the benchmark set from Elevee and L, which was published last year. So he kindly made these available online. There are 59 protein ligand systems in total, and the Delta G's range from about minus 2.7 to about minus 2.6 KKL per mole. And as a reference, we're running these in open MMM. We can put this on, we get about 900 nanoseconds and it's explicit about half of that. So just a bit about the calculations, the actual binding free-ditch calculations. We use double decoupling method here. We ran it in open MMM and open MMM tools. For the electrostatic part, we scale the partial charges and the GBSA term simultaneously. Split it up to 11 windows for this at the binding side in the bulk. And for the leningers, we use the decoupler with the software potential over 21 windows. Okay. So as a reference, I re-plotted the results from Elevee at L. Oh, forgot to say. So the results I'm going to show you is with the AMBER FF99 SB LDN force field. We've also done the calculations with FF14 SB, but we get similar results. So these are the explicit solvent results from Elevee at L with GAF2 and T3P. And we see that there is a nice correlation, even though it's a bit offset by 3K. Now, for comparison, I also did the calculation with GAF2, but with the OBC2 implicit solvent. And what we see here is that it does get slightly worse compared to the explicit solvent, but from T3P to OBC2. But you still see that there are some linear correlations, even though there's a larger scatter. Now, we also see the same thing with SAGE, where the RMSE, I think it's about double than the explicit solvent with an R-scode of a path. When we use the optimized radii, optimized to the 36th GaF complex, we see an improvement in the RMSE, but the R-square actually gets worse. So we're still not entirely sure why this is, so we need to investigate this further. I suspect it's got to do with the protein stability when we reduce the GB radii of the nitrogen half an action. As a final benchmark, we want to see how well the optimized radii are transferred to hydration-free energies. So I selected all 100 molecules from the free-solve database, and only selected molecules that only contain hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. Iron RAND is in the 3G, the 3D open-effect evaluator. Similar procedures for the electrosetting and land adjourns to the protein ligand calculations. Each window we render for 29 seconds production run. So as a reference, I've spotted the results from David Mowgli's lab for GaF 1.7, I believe, for the 100 molecules that I selected. So with GaF and TMP, we get RMSE about 1.7 in our scale of 0.86. For comparison, I did the calculation with SAGE as well, SAGE with T3P. And for the same 100 molecules, SAGE performs slightly better than GaF 1.7. And now, when we switch to the solver, SAGE performs just as good as the exclusive solvent part. The RMSE just increased a bit from 1.5 Ga to about 2 Ga. But it retains the correlation, the experiment. But when we use the host gas optimized radii, this is what we get. We see that the host gas optimized radii deteriorates the hydration free energies. And looking at the outliers, these are the molecules containing hydrogen atoms. Remember, it dropped from 1.55 to 0.52. So I wanted to look into this further. So I did a separate optimization. I selected these two systems for the hydration free energies. I selected methyl isominoid. And for the host gas, I selected beta-soc adduction and isominoid acid. And I just want to optimize one radii instead of all five. I chose the oxygen in this case. So initially, the hydration free energies are overestimated. And in order for it to get too close to the experiment, what force balance there was increased the tube radii at 1.5 by 1.6. Now for host gas binding, initially it is overestimated and get to the experimental line. Force balance needed to decrease the radius from 1.5 to about 1.1. When I include both of them in the optimization, we include both hydration free energy and host gas binding. We don't see any convergence. It doesn't get any closer to the experimental line. And on the top right here, you see the objective function. It's not going down at all. So what we see here is we can either get, if it's a solvent parameter that can describe hydration free energies correctly, but not host gas binding or vice versa, vice versa. So just to summarize for the host gas systems, so we have this infrastructure in place and we can actually optimize force field parameters. In this case, optimize the GBU radii and we show that it gives good results for the test case, better than a training set. When we apply it to protein vegan systems, it did improve the RMSE but made the correlation worse a bit. For hydration free energies, it totally went the other way. It's just no good. And when I try to optimize to both of them, the force balance just can't find a good parameter that I can fit to both of them. So what's next? I think I need to look at other types of host molecules to diversify the training set. And we also want to see how well it transfers to other host molecule types. We're looking at optimizing other parameters besides the GBU radii. And we are also looking at splitting atom types, just to see if we can get away from this unphysical, small radius for nitrogen atoms. We're also currently working on modifying the OBC2 model with the Smerna plug-in. But if that doesn't work, we will try a different inputs-to-solvent model. Finally, we also want to test optimizing the Liner-Jones parameters with express-to-solvent. And hopefully we can integrate host case binding data into future open FF release. So with that, I'd like to acknowledge people in the Gilson lab and open force field without which this project won't be possible, especially Simon Withroy and the NIH funding and San Diego super computer center for resources. And with that, thank you for listening to my talk.


This is not an illusion. This is the actual dust and dirt Built up in the back of this CRT. Watch this It's almost as if It was smoked in Look at that All right, folks. This is not an illusion This is the actual dust and dirt Built up in the back of this CRT. Watch this This dust Is because of the fans. I'm convinced that the excessive amount of dust of this is because of these intake fans Which are a great thing to cool the monitor down as it's running because there's three of them inside But if they're intake fans and there's dust in the area and it's not cleaned It sucks the dust in through the main intake fan and then just Soots it in here and builds up over years. I gotta Get the air compressor ready Get the brush kits ready and I need to get a lot of this dust out of here Wow, so that was a good two hours of cleaning just to get the soot all off all this stuff I had to get my professional commercial grade air compressor and Blow for a long time used all kinds of cleaning brush kits that are ESD brushes This is one of the best CRT designs for Internally that I've seen in all my experience working on them just to give you a little bit of information on why I say that real quickly first off this is a secondary deflection board that we've recapped that's over here on the right side and What the way this Monitor is normally set up is this over here where the flyback is is going to be a really high heat area Normally, you've got a lot of ICs same thing with this heat sink plate a lot of heat sinks over here Well, this gigantic fan runs at 2,000 Revolutions per minute or something and it's always got to be running or the CRT will not power on it sits right here and sucks in cool air from the outside and just Constantly blows in that area forcing cool air up and then what that does is that sends the hot air on here up and Naturally out the vents and then there's another fan that sits up back here to help cool And then another fan that sits over here on top of this other power supply to help cool. So that cooling Actually helps this whole monitor Maintain a lot of the integrity of the parts Of course as I said before it also causes an immense amount of dust to possibly build up if you don't clean it Now these capacitors are amazing guys I went through here and looked at the capacitors on the chassis and they are just a beautiful high quality Most of them are Nisha Khan Rubicon and then KMH just some beautiful capacitors in here and other than the deflection board and Some of the neckboard capacitors. I wouldn't even We're not even going to go in here and replace a lot of these because they are so good There's so much life left on them Let's go now. I'm gonna put the rest the boards back in here And we'll go look at it one more time when it's reassembled and get some tests going here We are put all back together got plugged up as video again stereo audio And then just the power AC cord plugged in but everything else is put back together And I did do a little bit more research. These fans are actually gonna be blowing out They're not intake fans like or they're not they weren't set up to be Intake they were set up to be exhaust So I was incorrect when I said that earlier just in case I want to go back over that Those fans should be blowing out and then this would blow out and that one will blow out of the power supply But let me take you around and show you everything before we finally turn it on after all our servicing This is definitely a moment Where things could be a little bit nerve wrecking but it's My goodness a thousand times cleaner and quite beautiful compared to what it was Okay, let's just take a look here at this IO board Audio and video Really cleaned up nicely Now one of the important upgrades we've been working on is trying to get Some new fans installed in here We've got again our three fans and they're still pretty loud even after cleaning them and What I've got here is a premium Not to a fan that we're gonna be installing now the the interesting thing is is There's an alarm system on this board and if the fans are not working or don't meet a specific requirement Which is two thousand RPMs Then the monitor will just turn it completely off. The problem is it still will trip the alarm if you just Sit there and directly input The cable into the header Even though it meets the specification. I was not able to get it to work without doing this little trick So here's our connection going into the monitor and you'll notice the yellow alarm cable coming from the fan has been severed and Then over here. We've got a splice. The black is the ground cable What we've actually done is spliced our alarm cable coming from the monitor To ground and all that's going to do is trip that alarm to let it know when currents going that it's actually Being activated and then it will let the fan just run Like it should So we're gonna have to do this alteration For the other two fans to install them once we get these fans installed. It should be a lot quieter Then obviously when we started let's get our splice here covered Now we're ready to mount this on the power supply and then we'll have to get the other two fans ready I'm finished installing all the Noctua fans So first we've got 80 millimeter And that 80 millimeter over there And then we've got the 92 millimeter down here I've got it turned on so if it stays on for five seconds, then that means the fan alarms Are not kicking in and that we're good to go Wow, that's a lot wider That's gonna do it for today's episode Please make sure you check back with the channel in a couple weeks for the final installment on the NEC XM 2960 we'll be going through calibrations the finished product and how the fans ultimately work after some serious testing and If you do need any more details on the fan modification, I do have a specific video for that linked in the description There's also a linked playlist for all the prior videos on the NEC XM 2960 and the restoration process to this point so please go back and refresh if you're missing any information or want to check out anything else and One last special. Thank you to everybody for subscribing and all the patreon members Who've been kind enough like Tom to send in their wonderful CRTs here to be serviced so we can all learn more about them and Document them online. Thanks again everybody. I will see you all next time with some more retro content


This is the SF Productions Podcast Network. This has been a recording. From the Pop Culture Bunker, I'm Mindy. And I'm Mark. You can check out our audio podcast, How I Got My Way To Read Comics on iTunes, or on our website, sfpodcastnetwork.com. Every few years, we see a lot of stories about the end of physical media, right before some sort of resurgence if only for collectors. And we're using that as an excuse to cover the history of audio recording. And we begin with mechanical methods of musical reproduction, which goes back to the 9th century. Three brothers named Banu Musa designed a large set of automated devices, including a water-powered organ that played interchangeable cylinders. And this was followed over the next millennium by various pianos, clocks, and bells, all of which could play music. Music boxes were invented in the early 19th century, which could translate bumps on a metal disc or cylinder into musical notes. A player piano uses a roll of paper with specific perforations, which, when pulled across our hey, Marnica-like grill, would activate the piano keys. There were even ways for a piano player to create new roles by playing live and having it record the results. Player pianos became so popular that they spawned what we know today as music licensing. Music writers would receive royalties based on the number of paper rolls sold. Restrictions were made on their use as it was felt that they were putting live musicians out of a job. Copyrights were established to protect musicians' work, which is the progenitor of today's copyright mess. However, if we're talking about actual recording of sound, we go back to 1857 and the phonograph, a device that scratched a line onto a sheet of paper based on an early form of microphone input. Ironically, there was no way to actually play it back at the time as it was designed for visual study of the waveform. Of course, an engineering, an enterprising engineer wrote software in 2008 to convert one of those sheets. It doesn't sound great. 1878 brought us the first practical recording process, the phonograph cylinder, patented by Thomas Edison in 1878. A hollow wax cylinder would be engraved with variable lines of information based on microphone input. They could then be played back on a phonograph. This became a huge hit as people could easily purchase the phonograph unit and cylinders and play them at home. The only problem was that wax cylinders had a rather short playing life, so celluloid and early plastic was later invented and used. And here's an example from 1900. Far more durable and louder than the cylinder, it took over the older medium by 1910 and became the primary recording method until the late 20th century. Original discs ran at 78 rpm and were made of shellac, a natural polymer secreted by an Asian bug. My mother kept a set of these, coming from my grandparents, and they're remarkably clear when played, considering that they sat at attics and basements for a century or so. By the way, I'm comfortable playing these online, as they all pre-date modern copyright rules. Anyway, record technology advanced over time, allowing much finer quality recordings with longer playtime. 33 and a third rpm became the standard, along with the smaller 45 rpm record, designed initially for jukeboxes. Shellac was replaced with vinyl, Mono became stereo, and then even Quadraphonic 4 channels and mechanical recording was replaced by electronic methods, converting sound into impulses. There were gimmick records, such as a plastic coated cardboard record, which you could cut out of the back of cereal boxes. We did that. Yeah. Multi-colored and picture albums. Dual track albums, such as Money Python's matching tie-in handkerchief, where different tracks would play on the same side, depending on where you drop the needle. Hmm. However, records still use essentially the same method of recording as early cylinders, a waveform in the guise of a variable line. Magnetic recording, where electrical impulses are converted to variable magnetic fields on some sort of medium, which can then be turned back into audio, got underway in the 1920s with wire recorders. They used a steel wire to record and playback magnetic impulses, and were popular for their compact size and durability. Alongside wire recording was magnetic tape, which really didn't get much momentum until plastics, specifically polyester, came into being. A reel of tape would be magnetized by a recording head and then played back in a similar manner. Tape recording got a big push from none other than Bing Crosby. He wanted to record his popular radio show, but the network refused unless he could find a way to make it sound just like a live event. He met former Army Signal Corps engineer Jack Mullen, who had been assigned to learn of Nazi advances in audio recording at the end of the war. He improved on their designs and gave demos where he had a band behind a curtain playing live, then a recording of the same band, asking viewers to tell the difference. Crosby invested heavily in this technology and funded a tiny company called Ampex, who quickly became the industry leader. One of the first production Ampex reel-to-reel units was given by Crosby to Les Paul, who would use it to invent multi-track recording. Reel-to-reel recording became the standard until the 70s and was still used professionally until just recently. However, reel-to-reel was complicated, particularly running the tape lead through the rollers and heads, over to the other reel, making sure the tension was correct, etc. Various alternatives were tried out, but it took Phillips to create the compact cassette, which quickly became known as a cassette tape. Self-contained and easy to use, it was originally intended for dictation machines, but engineers found ways to improve fidelity to the point where cassettes supplanted both reels and records as the predominant format. It also allowed the creation of the Sony Walkman, standard equipment for young people in the 80s, as well as the mixed tape. It also encouraged some kids in Northeast Ohio to make some recordings. Tape connoisseurs would consider their options, standard, chromium oxide, ferrochrome, nettle. The cassette had one major competitor, the 8-track tape. Developed as a partnership among RCA, Ampex, Ford, GM, Learjet, and Motorola, it was initially designed for use in automobiles. It had an endless loop of tape with four stereo tracks, or 8-tracks total, each of which would be announced by around Cha-Chunk as tracks changed. Despite this issue, 8-tracks became a hit, especially on K-Tel music collections and Columbia House. I even had an 8-track recorder for a while. The format ran out by the late 70s. The 80s brought a revolution to audio going from analog to digital recording. The compact disc was introduced in 1982, co-developed by Phillips and Sony. I remember seeing my first CD player during a New York City trip in the early 80s. Audio was converted to 1s and 0s on a shiny disc just under 5 inches in diameter. They could hold about 80 minutes of music which meant an entire album could easily be represented. Consumers spent billions repurchasing albums and cassettes as CDs. Home users also burned CDs with existing music and other recordings. And there was a whole mythology about CDs that CD recordings were somehow colder than records, not the case, that you could use a blue marker around the edge and improve audio quality which it didn't do. They were also used as data storage then called a CD-ROM. When that first came out CD-ROM stored a lot more data than most computer hard drives that would not be the case for long. And of course a similar physical format was used for DVDs. CDs ruled the roost in the 1990s but a digital revolution hit a second wave in the form of the MP3. A totally digital format that required no physical media. This started with consumers ripping their CDs into MP3 files which led to illegal services like Napster where the new ubiquity of the internet allowed people to download massive numbers of songs. For a while I had a portable CD player that could play MP3 files. It was bulky and rather difficult to use. The music industry which had enjoyed decades of massive profits based on records with one or two good songs plus a lot of filler at an expensive price saw their existence threatened. Lawsuits followed. It took a company that had changed the computer game 20 years earlier Apple to step in and save them even if they fought against it. iTunes provided a legal way to easily purchase individual tracks which provided a new main revenue source for the music industry. Of course Apple also introduced the iPod which made it easy to take your entire collection with you. In the 2010s streaming music services such as Spotify provide access to millions of songs four monthly feet. Is it the death knell for physical media? Well it looks like collectors and hipsters have brought back the record album. Using modern recording methods and high-end phono players along with an included audio copy sound quality is better than ever. Can an 8 track resurgence be far behind? We can only hope. So you can check out our digital audio podcast How I Got My Wife to Read Comics on iTunes or on our website sfpodcastnetwork.com From the Pop Culture Bunker, I'm Mindy. And I'm Mark. Thanks for watching.


Hey everyone, Shaper 1000 here. Today we're back on the head for the Tacoma 2.4 liter dual overhead cam. Today my focus is just going to be on trying to get what's left of this spark plug out of the number one hole. Now I'll explain to you why I want to focus on that first here in just a second. So stick around more to come.  The number one plug is broke off in there because it was cross-threaded at one time and it just got to where you know the spark plug needed to be replaced and I just couldn't do it. And so we limped the truck along as long as we could until we got the Chevy the SUV and then I thought well you know it's got to come out sooner or later you know it's got to come out and sooner was better than later because I mean it was just misfiring and it just needed a new plug and I thought well if it's gonna break which I knew it was probably going to it's gonna break so but at least we had something to drive so now we got to get this what's left of spark plug out we're gonna do some drilling I've got a repair kit here I you know I don't know if it's gonna work we'll see but right now the focus is to get what's left of that out and I'm gonna have to do some drilling it being cross-threaded I know the threads are really bad so I'm not even gonna try to do anything with them right at the moment as far as the rest of the engine goes I think what I'm gonna do is I can get pistons rings rod bearings main bearings my thrust plates seal kit timing chain timing gear timing tensioner tensioner guides oil pump I can get all the bottom end for this thing for low over 200 bucks now that's not that's not that's not counting camshafts okay so that still may may need to get the camshafts they're they're pretty pricey they're they're going to cost around four to five hundred dollars just for the two cams two camshafts but I want to see if I can salvage it said before I go putting new valves in it because that's going to take some time there's 16 of them I've got to lap every one of them so I thought you know let's just see if I can save this first if I can that would be awesome so let me get ready here let me get a drill bit in here see and I'm just I'm gonna do it in stages so I'll speed you up I don't want to just make one cut do it so I want to do it in stages and I'm just gonna take a little bit out of there at a time and work my way up so it looks like I'm gonna be starting with this one because this one goes down through I might run it down through anyway just in case just to clean it up a little bit and then I'm gonna I I don't think I can get this into my drill press I think it would fit but by the time I adapted everything and got the head level I can just hold my drill straight enough for that hopefully so sorry about the lighting I know it's not great but the Sun's not come around yet and I don't want to work in the Sun anyway but it's a beautiful day it's a nice day out and it's in the high 60s anyway so yeah let me get you zoomed in on that so you can see a little bit more and that's what we're gonna do we're gonna focus on that now then I'm gonna have to get the spark plug to about those can be a pain and you don't want to bend them because if you bend them they're not going to seal you're going to get oiled down in into the spark plugs which I had that problem before before the truck stopped running it would get oiled down into the plug holes so but let's focus on this right now and let me see if I can find another bit that's about this is about the one I want to end up with so I gotta find one between the first one we did and one that's in the drill now so let me see if I can find another bit okay I think I found one it's going fairly straight and I gotta get yeah that's what I'm looking for that's not perfectly straight but it is straight all right let me grab my other battery okay put another battery in I think it's only second time I've ever charged that since Dennis has sent me this drill so I really wish this would have fit in my drill press but it'll be alright well we're through now remember whenever you're doing this you want to make sure of course before you put this thing all back together that you get all this stuff out of there now let's try this battery out of my weed eater he's to belong to her dad so I don't know how long it's gonna last because I'm sure it's not charged we're almost through hang on I gotta check my phone might be monkey her mom's having surgery in her eyes today yeah surgeries over so that wasn't too bad I mean let's see what time is it it's 11 14 they had about an hour of drive to get there so they left at 8 o'clock I think it was so yeah that's pretty good let's go ahead and try to finish this whole out only got just a little bit there's that okay it's getting there it is a little closer on the end towards me no actually it's about as straight as you can get it really so that's pretty good I'm gonna find another step up from that I do have an electric drill but the button stuck on it so it comes on when you plug it in it's an old one it's like from the 50s 40s or 50s still works good but so you know if I put a an easy out down in there you know maybe I can screw it back out this way and clean them threads up I don't know we'll just have to see but I ain't gonna have to find another bit because the next size up I got is that huge one here that one's that one's too big I don't want to go that big no that's way too big that'd be taking out aluminum okay so let me find I've got a box of drill bits here this one just happened to be handy and was laying there so let me back out a little bit now that you know what's going on so let me find a drill bit get back with monkey and we'll continue on with this thing okay I'm gonna go ahead and try to break this little tab off I do have the right size drill bits for the next size but the drill chuck is too small be careful there get that out what's left of the electrode from the spark plug all right put this away but I do have the right size bit the next size which would be just about what I need there's still I think there's still too much wall there to get an easy out to do anything so I need to get at least one more size up so let me see what I can do here okay so they're on their way back already that's pretty cool that was fast um she had to have like that Lasik stuff done I don't know they said something about putting up lenses in or something but she said she didn't even feel it so I did find the next size up drill bit I'm just switching these batteries over onto the charger I was going to charge them last night and forgot totally my fault I do have a default over there it came from her dad's I have one too came from work but it's busted it still worked we had it zip tied together it got ran over but so I've got one battery pack that I think is charging so okay so that's that's good that's good all right then I think this will be yeah this is going to be the last one the last step we do probably it depends on if I got to use this I don't know how many guys seen the boat motor I had to do the head on the boat motor and I had to put one of these in I don't know why I've got two missing but you drill you drill this out actually this is supposed to drill it and tap it but I I think I drilled it out on the head first because I was having trouble with this but anyway this will tap it out so that you can screw this down in and you put Loctite on it and then you screw your spark plug down into that so I better make sure that fits first so all right it's her Bruno working okay so while I come up with another drill idea I'm gonna pull one of these plugs out and we're gonna make sure I'm pretty sure that's the size I'm gonna need there because it got a couple different length and so there's a short one I know I'm gonna need the long one let me pull one of these plugs out real quick and we'll see if this fits on it yeah I don't know how he cross threaded that I mean these things you pretty much drop these plugs in here they almost start themselves like he's like well he did it after dark and I don't care I mean it's straight down in you know it's it's kind of hard to and something got broke and fell down in there I guess he was all nervous about it and and she said it made a noise for a few seconds after she started it but then it stopped and this was a long time ago so these are spark plug tubes I was telling you I'm gonna have to take at least that front one out all right now let's see if that fits and it does so that's that's cool yeah that'll fit perfect all right set the size I need once it's tightened down yeah I think that's gonna work all right for me but we still got to get the rest of that drilled out of there then I'm gonna have to take this out because I have to run that this down through this way and that's that's a ways down in there and I don't know if I'm gonna be able to do that or not say because I don't know we got to get this out of here I think I'll put a I can't bend this up here if you slightly bend it down here you're all right like in the center but if you bend it up here it's not going to seal there's rubber seals that go down over top of these and that's what seals them then you also have some sealer you just put on the tube and you drive this down in with a tube before but right now we got to get this drilled out see if I run it down in this way it's gonna be backwards so we can't do that stick around okay so the closest thing I could get is a 17 millimeter socket and I just put a just one row black tape around there and it seems like it's gonna fit alright and now I want to stay down right below that top and of course I don't want to score any of this up you know those are very very important so okay well it's not gonna work until that slip what that socket does is just keep this from crunching around so bad let me get a hammer I'm going to tap on that we'll see what happens okay let's give it a few taps okay it's moving at least in that one direction let me tighten it up a little bit more but was it started moving stop all right now that's just what I'm gonna keep doing long as I don't mess that top up we're all right I'm gonna keep working with this I'll bring you back nice so that didn't go well I broke these vice grips you got to tighten them down and the bolt just wants to pop out of there of course these were too small so I got this bad boy on there and it started chewing it up so I think what's gonna happen is I'm just gonna have to ruin that tube to get it out and by another tube I just just know where around that sometimes you can heat them and heat and quench them they just heat them up getting good and hot pour some water on them sometimes that'll loosen them up but I don't have any propane for my torch so I guess what I'm gonna do now is just keep waiting on these on that battery hopefully it'll charge and get at least one more drill through there and then I'll I'll try to I'll try to put an easy out and see if I can bring it out this way if I can that would be nice I don't know we'll just have to see but I have to get that out of there I mean there's there's no other way around it you know and this is going to be perfectly straight because I can't get too close to these valve seats so we'll just have to see okay guys it's what I got going on I just had to keep a cap kept tapping the back and forth at an angle side to side with my hammer and I got this on here and it's starting to turn so hopefully it'll come out I can keep my wrench tight so it's just an update I'm gonna keep I'll keep working on it I'll let you know when it comes out just want to show you update okay guys so I found a DeWalt battery pack that did take a charge and I don't know how long it's gonna last but let's see this is a three-speed it's going to back down to low gear alright that's gonna take a minute about halfway through though alright guys I should have just kept you rolling and sped you up because it didn't take that long alright now I got that wall paper thin I'm gonna see if I can put an easy out in here and back it out which will bring it out this way see what I can do now one thing I don't want to do excuse me break his tap or this easy out off in there I know you can't see anything that way but I can't turn you around so okay something's going on I don't know if it's just biting in or what's happening with it but I don't think that's gonna work I can't tell if it moved so well let me get one more bit down in there and we'll go from there hi guys I'm almost there yeah alright yeah forgetting if you have this semi-style head and you're getting oil down in here every time you change your spark plugs the oil comes out could be leaking here most likely up here this is where ours was leaking because they were cracked up here on top hang on let them big semi-dunk truck same one keeps going past here he's not supposed to be on this red they're not supposed to run them semis we're talking 18 wheeler but yeah around here there's a seal when you put your valve cover on goes in here seals that it also seals down here down here is not that big of a deal you put some sealer on there and that'll seal it up I think ours was leaking up the top though alright so it's kind of a little buggered up this doesn't matter this doesn't do anything out here nothing nothing touches it just this and this so it would be good to go there I can clean that off use some sandpaper and stuff so now I'm gonna finish I'm gonna finish drilling this hole I gotta put something under here I don't know what I don't know anyway we've got a finish drilling this hole out it didn't sound good there we go get the battery on the charger let me grab it real quick man that's worse than it was so I'm too I'm gonna let it charge up for some more and I'm just gonna have to keep drilling it out I guess until I can get to this size here like I said I can drill from this side but in order to tap that out I'll have to go on this side and you can see I don't know how well that's gonna work because I won't be able to get anything on here a socket because once that's down in there socket there's probably not gonna fit on that may have to make my own tool weld something on up here I don't know we'll play that we'll play it by ear you guys check this out we get you check it out I think it's coming out I might be able to retap that hole instead of putting that repair kit in it's coming out it's coming out all right and I sound like a little kid but this is this is exciting now I've made taps before with spark plugs I've cut notches like four of them down the side of here and that creates like a tap got it son of a bean I have got it there it is Wow yeah it's pretty well buttered up let's run this down I don't think it's gonna make new threads the tap may not work because these got those washers they don't have to be super tight let's run it down through from the other side from the top side let's see if it'll tighten up I doubt it but let's let's just try it I mean it's worth a try right not worried about this plug because this truck is going to be getting new plugs anyway and now we've got a Logan's tree trimming truck here what they do is they like to bypass the traffic you can do that by coming on to this route see I'm trying to intentionally strip it out I mean that thing's not going to come out of there just I think I'm stopping there I'm not putting that kid in it I mean what's worse can happen it blow plug out and I got to do it all again but that is the worst that could happen I mean I was just trying to strip that out my couldn't hey let's turn it over look at the threads again and I think this thing will be ready for some cleaning up not today but yeah there's enough I mean it's not great but you saw how I was really raunching on that thing yeah I'm gonna leave it like it is because as tight as I had that there's no way that's gonna come out I'm gonna see if I got a tap just to run down through there anyway and we'll see if we can clean at least clean up what is there so let's see alright guys so that's just about gonna do it for today I got accomplished what I wanted to accomplish I got that whole drilled out and the old plug out so a lot of cleaning left doing this head like I said I kind of I kind of really need to get this going now because we're in the Chevy's making a weird noise and I don't like it's been kind of making a noise for a while sound like an axle when they're going around the turn but now it's like I don't know one tum tum tum tum tum tum on a straight road so I need to get this going as soon as possible but I think I'm gonna trust that because I had that in there pretty tight there's some stuff these to make I don't know if they still do haven't used it in a while it was called form a thread and I used to use it on stripped out on stripped out spark plugs and it worked pretty good but if anything you know definitely put some Loctite in it the Loctite that you can take back out pretty easy I might just go whole hog and just put the regular Loctite in it and I think once I tighten it down because I was really raunch I was actually trying to strip it because I thought if I want if it's gonna strip I wanted to do it now and I couldn't get it to strip so I think once I put some Loctite on it because that's all gonna be nice and clean put some Loctite on it tighten it down real good like I just did and I think it'll be fine I think the head's gonna be alright get it cleaned up need to find me a brass wheel man down here in Florida in my area in Citrus County I forget we went to five or six different parts stores well we went to we went to Napa O'Reilly's AutoZone Advance and then we went to a couple hardware stores I could not find a brass wire wheel to go on my drill I do have this this would be alright for block because the block is you know steel but I really don't want to use this I run it across the head for a little bit but I didn't like I didn't like the way it was looking so I'm gonna have to find me a brass brass wire wheel so I can get that head cleaned up and then hopefully for long I can get I'm just gonna go head for that kind of money I'm just gonna go and put new rod bearings in it and main bearings rings won't go and put new rings in it probably pistons oil pump I mean the truck deserves it man half a million miles I mean there's no sense in you know doing half the engine on you know if it had a hundred thousand miles yeah no biggie even 200,000 on these little Toyotas I wouldn't worry about it but half a million yeah that's what put new bearings in it alright guys well that's all I got for you today thanks for watching thanks for sticking with me I appreciate it another mess to clean up we'll see you guys in the next one so I don't forget check out monkey 1000 channel it's just her truck and well going she's had a what going on 15 years now she's second owner and like I said had 70 some thousand on it I think had like 150 thousand on it when we got together she was thinking about trading it in then and get you some more no this thing's about worn out and she said it just you know maybe I should just try out so look you like the truck ain't gonna give you nothing in on trade if you want to buy something that's fine but this is no sense in getting rid of it I don't know it's pretty tired I said might be tired but I can get you half a million we if we stick together I get you half a million miles out of that truck yeah right so then I stepped in it at 200,000 I'm going ah man 300,000 to go and 400,000 and 450,000 I was like yeah it's gonna make it now so I got her the half a million that's not gonna be run as hard as kind of retired now it's not gonna be run as hard as it it's used to but so it should last another hundred thousand anyway but we'll see that is yet to come thanks for watching guys she barely meant to be alleged I'm gone for now we'll see you guys in the next one bye bye take care