The (long) video starts off with making a DIY bimetallic strip out of titanium and brass, which it pretty fun. After some math, it is tested in a cup of hot water to ballpark the deflection.

[Tim] is a homebrewer. Temperature profiling during the mashing process is apparently even more critical than the temperature curve of a solder reflow oven. His stove just wasn’t giving him t… ...

For a strip of the dimensions above-mentioned the force exerted for 100 ° F. change of temperature is about 3 oz. weight, whereas for a strip of the same dimensions but 0.1 in. thick the force ...

A thermostatic metal bar (or bimetallic strip) is used to sense temperature changes and move accordingly. The bar would essentially move one way when the temperature dropped, and another when the ...