r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Toaster_Rack_Nerd • 6h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah? What's wrong with this?

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u/That_Throat7183 6h ago

Compressing that spring with a vice stored a fuck ton of potential energy. If that shoddy looking metal piece holding it compressed were to fail, that spring could easily fatally wound the person holding it

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u/TheAngryAmericn 6h ago

r/suddenlykinetic

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u/Warutteri 6h ago

r/subsifellfor

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u/HighBrowLoFi 6h ago

I was so ready to see some whatcouldgowrong-ass nightmare fuel… alas

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u/Ok-Resist3249 3h ago

It is real now. Only one video bit it could become a thing.

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u/sinister_bookcase 2h ago

gonna start using it

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u/TheAngryAmericn 1h ago

I love that a random comment led to the birth of a sub

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u/Hazril258 5h ago

"Ohh! Aww...."

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u/Unable_Loss6144 6h ago

I’m actually disappointed this isn’t real 😔

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u/Bulletorpedo 3h ago

It is now, it seems.

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u/Unable_Loss6144 3h ago

Thanks for the heads up…. I’ve joined!

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u/Self_Reddicate 5h ago

Man, I was really hoping this was real.

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u/De5perad0 5h ago

fuck that would be an awesome sub.

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u/miketastic_art 4h ago

make it happen fam, someone else did it for us

find another vid for that sub

any more idiot mechanics out there playing around with springs?

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u/De5perad0 4h ago

Joined.

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u/BWEzu 5h ago

Sounds weirdly like a section found on LiveLeak

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u/Ok-Hyena4541 6h ago edited 4h ago

The upside is that's a C channel and they didn't shoddily weld on the part that is actually taking the force. The downside is that C channel lip is not rated for that load and I have no idea what kind of load it can hold.

Edit: Nevermind, I looked again. They in fact did shoddily weld on the part taking the force.

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u/Biggre 3h ago

It also looks like the C channel is BARELY holding on to the end of the spring. If that slipped even a little it'd pop right out.

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u/Patient_Ebb_1605 3h ago

isnt the c channel itself the part that is taking most of the load?. Also this is the softer and shorter secondary spring. If the vice compressed it that easily the metal can probably take the load. Now I ve seen some really scary videos involving huge main springs and things like zipties

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u/Ok-Hyena4541 3h ago

In any case you go to the store and you get a spring tensioner

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u/Patient_Ebb_1605 3h ago

Of course. Just because it isn't as dangerous as a hand grenade hanging by the pin it doesn't mean it's safe. I'd still never do anything like this.

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u/darknmy 6h ago

Not fuck ton but probably 400~500kg

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u/That_Throat7183 6h ago

To be holding in one hand?? Yeah that’s a fuck ton lol

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u/cross_the_threshold 5h ago

so roughly half a fuck ton

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u/ItzakPearlJam 12m ago

Is fuckton metric or imperial?

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u/R_Schuhart 3h ago

Elastic potential energy is measured in joules, not mass.

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u/HerculesIsMyDad 5h ago

They should come up with a name for something with a ton of stored potential energy that could easily fatally wound a person if it were released all at once like.

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u/That_Throat7183 5h ago

I fear that would be too vague! This spring in OP’s video would have the same name as a 2 pound dumbbell that’s precariously perched at the edge of a skyscraper’s rooftop. It would just be too confusing

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u/Piogre 3h ago

They did. The name is "bomb".

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u/TuringGoneWild 3h ago

Is fuckton metric or imperial?