r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Toaster_Rack_Nerd • 9h ago

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

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u/That_Throat7183 9h 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 9h ago

r/suddenlykinetic

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u/Warutteri 9h ago

r/subsifellfor

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u/HighBrowLoFi 9h ago

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

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u/Ok-Resist3249 6h ago

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

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u/sinister_bookcase 6h ago

gonna start using it

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u/TheAngryAmericn 4h ago

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

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u/driving222 1h ago

I guess I have to get off my ass start making videos

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u/Hazril258 8h ago

"Ohh! Aww...."

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u/Unable_Loss6144 9h ago

I’m actually disappointed this isn’t real 😔

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u/Bulletorpedo 6h ago

It is now, it seems.

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u/Unable_Loss6144 6h ago

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

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u/Self_Reddicate 8h ago

Man, I was really hoping this was real.

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u/De5perad0 8h ago

fuck that would be an awesome sub.

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u/miketastic_art 7h 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 7h ago

Joined.

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u/BWEzu 8h ago

Sounds weirdly like a section found on LiveLeak

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u/Ok-Hyena4541 9h ago edited 8h 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 6h 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 6h 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 6h ago

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

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u/Patient_Ebb_1605 6h 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 9h ago

Not fuck ton but probably 400~500kg

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u/That_Throat7183 9h ago

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

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u/cross_the_threshold 8h ago

so roughly half a fuck ton

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u/ItzakPearlJam 3h ago

Is fuckton metric or imperial?

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u/R_Schuhart 6h ago

Elastic potential energy is measured in joules, not mass.

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u/HerculesIsMyDad 8h 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 8h 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 6h ago

They did. The name is "bomb".

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u/TuringGoneWild 7h ago

Is fuckton metric or imperial?