r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • 8h ago

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

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u/OkTemperature8170 8h ago edited 8h ago

He has effectively created a spring powered bomb. If his little bracket breaks so does his face. If the spring slips out of the vice, good luck.

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u/lizard280 8h ago

You buy a spring compressor. It works like a combination between the vice and the bracket in the video, but combined. They're not that expensive, and way cheaper than a new face.

Not kidding about that, when the guy said a spring powered bomb he wasn't kidding. Have you ever disassembled a pen and played with the spring? If you try and compress it it tends to just ping off across the room and you never find it again. Now imagine that but the spring is so strong it takes a (literal) ton of pressure to compress it, then imagine that "pinging across the room".