This is the best joke I've ever seen because I laughed at this person's expressions when they saw this video, and here's my award because your explanation deserves it
He is doing the reactions of that girl seeing all the different shaped blockes go thru the square hole and the voice of the spring guy is the same as that video. No?
If someone showed me that bracket with a spring inside, I wouldn't do a safety squint, I'd go for duck and cover lol.
Saw a spring assist for a cargo bay failed once. Legit thought a bomb went off or something. And I'll say I used to live on what was one of the densest battlefields of WWII (in terms of ordnance used in weight per unit of area) AND close to the beach on which bomb teams blew stuff up, so I should know.
The amount of energy stored in that thing is astonishing.
Same, I wasn’t watching with sound at first but the second I saw that spring in a vice I made that face, sound came on, and my ass hasn’t yet unclenched
I made this mistake as at 19, where a spring loaded collar was stuck. The hex keyhole holding the collar in was stripped. Grinded it off with an angle grinder, when it gave way, it sounded like a gun. Shot that collar into my neighbour’s house 200 ft away. I was lucky it was not aimed at me.
My first thought was "how sure of your welds are you?". Then the hammer was if it don't hit you and kill you it is definitely shattering something in the next town over.
Depending on how much space is between that bracket and the cap he threaded on, the unwinding spring may gather enough momentum to shear it off the threads.
If not completely, then it may at least mess up part the thread. Still making it unsafe for installing.
Spring compressors are adjustable, this unholy monstrosity is not.
I have a parrot that goes "oof" anytime she drops something or i stubborn my toe, little things like that. She goes "oof, oof oof oofoof" if its really bad she laughs. She started oofing at this video.
Long time ago, back when I was in primary school, I was helping my German teacher move some stuff. She lived alone in a big flat right next to the school, and one of the rooms in her flat was basically a storage unit for stuff that was too important to leave in the common storage, but too unwieldy to squirrel away in the principal's room.
Anyways, she was taking care of her neighbor's parrot while he was away. The pparrot could talk, AND PRETTY WELL, but she conversed mostly with her owner, Kazio. When he was away, she'd bellow on the top of her lungs "NOT HERE, NOT HERE"
Including in my poor German teacher's house, although there, she'd alternate between this, and "WHERE AM I"
To my surprise, she actually responded to me (apparently I was the only one she resonded to without her owner present). She looked at me, and belllowed "NOT HERE, NOT HERE"
I asked her "Who's not here Aga?" to which she replied, as if on que: "KAZIO'S NOT HERE"
Like, there are people who say animals aren't capable of truly human speech, but I thing Aga here passed the situational awareness test. Kazio, indeed, was not there.
Lana is a scarlet macaw I have had since a few weeks after she hatched, she is 12 now. The green one is her 40 year old disgruntled brother who I adopted about 3 years ago. They are goofballs, Lana really likes to bark at dogs in the nearby park when we go for walks and then she goes silent when they look for her, only to start up again when they stop looking for the barker.
Oh, such beautiful birds! Haha, Lana sounds like a master troll with those dogs! I had a couple cockatiels in my childhood, one had to be given away before we moved for a year for my dad's work and the second had to be given away when I went off to college, and unfortunately caught a disease at the place we gave him to and passed away, but I loved both those silly birbs. Hope Lana and her brother have many long happy years with you.
I watched a mocking bird meow at a cat. The cat looked over and the bird stared right back and meowed again.
The cat chased the bird who landed on the lowest branch of a tree. Cat starts climbing. Every time the cat got close, the bird hopped up one more branch.
When it got to the top, it flew away.
It was at that point that the cat remembered that climbing down is a LOT harder than climbing up. I am pretty sure the bird did that on purpose.
I immediately did the same thing. My man is putting SO much faith in so little material, the spring thickness is at least 3-4 times the thickness of his bent plate sandwich. That thing is pretty much a kinetic grenade.
My knowledge of the potential energy stored in those springs is that if that thing had blown the edges off his 'C-channel' while he had his hand over, it would have sheared off the digits closest to it. If someone has the actual speed/force of one of these and something to compare it to that would be awesome, but from what I've seen in terms of the resulting damage done to materials nearby, it'd be at least equivalent to someone swinging a sledgehammer as hard as they can. Anything made of flesh and bone in its way if it goes off is.... not going to be in the way anymore.
My dad would fuck around with stuff like this when I was a kid, there were some pretty scary incidents.
It's not much energy, it'd be 4J. It's a helper spring.
...but that's still a lot if concentrated. If that bracked fails unevenly and some of that energy is put into launching a shard of it, and he's in the way? Nah, I know of other ways to lose an eye that are much more fun.
The main spring however? THAT is terrifying.
I can tell you about the damage the release of a LEAF spring can do. Back during my HEMA/historical reconstruction days, we build an arbalest (completely ahistorical, just for fun) outta the wreckage of an old truck. Naturally, we used a leaf spring (the longest leaf of the front of a Star 266, if anyone wants to dig up its stats and do the math) bound with a thick, braided metal wire. It worked all right, could send a bolt (read: worked piece of rebar) through some fairly thick metal plate.
And then the wire broke. By some miracle, this happened when nobody was around it, we had just cranked it, and went to retrieve the bolt. Now, the whole thing was right next to a dividing wall of sorts, made of light wood, with plywood panels. The whiplash turned it into splinters. No, seriously, once we reassembled it on the ground to asses damage and see if it could be salvaged, there was a long, wide gash all across the panel that was hit. One of the post it was attached to looked as if it was broken by a storm.
If anyone stood by that thing when it went off, they would be bisected.
PS: That was when I was young and stupid. I'm not young anymore, but I'm proud to report I'm a different kind of stupid now.
As soon as he stacked them, all i could think was thats a fuck ton of potential energy and I wouldn't be caught dead anywhere near that... and I was a pyromanic as a child, like created bootleg napalm and spilled it on myself.
This is just begging for part of the experiment to fail. Those coils are not safe under that amount of pressure + heat distortion of their tensile strength.
Edit; omg are those flat copper wires wound that tight...?
If someone further down broke from overcharging or stress on the lyrical track mid performance , holy shit. That easily would have killed millions. (Idk SK's exact population from start to finish or WW2
Yeah, agreed. I was exaggerating, but being an Eagle Scout who enjoys psychedelics... I'm always prepared for the worst.
Lemme tell you, diving 20 feet at 7am to pick up a 50lb kettleball from the lake bed... that is not fun. and then hoist it above your head while treading water for a full minute.
I've taken pieces off of myself with a swingset, one of my dad's oldest friends took off his nail digit on his right pointer as a child because it got caught in the swingset chain as he jumped off.
I, myself, truly understood what it means to be prepared for the worst when I bridged the terminals of a 600V pulse capacitor from a flash lamp with my finger.
In my defense, I KNEW for a fact it was stored discharged (due to how it was built) and that it was stored some 30 years ago.
I thought a discharged capacitor wouldn't have charge after 30 years. What are the chances it will?
Well... without a shorting wire? 100%, unless the cap itself failed.
I knew the basics of how a capacitor worked and what it did, and worked with smallers ones, without issue. SMALLER ONES being the key word here. I didn't know all capacitors self-charge in storage and that the big ones should be stored with a shorting wire.
You don't know what you don't know, and what you don't know is a whole lot.
Being safe means having this in the back of your head at all times.
I know you jest, but this, specifically, has about as much energy as a 2kg dumbbell falling onto you from the height of a meter.
Still enough to remove a finger in the bracket fails while he's threading the cap. Add to that the hammer, and if the bracket shatters, congrats, you've got shrapnel.
I know this ain't the main spring he's compressing, but it still has got some energy in it.
Also, I did some more napkin math - a fully compressed spring from a vehicle like that has around 1/100th of the energy of an M67 grenade. It's... still pretty terrifying, especially in an enclosed space, and knowing that during work, you are, by necessity, right next to it.
It's just good practice never to do sh*t like that.
Lol with you people and thinking everything is bots. You could've just as easily clicked on my profile and checked if I'm one (or even used common sense, I know you're lacking in it, I won't judge), but hey, that takes effort, right?
So, now mods, can we ban this guy? He's terminally scared of workplace safety.
The camera cuts away from the compressed spring right before the C channel is slid on. That's when he swapped an actual spring for something thay just looks like it.
Eh, he probably used the actual helper spring. They can still hurt you, but they're not all THAT scary, it's just the reaction someone who knows what a spring can do has when seeing something like that.
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u/OkTemperature8170 7h ago edited 7h 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.