Today we got our new Smashinator 5 000 000 almost ready! It's mix between Hydraulic Press and cannon! Big Thanks to Magnus Melander for all the music used on this video! He made the couple songs just of our RU-vid channel!
Big Thanks to Magnus Melander for all the music used on this video! He made the couple songs just of our RU-vid channel! He is also guy behind Monster Action Metal 1 that is one of the most used songs on this channel :D
Beyond the press Take a thermometer to the snow dump and see what the temperature is around it compared to other places I’m sure it cools things off it’s like a giant ice cube
You can tell that you really enjoy what you do in the shop. Both of you seem like really genuine people, very down to earth and good natured. I've been subscribed for quite a while now, and your videos are always entertaining. One of the best channels on RU-vid!
It's great to see RU-vidrs working hard building and always finding new innovative ideas for the content, that's why you've gotten so big you've earned it, it's great to see you where you are today keep going strong!
Yes, this please. I got a 400kg+ water heater with really sharp corner dropped on my foot from about a knee high and I can say I would have lost all my toes from one foot and more without the boots. Slightly bent steel with a clear dent going across the whole boot and a clear cut through the hard rubber(or whatever it was). Could have been worse, I had to push it and as I started to push I fortunately notices it got loose at last moment, so I got my knee, shin and the rest out of the way. If it was a straight cut it would have been fine, but I actually got a bruise on the top of my foot and I couldn't get my foot out that easily since it was still pressing a little, nothing painful, but enough to make the boot feel quite tight.
About the piston. You should make the end of the cylinder able to take different tools like the hydraulic press so the punch can have a wide hit or a small diameter tool to impact with much higher force. Maybe even a spike tool for puncturing things. Also instead of a magnet how about a small hardened pin that protrudes through the tube wall to retain the piston at the top then pressurize the tube and make a lever system that can be hit with a hammer to retract the pin quickly so the piston doesn't move until the pressure is the highest. If you are interested but don't understand my crap description please let me know and I'll make a drawing. Have a great day
Beyond the press Can't wait to see it. Being a Machinist myself I really love seeing your shop be used for the channel. Hoping someday to see the big boring mill in action. Keep up the awesome work.
Here as a channel supporter, quite the Smashinator, the name reminds me of those Hydraulic Hammer Presses, that I'v seen on RU-vid, like the 3-ton hammer presses.
You guys ROCK! Gotta love blowing shit up! You are informative too! Would you test Diesel fluid under pressures like that? Please!? It might just make a Big Bang!
Very Nice!! You should add a metallic 90° large bend on top of the machine to avoid the hose to be sharp bent. Also try to put the Air Tank closer to the machine, longe hose Will makes pressure loss. Try to use a fast release valve. Congratulations.!
My recommendation would be go with the magnet and try to upgrade to a faster valve. There are pneumatically actuated valves that would work quite well, as well as solenoids that act very quickly. Look into what the guys building the pumpkin chunkin cannons as well as tons of other DIY air cannons out there are using. A pneumatically actuated butterfly valve would probably suffice just fine. The idea of mechanically hold the cylinder with a pin as someone else mentioned is a good idea in theory, but just a straight pin is likely to be extremely hard to remove under load. All the commercial quick disconnects I've seen for releasing a load don't have the load fully supported by the pin. They use some form of leverage to make pulling the pin much easier. If it's a big enough pin, it's ground really smooth, and the hole is also smooth then it might work. There's also the issue of an uneven force tilting the piston if it's only pinned on one side, and if it's pinned on both the simultaneous release would be an issue.
I think the hose is an issue, it looks like its kinking and choking the flow around sharp corners, you may need to use hard line, I'd also suggest putting the tank as close to the piston as possible, I know this was just a test, magnet is a good idea also!
You should fix the the big tube for the high pressure air, that it is not hanging down at the start. If it is hanging down, the acceleration of the piston would not be so good, because the air stream will lose much energy in bending the big tube and filling the kink in the tube. Probably it would be best to use a short metal pipe from the pressure vessel with as few as possible curves. (8:39)
That will improve the problem, but after opening the valve the air will still have much friction in the tube, and the tube will not stay very good at exactly one place, so i will lose energy.
At the start the frame looks like a PC case, A HPC PC? ---->heavy metal gaming ---->WIN!!! Love the work that goes into these projects. P.S. Those kemppi welders should be censored, too sexy for youtube :)
You should go metal detecting when the snow melts, the machines pick up jewelry and coins that people drop and they'll be on the surface when the snow is gone
You should use a stiff hose (like the standard reinforced PVC hose) that stays open without pressure. When the air flows into the flat hose you use now it first has to inflate the hose which cost energy from the air, kinks in the hose restrict air flow even more. When using a stiff hose mount a 90° pipe angle on top of the cylinder, that will keep the hose as straight as possible.
"It has been Really hot like, over 25oC for almost a week"..... Chuckle, come for a holiday in South East Australia during our summer. Really enjoy your videos guys.
You should use a Electric Solenoid Valve. It's really fast and used a lot in compressed air, for example for cleaning dust filters. They are not expensive.
Probably just those three :D I have laundry machine that also dries the laundry and I tend to put clothes straight back on out of that machine so I usually wear same clothes all the time :D
