How Much Stronger Does Duct Tape Make Everyday Objects? Hydraulic Press Test! 

The way the duct tape shredded around the post-it note explosion was a good visualization of just how violent the paper explosions are. Wow!

I laughed when I realized how much tape you put on there. I was expecting a couple of layers. Using the lathe was definitely big brain!

The fact that a Pepsi bottle can withstand 2000 pounds of vertical force is mind blowing

The explosive force of pressed paper never ceases to amaze me.

This video reminds me old videos, and I'm very happy with it. And great to hear Anni again! :)

These are the questions we need answers to! Keep up the good work!

Here in Finland we call duct tape "Jeesusteippi", which literally means "Jesus tape"

If it moves but shouldn't: duct tape. If it doesn't move but it should: WD40

Oooohhhhh! You’ve made a Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel! They use those on rockets, ya know! 🚀

8:00 I like Anni yelling "Oi!" in the background when the paper explodes.

really fortuitous points of failure this time around! the explosions actually decided to face the camera for once

2:19 that looks like.. well.. you know

You guys ever get ants in the shop? XD

It is great hearing Anni's reactions again!

It's great to hear that Anni is still there acting as a safety supervisor. I hope she is doing well in her new job and I eagerly await her "Hydraulic Press: IKEA" channel, just crushing IKEA items. 🤣

I think Annie's reaction in the background is the best gauge of how it went.

Was that a Metric sheet-load of tape, or a Freedom Unit sheet-load? 😁

😂the soccer/football wrapped in duct tape looks like Finnish version of Sputnik. Also the duct tape sticky notes explodes while you are talking is great🤣🤣🤣

These hydraulic videos and ASMR is all I need in life.

I am nearly 63. Why do I enjoy your channel so much? Must be the still 15 year old in my heart! As long as you keep posting, I'll be there. Greetings from Dimboola in Victoria, Australia.

Interesting observation: the "smoke" that came out of the soda bottle when it exploded was actually CO2 gas. When the soda was being compressed in the bottle, the CO2 in solution was being pressed out of the liquid (I think) and actually cooling off. After all, if we take C02 and compress it enough then it turns into a liquid. This is why the "smoke" that comes out of the bottle drops quickly to the table and disperses. This same smoke effect is seen from dry ice (which is just a solid form of C02) I could be wrong with these assumptions, but I find it interesting. Does anyone else have any other ideas as to what's going on here?

2:28 My reaction after using an entire bottle of Tapatio on my breakfast. And lunch. And dinner. And dessert.

That face shot to the camera was a rare gem. As always, nice work.👍

If you ever decide to revisit this idea, I wonder how the aluminum can would fare if you wrapped it in both directions like you did with the post-it notes, to support and seal the top and bottom a bit?

The football and soda bottle were awesome! How do you keep the soda and other liquids from wreaking havoc on the press and other nearby things? Seems like it would be a pain to clean up.

So nice to hear Ani's voice again! Even if it was only a couple of brief sounds...

I love this guy's accent so much. Hits my brain just right.

Great results! Please crush the roll of tape with the layers oriented like the paper. Maybe it too will explode but since it is made with some petroleum products.

That was awesome! Easy to predict the soda bottle, but I must say I had higher hopes for the can! Maybe try a can of beans or similar instead, as they have less profiled ends..

Here we go!

All I thought of with the wrapped up post-it notes was "So that's what a 'gift' from The Joker would look like!" XD Love you guys! Always have and always will!

3:15 The regularity of the ridges forming suggests some already-existing weaker points in the metal used to make the can. Very interesting.

paper covered in duct tape is wierdest thing i saw today. good work Laur and Anni you are creatively destructive as usual

I’d love to see you try this with different tapes! (Gaff tape, paper tape, aluminum tape, etc.)

That was funny. Brilliant narration. Loved the lathe application. Might be first time in human history a lathe has been used to apply duct tape to something.

"Because why not?" I feel like this is a motto you live by.😂

It would be super interesting to see similar items compared with similar weights of duct tape applied but on one the tape is applied carefully and smoothly with good tension, and the other it's just slobbed on there like how people normally try to use tape.

wrapping stuff with the lathe was genius, i'm sure that cut the time to do it by like 90%, haha.

Actually if somebody was wondering about the smoke coming out of the bottles, it's from the immense pressure release when the bottle bursts and the pressure fells drastically to ambient pressure and with it the temperature, which in turn has an effect on the surrounding water vapors in the air as it is condensing along the path of the flowing redissolved co2 gas that was bound in the coke before. At least this would be my best guess.

Glad to see you're using the GOOD duct tape! I have about half a roll left of that from a couple of years back. I use the cheaper (3M) stuff when I don't need the really good stuff! TESA all the way, baby! There's soooo much glue on that tape, and it's super thick!

Could you try to see if there is a difference between a can that has been shaken up, vs a can that hasn’t been shaken? Would be interesting to know, what if any differences the internal pressure would have.

Oh shit! I haven't seen one of your videos in a while! Glad to have you back on my feed!

Love it! Keep up the good videos!

"Red Green" would approve of these tests😜🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Your commentary cracks me up. You are so blunt. "it was a total pain in the ass to put on" 🤣

I wonder if your father has found any stuff left behind by your crushings in his workshop or how diligent you have been with cleaning.

1:08 I’d have loved a se it random secondary test where you crush the bottle to exactly this kind of point, then release pressure to see how much it reverts to its original shape

You are doing the true science that the world needs. :D

How lovely to hear Anni in the background. Thanks Anni, we miss you!

2:59 that bottle got me actin up

1:30 "Big Brain Method"😆😅🤣😂🤣😅

There is other types of tape that is way stronger than regular duct tape you should try several other types too thanks for sharing buddy

Also you should paint the wall white behind the press ! It will help show more details and look less like a dungeon :)

2:15 The 10 year old in me thinks that ends up in a very funny shape 🤣

2:28 When you ate Taco Bell

2:17 When you tried to hold it in but didn't make it to the toilet in time...

2:28 that's me after eating at Taco Bell

I love the little smoke facts 2:32

That was glorious!!! Taping up a ball was brilliant!

8:05 "OK it's much stron...BOOM💥!!!" 😂😂

'I had this big brain method of applying the tape with the lathe' I freaking died. I did not expect that XDD

Love the paper explosion! My favorite 😂 oh love the cards too 😂 So glad Anni is back!

Duct tape pepsi bottle doesn't like to be recorded 🤣

Really need some high speed footage of post-it notes wrapped in duct tape. That was much violent than I was expecting.

I'm curious about the soda and what kinda soda it is

Anni's jump scare/shock exclamations when things explode aways make laugh.

We love you

when the hydraulic press channel wants to make popcorn. uses the press. when it comes out smoking at 1:11. that's how you know you got a good snack.

How about adding a position measurement? Combine with force and you get how tought material is. Like how fast the force goes up vs. deformation.

what liquids compress the most? soda, orange juice, apple juice, water, milk, shampoo etc etc etc...?

when you rush to the stall and barely get your pants down after eating some taco bell @2:18

That lathe-powered duct tape application made me laugh. Great stuff.

2:30 yo girl when i pull up the function with the light up sketchers

You need to test a roll of duct tape on its own and see what its threshold is, like a control test...

2:29 me after taco night

"sheetload of tape" I nearly cried laughing 🤣

Cool, man I have already suggested to try to compress frozen mercury, under Normal temperature it is liquid but they say that under - 40 it gets solidified and Impossible to be compressed by any hydraulic pressure that you May expose to it. - 40 is a minimal temperature needed for solidification so another advice is to lower its temperature even further using Maybe some mold to give some kind of a shape

What is the sampling rate on the pressure gauge? Would love see an oscilloscope pattern. When the can ruptured at 350kg it looked like an afterkick to 380, an oscilloscope would resolve it. A tap on the sensor may cause the meter to stop or be inaccurate. Curious minds want to know.

2:17 Wednesday morning after a Taco & Tequila Tuesday 🤣

What about flex seal on items you put in the water chamber. Revisit some things you have done and compare with and without flex seal.

2:17 me after a taco bell...

Netflix: are you still watching? Some ones daughter: 2:30

Every video you make is interesting! I wonder how you come up with these cool ideas? Hi Ani! We miss you! 🥰

Alternative Channel Name: Jump Scare Channel You see it coming, you know it is coming, but you still get jump scared.

That's Awsome that Anni came by to help. It's been awhile since I heard her mentioned.

Omg the smol caterpillar on the Toukkis can is so adorable!

It seemed like heat from the compression on the wrapped soda bottle (in shot #2) was high enough to boil the soda? I saw smoke and bubbling after the fact.

8:08 Ok much much stro- *BOOM* _famous last words_

RU-vid has stopped recommending your videos to me but I still found you

8:09 boom the duct tape exploded. Heheheheheheheh

you need to try bed liner last seen on mythbusters sprayed on a wall to make bomb proof can you crush a can that has been sprayed and cured will it burst ????

LMAO the 'money shot'

I think the load cell is measuring the force of the explosion. For the first paper test, the slow-motion shows failure at about 69 tonnes, but afterwards, the load cell recorder shows a peak of 75 tonnes. I think that means there was 6 tonnes of explosive force.

"I'm going to put a shit load of tape on it..." *Shows enormous ball of duct tape* 😆 this channel is awesome.

2:18 i love my mind

Is that Anni I hear at 6:31? Welcome back!

me: I really need to use the bathroom me: sits on toilet me: 2:30

"but if you add a shit load of tape" my favourite comment on this channel ever.....🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🏻

You may have already did this but have you guys experimented with Pykrete, it would be interesting to see if you could compress wet cotton with sawdust then create a few layers and then freeze it almost like creating a plywood board, then test its strength against normal plywood. But as you like the chance to either blow shit up or shoot holes in it you could see how effective it would be as a ballistics shield for explosives and a bullet proof vest plate and shoot it to destruction. Extreme cheap materials but big explosive content. Obvisly you would need to mess about using the materials to give you the best mix but I'm sure a man of your talents could achieve impressive results. All the best from Scotland

Would love to see this test with Gorilla Tape or Tight Wrap.