Prince Rupert's Drop vs Hydraulic Press [ 4K - Slow Motion ] ( S1 E9 ) 

Please try this again with a camera at atleast 10 times higher FPS. Screw resolution, I want to see the fracture move through the glass and see where it originates.

That's the first time I've ever seen a Prince Rupert's Drop broken without breaking the tail.

That was beautiful, perfect representation of the strength of a Rupert's drop...just amazing.

Not an easy job you have, must be a lot of pressure !

Can you crush my dreams? Oh wait my wife does that every day

Shoenice.

NEXT UP ..... Prince Ruperts Drop made out of Shot Glasses vs Hydraulic Press

how about my ex's heart? that thing is hard as fuck

The guy from the 'smarter every day' channel shot one and it smashed the bullet without breaking. Crazy!

Yeah, a Prince Ruperts Drop is stronger than steel.

If these were made in a zero gravity environment, could they be created perfectly spherical? Due to the lack of a tail. If so, would the strength be correspondingly higher, without the weak point?

That slow motion was so useless, nowhere near fast enough to see what happened. What's the point of 4K slo mo when you can't see anything that happened? This is the reason you only have 14k subs compared to, say, the slo-mo guys, with many, many more subs.

Now I dare you to try crushing Chuck Norris' teardrops!!!!

your videos are great, you don't drag it out for 5 min before you even put it in the press. They are straight to the point. you have a new subscriber

This is excellent. I believe you actually fractured the drop first and the fracture went towards the tail. This is a first for you tube I think. Was that the remaining tail flying around in the air in slow motion?

It looked like the tail, of the drop, touched the ram which could have broken it, causing the drop to shatter. Try it with several drops, one at a time of course.

Imagine making 1000 Prince Rupert Drops and somehow forging them all together into an Prince Rupert Block without any of them shattering. Would be EPIC+ Only issue is that damn Tail..

Usually i don't like these kinda "Something vs. Hydraulic Press" videos but this was genuinely good.

is that shoenice

Now crush Lincoln from What's Inside.

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That's the first time I've seen the drop go before the tail. I had about decided it wasn't possible.

Oh finally I was really waiting to see new videos from you man. ☺

Whoever requested the prince ruperts drop , thank you!

Oh wow, I honestly did not expect the drop to burst and leave the tail intact.

Looks like that thing they took out of Neo's belly bottom from the Matrix.

lol slo mo guys did it on almost 180K fps and still was not fast enough to catch, u thought u could do that on 4K? 😂😂😂

Yes, so it does break, i can rest in peace now. Lkl

Smarter everyday took me here, hoping to see this get broken looool

Whoa, failure on the drop and not the tail.

0:39 Music reminds me of the music on Metro Last Light menu screen.

I am more and more amazed at the properties of Rupert's Drops with every video I see about them. There's got to be a way to game this into a useful material purposing...

would it be possible to dip the tail if it were smaller in liquid metal to protect it and then make jewelry out of it?

There seems to be a lot of whining about whether or not the drop was made correctly. The fact of the matter is that it really doesn't matter because you can come to one of two conclusions. 1) The drop acts differently if the head it broken before the tail. 2) Even an improperly formed drop can take a fuckton of pressure before shattering. Either way this was awesome.

That's the first time I've seen a Prince Rupert's drop break from the front end instead of from the tail end! The tail is still intact at the end! Very cool

the guy reminds me of shoe nice

can you do a collaboration video with the slow-mo guys so we can see how the drop shatters in even more detail?

Great video. Gets straight to the point instead of bullshitting in the beginning like others.

I saw Destin shooting them and even then i didn't really understand how strong these things are , i'd say that was a tie considering most metals aren't hard enough to create these dents in the press .

excellent demo of the famous drop. Can I suggest that we do something in the form of a sandwich with another object, normally regarded as strong, being compressed at the same time as the drop. It would be impressive to see a diamond being crushed whilst the Prince William drop survived!

I do not think that was a Prince Rupert's Drop. The entirety of a Prince Rupert's Drop is under a whole lot of internal stress. It's this stored potential energy that gives the bulb it's truly mind-boggling resilience. Literally.. I've watched a Prince Rupert's drop survive a shot from a 22 caliber long rifle.. the bullet disintegrated when it hit the bulb. However, it's also the internal stresses that give it it's greatest weakness. All that potential energy is stored as internal stresses.. while the bulb's stresses work to give it incredible strength, the tail winds up also being under the same kind of stress but in an arrangement that makes the entire drop very vulnerable. If any link in this chain is broken, the stored potential energy is released explosively. Since the entirety of the drop is under these stresses, a failure anywhere should cause this chain reaction to explosively disintegrate the entirety of the drop. It's not possible for any part of this chain to survive structural failure. Now, it's at this point that you need to ask yourself... If a real Prince Rupert's Drop explodes, entirely, every time you cause a single failure anywhere on the drop, would the tail have survived? I'd suggest not and it is for this reason that I suggest you may not have created that drop properly and it may have been significantly less resilience than it should have been. I think your cooling pool was too shallow, probably not a low enough temp, and perhaps the glass not properly brought to temperature. I think it cooled too slowly (near instantly is not instantly) or didn't cool uniformly. It may also have just been too small as the strength of a Rupert's Drop comes from the point where the drop's surface is cooled to solid instantly while the molten interior is cooled more slowly, which creates the internal stresses that are so important. I'd seriously suggest trying this again. Make a bunch of them while altering some of the potential variables (cooling pool temp and size; drop size, temp, and height; etc..) and ensure they're real drops by breaking the tails of a few to test if a method of creating them is effective. The entirety of a drop should explode violently when the tail breaks.. The bulb on the other hand.. can shatter bullets and survive forces that are truly mind blowing.

this guy needs to rent an ultra high speed camera..

I didn't know the brother-in-law from "Yes, Dear" had his own RU-vid channel.

20 tons = 40,000lbs About 10 full sized sedans on an area about 3mmx3mm...WOW

Destin from +SmarterEveryday needs to see this video

These are incredible!

The fat part of Rupert's drop is annealed by sudden quenching in water. It's harder than regular steel.

1:01 LOOK AT THAT SPIRAL. wow that's so fucking cool.

if you heated the tip only to make the drop instead if the tail it would of been much stronger

Woah woah woah wait! TONS?! It broke at 20 tons of pressure?!?!!!??? What?!?! Holy Cow that’s awesome!

Just saying 4k slowmo is stupid turn down the resolution and up the frames for gods sake

THANKS A MILLION FOR WHAT YOU SHOWED ME,TONS OF IDEAS WILL COME OUT OF WHAT YOU DID ,THANKS AGAIN

Shoenice looks a lot healthier now.

Instant sub, this is a great video!

Perfect, of course the results may vary depending on the quality of the drop, but my guess is that a high quality drop in optimal conditions would deformate the pressure point before shatering. Not indestructible but toughter than most materials so it's expected that most materials will experience deformation way before the ball.

Best RU-vid channel! He gets straight to the point and shows us what we want 😩😩 I love it!

You look like a clean version of Shoenice22

Just one word: spectacular!

need a faster camera....but thanks for the video. never even heard of Rupert before

U ACTUALLY BROKE IT!!!!!!!!!!

that's one bad of a slow motion video

Thats the first one I've seen break from the drop instead of the tail. Beautiful to see the tail wiggling around intact after the drop broke.

5000 fps isnt even close to what you need to capture this

Your camera isn't fast enough. You should see the drop disintegrate from the tail end and travel to the drop. if you had a high enough speed camera you'd see it.

F**k me that prince rupert's drop has some strength to it

Whoa, mind blown!

who else went from SmarterEveryday's video about the Drop to this one

This is me dropping a ton of credit on the guy who suggested the video .

I like this guy.

I want to see them crush a Prince Albert Ring next. Don't think it would be a family friendly episode though.

Cant nobody do slow mo like the slo mo guys

after watching Smarter Every Day, I figured that Prince Rupert's Drop ONLY breaks from the tail, but this video is making me think that it is possible to crush the head of the drop, not just the tail

Can you redo this but with a proper drop? You left the tail on way too long. It seems like the reason it broke is because the tall tail began to push against the side of the press.

Got a subscription for this one :)

You need a bigger Ruperts Drop without such a dainty tail.... I'm sure it would be even more impressive.

I loved this, are you willing to test the difference if the tail is melted away? I hypothesize that it broke more due to the change in pressure vibrating the tail than the drop head being overwhelmed.

WOW ! HUMMM ? What happens when you re melt and remove the tail ?

Great Request.... Great Video!

Crush a Eyeball next doesn't matter from what animal 🙄

Crush a pancake. Make the world's flattest pancake. Send the results to Dr.Phil.

Holy sheet i never seen a prince ruperts drop break form the bottom instead of the tip, guess it's possible after all

Very nice, I loved this one.

shoenice22

NOT A RUPERT DROP SORRY BUT IT HAS TO BE ATLEAST 3 INCHES LONG with A TAIL OF A MM CIRCUMFRENCE

I wonder what its stress endurance is. For example, load 5 tons of pressure and let it carry that load for 5 hours.

well thats thats the tail was intact. Glass blowers from the last 1000 years would have just shit there pants

Is this the dude who drinks gallons of gasoline and vodka?

What we thought was the tail is not actually the tail. Since the part remaining is actually part of the tail. the true tail was demolished with the prince rupert's drop when it gave way. I also think that might be the point where it snapped because the tail was starting to lean towards the hydraulic press. When you're making a prince ruperts drop you need the trim a portion of the tail because the excess tail led to its demise.

I like that you show the tons of pressure exerted on the drop. Gives you a sense of how strong it really is.

well done, well said, gave credit. good stuff!

I'm here because of Smarter Everyday...

Amazing! Thanks for sharing it :)

I've scrolled the comments and no one has given credit to the guy who suggested the video. so here's your credit, whoever you are.

Dang. An indentation in the steel AND dented the tool as well.... from a piece of glass...

I love Prince Rupert's Drops. Just the idea of them is wonderful.

man iv been telling these hydraulic press people to do this for years now and some chump says it and its done !? you youtubers probably read like 2-3 comments and that's it right lol

is that Shoenice?

I haven't watched the video or looked at the comments yet (I don't want to see spoilers). I just have to say OH MY GAWD I AM SO EXCITED TO SEE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That slow motion was not slow enough

Wow, I knew they were strong but 20 tons is crazy.