Today we Smash Motorcycle helmet with watermelon, bowling ball and other stuff with Smashinator 5 000 000! Which is mix between Hydraulic Press and cannon! Slow motion videos were filmed with Chronos 1.4 high speed camera www.krontech.ca/
Big thanks to Kron Technologies for borrowing those cameras! Here is link to their website for more information about Chronos 1.4 camera www.krontech.ca/
You should try smashing either an old bowling ball (1970s or earlier) or a polyester bowling ball. They're constructed differently than more modern high performance resin bowling balls (no weight block in the middle) and should smash better. As an FYI that yellow dot you saw in the ball wreckage is the locator pin...it tells the ball driller how the ball's weight block is oriented so he/she can put the finger holes in the right place to get the desired ball reaction.
Great slow motion captures guys !! Love Love Love the work and awesome experiments you provide your fans. Great soundtrack music as well . Thank you for sharing your works and adventures !!!
My fav was the smashing of the plates,the water melon smashing with the bike helmet was really good(Shoei is taking notes HAHA!!),but the surprise was the 🎳 bowling ball,I thought for certain that it would completely disintegrate.
Building that smashinator was a brilliant idea, I enjoy watching your pressing and smashing stuff. Please never get rid of your accent, it would not be the same anymore. The way you speak is the cream ontop of a sundae.
Bowling ball :" F your smashinator, come get some! I'm no watermelon ,boy!" After smash Bowling ball: "Cracked but not conquered! F your smashinator GET SOME MORE! " MC sound effects were awesome!
Really nice! Those plates were intresting also - it really shows the difference between this and the press. With the press, they break to pretty big pieces that falls to the sides, but this thing is so fast that the shards don have time to move out of the way and they break up into amller pices - so everything end up into a cloud of small pieces. When it comes to the broken welds - those high dynamic forces are indeed tough on the materials, compared to a hydraulic press slowly applying the same crushing force.
Loved this one! The bowling ball should go in the memories case you keep at home. Anni said what I was thinking about the plates before I did! lol! Would weighing down the mounting pad help or just put more stress on the smashing piston?
Awesome slow motion music for the watermelon+helmet smash! Would like to know the name of that track!? Awesome smashes as always! - oh and that crushed bowling ball ended up looking like a smashed coconut lol...
You guys also need a new pallet for securing the smashinator 5000000. Suggestion for item to smash: work-boots with protective steel toe. Keep the good shit comming!!!
Would it be possible to use Smashinator in a dark/dimly lit room and light everything with a blacklight and see how the smashed bits flying away from the smashinator look like in that lighting?
After watching what happened to the bowling ball, I'm not sure if you could create anything entertaining with smashinator with extruder or wormmaker. Would be interesting to see them try though.
Nah, I'm pretty sure the liquid won't escape fast enough, and the pressure inside the extruder cylinder will get insanely high. Either it would bend/deform the extruder piston, or it may even break the cylinder. At high impact speeds, water almost behaves like a solid. This is the same effect why one can crush a car by dumping an excavator bucket full of water onto it from a few meters of height.
I don't remember the rod type, my dad said that they are "hard rods". The max amp on the machine is 150 amps. Usually I use bit smaller rods that need around 100 amps and with those it's really good machine. With those 2.5mm rods it sometimes bit hard to get going on
I really want to hear you two do a Finnish version of Gallagher's Sledge-O-Matic introduction before destroying a watermelon. You'd probably be 1000x funnier than the rest of his material!
I loved the "Fatality" bit- the plate footage was my favorite shot. Question- I see you testing the tension on the rope to see when the piston is up- why not just hit the spot of rope closest to the winch with a bit of spray paint so that you know every time?
Fantastic slow motion demo specially the blue dishes, by the way, why not installing a sharp heavy blade, like French guillotine, to your smashinator/"cutinator" and cut some imaginable things.
Make cylinders from aluminum and copper exactly the same size to use as standards so that you can crush them with the smashinator 5 million then compare them with cylinders crushed in the regular hydraulic press so that you can calculate how much force is being applied to the objects in the videos. I think it would be very interesting to see how many tons of force it would be compared to myself. What do you think?
That and total energy... the force is rather easily approximated by multiplying the air pressure by the area of the piston, is that right? And then energy is force multiplied by time. Someone help me out...
It might be one of those things that seems simple on paper but turns out to give results that are harder to figure out, either way I think it would be more interesting to see the experiment rather than a math equation. Don't you?
agreed, tangible results are often more visually appealing than numbers...but I know there are some (like myself) that can ALSO appreciate the math/physics behind it
One can't really compare an impact (Smashinator) to a static load (Hydraulic press). The smashinator would reach its maximum force if one puts nothing to smash inside and the piston just hits the bottom. Then, only the elastic deformation of the piston and bottom plate will bringt it to a stop. One could then approximately calculate the force from weight, speed and diameter of the piston. But if one smashes somethong with it, the force is lower because the elasticity of the object. Imagine trying to smash a really strong spring with it: At some point, the force of the spring would bring the piston to a stop, and propel it back up. The peak force reached might not even be that high, since the piston is decelerated over quite a large distance. For that reason, there is no force specified for power hammers (= even bigger Smashinators for forging steel). Instead, the impact energy in kJ is specified.
Lauri, if you unbolted the cannon from the base and placed it at 45 degree angle and then fabricated a pointed nose cone for the piston so it had some basic aerodynamics, and then fired the cannon at full possible power how far do you think the piston would fly?
I think you should try smashing a hard hat (not sure what you call them there, it's personal protective equipment PPE here, used in factories or job sites. )
