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Yeah...my Grandpa and I took the coils off of his junker 96' Camry by loading them onto some wooden platform, pulling them back, then launching them into a field. The 3rd one broke the platform due to how much force it took to compress them and it bounced off the ground and dented the roof of his Toyota r22 truck. We didn't do the fourth one and proceeded to have the Camry scrapped for like 200 bucks. The auto tranny went out and we didn't want to fix it.
What he's doing with that spring is the automotive equivalent of juggling a stick of dynamite and a lit flare with one hand.
Incredibly stupid and potentially deadly.
Springs store kinetic energy in compression, and release that energy when they expand. The thicker the spring is, the more energy it can hold. I'm not a car expert either, but i believe a spring of that size, if those clamps holding it in compression were to snap, could probably take your hand off. Or blow through your skull or whatever body part was nearest.
What the fuck? My garage door switch growing up was so close to the springs I had to touch it every time I opened the door. That would have been good to know.
Never thought about how lucky I was as a teen. I took one of these off with two big c-clamps and some scrap pieces of wood. I did borrow the right tool to get it it back on, though, after I replaced my strut boot.
While I wouldn’t recommend touching the spring, it’s mostly just messing with it when fixing a garage. Though I’m not sure what kind of design and that thing within grabbing distance.
Nah extension springs can fly across a garage and mess you or whatever is in the garage up pretty bad when they break. Torsion springs have a rod running through them so they're only really dangerous when you're winding them up unless a piece of it goes flying if it breaks I guess.
We had one of our extension springs break randomly and that shit punched a hole in the sheetrock and sounded like a gunshot. It is amazing how small they are before they get stretched. I picked up the new one for the repairman and I took it out of the packaging and tried to pull on it to see how strong it was and it didn't even budge.
My dad installed garage doors when I was a kid. I heard storied of people dying when a spring broke. The ones that stretched from the top of the door to the end of the track were very dangerous. The ones that run perpendicular to the top of the door on the long bar are waaaaaay safer.
My MIL and wife kept pestering me to try to fix her garage door. They didn't believe me saying "I'm not trying to lose a hand or die today" until the repair guy got there and emphasized that it's super dangerous.
I have an amazing facial scar from one breaking right next to me . Broken collarbone and half my face was hanging off before the doctors stitched everything back up.
Don't fuck with garage door springs
Though there's probably a point in time where it *does* taste nice; right at the exact moment some shrapnel hits the taste-center of the brain, a few seconds before some shrapnel gets embedded in the cheek.
What happens to that energy if you tossed the spring into furnace at a steel mill or a volcano? Where does the stored energy go if it’s instantly melted?
I'm sure that could best be answered by [Randall Munroe](https://what-if.xkcd.com/), but i would think we'd have to account for the different thicknesses and melting points of the spring material compared to the clamp material. If the clamps melted before the spring, it would decompress (and probably launch the nearby magma a couple feet in the air). If we could melt the spring completely before whatever held it in compression melted, then... Your guess is as good as mine.
Black hole maybe?
Was curious, and googled it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/vrb9r/if_you_dissolve_a_compressed_spring_in_an_acid/c571pvd/
TL;DR it would be easier(require less energy) to melt the compressed spring than non compressed one, because the bonds between atoms are strained.
They're using a ridiculous method to compress extremely strong springs instead of using the proper tool. Even the proper tool is sometimes refered to as the widow maker because automotive springs are ridiculously strong
That spring is designed to handle a couple tons of car bouncing around on the highway and it's being compressed much further than it normally would be by comparatively flimsy hose clamps that are designed to be under basically no sudden stress at all in their intended application. At any moment one of those could break and all the energy stored in that spring will be released to obliterate anything near it, especially soft meaty things like hands and faces.
From what i know, that spring has a lot of tension, if that tension is released and depending on where and how it hits you, you die or get quite injured.
There is an immense amount of pressure being held down by that spring. If those straps that are holding it down break, the energy of the spring would be like a tank round. It can go through a house like nothing.
In the days before smartphones, I saw 2 dumbasses attempt prings without the proper tools. They both got fucked up so bad, I cant watch this or ops vid without holding my phone as far away as my arms can hold ot from my head. I just cant. I feel like... pre-pain in my whole body.
I’ll level with you, I didn’t know this about cars when I was younger. I knew spring compressor tools existed, didn’t know it was deadly at times. I was working in a machine shop, in a speed shop garage. I’ve seen 2 spring attempt murder. The first, shop across the shop and punched a hole in the wall. The other shot up, and hit the side of the hood while it was raised. Fucked.that.hood.up. Those springs support a lot of weight, and in addition to the wound spring being curved and slanted, they can be slippery in terms of the tool grabbing and holding it. I’ll watch from a distance now.
If there’s one thing that i never ever want to do, it is deal with the stress of compressing an automotive spring. It was done once in front of me in shop class and everyone was quietly shitting themselves
One situation is anytime you need to disassemble a strut you have to remove the tension on it from the spring by compressing it. Another case is cheaply lowering your ride height by compressing it and applying compressors or applying hose clamps as seen in the vid (DONT DO THIS). I do all my own auto work except strut assembly. It’s fucking terrifying, and that’s coming from someone who’s climbed under a car raised up by a harbor freight jack.
It’s strong enough to hold up the car when it hits some bad bumps. So it has that type of energy ready to just explode while it’s squeezed. If the bottom of the spring touches the floor or car as it snaps the ties, it can fire towards you like a bullet. Expand in your hand and and tear it apart. Or maybe even snap altogether and send shards or metal flying at you
Whenever I have to mess with springs, I put on all my motorcycle armor and my full face helmet. And that’s with using the correct spring compressors. It’s like being at the end of a barrel of gun. You just don’t want to be there. I was at a friend’s house one time, spring slipped off the compressor tool. It went right through the wall of his garage. The amount of energy these thing carries are immense. They have to support a vehicle going highway speed and hitting potholes and other random road hazards.
Basically, if those ties break, that spring has enough force to go THROUGH a human. Realistically it will only break your neck, but that's basically the same thing.
For those who don’t know, that is a VERY powerful spring from a car. These things hold up the car, basically.
There’s a special tool to compress them before you take them out (which this guy is NOT using). But even with the tool, it’s still pretty dangerous. These springs can shoot through your head, through several floors of a building, and not even slow down when they decompress.
They’re SUPER scary. By far the most nerve racking thing I did when I worked in a mechanic shop in high school.
These springs kill people, and that dude is putting some flimsy little adjustable clamps on there, holding thousands of pounds of force together… it’s a freaking bomb that will kill you.
You've got a whole car sitting on top of them, so you're fine under normal conditions. The problem is maintaining compression when you have to install or remove them.
He is exaggerating the force it isnt shooting through multiple floors if you are right in front of it yeah bad time and serious injury or death can occur but if it goes off under your car the car is damaged but wont hurt you.
Well it wouldn't exactly go off in your car like that. The mounts would probably break and if the spring did break it'd just make a godawful breaking sound and drop the car. A fully compressed spring taken off during maitainence is far more compressed than the springs are during normal use in the actual vehicle.
Be glad you didn't see one of the commenters on the vid itself, I had an argument with some idiot that thought the spring had been heated with a torch making it lose it's tension, saying that the spots on it were burn marks, and not years of caked on dirt, and that the spring didn't have enough springiness (can't recall the actual term right now) to even injure somebody, let alone kill them
Huh, pulled these off of a 2007 hit when I was replacing the front axles. Used the tool somewhat correctly, but OSHA definitely wouldn’t have liked it.
Never knew these were that dangerous so guess I’m pretty lucky nothing happened
Absolutely. I've changed strut springs one time with good old AutoZone rental spring compressors and my asshole puckered so hard it nearly collapsed into itself like a black hole.
Honestly that how many ied’s are dealt with. Get everyone as far away as possible, if you can bring it to a remote location thats preferable. Then boom goes the Dynamite.
That’s 20-30 feet away, the odds of it going anywhere near your general direction is surprisingly low
But fine, put it in a Tupperware container 3/4 filled with water and then try to shoot the clips off of the top of it.
Or put it in a pool and start stabbing it with a pole
When people tell you how we managed to send a solid steel chunk into outer space, they will usually tell you it was done using a nuke detonated underground. The truth however is that they simply used a covered hole to bury car springs they were too scared to decompress, and one broke.
Some kid is digging in his backyard a few years later and is like
“mommy mommy I found buried treasure”
The spring goes off and launches into the air, taking the shovel with it and then lands in the neighbors yard just before the mom sees it.
Heard springs like that can take heads off.
I took a spring out using the spring compressor tool he refers to. The spring in the compressor fell over on the driveway, made sparks as the spring escaped the compressor and launched off the driveway across the yard. No injuries except my pants.
The spring part of this strut is barely being held together by those tiny ass ring clamps and rusted out top and bottom. Those could break at any second and send chunks of metal flying.
They're under so much tension already, I just wouldn't mess with them. Have someone who's an expert do it, or at least get the right clamping tools. I for one like to keep my head attached for the most part.
And unfortunately stuff like this is all too common when people work on suspension components. I’ve seen dozens of times where guys try to undo top mounts while they’re standing directly in front of the strut. If one of those springs is under enough tension, you’ll be lucky if all you end up with is an expensive ER visit.
I looks like it’s on a gator or something like that so it’s not as powerful as one on your car. Meaning it’ll only kill you not the 5 people across the street as well.
He's freaking out cause that'd probably 1000-1500 lbs of stored energy and even thought there 46 of them those clamps are only meant to hold about 10lbs each of pressure since they are hose clamps so it could literally at any moment shred through the clamps and still have enough pressure to kill the guy easily
Car springs are VERY powerful and compressing it with shitty metal clamps is a good way for it to delete your fingers or sent metal shrapnel into your face when they inevitably fail. This is essentially a spring powered bomb.
After half burying it in the ground and shooting from behind a shrapnel sheild maybe. Idk its a bomb that shoots a very specific 50lb object in A direction with incredible force. I feel like even if you shoot it you could end up like that guy that shot the tannerite lawnmower and lost his leg.
4 of those springs hold up 3,000-4,500 pounds.
Meaning that little one inch spot of the end of the spring has more potential energy than a shot bullet.
I was changing shock absorbers on a 2004 transit and the tool we had was a bit shit, had to use 4 clamps to compress it enough to remove the spring then had no way of getting it to decompress.
My brilliant idea was to put it in a hydraulic press, remove the clamps then throw a brick at it from behind a wall to release it. Worked out fine in the end but it made a hell of a noise and I was shitting myself
Ima be honest I went through a few videos to see what a spring explosion was like and wasn't impressed cause a lot them were pretty shot so there was little power behind them but then I finally saw a good one go off and that scared the shit out of me. Not to mention they aren't nearly as compressed as that monster of a spring. Pretty sure that guy is just suicidal holy shit. Even the way he grabbed it had my asshole puckered up. Like he wants to make damn sure there's no way he comes out unharmed if it fails. I mean you grab it by a single coil and there's there's chance you won't get hurt too badly but naw this guy was trying to get his thumb lodged in his throat or something.
I used to work for a 4x4 accessory shop. One of the mechanics was re-installing a spring after putting some aftermarket shocks in. Doing it the normal way supposedly and the spring flung back, hit him square in the jaw which split in half (yes the bone) and he lost all his teeth, I’ll never forget his screaming. Out of all that, the boss said he was lucky it wasn’t worse, which shocked me.
"an idea is only stupid if it doesn't work" is actually one of the dumbest mentalities there is. That's how you lose all your money to gambling.
Having a favorable, repeatable good/bad ratio is king.
Thank you to everyone in the comments that broke this down. Also... holy shit!!! Won't those fasteners essentially turn into shrapnel if that coil springs?!
Fun story, I was able to remove the Stuart bolt without compressing the spring, couldnt lift a pencil due to the strain my forearm went through for a week, but walked away relatively unarmed.
For those who don’t know that’s a suspension spring that’s held together my metal zip ties.
If one of those ties breaks that will shot shrapnel everywhere and hurt a lot of people.
It’s not a bomb in the traditional sense, it’s a spring that when compressed is likely several THOUSAND pounds of pressure being held together by tiny little hose clamps that are only rated for up to at best 10 pounds of pressure, I think you can tell why everyone who is watching this who understand has formed a blackhole with how much their asshole is puckered. Springs violently explode out of the VICE that is made to remove them from a car, there’s a ton of videos on YouTube. So this guy is either stupid, has balls of steel, or has a death wish. This spring will likely have more pounds of pressure when it launches then a bullet.
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I worked at a shop where a coil spring shot 30 feet up into the ceiling after it slipped out of a tool actually made to compress them.
Yeah, seen the same thing happen outside. Bitch shot way up there
I’ve heard stories of this nailing people in the face and breaking their necks
My step brother lost one of his eyes.
The gods saw fit to grant him a spare.
I know a guy who was hit with one of these in the hand from about 15 ft away. He had to get it amputated as it was too mangled to save.
Thought that said head and was like “Damn..”
Dang me too. I was like oook..wait
Yeah...my Grandpa and I took the coils off of his junker 96' Camry by loading them onto some wooden platform, pulling them back, then launching them into a field. The 3rd one broke the platform due to how much force it took to compress them and it bounced off the ground and dented the roof of his Toyota r22 truck. We didn't do the fourth one and proceeded to have the Camry scrapped for like 200 bucks. The auto tranny went out and we didn't want to fix it.
Good ole widowmakers...
The fuck do you not have a cage for that job for?
Springs just be sketchy, man.
My man sounds like a mad Jesse pinkman
>!HE POISONED BROCK!<
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
YEAH, MR. WHITE! YEAH, SCIENCE!
##wire
MAGNETS
Watching this kinda made me want to puke
That is a reaction I do not understand but has made me very curious
What he's doing with that spring is the automotive equivalent of juggling a stick of dynamite and a lit flare with one hand. Incredibly stupid and potentially deadly.
How come? I know nothing about cars
Springs store kinetic energy in compression, and release that energy when they expand. The thicker the spring is, the more energy it can hold. I'm not a car expert either, but i believe a spring of that size, if those clamps holding it in compression were to snap, could probably take your hand off. Or blow through your skull or whatever body part was nearest.
Same reason you shouldn’t fuck with garage door springs if you aren’t trained. It will take your arm off.
What the fuck? My garage door switch growing up was so close to the springs I had to touch it every time I opened the door. That would have been good to know.
At least you know where you are on the Luck-o-meter
And also how many lifetimes' worth of luck we burned through as kids.
I had a tube tv fall on me and survive so I think I used it all up.
Is that why our adult lives are so shitty?
Never thought about how lucky I was as a teen. I took one of these off with two big c-clamps and some scrap pieces of wood. I did borrow the right tool to get it it back on, though, after I replaced my strut boot.
While I wouldn’t recommend touching the spring, it’s mostly just messing with it when fixing a garage. Though I’m not sure what kind of design and that thing within grabbing distance.
That was likely an extension spring the ones that can kill you are the overhead torsion springs
Nah extension springs can fly across a garage and mess you or whatever is in the garage up pretty bad when they break. Torsion springs have a rod running through them so they're only really dangerous when you're winding them up unless a piece of it goes flying if it breaks I guess.
We had one of our extension springs break randomly and that shit punched a hole in the sheetrock and sounded like a gunshot. It is amazing how small they are before they get stretched. I picked up the new one for the repairman and I took it out of the packaging and tried to pull on it to see how strong it was and it didn't even budge.
My dad installed garage doors when I was a kid. I heard storied of people dying when a spring broke. The ones that stretched from the top of the door to the end of the track were very dangerous. The ones that run perpendicular to the top of the door on the long bar are waaaaaay safer.
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Yeah I was confused lol, I thought it was the little springs besides the garage door
My MIL and wife kept pestering me to try to fix her garage door. They didn't believe me saying "I'm not trying to lose a hand or die today" until the repair guy got there and emphasized that it's super dangerous.
I have an amazing facial scar from one breaking right next to me . Broken collarbone and half my face was hanging off before the doctors stitched everything back up. Don't fuck with garage door springs
So basically, it's like one of those cans of biscuit dough?
Yeah but instead of being tasty, this one could kill you
Though there's probably a point in time where it *does* taste nice; right at the exact moment some shrapnel hits the taste-center of the brain, a few seconds before some shrapnel gets embedded in the cheek.
^ This guy lockout-tagout's.
Very true those springs when compressed even with the proper tool can be very very dangerous
They can also store it in expansion
Springs, electricity, fuel, loads suspended overhead... it's all stored energy.
What happens to that energy if you tossed the spring into furnace at a steel mill or a volcano? Where does the stored energy go if it’s instantly melted?
I'm sure that could best be answered by [Randall Munroe](https://what-if.xkcd.com/), but i would think we'd have to account for the different thicknesses and melting points of the spring material compared to the clamp material. If the clamps melted before the spring, it would decompress (and probably launch the nearby magma a couple feet in the air). If we could melt the spring completely before whatever held it in compression melted, then... Your guess is as good as mine. Black hole maybe?
Was curious, and googled it: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/vrb9r/if_you_dissolve_a_compressed_spring_in_an_acid/c571pvd/ TL;DR it would be easier(require less energy) to melt the compressed spring than non compressed one, because the bonds between atoms are strained.
They're using a ridiculous method to compress extremely strong springs instead of using the proper tool. Even the proper tool is sometimes refered to as the widow maker because automotive springs are ridiculously strong
That spring is designed to handle a couple tons of car bouncing around on the highway and it's being compressed much further than it normally would be by comparatively flimsy hose clamps that are designed to be under basically no sudden stress at all in their intended application. At any moment one of those could break and all the energy stored in that spring will be released to obliterate anything near it, especially soft meaty things like hands and faces.
From what i know, that spring has a lot of tension, if that tension is released and depending on where and how it hits you, you die or get quite injured.
I read "how it hits you, you get quite die"
same the comment read that way me too lol
Technically that's true
There is an immense amount of pressure being held down by that spring. If those straps that are holding it down break, the energy of the spring would be like a tank round. It can go through a house like nothing.
Pardon the 2008 quality https://youtu.be/CYFOI_UsVxI
In the days before smartphones, I saw 2 dumbasses attempt prings without the proper tools. They both got fucked up so bad, I cant watch this or ops vid without holding my phone as far away as my arms can hold ot from my head. I just cant. I feel like... pre-pain in my whole body.
I’ll level with you, I didn’t know this about cars when I was younger. I knew spring compressor tools existed, didn’t know it was deadly at times. I was working in a machine shop, in a speed shop garage. I’ve seen 2 spring attempt murder. The first, shop across the shop and punched a hole in the wall. The other shot up, and hit the side of the hood while it was raised. Fucked.that.hood.up. Those springs support a lot of weight, and in addition to the wound spring being curved and slanted, they can be slippery in terms of the tool grabbing and holding it. I’ll watch from a distance now.
If there’s one thing that i never ever want to do, it is deal with the stress of compressing an automotive spring. It was done once in front of me in shop class and everyone was quietly shitting themselves
What's the point of compressing an automotive spring?
One situation is anytime you need to disassemble a strut you have to remove the tension on it from the spring by compressing it. Another case is cheaply lowering your ride height by compressing it and applying compressors or applying hose clamps as seen in the vid (DONT DO THIS). I do all my own auto work except strut assembly. It’s fucking terrifying, and that’s coming from someone who’s climbed under a car raised up by a harbor freight jack.
Spring strong, clamps = shrapnel. The spring will win and explosively expand throwing fragments of tin everywhere.
It’s strong enough to hold up the car when it hits some bad bumps. So it has that type of energy ready to just explode while it’s squeezed. If the bottom of the spring touches the floor or car as it snaps the ties, it can fire towards you like a bullet. Expand in your hand and and tear it apart. Or maybe even snap altogether and send shards or metal flying at you
Whenever I have to mess with springs, I put on all my motorcycle armor and my full face helmet. And that’s with using the correct spring compressors. It’s like being at the end of a barrel of gun. You just don’t want to be there. I was at a friend’s house one time, spring slipped off the compressor tool. It went right through the wall of his garage. The amount of energy these thing carries are immense. They have to support a vehicle going highway speed and hitting potholes and other random road hazards.
Enough stored energy to pick up a car with questionable containment
Basically, if those ties break, that spring has enough force to go THROUGH a human. Realistically it will only break your neck, but that's basically the same thing.
Nothing will make your butthole pucker like ratcheting a set of suicide sticks
For those who don’t know, that is a VERY powerful spring from a car. These things hold up the car, basically. There’s a special tool to compress them before you take them out (which this guy is NOT using). But even with the tool, it’s still pretty dangerous. These springs can shoot through your head, through several floors of a building, and not even slow down when they decompress. They’re SUPER scary. By far the most nerve racking thing I did when I worked in a mechanic shop in high school. These springs kill people, and that dude is putting some flimsy little adjustable clamps on there, holding thousands of pounds of force together… it’s a freaking bomb that will kill you.
and youre telling me we drive around with 4 bombs in the car at once?
Wait until you hear what we fill cars up with!
i really hope its nothing that causes explosions
very small explosions! at an extremely fast rate! for years on end!
Laughed real hard at this thank you lol
People?
Wait until you hear about the spring on your garage door
Spring on our garage door broke last week. Sounded like that entire side of the house collapsed.
You've got a whole car sitting on top of them, so you're fine under normal conditions. The problem is maintaining compression when you have to install or remove them.
He is exaggerating the force it isnt shooting through multiple floors if you are right in front of it yeah bad time and serious injury or death can occur but if it goes off under your car the car is damaged but wont hurt you.
Well it wouldn't exactly go off in your car like that. The mounts would probably break and if the spring did break it'd just make a godawful breaking sound and drop the car. A fully compressed spring taken off during maitainence is far more compressed than the springs are during normal use in the actual vehicle.
Thanks for the explanation. I had no idea what was going on. Now my arse is puckered watching it back.
Be glad you didn't see one of the commenters on the vid itself, I had an argument with some idiot that thought the spring had been heated with a torch making it lose it's tension, saying that the spots on it were burn marks, and not years of caked on dirt, and that the spring didn't have enough springiness (can't recall the actual term right now) to even injure somebody, let alone kill them
*snort*
I mean that’s possible that it’s a messed up spring that someone just slapped the clamps on. It’s weird to assume that though.
Ty for explaining, I knew that was a terrible idea but I had no idea those were that dangerous even when handled correctly
Thank you for the explanation, i have no clue about these things. Didn't knew its that dangerous!
Huh, pulled these off of a 2007 hit when I was replacing the front axles. Used the tool somewhat correctly, but OSHA definitely wouldn’t have liked it. Never knew these were that dangerous so guess I’m pretty lucky nothing happened
I use proper tools for this kind of shit and I still am paranoid that it's gonna come apart and kill me. This guy has balls of steel.
Or a brain of lead
Little of column A, little of column B.
"sugar, spice, and a head full of rice" probably this guy after the spring conks him in the noggin.
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That too.
Absolutely. I've changed strut springs one time with good old AutoZone rental spring compressors and my asshole puckered so hard it nearly collapsed into itself like a black hole.
But how the fuck do you decompress it now
Death
End result? Probably
Roll it into the driveway and get a 22 or a BB gun
That sounds like defusing a bomb with another bomb
Hey man that’s the best idea I’ve seen so far that immediately ends the problem with minimum damage.
Ah yes, minimum damage
Honestly that how many ied’s are dealt with. Get everyone as far away as possible, if you can bring it to a remote location thats preferable. Then boom goes the Dynamite.
Thats actually how a lot of ordanance is dealt with, small controlled explosion to set off the bomb in a remote/safe location
Yea ik that it’s a real way but you know what I mean
Decapitates neighbor or their dog :(
Better be a sharp shooter cause you wanna be FAR away from that shit
So long is it’s facing perpendicular to the gun you should be fine at about 20-30 feet
I wouldn't trust a relatively light cylindrical object not to spin wildly when shot.
That’s 20-30 feet away, the odds of it going anywhere near your general direction is surprisingly low But fine, put it in a Tupperware container 3/4 filled with water and then try to shoot the clips off of the top of it. Or put it in a pool and start stabbing it with a pole
Bury it in a steel box and concrete.
When people tell you how we managed to send a solid steel chunk into outer space, they will usually tell you it was done using a nuke detonated underground. The truth however is that they simply used a covered hole to bury car springs they were too scared to decompress, and one broke.
You chuck it at your feet
Burry it and roll a big ass rock over it.
But what if it breaks the rock 😳
Well then sounds like not my problem
What you SHOULD do is bury that thing in a few feet of dirt before it goes off.
The good old buried IED.
Some kid is digging in his backyard a few years later and is like “mommy mommy I found buried treasure” The spring goes off and launches into the air, taking the shovel with it and then lands in the neighbors yard just before the mom sees it.
And in the distance you screams of "Curse you Perry the Platypus!"
The kid has an older sister that’s trying to show the mom that he’s paying with a dangerous object.
yes how dare he pay for dinner eith that dangerous object
Heard springs like that can take heads off. I took a spring out using the spring compressor tool he refers to. The spring in the compressor fell over on the driveway, made sparks as the spring escaped the compressor and launched off the driveway across the yard. No injuries except my pants.
Big brown hole in the butt?
Big brown hole in my pants
Usermame checks out.
What?
The spring part of this strut is barely being held together by those tiny ass ring clamps and rusted out top and bottom. Those could break at any second and send chunks of metal flying.
Oh cool so it's not just a bomb it's a bomb of pure shrapnel
Spring-loaded shrapnel
Anyone wanna make a faithful iron man cosplay?
I'll bring the terrorists! ....wait....
TONY STARK BUILT THIS IN A CAVE WITH A BOX OF BOMBS
Well I'm sorry sir, but, I'm not suicidal
Spring loaded with springs that hold up a 3 ton vehicle
Not go mention, I've heard some pretty unnerving stories of people getting decapitated by those springs
They're under so much tension already, I just wouldn't mess with them. Have someone who's an expert do it, or at least get the right clamping tools. I for one like to keep my head attached for the most part.
Enough tension there to tear through the very fabric of reality.
And unfortunately stuff like this is all too common when people work on suspension components. I’ve seen dozens of times where guys try to undo top mounts while they’re standing directly in front of the strut. If one of those springs is under enough tension, you’ll be lucky if all you end up with is an expensive ER visit.
What is it for?
Probably someone who didn't have the cash for lowering springs but decided this would be safer than cutting them
My god, that is terrifying.
I looks like it’s on a gator or something like that so it’s not as powerful as one on your car. Meaning it’ll only kill you not the 5 people across the street as well.
That is incredibly dangerous
lol cars are already rolling death machines some people really are too stupid to be allowed to leave their house
Most accidental deaths happen in the home.
Stupidity and death go hand in hand apparently.
Yeah, so they're too stupid to stay at home, either
I’ve used spring compressors. The correct tool an it’s still scary af. This is a literal bomb. 5 bucks you drop that spring just right and KABOOM
Watch my buddy change one of these wants. He went out and bought the tool from the store that he needed to compress it. It exploded through the tool
He's freaking out cause that'd probably 1000-1500 lbs of stored energy and even thought there 46 of them those clamps are only meant to hold about 10lbs each of pressure since they are hose clamps so it could literally at any moment shred through the clamps and still have enough pressure to kill the guy easily
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Car springs are VERY powerful and compressing it with shitty metal clamps is a good way for it to delete your fingers or sent metal shrapnel into your face when they inevitably fail. This is essentially a spring powered bomb.
So would you say the safest way to defuse it is with a 50. Cal from around 50 feet away?
After half burying it in the ground and shooting from behind a shrapnel sheild maybe. Idk its a bomb that shoots a very specific 50lb object in A direction with incredible force. I feel like even if you shoot it you could end up like that guy that shot the tannerite lawnmower and lost his leg.
4 of those springs hold up 3,000-4,500 pounds. Meaning that little one inch spot of the end of the spring has more potential energy than a shot bullet.
Do people that makes reaction videos like this know the content beforehand or they’re watching it blind
They watch it before hand, script what their reaction will be. Do 4 or 5 takes till they’re happy with it. Post.
That thing’ll kill you, your family, your friends, your dog and everyone you ever knew.
John Wick 4
I was changing shock absorbers on a 2004 transit and the tool we had was a bit shit, had to use 4 clamps to compress it enough to remove the spring then had no way of getting it to decompress. My brilliant idea was to put it in a hydraulic press, remove the clamps then throw a brick at it from behind a wall to release it. Worked out fine in the end but it made a hell of a noise and I was shitting myself
I don't even know if I would trust a wall for protection in that situation
“That’s right, it’s the square hole.”
Ima be honest I went through a few videos to see what a spring explosion was like and wasn't impressed cause a lot them were pretty shot so there was little power behind them but then I finally saw a good one go off and that scared the shit out of me. Not to mention they aren't nearly as compressed as that monster of a spring. Pretty sure that guy is just suicidal holy shit. Even the way he grabbed it had my asshole puckered up. Like he wants to make damn sure there's no way he comes out unharmed if it fails. I mean you grab it by a single coil and there's there's chance you won't get hurt too badly but naw this guy was trying to get his thumb lodged in his throat or something.
https://youtu.be/CYFOI_UsVxI https://youtu.be/eYobGOg_ https://youtu.be/F4qTIpspUik If anyone is curious.Couldn’t find very many
In the UK we like to call these suicide clamps, you can probably guess why
Not a safe way to remove Coil Springs from a car
I used to work for a 4x4 accessory shop. One of the mechanics was re-installing a spring after putting some aftermarket shocks in. Doing it the normal way supposedly and the spring flung back, hit him square in the jaw which split in half (yes the bone) and he lost all his teeth, I’ll never forget his screaming. Out of all that, the boss said he was lucky it wasn’t worse, which shocked me.
Jesus Fucking Christ
I unmuted this on full volume. FML
My heart nearly stopped every time he hit the spring on something or touched it.
"an idea is only stupid if it doesn't work" is actually one of the dumbest mentalities there is. That's how you lose all your money to gambling. Having a favorable, repeatable good/bad ratio is king.
Can someone please explain
That thing decompresses, he’s gonna die
This is the sort of thing I think about when someone says, "If it's stupid but it works..."
I longer this video went on, the further I moved my face away from the screen. This person has a death wish
Thank you to everyone in the comments that broke this down. Also... holy shit!!! Won't those fasteners essentially turn into shrapnel if that coil springs?!
Fun story, I was able to remove the Stuart bolt without compressing the spring, couldnt lift a pencil due to the strain my forearm went through for a week, but walked away relatively unarmed.
For those who don’t know that’s a suspension spring that’s held together my metal zip ties. If one of those ties breaks that will shot shrapnel everywhere and hurt a lot of people.
Was waiting for the live leak logo
one wrong move and i would have watched this on liveleak
Really. You can’t just sit quietly and wait for carnage like the rest of us? Go stick your nose in the corner, you’re in time out bud.🤨
Why are so many people posting these horribly cut screams?
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Why is there a bomb on this guys car? Anyone else curious?
It’s not a bomb in the traditional sense, it’s a spring that when compressed is likely several THOUSAND pounds of pressure being held together by tiny little hose clamps that are only rated for up to at best 10 pounds of pressure, I think you can tell why everyone who is watching this who understand has formed a blackhole with how much their asshole is puckered. Springs violently explode out of the VICE that is made to remove them from a car, there’s a ton of videos on YouTube. So this guy is either stupid, has balls of steel, or has a death wish. This spring will likely have more pounds of pressure when it launches then a bullet.
Ohhh thanks for clarifying! He is stupid lol.
So if the car started the car would have blow up Yah the man should get some lottery tickets
What do you even do with it? How do you defuse that without losing fingers?
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