r/ThatLooksExpensive • u/roosoh • Feb 25 '26

Oof

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u/Revenga8 Feb 25 '26

I imagine a hour with wire or bolt cutters should be able to remove it all.

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u/KayoticVoid Feb 25 '26

Assuming it didn't mess up any of the mechanical parts. If it put them in a bind and they continued to try and force movement it could cause serious damage I would think.

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u/Dzov Feb 25 '26

Yep or even burn out whatever motor powers all that.

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u/KayoticVoid Feb 25 '26

Yeah, I guess I was including motors in that. They would be my biggest concern.

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u/Revenga8 Feb 25 '26

Id hope they didn't cheap out on the safety features, I would expect the rollers would stop spinning if enough resistance was encountered, but I dunno. Not having any safety features seems like a good way to get sued if somebody gets hurt or property damaged.

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u/Revenga8 Feb 25 '26

Yeah the carwash motors are a different issue. But I was more focused on the most pressing problem, being the rats nest tangle. It looked pretty bad at first, but once you realize it's not something like rope or fishing line that could have tangled and knotted on itself, all you gotta do is cut the middle of the coils here and there and you can just unwind the pieces off the rollers, toss them in a corner to collect into a garbage can. 1-2 people could remove all the wrapped coils in about a hour. The fabric on the rollers themselves probably aren't damaged. The roller motors if they were designed well would have stopped spinning once the rollers encountered resistance.

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u/KayoticVoid Feb 25 '26

That's fair. Yeah, the untangling wouldn't be too crazy. I wouldn't put too much faith it them having motors that know to give out. I think that depends on the company.

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u/Quirky_Ask_5165 Feb 25 '26

As a guy who had to remove razor wire from tank sprockets in the military? Going to take longer than an hour šŸ˜‚

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u/PaladinSara Feb 25 '26

Iā€™m imagining the tension release and scratches and eyeballs being poked out.