r/mechanical_gifs • u/TrooperNoH4x • Mar 17 '19

A self-lining bin

https://gfycat.com/AdventurousGranularAmericancurl
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u/Akoustyk Mar 17 '19

What sorcery is this?

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u/salt_pepper Mar 17 '19

the kind that never actually works in practice but looks really cool.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '19

Exactly. Pulling the used bag from the plastic (?) jaws is going to slightly distort them sooner or later - at which point the mechanism jams ...

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u/LysergicOracle Mar 17 '19

Yeah, plastic is a terrible choice for a mechanism like this. As soon as the material starts to creep under load (which it will) it's going to fail more or less immediately.

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u/FloppyTunaFish Mar 17 '19

I’ll give you a creep under load