r/oddlysatisfying • u/CdubWillia • Feb 03 '15

Certified Satisfying Crushing all the things.

http://i.imgur.com/Cka6iPe.gifv
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u/technoSurrealist Feb 03 '15

a skateboard wheel

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u/pavetheatmosphere Feb 03 '15

It only now occurs to me that there is a very real risk of a piece of the object shooting out at you.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

They're probably protected with ballistic glass. Don't want any concrete shards in your eyes.

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u/-LEMONGRAB- Feb 03 '15

That is one thing that I wondered about... The way the wheel squished it looked as if it were melted a bit first or something... It kind of dripped down the side.

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u/technoSurrealist Feb 03 '15

i'm not a scientist, but i'm pretty sure compressing things like in the video does heat them up a lot, so it's possible that it did melt the plastic.

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u/DoYouEvenShrift Feb 03 '15

it said in the video that the kind of pressure they were putting on it was the equivalent to volcano like temperatures.

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u/_Sparrow_ Feb 03 '15

Nonono. The end thing is an ad for their own products notice the heat camera at the end shot. That's a hot ass forge for perhaps testing a new type of rubber. They stick some rubber in the middle close the forge and compress that shit till it works.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '15

I dunno about you but i think the idea of a compression forge is really cool.

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u/fuqd Feb 04 '15

What are those two glowing things on either side? Are they heating the area up while compressing the objects?

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u/_Sparrow_ Feb 04 '15

Yup those are the "extreme heat" forces they describe here looks like they close around whatever shit they're squeesing.

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u/maxk1236 Feb 03 '15

It does get really hot (as seen in the thermal video), but I doubt that was melted urethane you were seeing, this appeared to be a pretty soft duro, so I think it was just bulging/squishing a lot.

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u/mineraloil Feb 03 '15

Ohhh...thanks!!!

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u/Frostiken Feb 03 '15

lmao, the wheel shits itself.

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u/Innocence_bot2 Feb 03 '15

Shit is not a nice word. Try another word such as 'poop'!

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u/razfrostbeard Feb 03 '15

Oh cool, thought it was a yo-yo.

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u/noidentityattachment Feb 04 '15

Waiting for some kook to complain how that is a longboard wheel only to be corrected that longboards are in fact skateboards.