Attempting to improve the design of the Panjandrum, an experimental WW2 weapon, Adam Savage joins forces with Adam Stelzner, the lead engineer on NASA’s next mission to Mars. The two experiment with a flywheel to see if it provides the same amount of power as the original, with dangerous results.
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My oil rig looks just like that. Except it wraps up wire rope. It has a drum breaks that wrap around the whole thing on both sides to slow it down and mounted to the side is a disk break that’s about 4 ft in diameter with a caliper about the size of a microwave. I’ve always thought “if this thing jumps out of its carrier it will probably roll 10 miles before it stops. Imagine spinning a yo-yo. Now imagine pulling on the yo-yo string with 200k lbs.
Adam’s voiceover sounds so weird?? Like it’s someone doing an impression of him something
12 foot, 450 pounds, 350 rpm. Turn to about 51 tonnes of centrifugal force and 228 kJ of energy for each wheel. Scary.
the Real Wolowitz? great
If you're trying to slow it down with that 2×4, don't place it so close to the axle, get it as close to the outside as possible; way more leverage. That's why some cars have such large brake rotors – so you can get the brake pads farther away from the axles for the leverage.
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Adam – Spinning flywheels don't store power – They store kinetic energy. The RATE at which the energy is extracted/used is power. They can supply large power for short intervals, or low power over long intervals. Either way, the total energy available is the same.
Wish there was a follow up
I just wasted 7:54 mins on a advert 🙁
you need to balance the flywheels. I work on 200 to 400 ton OPI and Gap presses. and if the flywheels aren't in balance they'll shake the Press..
I guess the plates need balancing and some machining to make them flat and parallel. 1000rpm is like 16.67hz so it isn't like the velocity is all that high and I didn't think steel really vibrated at low frequency
Preplanned theatrics. Yawn…
where tf is the rest of it?!
Hahahahaha! It’s that goof from the Mars ‘mission’!??????? Yep,this experiment is equally ridiculous….
I would have assumed that you used a dial indicator of some sort to be certain of the runout…until I saw the runout when you ran it up to "deadly".. yes, "deadly" is a speed..?
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im pushing against this with about 1cm2 of surface area or less
I thought that was the guy that was from stargate atlantis lol
two adams is better than one
4:20 but also known as santas little helper
I'm always reading comments while watching the video. And by reading the comments. I decided to stop watching the video. I won't support this. Even if i love science
Curious as to why a solid flywheel instead of having as much of the mass as possible on the circumference .
Was hoping to see a juggernaut let loose, i guess Its going that nobody was hurt.
Crazy how they used brake rotors as a coupling for the electric motors but didn't use any brake system lol
The reason for the vibration is due to the extreme amount of runout in your axle assembly. If you true that whole thing up and balance those enormous round plates all of that vibration should start to disappear. Another problem I see is rigidity. You've got everything there coupled together with a very small bolt circle. You probably want a bolt circle and an axle size on par with a semi truck. You're at passenger car level right now. Also, you need to bolt that thing to the floor. Those saw horses were moving all over the place even before you decoupled the motor.