Magnetic Coil Can Crusher

[Russ]

https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/can-crusher-magnetic-implosion

[paulca]

All my hard disks just ran into the corner of the room and hid their eyes!

[phil from seattle]

What could possibly go wrong, indeed.

[Yansi]

https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/can-crusher-magnetic-implosion

Is it your work or... the purpose of this post is.. ?

Can crusher is nothing new. Have seen some big ones with a lot of angry pixies in their capacitors.

Reminding me the video where Mikeselectricstuff blows the shit out of the RCBO. 

[TimFox]

If you want to see a serious use of this technique, go to Review of Scientific Instruments, sometime in the mid-1970s (sorry that I don't have the citation) for a device that crushed aluminum beer cans quickly to use as a shutter on a high-energy particle beam.

[Cyberdragon]

I want to see someone destroy a steel drum like this.

[paulca]

I want to see someone destroy a steel drum like this.

Mythbusters.  Can they do a train carriage oil container?  I'd watch that!  They did it with a vacuum could they do it with a ship generator and a mega HT coil?

[Russ]

I want to see someone destroy a steel drum like this.

Mythbusters.  Can they do a train carriage oil container?  I'd watch that!  They did it with a vacuum could they do it with a ship generator and a mega HT coil?

   I would definitely watch that.

[BrianHG]

, so little power, take a look at this quarter shrinker: