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| Refrigerator:
--- Quote from: T3sl4co1l on September 07, 2020, 02:55:22 pm --- I'm rather concerned that he never mentioned hydrotesting it. 750 PSI gas was the first and highest pressure it'd been brought up to? :scared: Tim --- End quote --- I was also surprised when he said 750 Psi without mentioning any prior testing, but they seem competent enough so i'd give them the benefit of the doubt. --- Quote from: T3sl4co1l on September 07, 2020, 02:55:22 pm --- --- Quote from: BrianHG on September 07, 2020, 04:07:38 am ---Man............ |O I wonder how much all of that costs? --- End quote --- I'd guess, ballpark (pun intended ;) ) around an annual salary. Give or take if the guys are contracted or volunteer, and just how much material and machining cost went into it (did they volunteer their own machines, or contract out to a CNC house?). With 8M subscribers worth of YT bux and Patreon supporters, that sounds very plausible. --- End quote --- I think i saw somewhere that a youtuber by the name of MisterBeast spent about 10 million last year. So i think they had a couple bucks to spare. |
| eti:
I've added the "behind the scenes" video. |
| daqq:
Now build a second one and we'll have the Large Baseball Collider! |
| Tom45:
--- Quote from: T3sl4co1l on September 07, 2020, 02:55:22 pm ---I'm rather concerned that he never mentioned hydrotesting it. 750 PSI gas was the first and highest pressure it'd been brought up to? :scared: Tim --- End quote --- The first test at the shop shown in the video was 300 psi. When they were set up out in the field they were planing on 750 psi but while pressurizing the vacuum was dropping, so they fired at somewhat over 500 psi. His day job is developing and testing weapons, apparently at the Redstone Arsenal. So he seems quite qualified to design, build, and test devices like this. |
| BrianHG:
Lousy human spine, can't even stop a supersonic pitch. Cheap gloves, they even :scared: ignite in flames :scared: when trying to stop a supersonic baseball... |
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