- Welcome back to another Mail Time episode,
one of the last ones, and this time...
- This is from Addison.
He's sent us some good things in the past.
He probably talks like he's got
a bunch of jelly beans in his mouth.
Hello Waterjet channel,
we are pleased you have a slow motion camera.
Us Larsons would like the batmobile to speed down some track
and cross under the power of a water jet
like a vertical finish line.
Will the batmobile survive?
Or will it be obliterated
in glorious slow-motion destruction.
My prediction: a large gouged front-end
start flipping and exit the frame.
Wife's prediction: entirely cut in two. (laughs)
And what do we got here?
We got some track, we got some track and a batmobile.
So we liked the idea of this video so much
we decided to go out and buy some more track
so we could set up a double loop-de-loop,
have a launcher, and more cars.
(slow jazzy music)
So this is what we were able to set up.
This loop-de-loop track came with this car
and it appears this is the only car
that likes to go on the loop-de-loop.
All the other ones just kind of fall off.
Batmobile? Nope.
So we might have to scrap that one to do all the other ones.
But down here, we've got our ramp,
and then the waterjet nozzle will be right there,
and the car will launch through the nozzle
and explode probably.
(slow jazzy music)
(water spraying)
The first run, the waterjet was right there.
You can see in the slow motion that
as soon as the car comes off it hits,
and it pushes it down before the back wheels
are even off the track.
So on the second run,
we moved the waterjet over about an inch,
that way the car was completely airborne,
but it just did the exact same thing.
So now we've removed the loop-de-loop.
We're just doing a straight flat track,
and then we're going to have the water jet
right in the middle of the track, probably right there
so the car can't get pushed down really.
See if the car can go through or
if it blows it out the side, or what.
And before I forget,
that's about all the waterjet did to the car.
That scuff you see in the paint right there,
that's from the first one.
The second hit that fender right there, flipped it down
and then it kind of sand blasted the backside but
It didn't explode.
(slow jazzy music)
- [Mitchell] Yeah.
(water spraying)
Oh.
- [Dan] So this guy perfectly dodged the waterjet somehow.
This one went all the way through
and we gave it a bit of a racing stripe right there.
A little curvy though.
- To cut it in half we're going to go a little slower,
not fast. It was too fast.
- [Dan] So you're gonna like,
push it through with your finger
- Yep just poke it through - [Dan] All the way.
- When I start feeling it on my fingernail,
then I pull back.
- [Dan] He's kidding. We're not doing that.
(slow jazzy music)
(water spraying)
Well. (laughing)
- Woo. Cut it in half.
- [Dan] Well, that was a little unexpected,
and you made fun of his wife
for saying it would cut it in half.
- I apologize as to Mrs. Larson.
- [Dan] That, in the slowmo,
that car looks like it hit a brick wall.
Like, it just stops, the back like raises up
and it just settles down.
Then with a little air compressor help.
- Something like that.
- [Dan] We were able to push the rest of it through.
We cut the axle and we were able to save all the wheels.
That was rather unexpected.
Myth busted.
- Busted.
- [Dan] I don't know what myth,
but there was a myth that was busted.
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