Welcome to the Hydraulic Press Channel!
today we are going to give some consumer advice to all of you.
We are going to do press test
for cheap and expensive products.
And we have four different products,
Bicycle pedals, playing cards,
locks, and drinking glasses.
And the idea is to press each item
And measure how much force it can take before
exploding. And then we can decide
"is it worth to put your money on expensive things (clatter)
or are you good with the cheap one"
yeah, let's start. we are going to compare these two
padlocks. and they have huge
price difference. this one is ten times
cheaper than this one. and the padlocks
that have good brand, they are
extremely expensive, so...
we didn't buy larger than this one.
crush the cheap one first.
and don't try this at home.
and... here we go!
we found out that you cannot go slow
when you are measuring the pressure because there is so much pressure.
but we have new cheap lock
and now we are going to go full speed to get the pressure.
and... here we go!
yeah, and this was actually bit more expensive
lock than our another cheap lock
but this was even worse.
yep, and then the expensive lock which is also a lot smaller
so... interesting to see.
oh!
pretty interesting.
the frame of the lock just like opened
and all the like small parts are here
i think this was great.
and...
the steel on the
expensive lock is much better
because it's... in one piece, just bends.
but the bigger ones are so cheap that against
like blunt force like this it's probably
get as big a lock as you can
this is hardened steel
and it weighs probably like over one pound
and we are extremely nervous about this
it's going to be very tough.
yeah, it was surprisingly easy
let's open the blast shield and have a look
so this part snapped in two
probably because it's hardened and not so
big that it has any chance against
one hundred tons. and after that the
lock frame cracked
yep, and then playing cards
and first we have the cheap ones
these are about three times cheaper
than the more expensive ones
and...
playing cards are much tougher than the
padlocks, so now we can see
some serious pressure on the meter
yep, and here we go!
whee!
yeah, that was quite much of pressure
yeah, and then the expensive ones
and... here we go!
and let's compare the
end results
so here is the expensive and here is the cheap one
and the expensive pile is maybe slightly
thicker than the cheap one
and also with the expensive one
this
this is some... i have no idea
what this is...
yep, and here is the slow motion
of both cards. that was the cheap one
and then the expensive one
and i think the expensive one takes little bit longer
to explode after it starts to break
so maybe that's why it wasn't so tough
as the cheap one
yep, and then we have bicycle pedals
these are seven euros and these are
fifteen... so twice as
expensive, but
to be honest everything below like
fifty euro is cheap pedal for true
bicycle guys, so
pretty cheap both. but...
it's like plastic versus cast aluminium
and... here we go!
(laughter)
that was pretty weak
uh!
really flat.
but there is still a dent from the axle
so i think the axle is pretty high quality steel
it's harder than this steel here.
and then the aluminium pedal.
yeah, i think that was much better
and i finish it off with
more pressure.
yeah, that's full pressure.
and we used about thirty percent more
force to crush the pedal this time
like the finishing move
and it's still in better condition
than that plastic pedal
the axle is completely fine
didn't touch the
touch the press tool
and the aluminium didn't do shit to the
press tools.
but i would say that
it is worth of the money buy
at least these ones, if you are not going to go
to like over fifty euros pedals
yep, and then the last pair
drinking glasses.
and this is from ikea, it's about sixty cents.
and... this is from another supermarket and it's
finnish design. and it's over...
and it's about eleven times
more expensive than this one.
and we already know that these are pretty hard,
we haven't measured how much they can take force, but they are hard.
so, interesting to see how this
ranks up against the mighty ikea glass.
yep, so... ikea glass
it's not going to be easy
and... here we go!
(whoo!)
yep, so ikea was pretty goddamn tough
and how about the design glass
ohhh..
yeah, i think that's pretty clear
yeah, i think... i'm not even sure could we measure
that last one
but i think the high speed is going to tell quite a lot
yeah, the ikea glass just like
turns into dust
and the more expensive glass
is like... looks like you have
like just dropped it from the table
see many large pieces without
huge explosion like the ikea one.
yep, so at least the drinking glasses in ikea,
they are not made out of cardboard
they are really tough. yep, and if you like
this consumer advice
please tell what products should we test in the press
it was
pretty interesting and easy video to make
so we can make lots more of these if you like this one
yeah, that was awesome today
thank you for watching, and have a nice day!
and for today's extra content, we have this
alpaca.
not very dangerous, and it's not going to attack you,
but it can spit on you, so we must deal with it.