In today's video i'm doing whatever this is... i don't know
trying to put words to this project just makes me seem insane
so let's just jump in. So the other day i decided to break my foot. i just
thought it'd be something fun to try out so these are my crutches, they help me
get around. they're all right, they do the job they've got foam on the
handles see i've started to pimp them out
which makes it a bit more cushiony and i've put some tech screws in
to get rid of the noise they make but the more i think about crutches the more
i want to make my own and that's what we're going
to do in today's video and you know we're going to make
we're going to make pogo crutches because it just makes complete sense
when you're thinking about how can i make better crutches
pogo crutches so the reason i thought pogo crutches was
when you're using these you can really feel the the shock as you as you hit the
ground as you put them down and i thought i'd be good if there was a
bit of suspension in there now i thought what if there's a lot of
suspension in there but not only pogo crutches there's other things we need to
incorporate too so here's the plan we're going to start with a couple of
regular pogo sticks we'll chop these up and use the existing
spring tube shaft and foot on the end plus whatever
other parts that are useful then we're going to manufacture our own
steel crutches with a bmx hand grip and elbow brace then inside this tube
we're going to put some lithium batteries and these will be used
to power some bright led lighting so we can find our way around at night
this lighting will be triggered by a switch that we're going to put into the
hand grip and then lastly two of the most important accessories
a beverage holder on one crutch and a bottle opener on the other
then also a sticker with the phone number of the local er for when this all
goes pear-shaped but maybe leave a comment with your
ideas on accessories i can include as well
let's do it we're going to buy some parts to make this and
and we're just going to make it just just see what happens
see if it works thanks for taking me to the shop to buy pogo sticks kristen
no worries i'm quite excited to bedazzle your crutch
bigger than i remember can you pogo it
tell me
gonna get this too how ridiculous basketball trick shots
go so the first thing i did was make a mini basketball frame
so my son and i could bust out some trick shots anywhere around the house
but this didn't help towards my pogo crutch goal
we have a key ingredient it's already got a lot of the right
ingredients for crutches got nice big rubber grip on the bottom
the thing is that's heavy that has got to be about
five times heavier than one crutch and we need two of these so we'll see
how see how heavy it is once we get rid of the pits we don't need but i think
the bulk the weight is the bit we need that's a heavy spring
okay
yeah so that i can that spring is twice as heavy as what we need
we'll just hope that it's not air
so it won't explode when we start cutting it
do not use as crutches
god it's painful
so much relief having springs
six kilo 1.5 kilograms slight difference and we haven't even
added all the material and parts that we need to make this good
time to dismantle see how this works out
and that's spinning too much get a smaller drill bit push it all
the way through
i don't think that would be any better and now that's stuck on there
of course i don't know why i thought that was a good idea
i knew the same thing would happen okay so now one of the features of the pogo
crutches is a drill bit so i'm just going to grab
it with these end snips then we can drill
the other side that's better that one's gone
all right so just got to do this to all of them and we can pull these rivets out
no worries i got this off the box of a guitar tuner and i thought it
summarises everything that happens in this shed nicely that one's come away
oh yeah
easily one of my favorite tools might be able to salvage these
because they're the right size already
floating through the shed oh yeah
i hope that it's not holding the spring
whoa
oh yep oh it is this bolt retains the spring at the top
should check these things before i just go pulling things out
and in there we have the spring pushing against this bolt here
ah there's not too much tension on it
oh we got ourselves a spring so if i had to try and buy that on its
own it would have cost more than the whole
pogo stick okay so hopefully these ones come out easily
and we have removed our spring
this is how we break the drill but break the drill bit break the drill bit
so this is how we break the drill bit trying to
make there my favorite drill bit blunt had some good times with this
drill bit
now with a bit of luck this should just knock away
yeah oh yeah tell us that well hey there craigo
i'm the beast that lives within the pokemon tube the world needs your pogo
crutches just get back to work second time's
always quicker that one just came apart about
two minutes
oh i missed two rivets okay three minutes to disassemble
let's go with five minutes oh yeah
now i just need somewhere to store the springs to stop them collecting dirt
there we go
okay
just gotta cut these foot pedals off now
there we go a nice clean tube
now i'm just going to weld them up because i'm worried the end is going to
fail i'm worried the gap will open up here at
the bottom and then this will fall out but we can't put too much on there so
this plastic is going to melt
oh that's thin and full of plastic just a little bit of strength
now just gotta try and get this sticker off so get the heat gun there and
hopefully that'll come off easily so we can paint it and it will look
pretty pretty just like cleaning a barbecue if your
barbecue was covered in melted plastic
look at that that's a fancy looking crutch now
oh yeah now i figure there's no point in reinventing the wheel
so i'm going to base everything just off your normal elbow crutch as far as the
size goes it's going to be one size not adjustable
one size fits me because only i can use them
i guess for now we'll just cut this tube and we'll try and heat it and bend it
hopefully it doesn't collapse let's just do that so i then worked out how far the
steel tube would come down and measured it up and then it was
time to grind some stuff with that done i grabbed the angle of
the dangle from the real set of crutches and then heated up the tube and had a
crack at bending it while trying not to let the tube collapse
which is the thing tubesis love to do
oh yeah all right yeah happy with that
sweet
right look at that can't complain about that that's pretty good
i then lost half a day being driven around trying to find steel tube that
fits standard bicycle hand grips which no one sells
luckily i had this tiny little bit of scrap in the shed from a kids bike which
fits inside the hand grips nicely so i got these chopped up and notched
ready to weld
there we go that's it for the handles so they'll
weld onto there i have to put a hole in here so we can run some wires through it
so we can have some switches on the end we've just got to get rid of some of
these burrs on the edge so when we pull our wires through it doesn't just strip
them all the way which would be bad i know some sort of
short circuit crutchfire nobody likes a crutchfire
our handles are done and it is starting to look apart as well
that angle feels good
now we've got our brackets they're a bit too so they're too small
for this size tube but i've got some scrap here
i can just be able to press it in the vise wrap it around
so it gives it a nice steel cuddle
i then worked out roughly where the brackets would go for maximum strength
the top one would be bolted on but the bottom bracket would need to be welded
because i can't put a bolt through the spring because then the spring won't
work that's going to be a bit tricky because
we have to be careful not to create a big dirty welding lump on the inside the
tube which this spring would then jam on so
i've hit this on a low voltage while trying to keep the plastic sleeve
in the end of the tube cool with water and here we have
the shittiest piece of welding i've ever done in my life
but yeah that's kind of the result of welding water
on a low voltage doesn't like it but it is penetrated
and it should be strong enough should be will be stay tuned for part two where
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