Gav: Hello, sweet Internet. I'm Gav, Dan: I'm Dan Gav: That's DJ Dan. We're the Slow Mo Guys
Gav: A while ago we did a video where we spun a CD so fast it shook itself to pieces.
Gav: It sort of wobbled and then flung out Dan: Wobbled? Gav: Yeah.
Dan: Right, okay, well this time we got some records. We're kickin' it old school.
Gav: Yeah, I feel bad breaking these to be honest. It's almost like ripping a book. It's just not to be done, is it?
Dan: I know what you mean but we did- I did get them from Goodwill.
Gav: Yeah. Dan: So I feel like people are done with them. They've experienced it.
Dan: Now we're going to put it into a second use, a second life. Gav: So, immortalized forever on the internet.
Dan: So this is the loading procedure If you didn't see the previous video
Dan: Then I'll explain this something. This is actually the motor from inside of a- I think it's a Dyson
Dan: So it can spin at incredibly high speeds.
Dan: I think that's...
Dan: ...probably alright. Gav: God, imagine putting a needle on this, what it would sound like.
Dan: It would be- [laughs] it's already kind of wonky.
Dan: This record isn't perfectly straight, you know, when you see them being played on the gramophone, they kind of go like
Gav: Yeah Dan: Like that
Dan: I dunno if this is gonna survive long.
Dan: So because we're just using the motor from a Dyson
Dan: It's uh, incredibly fast hoover motor. That's how it works. It spins really fast
Dan: But if you just turn it on straight away
Dan: It would be spinning at maximum speed and that's kind of not what we want
Dan: We want to get the gradual build-up and then eventually the breaking of the record
Dan: So for that we're going to use this variac
Dan: Which means that you put the- you put a voltage through it and you can vary the output
Dan: Increasing it gradually until we hit that exact breaking point we need.
Gav: I'm excited. Dan: Yeah me too. Gav: Slightly scared, too.
Dan: Yeah, it makes a hell of a noise. It's really intimidating.
Gav: Shooting on the v2640. We're gonna start at 12 and a half thousand frames a second.
Gav: I think if this works, we'll paint one. Dan: Alright.
Gav: Paint the different quadrants so you can see it spin better. Dan: Sounds good to me.
[record whirling]
Dan: The stand vice is going everywhere. This thing is so powerful it's like shaking the vice, right? Gotta turn it down
[record whirling and breaking]
Dan: God, that goes!?
Dan: That goes. [exclaims] Gav: Look at this. Dan: Oh, it's like colored it. It's turned it into- Oh...
Dan: Geez, that's crazy. Gav: Where did it go?
Dan: Whoa, it just got eviscerated. I think oh, look, there's a big chunk of it there. That's a big chunk.
Dan: Bugger. Yeah, I was all the way over there and some tiny little like- tiny little fragments were like bounced off of this and went
Gav: Little bits of musical dust. Dan: Yeah dust. I think that was- You know what?
Dan: I think that took more than the CD. Gav: Really? Dan: I think so.
Dan: Look what it's done to the wood here.
Dan: It's like embedded itself in the wood. Fully, almost, cracked the wood open.
Gav: This is lethal. Dan: I'm actually glad we put these up. Gav: Yeah. Dan: You know?
Gav: I was getting worried that we were gonna send it across the... fences. Dan: Well, if there's pieces like this, then it's possible.
Gav: At this speed, it's almost like you could play the music out of it.
Dan: Yeah, this is the music speed up here. This is what is actually- Gav: This is slowed down to be- Oh.
Gav: Yeah, now it's warping
Gav: You can see on the reflection that it's gone a bit [makes warping noises]
Dan: It must just happen at a certain speed but it's like "And now I'm warping"
Dan: It's weird because it... stabilizes. Initially-
Both: Whoa!
Dan: God!
Gav: Wow! Dan: What the-
Dan: There's like a chunk of it still on there!
Gav: Okay, let's do that frame by frame. Okay, so it's split from the middle. See that crack. Dan: Yeah, I see that.
Gav: Worked its way through.
Dan: Turned into like a tree either side.
Gav: So weird. Looks like lightning going through it.
Dan: It pretty much does and that means that like- each of those halves is now like really vulnerable to cracking and then-
Gav: And the other- Look on the left, it just goes [makes cracking noise]
Dan: They just turn to glass, like- they just turned to dust.
Dan: It's kind of good that we've got the blocks there because it like shatters it after it's gone.
Gav: Yeah.
Dan: Because there were some big chunks coming out of that. Gav: I think we should move the blocks on the right side. Just slightly out of the way.
Both: Oh!
Dan: It just chipped the edge. Gav: It just smashed on the side.
Gav: I think, just for safety, we should build up one higher.
Dan: You think so? Gav: Yeah.
Gav: Like, this is coming off as some ridiculous clip.
Dan: [laughs]
Gav: What? Dan: Some clip. [making fun of Gav]
Gav: Because we've got enough light, I'm just gonna change the shutter angle to 90 degrees.
Gav: Each exposure is now... 20 microseconds approximately.
Gav: Which should get rid of half the motion blur. Dan: Oh, I also need a shield.
Dan: I'll just hide behind that wood thing.
Dan: [grunts]
Gav: Well the tree? Dan: Too far away.
Gav: Too far away? Dan: Yeah, the wires don't reach.
Dan: Yep.
[record whirling]
[record snaps]
Dan: Whoa!
Dan: I was like, there's not much more to give on this. Gav: Really?
Dan: Yeah, I was nearly full whack there. Gav: [laughs]
Dan: Was nearly full whack. Gav: There's surely no way it's at its full speed with that on it. like that
Gav: Like, the motor is only going to spin a small fan.
Dan: But because- May be because the record is heavier. It's slowing it down more, so it's not being able to get the same rpm? Oh
Dan: Yeah, this one's cracked slightly different. It's not in such a straight line. It's gone like...
Dan: Sideways, you can see the marks that it's left on the brick.
Gav: Really? Dan: Yeah.
[talking to Meg, Gavin's girlfriend] Gav: Do you wanna watch this with us? Meg: Yeah.
[record whirls in slow-mo]
Gav: Kay, you ready?
[record snaps] Both: Whoa!
Gav: That one was different because it cracked from the outside.
Gav: See the crack of the bottom now. Dan: Yeah.
Dan: three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine frames and it was gone. That broke really similarly to the CD
Gav: Yeah, that was, because it broke from the outside, that was exactly how the CD went. And then it just misted itself.
Gav: Look at the sparkle.
Pretty neat-o-barrito if you ask me
Gav: Let's move everything... six feet back.
Dan: [murmurs] Oh god.
Dan: So much effort to move these, it's ridiculous.
Gav: So we thought we'd make it easier - to be able to do maths on this.
Gav: So we painted quadrants- Well, you painted. Dan: I say I painted quadrants.
Dan: It's not really- Gav: The blue is questionable. It's a sort of slightly bigger piece of the pie
Dan: [sighs] You just complain about everything, don't you? I can't do anything right.
Dan: You didn't say, do like an amazing job of it.
Dan: It was just like a basic thing. Sorry I didn't measure it out to the millimeter.
Dan: God!
Gav: Shall I preface everything now? "Oh, by the way, do an amazing job on it?" Dan: Yeah!
Dan: Otherwise, I'll just do a shoddy job obviously. Gav: No, I like it. I think it's funny.
Dan: Okay.
Dan: It's locked in there. Gav: So let's play a guessing game. Dan: Yeah?
Gav: So there's always a piece that goes straight up and doesn't shatter.
Dan: Mm-hmm. Gav: What color do you think it'll be?
Gav: I reckon blue. Dan: Uh, yellow.
Gav: Yellow? Dan: For sure. Gav: Alright.
Gav: I wonder what color that'll look like when it's... spinning.
Gav: I mean, if it was red green and blue it would appear white. But because of the yellow...
Dan: It'll appear yellow? Gav: Yeah, maybe.
Gav: Let me just document your shield. Dan: All right, well, first of all, I've got to be in comfort so I've got a nice...
Dan: Recliner behind here. Gav: Yeah. Dan: So that I can do it in comfort. And second of all...
Dan: I'm hidden behind here with the variac. I'll, like, use my head to shield myself.
Dan: Turn it on and then just like [makes whirring noises]
[record whirring]
[record snaps]
Dan: Golly gosh me.
Dan: So I ended up breaking 115 there but it's only got this much more to give so it's really at the limit so far.
Gav: It's hungry. Dan: Yeah, it really is. Gav: Hungry lad.
Gav: There's another crack from the outside, that one.
Dan: Shall we see? Gav: Yeah.
[record whirring in slow-mo]
Dan: Whoa. Gav: Wow.
Dan: It looks cool with the colors, doesn't it? It's like a really convoluted way of painting Gav: Yeah.
Gav: Blue went up. Dan: Damn it.
Dan: Without even seeing the slow-mo, you can tell which colors went where.
Dan: Because, if you look, green is all at the bottom there. Follow it around and it's all the red.
Dan: Then it slowly turns to blue. Gav: Well, then that's why the sky is blue. Yeah
Dan: Yeah [laughs] Can't be the last of that. Gav: [laughs] And then?
Dan: And then there's more blue and then it goes yellow. I think it broke more or less perfectly in quarters: blue, yellow, green, red.
Gav: We're now looking at this edge...
Gav: ...To see how much it warps.
[record whirring]
[record snaps]
Gav: The whole wood top went- [makes flying noise]
Dan: [laughs] Oh geez.
Dan: Oh look at that. Look at the damage it's done here.
Both: [exclaim]
Gav: God.
Dan: That's insane. Gav: That is insane.
Gav: It looks like scarring. Dan: Look, you can see the individual pieces that have hit it.
Dan: And the fact that they got more wobbly as it goes along and then come back again.
Dan: Look it's gone like, you can see a graph where it's gone wobbly and not so wobbly.
Dan: I bet if it carried on it'd be like this Gav: [laughs] Dan: Like a wave.
Gav: That's a way to record on to a physical medium Dan: Yeah.
Gav: Like an instant graph. Dan: It goes like this, like that and then it comes back around again.
Dan: And it goes like a wave all the way around.
Dan: I bet that's exactly what we'll see on the slow-mo.
Gav: That is a severe amount of warp. Dan: Wow.
Dan: Surprised that it even managed to stay in focus, moving around so much.
Gavin : Appalling, isn't it? Dan: It really is.
Gav: It splits in the middle. Dan: Oh, did it? Gav: Yeah.
Dan: Wow. Gav: I was hoping it would split exactly on the front focus line.
Dan: Well, that'll be amazing. Gav: [laughs]
Dan: I wonder what the...like- How much, centimeters wise, it was actually varying in wibblement.
Gav: Guess we'll just do one more.
Dan: [shaking can with questionable expressions]
Dan: Tada. Gav: What a beaut. Dan:Thank you.
Gav: This one is being shot square.
Gav: So we can stabilize it in post and spin the shot. In theory.
Gav: I've also got the wood in the shot. So if we see any of that scarring, we're good to see how it did it. Dan: Oh yeah.
Dan: Powering up engine, starting jet.
[record whirring]
[record snaps]
Dan: Oh!
Dan: Good lord! One came directly at this thing. Gav: Did it? Dan: I heard it audibly like-
[recording whirring in slow-mo]; [fragmentation]
Gav: There must've been a rebound, there's no way it would have come straight at you.
Dan: No, exactly. Must have, like, rebounded off the stone.
Gav: Okay, oh, from the outside again.
Gav: From the blue.
[record whirring and snaps in slow-mo]
Gav: So, let's see, which bit came at you.
Gav: So it came off the corner. That must have been what hit ya. Dan: You think so?
Dan: It must've, it was kinda the same sort of angle. Gav: Look at how fast that's spinning towards 'er.
Dan: I definitely- I almost felt it though. Gav: [chuckles]
Dan: So it must have been the chunky piece. Gav: Did you say my name?
Dan: [confused] Huh? A chunky piece?
Gav: Yeah, it's my nickname.
Both: [laughs]
Gav: Look at the 3D nature of some of this stuff.
Gav: It's just absolutely compressed. Get some side on.
Dan: It looks like someone's taken, like, mascara and wiped it on a brick wall. Yeah, it looks like something just gonna like yeah, yeah
Dan: Look, it looks like someone just gone like [makes drawing noises]
Gav: Found some more.
Dan: You know what's good about that video? Gav: What's that? Dan: We've shattered all the records.
Gav: Is that good?
Dan: What do you mean? Gav: Like you're doing a record-breaking pun. Dan: Well, yeah.
Gav: Yeah, you know what, with your puns you're like one of these.
Dan: Like- Gav: A broken record [A/N: Damn Gav!]
Both: [cringes]
Dan: There you go. Gav: That was insane.
Gav: We never had this cage around it last time, when it was the CD. Because it was so light, it just lost all its velocity.
Gav: Like the drag from all the air just slowed it all down. This stuff. This could have gone miles.
Dan: Well, the very fact that this still exists after hitting the cage...
Gav: Yeah. Dan: ...tells you, like, this is super thick as well.
Dan: Right in the middle, the records are thicker than they are on the outside.
Dan: So the outside bits hit this and turn to dust and these would go flying but luckily...
Dan: ...most of the energy is taken up by hitting these. Gav: These parts are bigger a) because they were in the center and
Gav: They were released at a slower velocity, and also the label sort of holds it together. Dan: Yeah.
Gav: That was crazy. I'm glad it's over because it was kind of scary. What I might do, I might take a picture of these...
Gav: And post it on Twitter, and I'll say "you'll never guess how we painted these bricks".
Dan: No one will get it! Gav: I don't think anyone will get it. Dan: No one.
Dan: But I don't think a record has ever been used in that way before.
Gav: No? Dan: No. Gav: Well, that was a record-breaking record breaking.
Dan: Yeah, I think it was. I think it was it. It was a record-breaking squared.
Gav: Well, that was cool.
Gav: Hopefully you enjoyed that video. Feel free to subscribe to our very channel right here.
Gav: We've got a second one as well. Behind the scenes. I play pranks on Dan a lot. Dunno.
Dan: Yeah you do. Gav: Yeah, I do. And uh...
Gav: All the social medias and stuff. Thank you very much for watching.
Dan: You know, um in the future... Gav: Yeah. Dan: ...when like, you know
Dan: how we have, like, archaeologists that will go to places like Rome and Greece...
Gav: Yep. Dan: and piece together all the pottery and be like, "this was used to store grain".
Dan: Do you think in the future they'll find these and be like, "hmm?"
Dan: "Well, no, glue one of these all together." Gav: "It appears to have been shattered apart by itself." Dan: Yeah.
Gav: "Yeah, this is where you grow grain."
Dan: [laughs] That's what they sound like?
Dan: Or the guy from Time Team, he was like-
Dan: "Right this, this" Gav: The guy that wasn't Tony Robinson. Dan: Yeah.
Dan: The one with the long hair. Gav: He was clearly faking a West Country accent.
Dan: Yeah, as soon as he got a Camry was just like, "oh you talk like this now?"
Dan: "I just talk like this normally." Gav: And then cut. "Thank you. Thank you Giles."
Gav: Trailer. Dan: Yeah.