So 4 years ago my jeep broke down and it was going to cost 1,000 dollars to fix.
So I looked on YouTube and found a video that showed how to fix my jeep for 80 dollars instead
of 1,000.
The guy who made that video 4 years ago is right here.
Brian, what are we doing today?
[Brian] Today we’re going to send a cell phone and a turkey the size of a human head
airborne using an airbag out of a Mazda and a Honda.
[Zack] Alright, let’s get started!
[Intro]
[Zack] Alright Brian so we’re blowing up airbags.
How does this work?
[Brian] So the airbag’s really simple, it’s an explosive charge.
It explodes into a bag and just rips through the front cover.
You have two wires that you’re dealing with.
You can see I’ve got some special terminals for probing or testing.
But you have a red wire and a white wire.
A positive and a ground.
And basically there’s an igniter behind this that will set off a charge.
So I’m going to take my orange wire, put it in with the red.
Then the black wire into the white.
And then we’re going to set the cell phone on it.
And then I’ve got some speaker cable to keep us a safe distance from the truck cuz
I don’t want to lose my truck doing this but I do want to entertain some folks.
Maybe we’ll lose a phone and a turkey.
That’s acceptable.
[Zack] So this is the cell phone that we’re going to use.
This is an iPhone 6.
It’s actually locked and the screen is cracked so it’s not worth very much.
I’m going to plant it on top of the airbag.
Alright, so Brian we’ve got the airbag right here and it looks like this is just what is
coming out from inside of the steering wheel.
So now the steering wheel goes around the airbag.
So how does the airbag work?
[Brian] In a car it’s a lot more complicated, you have the airbag computer, you have sensors
and there’s a lot of ‘if this, then this’ type of programming on the computers so that
your airbag doesn’t deploy and cost your insurance company a bunch of money if you’re
going 5 miles an hour in the parking lot or something like that.
And airbag like this new from Honda would probably be like 500 bucks or something like
that.
You can get them from the wrecking yard for about 100 bucks…50 bucks.
You know, so there are a lot of options where you can repair the car.
[Zack] So how many sensors are there on a car usually, like inside of the bumper and
on the sides?
[Brian] Most cars will have sensors in the front bumper, at least one if not two.
Like a Chevy pickup truck or something will have a couple up front if it’s in the late
90s.
It just depends on the car.
German cars, they’ll have sensors all over the place and airbags all over the place.
My truck that you see over there, it’s got airbags in the side curtains, in the front,
you know, both sides and it’s got all kinds of sensors and wiring.
Like explosive charges on board with that, if you’re counting airbags, there are at
least 6 of them, I believe.
So, it’s a lot of explosives on board that you don’t really think about.
[Zack] Let’s see how far this baby flies.
And we have these wires right here leading up to inside of the truck.
And Spencer, what’s going on right here?
[Spencer] So it’s not live right now, but we have it hooked up to the battery and once
I touch this wire right here, just like that, it will shoot off the airbag.
[Zack] Three…two…one…
[Classical music playing]
[Zack] Nice.
So how high do you think that got Brian?
[Brian] I’d say 30 feet.
[Zack] 30 feet?
[Brian] I was expecting more.
[Zack] The airbag started off right here next to the sandbag and it jumped actually all
the way over here.
So this is what an airbag looks like after it’s deployed.
It looks we’ve got some smoke coming out of it.
Nice.
[Brian] Some of that will be talc powder.
[Zack] What’s the talc powder for inside of it?
[Brain] Like if you want something to deploy smoothly and not snag on itself, you do the
talc powder.
If you want a book page to open to a certain page, you can talc powder the pages and anytime
you open the book it will just automatically…cuz it, you know, there’s not the friction there
with the powder.
[Zack] So it looks like the center of the steering wheel just opened up right along
that crease.
It just blew up that center seam.
And this bag feels like nylon.
It feels kind of like a canvas tarp.
So the airbag’s here and the phone is about 30 feet in this direction.
Oh no.
We got some more damage to the screen.
Good thing I know a guy who can fix phone screens.
So we lost a lot of energy during the last explosion because the airbag actually hopped
up off the ground.
So we’re going to take some wire this time around and strap the airbag to the sandbag
so that it won’t lose as much energy, and all of the energy will be transferred to the
phone – launching it up into the air.
The phone is still working.
I mean it was a little bit broken before.
Oh look dude, the phone is bent.
Like it’s bent…
[Brian] …from the compression from pushing it back.
I kind of thought that would happen.
[Zack] Iphone 6 bendgate – from an airbag.
Okay.
[Brian] Sweet.
[Zack] Three…two…one!
And it hit.
[Classical music playing]
{Zack] Wow, that was in the air for a while.
[Brian] It’s secure - that makes a difference.
It’s the whole force equals mass times acceleration.
F = MA.
[Zack] Tight.
Well look this airbag’s a different color.
That’s kind of fun.
So it looks like even though we attached wires to the airbag it still exploded and separated
itself from the sandbag.
So we lost a little bit of the power but we had what like, 3 and a half seconds of hang
time on that one?
[Brian] Yeah, it was a significant difference.
[Zack] So that’s incredible.
Like think about that much power hitting you in the face during a wreck but like…
[Brian] …secured to like a 4,000 pound car.
[Zack] Yeah.
I guess it’s better than your face hitting the dashboard, but you know, it’s not a
marshmallow either though.
Airbags have to hurt.
[Brian] There’s a lot of force there.
There is venting so that when your face hits it, it actually cushes it and then the travel
after impact makes a big difference.
That’s why they do the lifesaving job that they do.
[Zack] Where we started from way over there…it landed right here.
Looks like there are a few more cracks on the screen.
And we had a little impact crater here even.
Looks like, yeah, the ribbon just ripped right off of that.
You can see where it hit the corner here.
Wonder if it still works.
We got some green lines on the screen.
It looks like the LCD is cracked this time around…which, you know, it’s a little
bit to be expected.
Either way, a new replacement screen and this phone will be as good as new.
[Brian] That’s not too bad when you consider that it was impacted to get it up into the
air pretty hard.
That’s where the bending came from and then hitting the ground too.
That’s respectable.
[Zack] Yeah the inertia lifting off of the airbag.
So big thanks to Brian, without him my YouTube channel wouldn’t exist.
When I messaged him about my jeep breaking down 4 years ago and asked him why in the
world he makes YouTube videos, he said it was to ‘decrease world suck’, and because
you can make a little bit of money on YouTube.
So I started doing the same thing with cell phones and that’s how my channel came to
be.
We have a turkey and what are we doing with this turkey?
[Brian] This isn’t just any turkey; this is a butter ball turkey that’s the same
size and weight as a human head.
[Zack] Oh boy.
[Brian] Airbags come in contact with people’s heads all the time and that’s what they’re
supposed to do…but what if your head was right against the airbag when it went off?
What kind of forces are we dealing with?
So we’ve got a 1996 Mazda Millennia side impact airbag that we’re going to launch
this turkey with.
[Zack] So if you want to see what happens to this turkey using and even bigger airbag
than what we were using on this cell phone, click this video right here and show Brian
some love on his channel.
Thanks for watching.
I’ll see you around.