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@andykutzner2177

10 ай бұрын

Thanks ❤️❤️❤️❤️ and can you do a video with wet pampers diapers and wet Drynites diapers destroying with hydraulic press thanks please 🙏🙏🙏😁😁😁

@2rueblue

10 ай бұрын

I would like to see what's stronger, a house brick or Lego made the same size as a house brick, so build a house brick out of Lego and see if it's stronger than a real house brick. And another, fill the void in the Lego with good concrete build it into a house brick size let it cure then see what's stronger. Loving the show and as usual, all the very best from Scotland.

@softbreeze941

10 ай бұрын

That was really funny and enjoyable to watch!

@FixingWithFriends

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. Can you take all your broken lego and press it into one large lego brick? (like with a mold)

@Spartan375X

10 ай бұрын

The visuals you did in the middle of the video for NordVPN was a good one.

Think about the structural lattice of all those little bricks randomly put together, it's so reinforced that maybe it's stronger than a solid block of plastic, which might just crack in half. Really cool experiment, Legos are incredibly strong.

@thegrahamreaper6851

10 ай бұрын

I wonder how much stronger (or weaker) the lego cube would be if it were made out of plate pieces instead of full bricks. That would be 3 times as much structural lattice (since a full lego brick is the height of 3 plates) if you made the cube to be the same size. And if it does end up being weaker and it explodes, then that would be way more epic than just bricks because you will have 3 times as much exploding pieces (maybe).

@Matt-my7pz

10 ай бұрын

I was just thinking exactly about this

@ChrisMelville

10 ай бұрын

Lego IS extremely strong. It’s not countable.

@EddieTheH

10 ай бұрын

​@@thegrahamreaper6851 I do wonder if columns of blocks with layers of plates around them would help stop it all popping out sideways.

@PreservationEnthusiast

10 ай бұрын

It's not stronger than a solid block of equivalent plastic. In fact, it is considerably weaker. That was a silly comment by original poster.

If you’ve ever felt the excruciating pain of stepping on a Lego brick at night, you know they have otherworldly power…

@creepingjesus5106

10 ай бұрын

My first thought - if one brick can survive my 75kgs through one foot, completely unscathed (unlike my foot), this should be good!

@thegrahamreaper6851

10 ай бұрын

you get used to it if you played with legos all your childhood.

@rjgscotland

10 ай бұрын

Having grown up in the UK it's a close call between a Lego brick and an upturned British plug. The plugs continued to be a midnight menace into adulthood at least.

@adammichna5175

9 ай бұрын

IMAGINE WHAT THE PRESS FELT!

@michaelevans60

9 ай бұрын

You win the internet today with that comment!

WIth so many Legos, this may be the most expensive video ever on KZread. Do like 4 printer cartridges next!

@HydraulicPressChannel

10 ай бұрын

If this gets billion views I can think about that. It's a lot of money :D

@CommunityGuidelines

10 ай бұрын

@@HydraulicPressChannel If you crush laser printer toner cartridges, you'll be cleaning the press for weeks... hahaha

@raticus79

10 ай бұрын

*pooof* "Ink smoke! Don't breathe that."

@user-cb8fi9ty8i

10 ай бұрын

​@@raticus79h

@Nefville

10 ай бұрын

I used to work on laser printers, copiers (all laser) and who knows how much toner or worse, developer, I've inhaled. Its been fairly harmless, at least so far 😬

The crushed stuff is more expensive than the hydraulic press. It'd be interesting if you put a layer of the smooth plates on the top so that the lugs didn't get squished.

@rc-fannl7364

10 ай бұрын

No joke, you'd start to think that every Lego piece contains a but on unobtanium, looking at the current prices.

@EddieTheH

10 ай бұрын

​@@rc-fannl7364 I think the price is the only reason we don't make everything out of lego.

@Delibro

7 күн бұрын

With lugs you mean "kkknopps"?:)

Lego police: stop right there! brick bending is illegal!

@North_West1

10 ай бұрын

A complaint to Lego customer service would be better. - Excuse me the Lego’s I purchased broke apart under 70tons. What happened to standards😂

@ArkStar20

10 ай бұрын

The price for lego should be illegal haha

@Spicy5653

10 ай бұрын

If it’s illegal to break build, does that mean that you’re police station was also brick built illegally

@adambonesaw3689

10 ай бұрын

Wait a minute there is no Lego police, where's my wallet? Why did that other cop take my pants?

@elliottcooper6205

10 ай бұрын

The heedrowleek prehs channelle will do what it wants. Not even Legos can stop that.

Very cool! I think smaller pieces of Lego will support more weight than the larger pieces, because they have more vertical 'supports' in their design. Good job!

I work in the plastic injection industry, our largest press is 3000 tons! amazing how much force steel can take and not buckle!

No wonder it hurts like hell stepping on Legos! Super impressive how strong they were!

@ABrit-bt6ce

10 ай бұрын

Not as painful as an British power plug. That's nearly as bad as broken glass.

That had me rolling on the floor laughing lol. “ why isn’t the sensor working? That’s right I took it off lol”. 😊

@zapfanzapfan

10 ай бұрын

That was the best laugh ever!

The last thing I expected to see when I woke up this morning was popcorn lego jumping out of a hydraulic press. But here we are.

Should be sponsored by Lego!

The first two rounds make me optimistic: can you make plastic brick out of lego bricks?

You could probably increase the strength a bit by adding those smooth flat pieces (those that cover the top nubs). Since it'll spread the force a bit further and not create a weak spot when the nubs are crushed.

@ireallyreallyhategoogle

10 ай бұрын

Using the 2 dots blocks only would increase the strength a lot.

@DaBigX26

10 ай бұрын

Nice profile pic btw

Since the failure seems to occur from the very outside edge of the perimeter, it does make me wonder if a pyramid sort of arrangement would have behaved and ultimately failed differently.

@skeetsmcgrew3282

10 ай бұрын

I think that's just cause the ones in the middle had nowhere to go...

@EddieTheH

10 ай бұрын

Or even just a couple of rows of sloped brick round the edges.

@DuncanAitken

10 ай бұрын

A pyramid structure would focus all the press force on a much smaller area (the top of the pyramid), so it would likely fail earlier.

@Delibro

7 күн бұрын

@@DuncanAitken Of cause we would build the top part as broad as the one we saw in the video.

Would be cool to see a video comparing the strenghts of different coloured legos. Looked like the purple bricks was the weakest here. Maybe build completely identical structures with all the different colours😄👍

@EddieTheH

10 ай бұрын

I expect the purple pigment is quite a chonky molecule, it probably interrupts the crosslinking in the polymer more. It would be cool to see them all tested so I know what colour blocks to build my nuclear bunker out of!

@danatronics9039

10 ай бұрын

@@EddieTheH Definitely not lime green.

HPC please do this again with layers of large Lego sheets in between the bricks. I learned a while ago about engineered sand, just putting a sheet of paper towel between small layers of sand makes it strong enough to hold a car. If you did this with Lego bricks, I'm pretty sure you'd get some explosions and it would be waaaay stronger.

Wanted: N52 magnet sponsor. If a 38mm cube magnet pulls 107kg, then a plate with 20x20 mangets should pull 42.8t. Two plates in opposition should put up a good fight, particularly if they could be at least 50mm thick. Maybe this is beyond the press and needs to be exploded together. Either way, it's gonna need a sponsor...

"But talk is cheap and Legos are expensive, so thank goodness for our sponsor!" Lol, every parent on the planet felt that in their souls!

I wonder if it would be stronger if the rows alternated between north/south and east/west to really lock it together. While the slowmo was going, I saw a few blocks that broke off together in a line.

I wonder if corrugated cardboard could stop the press when oriented so that the corrugations are vertically aligned with the ends against the bottom plate. The fewer dents and creases in the cardboard the better it would work. There are some really sturdy corrugated cardboard packing materials that are used when shipping heavy items like tools. Another thing to try would be different weights of cardstock. You could stack it flat or bind it together and try it on its edge. This was a fun idea/video! Thanks!

@MrGhosta5

8 ай бұрын

We use corrugated cardboard shipping containers at my work to store and ship bulk goods. The containers are so strong that they can actually carry more weight then our forklift can.

please do some of the small circles again but make sure the press tool is larger than the set of lego bricks, a lot of the breakage seemed to come from lego bricks only being pressed over half of them around the edges

This was such a cool video. Honestly amazing how strong Legos are when put together.

Have you tested how much Pressure a single Brick could endure? For over a Decade now I'm haunted by the Desire to know, so I could calculate how tall a Tower of single Lego Bricks could be before its own Weight crushes the bottom most Brick.

@ryanrydander1595

9 ай бұрын

A single 2x2 brick can take around 450kg of force. Not sure other dimensions though

Their are smooth top lego bricks that can be used on top, also their are low bricks 1/3rd the height of standard bricks which would likely be able to withstand considerably more force due to shorter side walls which are harder to buckle.

You could sell the pressed Legos as modern art!

And yet a single Lego stepped on with bare feet will bring the toughest person to their knees!

I'm glad you get a sponsor. You give good illustration about your sponsor. This is great channel that deserve sponsors.

As a Lego bricks fan, I am horrified at the image of them being crushed in hydraulic press. And at the same time, shocked how much they can hold on. Are you saying I can safely prop my car on a lego bar size of toothpaste box?

I bet if you contacted Lego and told them you were doing experiments like this, they'd probably send you some free stuff and be like, "Try this out!"

@Bisqwit

9 ай бұрын

I don’t know, Lego sounds like one of those extremely litigative companies that is very sensitive on how their trademark is used and in which contexts.

@Antelieris1

9 ай бұрын

@@Bisqwit Sure, but stress testing legos is also a thing they do. They literally have a list of illegal connections that people aren't allowed to use in creating sets and official builds specifically because of structural reasons. They'd most likely love to see their structural designs tested like this just to get info about it. They also have been known to send free stuff to people just because they have interesting ideas or requested a specific piece. They're good natured people who protect the brand in the RIGHT way.

@Delibro

7 күн бұрын

Would rather think they'd sue him even before he did anything.

@Antelieris1

7 күн бұрын

@@Delibro Given their reputation, not likely.

@Delibro

7 күн бұрын

@@Antelieris1 Especially given their reputation. There are so many Lego started doubtful lawsuits ongoing or finished.

Do a stack of welding blankets, folded over on themselves a few times. Bonus points if welding blankets are precompressed together with a heavy duty resin/glue. It can essentially be NIJ rated 3A bulletproof (up to .44 Magnum). The other thing to test is different thicknesses of bulletproof glass.

This reminds me of a 5th grade project to build a bridge with popsicle sticks (wooden tongue depressors). The teacher didn’t have enough weight to break mine with sticks stacked with narrow edge up/down.

@urg0ogame846

10 ай бұрын

Liar, I was there and it broke

Somehow this reminds me of one of OzGeographics channel's videos about earthquakes, where rocks can be partly melted under pressure.

Hanna's crazy laughter is ALWAYS gonna give me the chills...

The second peaked at 90 tones. That's very impressive. Why the aren't sensors working ? The actual question : Where ARE the sensors ?

Oh no! A man has been crushed by a hydraulic press in Lego city! Send your condolences because there’s no way we are going to rescue what’s left of him…

@puciohenzap891

10 ай бұрын

Lego man be like: call an ambulance...but not for me!

Another Finnish youtuber actually built a working hydraulic press out of lego, that was sick

With the press going slowly I don't think it will explode due to the Lego pieces heating up and softening the plastic.

You could get a speed radar to measure how fast all the projectiles's are !

Now I know what to use as jack stands under my trucks while I’m working on them.

can you do a liquid nitrogen pressing through an extruder test? I imagine it'd be pretty dangerous but also pretty interesting.

I feel like they’d do better slightly smaller than the press head so there aren’t bricks at the edges getting uneven pressure or cut into by the edge of the tool

May be interesting to press dry leaves onto pages of books. Beautiful Art ! 🍁

Would love to see a comparison between the different colours of lego bricks. So build a tower of each colour and see where the breaking point lays. As you mentioned the purple ones seem weaker.

@JohnDoe-420

10 ай бұрын

I think they just display stress better (the discoloration stands out more). They use the same mold and the dye shouldn't affect the properties of the plastic.

@samexahr3326

10 ай бұрын

​@@JohnDoe-420believe some colours are weaker than others. Brown bricks for example are infamous for being easy to break. Believe they are stronger now days but you can see the stress on the browns. I think it's because the pigment is mixed with the plastic rather than printed on like you see on minifigues.

@MrGhosta5

8 ай бұрын

Well at my job we have white, black, and transparent plastic coat hangers. The transparent plastic hangers are the most brittle and break extremely easily. The black hangers are a little more flexible but still break fairly easily. The white hangers however are noticeably much more flexible and a lot harder to accidentally brake.

This video is everything I ever wanted! Fantastic work!

All those legos being crushed in the prime of their lives.... i love it! Does make me wonder what the difference in a standard size block vs all thin blocks set in the same ways, would be

legos could take MUCH more force than I had expected.

Note to self: compressive structural builds with LEGO (and adhesive) are far more realistic than I thought. I imagine something like a vehicle wheel chocks built with interlocking brick/plate patterns and careful attention to loading geometry might be workable. Not that I suggest ANYONE try that.

When i was a kid i had a magazine that had a picture of a bridge made of Legos with several kids standing on it, i remember thinking that that looked strong AF. This is next level! 😁

Such strong Lego's amazing how much pressure they held. You're such an amazing channel to watch.

I really appreciate the use of actual Legos, not Meganricks or some other rip off. Quality

This was fun and really interesting to see how strong the bricks are! I think they're made of ABS? Felt the need to comment when I don't usually to offset some of the other more negative ones 😅.

@HydraulicPressChannel

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for commenting! I also found this one really interesting to do and the results were so close that it made it even more interesting

@peterwroberts

10 ай бұрын

@@HydraulicPressChannel the way they fail gradually by deforming is definitely a typical sort of ABS trait but it's also pretty strong like we saw! Unfortunately means they don't really explode but there was satisfying popping off of a lot of the extraneous pieces 😂. If they were PLA I bet they'd explode more... But actually maybe they'd heat up, get soft and melt instead 😅.

@JH-cp8wf

10 ай бұрын

i think its likely more structure that keeps them intact? Like, there's not a lot of weakspots in a lego construction.

@EddieTheH

10 ай бұрын

​@@JH-cp8wf Yep, I suspect a solid block of the same dimensions would squidge.

Love the "holy shit!" In the background

You should have caped it with a flat layer! It would have taken higher I think!

@EmpereurFrancois

10 ай бұрын

Like the Lego without the pin!

I'm in the process of building four-inch high blocks to raise the height of my mom's desk, so this has particular interest to me.

Love your experiments and love your accents. I think you could do voiceovers for a living if you want 😊. Keep doing these fun experiments!

Great channel. Long time watcher and first time subscriber. BTW, Facebook brought me to this video today but normally KZread algorithms feed your videos into my "recommended" list. I love watching them during my lunch breaks at work. Have a great day from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Canada.

You should have checked with Lego to see if they wanted to sponsor this video. If they did they may have even sent the Lego bricks to you free.

Should see how much each size can do on its own.

I wonder whether there are significant differences in the strength of different colours?

@HydraulicPressChannel

10 ай бұрын

Our professional said that there are some differences! I don't remember anymore what they were, maybe we should test it 😂

@EddieTheH

10 ай бұрын

​@@HydraulicPressChannel Definitely! I reckon the bigger a molecule of pigment is the weaker the plastic. I think the purple either took more damage or the contrast between the pigment and polymer showed it more. Would be really cool to test as it'll dictate the colour of blocks I use to build my nuclear bunker.

Lauri at the return counter: "I bought box of Lego bricks, but there are only plates inside."

Stockton Rush should have built the Titan Sub with Lego bricks.

Watching this video makes me want to buy a large box of Lego. 😊

i came here from reddit, and after having my mind BLOOOWN by the actual content, now i’m seeing the guy behind the iconic voice for the first time ever. THIS IS TOO MUCH TO PROCESS. incredible video 10/10

I saw the short of the round press of the Legos and wanted them to be pressed evenly and you delivered at the end of the video!

It always gets me: "Welcom to de hüdrolic pressssss ... chennel". "I think thelike ... purp-p-p-p ... purrrr-ple ... purpel ... pul-pur blicks bricks" ... "The top layer kknopps are in ..." (10:12) I am dying. This is so guuud.

The crushed he peels apart from each other, reminds me of the flat legos that we all hated prying off of the other bricks.

Using this for a Mechanics of Materials class. Thanks!

Very cool using the hydraulic press in the NordVPN ad 👍

"Ah I see - there is no sensor!" A clear symptom of Lego-fatigue!

Impressive! Love your channel. Thank you!

The second one had a Pop-Corn popping vibe to it.

@HydraulicPressChannel

10 ай бұрын

I was really hoping it to explode :D

haha cool vid! I wonder how pieces sizes impact the strength - i.e. if using only 2x2 bricks = more material = more strength?

That was astounding! 🤯🤯🤯

Next video: Assembling Lego set with 150 ton hydraulic press.

I was lucky enough to never have stepped on a particularly painful lego piece, never stepped on a lego corner before. This is surprising since I used to completely cover my floor with toys.

They need to start building infrastructure wirh Legos...holy crap that was impressive!

I am curious how the brick dimensions would affect structural integrity. I'm thinking that for direct vertical pressure the 1x1 pieces would be strongest as they have no weaker sides with less reinforcement, they only have the small outer wall on all four sides, and thus a large array of them should be quite strong vs other size bricks which have less reinforcement along their longer walls. The problem I could see is that any deformation would allow them to blow out quite easily.

"I am sorry Timmy, we wanted to buy you Lego this year for your birthday... The store was out" "On the plus side, there is an awesome and totally unrelated video from your favourite local KZread Channel!!"

Well, now when I'm barefoot and step on one of those damned Lego's, I won't have to worry that I've damaged it, no matter what it does to my poor foot.

That was a fun experiment! A request: in a later video, can you please say 'purple burglar alarm' a few times? Many people will love that. 😘

As an HPC fan AND an AFOL I´d love to have some of the crushed bricks to add to my 150000 bricks I already have.....

Great video as always! Reminds me to make some microwavable popcorn later 😏

At the purple pricks I was so happy 🤣 you guys are super nice and I love the accent!!! Lovely couple

9:03 Must be all that pesky sensorship... :D

Great video, it would be cool to see if the different colours of lego block stacks had different resistance under the press. God bless

"Dad, I want popcorn!" "We have popcorn at home, son." Popcorn at home:

You're gonna need on hell of a brick separator to pull apart those ones from the third test.

Fine experience, and what would be the result if the bricks are glued together ?

Legos would still have one additional weapon, which is the flat tops. They would prevent the top slots from buckling in and deforming the piece.

Well deserved payback for all the pain Lego bricks have caused feet over the years.

When I used to go to _The Rocky Horror Picture Show_ we had a callback set... "I made you..." "Out of Legos!" "...and I can break you just as easily!" "I donno, it's kinda hard to break Legos!" I feel vindicated now.

That’s the best use of Lego I’ve seen.

Great vid 👌

I think the top ones buckled slightly at the end is because they were expanding as the bumps got pushed in. I wonder if it would have been even more ok if you'd used flat pieces as the top layer.

I think I'll build the foundation for my next house out of Lego 🙂

Maybe start selling crushed things on your store like the Legos as long as they won't hurt people. It would help offset some of the cost for your projects and give fans souvenirs.

this video is revenge for everyone who has ever stepped on a Lego

That second set of pressed blocks looks really smooth and flat

This was a fun one! Lego are so strong!