Toilet Paper Turned into Composite Material with Epoxy + Hydraulic Press

[@HydraulicPressChannel]

We took this week bit easier to get enough energy to pull of the last parts of the bunker in this month, so bit shorter video this time :D All the steel parts, windows, and much more stuff is arriving next week so soon we are able to unleash the 300 tonner against ball bearings and other good stuff :D

[@FixingWithFriends]

Ah so you needed extra strength toilet paper to deal with this shit. Understandable. I look forward to more videos as always.

[@camus83489]

ooooo is it bullet proof? can you send it to Kentucky Ballistics

[@drsm7947]

Try cotton and epoxy mix pls

[@drsm7947]

Kevlar and epoxy maybe bullet proof

[@GOAT_GOATERSON]

Understandable, can't wait for the Finnish(ed) bunker

[@thelongs5698]

The way Lauri talks with such excitement is just music to my ears!

[@robinbrowne5419]

Two things Lauri loves. Squishing things and blowing things up. Lol. 👍

[@chitlitlah]

The only thing that's better is when he's counting down from three in Finnish.

[@robinbrowne5419]

@@chitlitlah True lol 😅

[@stevencooper2464]

"Toilet paper - the Holy Grail of materials". So true.

[@Zarealdark]

Why is this so friggin fascinating... All I know is I spend a lot of time watching this channel.

[@fls360]

Yes! More hydroolicking chit paper!

[@Make_it_easy001]

Hewdrolyque sheet paper!

[@northernsnow6982]

Hydrolic shit paper.

[@fls360]

Bog roll mash....Hydroolic style.@@northernsnow6982

[@Groovewonder2]

Y'all should try crushing different qualities of toilet paper. Like cheap 1-ply versus fancy 4-ply extra thick stuff. I wonder how the attachment between layers would change the paper hardening/bonding under pressure.

[@VcSaJen]

1-ply also can be different, some are quite thick.

[@abrakkehakka1357]

Fancy 4-ply? Are you insulting the Finns! Better ask for the extra rough paper with added chemical irritants! And usually paper fibers aren’t used, but glass fibers! That’s comfortability!

[@johnkinsel5027]

Jake over at Everything Blackpowder has tried just about every carbon source to make charcoal and then black powder for his rifles. His best one yet? Cottonelle 2 ply toilet paper. It makes powder that burns fast & clean.

[@3RR0RNULL]

Smh just use thermite /s

[@johnladuke6475]

@@3RR0RNULL I tried using thermite to wipe. Unlit, it just makes a bigger mess. So I lit it and afterwards the doctor yelled at me for a solid thirty minutes.

[@zapfanzapfan]

Good idea for new low cost composite material!

[@Make_it_easy001]

It is just a textolite. It has been all around you for the past 80 years.

[@aquatadevore9335]

This takes squeezing the Charmin to a whole new level 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@memberwhen22]

It could be very useful for making custom shaped and molded composite panels for projects

[@Make_it_easy001]

Wow! You have invented a textolite!

[@TalRohan]

fascinating stuff. I reckon it would make really hard wearing floor tiles and still be quite resilient to walk on

[@Zachry86]

You should seriously look into densified wood. Its very interesting. A bit sciency, but if you can set your press to hold at a constant pressure for some time (allowing it to move as the material compresses) you have amazing tools.

[@gregwhitton2293]

Love this channel! I work as a construction blast hole driller and I wish I could send you some of the extremely fine rock dust my machine collects in its filters. It's about the same consistency as common flour and the particular rock I'm drilling in central Virginia has a really beautiful green/gray color. I just think it would be really interesting and awesome to see it crushed back into a rock

[@howtorepairpendulumclocks]

Good vice! Sheffield England. The vice screw could do with grease!

[@BeautyOfGaia]

Your experiments are much more interesting than all the prank and fake prank compilations out there! Can't wait to see more.

[@scythelord]

Screw getting carbon fiber body parts for cars. I want a shit paper composite body. Instead of exposed weave, it would be exposed rolls/disks.

[@Boogie_the_cat]

That would do great with sparks and stuff. And rain.

[@aleksandersanya1817]

I wonder if you can make some heated plates for some tests at your workshop

[@williamjohansson691]

Why did the drill bit change between the two papers? Now we can't really know which one is the hardest.

[@ross9580]

Exactly. Dull twist drill to spade bit

[@aexetanius]

Well, looks like we'll just have to resort to the ol' "poke it with a stick" method to determine the toughest toilet paper.

[@johnladuke6475]

I can't imagine any way that the resin would have made it softer, though.

[@TentoesMe]

You need to talk to Pomhenka about heating your press. "As usual, we used too much dynamite."

[@rebasack21]

The real test for these new toilet paper discs should be in another episode of Grinder Discs that Shouldnt Exist! over on the Beyond The Press Channel!!

[@jimi02468]

What about pressing a piece of wood on max pressure and then afterwards use some tool to cut it into the shape of a circular saw blade and then see how well it performs.

[@Jeffthermite]

Onnistuiskohan 3d printtien kierrätys takas filamentiksi worm makerilla :D

[@stevenwithanS]

Good heavens, if it's heated, you can stick a roast in it. A smashed flat cooked roast. Perfect.

[@johnladuke6475]

Depends how hot it actually gets. Might be better to aim for jerky, low heat and crushed flat.

[@stevenwithanS]

@@johnladuke6475 200 C should do it.

[@northernsnow6982]

​@johnladuke6475 200°C is more than double what you need to cook anything fully. The same temperatures are needed for jerky to be safe, as are needed for other meat. So the type of meat makes no difference.

[@johnladuke6475]

Silly me. Cooking is one place I still think in degrees F, and surely this is non-stupid degrees C. You could still cook a roast at 200 F even unsquashed, but I'd rather have it a little hotter. I'll revise the idea; turn that temp we see in the video _down_ and give it a good crush and I'll bet we still get some fine jerky. Even if we start with a roast.

[@u.e.u.e.]

This calls for - a toiletpaper-epoxy skateboard and - toiletpaper-epoxy 12ga rounds and - toiletpaper-epoxy body armour! 😃👍

[@verdatum]

I started to work on exactly this for one of the skateboarding channels on youtube, but my project got interrupted and I forgot about it. I suspect they put too much pressure. With the right amount, it would work.

[@andan2293]

Turning everything into ammo, american spotted. :D

[@abrakkehakka1357]

A toiletpaper-epoxy toilet! 🧻

[@u.e.u.e.]

@@abrakkehakka1357 Why not! 😂

[@PaulG.x]

Phenolic resin composites were very common in the form of printer circuit boards and Formica bench tops The fibre matrix is nearly always some form of paper. Phenolic resin is preferable because it is a one part thermosetting resin.

[@memberwhen22]

you could press some SERIOUS rosin with that press

[@JamesAllmond]

Isn't that what Trabants were built out of? 🤣

[@zapfanzapfan]

I think that was cotton scraps? But close enough 🙂

[@Milen4u]

HDF boards are pretty much the same - pressed paper with phenolic resin.

[@patrickradcliffe3837]

That's pretty strong in shear. I don't imagine a piece of wood cut on the end grain that thickness would be any stronger.

[@Feedstraydogg]

Pour water on the toilet paper after you use the press to see if it comes back as it's normal size!!!!

[@KernelLeak]

Someone get Xyla Foxlin a heated hydraulic press - the world needs a toilet paper/epoxy canoe or rocket... :D

[@zapfanzapfan]

Toilet paper epoxy corset.

[@plywoodcarjohnson5412]

Great upload THX! What if you added steel thread? Sometimes I do that when I laminate plywood for skateboards. The idea is to get the thread to hold on throughout the board, creating a pull through the entire board if it bends in just one area. So you make three toilet paper "cards". Later you laminate the three together, with steel thread in between the layers. Fun fact: Tony Hawk created a skateboard like this. But he realized he needed one layer of wood. Video can be found on KZbin.

[@jansenart0]

When testing something like this you of course have to make sure that it's not less strong than pure epoxy

[@northernsnow6982]

Just epoxy, at that thickness, would have broken instantly with the hammer and vice test.

[@WoodworkerDon]

My HPC-crushed TP roll is 100% Original. No artificial flavorings or preservatives added. 😆

[@Rayj2007]

I love watching this channel!! 🫶🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@kwk8363]

4:37 why do you change the drill? It was black one for metal, and now you have silver one for wood

[@northernsnow6982]

I would assume the black bit didn't make good enough pilot holes to start drilling the epoxied TP.

[@uncleal]

Consider a (stacked) bat of tangled pink fiberglass insulation epoxy-wet then heat-pressed. Will it stop bullets? Homemade body armor from multiple fiberglass cloth and epoxy layers is all over youtube, but it is bulky for not being well consolidated. It also delaminates when struck. Pre 3-D tangled and crosslinked should not delaminate - no lamella. Alternative to epoxy is polyester resin with its faster heat-activated cure. More expensive.

[@RolandElliottFirstG]

I think you should add some good quality PVA glue soaked into the toilet roll, then press it, wait for it to dry then test it. This would be similar then to chipboard or laminex/melomine board.

[@shopshop144]

3:18 "I know my toilet paper". Now you can retire, proud of your career. "My work here is done" Love the show.

[@beez1717]

Wow! I thought the epoxy was going to help a ton! Maybe if it has dried fully before it was crushed it would work better? What about if you did it without heat?

[@amon_69]

i wonder how bullet proof the different pressed toilet rolls are

[@dimitar4y]

it'd have to be a pretty thick layer, but I assume the harder compressed the more bulletproof.. Mostly due to mass. It has no holding power

[@ChipGuy]

200°C curing temperature for epoxy is pretty high unless it is special high tech epoxy.

[@Rachel_M_]

I still think you should explore coffee. From Grinding the beans to making coffee.

[@scrolling.shutter]

You have to press it laying on its side rather than standing upright. The fibers will be much stronger.

[@danielmackey6594]

Would it change the strength to remove the center cardboard, and then lay the roll on it's side before pressing?

[@davesalisbury1820]

Think of how cool the TP skateboard would be with the new press, and some heat…

[@dwp138]

We should do some type of bonding fiber in the epoxy… fiber glass or maybe wire strands

[@jussee85]

Toimis paremmin sivuttain puristettuna epoksin kanssa. Tuhansia kerroksia.

[@MrVonDutchman]

With the heated press you could try making rocks again. put some sand or clay under there :D

[@hannesaltenfelder4302]

Could you please make different composite sheets like carbon fiber, glass fiber, aramid, jeans with PU epoxy with different tons of pressure and test its strength and weight the part?

[@thedevilinthecircuit1414]

The toilet paper composite is weak in flexure due to the sort fibers. Try wooden toothpicks and epoxy. Probably super strong!

[@benbaselet2026]

nyy bilding aut of toilet peippöör is kuud aidia, lets get sam eeuu mani for it!

[@MrGoatsy]

I really hope you do the data compression video.

[@TylerMWeather9102]

Please make pancakes with the heated press, like press dough down into a thin mold with the heat press

[@ZMAN_420]

Verry Cool! 👍🏻

[@BLKBRDD]

Funniest part of this is most common board material in toilet partitions is made of a very similar material 😂

[@howtorepairpendulumclocks]

I would love to see whether the press dries clothes better than the spinning washing machine. Are squash dried clothes better than spin dried?

[@abrakkehakka1357]

No, but you don’t need to spend time ironing them!

[@howtorepairpendulumclocks]

True! 2 in 1!!! @@abrakkehakka1357

[@andrewbratos6907]

thats a great video very nice, how much to buy a flattened regular roll?

[@B4Ctom1]

This seems that it might be difficult to wipe with. Maybe you could form it into 3 seashells?

[@foxfritter4389]

You should have brought the same chisel hammer you used in the other video. xD

[@henriks5008]

Best press for rosin/concentrate production.

[@veboonetapsr6812]

Can you try making forged carbon with charcoal

[@kdub11]

I wonder if you crush the toilet paper the other direction, would it have more tensile strength.

[@northernsnow6982]

The fibres in toilet paper are too small to make a difference. It's not like flipping it is going to make a difference. This is basically like using sawdust or wood chips to form a piece of lumber. It doesn't matter what orientation the fibres go in. They are so small that the press will determine the outcome. Oh, a better example it is like taking a wooven sweater and putting it in a vice. It wouldn't matter if you folded it, or if you frivolously tried standing it up, it will crush it flat either way. A sweater has longer weaving than toilet paper.

[@hound696]

It would be good to see a roll thats soaked in water first, then pressed the same way.

[@moonliteX]

You should do The bulletproof Wood nilered did a couple of months ago

[@kyleloew432]

Maybe toilet paper can build the next titan sub, we just gotta get a few millionaires to do a deep dive and test it for the rest of us 😂

[@MarkDenovich]

You reinvented micarta

[@kellwng]

with the heat and pressure would have been interesting to have saturated the roll in water and then used the press

[@drmojoluv]

Compare ice vs. frozen sawdust and ice. Very strong

[@gth042]

Having, once again, made a mess in someone else's shop, Lauri declares "I think my work here is done."

[@Two_Waters]

After pressing a roll of toilet paper “without epoxy” how much would it regain its original form if soaked in water?

[@Herbybandit]

You could sell those to shooting ranges as skeets! I bet they are better for the environment than clay skeets. And cheaper.

[@PexiTheBuilder]

Epoxy cheaper and better for enviroment? I dont think so..

[@Herbybandit]

@@PexiTheBuilder not the epoxy ones! The plain paper ones 😆

[@cliftonmassey3143]

I wanna see if they can make super dense and thin beef jerky

[@mattfleming86]

Toilet paper micarta.. nice

[@mickeyfilmer5551]

OK... so now we know how ERTR (Epoxy Reinforced Toiled Roll) acts, how about you maxk a Bullet Proof Vest out of overlapping ERTR rounds? (You could use a Hi Viz vest as the base laye and hang them with self locking plkasrtic cable ties?) You could make a few, then test them in that superb place that you blew up the steel cube with grenades, using various weapons... and may even earn a contract with NATO...😂😂😂 Boom (btw love you two - your rapport is screen magic keep up the good work xx from UK)

[@a64738]

bullet proof west works because they are flexible, this would be same as armored plates... Kevlar, and similar perform not good as bullet proofing when you make hard plates. paper I do not know...

[@robinbrowne5419]

I'm pretty sure that's NOT how they make DVDs.

[@aussieadventurestimetoplay]

Well the heat takes all the moisture out of it making it harder

[@northshorepx]

I'd love to see you shoot this material please.

[@sillyjellyfish2421]

What does the plain toilet paper do if you throw it into water? Will it expand back? Turn to paper mache? Just not take the water in the first place?

[@Yezpahr]

Comment for the algorithm, but this message selfdestructs due to wrongthink.

[@wiedietie]

Is it bulletproof?

[@Mini-terminator]

Wow 👌 interesting 🎉❤

[@sebastiank1714]

This is where our students use heat and pressure to extract the honey from the weed for our dab lab.

[@ThatSockmonkey]

Oh, exotic materials! Strange science! (I did actually watch this when it first came out, i want a house made of grass logs, but with cannabis instead of lawn.) Oh wait, this isnt the grass logs. Oh yay! You guys, you're spoiling me!

[@ErtsenPlayGames]

epoxy was overheated and because of that it degrade and become super brittle if it wasnt heated so much it should be stronger (and with less pressure on it so it wont squeeze all out )

[@personious_k]

Nice

[@SixOhFive]

Bro making that super rosin

[@booshmcfadden7638]

"They are not doing stupid things like I am doing..." 😅🤣

[@Rattus-Norvegicus]

Can you use that heated press to make a panini?

[@beniaminz]

Do the ice types Experiments again

[@KalandraSyabani-qv4iw]

Try to press rolex and seiko watch

[@Kristianpont]

Have you tried to use the press to fabricate some Finnish salmiakki licorice pellets? 😋

[@wiedietie]

This is how a Trabant was made

[@84com83]

Where is Anni, she gave extra spirits to your show?

[@knifetoucher]

What if you tried to wipe your butt with it?

[@ToxicMrSmith]

You'd probably have some red toilet paper

[@captainseanw]

do it with kevlar and epoxy

[@The_Keeper]

Lets "one up" your idea; Kevlar between 2 epoxy TP rolls. Honestly, it would probably make for some decent body-armor. Could probably take low-caliber shots.

[@bghoody5665]

"I think we made something truly great here. We have to do some tests because I know my toilet paper material." Historians will be quoting this in the future when epoxy TP has replaced lumber.

[@xxxyz721]

I wonder how often they make cheese and ham paninis in that machine? :)

[@dbblues.9168]

Resin impregnated Sheet paper is lighter and stronger than carbon fiber. We can expect to see this technology start popping up in F1 racing.

[@hakoren4444]

Can you use new press to create a hockey puck made of hair? 👀