We Made A Glass Slinky

[@PatrickAdairDesigns]

I was going to get really upset at the fact that you weren’t taking safety seriously. But then I saw Mitchell engage his set of safety squints. 👌

[@AquaticSCP]

@EvilAsh110 it’s almost as if content creators also watch KZbin

[@AltimaNEO]

@EvilAsh110 they left that glass just flapping in the breeze all "how ya doing"

[@JunkeeOfficial]

If only there was some magical device to protect you from the glass. Like shoes... but they go on your hand and they are made so you can still use your fingers. One can only dream...

[@jessepinkman1471]

hand shoes

[@sethbettwieser]

@@jessepinkman1471 what a rediculous idea.

[@PeterOekvist]

Thinking outside the box is dangerous...

[@Thomahawk1234]

@@jessepinkman1471 Literally what we call em in the Netherlands

[@Serial_Designation_Number_N]

SHOES ON YOUR HAND? THATS AN INSANE IDEA! PAY THIS MAN MILLIONS FOR HIS GENIUS!!!!!

[@TheGyromorgian]

>Doesn't wear safety glasses "I'm mostly worried about cutting my hands" >Doesn't wear gloves

[@jcims]

Have you tried cutting with the head pointed at an angle towards the center the whole time, basically a conical spiral? Then the layers will catch themselves as they drop though.

[@77Infidel]

Seems reasonable, similar to one of the old school collapsible plastic cups, exept the cups were conical rings and not one spiral. That could be very cool to see.

[@nathanmiller9381]

@@77Infidel the rings idea should work great, and most likely would be a better fit for the lightshade

[@spappy2k6]

Yep, anyone who's ever messed with a scroll saw has probably made one, myself included. It's hard to cut a perfect spiral by hand, so the CNC should work perfectly, given you could slant the head.

[@tbthedozer]

They’ll need to use a machine with a 5 axis head to cut that. I don’t remember if their new one has that feature or not. I don’t believe the old one has it. It would be very cool though!

[@natalieisagirlnow]

thinner, more likely to crack off

[@DanVR001]

I feel like Dan is the glue that keeps the rest of the guys stuck in sanity.

[@SeanLudden]

I feel like glue is the Dan that makes arts and crafts great

[@cteckerman]

I just feel like glue.

[@gabrielc6252]

Dan left?

[@PatrickAdairDesigns]

I really hope you end up finishing that bowl! I think that’ll be the most interesting use of this spiral concept you’ve been figuring out.

[@PatrickAdairDesigns]

Also Merry Christmas! 🎄

[@Brocollipy]

“If you liked it then you should’ve made a ring from it” 🎶😉

[@PatrickAdairDesigns]

@@Brocollipy lol maybe I should

[@kreeepyk0]

Oh oh maybe they could put stuff in a resin slab, or drop dye or something in it, then cut it in a spiral, then put more resin around that, and make it into a bowl? There are a lot of neat ideas.

[@csours]

can you increase the width of the spiral as it goes out? that is, have narrow material in the middle and thicker material towards the edges?

[@The_Keeper]

Great idea! And it should be pretty easy to make the waterjet do it.

[@josephgauthier5018]

Do you mean an exponential spiral?

[@mikeselectricstuff]

I wonder if you could strengthen the glass by annealing in an oven after cutting to reduce stresses. Or just melt it into a cool shape. Maybe two interlocking spirals in different coloured glass that you then melt and fuse togther.

[@justaguycalledjosh]

the two spiral thing is cool

[@gayusschwulius8490]

Nope, annealing only works with crystalline substances, of which glass isn't one.

[@kaptunkordan6656]

If you make the glass in zero gravity it will crystallize and be about 20 times stronger than steel. Nasa has done countless experiments with various metals in zero gravity for almost 40 years now

[@Aztesticals]

@@gayusschwulius8490 you can make it crystalline with the correct additives. Or use quartz composite

[@D-Vinko]

Annealing after the cut might actually help, it realigns an atomic structure, if the original structure changes even if it was annealed then there is stresses even if at a minimum level

[@schwuzi]

Could you cut the outer perimeters thicker? So the spiral thickness increases the larger the diameter gets. There is more stress on the outer part so making it thicker should help.

[@pirobot668beta]

Springy glass? Yup! Several type of anti-personnel mines were made with zero metal parts. Some used elastic instead of metal springs, others used glass springs. Examples of Korean mines from the 1950's are still being found in working condition. All the working parts of the trigger and detonator were glass to evade detection, and so they have not degraded over time.

[@The_Keeper]

That is awesome and awful, all at once.

[@peterismyfirstname2872]

Learn something new everyday. Thank you sir.

[@dodhdhdfdffgdhfonhdh]

imagine being the guy to have to arm explosives where the trigger is made of glass yikes

[@thelegendarybulldozer7256]

"Dan's still in the hospital after his hysterectomy"

[@Hippownage]

I hope he'll be the same person after the loss of his uterus. Hormones do weird things to a person. You never know.

[@Yman83464z]

I was scared for a moment that no one had picked that up... I wish Dan the best... I wonder if his ovaries were donated? Any news about the injections for his breasts? [Why have you not won the Interwebz Award for this comment today yet?] 🤣🤣🤣

[@someirishkid9241]

Wait, was it a joke? I thought Dan was just a trans man and we were all being normal about it for once

[@bird_b0nezz]

@someirishkid9241 i thought the same, i didn’t think twice about it, just a trans bro getting his baby maker thrown out. think it is a joke though

[@coreyshatto3002]

This should be a whole new series of cutting different materials to see what will stretch

[@njnovi]

It may be good to do a variable thickness, thinner (lighter) towards the middle and thicker (heavier/stronger) toward the edge, so that it will be a uniform displacement throughout. Might decrease the stress buildup

[@eibenag]

I'm glad I didn't disrupt the production schedule too much. Thanks for the fun and Merry Christmas!

[@johncortez2088]

I genuinely think that you can make amazing things with the proof of concepts, I feel like you could add tether points to support the weight of tile/glass/etc...

[@kameljoe21]

This is really cool. In an high end home a person could have a bunch of tile cut out in shapes like this for sure. I think if you did the square one again and used rounded edges it would work pretty well. The same with a star shape and a triangle shape. You can try with square edges or round them down. I would like to see a twinkie shape or some other shape would be neat. Really you could try with any shape.

[@meta_username]

"The same with a star shape and a triangle shape" What about an umbrella shape?

[@joanbohlman1679]

What happens if you shine lights or lasers through one end of the the glass spirals? Would it work as a fiber optic cable or maybe look like a cool display piece? If you cast a glass spiral in resin, would it look or different ?

[@darkling-studios]

The reason fiver optics work is because the structure of the interior of the cable runs in the direction the cable... The crystals in probably floated glass are all squared and cutting a spiral into it would have the structure of the crystals relative to the direction of the glass ve constantly changing. It would pass some light but it wouldnt go too far,

[@leomadero562]

@@darkling-studios um no that's not how glass works. Glass is amorphous meaning any crystal structure is just random. The way fiber optics works is that if the angle of light is below some degrees, like 15° or whatever it actually is, it'll reflect almost perfectly. So yeah it should work as a fiber optic

[@youtubeuser5402]

What if you cut a spiral in a countertop and kept it intact and turned it into a sink

[@robertbell2159]

It wouldn't hold water.

[@youtubeuser5402]

@@robertbell2159 wow how long did it take you to figure that out 😂😂😂

[@RandomBogey]

If they used another sheet of quartz, so that it’s the same color all the way through, they could probably sit the cut piece on a table with something “sink-shaped” to push and hold the spiral up, fiberglass what would be the bottom of the sink basin to support and stabilize it, then flip it over and use a dark contrasting color of sanded caulk to fill in the gaps of the spiral and seal it. Probably be pretty time consuming to make it look decent, but I’m fairly certain they could pull it off. It would definitely make for another cool video in their “spiral cut stuff” series.

[@funginimp]

I feel like rich people would pay big money for this. Because it's cool, novel, and has a story behind it. Someone should take this business idea ...I'm doing other stuff.

[@DigitalJedi]

What I think is really cool about this, is that is shows you how materials we think of as extremely rigid are flexible over a long enough length. Each spiral here can also be modeled a straight beam with the same cross section with a total length equal to the length down the center line of the spiral.

[@DACFalloutRanger]

Can't believe Dan got his history removed :( get well soon king. I'll send some books about Greek mythology so he can regain his history mass.

[@KayWhyTee]

could you make the cuts on an angle so the layers support each other as you lift it?

[@TAGE_FPV]

Brehhh the safety squints part had me dyin 🤣🤣🤣

[@ParanoidCarrot]

the glass handling made my spine shiver

[@SewerTapes]

You guys have created the coolest possible answer to the question, "why is there glass all over the floor?"

[@bigfan6016]

Thanks for listening to our comments and doing some of the suggestions. Nice Christmas gift!

[@Givulinovich]

I was completely bored. Trying to wind down after the holiday days. They YOU GUYS got me all worked up again!

[@Gunbudder]

A traditional living hinge cut into ceramic tile would be pretty interesting too. i wonder if it would make for some kind of weird ceramic book cover

[@6754bettkitty]

7:23 Flexiglass 😯

[@withered_dragon_head]

What if you did a wave pattern like a accordian fold so that it could be stretched apart two dimensionally to make it longer?

[@doondedulin44]

Send one of your wood spirals to Peter Brown. I bet he'd love it

[@Dubbs360jr]

Try coating the finished cut glass. A polymer might greatly increase the strength- it certainly does in optical fiber which is quite springy and strong but only when coated

[@unfortunatedisgrace246]

im actually amazed by how much you were able to stretch these materials at all!

[@savagesarethebest7251]

I'm not, but this is a great demonstration that our world is not as solid as it seems

[@unfortunatedisgrace246]

@@savagesarethebest7251 good for you i guess...

[@slow_sts]

Cut it at a sharp angle on the spiral so when you pick it up it kinda holds itself together. That might only work on the thicker stuff like the quarts or wood.

[@MDMcVay11462]

I'm hoping Peter Brown will get the bowl, it'd look cool after he turns it

[@mattw5840]

I had to google "Hysterectomy" lmao best burn i ever heard.

[@RandomBogey]

His poor lady bits are gone.

[@magmasoul4001]

Yep

[@Azguella]

Well at least you got something out of this and that's a pretty big pile of glass shards to clean up

[@juice84569]

I’m pretty sure you guys just invented a new pattern that’s probably only been mad a handful of times in human history. That wood bowl you attempted to make. When your wound it tightly together that wood grain pattern is unbelievably cool.

[@caodesignworks2407]

That bowl is often a beginner's woodworking bowl. It's generally called a "bandsaw bowl" because you cut the spiral with a bandsaw. Usually you'd use thick enough wood so that the compression from stretching forces it to stay in the bowl shape.

[@420metalguy]

would love to see some of the woodworking youtube channels get their hands on that spiral cut wood, could probably get some really neat things with that spiral grain pattern

[@someguy9388]

Lenticular glass might look pretty cool spiraled like that

[@Vicvic3386]

You should make the cuts angled towards the center of the coil so that it would stop it self from breaking when over stretching

[@outcast5505]

Safety squinting 😆

[@gabrielulibarri9950]

I love that you guys used ideas from the comments!

[@dim1723]

Try cutting it at an angle so it helps support itself when lifted. Instead of cutting straight down.

[@gustavgnoettgen]

Fascinating how the inner part of the spiral is rotating while it cuts

[@maximilianwalker5961]

I’m convinced they only made this video to break glass. A worthy cause.

[@flaagan]

If you cut a cross-section in a pattern (wave, bowl, etc), you could make a jig to hold them in shape, would allow for securing them into a funky shape.

[@IkaSternenlicht]

Quartz (and some other materials including but not limited to the adhesive on tape and ceramic) exhibit a property called Triboluminescence where the material emits light when deformed or damaged. Tape even emits X Rays if you peel it in a vacuum which is pretty wild.

[@FreezeAU]

It's all fun and games till somebody needs a tourniquet.

[@BWShea]

You're on the right track for FTL engine component fabrication.

[@BionicFreakOfficial]

3:46 lmfao you sounded like the guy from Police Academy 🤣

[@plumbussmith]

You could probably sell some of that like spiral mirrors would be a cool piece in an entry or foyer.

[@RandomBogey]

Imagine trying to ship that intact… lol

[@plumbussmith]

@@RandomBogey styrofoam and prayers

[@RandomBogey]

@Plumbus Smith They’d have to cut a negative spiral out of foam to fill the gap in the spiral, sandwich that in between two sheets of foam, then ship it in an extra thick cardboard box. And pray to the shipping gods it made it intact

[@leopiipponen7693]

Fiber optic spiral table experiment... with leds :)

[@reddeadtryhardbichfromgtay2048]

Merry Christmas Waterjet Channel!

[@cinfdef]

Y'know, glass looks like it should taste rather delectable. Remember that scene from the Grinch where he chews on the glass from the bottle? Man I wanted to eat that so badly! *Damn you, Mortality! Always spoilin' the fun!*

[@Vlow52]

Can you cut a multiple spirals starting from the center? Like a regular galaxy formation. Also, call for TheSlowMoGuys to film a glass spiral shutter, it looks really dope as flexy-solid object suddenly shatters from a hit!

[@cncgeneral]

You could make 2 small ones, glue them over your eyes then they'd protect you from the flying shards of the other ones

[@billyvsbilly1]

You are now an art channel. Congratulations

[@carrollmcpherson4530]

I wonder if you could have any better luck out of the glass spiral if it could be sent off and tempered after it was cut? It should be more resistant to braking under bending.

[@mattd1188]

I don't know why y'all don't use the 5-axis and cut the glass at an angle - sort of like those collapsible camping cups you find around. I bet that would make a pretty cool project.

[@cnw8891]

I'm an industrial maintenance guy and used to work on a machine like that but it used plasma instead of water. Fun stuff

[@Joe___R]

That technique could be used to create some really nice light fixtures, sometimes that could be ultra modern or look like they belong in the 1960s or 70s.

[@jesseking4815]

If you angle the head inwards while it cuts it will make a collapsible bowl

[@GRosa250]

This video is a Christmas miracle. Hands down the best present I got today

[@tylerlarson9491]

This is the best vid I’ve seen in weeks!!

[@Mick_92]

I think it would be interesting to see a square spiral with rounded corners, like the windows on an airplane, so that stress doesn't concentrate on a single point causing material fatigue.

[@MySickstring]

Love the vids on this! But I wonder why you haven’t laid in some smaller grid on the table to keep the stuff from falling into the water.

[@YashaTheBest]

Try cutting on the angle so that it doesn't fall through and form the cone, that way it would be less brittle.

[@addisonwoods9367]

You guys should try some living hinge patterns, they work really well in laser cut materials

[@danielstein4791]

Two suggestions: bulletproof glass, and cement made with the technique used in the Great Wall of China to make the mortar flexible.

[@draconic5129]

They should always use that plastic material that they used at the end to cut stuff on since it's able to stay together easier even when cut it would prevent a lot of stuff they cut from falling in the tank

[@jkljkl218]

Reminds me of the spiral pieces I've seen in the middle east when I was young. Same concept different materials, seemed to be lexan or some kind of plasticized glass.

[@yoyobah1862]

An oval would be interesting? also if you could do a thicker cut then reverse it on another media and lay them inside each other? would definatly work with a laser but unsure with a waterjet.

[@zstolfi]

I'm not a waterjet operator but these guys make you want to have their jobs, lmao

[@russellearlpatten3700]

I hope the boss makes you sweep every square inch of his shop.

[@RolandElliottFirstG]

So now we know how the Pyramids were built, square cut out and stretched carefully upward.

[@kirk5649]

I'm new around here and "Safety Squints" got me good 😂🤣 It's so true. If you know you know

[@devguygaming250]

You fellas never fail to make bangers

[@spokehedz]

I imagine that you have several emails from several resin-and-stuff KZbin Channels by now. Can't wait to see what they come up with. ;D

[@Silver_State_Superduty]

I think if the outer sections were thicker they could hold the weight of the inner section better

[@Ithirahad]

Yeh, was immediately hoping for thicc glass. Of course, when it's super thin along the axis you're trying to wobble it, it's going to just "tear" (shatter) under its own weight... If it's somewhat thicker it might act more like that piece of quartz.

[@Turbofab]

I mentioned glass, I've always been told that glass doesn't bend, I always disagreed and thanks to you guys this will prove it

[@theonewhowas7709]

actually looked pretty cool to do something like that with the grout and tile.. could actually use somthing like you were doing for an actual floor if you made a cool neat design with it!!!!!!!

[@mitchboynunn]

As a Mitchell myself. I can agree that his dancing.....is tops.

[@thejusmar]

What if you made the material of the spiral get progressively thicker as it went outwards so there would be less weight for the top to support?

[@m.a.depriest3606]

Can you do that with metal and cut at 45 degrees, inward angle so it's more like a cone?

[@WhyInnovate]

Step 1 - cut step 2 - pickup and wiggle step 3 - break

[@overkillsnake]

The lack of PPE lets us know we’re watching professionals at work.

[@lone_wolff]

Is there anyway I can get a one so I can make it into a table?? Easy 8 way + with four legs and it would be plenty sturdy

[@theredstormer8078]

I know collaborations are easier said than done but y'all should try and do something with these spirals with a glass blowing KZbinr. Not sure what a glass blower would actually do with it but it does sound interesting to me.

[@clementgardet916]

The last tile you cut gave me that Idea: I think you should make a clock using one of your spirals... Btw, awesome video, i enjoyed it a lot

[@lakerfan82k3]

Hoping for a speedy recovery for Dan after his radical hysterectomy!

[@HeWhoSlayethCain]

Also, you guys should do more patterns, pentagon, hexagon, triangles

[@icecreep109]

Stupid cannon idea: shoot ballistics gel at ballistics gel out of the cannon (or shoot ballistics gel at the projectile, rather than the other way around).

[@Michael-nz9bq]

This was magical to watch.

[@nickv5435]

0:10 did Mitchell just say Dan had a hysterectomy?😂

[@magmasoul4001]

Yes

[@TonyJustSavkin]

If it's not too difficult, try to make the spiral narrower at the center and then increase it's thicknes to the edge to distribute the weight and the stress on the spiral more evenelly

[@sloeber5605]

i don't know if your head can rotate but if you cut that pattern on an angle (i think about 5 degrees, not sure) you get a bowl without using epoxy. aka foldable bowl

[@thomasherzog86]

that was pretty exciting. i would love to try out how the glass spiral reacts to light... maybe its like fiberglass, channeling the light.

[@GoodJobCasey]

Mark my words. Someone is going to see this video and make cuttingboards with this concept. Just which KZbinr will do it first...

[@zacharyholten4890]

You guys should make a tile slinky covered in resin and make a cool looking table