I worked at a Midas years ago, early 2000's, and we had a few airbags in the back of the shop. We decided to set them up in the back lot and set them off. We set up about 30ft of wires to them with a tire on top of one and a cinder block on top of the other. When they went off they sent those into low Earth orbit just about. The tire decided to get a little off course and come back at us. You know, safety first...
I am an engineer at a facility that produces the generate for airbags. The smaller charge is called an initiator. There are tablets on the inside of the wire filter. I would guess that the heat/friction was enough to burn the tablets and set imitator off due to how sensitive they are to friction and heat. The wire filter filters any residue and particulate that may escape into the bag. So you don’t get burnt powder in your face as well.
@@MadDogTM i was first struck by the absence of time having depended on it as a measure of myself moving back into the perpetual night it consumes all reason and doubt
@@conservativedemocracyenjoyer Yeah I agree. We could do with a much better system. I know they have to fill with air in seconds. But if its hard enough to break your sternum isnt that just as bad as flying forward?
@@conservativedemocracyenjoyer airbags cause more harm than not, proper seat belts are all that's needed. hence why race cars don't have them and use 3 point harnesses and neck braces.
The explosive compound used in airbags, sodium azide, is INCREDIBLY toxic. I knew he was not gonna lick it after it had been cut in half, because this video probably would never have been published if he had (although to be fair, it does seem empty, and the compound is very soluble in water... although I guess that poses another problem. I hope they did their research).
Chemist here: Just so you guys know, this was probably the most dangerous thing you could possibly do with an airbag charge. most older airbags contain sodium azide, which is one of the most toxic compounds ever discovered. Even breathing, touching or ingesting minute amounts of sodium azide can kill you. On contact with water, sodium azide produces an extremely toxic gas, and on contact with most metals will form a shock/touch sensitive explosive. There have been cases of people washing sodium azide down drains and causing huge explosions in sewer systems. In other words, keep up the great work!
@@CrazyNerdInventor You're right in that it's readily soluble in water, but it dissociates into ionic sodium and hydrazoic acid, which itself is explosive and volatile. So the solution readily vaporises and can go straight to your lungs.
@@Kishmond not a chemist, but my guess is they didn't know how bad it was at the time and later discovered something better and decided the "kills you" chemical wasn't cool anymore.
I found the inflator rig funny for two reasons: 1: It's a radial inflator, so they basically just oriented the plane of the inflator exactly so it pointed at the water jet. 2: If it were a linear inflator, it would either break those screws like papier-mache or carry the whole thing to the other side of the warehouse.
I crashed a car two months ago and yeah, airbags are no joke. I can still smell the explosive charge. Hell of an experience, never want to go through that again
I hope you guys took the necessary precautions and took proper care of your water basin after filming this, because it is now filled with sodium azide solution, the explosive compound used in airbags, which is one of the most toxic substances imaginable. At least Mitchell didn't lick the charge after it was cut in half... Though most, if not all of the compound was probably dissolved anyway, as it is highly soluble in water. Stay safe, guys.
2:24 "Is that charge like a gas?" It's an explosive charge that detonates after a collision. Just like a bomb or a gunpowder firearm. The exploding gas expands and expels the airbag from the steering wheel.
Hi, I worked at a certain airbag company, (that was in the news QUITE a bit the past few years) making the propellant and those actual inflators. All you set off was the initiator, which is like a "blasting cap, there is still another couple of grams of actual amoniumnitrate propellant in there, but it desolves in water, if it had gone off, that wooden rig you built would have been obliterated. It's been 5 or so years since I have worked with this material, so I've forgotten exactly how much of what goes into it. (Part of the reason I quit working there, memory issues due to ptsd) Anyway when I left there, I was working in the ballistics lab, where we tested the energy these things produce, long story short it's about 1/2-2/3 that of a m69 fragmentation grenade. (I was also in the army for a number of years, hence the ptsd.) Love the channel and the crazy stuff you do.🖒🖒
When I was in Automechanics, we set off an airbag, upside down. It launched a good 20 feet into the air and I’ve been terrified of them ever since. I’ve only ever been in one wreck bad enough to set them off and, thankfully, I was far enough back enough that it barely grazed me.
I used to make the explosive in airbags. Gas generate is a dough that gets cut into small pellets and baked. Then it’s loaded in a container with a gas that ignites it and the gas generate burns really quick!
1:33 The face you make when you want to protect your hundred thousand dollar piece of equipment but also really want to do something irresponsible with it :D
The tiny desktop Wazer is only 8K, but the bigger ones start at around 60K and go up exponentially with size, pump HP, and axis options, then there is the cost of running them, they run on 440 and suck power like nobody’s business.
An airbag will hit a max pressure of 21psi then deflate to 12psi by the time your body impacts it, the holes in the material are to facilitate the escaping gases, in comparison....a basketball is around 7psi fully inflated, and that hurts bad enough to get hit in the face with, but still better than hitting a metal steering wheel full force. Also that's why you must also wear your seatbelt properly to give your body enough time for the airbag to vent excess pressure. as to the burns, those are typically caused by the material, like a rugburn.
My lads, you didn't actually cut an armed airbag! You cut a packed airbag and the inflation charge separately! All kidding aside, excellent video as always. Love the content
It's not a filter, it's a diffuser. Controls the rate of expansion of the airbag. Worst story I heard of was from an airbag that deployed (one of the first designs early on) that decapitated someone in the front seat with such force that their head killed someone in the back seat! Decapitation of children from airbags deploying happened as recently as 1996. They are dangerous, but lifesavers.
They have a center blasting cap like a bullet primer (that pop you heard) surrounded by gun powder that when ignited blasts gas out of the holes to inflate the bag. The mesh is a spark arrestor like in a dirt bike muffler.
@@KJ-kw7gh thanks for clarifying. I don't even know why I thought that was right. I know it is an electrical charge that sets it off. I should have also known the blasting compound was changed since they used gun powder explosives. Thanks for clearing that up. I blame my assuming I knew what was right on the alcohol I was on during this comment lol.
If memory serves me correct that "coil" of wire is actually a shock dampener. I remember a company that made those coming to give me a demo and some samples. The wire is woven together and then compressed and is designed to absorb large shocks where elastomers would either not work or be too soft. But in this case it could serve other purposes since its also porous.
I seriously considered raycon to be honest. I did a TON of research including sound tests. I found this. They have a TON of base. I love base, but I also like balance. Otherwise, they are a solid choice. If you like a deep base sound they're for you. If you like a more balanced sound.. maybe not so much.
The ads are probably scripted. Like "hey channel, I'll give you $XYZ if you say this and this and this and maybe add a little bit of creativity to feel more natural". Almost every integrated ad (atleast here on YT) works that way. I mean, they can be good tho, but I won't base my purchase on a video that's sponsored, because well, it's sponsored. I prefer really small channels to base my opinion on.
I bought a pair several months ago and I really like them. I'm no audiophile though, so people that are super particular about that stuff might not be as happy with them as I am.
I did some road work at a factory where they create the explosives that go into these. They told me that this stuff is so unstable that if you picked up a granule of the stuff and dropped it, the static charge it would generate from falling through the air would make it detonate before it hit the ground. The only reason it doesn't spontaneously detonate in the housing (usually) is that it's grounded to the housing. So ya, think of it like a little pill of nitroglycerine, though its actually more unstable, inside a metal housing that will instead turn the explosion into jets of explosive fire, rather than a fireball.
It's likely filtering out fire. Seriously. They used to do that in old coal mine lamps too, a thin wire mesh keeps a carbide lamp flame from setting off any mine explosion from methane pockets in the coal by cooling the gas quickly enough that it won't ignite anything. I would suspect here the wire mesh keeps the flames inside the gas generator, and makes sure they don't actually set the air bag or the car on fire. Which would probably be a bad thing if you've just been in a accident...
The "that" what you where wandering about was likely the initial release of the gas held in the mechanism the blast charge ignites the gasses and the circle is more then likely thicker than the rest to prevent bad burning on the face in the event of the airbag deploying.
Lunarology as a chemist I can tell you there is no burning. The “gasses” is sodium azide powder, and it doesn’t burn, but decomposes under heat to nitrogen, a completely inert gas witch doesn’t burn
Total safe , water disables ammonium nitrate, infact in commercial blasting they pour water in the hole to kill it if it was not properly filled. In that instance, only the initial charge of 1/3 pound booster would go off with no I'll effects
I belive the metal filter is supposed to remove any burning particles and act as heat exchanger and reduce the temperature of the gas so it won't burn the bag.
I was in high school we had a collision repair class. There was a really crumpled quarter panel on a honda. We took an old side curtain air bag shoved it behind and blew it. It did a pretty good job at fixing it! Not perfect. A lot dangerous. Don't try that at home or with anything you care about. It was entertaining!
I've cut and replaced more air bags than I care to mention, but they are better than the windshield. I say that while looking at two undeployed air bags in my garage just waiting to see how high they can launch 5 gallon buckets...
Makes sense why i had to replace the airbag at BMW on my 2000 3 series. For free. Metal bits could come flying out in case of accident, doesn't sound pleasant.
The staple looking things are spark arrestor’s so you don’t get a fire inside the car the same type of spark arrestor in exhaust pipe on a two stroke engine
I was in a accident 2 yrs ago and my hands still have some sort of issues with the muscles tensing up and almost making it hard to do most things that require constant use of my hands like I can’t play a guitar that much anymore.
back in the mid 1980s.. i stopped by a junkyard in sun valley ca. one of the buildings was rented to another group.. they were busy cutting the cloth from used airbags.. stuffing them with trash out of the can... paper drink cups.. smashed soda cans. plastic bottles and then gluing the soft shell closed with the multi color vinyl repair kits that used to be available. when i mentioned to the main yard manager what they were doing.. he answered .. they pay their rent.. i ask no questions. nobody i called later seemed to care or believe me.
I love your channel & enjoy watching immensely, but, the waste of potable water kills me every time. Is there any way grey water could be used? Tanked rainwater for example? 😶
Get an attorney ASAP. If that actually happened to you and you aren’t lying you need an attorney immediately as that would be the fault of the car company or airbag manufacturer. You could get all your medical expenses covered and possible a pretty big check for pain and suffering
@@ControlledWrinkles 3 months later... you're the only other one. Besides a handful of others. You get the point. Not everything has to be taken literally.
This channel seems like some money laundering or tax write off, all jokes aside this a a great channel
How are you so smart
He works for the operation
quick he knows your secret, we need to silence him. XD
I worked at a Midas years ago, early 2000's, and we had a few airbags in the back of the shop. We decided to set them up in the back lot and set them off. We set up about 30ft of wires to them with a tire on top of one and a cinder block on top of the other. When they went off they sent those into low Earth orbit just about. The tire decided to get a little off course and come back at us. You know, safety first...
"I've created a special rig" points at plywood with a hole in it while in a pretty well equipped metal shop.... Hmmmmmm....
He never said it was a GOOD rig
hey, wood is easier to screw into!
@@dimitar4y Threading isn't hard though, all you need to do is either drill or waterjet a hole and then thread it.
@@A2ndFamine1 or just slap the electric screwdriver and boom it's in. It takes atleast an hour more to do that thing in metal.
Metal schrapnel causes more damage
I am an engineer at a facility that produces the generate for airbags. The smaller charge is called an initiator. There are tablets on the inside of the wire filter.
I would guess that the heat/friction was enough to burn the tablets and set imitator off due to how sensitive they are to friction and heat.
The wire filter filters any residue and particulate that may escape into the bag. So you don’t get burnt powder in your face as well.
what do they use for the explosive now? Azide salts are old school as hell so what do they use now?
I picked up a load of airbag charges out of Ogden Utah once. It was placarded but not hazmat
@@MandrakeFernflower What so old about azides?
@@user255 Just an obsolete technology. They were used in older model airbags.
I came here to say the same thing.
He isnt running a chop shop.....he just works there...
thats a big difference
Yes, yes it is a fine line!
Makes all the difference in court
Technically, it is a chop shop.
3:50am time for a little morning snack and some TH-cam.
And this beauty comes on, oh yeah.
Its 8:00 in the evening...
3:50 Am , time for an evenig snack in the bed.
@@richcampoverde there's a thing called time zones
@@MadDogTM i was first struck by the absence of time having depended on it as a measure of myself moving back into the perpetual night it consumes all reason and doubt
"It's better than dying" is good to note whenever someone complains about a safety feature being uncomfortable.
Breaking your sternum though?
That comes pretty damn close to death.
@@conservativedemocracyenjoyer Yeah I agree. We could do with a much better system. I know they have to fill with air in seconds. But if its hard enough to break your sternum isnt that just as bad as flying forward?
@@lukasdoofus2592 I'm not entirely sure honestly.
it could just be that this particular airbag is powerful
@@conservativedemocracyenjoyer airbags cause more harm than not, proper seat belts are all that's needed. hence why race cars don't have them and use 3 point harnesses and neck braces.
Swear I'm not running a chopshop
but all they do is chop stuff in thier shop!!! 😀
Thats exactly what someone running a chopshop would say
is anyoe else doubtful as whether thats really an airbag, i didnt see a lick test so im not sure
The explosive compound used in airbags, sodium azide, is INCREDIBLY toxic. I knew he was not gonna lick it after it had been cut in half, because this video probably would never have been published if he had (although to be fair, it does seem empty, and the compound is very soluble in water... although I guess that poses another problem. I hope they did their research).
Rhinownage The bag wasnt exposed to the charge.
@@jonasthemovie watch the rest of the video (from 6:48 onwards)
Chemist here: Just so you guys know, this was probably the most dangerous thing you could possibly do with an airbag charge. most older airbags contain sodium azide, which is one of the most toxic compounds ever discovered. Even breathing, touching or ingesting minute amounts of sodium azide can kill you. On contact with water, sodium azide produces an extremely toxic gas, and on contact with most metals will form a shock/touch sensitive explosive. There have been cases of people washing sodium azide down drains and causing huge explosions in sewer systems.
In other words, keep up the great work!
I agree with you, this was dangerous af.But I thought sodium azide was soluble in water and doesn't react with it?
@@CrazyNerdInventor You're right in that it's readily soluble in water, but it dissociates into ionic sodium and hydrazoic acid, which itself is explosive and volatile. So the solution readily vaporises and can go straight to your lungs.
lets hope it was younger than 1995 than
Why would you make an airbag out of something like that?
Well, I guess they don't anymore.
@@Kishmond not a chemist, but my guess is they didn't know how bad it was at the time and later discovered something better and decided the "kills you" chemical wasn't cool anymore.
Hears "Raycon" Double tap intensifies
I was double tapping as I read this comment
Loved the video! Never imagined the inside looking like that.
@Case Nikolas wow, this is a scam!
Does anyone else want Mitchell to tell the story of his crash?
Yes!
I’m not gonna tell it, sorry
@@MitchellCH ok
I found the inflator rig funny for two reasons:
1: It's a radial inflator, so they basically just oriented the plane of the inflator exactly so it pointed at the water jet.
2: If it were a linear inflator, it would either break those screws like papier-mache or carry the whole thing to the other side of the warehouse.
Mitchell is truly a gem to the TH-cam community
I crashed a car two months ago and yeah, airbags are no joke. I can still smell the explosive charge. Hell of an experience, never want to go through that again
Same here, about a month ago. It was low speed (25-30mph) but still enough to deploy the airbag and leave a nice burn on my arm.
@@caboose218 It seems at that low of speed, the airbag might actually make it more dangerous
Very unpleasant experience. 0/10 would not reccomend.
I hope you guys took the necessary precautions and took proper care of your water basin after filming this, because it is now filled with sodium azide solution, the explosive compound used in airbags, which is one of the most toxic substances imaginable.
At least Mitchell didn't lick the charge after it was cut in half... Though most, if not all of the compound was probably dissolved anyway, as it is highly soluble in water.
Stay safe, guys.
Can you do like a challenge that you have to find stones and who’s stones on the inside are the coolest wins
Huh good idea boss....
Here is how airbags work: crash, boom, no die.
You're welcome.
well, "crash" and "boom" dont generally lead you to "no die", but airbags are an exception!
2:56 I didn't know that airbags have a face mask inside them.
2:24 "Is that charge like a gas?"
It's an explosive charge that detonates after a collision. Just like a bomb or a gunpowder firearm. The exploding gas expands and expels the airbag from the steering wheel.
Hi, I worked at a certain airbag company, (that was in the news QUITE a bit the past few years) making the propellant and those actual inflators. All you set off was the initiator, which is like a "blasting cap, there is still another couple of grams of actual amoniumnitrate propellant in there, but it desolves in water, if it had gone off, that wooden rig you built would have been obliterated. It's been 5 or so years since I have worked with this material, so I've forgotten exactly how much of what goes into it. (Part of the reason I quit working there, memory issues due to ptsd) Anyway when I left there, I was working in the ballistics lab, where we tested the energy these things produce, long story short it's about 1/2-2/3 that of a m69 fragmentation grenade. (I was also in the army for a number of years, hence the ptsd.) Love the channel and the crazy stuff you do.🖒🖒
When I was in Automechanics, we set off an airbag, upside down. It launched a good 20 feet into the air and I’ve been terrified of them ever since. I’ve only ever been in one wreck bad enough to set them off and, thankfully, I was far enough back enough that it barely grazed me.
I’ve launched toilets computer monitors microwaves :D
At 1:20 did he actually fart 😂🤣
I used to make the explosive in airbags. Gas generate is a dough that gets cut into small pellets and baked. Then it’s loaded in a container with a gas that ignites it and the gas generate burns really quick!
1:33 The face you make when you want to protect your hundred thousand dollar piece of equipment but also really want to do something irresponsible with it :D
Is it really worth a hundred thousand? That’s a lot more than I would’ve guessed
The tiny desktop Wazer is only 8K, but the bigger ones start at around 60K and go up exponentially with size, pump HP, and axis options, then there is the cost of running them, they run on 440 and suck power like nobody’s business.
An airbag will hit a max pressure of 21psi then deflate to 12psi by the time your body impacts it, the holes in the material are to facilitate the escaping gases, in comparison....a basketball is around 7psi fully inflated, and that hurts bad enough to get hit in the face with, but still better than hitting a metal steering wheel full force. Also that's why you must also wear your seatbelt properly to give your body enough time for the airbag to vent excess pressure. as to the burns, those are typically caused by the material, like a rugburn.
At 7:53, the "broken up staples" from the "weird coil of wire" is a flame arrestor and first-stage step-down pressure regulator.
"don't try this at home"
I don't think most people have a water jet in their house
My lads, you didn't actually cut an armed airbag! You cut a packed airbag and the inflation charge separately! All kidding aside, excellent video as always. Love the content
My neighbor has been parking in my parking assigned spot.
Thanks, you just gave me a idea...😁
It's not a filter, it's a diffuser.
Controls the rate of expansion of the airbag.
Worst story I heard of was from an airbag that deployed (one of the first designs early on) that decapitated someone in the front seat with such force that their head killed someone in the back seat!
Decapitation of children from airbags deploying happened as recently as 1996.
They are dangerous, but lifesavers.
They have a center blasting cap like a bullet primer (that pop you heard) surrounded by gun powder that when ignited blasts gas out of the holes to inflate the bag. The mesh is a spark arrestor like in a dirt bike muffler.
David Blanck There isn't a primer or gunpowder in an airbag module. Sodium Azide and an electric initiation do the inflation.
@@KJ-kw7gh thanks for clarifying. I don't even know why I thought that was right. I know it is an electrical charge that sets it off. I should have also known the blasting compound was changed since they used gun powder explosives. Thanks for clearing that up. I blame my assuming I knew what was right on the alcohol I was on during this comment lol.
If memory serves me correct that "coil" of wire is actually a shock dampener. I remember a company that made those coming to give me a demo and some samples. The wire is woven together and then compressed and is designed to absorb large shocks where elastomers would either not work or be too soft. But in this case it could serve other purposes since its also porous.
I seriously considered raycon to be honest. I did a TON of research including sound tests. I found this. They have a TON of base. I love base, but I also like balance. Otherwise, they are a solid choice. If you like a deep base sound they're for you. If you like a more balanced sound.. maybe not so much.
The ads are probably scripted. Like "hey channel, I'll give you $XYZ if you say this and this and this and maybe add a little bit of creativity to feel more natural".
Almost every integrated ad (atleast here on YT) works that way.
I mean, they can be good tho, but I won't base my purchase on a video that's sponsored, because well, it's sponsored. I prefer really small channels to base my opinion on.
I bought a pair several months ago and I really like them. I'm no audiophile though, so people that are super particular about that stuff might not be as happy with them as I am.
@@fusseldieb I think you're right. I do want a decent pair of bluetooth earbuds though. The last ad they did gave me a good place to stay looking.
I did some road work at a factory where they create the explosives that go into these.
They told me that this stuff is so unstable that if you picked up a granule of the stuff and dropped it, the static charge it would generate from falling through the air would make it detonate before it hit the ground.
The only reason it doesn't spontaneously detonate in the housing (usually) is that it's grounded to the housing. So ya, think of it like a little pill of nitroglycerine, though its actually more unstable, inside a metal housing that will instead turn the explosion into jets of explosive fire, rather than a fireball.
It's likely filtering out fire. Seriously. They used to do that in old coal mine lamps too, a thin wire mesh keeps a carbide lamp flame from setting off any mine explosion from methane pockets in the coal by cooling the gas quickly enough that it won't ignite anything. I would suspect here the wire mesh keeps the flames inside the gas generator, and makes sure they don't actually set the air bag or the car on fire. Which would probably be a bad thing if you've just been in a accident...
The "that" what you where wandering about was likely the initial release of the gas held in the mechanism the blast charge ignites the gasses and the circle is more then likely thicker than the rest to prevent bad burning on the face in the event of the airbag deploying.
Lunarology as a chemist I can tell you there is no burning. The “gasses” is sodium azide powder, and it doesn’t burn, but decomposes under heat to nitrogen, a completely inert gas witch doesn’t burn
Total safe , water disables ammonium nitrate, infact in commercial blasting they pour water in the hole to kill it if it was not properly filled. In that instance, only the initial charge of 1/3 pound booster would go off with no I'll effects
One of the best Audi ad..
The way you describe airbags make them sound far more dangerous than crashing
I got a call about me going back to work next week. I'll miss unemployment and binging the waterjet channel.
The 2 best personalities on TH-cam. Way better than those 2 chaps from the slo mo guy's
I belive the metal filter is supposed to remove any burning particles and act as heat exchanger and reduce the temperature of the gas so it won't burn the bag.
I hate ads and sponsors but the way these guys pitch their sponsors is hilarious
WJC IS ART!
I think the metal staples are a heatsink, to cool the gases before they melt the airbag
I was in high school we had a collision repair class. There was a really crumpled quarter panel on a honda. We took an old side curtain air bag shoved it behind and blew it. It did a pretty good job at fixing it! Not perfect. A lot dangerous. Don't try that at home or with anything you care about. It was entertaining!
Let me guess: Audi A4 B5. I have one and it's got the exact same wheel center.
Nope, its a Audi B5 C6 TRY AGAIN LATER
Lol
I thought It was a C6 D7
I've cut and replaced more air bags than I care to mention, but they are better than the windshield.
I say that while looking at two undeployed air bags in my garage just waiting to see how high they can launch 5 gallon buckets...
Makes sense why i had to replace the airbag at BMW on my 2000 3 series. For free. Metal bits could come flying out in case of accident, doesn't sound pleasant.
You guys are legitimately funny.
Interesting airbag demonstration. I hope a waterjet saves me, if my airbag deploys.
This is like the new “what's inside _water jet channel”
lol WOWWWW that ad segway lolol. you got me
I love how they do adds
Fun facts about waterjets and explosives: During the 1970s in North Ireland the British Army used shotgun shell powered waterjets to disrupt IEDs.
What do you do with the garnet after you clean out the tank
Thanks guys. Really interesting.
The first one was the gas that is supposed to be ignited by that spark at the end... that is what causes the tremendous force that hurts so much...
I always love you guys dialogue. I'm glad you're not scientists.
The staple looking things are spark arrestor’s so you don’t get a fire inside the car the same type of spark arrestor in exhaust pipe on a two stroke engine
tbh the guy who invented air bags should be given the nobel award xd
whats your personal favorite caliber of airbag? mines 5.56. just enough and not overboard. a perfect Goldilocks caliber.
I was in a accident 2 yrs ago and my hands still have some sort of issues with the muscles tensing up and almost making it hard to do most things that require constant use of my hands like I can’t play a guitar that much anymore.
How perfect is it that they get their music from a guy named Cutter?
This is making me think of Takata airbags for some reason.
soo.... Anthony is running the chop shop? got it.
Are the staples more to slow down the gas than filter it?
I'm not a seismologist but sounds good to me
I've seen a thousand raycon ads, but that transition actually made me want to buy them, just for the meme
I want to intern with these guys lmao. that would be the most fun intern ever!
it's going so hard and fast that's blow up the front i like that quote
Good video 🤗
That bag material looks pretty tough. I wonder how many layers it would take to stop a bullet?
Looks like the pop you got was the initiator, and the weird stuff before the pop was the inflation fuel being washed out.
8:52 in Hondas case nothing even the scrap metal Made it through.
what do you mean in hondas case?
@@faxxzc a few years ago Honda had a major airbag recall because their airbags were shooting bits of metal at the car inhabitants
2:49 That's what she said....
So is the crushed staple media what was stabbing people in the Takata airbags!?
Airbag fractured my skull around the eye orbit, still suffering with this after a year and a half later.
Yeah but you did head butt it, i'm sure it was self defense.
Sorry to hear that dude. Can I ask? Malfunction? Or would you have been worse off hitting the dash/wheel?
Orbital fractures are a bitch. That sucks.
@@metamorphicorder still messing around with a settlement too, probably going to end up in court.
@@minigpracing3068 so you want to take them to court for saving your life. god bless the USA
Soo, is the horn still working..?
So that's why he has the HMMWV. Makes sense, no airbag, can't loose against any other car.
back in the mid 1980s.. i stopped by a junkyard in sun valley ca. one of the buildings was rented to another group.. they were busy cutting the cloth from used airbags.. stuffing them with trash out of the can... paper drink cups.. smashed soda cans. plastic bottles and then gluing the soft shell closed with the multi color vinyl repair kits that used to be available. when i mentioned to the main yard manager what they were doing.. he answered .. they pay their rent.. i ask no questions. nobody i called later seemed to care or believe me.
I've heard stories online about people discovering garbage in place of the airbag. It's sad what some will stoop to to make some easy money
When I was working in mechanics, we had fun exploding these stuff covered with tires or others things, the tires flew everywhere in the workshop ...
This was awesome!
You should try to cut an AR-500 plate coated in chromium carbide. Chromium carbide is supposed to be super hard.
"We're gonna start on the backside and come into it this way" gave me the wrong ideas
That is from the Audi B5 chassis series 1994-2001 I believe.
you forgot to mention that the outer shell is precut to allow the ballon(airbag) thru it from the middle and not just a random weak spot on the shell
You should do this again, but leave the airbag and wheel attached to the charge to see how it comes out
I'll bet the trouble with the charge in the beginning was it clearing out all the dust in the explosive charge
The mess stopes the flames getting to the airbag
I love your channel & enjoy watching immensely, but, the waste of potable water kills me every time.
Is there any way grey water could be used? Tanked rainwater for example? 😶
Nice Video! Thanks guys!
lols "Yeah not even your friend's house on this one".
5:32 so you are saying that I will die if I am grounded from my raycons
Even the water jet was scared of that thing going off
Raycons are great for: Working on the lawn, working from home, and sometimes just drowning the kids.
Wire mesh is probably a spark arrestor.
I would get this video in my recommended after my airbag went off without hitting anything and gave me a concussion and a broken hand
Get an attorney ASAP. If that actually happened to you and you aren’t lying you need an attorney immediately as that would be the fault of the car company or airbag manufacturer. You could get all your medical expenses covered and possible a pretty big check for pain and suffering
Jacob Shepherd I doubt I’ll get anything the trucks and 97 and it’s pretty beat up to begin with
"Don't try this at home"
Pretty sure none of us have a commercial grade pressure washer capable of 60000 PSI.
Some of us do own a Wazer, it’s a scaled down desktop sized water jet.
@@ControlledWrinkles 3 months later... you're the only other one. Besides a handful of others. You get the point. Not everything has to be taken literally.