How to Own a Mech - EPIC HOW TO

Hey guys. This episode is brought to you by Square Space. Build a professional looking website regardless of your skill level. Question: Whats cooler than robots? Answer: Nothing EXCEPT GIANT F****ING ROBOTS! YEA! We're talking MECHS. That's right kids Anime is real and you can have a big ass robot of your very own. Get ready. This is EPIC HOW TO. Mechs are large human operated robots that are usually either by people or humanoid in shape. First appearing in the eighteen eighty Jules Verne novel "The Steam House" they became popular in japanese manga and anime starting in the mid fifties. Nowadays, Mechs are all over pop culture from StarWars to Metal Gear Solid to Pacific Rim. But Mechs aren't just in tv comics and movies Did you know that the US military actually built a mech in the early sixties? Codenamed "BEETLE", this eleven foot tall seventy-seven tonne mech was originally designed to repair aircraft engines. The military wanted something that could withstand radiation so the "BEETLE" was designed to be nuclear proof with an inch and a half thick steel armor and and twelve inch thick Lead plating. The "BEETLE" was painfully slow with the top speed of just eight miles per hour but it had eighty five thousand pounds of pull in its arms, capable of punching through a solid brick wall. HOLY S**T! And the "BEETLE" wasn't all brute force. In the nineteen sixty two demonstration it picked up a single egg without breaking it because it was beautiful...and delicate. However the "BEETLE" never saw use as it was deemed too unreliable for military purposes. Mech experiments didn't stop there though. In nineteen sixty six GE invented The Camp the cybernetic anthropomorphic machine. Also known as "The Walking truck" the three tonne cam was designed to move weapons and cargo to rough terrain during war time. Created entirely through the use of hydraulics the cam had twelve foot long legs and a top speed of thirty five miles an hour Despite being far more reliable than the "BEETLE" pilots found controlling the camp intuitive and weird and the project was abandoned. Japan refused to let the Mech dream die and in two thousand and four created the T-52 anryu The T-52 ANRYU also known by the enemy ripping name "Hyper Rescue Robot" weighs five tonnes and stood ten feet tall. Designed to clear path through the wreckage and debris after natural disasters the T-52 has enough power to lift a car trapped in snow bank and rip the door off of a truck TOTALLY SCARED THE HOLY HELL OUT OF THOSE PEOPLE INSIDE THAT HE'S SAVING. But unless you're a time traveler or Japanese rescue worker you dont have a chance of taking a Mech out for a spin OR DO YOU? Enter the Mark II created by the US company "Megabox" the Mark II was designed to fulfil your fantasies of piloting a giant fight robot. Weighing in at over six tonnes and standing over fifteen feet tall, the Mark II moves around using a combination of hydraulics and tank treads. It even has a big ass paintball gun that can fire rounds at speeds of a hundred miles per hour. And from Japan there's the "Puritous" developed by side obayashi heavy industries that Caritas is a 13 foot tall four-ton behemoth that drives around on four wheels and its control interface is an iphone app cute it has a BB Gatling gun that can shoot 6,000 rounds per minute and a launcher that shoots water bottles because it goes to like impoverished countries that don't have water instead of building a well it just frightens the hell out of them but then like quenches their thirst it even has an iron claw that you can operate using a device that looks like the old Nintendo Power glove now you're playing with power. Nope? Ok. So if you happen to have like 1.35 million dollars lying around you can order one off their website go crazy are you torn between the two mechs well last year megabots challenge - dashi heavy industries to a one-on-one neck war and the two were scheduled to battle it out sometime in the near future stay tuned it'll probably be on the internet it's where everything is but why limit yourself to someone else's mech when you can build your own probably because you're lazy but I'll tell you this information anyway in 2004 US Army mechanic Carlos Owens built a mech in his backyard in Wasilla Alaska to build the 18-foot tall one ton Mech Owens first started by building a smaller model out of wood then Owens created a steel frame though eventually switch to aluminum to make his Mech lighter and give it greater mobility 27 hydraulic cylinders are used to control the Mech's movement an 18 horsepower engine powers the whole damn thing all in all it took Owens over four years and twenty-five thousand dollars of his own money to make his Mech and he's looking to raise even more to further develop and create new Mechs see he's got goals kids makes some but before you start building your own Mech you need a basic understanding of hydraulics without hydraulics your Mech is nothing more than a big metal paper weight your Mech is going to be both hydraulic cylinders and hydraulic pump the pump works as a generator bringing the hydraulic oil into the cylinder the cylinder utilizes the pressure of the fluid and converts that into force inside the hydraulic cylinder are a rod and a piston the piston is a circular disc that connects to the rot when the hydraulic oil enters the cylinder it pushes on the piston which then moves the rod get it good with this forest hydraulic cylinders can be used in heavy machinery like crains snow plows and of course giant kick-ass fighting anime robots yeah add those to that steel frame and you're well on your way to fight and kaiju probably lose he's got like mythical powers and shit Hey look at you you're all cool your new Mech it's awesome well bow before your complete total badassery maybe I maybe can let me drive it no don't okay well it's probably the right decision I'm Joe Bereta this has been EPIC HOW TO hey and thank you to squarespace for sponsoring the episode for more information click the link in the description and also click those annotations because they're going to take you to a world of wonderful craft

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Keywords: mech, how to build a mech, how to own a mech, hulk buster, anime, giant robots, the steam house, manga, star wars, pacific rim, codename beetle, human operated robots, human operated robot, hyper rescue robot, t52, mark 2, fight robot, how to own a robot, where to get a mech, aweme, awemechannel, aw me, meck, hydrolics, epic how to, epichowto, joe bereta, 3016682

Id: LSJn5SNY0MU

Length: 6min 6sec (366 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 28 2016