I Made the World's Most Powerful Hammer!

how you going i'm still in lockdown and i'm bored really bored so bored i've been finding ways to make mundane activities more of a challenge and dangerous but so far haven't found anything exciting enough but then i saw the experts mexicans so today i'm gonna make my version of their hammer [Music] and even though i'm thoroughly sick of lockdown and being unable to do stuff luckily today's sponsor nordvpn allows me to travel the world wherever i want here are some photos of me on my recent trip to paris and here's me in new york key i've been a nord customer for years and love the fact that it's easy to use with a single click allowing me to access over 5200 servers in 60 countries that gives me the fastest speed of any vpn out there it also protects all my internet data behind its ultra secure wall of next generation encryption which is great when i'm being dodgy let's say i'm sick of being in sydney where the covert cases are too high i just change my location and now i'm in 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block of metal in two pieces with a swivel point here then you put the nail inside with a charge behind it and when i hit the nail here it moves back and hopefully sets off the charge firing the nail out the end and some of you might recognize some similarities between this and stuff made his baseball bat but look if he's allowed to copy my steel toad croc video and make it much better then i'm allowed to copy his video and make it much worse and that's my idea but i don't actually think i have the skills to make this since this is my first time using a lathe and so far i've only made this so hopefully making the hammer is similar and unlike this which is made from round bar and fits in the three jaw chuck i'm using square bar for the hammer which doesn't fit so either i add another jaw on the side or use this for jaw chuck and this sounds like an easy solution but when you put material in a four jaw chuck like this it needs to be centered using one of these and i hate being precise i always avoid it but now thanks to this tool i have the ability to tell how unprecise i am accurate to 100th of a millimeter this is dumb i feel like nothing i do makes any sense i hit this side and now this side has moved in and then i turn this thing and now the whole thing is the wrong way but after mucking around with it for ages i seem to have gotten the piece roughly in the middle so i brought in the tool to do a cut across the face and lathing is a lot of fun and really makes you feel like a man with a big manly tool mainly because it allows me to finally grow facial hair [Music] and that facing cut feels pretty smooth and after comparing it to my face it's much more flat okay now i'm going to drill a hole in the center of the block and this is the scary part as if it's not centered all the machinists watching will make fun of me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [ __ ] and this sucks if i can't get the drill bit out i'm gonna have to start all over i tried yanking it out by turning the lathe on while holding the other part still and even tried putting it in the freezer with diced mangoes which always helps me relax and shrink in size but nothing worked but then i had a genius idea i grinded some flats on the side of the drill bit and used this wrench to attempt to turn it out yeah which worked but i still need to make the hole a little larger and i've decided from now on i should definitely use a safer approach and use a domi and some lubricant and i'm pretty sure the lathe isn't meant to be making this noise so i just put on some ear protection to fix the noise and that looks pretty good and the blank also fits that's pretty perfect okay the hole is done and seems to be in the center so i just cut the tip off using the world's most unpleasant tool and then decided i had had enough of staring at these blanks and wanted to see what actually happens if i just hit one with a hammer three two one yes and now without ear protection for some reason three two one and i i don't know why i did that my ears are literally still ringing while recording this but i still decided i want to see what happens if i hit it again but this time with a nail on top so i put the nail in then place the blank underneath and it's very important i do this in that order so i don't accidentally set off the blank and die then i hit it as hard as i could two one and nothing and again this time i placed a sharper point behind the blank and still nothing and then i tried placing the blank on flat metal and also clamping the device so it doesn't fall onto the ground and then point towards me three two one god what's the [Music] holy sh [Music] where did oh that is terrifying ah i cannot believe that these say they are weak i am so glad i didn't buy the strong ones let's check upstairs and see if they did any damage and that works a little too well which might be my fault as i spent an hour like a sweatshop worker machining like a hundred nails down until i had an airtight fit in the hole of the hammer and i'm really starting to think i should make myself like a kevlar apron or something to protect my innards if for some reason anyone watching has some kevlar they don't want that they want to send me hit me up okay moving on with the build i need to make a hinge between the two pieces so i decided to just use the store-bought hinge which will attach to the bottom of some flat bar like this and now it's time for something else i've never done which is use this tap and die set to create threads in metal but first i thought i better read the instructions very very carefully to make sure i don't die [Music] then once it was kind of together i realized a potential problem with my design which was that the round could go off when i close the hinge which it didn't so i set it off with a stick once again oh my god it's too powerful so went straight through [Music] and let's go check upstairs again what and that works great but i still decided to swap the hinge out for a more beefy one which i took from the door of this cabinet and i like this thing it's like i'm holding a badly rented pistol now i need to decide on the locks that hold the pieces together and at first i was going to go with this kind of artistic wanky lock but i don't actually think it would hold together with the extreme forces on the hammer so i went with this sturdier one then once i tap and not dyed the rest of the holes i've essentially got the finished thing except it looks really ugly and after looking online at other kinds of hammers other stuff i found this by adam savage which i'm going to take slight inspiration from [Music] and after all that grinding i was curious as to how much metal i had actually lost so i measured it and strangely i gained around a centimeter then i cleaned up the other pieces using my sick tech deck skills from my childhood and so far this has actually been pretty easy but now comes the hard bit where i grind in the more delicate details and risk stuffing up this whole piece which i'm terrified about so i rolled a die to see which piece would be sacrificed first now i'm going to try and create an angled section on the side and i can do this in two different ways the first by locking the grinding face at an angle or i can do my favorite method which is to lock myself at a 45 degree angle so i'm consistent with my grind and after combining the two i created this so then i just did the same thing on the front to create these cute little triangles which despite my fears actually looked pretty good so then i attempted the scariest part which is a rounded groove cut into metal which blacksmiths and whitesmiths like to call fullers so i tilted the belt at this sharp angle and started and while doing this i actually found the best angle for grinding was when i placed my head right here which allowed me to see right along the face but it also means the metal dust gets a good view of my face as well and after all this grinding i was starting to create a bit of mess on the floor with all these iron filings but luckily i had a mate who told me a tip which was to place a bucket of water directly underneath the grinder which is actually great as it keeps me nice and cool while doing this hot work okay the fullers look pretty good although it is starting to look more like the g word which i'm too scared to say on youtube and this definitely isn't a g it's a hammer not illegal and it's just a homemade slightly a dodgy version of something i can buy from stores so then i switched to this belt which i found in the bin of a waxing salon and the tiny hairs stuck to this belt give the metal a really nice finish i got that smooth and look at that i'm proud it actually all looks good except these little overhanging lips so i gave it a labiaplasty now you're probably wondering how i'm going to stick a handle on this thing and so am i i definitely should have planned how i was going to do that from the start because now i'm just going to have to go with the easiest worst option which is most likely going to ruin all of this work and i'm going to attempt to weld a piece of pipe here and then just shove the handle in like this and after a quick test cutting another piece of pipe and welding that onto another piece of metal and then hitting that as hard as i can against an anvil [Music] i think it might hold so i just got a piece real hot squished it in the vice and then closed my eyes and hoped for the best [Music] and i really hope this doesn't stuff up this has been my longest project so far and took me a crazy 13 minutes and 59 seconds to get here and i had to sit through a nord sponsor and two unskippable adds so this better work and after filling the piece up with about an inch of lava the weld actually looks alright and the piece hasn't deformed so then i cleaned off the black stuff until it was shiny again and then did some research trying to decide on the finish for this metal and what i do like is stone washing where you etch the metal in acid then people on the internet will get that metal and put it in a rock tumbler to get this nice looking surface which protects the metal from rust and looks rustic and i don't have a tumbler so i figured out another easy way to make your own all you do is you get your metal put it in your pocket with some stones from the garden and then put it in the washing machine for about an hour which gives you this and i decided i don't actually like this very much so i'm sticking with the shiny finish but i'm also going to copy what every [ __ ] that moves to australia does and cover pointless parts of it in gold in an attempt to make myself look more serious then i grabbed some oil and rubbed it all over the wood before using some quick set epoxy and a bolt to lock the handle in place now the instructions of the epoxy don't say you have to panic but i find i get better results if i use the wrong size bolt [Music] which i then have to cut down and then burn myself on [Music] i then like to freak out that i'm not going to get the handle in place before the epoxy sets ruining my whole project meaning i'm not going to be able to upload a video in time and i'm going to become irrelevant and not be able to upload on youtube ever and it worked then i took it back to the beautiful hairy belt to smooth it out and i do like these hairy belts a lot but just like the thai place down the road i find i get much better results when finishing by hand [Music] and it's done [Music] so i decided to do one last vice test just to make sure it all still works [Music] nice i don't know why i didn't place a piece of wood there or something let's go upstairs what oh um [Music] [Applause] and i'm very very happy with that this thing is powerful and beautiful definitely the coolest thing i've ever made but i just realized that the vice was definitely adding heaps of support on the side and on the bottom of the hammer so before i swing it by hand i decided to put it on this rig which perfectly recreates how my arm works which didn't work and again then i figured out what was happening my hammer was working in the vice but not for the reasons i intended i thought the nail was moving back and pushing the blank setting it off but that wasn't actually happening because i was scared and crouching down to make sure i didn't die i was actually hitting the top of the hammer not the nail which meant i was squishing these two pieces of metal together setting off the blank so i switched to a shorter nail so that the end of the hammer would actually hit the table and [Music] yes yes whoa all right let's hammer some stuff that you shouldn't be able to like uh this frypan [Music] and it smashed through that easily [Music] but it is pretty thin metal so let's move on to some thicker metal like this um a barbecue plate which is a centimeter and a half [Music] three thick one far out that was allowed on okay it's stuck whoa that is punched a clean hole you can see the punch marks but the way that it kind of blew it out at the back that is insane and after that success i think i'm going to take it off the rig and have a go at hitting it myself and i'm honestly so surprised this thing hasn't blown apart yet and even my dodgy weld seems to somehow be holding up so i stacked up some stuff in front of me and decided to hit um this book oh oh my god i'm terrified of this thing away from me three three two one [Applause] [Music] that was actually fine to hold that go all the way through the table went through the book through the table through this surfboard i have here and is sticking out that is insane i'm gonna stop playing with this thing thank you so much for watching if you like that please subscribe and check out some of my other stuff [Music]

Channel: I did a thing

Views: 482,732

Rating: 4.9633989 out of 5

Keywords: science, i did a thing, making, diy, stuff made here, michael reeves

Id: Lti_zl3MnT4

Length: 21min 6sec (1266 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 03 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/SoulEntropy]

Holy shit, and I thought the motor powered giant beyblade video was getting dangerous

[u/madeamashup]

I totally get that this is meant to be humourous and the danger is part of the appeal, but did he really have to stand barefoot on top of a running lathe? That shit is just incredibly stupid.

[u/Squirrelly_Dan_dling]

This just makes me want to watch Stuff Made Here

[u/scipiahistory]

The escalating arms race between YouTube engineering channels over who can make the most explosive tool seems to be getting out of control. First it was the baseball bats, now this. Of course, who else could pull it off besides I Did A Thing?

[u/GodEmperorOfHell]

I could not watch the video because of his constant goofing around dangerous tools. Gives me extreme anxiety although I know he will not get hurt.

[u/Fraktalt]

Editing and acting is way over the top for me

[u/SanchitoBandito]

This guy finds himself way too funny.

[u/kainhighwind12]

Skip to the end

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Loved the tower of Pisa lean at other landmarks haha