Pogo Stick Stilt Crutches Build! - This could end BADLY -Part 2

you know when he's sitting there with your foot in a cast and you get that feeling that you should immediately build a set of pogo crutches with lights and drink holders well that's the feeling i had and that's what we're now doing so in my last video we got a bit of a plan together broke some stuff and started welding things since starting this project though i found that my foot is well on its way to recovery allowing me to start load bearing with it and most importantly allowing me to do whatever this is but what better way to undo that progress than to finish building the world's first pogo crutches a new day okay i think our next step is to get these bolts in here i'm gonna name you number one one back all right big moment does that line up and will a bolt go through it find out now [Music] stay stay for the first time in human history a pogo stick has been united with the crutch all right now we can do this top bracket here how's that there we go get the get the welding beans out they're high in iron and low it's strength try them your face oh yeah that feels good just like a regular crutch they are mounted on now another idea i've had just before i paint them is to salvage a couple of the foot pegs from the pogo sticks and then we can weld one onto each of the crutches then you hold on here you put your foot on there and you still pogo your way to recovery so i shortened the length of the pegs so they wouldn't whack my shins when i'm in crutch mode and then i got them all welded up then this is just a nice close-up to show you that not all of my worlds are she once that was done the framework is pretty much complete so i got it nicely painted up and left it to dry ah silver paint you always turn out crappy so to do the elbow bits which look a little bit like this i might use plastic heat it and bend it i was going to use pvc but it's too thin so i'm actually thinking about using this very plastic that i'm drawing on now acrylic and it will look kind of cool as well i measured up the existing crutches which seemed to be a good universal fit for most people then it was time to cut some acrylic sheet which is always a pain in the if you're using the wrong blade for the job because acrylic melts and refuses behind itself as you cut which is kind of like someone constantly clicking edit undo as you work but with a bit of force you can snap it after you're done sometimes i've then made the edges and corners nice and neat on the belt sander so it'll look nice and pretty when we clean it up oh yeah it's smooth then to allow the elbow brace to pivot i've drilled a hole in the middle we can now heat that and bend it into an arm shape welcome to craig's cooking show we've got the oven on we've got the acrylic in there we're going to bend that when it gets to temperature i think the temperature is about 150 degrees where it starts to get floppy and then i'm going to mold it around a bottle and then we'll have our arm shape mmm delicious fresh acrylic just like mama used to bake hot i think that's almost ready to eat it's then just a case of grabbing the acrylic with some welding gloves and carefully wrapping it around a bottle and holding it in place until it cools until you realise it's too small and repeat this process three or four times as for attaching these to our pogo crutches that was going to be a little tricky because i wanted them to be able to tilt up and down like normal crutches but also rotate all while keeping clear of the battery compartment i ended up messing around with a stack of different ideas then realised the simplest solution would be to butcher up some door hinges i chopped these into two equal pieces that looked less like dodgy door hinges and then used some bolts to give them some good tension so the arm brace wouldn't just be all floppy then to permanently attach them and get them clear of the battery cap i cut up some flat bar then smashy smash with the hammer into shape i also discovered the correct way to use grip lock pliers to hold your work in place remember it's not about the quality of your work it's about how fancy you are with the tools and then i finally welded them up it's then just a case of drilling some holes in the hinges and bolting it all up it worked out quite nicely offering a good range of movement the batteries we mounted in the end of the tube and i'll use these reticulation fittings i'm going to cut that and this end cap hopefully will screw on over the top press down on the batteries lighting i'm thinking about using a couple of these i've only got one here so i'm gonna have to pull the other one off the wall and replace it later and that is exactly what i did i cut the three in half so i would have one for each pogo crutch and i saved money they were too small to fit so i had to hone them out of bit and then i got some glue in there and they fit it over the end nicely so the batteries i'm going to use are the 18650s i need three in each one i honestly have no idea how i'm going to do this and the wires somehow i'm just going to get a bunch of stuff throw it at it and then we'll reflect on how that turned out here is what i did i chopped open a cheap ebay drill battery that never worked but it was full of cells that were all okay then to contain them i used a pvc tube it was too wide so i split it down the side so it would fit big small big small big small i used a bit of heat to relax the plastic so it would fit and then heated and flared one end a little so it wouldn't drop down into the pogo crutch abyss ah yeah [Applause] for the battery spring i salvage a battery spring from a thing that is used to do stuff and then glued it in with some epoxy liking it that's good and once again it looks like i'm making something really suspicious and then i've got the led strip mounted on the front clip clip i thought it would be cool to use some old high brightness leds to edge light the acrylic shoulder braces basically if you mount one or more leds in the side of acrylic and then either sand or polish different edges you can get the light to project from the edges where you want to see it the thing that's hard here is this is five millimeter acrylic and this is a five millimeter drill bit so there's a good chance this is going to go pear-shaped see [Applause] you yeah i probably should have used smaller leds but i already had these ones on hand so then i used a variety of drill bits and tips to get the hole roughly to size i then rounded out the holes the best i could with an engraver and then i polish them up with a cotton bud and some car polish there we go all polished up now get maximum light through there learning nothing from my mistakes i then drilled out the other elbow brace crap then it was just a case of bearing that sucker in superglue it was then time to do the final wiring so here's what happened i got the wires threaded through i fed them through the hand grip and got the switch wired up then in keeping it nice and neat at the top of the tube i ran the wires down the inside of the tube which kind of ruined the batteries being able to slide in easily but it still did the job so then i thought let's turn it on give it a go the lights had power which is great and then the switch started making a buzzing noise i thought cool a new feature but then the tube started to get warm so i yanked the hand grip off to see what was going on smoke started coming out of there so i popped the battery compartment open which also started smoking and then there was just fire and buzzing noises and all sorts of new features i hadn't planned on so it turns out that i pulled one of the wires a little bit too hard while feeding them through the tube over a sharp edge which i thought i had smoothed out but this cut through the insulation and caused a short circuit and melted the wires i feel like past craig may have considered this but not done enough about it we've just got to get rid of some of these burrs on the edge so when we pull our wires through it doesn't just strip them all away some sort of short circuit crutch fire nobody likes a crutchfire so i rewired it plus added in some fuses and ran the wire down the outside of the battery compartment for smoother battery action finally the wiring is done then you slip your batteries in they just drop in beautifully now so that means you can tip them out recharge them i'm really happy with how this end cap setup worked out so what you've got you've got a cap within a cap so this one contacts the top of the battery then this one comes over the top and the inside one stays still while the outside one can rotate and put pressure on it and clamp it down so that goes on like that we screw that down and then we've got a switch on the front and this should still hopefully be working it was working last night oh yeah i'm really happy with how the red leds turned out in the top it looks good it actually it actually looks really good i was just gonna use the arm thing off like normal crutches i'm so glad i did this instead happy with that the light strip is very bright it's actually too bright right in the end for the led i've just got there's a resistor on there and it there's nowhere for the parts to go so i've just encased it in some epoxy and that has uh gone quite nicely [Music] from here we've got some of the most important accessories to put on we've got a bottle opener probably put that on the right and then on this one we've got a drink holder that'll that'll go on the side here somewhere so you can drop a beer in there and crutch your way to further injury it was then finally time to get the springs inserted i got them greased up and then tried to work out a way to crush them back into the tube in the end i managed to use a sash clamp to compress them enough to get the bolt through we are almost done now ends in sight springs are in put the top cap on we can bolt these on put on the foot pedals and i think we're ready to crutch in my next video it is all about testing them out leave a comment with your prediction on what you think will happen will i break another foot will i call someone else to break their foot let's find out i'll see you very soon try them your face

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Length: 12min 12sec (732 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 18 2020