Can Hydraulic Press Crush GIANT Sapphire? Almost Hard as Diamond!
2023 ж. 17 Қар.
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Thanks for Kron Technologies for letting us test the new Chronos 4K12 high speed camera! Link to their website for more information www.krontech.ca/?Y...
Thanks also to Turtle's Hoard for sending the Sapphire Crystals for hydraulic press test! www.turtleshoard.com/
How Strong Is GIANT Saphire Crystal? Hydraulic Press Test! We are going to use our 150 ton hydraulic press and 240 ton force sensor / load cell to test out how strong are sapphire crystals!
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Thanks for Kron Technologies for letting us test the new Chronos 4K12 high speed camera! Link to their website for more information www.krontech.ca/?Y... Thanks also to Turtle's Hoard for sending the Sapphire Crystals for hydraulic press test! www.turtleshoard.com/
What happened to Annie
@@shaneomatic7919 7 years of KZhead was enough for Anni and she wanted to do other things with her life
Oh how sad well I love the channel and your videos just noticed I haven't seen Anni in a while but still great content
Hardness and scratchability are 2 very different things. A hard object can be brittle and easy to shatter but hard to scratch.
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It would be very interesting to see these transparent objects lit with polarized light so the stress points would show on camera.
You are donating it???? Make it happen!
This would make the perfect colab with the Slo Mo Guys
@@ububox2087 I've been hoping for years that these two channels would collab on something, it would be glorious.
Would linear polarization film in front of the lights be enough? Or could you simply use linear polarizer filter for the camera only?
That was my theory on why the first one exploded and the second one just kind of broke apart. There was probably a lot more internal stress in the first one they crushed that just exploded. I just watched another video a channel called Gemstones sponsored by the same place. They said some of their sapphire crystals get rejected because of too much internal stress.
Thank you so much for crushing our sapphires!! I can't wait for part 2! It is kind of surreal after watching for so many years.
How much were the sapphires worth?
@@dontkillmejay8570 Yes
Thank you for providing really cool test subject. Gonna check your site for sure.
What process did you use to make them?
@@anon_y_mousse we didn't make them ourselves--we source crystals grown for science and industry that are either offcuts or didn't quite meet spec. These we got in a factory closing auction. They were grown by the Kyropolis method except for the big flat one which used a unique HDSM variant
I'd like to see you incorporate polarized lighting into your endeavours. I think when doing crystalline samples, you might be able to see the stress lines forming. Now with the 4K camera it could lead to some very interesting shots.
I think the smaller crystal might have fared better if the ends were cut square. They seemed to be slightly angled so the press put all of its pressure on only a small part which caused premature failure. At 5:14 you can see the press is not making full contact and the section that it touches first breaks right off.
The harder the material is being tested, the better the contact surfaces must be prepared, smoothed out, to prevent shards and debris from shattering test material causing a low tonnage result.Love the show!
Yes. Concrete cylinders are either capped with sulphur or neoprene cushions are used to distribute loads and mitigate stress raisers
Exactly what I wanted to comment. Any left over debris makes a point load that could ruin the test with early failures
It's astonishing how you can make content about crushing and destroying things with hundreds of thousands of pounds of force, and yet somehow every video is extremely wholesome and makes my heart feel happy
A new hydraulic press for Christmas! With the 4K high speed the crushes will be awesome! If you polish the ends of the sapphire and the anvils you will pick up a surprising amount of strength. Brittle materials like sapphire have high contact stresses due to uneven surfaces. This is why the cracks start at the anvils in the high speed. I'm guessing the resulting failure would be more spectacular (and scary).
Agreed. The faces need to be flat and the press needs to be flawless as well. Maybe get a abrasive stone like we use to make sure there are no burrs on a milling table before putting a new vice up there. Everything needs to be flat and clean!
At 5:12 you can see the crystal was not cut parallel. I bet it would be much stronger if you ground it flat and parallel or had a "soft jaw" to take up the difference. Must try again! 😎
For hard materials like this, makes me wonder if adding a lead or annealed copper sheet above and below would help even out the pressure so high points don't cause premature breaks.
As well as scraping/ wiping the surface clean of debris causing high points.
250-ton press is much more realistic goal than 1000-ton press plans from 2016. Can't wait to see it in action!
That new high speed camera is the bees knees(!). Truly next level image quality, and a terrific addition to the channel. And, we know it's only gonna get better and better with each software update, so I'm really(!) looking forwards to some absolutely brilliant footage.
Just the thing is that that costs like 16000 dollars US for the base model...
@@user-zp5xt8em6l Yeah, they're not cheap. But, high quality camera gear never is.
@@user-zp5xt8em6l Which is cheap compared to the alternatives.
@@user-zp5xt8em6l and it competes with (and in some ways even beats) a Phantom Flex4k that's roughly $130k.
4:41 New camera looks great!! Wow
What about putting some soft material at the ends of the material being crushed, like rubber or aluminium (or both), to distribute the force more evenly?
yeah, i think that would have been the best representation for the Sapphire too
What happens if you put a hydraulic press in another hydraulic press?
Pressception squishes everyting.
Divides by zero
You get all the tons!
Already been done :D
He had done it with hydraulic jacks.
Congrats on your new press! Love your work, can't wait for the new mayhem. Love from India!
The sparkles on that large saphire when it splintered is just amazingly pretty... love it! Might try different lighting effects while testing... anyway that was cool!
New press hype! 4k Chronos footage looks excellent.
Maybe you need to remove all the grit from the surfaces you're going to press, turn/lap them flat?
No way! A new bigger press sounds excellent! I can't wait!
I thank you for all the work you put in to make these videos
It would be nice if you can have a tin, lead, aluminium or any soft metal interface between the steel and the saphire, so force is spread as good as possible, and there is no single point of force issue to show how strong saphire is.
Consider adding a scale and calculating the explosion speed for us. Super pretty footage, thanks.
you need to do some schlieren photography to see if you can see the stresses building up in the crystal
That. Fire. Also the sheer force of the sapphire exploding is utterly dangerously amazing!!
Wow. That video is awesome. Looking forward to crushing big piece with new press
It's amazing we can grow sapphire crystals that big and flawless now.
Been doing it for decades, they are commonly used in glasses and camera lenses.
Big has gotten a lot easier, flawless still has some challenges. Hence why these samples because they probably failed QA due to flaws or stresses. Pretty cool the way industrial crystals can be grown now, and there are fun ones like garnets that can be very tough. There are also diamonds grown to make windows, but not large enough for your mansion or car, yet.
I really enjoy this channel. That sapphire withstood so much pressure!
wow, excited for the new press! hell yeah
3:34 thats why we all love coming back ♥♥
Omg! So excited for the new press :) will you still keep this one or has it had its day?
Love the high speed footage
I can't wait to get more stuff filmed with the new camera! Especially some out door stuff next summer with lot of sun light and dynamite :D
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I love how you can see cracks developing inside the material with that high speed ❤
Clean the underside of the piston so there's an even pressure. Can't wait for the bigger press! 😊
Your channel is so much fun!
Super Cool!! The new Chronos is just delicious!!
Very cool, the sapphire cylinder was surprisingly strong. Strong enough to defeat the famous hydraulic press!
That camera is really a game changer. Can't wait to see the new press!
Bigger press! Can't wait. Very entertaining vid as always.
That's so cool! I wish you could crush solid diamond 💎
actually there are companies that can grow diamond of that size It will be prohibitively expensive but it can be done
With all the lubetube money, he could just buy the hope diamond and crush it… lol.
Great video both .
Whenever I watch your content I just end up happy and smiling. What lovely people 🇬🇧👍
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I can't imagine the things you will do with a larger press. I look forward to seeing the unveiling!
New press!! Congrats
That was COOL! Nice Camera!
I like it when things blow up. Much respect.
I watched the Kronos intro and teardown just before this. Nice camera
Very cool! Thanks! ❤
gorgeous imagery :)
I would assume (not an expert just an assumption) that glass makes more dust because it's amorphous right? Sapphire forms a crystal structure, so even at the small scale the little pieces want to stay together instead of further shattering into dust, glass doesn't have a crystalline structure.
I am very excited for 'THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT'.
By leaving shards of the previously crushed sapphires on the piston, they damage the big block before the full force of the press reaches the piece. it starts to crumble early. I bet it would have lasted longer if the surfaces were cleaned and flat before each crushing.
Something I thought about when I was watching this was earthquake lights, which haven't really been studied much, but a lot of earthquake videos have them in the video and I used to see them all the time when I was a kid and there were many notable earthquakes around here. The thing is that I only saw them directly when I didn't feel an earthquake because I was under my bed during the earthquakes. I did see one of the blue flashes that they make around here while under my bed during the biggest earthquake I was in (7.3 Richter), but I used to see those flashes coming from the ground at the bottom of the mountain a lot in and around the time when we used to have about one truly noteworthy earthquake a year. Now I don't see them very often at all and we haven't had many earthquakes that anyone feels either. People have hypothesized that light is released due to high pressure being exerted on the rocks and, when you crushed the sapphire, I wondered whether there were any flashes of light coming directly from it right before it broke and while it was breaking. I guess you'd have to do this experiment in the dark in order to see it happen but I would find it interesting to see whether crushing sapphire or other rocks creates a flash because I've seen a few experiments where it did happen. With that nice new camera you have, you would definitely be able to capture it so long as the camera is able to handle the darkness before any light that the rock emits before and during being crushed. This certainly wouldn't be easy but it would definitely be interesting and might genuinely contribute to the science of why lights come directly out of the earth sometimes. There are still a lot of people who don't even believe this happens and no one at all believed me when I said I saw the light come directly out of the ground and now many other people have seen it around the world so I think it's worth investigating, especially since I saw many of these earthquake lights around the time that we had some fairly large earthquakes so I'm wondering if the rock produces this light before it ruptures, which would make the most sense to me since the pressure would be the highest before the fault breaks and lessen afterwards. If we could figure out if rocks do produce these lights when a major earthquake in imminent, that could be very helpful to those of us who live in the midst of many faults that are on land. We do have an earthquake early warning system now but it won't be able to warn people who are right by where the fault breaks (although it will help people who are a little bit further away, which is better than having no warning like when I was a kid). If rocks produce light when they are under high stress and about to break, that might help us figure out which part of the fault is experiencing the most stress and is therefore the most likely to break. Anyway, just a nerdy thought I had from having taken too many classes in college or perhaps never enough. Cheers!
That high speed camera is badass
Fantastic video.
Pretty cool for transparent aluminum!
I hope your new press also has a base that flexes. That makes the explosions so much better!
Seems the sapphire is extremely dangerous, and we need a stronger press to deal with it 😃
It’s called a conchoidal fracture. Like obsidian. Those shards are as sharp has a hot wet fart. Slices right thru your clothes.
A new camera AND a new hydraulic press? Talk about an early Christmas!
The flame is very beautiful.
Congratulations on the new, upcoming larger press a month from now.
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They already did: kzhead.info/sun/oMyMmMOEfHqso6c/bejne.html and kzhead.info/sun/Zc2xn92igpaZfqM/bejne.html
Looks like they sent you reject items with micro-fractures. How sharp were the fragments?
Nice Slo-Mo, cool video
White quartz flashes internally when they are knocked together. It's the same process that piezoelectric igniters use. (I think). Maybe you can crush some in the dark and see if it looks good. The new press sounds like it is going to be an absolute beast of a machine!!! 💚🐇🐴💚
what could be interesting is a to show the stress the glass is under. clear items can show stress with polarized lenses/
The GoPro Jump Height Indicator returns.
I think a got a great idea which I would love you to try out: When you make coffee some people who really make a science out of it have special tools to press the ground coffee with calibrated force into the holder to make espresso. I would like to see what coffee comes out if you make a beefed up bialetti-style mokka pot and press the coffee in with 100 tons and then see if you can press the hot water through it. Maybe you can make the whole mokka pot so strong that the pressure of the boiling water inside (reaching many bars like a steam engine) can press it and just act like a "Bialetti 5.000.000"
What will happen to to to original press? I hope you are still keeping it... its the most famous and loved press on the internet. Even the sound it makes is strangely therapeutic 😊
Can take playing cards with 4k and compare to old videos to show how different the Chronos versions look like. Not just current software loaded in old cameras. What happen to Chronos Ring? I know it went back after filming but though was more videos from clips shown yet seems never release the out door videos.
Think that was the 1st thing that out lived the press I seen anyway.
It sounds like HPC is a sponsor, kickstarter, investor, advertiser, or even friend of Kron Technologies. I'm curious which one, but they all sound pretty fun!
I have a feeling if a block of wood or something compressible like a rubber mat were to be placed between the metal and the sapphire the sapphire would not shear as quick. I believe the minute surface irregularities are causing it to compress unevenly and shatter prematurely.
A new press... Christmas has come early this year :)
Hey, if you need rock supplies like books of mica to crush, I can help with that.
The glass was like watching a glacier calve
With any crystal, directionality is super important. The crystals are oriented very specifically. It could take 20 tons to shatter with the orientation while just a few hundreds of pounds to shatter it against that orientation…just a thought. Also the other thing is the quality of the artificially lab made crystal. This appeared to be a somewhat high grade. The big cylinder must have been perfectly aligned.
You can numerically test different car jacks
So this is how that Diablo 2 cinematic of the destruction of the world stone was made.
Tip: you need to have another material above the sapphire. Like an aluminum sheet. You cannot have it directly against the hardened steel ram. I lift large buildings, mega ton jacks. Always a softer spacer between. Try it. You will get a better explosion too when it does go, because it'll take a lot more pressure.
Such a quick and efficient way to cut gemstones.
Are these flame fused sapphire or flux grown?
These were grown by the kyropolis method, except for the large flat one which was grown by a highly unique scaled up version of HDSM
I like the new high-speed, but the fractures are still to fast to see even with the high frame rate. How fast can you go?
Crush some steel reinforced concrete 😬
We have lot of different concrete samples already waiting
Even with the new camera, I still want to see a collab with the slomoguys!
Wow so sturdy
I could have used the window crystal 😢 I need a high pressure glass for a pressure vessel. Nice to know it's super strong 😂
Did the ceramic ball bearings ever crush?
Lauri… would love to see the watermelons with the eyes being put in with the crystals and glass!!
NICE! 👍🏻
MOAR POWER!!!!!
It's so surreal looking at the extortionate prices of sapphire jewelry then getting a quick glance at the rock-bottom prices of these massive chunks online. It really is amazing; I got a sapphire the size of a golf ball once for $2 at a magic shop. Turns out it's a fairly ordinary stone!
Do you think the cylinder of sapphire broke the way it did in stages because the cut wasn’t perfectly parallel with the opposing cut on the opposite side? Or is that just the nature of sapphire to come apart in waves
Answer to title before watching. YES!!
I’m surprised you got such large chunks too. I’ve seen sapphire that failed under vacuum a couple times, and everything looked like powdered sugar.
I had to go back and read the screen when he thanked Turtle's Hoard for the crystals.... cause I heard something a bit different.
I noticed the last one was bending before it exploded.
You could sharpen those long shards to make an awesome knife