Blowing up Brakes in the name of Science

Dec 16, 2016 6:51 PM

Thund3rbolt

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Brake testing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPf4qwtr8Fs

Left foot on the brake right on the gas! Best way to drive

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This is what the brake industry is hiding from us! These are in all of our cars! Think of your children. Wake up!

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Interesting circumcision machine

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Put your peepee in it

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When someone tries to put the brakes on your new mixtape

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Well that particular brake obviously doesn't work. I mean the rotor just keeps on spinning

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The thumbnail looks like something else, not sure what, but not that.

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I was rotating through the pics when I saw this beauty and applied the brakes

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Awesome.. looks even better when it' 'slowed down'

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Redneck angle grinder

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Takes forever but worth it.

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Brake explosion or supernova?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

There's a certain beauty in destruction.

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The wheels on the bus went round and round. Round and round. Kablam. You dead.

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Comparable to how my year ended!

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

2016 encapsulated in a gif

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

My brakes just started making a noise - Every Single Customer

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"My car's been making a clicking noise" - customer whose car has vented disc brakes.

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"It wasn't like that till you worked on my car," - person trying to get work done for free

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Brake til the brakes break

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You can see the part of the rotor that is going to fail.

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

It is colder, and I may not be right but I believe that's why it's darker.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Purely speculation, but I think the reason for the structural weakness and the evident lack of heat transfer are one and the same.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It might be the temper of the metal, but I'm no ornithologist.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I rewatched after reading this and yeah, you can see the fault line where its darkest and that's where it first lets go, pretty neat

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Oh the smell.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

HPC as it's best

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

should be good for another mile or two

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Whoever said you really needed all four to stop a car?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just enough to get you home and to a mechanic in the morning.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Broke brake mounting.

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Oh you're clever

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Rotor?

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Broke back mountain

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Lols!

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Ah wish ah could drift you...

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You can tell that it's a brake rotor because of how it is.

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You can tell that it's an aspen tree because of the way that it is

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Username relevance!

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God bless Lenny Pepperbottom

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hoping to see some bears, cougars and even a biting goat.

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I haven't seen destruction of this kind of caliper in a long time.

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M'AIQ IS ALWAYS IN SEARCH OF CALIPERS, YET FINDS NONE. WHERE COULD THEY HAVE GONE?

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YOU SIR GET +1

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It's so chaotic yet so simple in its beauty.

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I felt a great disturbance in the brake pedal, as if millions of brake pads suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. .

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I fear something terrible has happened

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... a long time... http://imgur.com/hsAe8Xa

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Those brakes, so hot right now.

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In the world of pun Olympics you just brought home the gold! Congrats!

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

This sounds like a car part joke but I know jack about cars

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Dammit dad..

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Oh stop

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I will always upvote a quality pun

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nice one!

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How do these fucking people think that quick honest +1

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Someone's destroying vernier calipers? WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT

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Well if you'd like a more advanced caliper:

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You can leave out the "kind of" in your statement.

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Better pump the brakes on you puns, kid!

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FINS!

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Did anyone watch the video- "the go pro is on fire" ... "HOLY FUCKING SHIT"

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Vat Da Fuuk?

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Ohhh gimme a brake... no seriously.. I need one after that hot mess..

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I am beginning to tire of these puns, you guys should tread lightly

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You guys need to stop trying to pad your point count with this crap.

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I love this whole line of comments so much I'm going to have to be turned down after reading all of that

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I'd rotor not

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Someone needs to stop this madness.

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