1-18-2024 & 1-30-2024 LIVE Videos Discussion: Giant Hammer Impact Testing the Fireball Hardtail Vise to Failure

Two hours later 120 hits!! Wow

he did that long ago in his destruction video. used a 30 ton hydraulic jack to finally pop it and only the long bolt broke or maybe the tube the bolt threads into i don’t remember which.

I feel like I called it.

I also feel confident I won’t be hammering on my vise with a 100lb sledge, so I remain comfortable that it will outlive me, and possibly my son.

Very impressive.

Hmmm It looks kind of like a Charpy Impact Test (Google that). In the primitive Charpy tester a sledge hammer-like pendulum swings against a test coupon. The measurements of the before and after heights of the pendulum reveal the energy expended in breaking the coupon… But the hammer has to go through, it cant bounce.
I wish there were measurements of the initial height of the hammer and the rebound height… It didn’t look like much energy was absorbed by the vise.