Requested Lego Experiments 1

Random Lego experiments requested by viewers. Enjoy!

00:00 The speed of 1:GOOGOL
00:14 Open lid while a wheel spins in vacuum
00:28 Oscillating tire 32247c01
00:48 Clutch torque measurement 60c01
01:21 Gear down and back up to 1:1 ratio

Voice-over by Michael / IBM Watson text-to-speech software

The same video without voice-over:

[smnoy]

If this channel has taught me anything, it’s that clockmakers are essentially wizards

[jblen]

This is quite possibly the only channel where they introduced voiceover and everyone preferred no talking at all. Truly a special channel.

[Aexorzist]

Great content, but I preferred no voice over the robot one.

[maxartemas]

The 1:1 ratio experiment was super interesting. It shows the storage of energy in a mechanical form and the tolerance of the mechanism. You could equate it to reaching the top of a hill. You build a tension of energy climbing up a hill, and that energy is rapidly released by means of gravity going down the other side.

[thoi]

I would be curious to see experiments on loss of torque transmitted through a universal joint (the LEGO piece and possibly some MOC U-Joints) at different angles.

[alden]

The delay in the last experiment was fascinating! It's like a capacitor for torque!

[racer]

I had that idea for the 1:GOOGOL but then I remembered about the insane amounts of torque required to do that.
General rule of thumb is that as the gear reduction increases, so too does the torque, this is why vehicles like farm tractors can inch forward at idle if you release the clutch at lower gears.

[Supercecco]

I am a steam turbine engineer. In the low pressure steam turbine section sometimes there is vacuum. This technique here at 0:15 is called "vacuum breaking" and it is used in many turbines in case of failure in order drastically drop the turbine speed in an instant

[KOrgan]

I’d really rather not have the text-to-speech in future videos. I hate it on tiktok and I really don’t like it here. Just my 2 cents. Great video!

[midwestmind]

The Oscillating Tire is well known in the belt industry. Basically the raised center of the wheel makes more contact, so when the tire steers off to one side the friction pulls it back to center.

[vojaman]

excellent video as always, I just personally prefer the videos without any voice over, same charisma as in the original lego games!

[TheAdvertisement]

0:30 The oscillating tire is adorable.

[approximatelykangaroos]

1:22 That's so cool! It's almost like a physical capacitor or something. Probably a bad comparison, but y'all can probably see my point.

[wojtekpolska]

A lot of requested stuff would actually work, if not for the tension, twisting of plastic, and friction.
if you found a material that is infinitely strong and smooth, and made the gears and axle out of it, i'd work (but obv. that doesnt exist)

[PrdndPhnx]

still waiting on the wall climber that uses a grappling hook, that would be awesome!

[ShreddinSleds]

At 1:50 how awesome was that delay from backlash. Reminds me of a train engineer I met and he was telling me about mile long trains he’s pulled and how careful you had to be when speeding up and slowing down because of slack. You could potentially snap a coupler or worse

[tek]

This is seriously one of the best YouTube channels out there.

[givemeanameman]

I have seen snapped pins that seemed to shatter and I always thought, why didn't they make them out of a more ductile steel/temper.
This video actually showed how any elastic slack in the drive/cogs actually destroys efficiency and why harder less elastic metal is better.

[mazack]

The TTS is a little not good but I will always love this channel no matter what.

[originalmplays]

Even with all the power in the universe, you still would not be able to spin the first gear because this means that you would need the first gear to exceed the speed of light, which isn’t possible.