Can Lego BREAK a Steel Axle?

Let's see how Lego-compatible stainless steel axle deforms or breaks when high torque is applied.
The test bench is made using only plastic Lego parts. Enjoy!

The axle was bought from Brick Machine Shop on BrickLink (obsolete)
it was later sold by cncgear on EBay (obsolete)

Music:
Winter Embrace by Silent Partner
YouTube Audio Library

[BigUm]

Me: Steps on LEGO in the middle of the night.

*zooms in on foot*
"Slight permanent deformation"

[kaplield]

The sarcastic zoom in to that incredibly close distance THEN the arrow to indicate where it was broken. So sassy I love it.

[MichelAngel]

Oh yeah, calculating torque, I remember doing that when I was a kid playing with lego

[Icedcoldslushiee]

2:54 i love how the machine just dances with the music

[DackxJaniels]

4:40 "Hmm... Let me engage my electron microscope. Yes. It's broken."

[byounger]

When you have a mechanical engineering degree but miss being a kid

[robertbarrientos]

“We couldn’t have built the pyramids, it was aliens”
*Guy bends steel with legos*
“Maybe we could have built the pyramids”

[tUbocU]

Ah, now that's the machine that makes drills. I always wondered how they shaped them.

[flavioherrera]

4:40 i like the part were he zooms in like 10x just to prove it’s in fact broken.

Zooms in at an atomic level
"broken"

[Hi-xrdt]

Can lego break my neighbors annoying kids?

*zooms in on kid*
“Slight permanent deformation”

[beaniebro]

that zoom in on the axle with the "broken" is prefect

[Random]

"Serious permanent deformation"

Looks like a drill bit to me.

[gman]

Zooming up so close to the steel piece and having the “broken” arrow pop up gave me a good chuckle.

[AnakinFury]

Next video:
“Piercing Captain America’s shield with Duplo block drill.”

[Albert_EGGsker]

4:46 the little arrow telling you it’s broken 😂

[BreezyUnite]

Me that stepped on a lego and felt inexplicable pain:

"It all makes sense now"

[platelet]

The 2 lego holding the steel in place is the real champ

[buildsean]

I just realized that LEGO is pretty OP

[drextube]

To be honest, I was surprised by the end result! It’s real impressive that LEGO isn’t only versatile in dioramas.