Huge Neodymium Magnet Cut in Half with a 60,000 PSI Waterjet - 400 Lbs

An awesome fan (Mike Kurzawa) sent us this Huge Neodymium N52 Magnet. Before we totally destroyed it, we had some fun with it. But remember kids, magnets are not toys even though they are fun to play with.

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An awesome fan sent us this great big magnet. Before we totally destroyed it, we had a little fun with it. We did a pull-up suspended by a magnet. We extracted iron from cereal. We tried to show the poles of the magnet with iron shavings. Then of course we tried to cut it with the waterjet. What do you think is going to happen? Magnet will explode? or all hold together?

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[thakillerofdeath]

3:45 or you just dont remeber what happens in the movie with the liquid metal forced in the guy's body

[clon]

What happened was that mystique the blue lady in the x man movie shot iron chunks up the bum of the security guard who then went to send food to Magneto's cell. Magneto then sensed the iron chunks in his body and knew it was planted there. This was clearly portrayed in the movie.

[nuchexotics]

Skinny guy:
“I’m fairly close to 400 lbs”

[TheRealPafnucy]

Imagine your HDD or SSD in mail sitting right next to this package.

[TheFinalRevelation]

You blockheads are lucky to have your fingers intact

[BaKagaming]

8:15 small part : i'm free!
8:16 small part : ah no...

[Bloodofmyshxdow]

"How did you explain that?" *Awkward look of absolute confusion* LMAO 4:09

[OwnedEpicStyle]

“It’s that guy you want! He’s trying to reverse your polarities!”

[thethoughtemporium]

If you slow the slow motion bit down further you can actually see the steel slow down right before it hits the magnet. This is because of the intense electric current that's generated in the falling metal which opposes the magnet and slows it's impact.

[ianh]

"Its going to nothing"
"No the two halves are going to repel each other explosively"
SATISFACTION

[AngusMurray]

Always fun to watch professionals handle neodymium magnets

[putmeinacoffin.]

Great job guys, now you've got shards and small pieces of a very strong magnet, all over the place!

[Mikey]

I’m glad I could get you that rare earth magnet. I saw you were cutting it in half and I had a feeling the poles would be reversed and it would fly part like they did but wasn’t 100% sure. Best $90 I’ve spent in a long time! Just glad you all didn’t get a pinched finger or two. I should have said they do chip easily too, my bad.

[TheWadetube]

Splitting a magnet along it's equator will only make two new magnets already alligned to stack north to south. However, splitting them from north to south pole will result in an explosive separation. To demonstrate this take two rod magnets about an inch tall but thin, like a quarter inch that are stacked north to south to make two inches tall, hold one and ROTATE the top one downwards, folding it onto the other and it will stick. However if you pull it off and try to stick it to the side of the bottom magnet without rotating it, keeping the poles oriented the same as they were when stacked, it will not stick but repell. Magnets aligned cannot stick on their sides. So if you could split a magnet like firewood down the grain of magnetic flux it would explode sideways. But cut it across the grain and it will do nothing.

[Planehazza]

The lick test involves a huge amount of trust when these packages are sent it from total strangers...

[pandadudeGmail]

Do an entire magnet fishing episode in your tank.

[michaelseredich]

"Well that was disappointing, but if you watch our videos you're probably already used to that." LOL

[kito]

The explosion depends on which side you are cutting. For the first cut it had 2/3 of a chance of flying apart (if choosing the cutting side and direction randomly, 8 options out of total 12 (6 sides and every side has 2 cutting directions)). If you would have cut it the direction what you described when forming a hypothesis then it would have just slammed the two pieces together because cutting side would have been one magnet's S pole and other magnets N pole and they would attract. Now when cutting the hole, it was sure that it wont fly apart, because you wanted to cut the new piece on the flat side and it previously did fly apart. It would have done something interesting if 1) the first cut would have been "boring" and then cut it when the new piece was flat down or 2) you had figured out the N-S direction on the piece and had aligned it with the nozzle pointing direction. Side note: you actually kinda already figured that out with that metallic mud which stuck mainly on 2 sides (they where the N and S sides because the magnetic field is usually the strongest on the poles of bulk magnet, also the shape of that metallic mud gives it away). Also if you want to know why in some cases it flies apart and in some cases not then you just need to know that sides with the same polarity repel and sides with different polarity attract (also maybe paper and pencil to draw different possibilities of cutting). Hope my text gave some explanation and new knowledge :)

[swapnil]

4:10
How do you explain poles of a magnet?
Guy in grey : i like turtles

[docfullthrottle]

Y'all should grow mullets and say "hell yeah brother" alot