@@Christian-Fig Same! I was an old soul, though. I was the kid wearing cartigans, slippers, knee high socks, and pajama pants. I always thought an old tobacco pipe was leet.
Lol i used to look forward to my yearly tonsillitis infection because my mom was ignorant to just take me to get antibiotics every year. I would stay home allday watching courage the cowardly dog and the original how it’s made with the dudes voice and my own tub of dryers organic strawberry froyo. Damn i could live a lifetime in those days.
@@MACMETALFACE Depending how old I was I'd watch Legends of Hidden Temple, Rugrats, Johnny Quest, Pirates of Dark Water, and yes Courage the Cowardly Dog. Good ol' days.
When you get into hydraulics, 94 tons is a start. I work in plastics injection molding, and our largest machine has an injection pressure of 950 tons, and in the injection world, that's about a mid grade machine
WineScrounger Not really. The measurement is abstracted. Once the machine is calibrated, force is a function of the effort of the motor driving it (rpm) or the hydraulic pressure (psi). These aren’t direct measurements.
Our biggest bending machine at work is 500 Tons. And in this universe that is actually pretty normal . Try watch some heavy duty roller machine. That is damn impressive as well.
I used to work as a radio technician operator back in the day. We used to put up those giant TV and cell phone communication towers and those Towers use these wires to tie themselves into the ground. This one time we had a new guy who didn't really know what he was doing and he put the bracket that holds the wires together on backwards. For those of you out there that know it, he saddled his horse improperly. So we just got done putting on the final level of this Tower and we heard a dreaded noise. Sounds like someone dragging their fingernail across the lowest chord of a piano. We all looked over to see the wire swing up in the air going at least a hundred miles an hour and then the whole Tower itself came down. It was a chain reaction, when that one wire flipped all of them started to break and fail. In the end everything was destroyed but those cables were moving at such high speeds when the tower fell that the cables themselves are embedded in the ground. Like there's at least seven to eight hundred feet of cable that we just left because it was so deep in the ground it would take an excavator just to be able to get it out. And the craziest part was There was a pasture right next door that about 10 or 15 wires flew into and completely destroyed, two days before hand the guy moved his cattle because he wanted to make sure they were safe just in case the tower fell. Crazy how things work sometimes. If those cows had been there, anything hit by those wires would have been cut in half.
@@akjohnny5997 well let's put it this way my old boss was a Marine Corps Sergeant who was also a drill instructor. I have never to this day heard a man scream for 2 hours straight.... And he ended up not even being fired for it he just never showed up again. And as far as I know that dude just straight-up moved town. I mean I think he should have given it a second shot because it was a really rushed job and he was brand new to the team so he should have been observed better. But in the end of shit rolls downhill am I right? After that we had a joke for the all the new guys. We would tell them if they ever want to hear the bus cream for 2 hours straight saddle their Horse backwards 😂😂😂 the confused/terrified look on their faces as they try to not freak out that they can get yelled at for 2 hours and the fact they have no idea what saddling a horse is, shits priceless
i find it interesting that they pre-form cables with rollers before twisting them together into the thickest wire. also amazing how all that machinery withstands loads from working on something as rigid as that cable.
I been on a couple jobs where I seen parts of this done. The machine shop I wired up compressed cable ends of the spools of wires to be used for suspension bridges. The cables were then sent to a nearby university with had the testing equipment to inspect the tensile strength of the cable ends prior to shipping. Basically, It was a warehouse with an an anchor embedded in four feet of concrete, and a lift to pull the cable up.
Thanks UA-cam recommendation for showing me how Industrial Wire Ropes are made~ I always wanted to know how they were made. Ill remember now that Lubrication is always critical!
Great ! During my time such technology was considered as classified. My grany used to tell me that the ice which the shops used to come from the Himalyayas. And we belived her LOL. Times have changed since then.
Ganesh Krishnamoorthy Judging by your name, Granny was probably correct. She could remember her Mom telling her that in India (assuming she was living there at that time in the late 1800's, before refrigeration became commonly available), ice was transported from the Himalayan glaciers (which were more abundant then, before Global Warming ruined such wonders of Nature), to the near towns and cities by elephant 😄. It was then rapidly transported by the famous Indian railway network to all the Clubs and Bars frequented by the British expatriates for their refreshment as they watched the cricket or polo.
There is a major difference between the two examples at 4:44. The smaller diameter rope has it's individual wires twisted so they lay in a longitudinal direction, where the larger diameter rope has it's wires twisted opposite so they lay diagonal. The smaller one is a much stronger design.
... because the smaller one's wires are aligned with the load, instead of being perpendicular to the load. At 2:40 they show the 6 strands being "closed" into a wire rope. Interesting when you look at the way the individual wires are wrapped, in a left-hand or right-hand spiral. Shows the outside layer of wires in the individual 6 strands are going from left to right, that is, clockwise, as the spiral travels away from you if you're sighting down the cable. Chances are, all of the wires in any given strand are going to be wound layer upon layer in alternating, opposite directions. So, the layer of wires underneath the top layer that we see might be wound in a "Left-Hand" spiral. That helps the cable stay together because each layer cancels the twisting tendency of the layer under it. However, here all we can see is that the big 6 strands being closed into a wire rope are laid "Right-Handed". They're being wrapped in a clockwise direction to make a rope that is also finished in a "Right-Hand Lay" direction. They're wrapped around a core of cable (not sure if the core is "strand" or "cable", but typically it's cable), and notice that core cable is Also laid "Right-Handed". This means this is going to be a forgiving, relatively stretchy cable that's good at absorbing shock loads, but not so good at resisting unwinding itself if it's got a load hanging from that rope, and that load decides to start spinning. The Only Left-Hand wires that we can see are the individual wires making up the outer layer of the core cable. Those are six "Left-Lay" wires, each one having (again) Six wires wrapped around a six- (or 19, can't see it) wire tiny core. But if every other strand in this cable is wound Right-Hand for stretch, you can assume the core strand (inside the 6 Right-Hand strands) is also laid Right-Handed. The Finished wire rope is designed to stretch, and the core cable needs to be the stretchiest component so it doesn't just get overloaded and break. It is not there to contribute to the overall strength of the cable, it is there to hold the strands that wrap around it in their proper place. Best case scenario would be the core cable could supply around 7% of the cable's strength, even tho it's theoretically nearly 15% of its mass. Someone else commented their ski-lift ropes had rubber cores. Some cables have natural or plastic fibre cores, which also store lubricant. But most strand (as seen at 2:42), as well as most wire rope (similar to the one shown at 0:12), is built on a single core wire surrounded by six wires in the first layer. Actually, at 0:12, they're all 8's: 8 wire core surrounded by same size 8 strand layer, all surrounded by 8 larger cables in the next layer, and finished with 8 even fatter strands. But most wire-ropes start out as six around a core. The narrator says a strand can be between 19 and 36 wires; the 19 wire strand is again really 6 around a single wire core, plus another layer of 12 over those 7. Defining "What is a strand vs what is a wire rope, vs what is a cable", you could say that in a strand, there is no duplication of patterns in adjacent components, where in a wire rope there is definitely duplication of the same strand over and over. As far as defining a cable goes, technically it would be a number of finished wire ropes laid up (closed) into an even bigger "cable". If you're talking about fiber rope (not metal), "Cable-Laid" rope is made from smaller ropes wound together into a "Cable" that has every layer opposite-laid from the layer under it. But if you wound together multiple wire ropes with all of its components in the same direction, you could define that as a cable-laid rope too. These days, cable works as a generic term for all kinds of stuff. So it's ok to say "cable", even if you're talking about a strand. There are countries where they're called the opposite, that is, left means right and vice-versa, and there are places in the world where they call cable (for example) six SLOT, instead of six STRAND, but if you've read this far you're already bored s******s, so we better "cloze" this conversation here and now. Sorry, got carried away there, Thank You.
No joke, this is one of the random things I always wondered about and never bothered to look up. But also it's past 6 am and I really should go to sleep
I ran fiber in a plant identical to that here in Missouri. It was used for cables on Aircraft Carriers to stop jets. Never forget it. It was 120 degrees in that roof and you came down just completely black from room all of the stuff in that roof. It was hell.
It was forged in the stomach of a great dragon, many hundreds of years ago. On the eve of his death, the dragon had one final wish, to bestow onto the world a most wonderful rope, made of steel, such that it never snap. He died in the cold winters of the Netherlands, leaving behind only his beautiful creation. Legends say that it is still is use today, for it is the only cable strong enough to lift your mother out of bed in the morning.
The machine which makes the wire cable does not actually have any parts made from wire cable -- it's all made of steel forgings and pulleys, so there's no dilemma.
My father is a Chemical Engineer. I am retired from manufacturing, Mack Trucks and McDonnell Douglas Helicopters, now Boeing. I am also a Veteran. All Engineering fields are interesting. Many of my Aircrew were Engineers.
The night I posted the comment I couldn't figure out what to watch. While looking through my Industry playlist I found this video. I liked it. I'm from Allentown,Pa. We used to make things back then.
For those who don’t know, this how the Brooklyn bridge was made. Not to mention, there was a scandal where a crooked businessman sold shoddy wire into the bridge which is still there, and it weakened the bridge forever.
It was right when wire ropes were starting to be made from (carbon) plow steel instead of just iron. That meant that the new and improved stuff was much stronger, theoretically. But "steel" cables had a new set of problems. Increased oxidation, even when galvanised. Exfoliation. They could be brittle; every single wire in a cable needs to move independently, and iron was better at that. Iron wire rope was much weaker, yet Iron elevator cables exist even in the 21st century. Because it's more reliable, even if it is Weaker (and larger diameter as a result). So, maybe the cables on the Brooklyn Bridge were always intended to be Iron, and using "improved" cable was counterproductive, but that's not as interesting as the story of fraud that found traction (lol). Thank You qt.
i swear when youtube senses your getting ready for bed it slips a "how its made" video into your suggested and from there you are trapped for at least 2 hours
When a the only thing keeping 22680 kilograms (that's 50000 pounds) from smashing you says cable on the side of its spool that it comes off of, you call it fucking cable. Frankly unless you work in the factory where its made I've probably seen more of the shit everyone commenting on this video combined. I've cut with a torch, a grinder, and even used specially designed cutters for it. I've replaced it on equipment, carried places by hand, and watched it crimp, frey, strech, fold, bend and snap in ways that would probably leave some people questioning the likelihood of shit in their pants. You ever seen 136070 kilograms (300000 pounds give or take) sway in the breeze like a leaf on a tree? I have. It makes you realize that you would much rather call it something strong and unique like "Cable" than something weak and boring like "wire rope". You at least hope the guy who invented it thought enough of it to come up with a unique name for it because your may or may not depend on something as fickle and stupid as "wire rope".
@ George Reigle. I know it's made in the US. I wash being sarcastic because as you know most of the manufacturing goes to China or gets outsourced. Thanks.
How did I get here....
By surfing through the depths of UA-cam at 4 am
Cus you like tanks, and tanks has wires? 😂
cables. You'll need them. A lot
im asking the same thing
i was watching vickers tactical shoot the m203 10 videos ago
Recommendations.
Lubrication is critical
+Abraham C it helps the wire to move smoothly
i knew someone gonna catch this.
I just got to your comment and she says that 😂
saturated in lubricant
thats what she said
How it's Made is basically the adult version of kids' morning television for when you stayed home from school because you were sick.
This is wat I watchd wen I was of school
@@Christian-Fig Same! I was an old soul, though. I was the kid wearing cartigans, slippers, knee high socks, and pajama pants. I always thought an old tobacco pipe was leet.
Lol i used to look forward to my yearly tonsillitis infection because my mom was ignorant to just take me to get antibiotics every year. I would stay home allday watching courage the cowardly dog and the original how it’s made with the dudes voice and my own tub of dryers organic strawberry froyo. Damn i could live a lifetime in those days.
@@MACMETALFACE Depending how old I was I'd watch Legends of Hidden Temple, Rugrats, Johnny Quest, Pirates of Dark Water, and yes Courage the Cowardly Dog. Good ol' days.
You sure you were sick
These cool videos are for those that are awake at 12 to 4 am. Im not the only one.
Correct
im glad im not the only one
Haha, glad I'm not the only one as well!
+Chef Dam - you are absolutely right ! There is something magical in " how it's made " videos...
Fulgore Elite its 4:55
A machine capable of exerting 94 tons of force to make that cable snap. Now that was most impressive.
Screws and compound levers, not so hard. Measuring and tracking the position and forces involved is a bit harder.
When you get into hydraulics, 94 tons is a start. I work in plastics injection molding, and our largest machine has an injection pressure of 950 tons, and in the injection world, that's about a mid grade machine
WineScrounger Not really. The measurement is abstracted. Once the machine is calibrated, force is a function of the effort of the motor driving it (rpm) or the hydraulic pressure (psi). These aren’t direct measurements.
Our biggest bending machine at work is 500 Tons. And in this universe that is actually pretty normal . Try watch some heavy duty roller machine. That is damn impressive as well.
That's nothing lol
I used to work as a radio technician operator back in the day. We used to put up those giant TV and cell phone communication towers and those Towers use these wires to tie themselves into the ground. This one time we had a new guy who didn't really know what he was doing and he put the bracket that holds the wires together on backwards. For those of you out there that know it, he saddled his horse improperly.
So we just got done putting on the final level of this Tower and we heard a dreaded noise. Sounds like someone dragging their fingernail across the lowest chord of a piano. We all looked over to see the wire swing up in the air going at least a hundred miles an hour and then the whole Tower itself came down. It was a chain reaction, when that one wire flipped all of them started to break and fail.
In the end everything was destroyed but those cables were moving at such high speeds when the tower fell that the cables themselves are embedded in the ground. Like there's at least seven to eight hundred feet of cable that we just left because it was so deep in the ground it would take an excavator just to be able to get it out. And the craziest part was There was a pasture right next door that about 10 or 15 wires flew into and completely destroyed, two days before hand the guy moved his cattle because he wanted to make sure they were safe just in case the tower fell. Crazy how things work sometimes. If those cows had been there, anything hit by those wires would have been cut in half.
what happened to the new guy after that
@@akjohnny5997 well let's put it this way my old boss was a Marine Corps Sergeant who was also a drill instructor. I have never to this day heard a man scream for 2 hours straight....
And he ended up not even being fired for it he just never showed up again. And as far as I know that dude just straight-up moved town. I mean I think he should have given it a second shot because it was a really rushed job and he was brand new to the team so he should have been observed better. But in the end of shit rolls downhill am I right?
After that we had a joke for the all the new guys. We would tell them if they ever want to hear the bus cream for 2 hours straight saddle their Horse backwards 😂😂😂 the confused/terrified look on their faces as they try to not freak out that they can get yelled at for 2 hours and the fact they have no idea what saddling a horse is, shits priceless
@@togglefire3537 yea i'd probably skip town after that too haha
@@akjohnny5997 🤣🤣🤣🤣
So.
Much.
Lubricant.
Clint it hurts?
It allows it to penetrate in
Your mum needed more.....
:)
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@@freefall0483 your dad didnt tho
OMG WHY!!!!
why did a "how its made" video popped on the suggestions list at 2 am?
now i am doomed to watch these all night!!!
I know your pain, my friend.
Mine started now at 1140pm lol
I'm in the same situation here, it's 00:07
The Channel of Stuff Same here 1:37 AM ._.
Better than watching some shitty sit com or soap!
That "immobile" in the end really caught my attention.
emma bile
It sent me down to the comments.
That video was made at the Sedalia plant.. we're I worked for 16 years..
wow that machine can break these cables. Thats one hell of a load
The used light saber
@@apang1831 jajajjjajjajajajajajaja
Thats what she said
@@leomadero562 pfffffffffft what?
It's extremely loud like a tank firing if you don't wear the proper ear protection it will bust your eardrums
3:33 they try lifting yo mama for the test
I wish I were a wire and not human
TheCelticsAREboss good idea
I got to try this myself!
I wore a wire near Hillary Clinton and heard about those 30,000 deleted Emails!
imagine how much stress you can handle!
Guy wire
if u want lubricant just bathe in toilet water
Can we all appreciate youtube for recommending this in 2020
yes
i find it interesting that they pre-form cables with rollers before twisting them together into the thickest wire. also amazing how all that machinery withstands loads from working on something as rigid as that cable.
Man.... you learn something new everyday.
I build ziplines, this is what we use. Cool gig! Thanks for the upload!!
"wire ropes"
THEY'RE FUCKING CABLES!
lol
lmfao
Cable wires
Actually they are called wire ropes. I work for a company called WireCo World Group...look it up.
Actually they are transformer dicks smart ass
uh no
Nice informative vid! Ty I work with Cable every day nice to see how it's made!
The cross cut of the wire in the intro blows my mind ool
Thanks for making this video. Well explained!
"You think this is funny? Taking my family away and forcing them through your horrible twisting machine? You should all be ashamed."
-- Daryl Wire
most people treat these videos like a meme or a procrastination source. i find them very interesting and inspiring.
I been on a couple jobs where I seen parts of this done. The machine shop I wired up compressed cable ends of the spools of wires to be used for suspension bridges. The cables were then sent to a nearby university with had the testing equipment to inspect the tensile strength of the cable ends prior to shipping. Basically, It was a warehouse with an an anchor embedded in four feet of concrete, and a lift to pull the cable up.
When I first discovered this show as a kid, I watched it religiously!
Engineering at its best. now I know, courtesy of UA-cam.
Probably the 4th time I've watched this video.
I finally learned something NEW from How It's Made!
Thanks UA-cam recommendation for showing me how Industrial Wire Ropes are made~ I always wanted to know how they were made. Ill remember now that Lubrication is always critical!
Great video. Plastic coating seems a good idea to keep out dirt but surely in some jobs it could get badly worn or damaged easily.
Me: Ughhhh what should I watch
UA-cam: *Say no more my friend*
DIO?!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE STOP STALKING ME
I fell asleep twice trying to finish this. It's perfect
Unusual that this video only has 7 million views, as I'm sure it's been suggested to everyone.
Great ! During my time such technology was considered as classified. My grany used to tell me that the ice which the shops used to come from the Himalyayas. And we belived her LOL. Times have changed since then.
Ganesh Krishnamoorthy Judging by your name, Granny was probably correct. She could remember her Mom telling her that in India (assuming she was living there at that time in the late 1800's, before refrigeration became commonly available), ice was transported from the Himalayan glaciers (which were more abundant then, before Global Warming ruined such wonders of Nature), to the near towns and cities by elephant 😄. It was then rapidly transported by the famous Indian railway network to all the Clubs and Bars frequented by the British expatriates for their refreshment as they watched the cricket or polo.
I'd love to see the megacable snapping in slow motion HD
All the memes and here I am, genuinely impressed and happy to have learned something :).
Every time I finish a How it's Made video I always feel that Im an expert on the subject just because I know how it's made
THIS IS AWESOME.
Specially at 3:31
BOOM! Fatality.
I got to admit I got slightly aroused watching this.
+Hutey Pie Was it the twisting, or the lubricating?
Jeff H Why not both?
Hutey Pie Grrrr
There is a major difference between the two examples at 4:44. The smaller diameter rope has it's individual wires twisted so they lay in a longitudinal direction, where the larger diameter rope has it's wires twisted opposite so they lay diagonal. The smaller one is a much stronger design.
It's called "bias lay" ... keeps it from twisting
@@deplorabledave2543 Thanks for what may be the only useful comments here.
... because the smaller one's wires are aligned with the load, instead of being perpendicular to the load.
At 2:40 they show the 6 strands being "closed" into a wire rope. Interesting when you look at the way the individual wires are wrapped, in a left-hand or right-hand spiral.
Shows the outside layer of wires in the individual 6 strands are going from left to right, that is, clockwise, as the spiral travels away from you if you're sighting down the cable. Chances are, all of the wires in any given strand are going to be wound layer upon layer in alternating, opposite directions. So, the layer of wires underneath the top layer that we see might be wound in a "Left-Hand" spiral. That helps the cable stay together because each layer cancels the twisting tendency of the layer under it.
However, here all we can see is that the big 6 strands being closed into a wire rope are laid "Right-Handed". They're being wrapped in a clockwise direction to make a rope that is also finished in a "Right-Hand Lay" direction. They're wrapped around a core of cable (not sure if the core is "strand" or "cable", but typically it's cable), and notice that core cable is Also laid "Right-Handed".
This means this is going to be a forgiving, relatively stretchy cable that's good at absorbing shock loads, but not so good at resisting unwinding itself if it's got a load hanging from that rope, and that load decides to start spinning.
The Only Left-Hand wires that we can see are the individual wires making up the outer layer of the core cable. Those are six "Left-Lay" wires, each one having (again) Six wires wrapped around a six- (or 19, can't see it) wire tiny core. But if every other strand in this cable is wound Right-Hand for stretch, you can assume the core strand (inside the 6 Right-Hand strands) is also laid Right-Handed.
The Finished wire rope is designed to stretch, and the core cable needs to be the stretchiest component so it doesn't just get overloaded and break. It is not there to contribute to the overall strength of the cable, it is there to hold the strands that wrap around it in their proper place. Best case scenario would be the core cable could supply around 7% of the cable's strength, even tho it's theoretically nearly 15% of its mass. Someone else commented their ski-lift ropes had rubber cores. Some cables have natural or plastic fibre cores, which also store lubricant.
But most strand (as seen at 2:42), as well as most wire rope (similar to the one shown at 0:12), is built on a single core wire surrounded by six wires in the first layer. Actually, at 0:12, they're all 8's: 8 wire core surrounded by same size 8 strand layer, all surrounded by 8 larger cables in the next layer, and finished with 8 even fatter strands. But most wire-ropes start out as six around a core. The narrator says a strand can be between 19 and 36 wires; the 19 wire strand is again really 6 around a single wire core, plus another layer of 12 over those 7.
Defining "What is a strand vs what is a wire rope, vs what is a cable", you could say that in a strand, there is no duplication of patterns in adjacent components, where in a wire rope there is definitely duplication of the same strand over and over. As far as defining a cable goes, technically it would be a number of finished wire ropes laid up (closed) into an even bigger "cable". If you're talking about fiber rope (not metal), "Cable-Laid" rope is made from smaller ropes wound together into a "Cable" that has every layer opposite-laid from the layer under it. But if you wound together multiple wire ropes with all of its components in the same direction, you could define that as a cable-laid rope too.
These days, cable works as a generic term for all kinds of stuff. So it's ok to say "cable", even if you're talking about a strand.
There are countries where they're called the opposite, that is, left means right and vice-versa, and there are places in the world where they call cable (for example) six SLOT, instead of six STRAND, but if you've read this far you're already bored s******s, so we better "cloze" this conversation here and now.
Sorry, got carried away there,
Thank You.
@@onemoremisfit welcome back!
No joke, this is one of the random things I always wondered about and never bothered to look up.
But also it's past 6 am and I really should go to sleep
I ran fiber in a plant identical to that here in Missouri. It was used for cables on Aircraft Carriers to stop jets. Never forget it. It was 120 degrees in that roof and you came down just completely black from room all of the stuff in that roof. It was hell.
If part of the machine is made out of wire cable then where did the first wire cable come from?
It was forged in the stomach of a great dragon, many hundreds of years ago. On the eve of his death, the dragon had one final wish, to bestow onto the world a most wonderful rope, made of steel, such that it never snap. He died in the cold winters of the Netherlands, leaving behind only his beautiful creation. Legends say that it is still is use today, for it is the only cable strong enough to lift your mother out of bed in the morning.
+Watch The World Burn Holy shit, what you said combined with your username is perfect LOL.
+Watch The World Burn Good work.
The machine which makes the wire cable does not actually have any parts made from wire cable -- it's all made of steel forgings and pulleys, so there's no dilemma.
Lee Poling holy shit man that made me laugh like a mental patient 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Good 1
Utter boredom brought me here.
+TheDustysix Sure it wasn't curiosity? ;)
You'd hate to talk to me then! I'm a mining mechanical engineer who is an expert on shafts and winding systems and wire ropes lol.
My father is a Chemical Engineer. I am retired from manufacturing, Mack Trucks and McDonnell Douglas Helicopters, now Boeing. I am also a Veteran. All Engineering fields are interesting. Many of my Aircrew were Engineers.
The night I posted the comment I couldn't figure out what to watch. While looking through my Industry playlist I found this video. I liked it. I'm from Allentown,Pa. We used to make things back then.
Boring people get bored. Now that you have stimulated your brain and have some knowledge to pass you've become more interesting.
Just took a 4-hour nap after watching this. I have insomnia and this boring ass video cured me thank you
94 tons !! Waw, now that's really amazing.
Looks like a muscle.
For those who don’t know, this how the Brooklyn bridge was made. Not to mention, there was a scandal where a crooked businessman sold shoddy wire into the bridge which is still there, and it weakened the bridge forever.
It was right when wire ropes were starting to be made from (carbon) plow steel instead of just iron. That meant that the new and improved stuff was much stronger, theoretically. But "steel" cables had a new set of problems. Increased oxidation, even when galvanised. Exfoliation. They could be brittle; every single wire in a cable needs to move independently, and iron was better at that. Iron wire rope was much weaker, yet Iron elevator cables exist even in the 21st century. Because it's more reliable, even if it is Weaker (and larger diameter as a result). So, maybe the cables on the Brooklyn Bridge were always intended to be Iron, and using "improved" cable was counterproductive, but that's not as interesting as the story of fraud that found traction (lol).
Thank You qt.
1:50 My wires still remember how they were before and are giving me hell not staying straight. They keep remembering the good old times.
i swear when youtube senses your getting ready for bed it slips a "how its made" video into your suggested and from there you are trapped for at least 2 hours
1:43 me taking a perfectly cooked dump
Ohh my Gawd hahaha
Even that couldn't make my parents' marriage hold together.
Very informative - thanks!
Thanks for the inventor
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But, how do they make those little tiny “wires strands”??
That's the bit I wanted to see too :)
That's the first machine in the video, it twists individual wires into strands. The wire itself is probably made by pulling or die extrusion
That was awesome !!
i always watch this before going on the GG bridge because i have nightmares of the wires snapping. thanks how its made!
3:31 :3
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3:32 HAHAHAHAH!!! YEAH!!
what is so funny about wire ropes snapping?
These cables have a lifetime: let that sink in while you’re driving across a bridge 🙂
You have a lifetime. ( ´◡‿ゝ◡`)
This is Brilliant, Thank you I also have an interest in engineering
So lockdown has me watching this now, crazy!!
who else was pooping while watching this?
I am
Me 2
Me 3, Dmitri
Lokkas Zee24tass
Actually I am lol
Anyone else got the most random recommendations
This for the past 6 years lol
Oh ya
3 am recommendations
great video, thanks for uploading!
Ok
Ick fand das sehr interessant ! Vielen Dank 👍
Wire Rope? Cable. We generally call it cable.
Americans!
Wire rope Fool. Think of cable as something to transfer information.
When a the only thing keeping 22680 kilograms (that's 50000 pounds) from smashing you says cable on the side of its spool that it comes off of, you call it fucking cable. Frankly unless you work in the factory where its made I've probably seen more of the shit everyone commenting on this video combined. I've cut with a torch, a grinder, and even used specially designed cutters for it. I've replaced it on equipment, carried places by hand, and watched it crimp, frey, strech, fold, bend and snap in ways that would probably leave some people questioning the likelihood of shit in their pants. You ever seen 136070 kilograms (300000 pounds give or take) sway in the breeze like a leaf on a tree? I have. It makes you realize that you would much rather call it something strong and unique like "Cable" than something weak and boring like "wire rope". You at least hope the guy who invented it thought enough of it to come up with a unique name for it because your may or may not depend on something as fickle and stupid as "wire rope".
Technically if it's over 3/8 of an inch it's called wire rope.
2:35 that looks likes some alien mind of machine haha
Matrix
Thank you UA-cam recommendation for showing me this at 1 in the morning
video is educational, ty for the upload
I sent a Western Union cable to my friend to rope him into watching this too..
How did they persuade Siri to do the voiveover?
donepearce Apple Sued the company for the royalties. And then they removed all Jack's and connections
This is awesome.
DAMN 94 TONS I NEED THESE!
Recommending 7 year video again ?
For some reason seeing all the individual strands spinning filled me with an anger i cannot describe
Great vid👍🏽
In love with Her voice.
wire rope industries
well, sometimes you dont need a fancy name, i guess
Because there are no consumer product here. No need for fancy names.
how it's made, I started two days ago and now I can't sleep... help me!
You should know how to build your own city by now
imagine one of those snapping and just slicing you in half with the tension
Heavy rollers apply vertical pressure, erasing the wires memory that it was once spooled.
Wire: WHERE AM I? HOW DID I GET HERE?
good one xd
Wire: WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE???!!!
i wanna quit my job and do this
good luck with that
+CONCRETE MONEY hahaha xD
Become a wire rope?
factory work is horrible.
@@DiseasedPopeno Yeah so why is everyone complaining about automation!?
I GOT SOMETHING STRONG, IMMOBILE, AND TAUT FOR YA RIGHT HERE
Awesome!
Amazing engineering!
me in 2020:
youtube: Hey kid wanna see 2012 video about industrial wire ropes?
me: why not
Roses are red violets are blue I didn't searched for this video and neither did you
This is really good
Amazing
Thank you
Let's be honest, no one searched this up...UA-cam recommendations...
I want one of those little wire sample cross section pieces for my desk. One like that is shown at 4:44. Someone help me out here.
+Zerostar369 amazon!!!!
CONCRETE MONEY Got a link?
hey did you buy the thing afterall?
Quarantine got me watching this.
This one is strangely awesome
we call em cables instead of rope. never heard anyone anywhere in the U.S call it wire rope always just metal cable. even in the Army.
Hooah
Timothy Rodowicz this show is produced in Canada feminist capital
Well, you've never been to sea, have you
I’m a crane operator. We call it wire rope.
No one:
UA-cam: industrial wire rope, how it’s made
Shut the fuck up
her voice is the best. unmistakably "How It's Made"
It's 5:20 am in the morning.. I've got uni tomorrow ... and I'm watching how industrial wires are made
Is it Made In China now?
onextoronto actually there are only 3 wire rope mills in the world and the one shown here is in Williamsport Pa
@ George Reigle. I know it's made in the US. I wash being sarcastic because as you know most of the manufacturing goes to China or gets outsourced. Thanks.
Hopefully, not anymore!
It’s made of them thar chinesium!
hi reddit
Dinand Crisostomo ayylmao
I was watching too much "How It's Actually Made" and I genuine thought Huggbees was pranking us
Thanks UA-cam recommended for this at 1 in the morning