Super brittle power strip
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2022
- What many years of sun exposure do to a power strip.
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I punched a hole on an old American power strip in the exact same way, trying to turn it on. Unfortunately I got shocked, fortunately I'm in the American continent so 120v didn't kill me lmao
The amps are the ones that kill you.
Volts don’t kill anyway.
This specific power strip with the plastic rivets likes to disintegrate, I had two of them, it's not just the sun. The Kopp and Kontavill ones are ok/good, but the best power strips are the Kontaset ones (there are at least 20 different Kontaset versions, but all of them have replaceble cables and basicly indestructible). (It's an old hungarian brand, but you can find used ones for cheap and they are better than most of the new ones.)
Wow! This is the first time I've seen plastic that Brittle! Thanks For Sharing!
I got a very small amount of water with a little bleach in it on my kettle when i was cleaning the worktop, the next time i went to make tea, lots of little white granules were floating around on the top of the hot water, I looked at the spout of the kettle and noticed that it was rough looking, when i rubbed it a little, it disintegrated to dust size pieces. I'm glad i noticed it or i could have been ingesting the stuff. I since found out that certain plastics don't do well when they come into contact with certain household chemicals. I now use a stainless steel model.
It must have been made by the same people that made dashboards for Dodge trucks in America.
Now glue it all back together.
Extension lead destruction ASMR
had such a case. 10 years behind double glas officebuilding window. disintegrated when removing a ventilation fan.
That happened to a TV I was padding up on a local move once, l leaned over it to grab the corner of the pad and my hand went through the top of it, I got the blame and the company gave them a replacement TV.
Wow, I've never seen anything like that before. That's an example of what UV light can do to plastic.
Great video
Had one as well that suffered the same fate, don’t even think it was exposed to the sun or heat for that matter… It was branded Brennensthul, witch in my world typically stands for quality… I remember grabbing it to move it, and it just fell apart in my hands, it was even thinner plastic than yours. I was just bloody lucky that it was disconnected from the wall outlet.
Wow, interesting! I thought Brennenstuhl was one of the better brands for these things, but it seems like they are not perfect either...
@@DrCassette It was a three-way strip like yours but without the switch, bought in the 90’s, I guess even they had/have a range of these smaller ones with reduced price-quality. I’m sure the bigger, heavy duty ones holds up to the quality we expect from them!
I've got an early 90's one from Brennenstuhl, 5-way and it still is fine. This one is also exposed to daily sunlight through one of my windows.
Well, this appears to be a bio-degradable power strip ...
The sunlight broke down the plastic at a molecular level.
A few years ago this is exactly what happened to an electrical outlet just like this one in my parents' country house. In fact, mine fell apart even more easily than this one. Both the top and bottom. I was amazed by this. How is it possible for plastic to fall apart like this? And the danger if the electrical outlet is plugged in. I've never seen anything like it. The pleasure it gave me to break this electrical outlet in my hands and at the same time angry for having such cheap material. And I didn't even remember to film.
I'm not sure but I think that in the case of my parents' electrical outlet it was not in the sun but subjected to very low temperatures during the winter and very high temperatures in the summer for years.
Same with vacuümcleaner and aquarium filter 💦 split open after 4 years.
@@lucvanhove9639 😯
I remember seeing something similar happen to one or more power boards like that (but with Type G sockets), where there were damage to the sockets themselves, and someone just taped over the damaged sockets (as well as the switches on individually switched boards).
Guess they didn't put enough UV inhibitors in the polymer 😂
at least it has a GS "Geprüfte Sicherheit" stamped into the mold.
Next time a thug in the street wants to mug you, just casually break one of these power strips in two and watch him run away in fear... :-D
I just accidently forgot a black/transparent cassette case outside yesterday after listening to a few cassettes in the garden - after I noticed that today, it already was too late, the black plastic part got molten by the sun and therefore is completely deformed now. Luckily it wasn't the cassette itself that spent the entire day out in the sun.
Also, I've got a 4x power strip at my grandparents house which is totally yellowed on the top side of it's housing and the plug.
Well, I guess that's how the cookie crumbles...! 🤷♂️
Wow! I thought that old 70s foam was bad!
That is a interesting looking cookie. Where can I find and try these?
Just like a cracker! I'll get some cheese....
How do I know that you don't have super strength?
I had the exact same thing happen to one extension cord very similar to that one. We have lots of them, one decided to degrade this way. I only found out when I grabbed it to push the button and my thumb just went through the side (right where the exposed mains contacts are). It just crumbled like a cookie, just like yours. Must be some missing chemical from a batch of plastic or something?
chinese engineering
I guess the power strip rejects humanity and became a vampire but got hit by a uv light !😏😭😅😅
*WOW!!!*
Doktor, save the power switch and the power cord.
I didn't trust the power switch, and the power cord was quite dirty. So I didn't keep them. I have plenty of other switches and power cords :)
That's one way to open it when you have not got the correct security screwdriver.
uv light ;-)
Ironic since the power strip was invented in Australia. You'd think it would be sun safe.
This power strip was certainly not made by the inventors of the power strip :D
And that's one more justification to why I build my own powerstrips...
👍👍👍👍
How is the UV supposed to have destroyed the plastic when it is opaque?
I guess modern plastic is designed to disintegrate in the sun. I have a small Bissel portable upholstery cleaner that I used to clean my car. I stored it on the porch where it got exposed to a lot of sun and when I went to use it the water tank broke apart in my hand.
Another reason I hate the sun. Other reason I hate the sun: it makes everything too hot, and makes all my pea-brained neighbors party.
That! 👍🏻
Will the next video be re assembling it🇬🇧😂
A trick to make more viewers : plug it in and you become the germanic Electro-Boom !
Chinesesium ...at it´s "best"
RIP cheap power strip
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The power of Sun. May give you electricity and gnaw you device as well.
Should've made it out of metal ;)
This is nothing, I've had plastics so burned they literally turned to fine dust when disturbed.
Weird flex, dude
@@hellion9547 Flex? I never said I enjoyed dealing with it lol
Its NOT fascinating
It is darn right ANNOYING
that so much stuff has been made to be Biodegradable
and falls apart when you get round to using it.
this even happens with buckets, plant pots, car parts and storage containers.
and as far as power bars are concerned, i'm still cursing a Chinese 4 plug power bar
it slowly melted inside over a period of time, and eventually the Live contacted the Earth.
modern contact breakers on my house supply werte triggered
but not quickly enoughas it took out 2 high end workstations and a laser printer that were connected to the power bar when the contact finally touched.
I guess that wasn't European made plastic. Ridiculous how we produced regular plastic that could stay out 20 years and still have plasticity and we're importing such rubbish from elsewhere and letting our industries ruin.