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Watch a Turbocharger Get Crushed by a Hydraulic Press for No Apparent Reason

Turbocharger vs. hydraulic press 5 photos
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Having a hydraulic press on your hands can give you itchy fingers. Soon enough you'll start wondering how any object your eyes might rest upon would fare under the many tons of pressure this press can develop.
From what we've seen so far, there aren't that many things that can withstand the destructive force of the hydraulic pistons. Once that steel cylinder begins to descend, whatever gets caught underneath it is going to be forever deformed, if not completely crashed. We've seen carbon fiber put up a decent fight, but it took a solid block of the light stuff to keep the two metal surfaces from making contact, with the other tested parts disintegrating in an instant.

But with a few hundreds of thousands of views for each video on your channel, you're never going to run out of things to smash. That's because various companies will gladly send the products over for free publicity, as long as you promise to say where they came from and eventually display the logo and provide a link in the video description. And why wouldn't you, considering it enables you to break stuff without any cost?

Today's victim is a rather nice turbocharger from Turbotohtori. These force induction devices are best known for seriously pumping up the power of an engine, but also for baffling ex-Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson as to how they do it. Well, if they were indeed capable of any magic, this one would probably use it right now to escape from the cold embrace of the hydraulic press, but it turns out magic really doesn't exist.

It's kind of sad to see a brand new piece of equipment that would have made an engine very happy go out like that, but it's also satisfying, so we're a bit conflicted by that. As always, the man running the channel has a special treat for us at the end, and this time it involves a remote controlled Bugatti Veyron. It really gets squished like a Bug.

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About the author: Vlad Mitrache
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"Boy meets car, boy loves car, boy gets journalism degree and starts job writing and editing at a car magazine" - 5/5. (Vlad Mitrache if he was a movie)
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