Mythbusters: deadly washing machine
- Thread starter Cybrvanr
- Start date
Help Support :
That'd be interesting to see!
toggleswitch1
Well-known member
- Joined
- Feb 25, 2008
- Messages
- 170
Wonder what will happen to the machine, and the laundry.
Watched it last night...they bought a newer DD Whirlpool or Kenmore, and 50 pounds of clothes at a thrift store. They got all but 10 pounds of clothes stuffed into the machine, but it wouldn't spin. They then took all the clothes out and Adam stood inside it while Jamie pushed the button in and it wouldn't spin like that either. Then came the typical Mythbusters disassembly! They took it apart and welded the clutch to the motor shaft and tried it again to see if it would spin him. They ended up stripping the gears in the transmission!
Not being able to duplicate the myth, they attempted to see what it would take to do the myth, so they ended up installing an electric car motor on the washtub to spin it! With their test dummy in the washtub, they spun him and threw the dummy and washer parts all over the shop!
Part of the myth was that it scared the person's dog, and the dog peed in the bleach starting a chemical reaction, and the gases killed the person, so part of the "experiment" was watching them at a dog park collecting pee from the dogs. That part was hilarious! In the end though, no reaction between the dog pee and the bleach.
Not being able to duplicate the myth, they attempted to see what it would take to do the myth, so they ended up installing an electric car motor on the washtub to spin it! With their test dummy in the washtub, they spun him and threw the dummy and washer parts all over the shop!
Part of the myth was that it scared the person's dog, and the dog peed in the bleach starting a chemical reaction, and the gases killed the person, so part of the "experiment" was watching them at a dog park collecting pee from the dogs. That part was hilarious! In the end though, no reaction between the dog pee and the bleach.
