IndustrialMany people aren't aware those big garage doors they have on loading bays and such are held up by a spring. This is what happens when that spring fails.

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[–]HopeThatHalps 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I'm not faimilar with the mechanicals of those doors, so I'm wondering how likely this is to happen. With all the loading and unloading that happens all around the planet, you'd think simple mechanical failure would result in lots of people getting crushed as they load and unload trucks.

[–]BombTheFuckers 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Springs are scary. There are few things I will absolutely not work on. Springs are very high up on that list.

Fuck springs.

[–]HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Can you possibly stand out of the way, or are they liable to fly in any direction?

[–]ElonMuskOfficial[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think it's more that when they fail, they release all of their energy very rapidly. A large torsion spring could have hundreds or thousands of pounds of torque stored up and it all goes off like a gunshot. If you happen to be standing near it, you could catch some gnarly shrapnel going bullet speeds or if the device holding the spring in place (and therefore build tension) fails, you could have anything attached to the spring suddenly spinning at lethal speeds.

[–]anescient 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's a mechanical bomb.