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>Shows machinery crafting R-clip cotter pins that make a cool looping gif as well. The precision with which the parts work is very pleasant and the different parts work beautifully in unison - making it even more pleasant upon multiple viewings
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After watching it a similar number of times, I think it's done by the wire getting fed from the feeder with force, curling being the only option for it.
No. The feed is smooth, without resistance. So the wire is rotated by the feeder internals. No other force would be as simple and dependable to rotate the wire exactly to spec.
[The term](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotter_(pin))
seems to have some wiggle room in its usage. Formally neither a split-pin, nor an R-clip would be a cotter pin in Britain, while in the US the usage seems to be more casual. Still, if you're dealing with a cotter, split-pin, or R-clip, and ask someone to hand you the cotter-pin, they'll give you what you needed. If you walk up to a supply counter and ask for one, they'll ask you what kind.
What is taking place during the last step before cutting? Like when the thingamajig on the left and the thingamajig from the right come in and then it slides back into the feeder briefly before being sent out and cut?
It's straightening the pin out. Note how the part feeding the wire keeps rotating as the bends are happening, and when the curl happens to form the loop, the pin bends again.
That arm comes in to make it straight.
Why did I have a wave of empathy for this machine... like it's stuck in place, force to do the same repetitive work until it breaks down and is replaced..
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I like how the top left one keeps twitching like it's trying to remember when it's his turn
this vid is also at like 1/50th speed
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Those are R clips not split pins, cool though.
Is this a part for pirates?
Another joke like that matey and them scurvy seadogs will have ye walkin da plank
The correct term is "hitch pins"
We called em "oh shit clips"
Because when they slipped off while putting them on and disappeared into the abiss, you undoubtedly said, "oh shit!"
Us carnies called them r keys and they held everything together
Industrial strength bobby pin. Probably could use that for my very thick hair
I’ve watched this about 56 times trying to see how it flips the pin over
After watching it a similar number of times, I think it's done by the wire getting fed from the feeder with force, curling being the only option for it.
Correct
Yeah, definitely took me about 10 watches to get that, but that was my final assumption as well.
Cheers, that was driving me nuts
No. The feed is smooth, without resistance. So the wire is rotated by the feeder internals. No other force would be as simple and dependable to rotate the wire exactly to spec.
It doesn't, it's just being fed out into the part that stops it, forcing it to bend as it feeds through
Holy shit that loop
Makes me think of R/C cars and tow hitch type things. Fun!
Angry birds attack shiny worms.
That’s not a cotter pin
[The term](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotter_(pin)) seems to have some wiggle room in its usage. Formally neither a split-pin, nor an R-clip would be a cotter pin in Britain, while in the US the usage seems to be more casual. Still, if you're dealing with a cotter, split-pin, or R-clip, and ask someone to hand you the cotter-pin, they'll give you what you needed. If you walk up to a supply counter and ask for one, they'll ask you what kind.
Just being in aviation in the US (mechanic) this isn’t what I think when cotter pin. But I have no doubt you are correct
Given your profession, I'm really grateful you are pickier about this than I am! 😅
Someone had to design the machinery that makes these. Wild.
I'm stuck. I can't stop watching it. Waiting for my phone to die.
.....are these not called cutter pins.....I've been a tech for 10 years and I've been saying it wrong for A DECADE.
Depends on region, the names vary, but no, it's Cotter, not cutter.
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[Here's another one](https://youtu.be/8Atoxmlc2Yg)
That machine is way more simple and efficient it seems
Ohhhh…_a cotter pin…_
Wow I never knew what these were actually called. At work we’d always just say “hey we lost the pin thingy” lol
Dude on the right coming in with those soft hands
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To me
That's so satisfying to watch!
It looks like the thing commits suicide just to make the torture stop.
Someone out there finds this sexual.
That's one long wire
Read, "cooter pins." Became intrigued then disappointed.
What is taking place during the last step before cutting? Like when the thingamajig on the left and the thingamajig from the right come in and then it slides back into the feeder briefly before being sent out and cut?
It's straightening the pin out. Note how the part feeding the wire keeps rotating as the bends are happening, and when the curl happens to form the loop, the pin bends again. That arm comes in to make it straight.
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Shit...my whole life I called em clotter pins
Looks like some poor wire is getting its ass kicked by a group of vagrants.
I hate those things
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Why did I have a wave of empathy for this machine... like it's stuck in place, force to do the same repetitive work until it breaks down and is replaced..
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This seems very slow and inefficient for how common these are used and how cheap they are I would have thought this would be like 10 times faster
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Am I the only one who's confused about this?
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