Automatic Baton / Deployable Shield V3 (Potential Energy) – Precursor

hey everyone welcome back today I’m
going to be showing you the automatic
expandable baton now this thing is
pretty awesome at the flick of a switch
you are able to have this thing fire out
and there’s a ton of kinetic energy
stored in this thing which is really
what I’m after this is kind of an old
gadget here I’ve actually done a review
of this before but today we’re going to
be taking apart and seeing how this
thing works alright so the box
first of all dead giveaway this is not
actually the one that we have here this
has like a really nice little catch here
probably for protecting the hand and
also for catching that either one that’s
trying to come down and flash you with a
knife this would actually be really
useful on kind of bummed that I didn’t
get that version I don’t know if it was
available or if it just wasn’t thinking
but the point is I’m going to be
applying this to a lot of different
other projects because again you have
the deployability
it’s really hard to replicate anything
like this unless you have machining
skills I’m currently in the process of
trying to teach myself of stuff but at
the same time for those of you who may
just want to be here for the
entertainment aspect I don’t know if
it’s really even worse me showing you
how I do something because I’m pretty
much learning as I go so this just shows
how it works it does come with a little
holster now these look like they might
have a difference in the plastic I don’t
know if it’s just old the adhesive is
kind of saturating the tape but I don’t
know that’s usually one of the points
where literally it’s just got three
sections push the safety switch forward
okay don’t really care instructions are
pretty obvious so what we want to do
today is actually made out of like a
stainless steel maybe top stainless it
might just be chrome-plated but it’s a
very soft steel so it’s probably not
stainless steel I take that back
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all right so as you can see here we have
our little switch this is basically just
allowing us to either press down or be
inhibited by this little plate right
here this spring nice okay looks like
make sure we don’t lose this stuff now
this piece here is a little bit of a
pain in the butt you have to turn this
so what I do is just use a wrench
something of that just to grab a nice
piece of it and give you a little bit
more leverage to twist this thing off
all right so our spring has come out
into one piece that is awesome now this
is the source of all of our kinetic
energy to make something like this to
find the spring all that it’s just
ridiculous it would take forever it
would be way more time than it’s worth
all right so you got our parts here now
this piece is actually kind of welded on
there very crudely I might add and this
piece I think is just a I don’t even
know to be honest if you haven’t been
able to get that part it doesn’t do
anything other than just hold this
little piece right here in place which I
don’t really know that it serves a
purpose other than to maybe keep this
from sliding this little plastic grip
which is kind of glued on I actually
prefer if that wasn’t on so I’m probably
end up removing this for what I have in
mind which is probably going to be a new
deployable shield from what a lot of you
were commenting and now what I have come
to realize is it doesn’t make sense to
have a shield open using electronics if
it were to how the battery died OOP
you’re screwed I guess you’re not going
to have the ability to actually protect
yourself and it seemed like the biggest
complaint was that it didn’t open fast
enough this opens pretty freakin fast so
if I could somehow harness this energy
or double up on these two things to have
a sort of bracket this could be a really
awesome shield
so thinking about this now go ahead and
move these parts crap forgot the biggest
downside of this thing is once it is
actually locked you really can’t get it
apart unless you scan it on something
solid sorry for those of you who are
headphone users and have reading ears
this is how it works so essentially you
have this piece here actually goes down
and the spring is actually going up the
entirety of this entire thing pointing
so this port in the locking mechanism
this sits there whenever you press this
down Boop that goes up allowing this
thing to fly forward and look at all
that nasty crud so there really simple
mechanism if I was the trying machinist
myself mmm would not be a very easy task
just because I’m so inexperienced so I’d
rather take advantage of what’s already
on the market and not waste my time so
what do you think that I should do with
this I have an idea for a deployable
shield and I’m probably going to use
Kydex or some sort of metal because
creating a compact little dish of some
sort would make a lot more sense than
having like a full deployables shield
although if we did have two of these
things it would range pretty far
we could probably machine something that
would hold these two together or we
could weld it because it is a steal so
that’d be a cool little staff of some
sort
trying to find a unrolled er all right
so if this thing was one solid piece
it’s about three feet four inches which
isn’t bad now keep in mind we could
extend this thing five inches
and this would actually be pretty
freakin cool to have like a expandable
staff but I feel like a staff would be
with five feet or more so maybe we won’t
do that I think that this is going to be
a really cool project I have a bunch of
these things pretty sure they’re not
legal in my area but for the novelty and
the functionality of a deployable
expanding device I think we’re good long
as I don’t take it out in public and try
and fight crime or anything goofy like
that but these things have a lot of
energy and I want to unleash it in a
very awesome way so thank you so much
for watching and as always take it easy
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