Another Mythbuster sighting

[BIG-TARGET]

I just got the Mythbuster Collection 5 DVD.  I'm watching the Alaska Special 1 episode, where Jamie & Adam are put to the"cabin fever" test.  Adam, to maintain his sanity, makes a werly-gig out of a wire coat hanger.  And he uses his LM Charge to cut and bend the wire hanger!!!



PS-during this test, the person in the yeti costume, was a nice touch

[sergemaster]

That episode was on last night ironically on the Discovery channel, and I also saw cabin Adam using his Charge in all its fevered glory..

Cheers,
Serge

[J-sews]

I just got the Mythbuster Collection 5 DVD.  I'm watching the Alaska Special 1 episode, where Jamie & Adam are put to the"cabin fever" test.  Adam, to maintain his sanity, makes a werly-gig out of a wire coat hanger.  And he uses his LM Charge to cut and bend the wire hanger!!!

That was probably the second take. On the first take he tried using a Gerber 600

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[duckman1975]

I just got the Mythbuster Collection 5 DVD.  I'm watching the Alaska Special 1 episode, where Jamie & Adam are put to the"cabin fever" test.  Adam, to maintain his sanity, makes a werly-gig out of a wire coat hanger.  And he uses his LM Charge to cut and bend the wire hanger!!!

That was probably the second take. On the first take he tried using a Gerber 600

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Looka like it can be replaced by the LM's wire 124cm wire cutters

[BIG-TARGET]

Forgive my ignorance. BUT!  How do you shatter tungsten carbide?

[Grant Lamontagne]

Tungsten carbide is hard as Hell, but it's also brittle.  If you try to cut some hardened wire that's hard enough, I will shatter, especially if there's a fault in it somewhere.

Just like ceramics- you can cut steel with ceramic, but drop a ceramic blade in the sink and the very soft stainless will shatter the blade like it was nothing.

It reminds me of a story I read years ago.  Knifemaker Kevin "Mad Dog" McClung manufactured a ceramic tactical type knife in the late 90's or so.  While eating lunch with a writer for a knife magazine and showing off the ceramic blade, he inadvertently caught the waiter's attention.  The waiter asked what it was, and when Mad Dog told him it was ceramic, the waiter scoffed and insisted it wouldn't be able to cut anything.  Mad Dog casually picked up the fork off the table and calmly started whittling with the ceramic blade!

Initially I wasn't so certain that would work, as I assumed that even a stainless used in tableware would provide too much resistance to be able to "carve" it away with just hand strength alone, but when I got a nice ceramic Boker chef's knife a couple of years later, I tried it, and it actually worked!  I'd hate to try and actually carve anything specific like that, but it worked.  I was amazed.

Def

[MultiMat]

I just got the Mythbuster Collection 5 DVD.  I'm watching the Alaska Special 1 episode, where Jamie & Adam are put to the"cabin fever" test.  Adam, to maintain his sanity, makes a werly-gig out of a wire coat hanger.  And he uses his LM Charge to cut and bend the wire hanger!!!

That was probably the second take. On the first take he tried using a Gerber 600

(Image removed from quote.)

Looka like it can be replaced by the LM's wire 124cm wire cutters

That would be cool Duckster but I doubt Leatherman's parts would fit in my Gerber 600  .
BTW I was cutting a coat hanger to make a loop on a fern I was hanging. The Gerber had cut the same wire the day before no problems but I think the cutters were either weakened or it was the shock that occurred when the  wire broke  .
Still have not got around to getting some replacement cutters , $15-$20us + postage is too much for me  .I have been trying to snag a cheap Gerber to use as parts .

[duckman1975]

I just got the Mythbuster Collection 5 DVD.  I'm watching the Alaska Special 1 episode, where Jamie & Adam are put to the"cabin fever" test.  Adam, to maintain his sanity, makes a werly-gig out of a wire coat hanger.  And he uses his LM Charge to cut and bend the wire hanger!!!

That was probably the second take. On the first take he tried using a Gerber 600

(Image removed from quote.)

Looka like it can be replaced by the LM's wire 124cm wire cutters

That would be cool Duckster but I doubt Leatherman's parts would fit in my Gerber 600  .
BTW I was cutting a coat hanger to make a loop on a fern I was hanging. The Gerber had cut the same wire the day before no problems but I think the cutters were either weakened or it was the shock that occurred when the  wire broke  .
Still have not got around to getting some replacement cutters , $15-$20us + postage is too much for me  .I have been trying to snag a cheap Gerber to use as parts .

They look the same shape and size though 

[Viper]

You sure it was a Charge? Usually Adam has an old style Wave.

[HBlaine]

You sure it was a Charge? Usually Adam has an old style Wave.

In a very brief email exchange I had with him on the subject, Adam said he used a Charge.  He also said he had a tendency to break blades on his MTs.  And he took a good shot at Jamie's then use of SOG MTs.  (Maybe all that razzing is why Jamie seems to be using Swisstools now?   )

I posted his answer here a good while back.  I'll have to go look for it...