Enjoying a knockoff ball crusher until it breaks. The dilemma
A buddy of mine shared this story and these pictures with me. He was using a ball crushing device purchased from our friendly Asian marketplace website. When it arrived, he surprised me, he bought me one, as well.
While he was testing it on himself in his bedroom, with a vanilla roommate entertaining company in the living room, he was enjoying himself immensely. Documenting every few moments how crushed he could get himself.
Everything's fun until someone gets poked in the eye with a stick, right?
Being at a discounted price, the manufacturer used discounted parts. These knob nuts are typical plastic knobs on steel nuts. Possibly 3/8 inch or the equivalent in metric. The sad part is, they are cheap plastic, not made to be used under tension.
One of the nut knobs broke in half. Now he's trapped in this contraption, having to figure out how to free himself without involving his roommate and guests, and not do too much damage to himself.
While he's trying to figure out what kind of tools he has in his bedroom, his testicle starts to ooze out from the side of the crusher. There are some close-ups of the octopus testicle and the itty bitty nut.
He found a pair of pliers and was able to wrestle the nut off. Final picture is of the end results. So much fun.
We have since replaced these nuts with metal wing nuts.