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On this episode of myth busters usually you fill pot holes. I'm digging them. What are you gonna do?

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Adam and Jamie get punctures on purpose. I have always wanted to do that as they test mythical ways of fixing a flat

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I thought with the flat of the wilds

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Grasping its straw from mother nature

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To the urban sprawl

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Can you really improvise your way out of a jam?

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That's dire manhole cover wheel go

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Meanwhile carry grantentory real in a fishy fable

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As they test this viral video if you catch a fast enough fish

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Can it ever set your reel a free

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You are the myth busters

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Adam Savage three two one

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And Jamie Heidemann

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We're just gonna have to crash it to find out between them more than 30 years of special effects experience

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joining them

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Tori Bellegi time to go die

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Grant imahara 44 Magnum Bay and Carrie Byron

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They don't just tell them it's

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They put them to death

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All right, Jamie, I'm gonna paint you a picture

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You've driven out to the middle of nowhere to go backwards camping

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You've hiked out into the wilderness and at the end of the weekend you hike back to your car to find oh

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You got a flat tire. What do you do? I put on the spare? You don't have a spare. I call a tow truck

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Nope, no cell phone reception. I walk out. Nope walking is not an option

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You have to somehow make that flat tire into a workable wheel. What do you do? I?

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Improvise

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Exactly that's what this story is about improvised solutions to making a flat tire into a workable wheel in the wilderness

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Under normal circumstances fixing a flat is simple

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Unpack the jack prepare the spare and you're good to go

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But if you're in the middle of nowhere and the spare is not there can you improvise your way out

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Can mother nature really come to the rescue?

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Or will this myth hit the hay?

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So what's the plan well

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We got a whole bunch of suggestions from the fans site for things people claim to have tried that got them out of jams

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I think we should choose the three best to test well

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What say we go to the great outdoors and set up a course then a course that would include all the different

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Obstacles one might encounter trying to get themselves out of a jam exactly

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So to put this tire trilogy to the test the team heads for the hills

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In order to run our tire fixes through their paces we've chosen a course in this off-road facility

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That'll give us the widest range of standard road hazards you might encounter in just this kind of setting

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And that setting isn't the only thing they've settled on

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This is our test car. It is an average ordinary everyday sedan and that's the point

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This story is about an ordinary car out for an ordinary drive when things go sour and an extraordinary solution is required

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With the car sorted at a two-mile lap lined up things are looking good

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So all they need now is to acquire a flat tire I

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Have always wanted to do that

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Here's the drill you're out of nature miles from the road with a flat tire and no spare pop quiz hot shot

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What you do what you do is improvise and so that's what we're gonna do

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We're gonna make our equivalent of a run flat tire out of stuff at hand like vegetation or

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Straw

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Yep, you heard right fan fix number one involves first removing the wheel

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I just happen to have a lovely garage jack then stuffing the cut open tire with straw

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That's what I'm thinking well

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Let's just see how far we get with that before delivering a collection of bad puns

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I thought with a flat in the wilds we'd be grasping at straws, but this is giving me high hopes

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Well, hey if it works with Mark Twain turning in his grave the guys reattach the wheel

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Hey, that's not bad before stuffing in more straw until the tire is literally fit to burst

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Well, that's the last straw

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Now it's time for our straw filled tire test. How do I think it's gonna go?

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Well, I'm positive that having straw in this tire is gonna be better than if we just had a normal flat tire

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How long it actually lasts and whether the straw stays in there is the only worry that I have and

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The only way to find that out is to test it

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Sensibly Jamie starts slow

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How does it feel?

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It feels a little spongy, but it seems like it's working

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But once they survived the speed bump it bottomed out there and the pothole

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Yeah, that one time too totally. He's confident enough to speed up

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And by the time he's halfway round you might say he's making hay while the sun shines

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Definitely a very reasonable escape plan so far let's go uphill

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Amazingly the straw tire stands up to whatever stands in its way

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Problem you make it home at least until Jamie tries to end with a bang

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Very very well done

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Whoa, it looks a little different

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Had high hopes for the hay and my hopes were not misplaced it performed

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Fantastically it went through the obstacle course pretty much without a hitch feel it deteriorating

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My feeling is you're using this to get out of a jam okay in this case would absolutely get you out of this jam

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Well as a fix I'm calling hay plausible yeah

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Only a short-term one though agreed. What's next? Well, I think nature may have some more surprises in store for us

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Next up something fish

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All right, so this next myth is an old fishing myth and it's not about the big one that got away

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This one is about flaming reels okay flaming reels you're gonna have to give me more than that

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All right knows any fisherman knows once the fish is on the line all it wants to do is get away

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All right meaning it takes off in the opposite direction exactly as it's taking off

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It's pulling a lot of line off that reel okay

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I see where you're going with this if the line's coming off fast enough

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It generates friction which creates heat and if you generate enough heat it could burst in the flame hence the name

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Flaming reels and that's the myth can a fish cause a reel to catch on fire

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And it's a myth that's perfectly portrayed in this viral video

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When the hooked fish flees the friction on the spool causes the reel to first smoke and

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Then catch fire

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But is this really real

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All right, so I gotta say right off the bat the physics of this myth add up

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I mean a spinning reel will experience friction and that will generate heat but to generate enough heat to actually combust

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We're talking about a pretty big fish. Well, we do have big fish in our bay. I mean we have sturgeon

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We have shark maybe we charter a boat and see if we get lucky

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Yeah, who knows we could catch a giant monster fish that would fight the line and confirm the myth

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All right, let's hit the high seas. Don't forget to pack your seasick pills. Oh, I won't

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your alarm clock

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Because this is a myth that starts early

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That's ready to catch fish. This is our boat. You bet

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Put the flaming reel myth to the test

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We got up at the crack of dawn and strolled down fish remorseless to get onto this boat

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Wacky-jacky the saltiest sailor I have ever met is gonna take us out sport fishing so that we can see if we can catch a reel on fire

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Now this whole myth is to see whether or not you can create enough friction on your reel

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Then it gets so hot that it actually bursts into flames and that's why we're out here on the bay

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See if we can catch a big fish

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Make that happen a strong fast fish like a sturgeon

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Or a shark could easily create friction to heat up the reel

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But will it be enough to set it on fire?

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Well so far nothing's taking the bait to find out

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It's fishing always this much fun

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After eight hours without a single bite the team decides to head on home

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If we can't catch any fish, I don't know. I mean we've been out here all day and all we have to show for is bait

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Yeah, apparently we are terrible fishermen

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So you want to go back to the shop and figure out a way to do this without actually fishing? That sounds like a great idea

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Later Tori catches the one that got away

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But next will there be tire fix trouble James, baby carriage had wheels just like this

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Since it's creation thousands of years ago the wheel has never really been improved

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Until now as Adam and Jamie reinvented testing mythical methods for fixing a flat

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And with hey a success what's next?

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Next up we're branching out to other solutions for a flat tire

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Yep, next up is surely a clutching at straws type solution

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Or her I will try not to hurt you

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That's a lovely little ski there a branch forced under and then tied to the flat tire

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It's not pretty but fads have said that this really works

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If you want to move something heavy across the ground you got a couple of basic choices really you can do it with a

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Wheel or you can do it with a sled and what we've got here is a makeshift sled

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Built out of a tree branch and some rope it ought to work

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at least for a while

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But will it last for a full lap of their course go?

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Oh

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Well to say it's a slow start would be an understatement

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Eventually Jamie does get a grip yes, yes, but they're certainly not out of the woods yet

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There we go

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After slipping and sliding their way through the first 200 yards of their lap

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They meet the first major obstacle the speed bump

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Which causes their car to come to a standstill

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There's your problem it came out oh I came out yeah

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It abraded through all of the tie ropes up there close to the wheel that was pretty interesting though going down the road sideways

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This track here pretty much tells the whole story you can see the log still in place and then it hits this bump

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It sort of digs in gets yanked out of place and from here on in it's pretty much just momentum

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With the branch busted literally and metaphorically it's on to the final forest fix

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You may see a couple of logs here

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I see a tire once Jamie's got the good wood his next job is to make it as circular as he can

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It's pretty round to me

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Before the guys jump cut their way through the rest of their final improvisation technique wow

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That is without a doubt the ugliest tire change I've ever seen if you saw somebody doing this on the side of the road

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You'd be like can I help you in any way? No, I think I just leave quickly

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Will it work? I don't think I'd want to go very fast on this particular wheel, but it seems like it's pretty solid I

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Think it's gonna be the best one yet. Well, there's only one way to find out

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Working good

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Remember it's only the wheel that they've tinkered with the suspension brakes and steering are all completely untouched

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Okay, here we go speed bump so will the log help or hinder

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I did fine

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It's certainly a case of so far so good, but how will the pot holes fair? I'm nervous about the pot holes

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Not a problem not a problem with both the pot holes and the puddles pass

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It's not long before the myth busters come full circle

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Beautiful

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Well with our first prototype fully tested the myth busters tire company is ready to open its doors for business

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This little baby worked magnificently on our course was in fact the best of all impromptu solutions that he have yet to try

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So log wheel totally confirmed. Yep. Let's go. All right

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As the guys head on home the fixing a flat myth is far from finished

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Later Adam and Jamie hit the town for more fabled fixes

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Check out your dubs homie, but next we're at maximum speed the guys focus on the friction factors

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Can a super fast fish ever set a fishing reel ablaze

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Well, not if the myth busters or anything to go by

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It's fishing always this much fun

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So based on our fishing trip

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I think the only realistic way to actually test this myth is if we build a fake fish

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Well, this is just about a spinning reel creating enough heat to catch on fire

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I mean, we don't technically need a real fish. I mean, we just need a fish substitute that'll pull the line off quick enough

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Okay, how about this we get a go-kart if we're gonna give this a good chance to work and we should use something really fast

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You know the sailfish goes about 70 miles an hour

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It's the fastest fish and a go-kart could totally handle that speed. All right. I'm all in except for one exception

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If we're going straight to the extreme scenario, why don't we load our other bases too?

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Let's find the best real line combination that'll generate the most amount of heat and we use that for our go-kart test

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Agreed. So looks like we're starting out with some bench tests in the shop. Awesome

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So with real fish proving too unreliable the myth busters are going to build their own

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But first they're focusing on the friction factors

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We're gonna start out by testing the line now for this experiment the reel the washers and the lube will all remain the same

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The only thing is gonna change is the line and the lines that we're gonna be testing are monofilament

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Dacron steel cable and braided solid spectrum

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Whichever line generates the highest heat is the one they'll use for their full-scale test

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So this machine will be simulating the fish at the end of the line

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I'll bring it up to speed using the foot pedal and guide it on to the reel

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Then Tori will apply drag and Kerry will see how much temperature we actually get all right

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Let's begin with the 80 pound monofilament test. Okay, right hold on. We're missing one thing

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Just in case this myth is true. We just gotta be prepared. All right, let's do it

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With the safety said

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The guys pulled a 400 yards of line at 20 miles an hour

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All right, we're at maximum speed before Tori engages the drag a kind of braking system

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All right go into full drag

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Which will take the friction up to the max

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Okay, we're at the end of our line. All right, what do you got Byron?

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Look at that things glowing looks like we are maxing out at a hundred and five degrees

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So the good news is that the friction did heat up the reel

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But the bad news is it's nowhere near enough for a flame

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Can Dacron do any better?

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Crank her up to maximum drag here we go

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We're back you can see the heat as it spools look at that well in a word

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No, because neither it we peaked at 112 nor the next fine line the steel

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All right thrown into drag are close to setting the world on fire

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118 degrees which doesn't bode well

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The final fishing line is 500 yards of spectra full speed we are in full drag

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Having a very narrow diameter means more line can fit on the reel which should mean more heat I

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Don't see any smoke. Everything will fire

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Stop that's the end of the line. What do you got?

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158 degrees. I think we have a winner. That's pretty hot

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Peking at an impressive

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158 it's this last line that will be their weapon of choice

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But the lines not the only thing in this lineup

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Now the time real that we've been using so far is a modern lever drag what we're moving on to is

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An older type of real called a star drag now the reason we think that this might burst into flames is this

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The drag all of the plates and washers are

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Encapsulated in this tiny metal cylinder so there's no heat sink to draw the heat away

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It's gonna build up inside of here, and we just might see some flames

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That's the theory winder up a theory that their first new reel

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A star drag four odd rapidly proves in practice

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The star drag is

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Oh

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It's a good start in this real ordeal, but can the four odds big brother beat that benchmark

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Get the net ready we got a big one

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At just 20 miles an hour the star drag rapidly reaches 180 degrees before this happens

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My god

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Wow

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Hey get the first single sure ready

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You guys we got this up to

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245 degrees

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So we've completed a real comparison and this is the winner

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Limiting factor though in our tests was the amount of speed that we could get pulling the line off and the amount of line

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We had now what we've got to do is find some way to get more line off this spool a lot faster

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And to do that take one Marlin

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Mounted on a go-kart

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And head out to Alameda all right first mate you ready for your fishing trip

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This could be the best trip ever for extreme fishing

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Mythbusters style coming up on mythbusters. We answer the question if you ended up with one of these

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Could you replace it with one of these?

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In fixin a flat Adam and Jamie just hit pay-doh

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And that's got them thinking

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Dude, I don't think we're done fixing flats. What do you have in mind?

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I would like to redo this test, but in an urban environment gone

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Well, imagine you're in a city and you've got a flat tire calling mechanic is totally not an option

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But around you you've got all the things you might find in a city metal glass and wood and you've got to use those to

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Improvise a working wheel. I like it. Let's set it up. Okay

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Well at a rainy runway

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It's time to find out

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Look at that our backwood solution lasted all the way to the city well now it's time for some urban solutions

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Absolutely

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While you may see a lovely view of San Francisco behind me through the fog an empty runway and a hundred or so cones

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I see an urban obstacle course in potential Adam and Jamie will each focus on their own urban fix

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But first they need to conjure up a city skate crash course

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And with everything said the urban fixin can commence starting with Jamie

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Technically there's nothing stopping you from rolling on a flat tire other than sooner or later

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You're gonna cut through it and you'll end up on the steel rim

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So I figure let's just try rolling on the steel rim

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It's a typically simple solution from the highlander that begins with him removing their log jam

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Well that worked pretty well

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Sort of and ends with him first wrenching a tire from its rim and then attaching that rim to the wheelbase

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Job done in theory

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As far as writing in a steel rim is concerned

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We've got a couple of things to be concerned about and the first is balance

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This steel rim is a lot smaller than a normal tire and so it makes the car kind of lopsided

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the other thing is that

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The steel is not going to grip the road as well as a rubber tire wheel and so we've got traction issues

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Whether either of these things turn out to be a problem as far as handling

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That's what we're gonna run the course to find out

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Steel rim no tire in three two

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one

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As per JV's prediction the terrible traction makes for a slow start

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Which means reaching the required speed

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Before breaking ahead of the wall is seriously challenging

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Stop

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Nice

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All right, right turn but having not hit the wall

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Jamie's great towards the slalom

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Where despite trying to stay on track he soon gets into a spin

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Oh

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But after a quick recovery all that's left is the parallel part

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Where slow and steady you probably my grandmother

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What's Jamie's rim back on the road to success

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Handling on the steel rim turned out to be not half bad

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You just can't accelerate very fast, but I reckon you can go a fair distance on it

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Well somewhere there's probably a law against leaving massive scratches in the road

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But as far as getting yourself out of a jam, I'm thinking that the steel rim worked pretty great. I totally go with it

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With Jamie's rim firing on nearly all cylinders can Adams mythical fix do any better

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It's round it's metal I think it's perfect

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Without a mechanic to call or a genuine spare to prepare

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freakin heavy

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Adams adamant that this manhole is the perfect wheel

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Standin look at that. Well that size matches. I have a good feeling about the manhole cover

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Being almost identical in size to a real wheel all Adam has to do is cut out some boat holes and then bolt it on

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But will it be better than Jamie's rim?

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That's tight check out your dog told me what do you think of that?

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I like it the manhole cover seems like it's a perfect fit

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But the problem is it's only an inch wide therefore it's not going to get traction

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the other thing is that it's made out of cast iron and

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That is inherently kind of brittle

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So if this puppy hits some kind of a rock or a serious bump, we've got a big problem

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You ready? I'm ready. Oh right. Here we go cast iron manhole cover wheel in

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two one go

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Despite a fire and brimstone start

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Oh, yeah

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It's clear that this time the traction is actually less tragic as Adam gets up to speed

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And back

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With relative ease

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Because the manhole is such a good-sized fit the cars balance is much better

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That actually corners fairly well making its handling much less of a handful

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And when Adam messes up the parallel park

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What was that you said about my parallel parking it's operator error

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Rather than a manhole mishap and we're done check out this wheel

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It's perfect

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I abused the crap out of that thing and there's not a thing wrong with it

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I am really impressed with the manhole cover

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I expected the one place I'd have a problem work with traction and the fact that it's cast iron that it might actually crack when I was

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Skidding to the side like in this lull

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Traction was a problem, but this thing held up to the most abuse I could throw it into the slalom and came back

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I

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Like the manhole cover it's got style. You know work great. I'd say it's plausible plausible it is and you know what?

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It's given me some ideas. All right

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Next on flaming reel the world's fastest fish he drives like a maniac

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Known as the cheetah of the sea the sailfish has been clocked at an impressive 68 miles an hour

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And it's speeds like that that may be able to do this

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Well at Alameda the mythbusters are set to find out

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Now it's time to ramp this myth up

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We were not able to get the speeds that we were looking for in our small-scale test

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Wow and get the first single sure ready

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So we have a much faster fish capable of going up to 68 miles an hour and we have a much longer run

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With the same top speed

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And mass as a record-breaking sailfish Kerry's car is the perfect fish replacement

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She drives like a maniac

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That means it's time to go fishing

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So Kerry is hooked she's gonna take off down the runway going 68 miles an hour at that point

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I'm gonna start adding drag to the reel

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I don't know if this thing's gonna catch on fire, but this fish is going three times as fast as we did in the shop

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This thing's doubling in a smoke

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But upping the speed is not the only change

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All right, Kerry your hook. Are you ready?

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Because they're also doubling the length of the line

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Go for it Kerry

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Will this be the perfect storm they need?

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We're gonna go 130 degrees start is fueling oil

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180

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Over 200

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Kerry sailing at 70 the temperature is sorry

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The real smoking like a chimney man, that's

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530 degrees

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But despite her best efforts Kerry reaches the end of the line before the smoke turns to fire

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So next up we're gonna add more lube now. This is not as crazy as scenarios you might think

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Let's look at the components of the reel the spindle is steel

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There are brass gears inside the washers asbestos all these things have a fairly high ignition temperature

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However the lube that goes inside try get it all in there has a fairly low ignition temperature

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200 400 degrees Fahrenheit. I think this really increases our chances of getting ignition particularly if we add a lot of it

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So with a significant amount of lubrication, that's gonna be a slippery deck of your boat, isn't it?

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It really is now or never for this myth

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From all over right now

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Like last time the temperature of the real rockets

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That is the most out of smoke we have seen on this reel

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But even with Tori spraying oil directly onto the hottest part by the time Kerry's motored her mile. There's still no ignition

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Well, we got a lot of smoke, but still no fire no fire no fire at all

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And that was with a long line the best reel and a lot of lube and the fastest fish we could find

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But you know what this myth is totally busted

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We use the star drag reel which generated the most heat we let line run out for over a mile at

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68 miles per hour

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Lube on the wheel if this isn't gonna cause some sort of flame this myth is busted

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Kerry's right even with the deck moted

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There was still no sign of a simmer it's busted without doubt it's

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Busted but as the saying goes there's plenty more fish in the sea. Maybe there's an even faster fish

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Maybe there's a monster fish. Maybe there's some fish out there that is beyond what we know and

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That is what we're going to do next find a really really really fast

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We'll come back now all this episode we have been looking at innovative ways to replace one of your tires

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If yours goes flat or missing and we've tried some backward fixes those worked out pretty good

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Try to single manhole cover as a replacement for a tire

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We try to straight rim as a replacement and they work pretty good, but we're not gonna leave it there

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No, actually Jamie is interested in what it's like to drive in a car of all four rims

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I'm interested in what it's like to drive in a car that has all four tires replaced by a manhole cover

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So get ready for the race off. You've heard of shirts versus skins now. It's time for the whole covers versus the rims

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In the one-wheel deal

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There was little to separate their two urban fixes

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So now Jamie in his original car

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An atom in a car of his own design

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It's done

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Are going head-to-head in a four-wheel fix finale the goal to see whose urban solution is superior

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Shall we change these puppies out? Yeah

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You like my paint job, you know how I love a good flame pattern

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The plan is simple. I'm gonna put four steel rims on my car

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Adam's gonna put four manhole covers on his car and we're gonna race

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We'll just see who dies better

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With a winner takes all course featuring slalom's barriers and bunting. Oh, that's a proper speedway

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Adam's confident

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This contest is pretty simple the low rider versus the knife

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Nice into the night. I think the outcome is gonna be pretty simple, too

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I think I in the flaming car. I'm gonna smoke the Hoosier

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But Jamie's the man with a plan

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Just like with rubber tires these steel wheels will lose traction if they break free

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So the key to success here is gonna be for me to ride the accelerator so that I don't lose traction

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But I actually do get up speed

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Jamie's right. This track race is all about traction

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Okay, rims versus manhole covers whoever has more will take the title in three

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one

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And right from the word go

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Jamie takes a commanding lead

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Yeah, baby while Adam has just a fraction of the trash

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And although Jamie doesn't have enough control to steer clear of the crash barrier

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He is beating Adam hands down

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Well that didn't go at all like I expected not only did I get no traction and couldn't get up to speed

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Once I did I had very little control correined right into the water pyramid

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And on the slalom

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I'm spinning 360 720s. I have absolutely no traction with these manhole covers

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As I'm doing this I'm watching Jamie

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Sreenly like the turtle from that cartoon slow and steady making his way unnervingly around all of the slalom cones

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And then he goes through the finish line and

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Insusively turns around and waits for me

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Watches me

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and slowly make my way all the way to the finish line

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19 seconds later

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Adam said he was gonna smoke me, but I don't think so I actually whooped it

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I also was really surprised because I thought he had more traction than I did

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Turns out he didn't ain't that the truth

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The manholes impeded by their narrow nature were next to useless

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The rims win what did we learn well?

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I think throughout this whole episode we've learned that a plant tire does not necessarily

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Pretty much every last thing we try work to some degree albeit slow just goes to show a little ingenuity

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I'll take you a long way it sure will let's get out of here

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All right, this myth is busted we went 70 miles an hour the

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Fish can go for over a mile and all we got was smoke and that was giving it the best possible chances of it working

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But I'm still curious can you set a reel on fire by just spinning it fast enough?

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I think it's time we replicate the results well, you know what that means

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We need something that goes faster than any fish ever recorded. We need a super fish

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So back at the runway

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It's time for myth busters extreme fishing take two

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So it's my favorite time of the myth where we replicate the results. We got our boat

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We got a reel we got our line and we got a really big fast fish

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My friends that represents this motorcycle side car professional racing rig

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otherwise known as

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sharkis maximus

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With a top speed of 200 miles an hour

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This road racing sidecar piloted by pro driver Mike Jones

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And his counter balancing assistant is the real deal

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But up in the speed of the fish isn't the only switcher room

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So far we have exhausted everything and we have not been able to get a reel to catch on fire

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So we decided to switch to a more flammable lubricant

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Engine starting fluid now this proved to be the most effective back at the shop

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It is basically ether. It's very flammable has a low ignition temperature

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The only problem is it makes you dizzy and it evaporates quickly

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But we're gonna see how this does on our fishing reel and with that

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All right, you're all hooked up

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It's time for this finale to shape up or ship out ready to go fishing I'm ready

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Oh my god, oh my god, 700 degrees

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How much we got up to 700 degrees red hot we broke the line

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00:40:30,540 --> 00:40:37,380
Despite the daring duo hitting a hundred and forty miles an hour the reel hitting 700 degrees and

457
00:40:37,780 --> 00:40:42,660
Tori adding close to a cup of ether. There was still no ignition

458
00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:45,140
Which leaves just one thing left to try

459
00:40:47,660 --> 00:40:52,420
More speed and for that Carrie is taking no chances

460
00:40:53,700 --> 00:40:59,420
Carrie don't you think that's a little overkill? Oh my god, that is very hilarious

461
00:41:00,460 --> 00:41:06,380
Okay, I'll spray the starter fluid. Let's get our reel on it three two one

462
00:41:07,020 --> 00:41:13,520
Both racer Mike and his mate and the temperature of the reel

463
00:41:29,900 --> 00:41:32,860
The shark speeding at 180 miles an hour

464
00:41:33,660 --> 00:41:37,580
But when the temperature passes 700

465
00:41:39,660 --> 00:41:43,580
This is ridiculous the line melts but doesn't ignite

466
00:41:43,860 --> 00:41:45,620
There is no way this myth is true

467
00:41:45,620 --> 00:41:50,700
But we need to see this thing catch on fire without doubt they got the hottest reel possible

468
00:41:50,700 --> 00:41:56,500
But that heat within the reel was still not enough to ignite their fuel on the line

469
00:41:56,740 --> 00:42:00,980
So as a last resort Tori adds one final ingredient a

470
00:42:01,620 --> 00:42:03,620
1200 degree flame and

471
00:42:05,780 --> 00:42:08,940
Finally no I haven't waiting to see a flaming reel

472
00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:22,140
Finally there's fire in the hole but only thanks to a naked flame burning 500 degrees hotter than anything their fish could create

473
00:42:24,100 --> 00:42:29,140
It wasn't until we introduced an open flame to the reel did we ever see a flaming reel?

474
00:42:29,140 --> 00:42:36,680
This one is busted on every level in fact you might say it's busted hook line and

475
00:42:37,220 --> 00:42:43,220
Sinker what I have to say we've tested this one thoroughly. Yeah, I was a great fishing trip. Should we set sail for home?

476
00:42:43,220 --> 00:42:45,020
Yeah, let's go

477
00:42:45,020 --> 00:42:47,020
Even motorboat and son of a gun you

478
00:42:47,660 --> 00:42:49,660
Old sailor you

479
00:42:53,220 --> 00:42:55,220
Think we're out of gas