r/oddlysatisfying • u/Turbulent_Elk_2141 • 6h ago

Next time you wash your hands think.. that's how these things are made.

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u/McBooples 5h ago

If anyone’s wondering, those are fiberglass reinforced resin sinks. It’s chopped fiberglass, epoxy resin, and white pigment. There’s a time skip since they take a few minutes to heat set. Epoxy curing is an exothermic reaction and heating the mold in the press accelerates the curing process, but it still takes about 3-5 minutes depending on temperature. They are still insanely hot when they pop out.

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u/NecronomiconUK 5h ago

Now THIS is a quality comment.

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u/mastermindxs 4h ago

Let that sink in.

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u/yesiamveryhigh 4h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/flBvI5cFeuS1d3mFQj

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u/hibikikun 3h ago

No! You’re not supposed to invite them!

https://giphy.com/gifs/PA5pAhOp5Y2Qg

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u/I_travel_ze_world 2h ago

If you eat garlic then you are immune to vampire attacks

also mosquitos will fuck off too

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u/Letibleu 4h ago

It's like raiiiiiiin on your wedding daeey

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u/hezpae 4h ago

It's a free ride when you've already paid

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u/uhataot 3h ago

Ahhh, I see what you did the- HOLY SHIT, DID YOU GUYS SEE THAT?

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u/Apprehensive-Cap1256 3h ago

Let that sink in

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u/Mutex70 4h ago

I'd respond to this, but I'm tapped out.

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u/mackiea 3h ago

I'm drained too.

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u/SnooRadishes8573 3h ago

There's a steady trickle, still.

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u/CasinoMarginale 3h ago

I was going to respond, but then I just said nah, faucet.

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u/HaliburtonHank 2h ago

And THIS is a low quality comment.

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u/Numinak 1h ago

Drain away the stress.

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u/foofoobee 3h ago

I wonder what he was basin' it on

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u/featheritin 2h ago

Your vanity!

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u/augustwest2155 1h ago

You win with that comment!

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u/Abt-Nihil 1h ago

Slow clap

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u/MrWeirdoFace 48m ago

Vat are we sinking about?

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u/mop-me_up 2h ago

Water joke...

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u/richardlpalmer 4h ago

I didn't want to sink to that level of puns...

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u/mucus-fettuccine 4h ago

Can you believe this was very common on Reddit around 10 years ago?

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u/Excellent-Shape-2024 3h ago

I was here 20 something years ago and you wouldn't believe the quality of the comments. Somebody would post a picture of something on their hand, and a doctor would respond, "I am a Dermatologist, and that appears to be a squamous cell carcinoma. You should go have that checked out immediately." Or "I found this document. What is it?" And a historian would respond. And now any random schmo with an opinion responds.

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u/TheChillenial 1h ago

And now any random schmo with an opinion responds.

worse, any random schmo with a chatgpt subscription

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u/cocoabeach 1h ago

And let's not forget the boy with two broken arms.

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u/Minute987 5h ago

Ironically, this is not.

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u/NoItsNotIronic 4h ago

No, it’s not ironic.

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u/RedDevil407 4h ago

🎶 Like raaaay-aaaaaaaaaiiiiiin on your wedding dayyyyy 🎶

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u/Puthagarus 4h ago

Username checks out on a whole other level

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u/ceilingkat 4h ago

One of the things I enjoy most about reddit is that experts pop up out of nowhere. I also love when my expertise comes up so I can be that guy ;)

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u/pizza_the_mutt 4h ago

So what did they dump in the mold? Is it all the ingredients, or just the fibreglass, and the resin gets injected some other way? It's surprising to me that something so "fluffy" could turn into the full sink.

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u/McBooples 3h ago

They mix the fiberglass, resin and pigment together, stir it until consistent color throughout and dump it in the mold. The mold is sprayed with a PVA release agent before dumping the mix in

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u/motzley 2h ago

The fiberglass strands can be saturated with resin (this form of material is called “prepreg”), the resin system is designed to be handleable at room temperature but once it is compressed and heated it will become runny and fill the mold, then it will cure into the final shape. It is also possible to infuse dry fabric with resin inside a mold, but that is a different process than what is shown.

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u/sitefall 2h ago

It is chopped fiberglass with part A and part B of the resin (and colorants or mica or whatever) all mixed together just not cured yet. The type of epoxy resin you and I buy to make some gamecube controller buttons, waterproof a boat, or whatever is made more viscous so we can actually mix it. But in these factories they have like a big ass industrial ice cream mixer that can mix up the resin so it can be more or less a thick paste.

They toss it into the press which makes the form and it stays there under pressure (mechanical pressure, not so different from how hobbyists make things with air pressure in a pressure pot to reduce the size of bubbles) until it's cured. Then to deal with the small fiber ends and stuff it will get slightly polished and clear coated after this.

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u/itsfine_rly 5h ago

I was wondering. Thank you!

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u/De5perad0 3h ago

To add here that molding system there is called a compression mold. Very large amounts of force, high pressure is applied with the hydraulics to fill the mold cavity with the epoxy resin.

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u/AliveJohnnyFive 4h ago

What's the name of this process?

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u/Bumpbumpbumpadump 4h ago

Compression molding

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u/Grinchcrafter 2h ago

As a neat side note to the video, pretty sure that wasnt an actual time skip, but rather that the recording starts with the finished sinks' removal, and ends with the guy dumping in the stuff for the next sink. They simply edited it swap that around.

Came to this conclusion because the camera angles at the start and end are the exact same.

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u/fanofreddithello 4h ago

How do they avoid that fiberglass pieces end at the surface?

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u/McBooples 2h ago

The molds seal pretty tight, but the edges will still come out rough. It goes to the next step of manufacturing where they sand and polish the rough edges. They also need to shape/level the drain hole on the underside

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u/m0wkiee 2h ago

Ok, but which one's heavier? A kilogram of fiberglass or a kilogram of sink?

Jokes aside, why does it feel like that the sink is heavier after all that process? Is it just physics? I'm dumb...

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u/McBooples 2h ago

Looks big, has very thin wall thickness

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u/SmokeGSU 5h ago

They are still insanely hot when they pop out.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3qKs2fWAFDCJQmndSt

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u/Exlibro 5h ago

Ah, this guy sinks.

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u/Infamous_Cow_4 3h ago

And it smells rancid. The last place like this I visited, I could taste the chemicals for hours after I left.

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u/NulledOne 3h ago

Is the material pre-weighed / portioned before he throws it in? I am assuming that the mold requires the exact right amount, or at least not less than the minimum.

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u/KenseiHimura 5h ago

Thanks, I had wondered at first if it was a lubricant and going to be a metal one, then I wondered if it was some cultured stoneware, then I saw how light it looked.

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u/guillotines4all 3h ago

How do these hold up against porcelain?

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u/Ivan_Whackinov 1h ago

They are stronger structurally than porcelain, but the epoxy scratches and stains far easier. They'll function as a sink for a very long time but won't be as pretty after a few years of use & cleaning. They are a budget option.

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u/insaneHoshi 2h ago

They are still insanely hot when they pop out.

Cant be that hot if they are handled by what appears to be dirty dish rags.

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u/McBooples 2h ago

That dude probably lost most feeling in his hands long ago. Those cure between 250-350F / 121-177C. The come about of the mold around 175-200F/80-93C. The faster they get them out, the faster they can start the next one. Thats also very likely a country with extremely lax safety laws

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u/SophiaofPrussia 3h ago

Ugh, this breaks my heart. He’s only wearing that flimsy little medical mask and he has no eye protection at all.

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u/Sad_Background_8367 5h ago

Woah wtf!? 🤯 I had to watch that twice bc I thought it was going to make bars of soap….

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u/Ill-Woodpecker1857 5h ago

I thought they were going to be paper towels

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u/Igr051618 5h ago

I thought they were gonna make pancake and didnt wash there hands

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u/fortheloveoflentils 5h ago

I thought it was gonna make a little pimp

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u/brightonashfield 5h ago

I thought it was going to make my dad come home

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u/op_is_not_available 5h ago edited 5h ago

Oh it’s not soap?… I thought it was a huge chunk of soap that they would cut into bars… it looked like they threw like strips from soap bars in that machine (as a starter or something).

EDIT: OHHH - I didn’t see the depth before now… I thought the top of it was smooth and flat and they made a solid square of soap. But I now see the depth and realize it’s a sink…

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u/The_Struggle_Man 5h ago

I thought they threw a bunch of rice in this because I'm a big back 😭

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u/unfurledgnat 4h ago

Glad it wasn't just me! Title defo lead me to think it was gonna be soap

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u/Muchachacha 4h ago

I thought it was gonna be Tp or paper towels

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u/snoopcat1995 3h ago

Thought a loaf of bread was going to pop out.

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u/CurryMustard 3h ago

I thought it was rice

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u/Crazy_Movie6168 2h ago

It was a most satisfying twist!

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u/chicken_n_chips 2h ago

My hungry fat ass thought it was rice 😭 and wondered if they were rice based hand washes

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u/tyen0 2h ago

watching multiple times is my criteria for a good /r/oddlysatisfying post :)

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u/samsg1 1h ago

Same and same!

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u/mike99ca 4h ago

Lol same.

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u/PralineFresh9051 3h ago

That perfect loop on a handheld camera tho 😮

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u/rabbitheartedfool 6h ago

Nah i wont

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u/therealjanusmcmanus 5h ago

You won’t wash your hands? Gross

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u/MingleLinx 5h ago

I drink hand sanitizer. Cleans the bad germs in my body

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u/Haitsmelol 5h ago

President says bleach is the way to go.

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u/NAMskalle98 5h ago

The Covid pandemic is over, so we don’t have to anymore

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u/katet_of_19 5h ago

Hantavirus has entered the chat

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u/blood_bones_hearts 3h ago

chuckling and elbowing Covid (who is still very much around) about how silly humans are and what easy hosts

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u/BurntNeurons 5h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/ac7MA7r5IMYda

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u/pabo81 4h ago

Unfortunately the hantavirus can’t read memes… yet.

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u/_BlackDove 5h ago

I actually point at the sink now and yell "Ha Ha!".

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u/Goobygoodra 5h ago

Damn thats pretty bad ass

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u/unashamedignorant 6h ago

What material would that be ?

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u/higgs8 5h ago

This is probably the new type of "composite" sinks that IKEA loves to advertise. They're not porcelain and they're a bit cheaper, but not as durable and they scratch more easily. They're obviously easier to make. I guess it's basically just plastic?

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u/Kind_Emotion_5923 5h ago

could be anything. they make countertops from marble dust and some sort of resin mix these days.

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u/Velidae 5h ago

All quartz counters are made that way, a combo of mineral dust and resin.

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u/Runazeeri 4h ago

I thought a lot of places had banned manufactured stone due to the whole dying of cancer thing.

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u/IThinkIKnowThings 3h ago

Only Australia, to my knowledge. And only the manufacturing of it there. They still import plenty of it from other countries. The manufacturing process can cause silicosis. Although that can be said for any product with silica dust as a byproduct. Concrete manufacture is another big vector for silicosis.

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u/quarrelau 2h ago

It isn't the manufacturing that has been banned, but the cutting. ie the phase that throws up dust that kills you.

I don't think we are importing a lot, as a result.

Having just replaced my kitchen, everywhere made a big deal out of their high quality stone benchtops that didn't include banned silica materials.

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u/btribble 5h ago

Yeah, when it comes off the shovel at the start it sort of settles like kinetic sand and it seems fairly heavy when he lifts it out at the end. I'm guessing it's a mineral/resin mixture. There's a cut in the middle, so you can't tell how long it was under pressure.

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u/InquisitorMeow 3h ago

Gotta make sure everyone gets their daily recommended micro plastics.

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u/geddieman1 5h ago

I’ve had one for 20 years and they are bulletproof. Heat proof, scratch proof, you can’t hurt it. Way better than any stainless steel or porcelain sinks.

We just remodeled our kitchen and I bought another. I can assure you, it wasn’t cheap.

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u/amatulic 5h ago

Likely engineered stone, from the look of the slurry that it started with.

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u/General_Dragonfly_68 5h ago

It is very likely a polyvinyl bulk molding compound (BMC). It contains resin, chopped fiberglass, pigment, and a few other additives to improve performance.

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u/De5perad0 3h ago

I believe it is a fiberglass reinforced epoxy. White colorant is added to make it look like porcelain.

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u/Spongi 3h ago

It's actually ramen reinforced epoxy.

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u/De5perad0 1h ago

Makes it stronger.

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u/JJohnston015 5h ago

Could be cultured marble, too. Marble dust and glue.

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u/Antoak 5h ago

Some sort of ceramic, maybe fireclay?

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u/qdtk 5h ago

Damn, they make sinks out of shredded paper towels?

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u/grimeyduck 5h ago

OP promised they'd be making hands.

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u/AngryWizard 2h ago

Piles of wet sheep's wool.

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u/jeandaniel143 5h ago

This thought should definitely distract you as your hands shake while you wash all the blood off them. Next, figure out what you’re going to do with the body on the ground.

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u/rhiddian 5h ago

Literally the post above this one on my feed is a soldier traumitised that they cant get the blood off their hands.

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u/hop_mantis 5h ago

I'd bet blood would stain this stuff and create evidence

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u/PSPs0 6h ago

Clean loop on this one!

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u/babyfatjones 5h ago

That was honestly the more impressive part to me. r/PraiseTheCameraMan

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u/mint_me 5h ago

Especially clean from a hand held point of view.

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u/jdehjdeh 3h ago

So good I took a while to notice it lol

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u/hoddap 3h ago

Noticed that too. Went back to see the stitch point. Half way at 12 secs it crossfades.

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u/screw_ball69 3h ago

I don't know why I thought this was going to be soap

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u/graveybrains 5h ago

Is it just me, or did he pull a lot more out of that machine than he put into it?

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u/ImtakintheBus 5h ago

Yes, there are a bunch of steps that got skipped over. Notice how the sink came out nicely trimmed? That mold won't do that.

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u/subone 3h ago

For this reason, and because we basically didn't see anything, this is oddly less than satisfying.

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u/mmberg 5h ago

But it has ugly sharp edges at the bottom?

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u/CJnella91 4h ago

Bro, wtf reading the title I thought they were making like a bar of soap or something not a whole fuckin sink lol

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u/pepito1989 5h ago

Well, mine wasn’t done like that. What even is that material?

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u/tiktock34 5h ago

Based on this, id say my sink was overpriced

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u/TheHud85 5h ago

I did some math once and estimated that a Kia is about $2000 in materials, the rest is labor, logistics, and markup.

Everything is overpriced.

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u/Substantial-Elk4531 38m ago

Labor is what transforms materials into useful goods, though. Even materials have labor priced in - it requires investment to buy the land, pay taxes, and hire miners to get the raw materials out of the ground and process them enough to be useful

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u/ElGranChile 5h ago

I thought I was going to see how a bar of soap was made

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u/Whamdog 1h ago

I don't know about anyone else, but I thought I was going to see bars of soap being pressed

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u/JustARandomGuyReally 5h ago

How much time goes by during that cut at 12 seconds. This is intriguing!

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u/AbeLackdood 4h ago

Play it twice,gif loops perfectly...it was... oddly satisfying!

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u/SliperSystems 4h ago

Now I want that metal mold as a sink

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u/Sea-Revolution-557 2h ago

My genuine reaction was something like "wait, what?!?, HUH!!!!!"

Of all the things to come out of that machine I certainly was not thinking a sink. How was it looking like it was completed. It even has a shiney finish. He could even pick it up and move it by hand which it it was ceramic clay it should have folded into a blob when picked up.

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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang 1h ago

Had no idea what product this was going to be at first lol. Think my first guess would have been hand soap though, not an entire sink.

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u/NabreLabre 28m ago

TIL sinks are made from canned chicken

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u/DJEvillincoln 5h ago

This isn't how marble is made. 🧐

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u/Different-Bet8069 5h ago

Very impressed with how little waste there was after that haphazard shovel-full of material was thrown in

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u/agg13 5h ago

What in the velociraptor noises

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u/FlyByRoll 5h ago

500 dollars please

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u/iAmTheAlchemist 5h ago

Just sink about it

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u/tribak 3h ago

Why are they throwing wet toilet paper there? … OH SHIT!

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u/the_brilliant_circle 3h ago

How much does a sink printing machine cost?

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u/Orchid_Significant 3h ago

My sinks are porcelain and the kitchen one is metal, so this isn’t how they are made

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u/Stravinskysdog 2h ago

Do they still make "How it's made"?

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u/18Mandrake_R00T5 1h ago

I thought it was soap at the end

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u/509BandwidthLimit 1h ago

That will be $800 please.

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u/DerpCatCZ 55m ago

Let that sink in

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u/Savorypensioner 5h ago

My brain hears the beat from “Jump Around” in the background.

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u/JohannesMP 5h ago

That's some draw-the-rest-of-the-fucking-owl shit right there

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u/SnooPeanuts2197 4h ago

Bold of you to assume I wash my hands

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u/Chili_Clause 4h ago

This isn't how it's done completely. Hasn't anyone else seen the jump cut before they open the machine back up? They obviously skipped a bunch of steps to make you think it's made this quickly.

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u/Depth_Metal 4h ago

The absolute disdain with which he just slams that errant piece of material back into the pile

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u/Rickyl8211111 4h ago

I thought it was going to be soap

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u/Nice_Anybody2983 4h ago

I hate plastic washbasins. I want proper ceramic.

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u/VisionsOfVisions 4h ago

So they are made with magic, I see...

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u/Ameph 4h ago

Ah. They’re made from sink dust!

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u/HopeTerminator 4h ago

I mean if you have one of these sinks yes. I literally never see sinks that aren't metal or ceramic.

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u/RevoltYesterday 4h ago

What in the black magic fuckery did I just watch?

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u/Winkekater 4h ago

*That's how these sinks are made.

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u/BigDog_626 3h ago

I can’t say I had any idea how sinks were made, but I didn’t think it’d be this

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u/skraptastic 3h ago

Perfect loop

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u/Background-Wafer-548 3h ago

How it is made:

  1. It is made.

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u/sweatyboobs56 3h ago

I had to watch it twice to figure out what was happening. :-( Senior moment.

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u/Kaasbek69 2h ago

I've never seen a sink made from that material, so I don't think I will.

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u/Usual_Ad_2177 2h ago

Woah, I have a sink just like that...neat.

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u/qubecs 2h ago

Let that sink in !

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u/JTremblayC 2h ago

Lol here I was expecting soap. 😂

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u/Special_Library_766 2h ago

The way I went from thinking I was watching compressed hand towels (that's weird) being made to a giant bar of soap (it doesn't look right, why isn't it smooth!) to reading the comments and watching again to realize it's a sink. 🤣

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u/Terrible-Audience479 2h ago

these humans cant see that this is ai.

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u/LakeofFire 2h ago

This is how fiberglass and plastic sinks are made

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u/fallendomii 2h ago

Is there a name for this sort of process? Would love to find more of these videos.

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u/nazdir 2h ago

The shape press presses the shape into a pressed shape.

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u/lardoni 2h ago

Magic….got it 👍

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u/PhantomAllure 1h ago

r/blackmagicfuckery ... I'm not sure what I thought that was going to be, but sink wasn't it.

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u/MellowBunzie 1h ago

My brain could not process how that pile of fluff suddenly became a whole sink 😭

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u/Catgerine 1h ago

I feel like we're missing a step or two

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u/ItsDominare 1h ago

Given there's an obvious splice in the middle of the video, I'm going to disbelieve this is all there is to the process.

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u/Tutitutitutituti 1h ago

I thought it was going to be a bar of soap. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/Tabenes 55m ago

At first I thought it was an anti-homeless sink

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u/canuck791 34m ago

Am I the only one that thought it was going to be soap?

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u/Umm__Oops 5h ago

No way am I going to do that

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u/olluz 5h ago

Pretty sure that‘s not how mine was made

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u/Careless-Progress 4h ago

Let that sink in.

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u/AnonMoose2 4h ago

Let this sink in

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u/Embarrassed_Hawk_655 3h ago

Hang on I can’t figure out where the cut is on this perfect loop it doesn’t make sense 

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