The lock picking lawyer is gonna release a service tutorial on this one

Looks fragile and would never work… I’ll take 2 please haha

I don't know if I'm looking at a lock, a ratchet or a revolver!?😂

Looks very good machined, but it also looks like it's very sensitive and I'm not sure how it will react on high torque. The smaller you build things the harder it is to make them robust enough.

When you combined a machinist and a locksmith!!!

Damn, watching this for the last 568 hours and he is still spinnig it!

Looks extremely good for torque when clean and new, I just wonder how those little springs and pins are going to hold up to dirt and moisture.

No, the upper and lower pin are in phase. So they are operating in 3 phase. Every 4th pin works together. The nice thing is how quick it would engage. You would have to use a really light lube to avoid gunking up the pins. There is not much contact area, and the contact area is angled so it pishes in the direction of movement, but also pushes out against the hub bearings. So it wants to push the hub open as torque is applied. As the bearings wear out, there is a chance it would slip under heavy torque.

past a certain price point it goes from being a matter of functionality to a matter of how satisfying the sound is. it does sound nice but i can’t imagine it functions any better than traditional ratchet pawl hubs. and for those complaining about grime/etc, all low-backlash hubs have the same issues. with pawls, they get gummed up and stick disengaged, and they slip. if you want to beat on your bike and not clean it, don’t spend several hundred dollars on a hub?

This tickles my brain in just the best kind of way...

Maintaining parts til they break, this doesn't look friendly with grease. It could work with transmission oil, but it'd need to be sealed. But in any situation, I wonder how long it would take to round the edges off the pins and latching mechanism

Notice how the pins are staggered? Thats probably to limit the slop when the drive reengages. However it also means ALL of the force is directly on ONE of those pins! Imagine how quickly those would shear off

Seems like a terrible direction to side load those pins against the bores they ride in. I'd like to see what comes of it but my first impression is that its not ideal.

I love mechanical sounds.. I remember growing up before they electrified everything we used springs for everything. I was using a hand crank the other day and it snapped back and the sound of the spring reverberating in the cabinet sounded just like my childhood ❤😂

I just think its fucking amazing the shit that we can design..if the design may not seem feasible for the application build it and share it you never know who can use it for something else

Looks awesome but id wonder about the heat all the friction on the sides of the pins would produce after a long coast. Even with grease it would eventually warm up id think

I have always been curious about how that worked 💪🏾

That’s so relaxing to listen to which is so odd to say.

As a bike mechanic. This little vid curled my toes. Amazing tech.

Why do this look like a mix of Chris King and traditional pawed freehubs?

i always wondered if loud hubs loose more energy through friction

Those tiny pins are gonna sheer so fast

I just don’t know if this amount of complexity is feasible. It looks like so much could go wrong. I’ll take 10

As an engineer/machinist, it's beautiful! As a cyclist, it's too expensive.

The sound is amazing in headphones

I keep imagining one with a drum brake type of engagement where as soon as it goes in the right direction plates expand out into a cylinder griping it. The harder you peddle the more it presses into the drum. For now I am happy with the best design yet, Onyx

Best believe we pulling it apart and stretching them springs to changed the noise 😉🤣😅

That looks hypnotic, and I love it

It sounds pretty. It looks pretty. I love how there's no room for backslip. I have concerns about what happens when actual torque is applied.

Looks interesting and as long as they can seal the mechanism completely, it should work. If they can’t, then when the pins gum up it’s over. The failure mode would likely be stuck in the compressed position so it wouldn’t lock anymore. Time will tell I guess.

This is exactly what I want my back rim on my bike to sound like

My engineering brain is in love with this

i like how they machined the lines for the top of the pins to snap off uniformly.

How much friction would you like to ride with? -YES!

Looks like it can take some torque, but all that friction would make for one hell of a back-drag on the output.

Looks super draggy

At first I thought it was a new radial engine design 😂

Best fidget toy so far!

Incredible. The next Kappius Components.

My youtube feed is so diverse I couldnt tell if this was a lock design, a revolvers cylinder for a new gun, or a weird socket wrench ratchet tool

That is so satisfying, reminds me of something in my childhood.

This is how modern high quality ratchet spanners are made. This would be as tough as a nuclear bunker

Lmao i thought this was a new style of ratchet wrench 😂

So satisfying to watch

This is a freewheel mechanism of the freehub type. The most reliable ones use big loud clicky pawls, or star ratchets. This assembly of fine pins and tiny springs has no business being on a bicycle hub that will be lubed with grease and operated in temps from -10c to +45c.

I watched 3 times. Só satisfying.

Great concept. Now let's say we scale it about 100% and start working on some space stations.

The side load is fully supported by metal... A decent bit of it too i do think you could work this better though, only need like 4 throughout the entire cylindrical face... Could space them out more to increase bore size of those lil guys but still would work

That looks pretty cool for anything needing zero back lash

this is relaxing ❤

Id make sure the angle of the attack angle is pulling the pins in, and actually locking the mechanism. Otherwise this eill just slip under any high torque

It is for rear bicycle rim... Just in case you were wondering what you're looking at.

One third of the teeth are immediately engaged, so there is no chance of load being applied when the teeth might slip a notch. This may be a feature in search of a problem. Do dtswiss teeth wear out?

I thought this was a new revolver lockup mehcanism at first, very appealing to the eye and ears.

Now I can chase tiny hub springs across the room.

Wild. Spring break is just around the corner.

Assuming there's going to be cross hub engagement, this thing seems like it would have like 12-16 pins. Imagine the engagement and noise from the standard 6.

Omg 2024 is sooo beautiful thank you

This just looks like an amazing fidget spinner to me lol

I feel like they're definitely gonna shear pretty quickly

This would be great for electronics work, but wouldn't want to replace my alternator with it.

Absolutely zero slop! I love it!

I want this for all my rotary controlled devices 😂

I could stay lost in that moment.. forever!

This sound is so satisfying to me

Imagine going downhill with this hub🤤🔥

Love the sound.

When they twisted it slowly, it sounded like the smallest Harley Davidson.

That is very satisfying to watch

There has to be more footage to this video clip, it's the before and after.

Okay so i imagine the conscept here is a tighter fitting ratcheting mech, and an infinite ratchet method

The lockpick lawyer has the key to this already

damn this ratchet gonna go with BRRRRRRT

That sounds so good.

Needs to be implemented into ratchets for toold

If **FOUR** *Pins Engage* (at a time), this may be as good as I9... I still *prefer *ONYX** and *DT-Swiss* Hope Hayes King Hubs before Industry9... I say *"Four PIN Engagement"* because the *cutaway* is representative of ¼ or 25% of the Hub, and it does sound 'concerted', that is; it sounds like multiple pins are clicking at nearly the exact same time as you see each 'single' pin 'click'...

Mesmerizing!

This is how diving watch bezels work. But with 1 plunger.

I feel like it's 1989 and my older brother is showing off his bike

Sicherlich ein gutes Konzept um wenig Leerbewegung zu haben bis der Freilaufkörper die Nabe dreht, aber garantiert nicht sehr haltbar bei hohem Eingangsdrehmoment.. PS: krasser Sound, wenn man darauf steht 👌🏼

It looks like those pins aren’t engaged at the stake time. That would give the indexing three times the number teeth on ratchet. All the load would be on a single pin.

now this is asmr

The sounds give my brain the good itch 😩

Maintenance NIGHTMARE 😂

Strong as a chinchilla wrist!❤

Yet, the fuel pump still has to stop 37 cents early a cold and rainy day!!

I see pins failing, between going out of round because of too many engagements, and sticking once debris gets in all those springs.

I'm pretty sure they've already cracked this mechanism. What do we need to keep reinventing the wheel (literally)?

I assume it's meant for low speeds, any faster than 1000 rpm and those pins are getting erased

Love the sound

Now thats a true fidget toy

We who watched more than once.. 👇🏼

Anything with spring-loaded pawls or dogs are cool.

it looks like they are sequenced so that some are in the locked flat position and others are on the incline, which seems like it would make it super weak

Stop it you're driving me crazy😅

Sounds great

Красота и минимальный люфт

Would it be wiser to rotate the angle of those spring loaded pins 90° clockwise?

What would happen if you had one pawl facing the other way? What if it was manually actuated instead of self actuated.

What this looks good at is engagement with near zero play and smooth coasting. What is concerning is the small number of pins taking that shearing force at any given point in the cycle. I'd take slightly more slop in exchange for having six or more pins fullyengaged at a time. This looks like it does between 2-3 at most. Still, really cool concept.