What the hell is this?

[Sterillium]

At one minute and forty-five seconds... I thought it was some kind of electrical discharge, but it's piling up on the floor... any ideas?


Random YouTube video...

[Marcellus]

my guess is some sort of extrusion process, polymer or something?

Don't think it can be glass or metal as it looks to have touched the guy and he didn't appear to be too injured!

[Dr mtree]

Yes I’d agree looks like a metal wire extrusion process where the timing of the rollovers has gone wrong. Looks very dangerous.

[anonymous-user]

Looks like a molten tube of some sort, think it misses the guy and he must be turned the other way because he soon scarpers when he sees it

[BugLebowski]

Fairly sure that's steel

[Matt Cup]

Metallurgical rolling mill failure.

Here’s another video

https://youtu.be/g9pBvYCHeAA

[Silent1]

It’s hot steel, probably a form of seamless pipe like this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ewA1v-s0Dp4

The leidenfrost effect will probably have saved his skin (literally)

[thebraketester]

~Never mind that.... check out 4minutes! LMAO

[Sterillium]

thebraketester said:

~Never mind that.... check out 4minutes! LMAO

I hadn't seen that bit.

[caziques]

Rolling mill failure,

otherwise known as a "cobble"

[Big Al.]

Youtubes and the like here please:-

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...