{"id":37148,"date":"2020-10-13T10:20:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=37148"},"modified":"2020-10-13T10:21:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:21:40","slug":"80-solid-titanium-crowbar-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/80-solid-titanium-crowbar-from-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"$80 Solid Titanium Crowbar From Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_17847\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YuQ3CWR-Zx4?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Tool:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/Titanium-Pry-Bar-Nail-Puller-Crowbar-Super-Durable-lightweight\/173 866362443\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Titanium Pry Bar, Nail Puller, Crowbar<\/a> (550-650mm)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript:<\/strong><br \/>\nHi, I&#8217;m Sean Michael Ragan, and this is Cool Tools. Here&#8217;s an object which I personally find quite amazing: a 21 inch (that&#8217;s 530 millimeter) crowbar made of solid titanium. It weighs just 1.5 lbs (or 695 grams) and though I don&#8217;t have an identical steel crowbar for comparison, this one is just 14% percent longer but weighs 150% percent more, which if you run through the math correcting for their different lengths and cross-sections, is about what we&#8217;d expect given the relative densities of iron and titanium. There&#8217;s also the spark color test, which is not really a nice way to treat your crowbar, but is a pretty good way to test its mettle, as it were. I bought this guy through a mail-order catalog 25 years ago, which was just 4 years after the break-up of the Soviet Union, where it was originally made. I paid a bit more than $100 for it at the time and considered that not just a good deal but an outright steal. Nowadays, you still can&#8217;t buy these on Amazon but you can get them shipped directly from the Russian Federation through eBay for even less in 2020 dollars than I paid back in 1995: just $80, including transoceanic shipping. At the time of production, the only even remotely similar tool available through Amazon in the US is this little skeletonized twelve-inch nail-puller which goes for almost exactly the same price, but is barely half as long. Alright, thank you for watching. As always, there&#8217;s affiliate links in the description field below the video. If you&#8217;ve seen anything you like, please do check those out, as well as our blog and our podcast over at cool-tools.org. We&#8217;ll see you next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Titanium Pry Bar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":37149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2337],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37151,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37148\/revisions\/37151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}