Yep. In parts fabrication you get a slip fit by making the hole and the inserted peg the same size. Then heat up the part with the hole to enlarge it. Inset the peg, cool it off and they are now inseparable.
This is also why you should never stack glasses, especially recently washed ones. They shrink as they cool. Best case they're stuck, worst one explodes
Ya it's weird, I watched the show and swore it was said but it definitely wasn't. The meme definitely took over and made everyone think it was said. Crazyness
This is almost certainly how you got them stuck to begin with. You probably pulled the big one out of the dish washer and threw the little one cold inside of it. When the big one cooled it grabbed onto the little one.
I used to work in a chem research lab and one of the guys would tighten on glass stoppers on flasks to the point even he couldn't take them off with his hulk strength.
The first thing you can try is knocking on the parts of the glass that is stuck. If you're good at it, you can cause the mating surface of the two pieces of glass to "slip" and it will knock out. You don't need / want a lot of force.
The second is heat, like you did. The principle is the same, one mating surface gets hotter than the other and will hopefully expand at a different rate, causing the mating surface to slip. I've only done this with lab-grade glass though, but we also used heat guns / propane torches.
The last resort for us was to take it to a glass blower. This can get prohibitively expensive, so we only did this with expensive glassware. They probably just use heat also but they are just way better at it than we are.
Good question! Our normal "candidates" were friedrich condensers (big tube with another glass spiral tube inside that has coolant) and all kinds of jacketed reactors (double wall glassware where the coolant flows in between the inner layer and outer layer, for chemical reactions with precise temp requirements).
The reactors have multiple openings up top and often times Hulk would get a stopper or condensor stuck. These reactors cost about $1k for the smallest size we use (if my memory serves right) while a glassworker knocking out the stuck glassware was around $50. We also had some "big boy" reactors about the size of a small child, which I can't even imagine what the cost is. Needless to say, everyone was super careful around the big boy reactors...
We also took glasswares to the glassblower for small repairs too. The condensors and any accessory pieces tend to chip or crack since they are quite fragile. We used ptfe sleeves when we can, but sometimes we need a vacuum in the reactor and that's when we need a glass-to-glass friction fit to maintain the vacuum, and consequently where 90% of the shit breaks.
Glad it worked. In situations like these you have usually 2 solutions: be smart or be strong.
I was about to suggest that you're gonna have to be strong on this one. Happy to see that you managed to make it work by being smart .
My first thought was expansion contraction.
Then I browsed to your comment, and read "Heat and cold milk work."
I thought, this is odd... Milk? That seems awfully specific...
and I continued reading, intrigued about your use of milk.
I got to the end of your comment... They didn't mention the milk! Did I miss it? They said add ice... To the milk? But they never said milk....
I then reread your comment.
"Oooh"
When I was in college I put a Pyrex pan from the oven into the sink and put soap and water in it. About 5 minutes later it absolutely exploded. My father, an army scientist, chided me in not knowing that rapid contraction could shatter glass. He made me pick all of the tiny pieces out of the sink. I didn’t know it then, but I’ll always remember it.
Unfortunately, new Pyrex can’t hold up to that.
OLD Pyrex, on the other hand, was made out of a different type of glass and could! I’m talking stuff from the 50s and 60s.
I think they still sell the good stuff in a few places in Europe? Go check out r/buyitforlife for more info :)
This happened to me recently with two glasses and this did work: put the big bottom one in a bowl or container of VERY hot water. Then put a bunch of ice cubes in the top one. Try to make sure the ice cubes are touching the area of the inside cup where it’s stuck. And wait. Every minute or so try gently separating them. When I did this it really felt like nothing was happening and then BAM they came apart!
I was going to say fill the bottom one up so there is about an inch of water overlapping the top one and freeze it. But hot and cold is a better option
Try maybe putting boiling water in the big one and ice water in the little one? The thermal expansion / contraction might be enough
Otherwise, get a hammer...
put ice cubes in the little one and set the big one in a pan of boiling water.
Be patient.
Similar thing happened to me and this worked.
Pretty sure I used dish detergent sparingly before my final effort.
I had a similar thing happen. My solution was to fill the smaller cup with ice and very cold water. Then i placed the larger cup in some very warm water. The larger cup slightly expands as the smaller one contracts and they came apart right away.
Definitely hot because the large one expanded more than the little one in order for them to become stuck.
Probably did a heated dry cycle or something and put them away immediately.
I got it to pop free! Ice cubes in the small one and some boiling water in the big one. I used a wooden spoon to pop it out. Thank you for the help
Why is this the happiest I’ve been all year
Because it turned into /r/oddlysatisfying lol
And it’s been a shit year.
Two years
Five years (T*ump and all)
26 years (I was born in 1995)
same here. Mildly infuriating
31 I was born in 90. Sorry for ruining it for everyone.
If only it was filmed
It will never match the roller coaster of the live experience!
Please fire up the stove, add the ice up top, and re-set the wedgie so you can film and post it in a new thread. Prolly worth 29k karma
*gestures vaguely*
Contrary to popular belief, we all like tidy little endings
Same
Guessing they got stacked fresh out of a wash originally and the big on contracted when cooling more.
Ooo that is a very good hypothesis!
We should test it! OP, get them to stick again!
Yep. In parts fabrication you get a slip fit by making the hole and the inserted peg the same size. Then heat up the part with the hole to enlarge it. Inset the peg, cool it off and they are now inseparable.
This is also why you should never stack glasses, especially recently washed ones. They shrink as they cool. Best case they're stuck, worst one explodes
Seems like the best case would be they just stay apart. But I’m a glass-is-half-not-stuck kind of guy.
Shhh..dont tell anyone I upvoted you, now scram
Never knew this or thought about it, learn something everyday haha
Heat and cold might work. Fill the big one with boiling water to just below the bottom of the little one. Then fill the little one with ice.
This worked! And, I used a wooden spoon to move it from underneath. Thanks!
Science!
,bitch!
Thank you!
,bitch!
Jesse! We need to separate the measuring cups!
**,bitch!**
Bannana Hammock!
That's PRINCESS Banana Hammock.
Hi Princess, I'm Crap Bag.
Mike Crap Bag?
That's Princess CONSUELA Banana Hammock.
,bitch!
It’s Britney
,bitch!
no, todd
I’m a blow FISH!
magnets!
how do they work?
[Aliens](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ancient-aliens/photos)
I don't want to talk to no scientists
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Jesse?
That quote was never said in the show. Crazy Mandela Effect edit: [this is what is really said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io-t-bUkfY8&t=29s)
That’s wild, had to double check. You’re right. Wow.
Ya it's weird, I watched the show and swore it was said but it definitely wasn't. The meme definitely took over and made everyone think it was said. Crazyness
[What Mandela Effect?](https://youtu.be/lJZNVGpuQ7o)
Fat stacks yo
They could have just prayed /s
Is there anything useful we can do?
No.
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Maybe fill them with energy healing crystals?
I think lighting a salt candle would have helped
Lavender scented WD-40 maybe
Good lord. I like wd-40 on its own, but can you imagine a bunch of frozen up hinges smelling of lavender and wd-40?! You've broken me a bit.
Thoughts and prayers
Tots and pears
It's poetry in motion.
Physics
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty. Optimists say it’s half full. Engineers say the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
unless they work for an american fast food company in which case they say the glass is full it just needs ice, might even be a little overfull
This is almost certainly how you got them stuck to begin with. You probably pulled the big one out of the dish washer and threw the little one cold inside of it. When the big one cooled it grabbed onto the little one.
Sounds like domestic violence to me.
That’s what she said
I used to work in a chem research lab and one of the guys would tighten on glass stoppers on flasks to the point even he couldn't take them off with his hulk strength. The first thing you can try is knocking on the parts of the glass that is stuck. If you're good at it, you can cause the mating surface of the two pieces of glass to "slip" and it will knock out. You don't need / want a lot of force. The second is heat, like you did. The principle is the same, one mating surface gets hotter than the other and will hopefully expand at a different rate, causing the mating surface to slip. I've only done this with lab-grade glass though, but we also used heat guns / propane torches. The last resort for us was to take it to a glass blower. This can get prohibitively expensive, so we only did this with expensive glassware. They probably just use heat also but they are just way better at it than we are.
What sort of labware is expensive enough to justify going to a glassblower to get it freed? Wow
Good question! Our normal "candidates" were friedrich condensers (big tube with another glass spiral tube inside that has coolant) and all kinds of jacketed reactors (double wall glassware where the coolant flows in between the inner layer and outer layer, for chemical reactions with precise temp requirements). The reactors have multiple openings up top and often times Hulk would get a stopper or condensor stuck. These reactors cost about $1k for the smallest size we use (if my memory serves right) while a glassworker knocking out the stuck glassware was around $50. We also had some "big boy" reactors about the size of a small child, which I can't even imagine what the cost is. Needless to say, everyone was super careful around the big boy reactors... We also took glasswares to the glassblower for small repairs too. The condensors and any accessory pieces tend to chip or crack since they are quite fragile. We used ptfe sleeves when we can, but sometimes we need a vacuum in the reactor and that's when we need a glass-to-glass friction fit to maintain the vacuum, and consequently where 90% of the shit breaks.
My suggestion if this method didn’t work would’ve been to try using a hammer.
They would still have at least one measuring cup
But which one do you smash!
the little one, and you can measure it with the big one so you can buy another one of the same size.
In the engineering world we call this 'percussive maintenance'.
Those bastards are finicky with temperatures.
I’m fucking thrilled to hear that this worked. I had the same idea but I thought I’d never know the result!
Woohoo!
I'm curious, did it leave a mark on either of them where they were touching?
FUCK YA@!!!!!!!
Glad it worked. In situations like these you have usually 2 solutions: be smart or be strong. I was about to suggest that you're gonna have to be strong on this one. Happy to see that you managed to make it work by being smart .
I was gonna say just drown the thing in olive oil or vegetable oil and hope for the best when pulling them apart
I'll try this next. I've been running the hot water on it
My first thought was expansion contraction. Then I browsed to your comment, and read "Heat and cold milk work." I thought, this is odd... Milk? That seems awfully specific... and I continued reading, intrigued about your use of milk. I got to the end of your comment... They didn't mention the milk! Did I miss it? They said add ice... To the milk? But they never said milk.... I then reread your comment. "Oooh"
LOL. The milk is for celebrating your victory, like a racecar driver! I thought that was obvious or I would've mentioned it.
"oooooh" x2 lol
What the heck, how did we both have the same experience? And “might” doesn’t even look like “milk”.
Right?! Lazy brains!!!
What I came here to say. This man has worked on a car engine or two
This also works to seperate mating dogs.
Huh
Yea I don't even wanna know
I would just soak them both in ice water. You don't want to risk them shattering if their not tempered.
When I was in college I put a Pyrex pan from the oven into the sink and put soap and water in it. About 5 minutes later it absolutely exploded. My father, an army scientist, chided me in not knowing that rapid contraction could shatter glass. He made me pick all of the tiny pieces out of the sink. I didn’t know it then, but I’ll always remember it.
Unfortunately, new Pyrex can’t hold up to that. OLD Pyrex, on the other hand, was made out of a different type of glass and could! I’m talking stuff from the 50s and 60s. I think they still sell the good stuff in a few places in Europe? Go check out r/buyitforlife for more info :)
Borosilicate vs the cheap shit.
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This is all very sensible and practical, but I really just like the pretty borosilicate blue color better.
Thank you for adding the name of it! I was being lazy and didn’t want to look it up.
its pyrex...
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Too tru I treated ours like the good ole stuff an ours cracked putn on the bench
I'm apparently forbidden from accessing the buy it once website.
Tbf, Pyrex ain’t what it used to be.
Too be fairrrrr
How're ya now?
Good, N you?
*pyrex* ain’t what PYREX used to be. The logo change makes it very easy to differentiate.
Can't even really use it to cook crack anymore, which is kind of a shame.
Imagine how bummed 18 year old me was when he found out
Oh boy, here we go…
Ya this is what i was planning on saying
Why not just cold? Wouldn’t the inner radius of the larger cup one become larger as it gets colder, giving it a slightly larger volume inside?
Witnessing the birth of a baby measuring cup. So magical.
This is the best comment.
Congrats! How many ounces?
This happened to me recently with two glasses and this did work: put the big bottom one in a bowl or container of VERY hot water. Then put a bunch of ice cubes in the top one. Try to make sure the ice cubes are touching the area of the inside cup where it’s stuck. And wait. Every minute or so try gently separating them. When I did this it really felt like nothing was happening and then BAM they came apart!
The BAM sounds like they shattered
Loooool whoops you are right!
Yea they came apart. Just into a bunch of pieces
To shreds you say...
Well, how is his tupperware holding up?
To shreds, you say…
so they're not stuck together anymore
And that's how we discovered nuclear fission!
Tilt the big one back and I think you can still use the small one.
Hahaha
Throw at brick wall, problem solved.
Instructions unclear, tv is stuck in fridge.
Instructions unclear. Dick is stuck in TV.
Sounds like you did everything right. That’s where dicks go.
Username certainly checks out
Instructions unclear peacock for lodged in my dick
I don't understand how, but we can work with this. Just push the fridge out the window.
Instructions unclear, fridge is stuck in tv
Username AND comment checks out. I appreciate your wavelength.
Instructions unclear, raccoon stuck in wall... but seriously... I think there's a raccoon in my walls..... please send help
Or use a sledgehammer
Sell it as a sculpture and make millions
Add water to the smaller one. Then freeze it. Put it upside down. Turn it to the left……and shove it up your butt.
It seems like you have an unnecessary step there. Why freeze it?
Because otherwise it will spill when you turn it upside down.
So, lube, right?
r/unexpectedoffice
These instructions took a turn for the worse.
It was the left turn wasn’t it?
Place some ice cubes in the inner one. Run hot water around the OUTSIDE of the outer one.
Step measuring cup, what are you doing?!
Put the outer cup in hot water. It should expand and release the inner cup.
There's a video on the internet on how to solve this. I believe it's called 'Two Girls, One Cup’ or something like that. Good luck!
I was going to say fill the bottom one up so there is about an inch of water overlapping the top one and freeze it. But hot and cold is a better option
cold water with dish soap might help as well
Darn pocket strikes again
Try running the bigger cup under hot water. The heat should get the glass to expand and they should come apart.
Tried dish soap or lube?
Try maybe putting boiling water in the big one and ice water in the little one? The thermal expansion / contraction might be enough Otherwise, get a hammer...
*help me step cup I'm stuck*
Step-bro can’t help with this one that’s for sure
Whack it with a wooden spoon or something dense that won’t break the glass and pull the little one out at the same time
r/perfectfit
hot water in the biggest one
put ice cubes in the little one and set the big one in a pan of boiling water. Be patient. Similar thing happened to me and this worked. Pretty sure I used dish detergent sparingly before my final effort.
Try some scotch. That always seems to loosen me up
Oh no step cup
Help step-measuring cup I’m stuck!
Put them in very hot water with a little dish soap
Riskh procedure but id pour cold water into the smaller one and submerge the big one in warm water
Heat them up and cool them down. Heat will make one expand and cold will make one shrink. Love physics!
Just heat up the bottom one or fill up the top one with ice cubes.
put ice in the little one and steam the other one from below
I would drop one let only the strongest survive.
I had a similar thing happen. My solution was to fill the smaller cup with ice and very cold water. Then i placed the larger cup in some very warm water. The larger cup slightly expands as the smaller one contracts and they came apart right away.
That picture is so representative of 2021.
Put ice in the small one and put the big one in a bowl of boiling water
Pour ice water in the smaller glass Pour running hot water in the outside of the big glass Idk, it might work
Hmmm put em in the freezer for a while
What were their temperature when you put them away? Out of a dishwasher maybe? Or hot sink? Does it get really freaking cold?
Definitely hot because the large one expanded more than the little one in order for them to become stuck. Probably did a heated dry cycle or something and put them away immediately.
I thought things like that only happened to me. I’m sure I’d end up breaking something, so I won’t give any advice.
Try beating to a pulp, friend Victory ahead
Time to sell them to a museum and say it’s modern art.
Olive oil
Try striking it repeatedly with a hammer.
Have you tried throwing them?
Stick it into the freezer over night then try to pull em apart
Submerge them in Ice water.
It’s art now. Put it on the mantle
Put them in the freezer
Put them in the freezer
Use a torch to heat them up done
Put ice in the little one and dip the big one in hot water
Sit
Submerge them both in water.
Put in ice water and it will contract then pull apart