r/mildyinteresting • • Jan 18 '26

engineering masterminds 👨🏽‍💻 This lock design

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u/shmiddleedee Jan 18 '26

That's a latch. It's also stupid because it can inadvertently open of something pushes into the outside side of the fence.

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u/FrameJump Jan 18 '26

This is more to keep door or gate open while it's in use, not closed.

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u/shmiddleedee Jan 18 '26

Ok yeah that makes more sense.

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u/Meltingteeth Jan 18 '26

These videos are all rendered slop that get posted to Facebook regularly. There's 100 iterations and most of them likely have never been fabricated and will never be used in a practical setting.

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u/Splodge89 Jan 19 '26

I quite like watching them. Not because they’re good, but because it’s fun to shout out how obviously flawed they are and how much of a nightmare they’d be to manufacture or maintain. Not to mention how damn useless they all are.