They gave you the solid shaft when you paid for it

"Serviceability" of a Used Hand-grenade

"I don't know why it would need bluetooth support..." Chaturbate: *THE FUTURE IS NOW, OLD MAN*

"oh no, oh god oh fuck oh shit he did a video on it" - Theragun corporate

waiter: would you like smell the wine sir? ave: I didn’t bring my soldering iron

"The wife likes it" *Proceeds to tear it to pieces*

Prediction: the DIY version is a sawzall with a racquetball securely fastened to the business end using HPHT .

Baby doll is gonna be pissed when she sees what you did to her new man.

no gloves when tearing down a schmoo filled engine, wears gloves in all videos where the tool can double as a womans best friend.

Hope it goes back together, or it'll be a $1,600 unit.

I thought it was 1/2" drive there for a minute.

Pal, you successfully touch people and make them feel better in the most misanthropic way possible: through youtube videos. You never have to meet us, we never have to meet you - and yet somehow, you're still making people happier.

Its 11:45 and I'm watching a guy dismantle a $800 drilldo...

AvE: "It ain't skookum!" Mrs. AvE: "But it chooches!"

My sister is a physical therapist. She hates it when i introduce her as a massogynist lol

I love this guy. He is freaking hilarious and knows his shit.

Structurally flimsy, hollow on the inside, and wrapped in fancy outer layers to overinflate its perceived value. This thing is a spitting image of the people who decided to market it for $800.

Time to get the sawzall with the “silicone sculpture” out.

"She loves the jeezless thing." Hope you can get it put back together right or that you have a really comfy couch.

"I don't like to be touched". I think you've already been "touched"... bless your heart.

In defence of the hollow shaft... We'll often spec them for aircraft components to save weight, and seeing as that's a reciprocating part, as long as it's designed to cope with any expected load, it will put less stress on the rest of the contraption and require a smaller counterweight to balance the rotation, further lowering the weight to the user.

Not seeing the $800, good for them for making 3584% profit lol.

I’be desperately needed this thing for 30 years. I’ve had half a dozen other massage guns and they all bog down when I push as hard as I need to. This one is so powerful that I physically can’t bog it down.

Watching this thing come apart begs the question of the 21st century: "Why does everything have to suck?"

The bluetooth is there to warn the user when the spouse is near !

In the next episode: Ave attaches phallic shaped massaging end effector, known for its unmatched messaging abilities, to the end of Milwaukee reciprocating wood butchery device. Affectionately naming the creation a Massage-All.

This is why I appreciate your channel. You and EEVblog are top tier channels when it comes to teardowns and proper humor.

“Thick ropey scent”... you sir are a poet

Suddenly millions of men are waiting to see AVE and his homebrew solid shaft.

My wife calls her personal masager John Redcorn. She says he works wonders treating her chronic headaches.

"Ridley Scott alien abortion motif" cracked through my depression )) thank you sir

It's be interesting to see the teardown of a $80 version of one of these. Same concept, just lighter build and cheaper. But some of the copies have a nicer mold than the Theragun

But it has the blue highlight! what do you mean it’s not worth $800? -marketing department

4R7 is 4.7uH inductor, weird markings I know. CC2541 is a Texas Instruments Bluetooth SOC

The reciprocating mass of a solid shaft would make the contraption difficult to use because they couldn't offset the vibration. Anyone who's used a reciprocating saw for a half hour can relate.

literally no better product reviews. Actually know what you're buying. been a followed for a long time, keep it up man. you have alot of knowledge that i love listening to!

$790 worth of plastic, $10 worth of tool.

"I Mainly just make people feel pissed off." I wasn't expecting to be described in this video...

These have been popping up like weeds demanding a premium price tag. Somebody is laughing all the way to the bank.

@Ave A lot of people don’t understand how this works. They think it’s a massager but that’s just the term used so that all of the other people that don’t understand anatomy and physiology can grasp what this does. When you have a “knot“ under the skin in your muscles, you have soreness from working out, or your muscles are tight… There’s several things that have occurred. One of them, which is one of the primary causes, is lactic acid buildup. This is in addition to other things but for layman‘s terms we’re going to keep it simple. You could knead and massage the area yourself, but your hands get tired very quickly and are only so effective. Since the fastest way to move things inside the body is by using blood, that is what this device relies on essentially. When a percussion occurs repeatedly impacting the skin, on a subcutaneous level it draws blood to the area. That’s one of the reasons why the area where you use may turn slightly red. It’s blood rushing to the area, and by doing this your body also draws the blood away afterwards and with it the lactic acid among other things. This helps to remove some of the lactic acid and help the body to expedite reducing inflammation, and removing things that are causing the pain/tension/knots, etc. So in the case of this device: it’s not just a massager, it actually has a significant physiological benefit. There’s a reason it’s popular, and devices like this. And it’s not just because it’s hype. Devices like this have been used for years and years, especially by chiropractors, physical therapists, massage therapists, etc. But only in the past few years has a personalized, small, handheld device for a personal use become available. And that is what makes this so popular because it is not only effective, but portable and for personal use.

Those tight gloves are putting me in that uncomfy valley something awful.

You have weird dough mixers in the colonies. Next episode - how to straighten a pin punch.

Glad to see a new video. They had been pushing these pretty hard on TV. Glad you showed us what makes her chooch. Commentary is top shelf as always, the item has plenty of room for 4th grade humor, which I have not graduated from. Thanks

I think the hollow shaft is for weight reduction, to keep the tool better balanced, since I see a bunch of counterweight material in the areas that move in a circular motion. Unless you use magnesium to make the rod, which would also make it convenient when trying to start a fire while camping 😎👍🏼

Insert a John Redcorn joke about migraines

Putting an inordinately high price on something is, itself, a sales technique.

You've been touching me and making me feel better for years!

just stumbled onto your video and it brought back a flood of childhood memories of tearing things apart. I'm looking at a Scubajet for my work but they are stupid expensive. I'd love to see what it looks like on the inside.

That “shaft” reminds me of tube steel foldable lawn chairs past.

The home brew version is going to result in this: "Our surgeons did what they could, but it took them two hours just to get the smile off his face." Guaranteed.

Ave I just about died @8:05.....when you said that magic word the way we all do at that exact same moment was priceless!!!

Only comedian that can handle his tool and sniff burned plastic while not getting thrown out of the venue. Bravo

BRO the SM joke had me DYING.

Heragun, Theragun, everywhere a gungun.

Dude I've watched alot of your videos, this has to be one of the funniest

First video of yours I've ever seen. Instant sub on account of seeing tool reviews

The wife loved so much the “therapeutic” properties of the device, that faster than a lightning bolt our friend using gloves (a first) dismantled the device to a point of no return!!!!! I would do the same. We don’t like competition!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

just slap a door knob on the end of a jigsaw

Lol....The Ra Gun....had me already 16 seconds in. BTW I was recommended one of these a little over a year ago for my back, I have a T7,T8,T9 compression fracture, and it does help...I also used it when I tore my achilles to loosen the muscles when I rehabbed...it works...looks funny how could it not be a joke, but it does what it’s ment to do. Sadly seeing how it’s constructed is mind blowing.

I work for Mar-Bal in NE Ohio and we make glass reinforced composite products. It does wear out the tooling quicker but not as fast as you'd think. It all depends on the glasd fiber content and how polished the tool is. We have a few molds that are over 40 years old and operate at least 2 shifts a day with only minor repair.

The poor man in the row boat is Gunna end up with concussion ?

Sawzall with a tennisball on the end minus the toofers boom done

I haven't yet upgraded to the smell-o-vision model, but I'd hazard to guess at PC-ABS on a device like that. gets great gloss and texture, which is clearly more important to them than holding up to years of hard use by 200-lb gorillas

First time back to Ave in about two years.. 8 minutes in.. Tappy tap tap... God it's good to be back 😍

After a few years of Ave I now actually understand about 90% of "Avish"

AvE: World's first "Hand Tool Sommelier!" "Far more waxy, it doesn't smell like straight sewer pipe." - On the Theragun, 2020 vintage.

Everytime I see those hands you make me feel great love yah bro!

The bluetooth module may be benign if you check which pins are connected to the ic itself and the USART interface is used for flashing the firmware externally. Might be faster for them to pull 5-6 assembled units off the line and program them all at once. Or maybe there's an app so you can just sit on it and use your phone

"You got a beefy little unit!" That's what she said.

Why not an air chisel with a punching glove on the end 😂😂

Absolutely enjoyed watching this. As always. Can't wait for the next part. DIY video would be most appreciated 😏

When you piss people off. It makes me happy. Keep up the great work

Starting material: One off-brand reciprocating saw, $50.

Looks like something a “paranormal investigator” would use.

Might have woke up my neighbor laughing at that s&m line

@AvE I used to be in physical therapy and the therapist had something similar to this. It had the same exact head except it was hooked up to a cordless jigsaw. All of the drivers for there equipment was cordless carpentry tools. They also used rotary sanders with a rubber roller ball platform, that one felt amazing!

The antenna is for them to tell how often you’re stroking it

Why do I get the feeling that this gismo has replaced poor Ave in the bedroom, and he's only ripping it apart in revenge.

It’d be interesting to see if the hollow shaft was a chunk of tube or a piece of stock drilled out. My guess is that by reducing the mass of the reciprocating bits they were able to reduce the size of the counterweight, saving material, reducing weight for their chiropractic practitioners, and reducing fatigue induced vibration numbness..? Just thinking they may have done that intentionally. Could you put the tachometer tape on that thing and see if tach gun can register some cycles per minute? At the apparent speed of operation it looks like there’s a fair amount of physics involved with that tiny bearing and the dynamic loads it is seeing. The original probably had a solid shaft but it kept blowing the bearings up and the only way to fix it was redesign it with bigger bearings and counterweights,housings etc or lighten it up.

My guess is the hollow shaft could be for mass reduction in the moving assembly as to reduce inertia and the fatigue load on the bearing and pivot shaft as well as reduce load on the motor. Seems like it would be easier to make with a solid shaft, so I think there must be some other reason.

I was literally looking at buying one earlier and was seeing ads for it and now this? 100% proof we're in a simulation

Valentine's Day weekend - disassemble wifey's favorite personal tool and make fun of it to strangers for 20 minutes. Or does Canada even have a Valentine's Day?

lol the amount of stifled laughs and pauses as he thinks of innuendo or jokes is off the chart =p

This thing reminds me of the thousand dollar "juicer" bag squeezer in its design specs. Although the juicing bag squeezer was actually skookum as hell, it had the same whiz bang front office kind of features, where the engineers shrugged their shoulders and went.... allllll riiiight - whatever you say Mr Tie, you sign the ye olde paycheck and I'll make you the damn thing.... stooopid features and all. Not what we should be designing into it, but you're the boss!!!!

The counter weight has some serious mass with that hollow shaft, I can imagine it would have to be embiggened to a good degree with a solid shaft

8:46 Shalom 👋

Good tip on the start with a taper punch. Thanks for that.

This guy literally has some of the most hilarious and original jokes ive ever seen in a while on yt.

Looks to me Ave just drawn and quartered his competition😄

5:00 "we can do quite a bit better" Me : please don't massage yourself with a rotary hammer

There are alot of units like this on amazon right at the 200 us price point. I would love to see a tear down as a comparison between the name brand and the chinesium knockoff

i love when french Québec kick in the '' ayoye c sharp '' ahaha !!! from quebec :P

"This guy has a thick ropey scent" -AvE 2021

Just remember: always take the blade off of the powerfist sawzall before turning it into a power fister.

My bet on material is a polycarbonate/abs blend. Harder and higher temp than straight abs, no match for the nylon stuff. Also quite cheap. Popular in car interiors

Love your videos mate here in Scotland . Keep up the Rickyisms lol

Sticks iron in PA6 then in Abs: “I dont know if its strait abs kinda snells like a blend” 🤦🏽‍♂️

The CC2541 you pointed out is a BT chip... you're spot on with your theory. Just pulling the wank off their website: "The Therabody app integrates with Apple Health and Google Fit, learning from your behaviors to suggest guided routines that can be sent to your device via Bluetooth®." Dunno whether you've got the newest one or whether it's always had the features but I can see this also being a case of having one BOM and multiple tiers/versions of software. Hardware was ready before the software, now they get to sell the "new version" with just an app update/firmware flash.

No idea why you popped up on my feed but you're funny so I'm subscribing 👍