God damn. How hard are you swinging the Newton’s cradle for this to happen?
Seriously what are people doing with these things that this entire thread seems to think this is typical? It never even occured to me that these could get tangled and I loved playing with them as a child.
Only way I can think of is transportation, falling off a table or just not knowing it’s purpose.
because kids are dumb af
How’d you get your balls in a twist?
Oh fuck that’s cruel.
But why are they getting tangled often enough for people to form opinions on how hard they are to untangle?
Yeah.
Use a toothpick to open up the loops in the knots. Focus on one of the outermost strings and move the ball through the loops until it’s clear. Then you only have four tangled strings and so on.
This is a worse sight than a guy suffering from testicular torsion.
It’s the same sight
Lost one because the cables broke after too much tangling. These things are not good for kids.
#firstworldproblems! :-)
When I was a kid I was obsessed with the story of the gordian knot and Alexander’s wacky solution to it. I decided for some strange reason to train myself to untangle knots and to this day I’m still pretty good at it.
Seeing this reminded me of finding the two Newton’s cradles that I own that had survived my most recent move that were all very tangled and spending a good 5 minutes untangling them and cursing this weird drive I have to untangle knots.
I was just thinking about these the other day. When I was a child my big sister had one, I loved it but I swear I only had to touch it for it to mysteriously tangle up.
Is that a newton’s cradle? How did it get tangled?
Had mine happen while I put it in a box to move desks. Was a pain to untangle
You’re just better off buying a new one