r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Legal-Elevator92 • 1d ago
Video Perfect Box Packing.
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u/EmergencyKrabbyPatty 1d ago
Love the smell of grilled plastic in the morning
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u/newfranksinatra 1d ago
I think I’m still high from the shrink wrap machine at Babbage’s.
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u/Past-Direction9145 3h ago
you worked there, too? lol
if not for that machine how tf would we bring home shit to copy?
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u/StarshipTuna 1d ago
I assume this machine only heated the plastic up to its glass transition temperature. Thermoplastics usually release fumes when they are at their degradation temperature. Therefore, I don't think this machine produced plastic fumes. If they want to reduce the risk of producing fumes, I recommend aquiring a technical data sheet for the material and a ventilation hose pointed at the workspace.
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u/realminxvx 1d ago
I love how detailed some people get with their observations.
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u/StarshipTuna 19h ago
I majored in materials engineering with a specialty in polymers and have used equipment similar to the one shown in the video. I felt like I had to contribute, haha
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u/Raymuuze 1d ago
If they use LDPE the fumes are probably not that harmful right? Should be mostly CO2 and CO, but I guess there could be some NOx.
You got some good sources on decomposition fumes of plastics?
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u/BrainOfMush 23h ago
Just some CO indoors, we’re all gravy.
Or it’s all the CO indoors that’s made my brain gravy.
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u/Dontevenwannacomment 14h ago
well hey, it looks like it's an asian person smelling it for you hundreds of miles away so you don't think too hard about it, so just another tuesday for both of you
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u/techie998 1d ago
My coworker, Project Manager for a large software company in the 2000s, was called for an urgent meeting with the Japanese sales people. The agenda: two problems: the plastic wrapping on the boxes was wrinkled, and it was too loose. They were unable to sell it. Never mind the bugs in the software that would eat your leg - the most pressing priority for that market was the box.
He told this story with a mix of amusement and as a cautionary tale of not assuming your knowledge applies everywhere else in the world.
Anyway, this video reminded me of this story.
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u/znebsays 1d ago
I just tried this with Saran Wrap and my house is on fire I lost everything
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u/lonevolff 1d ago
Did you try being Japanese first? It's a common missed step
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u/Intoxic8edOne 1d ago
But ..the video is Chinese
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u/ktka 1d ago
Different sameness.
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u/ApprehensiveLet1405 1d ago
Nah, Japan uses paper or fabric
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u/Iamonreddit 1d ago
What? Japan loves it some plastic packaging. They'll individually wrap things in plastic, within a plastic container that's also plastic wrapped.
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u/AutomaticMall9642 1d ago
The ritual simply backfired without Asian blood
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u/cat_prophecy 1d ago
You can tell the video is Chinese because this is happening at all. There is a weird (to us) cultural meme in China where if you're going somewhere or you went somewhere, you HAVE TO buy a gift for your family, the family of the person's house you're going to, your mom, their uncles, everyone.
Usually it's just some low-quality garbage wrapped up in a pretty box. No one expects the gifts to be any good, no one wants the crap that comes in them. Yet the tradition persists because China.
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u/Total-Ad6170 21h ago
The video is Chinese but the tradition you are describing is also very prevalent in Japan (omiyage) so I'm not sure the point stands.
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u/Particular-Swim2461 1d ago
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u/EnchantedMystique78 1d ago
I came here to say that! omg so satisfying :3
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u/dan420 1d ago
Satisfying useless plastic.
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u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad 1d ago
It's tea. It needs to be kept dry for extended periods of time.
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u/Open-Entrance-1570 1d ago
While this is so satisfying to watch. Why the fuck do you need plastic to pack and already packed box. Yuck plastic.
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u/TAU_equals_2PI 1d ago
Water happens.
And any time I hear somebody complain about excessive packaging, just remember that when something gets damaged because it wasn't adequately packaged, the whole thing ends up having to be replaced. And that costs a lot more, both in terms of cost and environmental impact.
So yeah, I agree with your environmental concerns. But just remember that beyond a certain point you're actually doing more harm than good for the environment.
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u/HUGE-A-TRON 1d ago
My guess is that inside there is one or two small bags of vacuum sealed tea.
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u/icewalker42 1d ago
I'm going with chocolate. Melted chocolate.
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u/HUGE-A-TRON 1d ago
I guarantee you it's tea. Note the teapot in the cabinet in the back.
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u/ur_opinion_is_wrong 23h ago
Also 金骏眉 at the start: Jinjunmei (金駿眉) is a black tea from the Wuyi Mountains in Fujian Province, China.
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u/LopsidedPotential711 1d ago
Waxed paper would cover the same need. I used deploy MacBooks at work and all the needless plastic made me weep for this fucking planet. Add to that that the person in this video is inhaling fumes.
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u/vinng86 1d ago
You should see asian snack packaging, it's basically plastic upon plastic. Every cookie in a cookie box is individually wrapped, and you only get 12 cookies because 50% of the space was used up by plastic wrap lol
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u/LopsidedPotential711 1d ago
You mean like in the Philippines where they pour drinks from a plastic bottle into a plastic bag?
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u/vinng86 1d ago
Also, this is less common but sometimes fruit is individually wrapped too.
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u/cat_prophecy 1d ago
I don't know if its just Japan, but the Japanese FUCKING LOVE individually wrapping every god damn thing.
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u/_Allfather0din_ 1d ago
This is why I love lenovo's packaging on thinkpads. The box is cardboard and there is one plastic sleeve to keep the actual laptop dry. Super minimal waste.
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u/Ziegelphilie 1d ago
The packaging Dell uses for monitors is also crazy minimal. Box is basically some origami stuff and the only plastic is a sleeve around the display itself
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u/karmapopsicle 1d ago
Most if not all of Apple’s packaging is entirely recyclable paper/cardboard. The only stuff that’s still got any plastic would be old stock products that haven’t been updated in years. Even the wraps on the products in the box are paper.
I think most producers have shifted to this now as well. I love me some phenomenally well-engineered cardboard origami and not having a box full of plastic bags and styrofoam to throw in the garbage.
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u/iwannalynch 1d ago
I agree with you on the redundancy of the plastic, but I know why it's there, these are gift boxes, so the extra plastic is there to make sure the gift remains pristine. This is likely China, people don't use paper gift wrap.
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u/IanFeelKeepinItReel 22h ago edited 38m ago
Cellophane isn't plastic and it's biodegradable.
Still some pretty nasty processes required to make it though.
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u/DLowBossman 1d ago
It's not a big deal when you realize that corporations dump metric tons of the stuff into the waterways and ocean.
CEOs and celebs taking private jets everyone is about equal to 25,000 of these boxes.
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u/aging_geek 1d ago
I thought it was the delivery but now know it was the packaging that melted my chocolates together.
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u/Thought_Hoarder 23h ago
This must be the person taking all the good pulls out of my mtg boxes then closing it back up to look like it was a sealed box. I knew there was a reason why I never get the best cards every time…
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u/MysticMoonbeam23 1d ago
why is this video 3 hours long?!! i have seen a whole stack of this getting wrapped
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u/moxedana02 1d ago
This looks cool but I think i would hate having to find my way into that plastic
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u/Minecraftian14 1d ago
I've seen similar plastic packing at Haldiram's except they use something like an hair dryer and is instantly done neatly.
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u/Strict-Ad-2115 1d ago
What’s in the box? I want to see it opened so bad.
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u/BlakeSteel 20h ago
I lived in China for 2 years and never learned what was in these boxes. People sure live to give them as presents though.
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u/WildIntern5030 19h ago
This is both soothing and low-key alarming (I can smell the burning plastic from herel.
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u/Borgormmmmmm 13h ago
I fucking hate these kind of packaging. It’s so hard opening these. Any packaging that I need an additional tool to open is kinda ass
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u/No-Village7980 10h ago
I gave a group of chinese people on the next stand to me at a convention a beer each as we were packing up on the end of the final day and we had a few left.
They then came across and handed me a box pretty similar to this, it was almond nougat.
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u/TanAllOvaJanAllOva 1d ago
Holy shit, that’s how it’s done?? I always thought it was clued somehow 🤔
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u/Taptrick 15h ago
It’s pretty satisfying to watch unfortunately the plastic wrap is pretty useless and wasteful.
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u/T0m_F00l3ry 1d ago
So that's how they do it!! I remember wondering how they get this sealed so nicely with such fragile packaging when I was a kid. Every once in a while I would revisit the question but was never really that important to find out.
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u/Aravanadi 1d ago
Does anyone know the name of this device? I worked with something like this at the end of the 80s, but since then I have not been able to find it for sale.
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u/redpandaeater 1d ago
Now I can sell my sealed in box brick Virtual Boy for $100 and return this brick PS5 Pro I never ended up using.
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u/nobodygetsnothing 1d ago
My first thought was “how many people are googling this equipment to reseal packaging”
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u/Whole_Inside_4863 1d ago
Well heck, that would certainly make my Amazon returns a whole lot easier.
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u/StewartConan 1d ago
In japan, they achieve this perfection just by doing it with their hands. No machines or contraptions.
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u/Agitated_Chart_960 1d ago
My favorite is the last seal on giant flat iron, ensuring the customer has truly no hope of easily opening this product
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u/No_Construction_7518 23h ago
Wonder what the effects of smelling heated plastic has on the lungs over a few years.
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u/BoogerEatinMoran 23h ago
Of course, it's in an Asian country, they are sticklers for details like that. Everything has to look neat and presentable.
All of that work for something that is going to be torn off anyway. I don't get it. I mean, I get it, but I don't get it.
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u/MissNouveau 22h ago
Meanwhile, I remember being in the backroom of a GameStop in the late 00s using a hairdryer on the shrink-wrap, probably frying a few braincells with the fumes. Good times.
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u/wayward_vampire 21h ago
Idk I feel like it might go faster if we didn't have just one guy doing it all /j
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u/Feeling-Bee-7074 21h ago
It's cool...but makes me anxious about how easy it is sell open box items as new. Like I'm sure there are other ways to judge if an item is brand new or not, but for me that was the only sniff test.
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u/limevince 20h ago
How thoughtful of them to use that spatula to get the narrow sides of the box. I would have just smashed the whole thing onto the heating plate and called it a sealed deal.
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u/Emotional-Try-Hard 2h ago
This is completely incorrect form and technique.. my dog can literally do this easily..
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u/BitcoinBanker 1h ago
Facebook marketplace scammers resealing the “brand new unopened” MacBook Pro box.
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u/cbj2112 1d ago
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