Basic lever principle? Give me a broom, a place to stand, and I’ll snap it in half kind of thing?
Essentially, broom end on the floor, one hand on the top, other in the middle, where it will snap.
Press down towards the floor with the hand in the middle, while holding the end of the broom with the other one preventing it from getting closer to the floor, and snap, you’ve got a bent or snapped broom handle, depending on what it’s made of.
Or don’t, if you don’t want to ruin the broom.
Easy to do inadvertently if you apply too much force trying to rub off something stuck to the floor, if you’re not careful not to press down towards the floor with the hand closest to the ground.
I think this is more metal fatigue due to time and use. This happens pretty routinely to metal handled shop brooms in my experience. I have done this with 2 or 3 of them.
In the normal use of these brooms you apply pressure from opposite directions constantly. This back and forth pressure eventually fatigues the metal.
lol I just meant that it snapped when I was doing normal force sweeping with no warning. It’s a metal handle, I wouldn’t have been surprised to bend it but it felt perfectly sturdy. I had been doing some more aggressive brooming prior though, you’re correct.
Basic lever principle? Give me a broom, a place to stand, and I’ll snap it in half kind of thing?
Essentially, broom end on the floor, one hand on the top, other in the middle, where it will snap.
Press down towards the floor with the hand in the middle, while holding the end of the broom with the other one preventing it from getting closer to the floor, and snap, you’ve got a bent or snapped broom handle, depending on what it’s made of.
Or don’t, if you don’t want to ruin the broom.
Easy to do inadvertently if you apply too much force trying to rub off something stuck to the floor, if you’re not careful not to press down towards the floor with the hand closest to the ground.
I think this is more metal fatigue due to time and use. This happens pretty routinely to metal handled shop brooms in my experience. I have done this with 2 or 3 of them.
In the normal use of these brooms you apply pressure from opposite directions constantly. This back and forth pressure eventually fatigues the metal.
Wooden handled ones tend to last longer.
lol I just meant that it snapped when I was doing normal force sweeping with no warning. It’s a metal handle, I wouldn’t have been surprised to bend it but it felt perfectly sturdy. I had been doing some more aggressive brooming prior though, you’re correct.