Artist's 'suicide' machines are designed to slowly destroy themselves

It might seem like a strange artistic effort to build a piece that meant to destroy itself, but that's what Thijs Rijker did with his industrial art series titled "Suicide Machines." So far, he's built two pieces eventually designed to destroy themselves — one is a self-powered saw that eventually will cut into its own engine, and another pours sand into its gearbox until its gearbox wears out. Sadly for those looking to see some machine destruction, the videos Rijker put together only show the process, but the sawblades never actually get to the engine.

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