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Hey, Grant. I've got a really cool idea, not for your carbon rod arc furnace, but for your flower pot propane forge. If you add a bag of foaming agent to molten aluminum, it will create a material called foamed aluminum which has excellent sound-absorbing, impact-absorbing, and heat-shielding abilities. Some advanced forms of this kind of metal foam can even shatter bullets upon impact. Neat, huh?
make a bunch of Prince Ruperts drops!!! i love those things shipper durable can smack them with a hammer and won't break snap the tail though and they shatter into dust!
Hey Grant, I'm excited to see your experimenting with melting glass because I myself am an intern at a glass blowing studio in Chicago. I'm excited to see your reactions and experiments with this amazing material.
Ruperts drop is a drop of glass, which has some special abilities. It is really solid against shock (almost indestructible). Someone tried to actually break it with hydropress, and the drop left a mark in the steel. The fun part is, that if you try to break of the tail of the drop, it shatteres with no strenght at all. Find it on Wiki for more info.
Awesome experiment! I use to work in a metal heat treating facility that used electrodes to melt salt! The blades we were working with were placed it this molten pit of death (LOL) to raise them to critical temperature.
2 ALDREDZ it is like a solid drop of glass with two parts, the ball end like a regular water droplet, and the thin tail like strand, but the weird property of it is that the big end is super strong like hammer strong, but the tail is delicate and if snapped the whole think will violently explode
rithwik ramaprasad how long will the electrodes last depends on the amperage and arc length. Also being he is running a carbon rod positive and negative electrodes, electrode consumption is about equal on both ends. At $2-3 dollars an electrode from a batterey, repurposing is great if you have dead lantern batteries lying around, but carbon electrodes are available at a competitive price.
Eh, you might get it to work with something low caliber like a .22lr. Or a low velocity/low pressure round. A .38 might be possible, as long as it's not a +P load. A .45 ACP would shatter, yeah. Probably a 5.56mm too. But..... it'd be interesting to see the attempt at a standard .38 or low pressure 9mm.
Corwin Weber well yeah that might work but also it wont since grant doesn't have the proper equipment to harden glass and make sure its able to resist the pressure
too dangerous, the glass will form into an ingot then if he drops it in water it would explode with the possibility of killing him and it would cool down normally if left out and it would then have tons of stress inside and can explode after cooled
You can do fine with sand and a bit of cleaning. For something like this, you'd want to use the cleanest, whitest quartz sand you can get. Florida and the Caribbean's squeaky white sand would be an excellent raw material. Since silica is quite chemically resistant, you can dissolve away pretty much all the impurities with a bit of semi-common solvents and acids. Silica can be fused natively, but requires extreme temperatures compared to soda-lime glass. This form of glass is used on high-temp/high-pressure products like xenon arc lamps.
Grant, this is something you need to try. The screw driver thing you did reminded me of this really, really cool thing. You should try to make a Prince Rupert's Drop. Look it up, there are tons of videos. The Drops are little Drops of glass and they're tough as steel. Please like so that Grant will notice this
Hey Grant, I was wondering if you'd be able to make a video showing how to make a functional knife or tomahawk using your metal foundry to forge the metal. I guess also on a side note, is the metal foundry capable of forging metal or forge welding?
Captn Morgan Sadly, you can't cast weapons, you need to forge them with a hammer and also temper it just right. But he probably knows how to blacksmith, considering he can fly a plane... xD
What? Bronze weapons are all casted lol. I wasn't asking him to cast a weapon anyways, I just wanted a video of him making a tomahawk using his foundry as a forge
Hey Grant! This is really awesome. My career is welding and this seems so similar! You should try making an actual weld on two pieces of metal with this! Awesome stuff man. Keep it up!
Hello. I don't know if you'll see this but i have a request for some videos. I was wondering if you could make playing cards but on the rim of the card make it metal.And then connect snappers or something that "explodes" then throw them at something and make it explode like the anti-hero Gambit.
what other experiment do you need? SmarterEveryDay did a slowmo vid shooting it with a GUN and the drop itself didn't break, but the force caused the tail to shatter because of vibrations and THAT caused the drop to shatter.
Hey Grant, since you most likely use a lot of electricity for the nitrogen, hydrogen and arc furnace are you thinking about installing solar panels? If not can you try to make your own geothermal piping and hook it up to a heat pump? I would pay to see that.
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Grant Thompson - "The King of Random" Awesome!
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Grant Thompson - "The King of Random" Hes here
Nice video man keep it up
Grant Thompson - "The King of Random" yee
Straight to business, no chatty B.S., no silly interaction. Just do it! There will never be another... THE KING OF RANDOM!
RIP you are my childhood thanks for the memories
@Daniel Diaz same
same for me😢
Hey, Grant. I've got a really cool idea, not for your carbon rod arc furnace, but for your flower pot propane forge. If you add a bag of foaming agent to molten aluminum, it will create a material called foamed aluminum which has excellent sound-absorbing, impact-absorbing, and heat-shielding abilities. Some advanced forms of this kind of metal foam can even shatter bullets upon impact. Neat, huh?
Mike Trieu neat, huh?
neat,huh?
Neat,huh?
thats a cool idea
I'd like to see that
“The smoke is toxic” lites it inside house
Im pretty sure its a garage which has a full width door
make a bunch of Prince Ruperts drops!!! i love those things shipper durable can smack them with a hammer and won't break snap the tail though and they shatter into dust!
Legend says if you are early Grant loves your comment
seems like legend was legit
Pro Player i need to try this
😅
Pro Player I need to try this soon
you again....
>Says fumes are toxic
>Does experiment indoors
Toasterstoasturface >fuck you
Janus í Garði umadbro?
LIke He cares HE THE KING OF RANDOM LIKE HE NEED A MASK
that room is very well ventilated he said it in a video
Mster36 Given that thick cloud of smoke near the end of the video, I certainly hope so
"What's dad doing today?" "Melting our dishes"
Comment Section:
98.50% Prince Rupert Drop Comments
0.50% New Ideas
0.50% Great Job!
0.50% Someone making percentages
TheMacawMacaw XD yh
What about people making percentage comments?
Didn't see a prince rupert drop comment yet, lol guess cause im late
who prince Rupert??
One the first guys that got fascinated with that piece of glass and popularized it
Make a Prince Rupert's Drop!
its so easy to make one -_-
A Lind and!!??
A Lind It seems like you're having fun posting that on every comment
He was going to but it shattered in the cup the first time and then he missed the second time
Alan Wells Would be cool to see him actually succeed at it tho
Hey Grant Thompson - "The King of Random" make a prince rupert drop!
Can u burn sand to make glass?
Hey, when are you going to show us how you made the liquid nitrogen generator?
JerryRigEverything is the answer.
Salvo Titus I've watched that video but would still like to see the official video where he goes into more detail.
NinjaPlayTime I wasn't gonna make it but I would like to see it
Can you make a Prince Rupert's drop?
Try melting sand to see if It turns into glass, but try different types of sand
like so Grant sees it
killerbee3456 sounds like a plan.
killerbee3456 that is how glass is made
PatrickS Rooney that why so we can see
that's not all that requires but ok
Grant Thompson + slow mo guys = Epic things
Now that you've got melted glass, make a Prince Rupert's drop next!
you should make a glass youtube play button.
do this please.
and a glass chicken!
alvin naeg it would cool down so fast but that would be so cool
or a glass bong
you can but it cools to fast and just kind of forms something that layers over itself and just creates a really sad misshapen mold.
"The King of Random" you should melt Glass and Aluminum together and see what happens.I think that would be really cool to see.
Ember Elysium yeah
it wouldn't mix. You would just have one layer on the top and the other on the bottom.
They won't mix.
agreed, I was also wondering what would happen
Lewis2910 He could at least try, you dont know what will happen if you havent tried it.
You should be wearing protection on your arms. The UV rays coming off that arc are intense.
Probably some x-rays and other high energy radiation as well.
Agreed.
Kevin Jacobson lots of ionizing radiation like gamma rays
Brew Sauce it's the same as welding, at most he's gonna get a sunburn
I guess so.
try to make the prince Rupert drop
Make Prince Rupert's drops!
he trie to make em but he kinda missed
oh I didn't see this comment I was suggesting the the same
Hey Grant, I'm excited to see your experimenting with melting glass because I myself am an intern at a glass blowing studio in Chicago. I'm excited to see your reactions and experiments with this amazing material.
*pulls out super hot electrode*
"omg that's super cool!"
"dont breath in the smoke, it's toxic" 5 minutes later. "it's kinda smoky in here" *takes deep breath
Hackers Life he says don't breath in the smoke coming from the black stuff on the rods
Lol
Hackers Life lol 😅😂
From the sticky substance on the end, not the glass.
You should make a Rupert´s Drop!
Joakim What is a Ruperts Drop?
I agree, you should make a sir Rupert's Drop
exactly
Ruperts drop is a drop of glass, which has some special abilities. It is really solid against shock (almost indestructible). Someone tried to actually break it with hydropress, and the drop left a mark in the steel. The fun part is, that if you try to break of the tail of the drop, it shatteres with no strenght at all. Find it on Wiki for more info.
Can you pour the glass into little ingots, like you do with aluminum and brass?
Ernie Velveeta that would be awesome, I agree!
Ernie Velveeta Yes you can pour it but he doesn't have a temperature moderating kiln so the glass would cool too quickly and shatter
or just cast with glass in general
TheKooa Yeah that doesn't really work
Ernie Velveeta as it cools, I think it would start to crack. so that make not work, but it's worth a try. :)
Make stained glass for The Church Of Random!
What happened to the lifehack episodes?
make this go top so he can read this
If you could try make a Glass PokéBall that would be awesome to see.
Team ALBOK ....
yes that would be awesome
For the next project, why dont you make a ventilation system :P
Awesome experiment! I use to work in a metal heat treating facility that used electrodes to melt salt! The blades we were working with were placed it this molten pit of death (LOL) to raise them to critical temperature.
13 seconds ago
And no im not notification squad
I just stay in youtube all day
deadman1575 same lol
can get as early as 1 second
Could you use the same method as you did to cast the metal gun to make something in glass?
We get it. You all want him to make a prince rupert's drop.
No
Geo & Pixels what is it ? Plz explain
2 ALDREDZ it is like a solid drop of glass with two parts, the ball end like a regular water droplet, and the thin tail like strand, but the weird property of it is that the big end is super strong like hammer strong, but the tail is delicate and if snapped the whole think will violently explode
just go and watch smartereveryday , he did a video explaining about it..
Man I didn't get there quick enough to give that Idea first. It is true Hannsen Lim to watch it on smartereveryday, thats where I learned about it.
That...was........AWESOME!
make a ruperts drop but cool it with liquid nitrogen instead of water, willl it behave differently due to the quicker cooling??
I imagine it would crack because of thermal shock.
Oh yeah you're probably right, maybe if you make it larger, and cool it a little before it goes in?
well, it's thermally shocked by the water. that's how tempered glass like a prince rupert's drop works. The question is "is it too much shock"
Yeah, I forgot to include the "too much" part, thanks!
My uneducated opinion is the change in temperature won't be that much more severe and it will work.
does salt melt, or does it vaporize in the furnace?
extremelighning salt melts
vaporize seawater to get it
extremelighning Salt melts, and the cool thing about molten salt is that it explodes when it comes in contact with water
+AquaLife&More got that from backyard scientist right?
+AquaLife&More got that from backyard scientist right?
Try to make prince Rupert drops with this method
matthew odonohue Omg i was thinking the same thing
yesss!!
Grant probably has no drinking glasses now 😆
A Glass Play Button. Like if you agree
Not really.I just wanna see some really cool crystal clear glass play button
how long can one set of electrodes be used, before they become unusable
Depends on what temperatures you use, but if you melt glass like this probably about 10min running the arc continuously.
Vexik Velyxor ....tnx
rithwik ramaprasad how long will the electrodes last depends on the amperage and arc length. Also being he is running a carbon rod positive and negative electrodes, electrode consumption is about equal on both ends.
At $2-3 dollars an electrode from a batterey, repurposing is great if you have dead lantern batteries lying around, but carbon electrodes are available at a competitive price.
Can you make a glass dagger or glass mini master sword? A lot of games have "glass weapons" and it would be cool to see its actual properties.
Zachary Kennedy great idea
Zachary Kennedy super idea
for that he will have to use blow torches to keep it warm all the way through the casting
The face of the furnace is priceless!
Make play button with glass :D
jukq tengs "Make Silver play button with glass"...... it would be a glass play butto
E- Tato Huh? So you only know silver play button?
Wish before jukq said to make a silver playbutton with glass. he's edited it now
no i know more then the silver play button im just saying before he edited the comment it said "Make Silver play button with glass"
E- Tato Ohh ok sorry lol
MAKE GLASS BULLETS!
That won't work, the glass will immediately shatter due to the compression caused by the ignited gun powder which forms in a gun's barrel
Pulmenti yep
Eh, you might get it to work with something low caliber like a .22lr. Or a low velocity/low pressure round. A .38 might be possible, as long as it's not a +P load. A .45 ACP would shatter, yeah. Probably a 5.56mm too. But..... it'd be interesting to see the attempt at a standard .38 or low pressure 9mm.
Corwin Weber well yeah that might work but also it wont since grant doesn't have the proper equipment to harden glass and make sure its able to resist the pressure
Pulmenti nope taofledermaus did that
I know a lot of other youtubers have done it, but you should try to make a Prince rupert's drop!
grant, you never dissapoint!! such a great video!
Grant You need to make GLASS INGOTS WITH THE METAL FURNACE!!! That would be cool! Like so Grant sees this!
Red Bowling Gamer yeah that would be cool
too dangerous, the glass will form into an ingot then if he drops it in water it would explode with the possibility of killing him and it would cool down normally if left out and it would then have tons of stress inside and can explode after cooled
Red Bowling Gamer not possible dude
you can pour it but it would have to cool down on its own
Titan yeah
You should melt down plastic with acetone, then try to mold custom lego pieces. Great videos, love them!
Michael Jones i tried that yesterday
nah you didnt
Wilex Heynderickx not the lego part but i put plastic in acetone and let it dry
Please do a vieo on the Prince Rupert's Drop :)
OMG throwback!! Love the vid
make a fire tornado like the backyard scientist pls like
thx
🙌
Super Irusham Colin furze has already done that
ya but it would be cool to see him do it
Can you make Prince Ruperts drop by drip liquid glass in to liquid nitrogen?
no
would this work tho? I dunno about leidenfrost effect how it would affect the temperature and drops
The War Pig yes
He should have titled it "How to Make Modern Art in 10 Minutes"
I agree
Except it can't be modern art because it's not a blond cyborg.
"got a couple of bags of marbles here" Holds up 3 bags... lol
Grant Thompson can you melt sand into glass ??
Jose you played too much Minecraft
+Michael Eduardo Conde Well it is possible in real life. . .
Michael Eduardo Conde well then, how is glass made without sand?
You can do fine with sand and a bit of cleaning. For something like this, you'd want to use the cleanest, whitest quartz sand you can get. Florida and the Caribbean's squeaky white sand would be an excellent raw material.
Since silica is quite chemically resistant, you can dissolve away pretty much all the impurities with a bit of semi-common solvents and acids.
Silica can be fused natively, but requires extreme temperatures compared to soda-lime glass. This form of glass is used on high-temp/high-pressure products like xenon arc lamps.
Watch The channel 'How to make everything' and watch his series in making glasses you will see why glass doesn't really work
You should try to make some Prince Rupert's drops with the glass.
Grant, this is something you need to try. The screw driver thing you did reminded me of this really, really cool thing. You should try to make a Prince Rupert's Drop. Look it up, there are tons of videos. The Drops are little Drops of glass and they're tough as steel. Please like so that Grant will notice this
do like this! prince ruperts drops are the coolest ever
he does at the end of the video
I mean he tries, but he doesn't really do it, besides it's much too small
I guess a designated video would be cool
Yeah that would be awesome and it would be very interesting to see if he can make 3 one
THIS INVENTION IS F****** COOL
this video brings back memories
Yeah
Yeah
Can you do prince Rupert's drop experiment in liquid nitrogen.😀😀 ( putting a drop of molten glass into liquid nitrogen !!!!)
prince Rupert's drop experiment in liquid nitrogen plzzz
DO IT PLEASE
it will shater in there
Darsh DYB i
straight up stealing my comment
Super! Thank you very much!
Hey Grant, I was wondering if you'd be able to make a video showing how to make a functional knife or tomahawk using your metal foundry to forge the metal. I guess also on a side note, is the metal foundry capable of forging metal or forge welding?
Captn Morgan Sadly, you can't cast weapons, you need to forge them with a hammer and also temper it just right. But he probably knows how to blacksmith, considering he can fly a plane... xD
What? Bronze weapons are all casted lol. I wasn't asking him to cast a weapon anyways, I just wanted a video of him making a tomahawk using his foundry as a forge
See if you can make a prince ruberts drop
I was about to comment that xD
Ruperts
prince rupert,s drop to be made
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a-lpha of Zeldaforme Gaming so he's right?
Hey Grant! This is really awesome. My career is welding and this seems so similar! You should try making an actual weld on two pieces of metal with this! Awesome stuff man. Keep it up!
Try making a colorful prince Rupert's drop with molten marbles
If you want a colourful Rupert's drop just shine a polarised light trough it.
Patrick Abraham lol wasnt expecting that
Patrick Abraham I meant using the colored marbles but that would be neat
Melt some glass and then pour it into liquid nitrogen! 😱😄
Smak Pak 333 prince grant drop?
Smak Pak 333 well it might just solidified it
Possibly
*explosion*
Ultimate Prince Rupert's Drop!
"Try not to breathe in the fumes cause they're toxic"
Continues to do full experiment indoors
noah fickel he's got ventilation. probebly.could.use an upgrade though
i love the random happens .. hehe
He should make a prince Rupert drop
Make a Prince Rupert's drop
anyone can make a prince rupert's drop its really easy
Apparently not, as his self destructed under water.
Lol, they managed to produce them in 1625, but it seems to be quite tricky to reproduce in 2017
Just wondering, how much is your electricity bill??
let's assume he is using an external power source that is not run off the main line like a car battery
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You were a reason for me to continue learning random stuffs
Thank you
@Grant Thompson - "The King of Random" Try putting molten glass in a muffin tray to make glass biscuts
try casting the molten glass if possible
''The King of Random!'' Now you should make glass with sand...
like if you agree!
SpencyDotMorth It isn't that simple.
Yeah but just look it up I mean I just put this so maybe right then you king of random didn't make that video
tigranb2 That is really hard. Especially if its 100% clear.
I saw one of ya vids yesterday and I watched on and on so I subbed and I LOVE ya vids
can you make glass in the new foundry you made or in the electric arc furnace ??
like if you support guys.
from sand
Make it from scratch. Like with sand and all
He has to make his own sand.
WajiRock uh or he can just go to the beach or something
Hello. I don't know if you'll see this but i have a request for some videos. I was wondering if you could make playing cards but on the rim of the card make it metal.And then connect snappers or something that "explodes" then throw them at something and make it explode like the anti-hero Gambit.
Do the "Prince Ruperts drop" and do different experiments with it now that you got access to liquid glass!
Emil Spellista Did you just reply to your own comment...
looks like Emil Spellista did
Emil Spellista that'd be great
That's what he tried to to do with the glass ya silly goose
what other experiment do you need? SmarterEveryDay did a slowmo vid shooting it with a GUN and the drop itself didn't break, but the force caused the tail to shatter because of vibrations and THAT caused the drop to shatter.
now thats a proper video
He should mood glass pokeballs
What about making some fiberglass string and putting it into the rope maker?
Andrei Segal I think you know what would happen
Yes, it will make a more resistant fiberglass rope, but I think it would be interesting to test how strong it really can be!
No, it would shatter. it's flexible but not extremely flexible like rope
Andrei Segal
Ummm. Wouldn't it break?
It's not string if it's not plant matter
Could you make a Prince Rupert drop and try to break it
this was so cool
The molten glass looked like it had the consistency of warm chewing gum
I thought it looked like it had the consistency of caramel or toffee
Luke Harris it does look like caramel
This might be somewhat of a challenge, but what about casting glass? Like you did with candle wax and chocolate, maybe the pokeball mold.
Juan Harambe I think you thought that I was referring to the silicon molds.
Juan Harambe I never meant for anyone to assume silicon molds
Make a liquid glass UA-cam play button
He will use this machine for the next 5 vids
Use the arc furnace to make a Prince's Rupert drop by using: water, liquid nitrogen and liquid propane
No Grant, its not cool, its actually quite hot!
Tylor B. no comment
Someone Unknown That's a comment though
If im not mistaken.
Glass conducts electricity when its molten.
You could try and dip the electrodes in the molten glass.
Can you mold glass into your logo
YES
Grant why do you wear Black Gloves and hy not white?
Austin Morse so that we don't see the nasty stuff all over his gloves
Yeah
Hey Grant, since you most likely use a lot of electricity for the nitrogen, hydrogen and arc furnace are you thinking about installing solar panels? If not can you try to make your own geothermal piping and hook it up to a heat pump? I would pay to see that.
this is so cool
Can you make your own glass with sand?
tommy huynh it wouldn't be very clear, maybe even opaque, as it isn't pure silica, but by definition it would be considered a glass
Check out How To Make Everything's video. He tried making glass a few times.