I absolutely LOVE your design with that thinner stream. It actually has real world application and can hold enough fuel to make it somewhat long term useable.
Its insane how much energy such a device would need. Same thing goes for something like a starship. For an example: the Nostromo from Alien had a 3.4 TERAwatt reactor, which allowed it to produce enough thrust to lift its 65.000 tons of the ground. For reference, 3.4 terawatts was the average GLOBAL energy production of 2022. You need the entire global energy production to lift a single relatively small starship of the ground.
3.4 Tera watts is roughly equivalent to 15 grams of lithium hydride being converted into helium, every second. Of course I have no idea how the ship could process that amount of power without burning itself up.
@@deltab9768 For comparison: the Saturn Vs first stage produced roughly 190 gigawatts of energy. Of course the Saturn V had the luxury of using the cryogenic fuel as coolant and turning the energy intro thrust basically directly, but it shouldnt be completely impossible for us to harness such energy in other forms. The biggest problem would likely be the massive radiation from the reactor, even if using aneutronic fusion. Regarding the Nostromo: I think the lore book states that it used the reaction mass as coolant during atmospheric flight, but I dont know how it cooled the reactor in space. Even if it had a rediculous efficiency of 99,9% it would still produce 3,4 GW of waste heat that you can hardly get rid off.
I am a bit perplexed by the amount of trouble you had with dealing with Acetone. You can get EPDM tube (water cooling stuff tends to be more flexible) that is quite flexible or Latex surgical tubing. There is also the option of using the components in those cheap acetone pumps. Mcmaster seems to have a wide selection of tubing. You could consider a linear peristaltic pump for your form factor.
Last thing i wanted to add is those cheap water pumps you can get all over aliexpress. I don't think that they use any plastic that would not work for acetone. And if they did just machine a replacement.
@@ExcessiveOverkill What compelled you to choose such a difficult to work with fuel? Seems like that could have easily addressed your woes and weeks of work. Also why did you still need to use Viton. With Just IPA you should have been fine with rubber. You seem very intelligent and the project seems well thought out but some of your decision making and time investment does not seem to make sense with the presented information. I am all for makeing things overly complicated especially for personal project but without the context of why just does not seem smart.
@Ender_Wiggin I skipped over a lot of the reasons. Acetone gave the best smooth blue flame of everything we tested. And xylene gave the exact opposite, it was super bright and flame looking but had a super smooth stream. Mixing them would give you a super bright but smooth flame. We switched to just gasoline with isopropanol and it’s alright but not as good as the original mix. We still use viton so we can use xylene, gasoline, and isopropanol
@@ExcessiveOverkill Well very cool. Well if you are going over kill or overly complicated show that! Otherwise what is the point. These thoughts are valuable and sort of the point of you name. After you presented the reasoning, showing how you made it work with a zero compromises solution shows you skill, determination and work ethic! Any way just my two cents. Love the video and can't wait for more!!
This lad makes one video for the equivalent of a lot of projects, like a lot. Exemple : press for polymer film forming injection moulding valves a light saber ALL IN ONE VIDEO, and i bet i missed a lot of them…
Just WOW!! This Endurance to get it work. Really Great. Cant wait to see Version 2. My only Idea to Seal the Leaks between the 2 Parts would be to use metal and then lapping the sealing surfaces instead using Plastic Parts and Seals. Same for the Ball, Grinding and lapping the Contactzone with another Ball of Same Diameter.
My guess on the check valves is either not enough spring force or that by making it not sit on the hard edge with your second design, you actually created a different problem that let fuel squeeze past.
They have the technology to make star ships powered by small super novas, that go many times the speed of light without turning its passengers to atomized pulp. They have resources from several thousands (if not millions) of star systems cooperating into synergetic technology. Light sabers are easily among the cutting edge technology (no pun intended). There's barely a limit to the energy density stored in the hilt, artificial gravity is a thing, and it all somehow works through plasma or laser generated by an immense crystallised energy output caught in a cylindrical force field or gravity well or self contained focal point (the physics at play here are a bit vague). To even begin to make a facsimile here on Earth in our lifetime is a commendable task.
Excellent job! I think with the system you developed, if you had 5-8 streams, it would look like a "movie" lightsaber. Six streams would give it the "girth" that we see in the movies! Especially if you stuck with the hotter (bluer) temps (colors), it would avoid that "flame-lapping" effect I was seeing. Then just apply some of the color chemicals you mentioned at 9:50 and you will hit pay dirt!
i'd say a LED is a step up from a mini flame thrower in terms of technical complexity and similarity to a 'light' saber. clearly they showed a optical circuit in the movies
I'm at the part where you're talking about the balls not sealing well. It makes me wonder if you could have simply reached in with a long pin punch and just gave it a few taps on an anvil with a hammer to create a "seat" so to speak. Kudos for even attempting it though. :)
I'm wondering about using lasers, say two beams at an angle & where they meet are in opposite phase to cancel the beams out. Or a central beam & the ones around it tuned so they meet the central beam in an opposite phase.
6% efficiency is about what you can achieve with tiny plunger pumps. Completely different hobby, but the boiler feedpumps used for miniature steam engine installations (appr 100 psi, 16~18 oz/hr) are doing virtually exactly that... 5~6% mechanical efficiency.
Why such complications? You just need to make a screw drive to the pushing piston and that’s it. In addition, with such a piston you can know how much fuel is left and control the flow of liquid. The stepper motor needs to be made with a thread in the center to push the screw. And to reduce the space occupied by the extended screw, you need to arrange all the electronics and batteries in a circle with a hole in the center. The only thing you need to think about with this design is how to arrange the electronics and batteries so that there is a hole in the center.
This would put the frighteners on Lord Vader 🤣 Bring back a few uncomfortable memories! Excellent engineering for the miniaturisation, its very interesting seeing what didnt work.
you have the tools, have you thought of a refracted high power laser inside an airfilled retractable tube? think flimsy vacuum tube and high power laser, more dangerous than fire too. containment of lazers is the real issue I cant figure out. Love the project hope to see more soon!
The cutting ability from lasers comes from all the energy being in such a small area. Just having a straight beam the width of a lightsaber blade would reduce the energy density so mu you couldn’t cut anything. Let alone a full blade. And lasers are really big and expensive lol
*hacksmith build that sc4t after my comments how to doo that im just the brain either USE A POWDER DISPENSER WITH CO2 WITH BURNING MAGNESIUM DUST OR CHEMICAL REACTIONS WHICH CREATE PLASMA LIKE ELEMENTARY NATRIUM AND WATER AND USE BURNING GAS TO MADE THESE PLASMA*
Great work! Super clean. What about using the silicone hose for nitro fuel rc cars? I’ve used it to great success with my pyro systems with methanol and butane mixes. There’s a heavy duty variant used for actual race cars. Ignition in these systems can be aided greatly by adding airflow either by using passive Bernoulli principal tricks or in the case of fire saber I’m working on a tiny edf. Ignition without plenty of oxygen ain’t gonna happen no matter how hot you get.
Every theory on what a lightsaber blade is I feel is wrong. Because if it was plasma burning at thousands of degrees. The user would have charged 3rd degree burns within seconds. I like to just think and keep it at. That it is a technology beyond our comprehension at this time because it's from a galaxy along time go that's far far away. While it's not magical. It is a far supporior technology.
Nice! I'm glad you finally found a working configuration :D also quite a complex and impressive build! I also want to build a lightsaber, but I'm planning on making one that can actually cut things, a lot like the hacksmiths one, I have several designs, and not nearly enough time to work on them, but I hope to eventually make them. my favorite design incorporates an oxy-carbon fuel source with a very high energy density, and an insane flame temperature ~6,000F. I need some custom ceramics and extremely insulating fiber insulators to make it.
Did you consider centrifugal pumps? It could be driven with magnet pairing so the motor could be outside of the fuel area or it could have the magnets inside the fuel area while the coils are outside of it.
He needs high pressure and low flow. Centrifugal pumps don't do that very well, they're better suited to high flow and low pressure applications. Theoretically, I think he was on the right track with the triplex diaphragm design with a fixed angle cam. That would get him everything he needs including low pulsation for a nice smooth stream, but getting the materials to work reliably at that tiny scale is probably just not possible. Source: I work for an engineering company that manufactures industrial positive displacement pumps, mostly triplex and quintiplex diaphragm pumps, but we have some peristaltic models too.
One way of producing ball check valves so they seat right is to set the ball in the valve and hit it with a punch. This creates a basically custom seal and is how it's done in some saftey valves/pressure relief valves. Works in brass and should work in aluminium, not sure about iron or steel, atleast with normal hardened balls.
A hardened ball bearing will impart dents into most steel, at least unhardened steel... Aluminium and any other soft material is no issue... The only issue with hard steel is that if the steel is too hard, or better said too brittle, it wont impart a dent, but will shatter the steel, but a high quality mill vise with 58HRC jaws will still receive brinelling from ball bearings if you use them without grinding a flat on them to hold irregular parts... A ball point contact with pressure, caused by a hardened ball bearing will give a custom seat in most materials that are ductile... Steel will only make a shallower dent... The term brinelling in itself refers to checking the hardness of a part of any material with applying set pressure with a steel ball onto the surface being checked, so yeah, a hard ball will definitely work on steel... Brass, bronze, copper and alu are equivalent to plastic for the needs of impressing a round seat with a ball - they offer minimal resistance...
Dude gotta lap in your surfaces bruhhhhhh. I believe your first plan would have worked. But you'd have to make tooling just for lapping in those small surfaces. And that tooling you'll need multiple of, and you'll break some I'm sure. So like MAke 20 of a tedious inverse geometry as a form tool then it'd work probably. Maybe lol stoned but for real i gotta good feeling about it. I rebuild machinery for a living and have solved some odd problems lapping in parts you wouldn't think. In your case like 4 grits with meticulous cleaning in-between.
Glassblower here.. we’ve been pretending gtt’s and others, IE, Carlisle CC/ CC+ stick burners are lightsabers for decades. Hack smith just repackaged one. They did a good job, but at the same time, meh. The flame is nothing like a real saber.. just resembles one.
@@ExcessiveOverkill what the marketing on that lmao good for any acid or base! Liquid oxygen, liquid fire! What ever you can think of! excpet the yellow sandwhich devil.. like can it not do vinager what is it in the mustard?
It can do normal vinegar just not pure 100% acetic acid. Although I’m pretty sure mustard isn’t that strong so I’m not sure what the issue is. Mustard is rated as “severe effect” so it must be pretty bad.
great project overall! yet, I get that you used the catchphrase "lightsaber" for this mini flamethrower, but its as much a lightsaber, as these 2wheeled electric balanceboards are hoverboards.... its wishful thinking & marketing!
That’s not a light saber, it a flamethrower. And lightsaber is a laser contained by a magnetic field. The power source is a self sustaining lower voltage generator with an inverte/step up converterr to boost the power output. All technology we have available today. The problem is we have “smart” people that are too stubborn to open their minds and work outside the “comfort” zone and actually advance science.
the big thing about lightsabres is the Force. I mean aside from the crystal (or crystals) which are sometimes found using the Force. a sabre builder takes readily available items to build the weapon. in the books even a speeder bike handle is used as the basis for a sword. but it's taking a power source & a crystal and then using the Force to align the facets of the crystal & the power supply to create.the energy blade. everything else is readily available..grips, electronic parts & even powerful energy systems in hand held size. it's not the intrinsic capabilities of the parts that make the lightsabre. it's using the force to align the power supply with the crystal that creates the blade. unfortunately even with modern technology & earth found crystals we don't have the Force to bind the components into the weapon of a Jedi or Sith. sad face😫
..... pst.... hey cuz... On the fuel thing...... I'm a go out on a limb and guess..... you just didn't think about it... .... Moonshine! 👍have fun! Be safe!
This is a bit weird. It has been my experience that viton is easily dissolved by acetone. However, silicone rubber is almost completely chemically inert....
You need to seat your balls on the face of your ports to get a good seal. Put your ball in the port then take a small punch that fits just inside your port and gently hit the punch with a hammer. The ball at the bottom of port will form a perfect sealing surface.
Na, you dont need that much of power if you can stop the heat leaving the targeted area. Pretty sure thermodynamics still has some tricks on his sleeve.
Yeah you say it can't cut through anything.I think you should really look back at your list of four things that you want the thing to do and be like and you should eliminate the fourth one that is holding you back
bro dont use the fcking word lightsaber in the video title when its no fcking lightsaber. appreciate ur work u did there but this thing is nothing like an lightsaber expect the handle
so you were using acetone as a fuel but couldn't find any soft material it wouldn't ruin. silicone is mostly acetone resistant (at room temperature) and comes in a range of durometers
I absolutely LOVE your design with that thinner stream. It actually has real world application and can hold enough fuel to make it somewhat long term useable.
You put a lot of work into these more recent videos, looks great. Low Flo had me dying for some stupid reason.
Its insane how much energy such a device would need. Same thing goes for something like a starship. For an example: the Nostromo from Alien had a 3.4 TERAwatt reactor, which allowed it to produce enough thrust to lift its 65.000 tons of the ground. For reference, 3.4 terawatts was the average GLOBAL energy production of 2022. You need the entire global energy production to lift a single relatively small starship of the ground.
That's our current technology. Our celestial visitors don't do it that way.
3.4 Tera watts is roughly equivalent to 15 grams of lithium hydride being converted into helium, every second.
Of course I have no idea how the ship could process that amount of power without burning itself up.
That's pretty cool, I always look forward to advances in energy production
@@deltab9768 For comparison: the Saturn Vs first stage produced roughly 190 gigawatts of energy. Of course the Saturn V had the luxury of using the cryogenic fuel as coolant and turning the energy intro thrust basically directly, but it shouldnt be completely impossible for us to harness such energy in other forms. The biggest problem would likely be the massive radiation from the reactor, even if using aneutronic fusion.
Regarding the Nostromo: I think the lore book states that it used the reaction mass as coolant during atmospheric flight, but I dont know how it cooled the reactor in space. Even if it had a rediculous efficiency of 99,9% it would still produce 3,4 GW of waste heat that you can hardly get rid off.
So... you made a pocket flamethrower. That's *phenomenal*. I literally cannot wait to buy one of these.
I want one for burning weeds.
I know there’s better solutions but this looks more fun
I want to burn my neighbors, nicely.
Cheap version
Wd40 with a lighter = a good time for all
This is the best fire pit and grill lighter anyone's ever invented
I am a bit perplexed by the amount of trouble you had with dealing with Acetone. You can get EPDM tube (water cooling stuff tends to be more flexible) that is quite flexible or Latex surgical tubing. There is also the option of using the components in those cheap acetone pumps. Mcmaster seems to have a wide selection of tubing. You could consider a linear peristaltic pump for your form factor.
Last thing i wanted to add is those cheap water pumps you can get all over aliexpress. I don't think that they use any plastic that would not work for acetone. And if they did just machine a replacement.
It wasn’t just acetone, it was acetone AND xylene. You can get rubbers that handle each easily, but ones that do both are very rare and expensive.
@@ExcessiveOverkill What compelled you to choose such a difficult to work with fuel? Seems like that could have easily addressed your woes and weeks of work. Also why did you still need to use Viton. With Just IPA you should have been fine with rubber.
You seem very intelligent and the project seems well thought out but some of your decision making and time investment does not seem to make sense with the presented information. I am all for makeing things overly complicated especially for personal project but without the context of why just does not seem smart.
@Ender_Wiggin I skipped over a lot of the reasons. Acetone gave the best smooth blue flame of everything we tested. And xylene gave the exact opposite, it was super bright and flame looking but had a super smooth stream. Mixing them would give you a super bright but smooth flame. We switched to just gasoline with isopropanol and it’s alright but not as good as the original mix. We still use viton so we can use xylene, gasoline, and isopropanol
@@ExcessiveOverkill Well very cool. Well if you are going over kill or overly complicated show that! Otherwise what is the point. These thoughts are valuable and sort of the point of you name. After you presented the reasoning, showing how you made it work with a zero compromises solution shows you skill, determination and work ethic! Any way just my two cents. Love the video and can't wait for more!!
You sir, are a genius and highly motivated and resilient! Great content
This lad makes one video for the equivalent of a lot of projects, like a lot.
Exemple :
press for polymer film forming
injection moulding valves
a light saber
ALL IN ONE VIDEO, and i bet i missed a lot of them…
Love it good way to express your skills as usual most of the fun is in the development. Well done.
5:08
A drill will never cut cleanly enough for a valve seat.
You need to lap that surface.
Unless you form the seat with the ball using a pin punch and a small hammer. Replace the ball afterwards of course.
I’ll keep my LED lightsaber thanks, this is just a lighter with delusions of grandeur. 😂
Just WOW!!
This Endurance to get it work. Really Great. Cant wait to see Version 2.
My only Idea to Seal the Leaks between the 2 Parts would be to use metal and then lapping the sealing surfaces instead using Plastic Parts and Seals. Same for the Ball, Grinding and lapping the Contactzone with another Ball of Same Diameter.
i just like the engineering on a total scionce fiction device. 😊
One's engineering skills are off the chart
My guess on the check valves is either not enough spring force or that by making it not sit on the hard edge with your second design, you actually created a different problem that let fuel squeeze past.
I now have a irrational fear of mustard...
They have the technology to make star ships powered by small super novas, that go many times the speed of light without turning its passengers to atomized pulp. They have resources from several thousands (if not millions) of star systems cooperating into synergetic technology. Light sabers are easily among the cutting edge technology (no pun intended). There's barely a limit to the energy density stored in the hilt, artificial gravity is a thing, and it all somehow works through plasma or laser generated by an immense crystallised energy output caught in a cylindrical force field or gravity well or self contained focal point (the physics at play here are a bit vague). To even begin to make a facsimile here on Earth in our lifetime is a commendable task.
This is awesome! Mate you put in a huge amount of time and engineering into your projects!
Excellent job!
I think with the system you developed, if you had 5-8 streams, it would look like a "movie" lightsaber. Six streams would give it the "girth" that we see in the movies! Especially if you stuck with the hotter (bluer) temps (colors), it would avoid that "flame-lapping" effect I was seeing.
Then just apply some of the color chemicals you mentioned at 9:50 and you will hit pay dirt!
This is damn incredible.
This makes me want to make a shitty simpler version that might possibly explode.
i'd say a LED is a step up from a mini flame thrower in terms of technical complexity and similarity to a 'light' saber. clearly they showed a optical circuit in the movies
I'm at the part where you're talking about the balls not sealing well. It makes me wonder if you could have simply reached in with a long pin punch and just gave it a few taps on an anvil with a hammer to create a "seat" so to speak. Kudos for even attempting it though. :)
Zero point energy blades exist in the military lol. Too bad they keep almost everything they make
This was super cool to watch, cant wait to see the next version!
little over a THOUSAND dollars for some tubing??? 6:41
It is a portable napalm gun.
I'm wondering about using lasers, say two beams at an angle & where they meet are in opposite phase to cancel the beams out. Or a central beam & the ones around it tuned so they meet the central beam in an opposite phase.
6% efficiency is about what you can achieve with tiny plunger pumps.
Completely different hobby, but the boiler feedpumps used for miniature steam engine installations (appr 100 psi, 16~18 oz/hr) are doing virtually exactly that... 5~6% mechanical efficiency.
Why such complications? You just need to make a screw drive to the pushing piston and that’s it. In addition, with such a piston you can know how much fuel is left and control the flow of liquid. The stepper motor needs to be made with a thread in the center to push the screw. And to reduce the space occupied by the extended screw, you need to arrange all the electronics and batteries in a circle with a hole in the center. The only thing you need to think about with this design is how to arrange the electronics and batteries so that there is a hole in the center.
This would put the frighteners on Lord Vader 🤣 Bring back a few uncomfortable memories! Excellent engineering for the miniaturisation, its very interesting seeing what didnt work.
Did you manage to produce a version 2 ??
Insane!🔥
Safety... fourth?
how is this not viral yet
you won an instant sub
1:40 nice cut
Oh yeah and I wonder if its possible to dissolve a cupric solution in the fuel to make the flame green =3
CO2 cartridge is a simple answer to replace pump part.
Little, cheap, available everywhere, chemically safe source of pressure. Big enough pressure!
The problem with the metal valve
Is that spherical bearings won’t seal a conical hole
I shall try spherical valve seats on the next one
@@ExcessiveOverkillis v2 out yet?
The v2 prototype must've scared him, and the military generals trying to buy the technology
Caraca, quanto trabalho! parabéns. Abraços
if you and @StyroPyro joined forces you could rule the world!!
all i ask is that i can be your intern.
Have you considered using diethylether as a fuel?
It doesn’t have much functionality other than a really good fire starter
Nice hobby ! Working at Walmart gives you time to think ,
Knew it got real when you broke out the 4th axis
Make one with plasma
1.4 kW! You can make toast!
You deserve way more subscribers! The skill is actually crazy, keep it up!
you have the tools, have you thought of a refracted high power laser inside an airfilled retractable tube? think flimsy vacuum tube and high power laser, more dangerous than fire too. containment of lazers is the real issue I cant figure out.
Love the project hope to see more soon!
The cutting ability from lasers comes from all the energy being in such a small area. Just having a straight beam the width of a lightsaber blade would reduce the energy density so mu you couldn’t cut anything. Let alone a full blade. And lasers are really big and expensive lol
hey at least u made a joint lighter from hell
*hacksmith build that sc4t after my comments how to doo that im just the brain either USE A POWDER DISPENSER WITH CO2 WITH BURNING MAGNESIUM DUST OR CHEMICAL REACTIONS WHICH CREATE PLASMA LIKE ELEMENTARY NATRIUM AND WATER AND USE BURNING GAS TO MADE THESE PLASMA*
could you not have used silicone tubing?
Any update on version 2?
Yes
Great work! Super clean. What about using the silicone hose for nitro fuel rc cars? I’ve used it to great success with my pyro systems with methanol and butane mixes. There’s a heavy duty variant used for actual race cars. Ignition in these systems can be aided greatly by adding airflow either by using passive Bernoulli principal tricks or in the case of fire saber I’m working on a tiny edf. Ignition without plenty of oxygen ain’t gonna happen no matter how hot you get.
Every theory on what a lightsaber blade is I feel is wrong. Because if it was plasma burning at thousands of degrees. The user would have charged 3rd degree burns within seconds. I like to just think and keep it at. That it is a technology beyond our comprehension at this time because it's from a galaxy along time go that's far far away. While it's not magical. It is a far supporior technology.
Holy moses
I need help with my Stargate
Dude I want to see that 7MW thing. 😂
Nice! I'm glad you finally found a working configuration :D also quite a complex and impressive build! I also want to build a lightsaber, but I'm planning on making one that can actually cut things, a lot like the hacksmiths one, I have several designs, and not nearly enough time to work on them, but I hope to eventually make them. my favorite design incorporates an oxy-carbon fuel source with a very high energy density, and an insane flame temperature ~6,000F. I need some custom ceramics and extremely insulating fiber insulators to make it.
Did you consider centrifugal pumps? It could be driven with magnet pairing so the motor could be outside of the fuel area or it could have the magnets inside the fuel area while the coils are outside of it.
He needs high pressure and low flow. Centrifugal pumps don't do that very well, they're better suited to high flow and low pressure applications. Theoretically, I think he was on the right track with the triplex diaphragm design with a fixed angle cam. That would get him everything he needs including low pulsation for a nice smooth stream, but getting the materials to work reliably at that tiny scale is probably just not possible.
Source: I work for an engineering company that manufactures industrial positive displacement pumps, mostly triplex and quintiplex diaphragm pumps, but we have some peristaltic models too.
I feel like StyroPyro has gotten the closest to making an actual lightsaber.
One way of producing ball check valves so they seat right is to set the ball in the valve and hit it with a punch. This creates a basically custom seal and is how it's done in some saftey valves/pressure relief valves. Works in brass and should work in aluminium, not sure about iron or steel, atleast with normal hardened balls.
A hardened ball bearing will impart dents into most steel, at least unhardened steel... Aluminium and any other soft material is no issue... The only issue with hard steel is that if the steel is too hard, or better said too brittle, it wont impart a dent, but will shatter the steel, but a high quality mill vise with 58HRC jaws will still receive brinelling from ball bearings if you use them without grinding a flat on them to hold irregular parts... A ball point contact with pressure, caused by a hardened ball bearing will give a custom seat in most materials that are ductile... Steel will only make a shallower dent... The term brinelling in itself refers to checking the hardness of a part of any material with applying set pressure with a steel ball onto the surface being checked, so yeah, a hard ball will definitely work on steel... Brass, bronze, copper and alu are equivalent to plastic for the needs of impressing a round seat with a ball - they offer minimal resistance...
Dude gotta lap in your surfaces bruhhhhhh. I believe your first plan would have worked. But you'd have to make tooling just for lapping in those small surfaces. And that tooling you'll need multiple of, and you'll break some I'm sure. So like MAke 20 of a tedious inverse geometry as a form tool then it'd work probably. Maybe lol stoned but for real i gotta good feeling about it. I rebuild machinery for a living and have solved some odd problems lapping in parts you wouldn't think.
In your case like 4 grits with meticulous cleaning in-between.
Glassblower here.. we’ve been pretending gtt’s and others, IE, Carlisle CC/ CC+ stick burners are lightsabers for decades. Hack smith just repackaged one. They did a good job, but at the same time, meh. The flame is nothing like a real saber.. just resembles one.
Lightsaber? It’s more of a pocket size flamethrower.
do you live in an industrial plant??? How do you have all these machines??
Ok i domt know if this is a joke but was is really not mustard reisitant ? Because that would be great
It really isn’t
@@ExcessiveOverkill what the marketing on that lmao good for any acid or base! Liquid oxygen, liquid fire! What ever you can think of! excpet the yellow sandwhich devil.. like can it not do vinager what is it in the mustard?
It can do normal vinegar just not pure 100% acetic acid. Although I’m pretty sure mustard isn’t that strong so I’m not sure what the issue is. Mustard is rated as “severe effect” so it must be pretty bad.
@@ExcessiveOverkill Don't believe Big Mustard's lies, they don't want people questioning the safety and efficacy of their condiment.
great project overall!
yet, I get that you used the catchphrase "lightsaber" for this mini flamethrower, but its as much a lightsaber, as these 2wheeled electric balanceboards are hoverboards.... its wishful thinking & marketing!
a design similar to a miniture battery powered silicone gun would work way easier
That’s not a light saber, it a flamethrower. And lightsaber is a laser contained by a magnetic field. The power source is a self sustaining lower voltage generator with an inverte/step up converterr to boost the power output. All technology we have available today. The problem is we have “smart” people that are too stubborn to open their minds and work outside the “comfort” zone and actually advance science.
the big thing about lightsabres is the Force. I mean aside from the crystal (or crystals) which are sometimes found using the Force. a sabre builder takes readily available items to build the weapon. in the books even a speeder bike handle is used as the basis for a sword. but it's taking a power source & a crystal and then using the Force to align the facets of the crystal & the power supply to create.the energy blade. everything else is readily available..grips, electronic parts & even powerful energy systems in hand held size.
it's not the intrinsic capabilities of the parts that make the lightsabre. it's using the force to align the power supply with the crystal that creates the blade.
unfortunately even with modern technology & earth found crystals we don't have the Force to bind the components into the weapon of a Jedi or Sith.
sad face😫
..... pst.... hey cuz...
On the fuel thing......
I'm a go out on a limb and guess..... you just didn't think about it... .... Moonshine! 👍have fun! Be safe!
it's a torch bro not a light-saber - please stick to reality
Bro made the ones from rebels 😂
This is a bit weird. It has been my experience that viton is easily dissolved by acetone. However, silicone rubber is almost completely chemically inert....
You need to seat your balls on the face of your ports to get a good seal. Put your ball in the port then take a small punch that fits just inside your port and gently hit the punch with a hammer. The ball at the bottom of port will form a perfect sealing surface.
But... EDPM is resistant to Acetone... at least up to 60C, wich is past is's boiling point anyways.
Dude that’s awesome
Na, you dont need that much of power if you can stop the heat leaving the targeted area. Pretty sure thermodynamics still has some tricks on his sleeve.
Liked and subbed 🏆
I enjoyed learning from all the trial and error of experimentation
Thank you Good Sir 🎩
Yeah you say it can't cut through anything.I think you should really look back at your list of four things that you want the thing to do and be like and you should eliminate the fourth one that is holding you back
bro dont use the fcking word lightsaber in the video title when its no fcking lightsaber. appreciate ur work u did there but this thing is nothing like an lightsaber expect the handle
so you were using acetone as a fuel but couldn't find any soft material it wouldn't ruin. silicone is mostly acetone resistant (at room temperature) and comes in a range of durometers
lol the part at the start explaining how strong a saber is, then looking at current disney stuff... yeah disney lost the plot.
love the saber hehe
I'm pretty sure we will see a fully functioning actual lightsaber in less than 10 years
lightsaber came from frequency, vibration, energy
no fuel, no plasma, no fire.
Couldn't you have used silicone as an elastic material? From what I heard it's mostly inert, so it should work, right?
its a fire stick. no where near a light saber. its a flame thrower. good lord. so by that comparison i should call my kia a lambo.
Maybe warming the fuel help increase vapor production when relieved creating a more reliable flame?
this is soo underrated you put a lot of effort nice
Remember when Musk sold not-a-flame-thrower? Well, this *is* a flame thrower
How about lasers and mirrors🤔 it's bend and mess up the reflection when it hits stuff but it could be cool.
7:00, ah McMaster-carr. truly the only friend an engineer could ever need or want
The concept of a flaming sword of light has been around way longer than 40 years.
5:40 for pain
Ngl when I saw the video I thought it was going to be that one company that stole Allen pans idea, but nvm.
Finally a way to give someone a light without breaking the covid safety distance.
How do you have the time for this? Are you a lottery winner?
that thing would be breat for lighting up campfires, especially really big ones
lightsabers don't use flame they use light hence the name what you made was an expensive torch