All acetylene cylinders contain a porous honeycomb material called a monolithic mass. They also contain a solvent (acetone) which is absorbed by the porous mass. The acetylene dissolves in the acetone and holds the acetylene in a stable condition. So it doesn't explode from impacts and shocks. If you lay a acetylene bottle on it's side don't use is set it upright so everything mixes back together in a stable state.
Welder here. Rock Crawler gets it. Acetylene is so reactive that it must be dissolved in acetone and held in the honeycomb material to be stable. Acetylene is usually stored at much lower pressures, around 15 PSI in the bottle you see in this video, compared to 2200 PSI for the oxy. I think its the second most reactive gas in the universe, the first being hydrogen, unless someone wants to correct me on that? Also, true what Rock Crawler says about laying the bottle on its side. Manufacturers usually say you should have it upright for 45 minutes before attempting to use it, as the acetone can damage the regulators on your acetylene torch. I have also used an acetylene torch in extremely cold environments, (think -45C or -49F) it is too cold for the the acetylene to evaporate from the acetone and the acetone gets pulled into the torch regardless, producing a useless, dangerous, but very pretty purple flame.
The bottom head of portable pressure vessels are always super thick compared to what they need to be as they are regularly set on damp ground (causing rust), rolled or dragged (wearing away the material), dropped, and generally abused. It's pretty cheap to make them an extra 1/4" thick to make them safe.
The way bottles are manufactured actually is the reason the bottoms are so much thicker. When they punch the bottle the center doesn't stretch as much as the outer area.
The educational value of your science channel is superior to all others. Professors Edwin and Gesparit always showcase the best explosions. Thank you to Professor Mark for suppling the 20mm. Great class.
@Shain Andrews you ate so smart you know everything you are the master os the universe. Just to make it clear i learned that acetone and that pourous stuff make the acetylene stable. Just look at the comment section to learn from this vid. And I learned that a .50 cal can't pen the bottom part of a container. But I guess the master of the universe knows everything.
The stuff inside the acetylene tank is an absorbent that is soaked with acetone All acetylene tanks actually have acetone inside, which is why they say "acetylene, dissolved." The acetylene dissolves in the acetone, much like CO2 in a soda. This allows much more acetylene to be stored in the cylinder, since acetylene can spontaneously explode if pressurized above 15 psi or so. Dissolving it in acetone allows it to be pressurized to several hundred psi since it's more stable. So, it's important to only use an acetylene cylinder in the vertical position, to prevent the acetone from getting into the regulator.
Maybe some call it acetate in englisch, I don‘t know, but it definitely isn‘t acetate. Acetates are salts and esters of acetic acid. As I know there are polymeric acetic ester which can be made to fibers and used as acetone absorbents. I am a welder who needs this tanks. In Europe I habe only seen kieselgur, and in older tanks asbest (made until 1990s) as the absorbent. The solvent is most times acetone, but some contain dimethylformamide instead of acetone. So not all of them contain acetone
@@TB-wi3sq well someone knows their English to German translations But you do need to use the American H instead of the German b thingy I’m sorry I’m drunk
Never knew that and I am a master plumber... common sense always tells one to keep the tank upright. Good info. Never play with acetylene, for professional use only 😉. It could end ones day in a hurry.
Dang, that's dangerous standing around those tanks with a severely compromised steel bottle. It may not have punctured it, but it seriously weakened it, and you even have an ignition source right there if it were to suddenly rupture.
Pretty sure they wouldn’t suddenly rupture. Would be possible if they were being exposed to more heat while standing next to them. But considering it’s post explosion and they’re in a desert on a windy day under thick cloud cover, the bottle would be cooling by the time they’re standing next to them.
The best result they had was when they put them in the safe. The explosion was so big because it was tightly contained. If the guys can get a few safes, they could literally do some scientific study. Stick 10 camping propane gas bottles in a small safe and see what happens from there. A big safe: one propane and one oxygen. The combinations are endless, trying different size gas bottles, with different gases, with different safes. I could watch that for hours. Thoughts?
Been following Mark's failure analysis of Kentucky Ballistics 50 Cal. As a Mechanical Engineer (now retired) I'm always interested in seeing these kinds of "experiments"! 😁 Also spent some years in the Medical Gas Delivery industry. People HAVE to learn how to properly handle Oxygen cylinders! I saw first-hand in HS Metal Shop back in the mid-seventies what can happen, even with an "MT" (or nearly empty cylinder)! One guy was changing out one that still had some pressure left in it. Had the safety cap off (BIG no no) and tipped it over. Fell just right to hit the valve on the lower shelf of a (thick) steel welding table! Knocked the valve off clean! That thing took off straight for the rollup door! Didn't go through but that lower panel had to be replaced! 😱
Edwin I have an idea... Get a clear pvc tent and put the cylinders inside, close the tent up and open their valves letting the Acetylene and oxygen mix and then shoot them.... Now that will be spectacular...
Wouldn't the acetylene be at risk of spontaneous ignition? I'm no scientist but I do know it's one of the most unstable gases hence why it's dissolved in acetone.
@@Boe_Jidens_Hair_Sniffing No it needs an ignition source. I used to fill 100 litre garbage bags with oxy acetylene and ignite it for fun. I tell you man it frikkin detonates like a bomb… once it shattered all the lights in my factory building and evacuated all the surrounding factories in the street… Even the fire brigade showed up… 😳
Acetylene tanks contain a porous substrate called agmassen and are half filled with acetone. Acetylene is highly unstable when in a liquid state or as a pressurized gas. When used in a torch it is combined with oxygen to burn, however acetylene can also decompose on its own without the presence of oxygen. At pressures greater than around 30 psi it can do so explosively. If they just put actylene into the tank by itself they could only pressurize it to around 20 psi (and even then it would be highly unstable and extremely sensitive to both shock and heat) and at that pressure the tank would hold so little gas that it would be pretty much impractical to use it. The way they get around this is with the agmassen/acetone in the tank. The acetylene is actually dissolved in the acetone (a weird property of acetylene is that exceptionally large quantities of the gas can be dissolved in acetone) when it is in the tank. The agmassen comes into play because if they just used acetone by itself then if any of the acetone were to accidentally be withdrawn from the the tank, or if it got cold and the acetone shrank due to thermal expansion, it would leave a an empty space at the top of the tank and the actylene would come out of solution and fill that empty space with highly explosive pressurized acetylene gas. The agmassen acts like a really stretchy sponge (this is an oversimplification but the best way I can describe it in layman’s terms), absorbing the acetone and preventing any open gas pockets from forming as the acetone expands and contracts due to temperature changes or if any of the acetone is accidentally withdrawn from the tank (for instance if the tank were to fall over on its side while the gas is being withdrawn).
People don't think about it but there is a lot of pressure in those tanks and that pressure helps reinforce the steel walls making it seem a whole lot stronger than it normally would be.
Acetylene tanks have crushed brick saturated in acetone which is probably still burning, I forgot a lot from welding school lol. but as a pro tip, never let your tank get completely empty! The acetone will get into the gas lines and eat the gauge and rubber hosing. Hope that helps!
Every time I open UA-cam, there’s a steady escalation of violence towards oxygen tanks. And I’m loving it. I’m trying to think of a suggestion for the next installment, but we’ve already left the realms of small arms lol. Going to need a 14in naval gun next.
Just a word of advice, I would not stand directly in front of that valve head when it's laying on the ground after it has been charged so bad. It could come off of there in a blink of an eye at high speed and rip your foot off. Safety safety safety!!!! ❤️
I'm not sure why you use acetylene, it is dissolved in acetone and takes ages to come out, so it won't mix well with the oxygen. Maybe consider using a CNG tank, would mix much better with the oxygen and hopefully be a bit more energetic
Acetylene and oxygen make, I believe, the hottest flame in the industrial world anyway. Over 6000 degrees F. It makes the cleanest sharpest cuts and super-fast starts. Great for a shop, but ridiculous at scrap yards or demo jobs. Expensive, dangerous, the tips plug up or melt out in difficult environments. Propane is about 900 degrees colder. MAPP or Propylene is somewhat hotter. Best bet is just liquid propane for fuel gas.
@Timothy Rettig the problem with acetylene is it is stored as a dissolved gas, sortof like CO2 in soft drink and doesn't come out of solution fast enough to mix quickly with the oxygen. The benefit with CNG is the high pressure it's under, and how quickly it will mix.
@@brendontait6968 This is true. The acetylene is absorbed in the acetone, just like CO2 dissolves readily in water. In fact, if you over-draw an acetylene tank beyond its ability to release the gas, you will draw acetone into the fuel stream as well. Just like a 7-UP bottle-only so much of the CO2 will come out of solution at a time.
So your next experiment needs to be, have an oxygen tank up against some sort of either bank or something that will keep it upright but still allowing the bottom to be exposed so you can hit the bottom of the tank to see if the tank will go into the air. A flying oxygen tank, like a missal.
Mark needs to install an 90° optic to the eye end of the scope so, it can be aimed while firing. As the gun recoils the optics will slide past the shooter's eye but gives the shooter the ability to aim while firing. Great job and demonstration.
Your videos keep getting better and better, but I hope you're not setting yourself up for failure, cuz anything less is going to be boring!!! GREAT Video!!!
Your videos are always satisfying when ever I'm having s bad day Edwin I put on of your videos and it puts me in a good mood keep up the good work dude
GREAT VIDEO, LOVE YOUR CHANNEL! The interior of the Acetylene tank has a cell that holds and absorbs acetone, you can not have just only Acetylene. Acetone stabilizes Acetylene Just found your channel and and you guys are the BEST! Love the guy who keeps laughing saying Cabron, always makes me laugh Well done all of you
He is a scumbag. I bought two bfg50 rifles and they were nonfunctional scratched and rattly. He refused to fix them so I sold them broken, never fired. After politely asking him to fix it he sent me one of the rudest emails I’ve ever read. Terrible customer service, repulsive human being.
Compressed air would launch a propane tank better than any scheme involving burning the propane inside. I've only ever built an air cannon capable of launching 14oz propane tanks, but the design scales amazingly well.
Hey hey Edwin! Stopping in to say hello and glad to see you still thriving so well on here. I don't know how you get the nerve to do some of these videos, but I'm glad you do! Shoot your pool again with this 20mm!
Oxygen will make anything burn you can make a cutting torch / thermal Lance from cheap steel brake line and connect a rubber hose to an oxygen tank use a sparkler or something hot enough to ignite the tip of the brake line steel wool works great and you can cut anything just make sure to turn it off before it gets too close to the rubber hose
I used an oxy acetylene torch set for a nice cutting flame but not lit and filled a logging truck inner tube to about 10 psi. Set a roll of toilet paper soaked in solvent beside it and lit it. Went back behind my truck a few hundred feet away and shot a 22lr round through the flame into the inner tube. We where up in the mountains at a logging camp. I bet you could have heard that a good 10 miles away if not farther. It was fun to be young.
Im not a genius, i googled it haha Acetylene cylinders do not contain compressed or liquefied acetylene; instead they contain acetylene gas dissolved in acetone that is absorbed onto a porous mass within the cylinder. The porous mass inhibits the decomposition reaction, providing time for emergency action in the event of a mishap.
Acetylene bottles always have a sort of honeycomb in there. If that wasn't the case and you bump that stuff it might just blow up. Its essentially like nitro glycerin but as a gas.
The solid porous "matrix" inside the tank is basically gypsum (similar to plaster of paris). Its also called agamassan. Its soaked with acetone which acetylene is highly soluble in under pressure. Acetylene under pressure by itself will convert to explosive peroxides at or above room temperatures. These will make a powerful bomb if acetylene was introduced into an "empty" (normal) gas cylinder.
Nice video. I was just going to explain the acetylene tank when I saw Rock Crawler’s comment. Acetylene by itself can explode if pressurized beyond a certain psi (maybe 20, not sure, but it isn’t very high).
In English, an anti-materiel rifle is a rifle used to engage lightly armored vehicles or enemy forces behind cover. There is no corresponding German term, such as the literal translation Anti-Ausrüstungs-Gewehr. The Bundeswehr refers to the U.S. Barrett M82, which it carries as the G82, as a "long-range rifle. The caliber of these rifles ranges from 12.7 to 20 mm. Anti-materiel rifles can be considered successors to tank rifles or tank guns. These weapons were developed during the First World War to be able to fight enemy tanks. The first such weapon was the M1918 tank rifle of the Imperial German Army in 13 mm caliber. In the interwar period, these weapons were further developed internationally, mainly to increase penetration performance. In Poland, the caliber was reduced (Model 1935 tank rifle, 7.92 mm), while in Finland it was increased (Lahti L-39, 20 mm). After the beginning of World War II, however, it quickly became clear that even the tank rifles with the highest penetrating power, such as the Soviet PTRD and PTRS, were no longer a match for the increased armor thicknesses of modern tanks. Only hits on the tracks or side armor were still successful, and the task of anti-tank engagement increasingly fell to anti-tank guns, leaving the infantry without a suitable anti-tank weapon. Toward the end of the war, at least the Wehrmacht and the U.S. Army regained infantry standoff anti-tank weapons with reactive anti-tank rifles such as the Panzerfaust or the Bazooka
Find a place to shoot. Get some flares, And lighters dig them in, on a side of a hill. 22 LR. When you hit one you get a fire Ball. cost $50 per hr. or so, Have FUN!!!
experiments like this prove just how safe those tanks are, basically the only way to make them dangerous is to handle full tanks with no cap risking breaking the valve, the acet tanks are a thin shell but they only have about 300 psi so they basically just as safe.
This is so unbelievably cool. I can't describe the mountain of shit you would find yourself in, if you pulled a stunt(sorry, experiment), like this in my country, Australia. No doubt that would equate to serious jail time here. It really is a crying shame, because guys love doing shit like this. Also, I'm jazzed that Mark Serbu comes out to play and show his face when Edwin and Gaspari decide to try an "experiment" like this.
In this video in a moment when you interrupted clear science stream info i'd understood that you also a good merchant off these belts and bucklets. Good integration never harms main theme))) Good luck in your business, Amico!
Acetylene tanks have a porous material in the entire inside of the tank because acetylene isn’t a gas like other types of gas cylinders, acetylene is actually kept as liquid acetone inside that porous material which off gases and that gas is burned which is why the acetylene cylinder kept burning long after holes were punched through it, there was still liquid acetone in there off gassing and burning. Now that porous material is toxic even on the newer cylinders but the old ones were much worse.
I've been told the guts of the acetylene tank are held in cement (or something like cement). You can't pressurize acetylene on its own as it would go boom...hence, it's like a sponge which holds the gas. I don't understand it, but that's what I've heard. If you lift the tank, you can tell it's heavy as hell for the size of it. Cement would make sense as to the weight.
All acetylene cylinders contain a porous honeycomb material called a monolithic mass. They also contain a solvent (acetone) which is absorbed by the porous mass. The acetylene dissolves in the acetone and holds the acetylene in a stable condition. So it doesn't explode from impacts and shocks. If you lay a acetylene bottle on it's side don't use is set it upright so everything mixes back together in a stable state.
This
Hydrogen, even better.
Welder here. Rock Crawler gets it. Acetylene is so reactive that it must be dissolved in acetone and held in the honeycomb material to be stable. Acetylene is usually stored at much lower pressures, around 15 PSI in the bottle you see in this video, compared to 2200 PSI for the oxy. I think its the second most reactive gas in the universe, the first being hydrogen, unless someone wants to correct me on that?
Also, true what Rock Crawler says about laying the bottle on its side. Manufacturers usually say you should have it upright for 45 minutes before attempting to use it, as the acetone can damage the regulators on your acetylene torch.
I have also used an acetylene torch in extremely cold environments, (think -45C or -49F) it is too cold for the the acetylene to evaporate from the acetone and the acetone gets pulled into the torch regardless, producing a useless, dangerous, but very pretty purple flame.
@@sampelletier5083 Hydrogen, totally.
@@youcamp132 C2H2 for the win
The bottom head of portable pressure vessels are always super thick compared to what they need to be as they are regularly set on damp ground (causing rust), rolled or dragged (wearing away the material), dropped, and generally abused. It's pretty cheap to make them an extra 1/4" thick to make them safe.
The way bottles are manufactured actually is the reason the bottoms are so much thicker. When they punch the bottle the center doesn't stretch as much as the outer area.
Also they were shooting the blue tip rounds. Which is aluminum.
9:45 that bottle was spinning at a frightening speed with some crazy momentum as it dug into the ground.
Spinning so fast that it changed direction when it hit the ground 🤯
@@nick82592 watch again, it just got slower...
@@yaykruser he means it’s horizontal motion. It was going right but started moving left because it hit the ground like a tire
It would def leave a mark
I could have caught it.
The educational value of your science channel is superior to all others. Professors Edwin and Gesparit always showcase the best explosions. Thank you to Professor Mark for suppling the 20mm.
Great class.
What is the education?
@@ShainAndrews we can see you are not paying attention.
@@zincasbaptista1014 Show me the education., and I'll bet you can't see the advertising. Kids... you're getting dumber every generation.
Thanks lol
@Shain Andrews you ate so smart you know everything you are the master os the universe. Just to make it clear i learned that acetone and that pourous stuff make the acetylene stable. Just look at the comment section to learn from this vid. And I learned that a .50 cal can't pen the bottom part of a container. But I guess the master of the universe knows everything.
The stuff inside the acetylene tank is an absorbent that is soaked with acetone All acetylene tanks actually have acetone inside, which is why they say "acetylene, dissolved." The acetylene dissolves in the acetone, much like CO2 in a soda. This allows much more acetylene to be stored in the cylinder, since acetylene can spontaneously explode if pressurized above 15 psi or so. Dissolving it in acetone allows it to be pressurized to several hundred psi since it's more stable. So, it's important to only use an acetylene cylinder in the vertical position, to prevent the acetone from getting into the regulator.
Somebody passed AG mech 1
This isn’t supposed to be an insult
The absorbent material is called Acetate!
Maybe some call it acetate in englisch, I don‘t know, but it definitely isn‘t acetate. Acetates are salts and esters of acetic acid. As I know there are polymeric acetic ester which can be made to fibers and used as acetone absorbents.
I am a welder who needs this tanks. In Europe I habe only seen kieselgur, and in older tanks asbest (made until 1990s) as the absorbent.
The solvent is most times acetone, but some contain dimethylformamide instead of acetone. So not all of them contain acetone
@@TB-wi3sq well someone knows their English to German translations
But you do need to use the American H instead of the German b thingy I’m sorry I’m drunk
Never knew that and I am a master plumber... common sense always tells one to keep the tank upright.
Good info.
Never play with acetylene, for professional use only 😉. It could end ones day in a hurry.
Dang, that's dangerous standing around those tanks with a severely compromised steel bottle. It may not have punctured it, but it seriously weakened it, and you even have an ignition source right there if it were to suddenly rupture.
oxygen lance goes brrrt
Pretty sure they wouldn’t suddenly rupture. Would be possible if they were being exposed to more heat while standing next to them. But considering it’s post explosion and they’re in a desert on a windy day under thick cloud cover, the bottle would be cooling by the time they’re standing next to them.
Shit man if it goes off then after not going off that whole time it was just meant to be
They are scientists and know what they are doing 😂
@@richardhoogendorn253 🤣😁😂😎
This is the experiment we’ve all been waiting for.
Yes sir.
Need a full hundred pound propane tank strapped to it.
The best result they had was when they put them in the safe. The explosion was so big because it was tightly contained. If the guys can get a few safes, they could literally do some scientific study. Stick 10 camping propane gas bottles in a small safe and see what happens from there. A big safe: one propane and one oxygen. The combinations are endless, trying different size gas bottles, with different gases, with different safes. I could watch that for hours. Thoughts?
@@taters-no4gj ideal. I bow to your enthusiasm.
Glad we can put this to rest now.
Been following Mark's failure analysis of Kentucky Ballistics 50 Cal. As a Mechanical Engineer (now retired) I'm always interested in seeing these kinds of "experiments"! 😁
Also spent some years in the Medical Gas Delivery industry. People HAVE to learn how to properly handle Oxygen cylinders! I saw first-hand in HS Metal Shop back in the mid-seventies what can happen, even with an "MT" (or nearly empty cylinder)! One guy was changing out one that still had some pressure left in it. Had the safety cap off (BIG no no) and tipped it over. Fell just right to hit the valve on the lower shelf of a (thick) steel welding table! Knocked the valve off clean! That thing took off straight for the rollup door! Didn't go through but that lower panel had to be replaced! 😱
Edwin I have an idea... Get a clear pvc tent and put the cylinders inside, close the tent up and open their valves letting the Acetylene and oxygen mix and then shoot them.... Now that will be spectacular...
Yes, this would be beautiful!
Wouldn't the acetylene be at risk of spontaneous ignition? I'm no scientist but I do know it's one of the most unstable gases hence why it's dissolved in acetone.
@@Boe_Jidens_Hair_Sniffing No it needs an ignition source. I used to fill 100 litre garbage bags with oxy acetylene and ignite it for fun. I tell you man it frikkin detonates like a bomb… once it shattered all the lights in my factory building and evacuated all the surrounding factories in the street… Even the fire brigade showed up… 😳
@@Boe_Jidens_Hair_Sniffing thats the whole point ya dingus
@@Boe_Jidens_Hair_Sniffing only when the pressure inside the tent reaches 16psi
Acetylene tanks contain a porous substrate called agmassen and are half filled with acetone. Acetylene is highly unstable when in a liquid state or as a pressurized gas. When used in a torch it is combined with oxygen to burn, however acetylene can also decompose on its own without the presence of oxygen. At pressures greater than around 30 psi it can do so explosively. If they just put actylene into the tank by itself they could only pressurize it to around 20 psi (and even then it would be highly unstable and extremely sensitive to both shock and heat) and at that pressure the tank would hold so little gas that it would be pretty much impractical to use it. The way they get around this is with the agmassen/acetone in the tank. The acetylene is actually dissolved in the acetone (a weird property of acetylene is that exceptionally large quantities of the gas can be dissolved in acetone) when it is in the tank. The agmassen comes into play because if they just used acetone by itself then if any of the acetone were to accidentally be withdrawn from the the tank, or if it got cold and the acetone shrank due to thermal expansion, it would leave a an empty space at the top of the tank and the actylene would come out of solution and fill that empty space with highly explosive pressurized acetylene gas. The agmassen acts like a really stretchy sponge (this is an oversimplification but the best way I can describe it in layman’s terms), absorbing the acetone and preventing any open gas pockets from forming as the acetone expands and contracts due to temperature changes or if any of the acetone is accidentally withdrawn from the tank (for instance if the tank were to fall over on its side while the gas is being withdrawn).
People don't think about it but there is a lot of pressure in those tanks and that pressure helps reinforce the steel walls making it seem a whole lot stronger than it normally would be.
Acetylene tanks have crushed brick saturated in acetone which is probably still burning, I forgot a lot from welding school lol. but as a pro tip, never let your tank get completely empty! The acetone will get into the gas lines and eat the gauge and rubber hosing. Hope that helps!
Hey thank you aperantly nobody told my welding teacher this and we killed like 7 regulators
@@t.a.m.ttheallmightytexan3638 well maybe yall can remind him now that we all know! Haha
Awesomeness. At that missed shot he adjusted the mount at 8:32, bumping the gun off sight
Every time I open UA-cam, there’s a steady escalation of violence towards oxygen tanks. And I’m loving it. I’m trying to think of a suggestion for the next installment, but we’ve already left the realms of small arms lol. Going to need a 14in naval gun next.
Just a word of advice, I would not stand directly in front of that valve head when it's laying on the ground after it has been charged so bad. It could come off of there in a blink of an eye at high speed and rip your foot off. Safety safety safety!!!! ❤️
Brother ... nothing about this is safe lol
OSHA has nothing on them
These guys arent safety experts on guns.
It’s always a treat when Mark is featured
I like the sound of the wind. So peaceful. Perfect for this.
I'm not sure why you use acetylene, it is dissolved in acetone and takes ages to come out, so it won't mix well with the oxygen. Maybe consider using a CNG tank, would mix much better with the oxygen and hopefully be a bit more energetic
I was thinking hydrogen. Try to make a cloud 🙂
Acetylene and oxygen make, I believe, the hottest flame in the industrial world anyway. Over 6000 degrees F. It makes the cleanest sharpest cuts and super-fast starts. Great for a shop, but ridiculous at scrap yards or demo jobs. Expensive, dangerous, the tips plug up or melt out in difficult environments. Propane is about 900 degrees colder. MAPP or Propylene is somewhat hotter. Best bet is just liquid propane for fuel gas.
@Timothy Rettig the problem with acetylene is it is stored as a dissolved gas, sortof like CO2 in soft drink and doesn't come out of solution fast enough to mix quickly with the oxygen. The benefit with CNG is the high pressure it's under, and how quickly it will mix.
@@brendontait6968 This is true. The acetylene is absorbed in the acetone, just like CO2 dissolves readily in water. In fact, if you over-draw an acetylene tank beyond its ability to release the gas, you will draw acetone into the fuel stream as well. Just like a 7-UP bottle-only so much of the CO2 will come out of solution at a time.
Set a tank on a set of parallel bars like tracks, shoot it in the bottom and see how far and fast it will shoot across the ground! Love the videos
you guys are so lucky you get to test this stuff looks like a lot of fun I would laugh all day keep up the good work
Saludos y bendiciones desde Argentina Edwin!🇦🇷💙☘💪🏻🥰
So your next experiment needs to be, have an oxygen tank up against some sort of either bank or something that will keep it upright but still allowing the bottom to be exposed so you can hit the bottom of the tank to see if the tank will go into the air. A flying oxygen tank, like a missal.
Maybe it would also work if they stand it upside down in some frame and shoot the valve
Im glad you all could put on the white lab coats again together for this one, great video!
Now I think this is what Matt was hoping for when he shot similar tanks😂 love this!
Mark needs to install an 90° optic to the eye end of the scope so, it can be aimed while firing. As the gun recoils the optics will slide past the shooter's eye but gives the shooter the ability to aim while firing.
Great job and demonstration.
Your videos keep getting better and better, but I hope you're not setting yourself up for failure, cuz anything less is going to be boring!!! GREAT Video!!!
Your videos are always satisfying when ever I'm having s bad day Edwin I put on of your videos and it puts me in a good mood keep up the good work dude
So much fun to watch this. Really appreciate all the hard work by all who made this video possible.
Thank You Grip 6 !! You guys are MINT !!
Mark is one hell of a gun maker
Love your "plinking", you guys have TOO MUCH FUN!!!
GREAT VIDEO, LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!
The interior of the Acetylene tank has a cell that holds and absorbs acetone, you can not have just only Acetylene.
Acetone stabilizes Acetylene
Just found your channel and and you guys are the BEST!
Love the guy who keeps laughing saying Cabron, always makes me laugh
Well done all of you
Just by the way Royal walks, you can see he is still massively heartbroken for 50Cal Val. Poor guy ain't never gonna be right.
🤣🤣🤣
Richard Big Rich Royal Nonesuch is married....
That 20mm round its about half inch diameter :D
Brilliant Edwin, simply brilliant !!
Nice video!!
Acetylene by itself is an unstable gas so it is filled with a porous material and acetone to help stabilize acetylene
the bottom of a high pressure cylinder is 3 times as thick as the sidewalls.
I like how u can slightly see the bullet streak on the ground. So awesome
I love Mark Serbu and everything he creates. One day I will own one of his .50's
I'd be perfectly happy with his RN 50
He is a scumbag. I bought two bfg50 rifles and they were nonfunctional scratched and rattly. He refused to fix them so I sold them broken, never fired. After politely asking him to fix it he sent me one of the rudest emails I’ve ever read. Terrible customer service, repulsive human being.
@@mrirondans this is between you and him. Not for here without two sides to the story.
“You gotta say it with rhythm so I know when!”
“1… 2.3fire!”
Have you ever considered picking up some old LPG tanks with some gas left in them? I reckon they'd be entertaining to put into low earth orbit
He did that already
Low Earth orbit 😂
I doubt it, Blue Origin, I mean Blue Rhino will probably always be sub-orbital.....
Compressed air would launch a propane tank better than any scheme involving burning the propane inside. I've only ever built an air cannon capable of launching 14oz propane tanks, but the design scales amazingly well.
Whats wrong with new LPG tanks running at full rated pressure with gas?
Loving the science channel! The Grip 6 vid was well made. They make great belts
Today's weather is 100% chance of blowing stuff up
Followed by chance of raining hot metal fragments.
Hey hey Edwin! Stopping in to say hello and glad to see you still thriving so well on here. I don't know how you get the nerve to do some of these videos, but I'm glad you do! Shoot your pool again with this 20mm!
Que arma poderosa .🇧🇷✌️👍
Çoxx
Edwin Sarkissian, you have outdone yourself. Has anyone ever told you that you are a MADLAD!!
Aiming the valve would be much fun 😊😊
Wow. 20mm sniper rifle.
Next thing Mark Serbu will try making a bolt action rifle for the same 30mm used in the A-10 Warthog.
Thanks for the video, Enjoyed, Really liked the tanks flying around.
Man was that awesome, This brings the, blow things up spectacularly that we always tried for as kids.
Thanks for the video men 👍 WOW that's awesome stuff 🙏❤️👍💯
You can see the round as it is approaching the Target awesome 😎 video..
Oxygen will make anything burn you can make a cutting torch / thermal Lance from cheap steel brake line and connect a rubber hose to an oxygen tank use a sparkler or something hot enough to ignite the tip of the brake line steel wool works great and you can cut anything just make sure to turn it off before it gets too close to the rubber hose
You jasper always make me smile. Nice to see mark again and the 20mm.
I used an oxy acetylene torch set for a nice cutting flame but not lit and filled a logging truck inner tube to about 10 psi. Set a roll of toilet paper soaked in solvent beside it and lit it. Went back behind my truck a few hundred feet away and shot a 22lr round through the flame into the inner tube. We where up in the mountains at a logging camp. I bet you could have heard that a good 10 miles away if not farther. It was fun to be young.
Im not a genius, i googled it haha
Acetylene cylinders do not contain compressed or liquefied acetylene; instead they contain acetylene gas dissolved in acetone that is absorbed onto a porous mass within the cylinder. The porous mass inhibits the decomposition reaction, providing time for emergency action in the event of a mishap.
Please invest in an even slower motion cameras. It will take this channel to another level. Yes this one is good but you can make it great.
Damn that Edward really cleans up nice!
This old Tony has a great video explaining oxy/acetylene tanks and torches.
Acetylene bottles always have a sort of honeycomb in there. If that wasn't the case and you bump that stuff it might just blow up. Its essentially like nitro glycerin but as a gas.
It always nice to see Richard and Mark . The two of them are absolute genuine geniuses . 👍🏻
So much for getting your deposit back on those bottles! 😂
I love how you try to open an oxygen bottle with a burning flare next to it! But awesome video!
One of the best videos i have watched.
The solid porous "matrix" inside the tank is basically gypsum (similar to plaster of paris). Its also called agamassan. Its soaked with acetone which acetylene is highly soluble in under pressure. Acetylene under pressure by itself will convert to explosive peroxides at or above room temperatures. These will make a powerful bomb if acetylene was introduced into an "empty" (normal) gas cylinder.
Crazy people shooting badass things :) LOVE IT :)
Mark is the man! Thanks for the collaboration
Nice video. I was just going to explain the acetylene tank when I saw Rock Crawler’s comment. Acetylene by itself can explode if pressurized beyond a certain psi (maybe 20, not sure, but it isn’t very high).
Thank you. Awesome stuff.
and this is why i like edwin: see's what works and what is awesome... _kicks it up an notch._
In English, an anti-materiel rifle is a rifle used to engage lightly armored vehicles or enemy forces behind cover. There is no corresponding German term, such as the literal translation Anti-Ausrüstungs-Gewehr. The Bundeswehr refers to the U.S. Barrett M82, which it carries as the G82, as a "long-range rifle. The caliber of these rifles ranges from 12.7 to 20 mm. Anti-materiel rifles can be considered successors to tank rifles or tank guns. These weapons were developed during the First World War to be able to fight enemy tanks. The first such weapon was the M1918 tank rifle of the Imperial German Army in 13 mm caliber. In the interwar period, these weapons were further developed internationally, mainly to increase penetration performance. In Poland, the caliber was reduced (Model 1935 tank rifle, 7.92 mm), while in Finland it was increased (Lahti L-39, 20 mm). After the beginning of World War II, however, it quickly became clear that even the tank rifles with the highest penetrating power, such as the Soviet PTRD and PTRS, were no longer a match for the increased armor thicknesses of modern tanks. Only hits on the tracks or side armor were still successful, and the task of anti-tank engagement increasingly fell to anti-tank guns, leaving the infantry without a suitable anti-tank weapon. Toward the end of the war, at least the Wehrmacht and the U.S. Army regained infantry standoff anti-tank weapons with reactive anti-tank rifles such as the Panzerfaust or the Bazooka
"If you talk about physics, it's kinda like stolen Valor. That's kinda your whole channel. Wait. Are you recording this?"
-Mark Serbu
always a great vid when Mr.Serbu is present.
I loved blowing shit up as a kid! this channel is made for me... thx guys, cheers
Edwin, awesome as always. For New Years you should shoot a fully loaded propane truck. BIG FIREBALL!!!
Show na câmera lenta ficou melhor ainda 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇧🇷
Wow!! Awesome I love these high pressure tanks shootings keep doing them going
Damn that looks fun... I'm jealous I want to have some of that fun!!!
Find a place to shoot. Get some flares, And lighters dig them in, on a side of a hill. 22 LR. When you hit one you get a fire Ball. cost $50 per hr. or so, Have FUN!!!
Grip 6 are badass. Worth every penny. Wife and I both wear their socks. I also have two belts. Get Some!
You really should shoot an oxygen tank into the bottom just to see if you're also a rocket scientist.
What other gun makers do you see in UA-cam videos? Mark is with the community no doubt!
You blinded me with Science!! Oh and shrapnel too! lol
experiments like this prove just how safe those tanks are, basically the only way to make them dangerous is to handle full tanks with no cap risking breaking the valve, the acet tanks are a thin shell but they only have about 300 psi so they basically just as safe.
i really like when all the doctors have a conference and study these scientific hypothisis. the data created is astounding.
nice nice nice I learned today something + Mark chanel is awesome also 👌 great 20mm
Yes thank you for doing this I have suggested this for a while using both propane and oxygen.
Edwin cleans up nice! I wouldn’t recognize him without a gun in hand!
How about a hydrogen cylinder next? Lets make some water in the desert!
you just can not replicate the tank in the safe..that was priceless.
Sarkissian and Serbu in the same video. Guaranteed high level entertainment.
You are MENTAL going near those tanks after direct hits with no explosion.... 😱
This is so unbelievably cool. I can't describe the mountain of shit you would find yourself in, if you pulled a stunt(sorry, experiment), like this in my country, Australia. No doubt that would equate to serious jail time here. It really is a crying shame, because guys love doing shit like this. Also, I'm jazzed that Mark Serbu comes out to play and show his face when Edwin and Gaspari decide to try an "experiment" like this.
In this video in a moment when you interrupted clear science stream info i'd understood that you also a good merchant off these belts and bucklets. Good integration never harms main theme))) Good luck in your business, Amico!
You guys are great! I love your videos and explosions too! Lol.
Thank you, that was SICK!
Well Kentucky ballistics is out shooting PT Cruisers these guys are actually doing something awesome
My two favorite UA-camrs. Adult children. If there is any such thing. 🇯🇲😀 Big up.
Acetylene tanks have a porous material in the entire inside of the tank because acetylene isn’t a gas like other types of gas cylinders, acetylene is actually kept as liquid acetone inside that porous material which off gases and that gas is burned which is why the acetylene cylinder kept burning long after holes were punched through it, there was still liquid acetone in there off gassing and burning. Now that porous material is toxic even on the newer cylinders but the old ones were much worse.
You might want to add some drone footage from above. Just a thought. Love your vids!!!
Yeah, good luck getting 'em refilled. :-)
I've been told the guts of the acetylene tank are held in cement (or something like cement). You can't pressurize acetylene on its own as it would go boom...hence, it's like a sponge which holds the gas. I don't understand it, but that's what I've heard.
If you lift the tank, you can tell it's heavy as hell for the size of it. Cement would make sense as to the weight.