I know I'm about 9 years too late, but this appeared on my recommended videos today. I've worked on hundreds of these lasers (they were made by Omnichrome, American Laser Co and National Laser (all in Salt Lake City) and first used in Xerox copiers in the early 70s if I recall correctly). The tubes contain beryllium oxide which if inhaled can cause serious lung damage, so "do not try this yourself" is definitely good advice!
There's a place called Walmart that actually sells new smoke detectors...my theory is that maybe just maybe he went out to one of those stores and bought some. Whachufink?
Seriously, if he has trouble ruining it he will make it's life a living hell. I've seen him smash, drop from a plane, overvolt by 120 Kilowatts, tesla, hit with a laser and burn any device that survives his initial attacks. There are things out there.... they just belong to the military.
Jack Miller Exactly. And I just have a feeling that he'd find a way to kill even military-grade stuff if he was ever offered some of it :) Actually, I'm kinda surprised they haven't hired him yet :P
My goodness.....That really melted down in a right-proper arc-up. It's amazing that the arc held out for so long!! :-O Thanks for re-loading this one. :-) -BoomBoxDeluxe.
They used to shine them along the length of Oxford street (well I think it was Oxford street sooo long ago) at Christmas in London during the late 70s and early 80s bouncing it from one side to the other with mirrors, people used to stand and stare up in amazement at a beam of light, found it quite funny at the time all I wanted was beer, not sure if they still do it havnt been down south for years.
MrPepsicola123 Quite sure, it was part of the London Chistmas light display back then and after checking with friends I worked with down there at the time it was Oxford St, nothing fancy just static laser beams going along the road at gutter height directed with mirrors, if it was for a movie they must have been filming for at least the four years I was down there and only in December and January.
If the camera has an electronic image stabiliser it'll do that. The image sensor will be slightly higher resolution than needed, the camera will (I assume) record the 1920x1080 pixel block that looks closest in position to the previous one, to reduce camera shake. An extreme example of this can be found if you use VirtualDub and Deshaker on a video, any logos, dead pixels etc. will wander all over the place.
just so you know. shortly after looking at the first of your videos I came across; I had dubbed you Dr. Destruction. I also subscribed to your channel. Screw the people who flag any of your stuff as inapropriate in the head with an iron stick. Which they can then bugger themselves with. your shows might be a bit on the destructive side but not lewd or inapropriate. Keep up the good work. I wish I had found your channel earlier.
There's a hole in my laser deleila, deleila there's a hole in my laser before it put a hole in me. You can't fix it dear henry, dear Henry, dear Henry, its overvolted dear Henry!
I love these videos, your sense of humor right up my alley. Brilliant! I just got a 2 watt blue dpss laser and some lenses from Wicked Lasers. Your videos have inspired me to make some interesting experiments, in the name of science of course, with lasers. Stay tuned...
Well, it's not all about brightness. That old laser might have had a coherence length of several decimeters, enough for creating a decent hologram for instance. Try doing that with your DPSS lasers!
Cool to watch. Just wondering why you would destroy this kind of laser? They have a coherence that no solid state laser comes ever close to. And they are getting kind of rare. Back then they cost a horrendous amount of money. Now they are "cheap", but they will definitely go up.
If you look closer in the footage itself you'll see some purple dots in the upper right part of the video. That is damage to the camera sensor itself and without proper eye protection that could be your eye instead.
I see a Quicktest. Man, I wish Cliff Electronics had an Australian distributor. Seems like a QT is standard equipment for professional pixie wranglers doing awesome shit with electrocity.
Ionization is basically atoms releasing/transferring electrons. Arcs are a type of ionization. The ionization I described in the above comment is basically a pinpoint of plasma.
Shoulda put a magnifying glass in the laser's path. (If you guys don't know, it will ionize the air at the focal point, but it will also create buttloads of ozone.)
2w laser ? Holy hell I can get that in palm size now days. Even stronger !!! The laser now days in 2021 my we came a long ways since 2015. Bench mount projects went from bolt dawn to a table to palm in 5 short yrs 2015 to 2020 !
a small thing i've noticed with almost every vid of yours i've watched: you are WAY TO QUIET..... like INSANELY quiet... i have to turn the volume up so high just to hear what you're saying, then when something 'happens' it nearly blows out my ear drums, or if some other notification comes about, bye bye ear drums.
is it safe to assume that if the camera has 3 errors on it caused by the experiments that there are more unexpected "errors" in other nearby bio and electronic stuffessess--- wear a cup dude
