Making a Plasma Coil Bottle Launcher 

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Thank you!!!

The slow mo footage of this thing firing is just the coolest thing! Nice job!

Imagine robbing this guys house and he comes at you armed only with this weapon

That's so cool! I have seen those bottles pressurized to over 200 psi!

Beautiful shots man! I like watching the flame front propagate. It's fun to think about the chemistry on each side of that flame.

you're a born teacher, calm, succinct, intelligent. This was my first time watching you and it was totally relaxing. I guess I've watched too many other DIY videos with kids or hyperactive adults trying to show me something totally not worth building or insulting my intelligence. Keep up the good work!

"Hey Kids, be sure to wear Hearing and Eye protection." Never once wears Hearing or Eye Protection.

Great project! Saw something similar on fb a while back, and wondered how to make it. So this came out with perfect timing.

Wow! Excellent tutorial! Anyone should be able to make one after watching this video.

Really love how your videos are consistent and concise, none of that fluff and bs other similar DIY channels do.

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Awesome project

This might be on the dangerous side, but I'd like to see different kind of ammunition you can load this launcher with. I was thinking of a bottle that's rigged up to hold some lit steel wool. Like I said, it's on the dangerous side because that's firing a flaming projectile, but seeing it in slow motion would be amazing.

props on the ingenuity of the pvc grinding to allow the gas to flow. As you were describing the issue I got excited about the challenge. Genius is in the simple but effective solutions!

Dude, this is one of the simplest, coolest, eligant bottle launchers I've ever seen. Thank you so much! I see many "kits" as Christmas presents this year.

The idea of carving out the PVC pipe is simple and brilliant! Great job on the final launcher design!

The last three Slow mo after the explications are pretty sick !

A great plasma gun video with all aspects fully explained. I haven't found another tutorial which fully explains the trigger and nozzle pressure of the propane torch. Thank you.

Very cool design! I like your bird too. He is beautiful.

I think the launcher design is brilliant. I think next you should work on the projectiles. Could fins be added to keep them from tumbling?

I came up with this concept (or rather, your mortar one, as a launcher) many years ago, and found that a length of plastic streamer tied to the neck of the bottle acts well as a stabiliser. I tried making rocket fins, but I damaged too many, and so settled for something simpler!

I like that you give very clear and complete explanations. Thanks.

This was so cool! I also really enjoy the long, in-depth build process videos.

that thing is freaking cool! just so you know that torch has a "break away" built in! it will snap off by the air vents where the ignighter is on the torch! its a safety built in

Even after clicking the bell, I still don't get notified.

The sound of that flame going through the vinyl hose... _So good!_ Would make for a sick audio sample.

This is totally awesome! Fantastic high-speed camera shots and the coolest bottle launcher ever.

So glad you made this. I've been wanting to make a video on something similar and this will definitely help.

This is sooo coooool. I’m actually about to make this rn.

I'm here via HaD. The flame travelling through the tubing is memorizing. Beautiful project and great video.

Thanks- I was having trouble with the tight corners so the right angled pipe bits are a great idea!

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*Sees bird* Video is 1000000 times better now.

It is a true joy watching your videos!Very interesting and clever ideas, talented skills intermixed with art, detailed oriented backed with clear and rich English, and super video quality!I just love your videos!!!

Thank you so much, educating and fun; I really like the way you presented your project and explained it in such a mild way that it compels me to make it. Please continue to enlighten us.

you need at least 10 million subs one of the best channel on youtube,no clickbait,no loud music,clear tutorial *clapping*

Wow, i'm not very good in english, but i was able to understand all the concepts you have talked about. Thanks to your way to explain. Incredibile project! I want to use some ideas to make simething similar 👍👍

Amazing. And seeing a person so excited with their experiment or invention, man, just the best.

This was amazing. Thanks for all the detail!

Hey Nighthawk. I pour water through my vinyl tubing. Then, I put a big heap of Sodium Bicarbonate powder down the tubing so it sticks to the inside walls. Blow out the excess and then put my gas through it. It gives a bright yellow flame whizzing down the tubing. Visible in daylight unlike the blue gas flame alone!!

Great job with the return of this project. The first rendition was actually the video that referred me to your channel and I may just build one of these functional versions for myself.

This is such a simple idea taken to an amazing level!

Awesome footage! Well done

Awesome, now the bottle needs some love. Fins, a nose cone and a parachute for the return back to earth :-) I did that for my bottle rockets as a kid but the parachute part was hit and miss. I know you can do better.

Basically, a basic, bigger, bottle blaster, for your buck. Cool project.

it has been 4 years since i last saw your stuff... glad to see you are still at it

Real exciting project. Love it

If you made the barrel out of steel, then used gunpowder as a propellant, and swapped the bottle for a chunk of lead....oh wait...never mind.

This is an awesome update to your previous project, which is one of the coolest videos you have done IMHO. I think you really could take this a bit further by inserting a short section of CPVC in front of the ground areas where the bottle rests so you can put a #22 o-ring there. The purpose of the o-ring in my rockets is to prevent the air and water from escaping, but I think your launcher would benefit from the friction of the o-ring allowing the pressure to build up inside the bottle before the friction is overcome and the rocket releases at a higher velocity. It might also be worth experimenting with a one-way valve as well. I was thinking of a smaller pipe inside the barrel to allow the gas to flow, in the bottle. The one-way valve would be a simple rubber ball affair that is held open by gravity. The explosive pressure would be enough to drive the valve shut. In any case, the footage of your gun in action looks like it would make an awesome blaster effect in a sci-fi movie done without CGI. Very cool.

I love it! Great high-speed footage, too.

I was looking at plasma cannon designs that use the swirl of tube but that as a bottle launcher looks like so much more fun for something to build

Could you make a video on refining oil into gasoline? It would be really cool.

Interesting. Soda bottle isn't too aerodynamic. Wonder if it could be bent towards being a launcher for one of those Styrofoam gliders? I wonder what kind of payload that bottle could carry? Excellent video sir. Your videos always fire up my imagination and create a lot of questions

I like this bottle blaster! Thanks for showing.

Very cool plasma effect there with the coil. I also liked the slo-mo shots at the beginning.

I would love to build this aswell but in Germany you can only buy very different propan torches and on amazon its a bit too expensive. But still a very nice Video !

I think there was a military version of this used to launch cord across ships.

Awesome project. I'm always totally impressed with your creativity and your engineering talent. Very cool results.

This will be the first thing I've seen on RU-vid and cared enough to recreate. Great job!!!

Your talent is so inspiring for all of us, great work!

Hmm, need to scale the concept up using a BBQ gas cylinder and water-cooler bottle... :D

No problem with the longer video. Loved seeing the slow-mo shots!

Some sweet high speed shots here man, really cool project and design

0:18 That is so bad ass :o

COOL AS HECK

Great job! I really enjoyed this project!

I really like the slow motion looks awesome

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Please adjust the fired projectile(the bottle) so that it can fly a longer distance!

This is litterally the most amazing thing I have ever seen

So glad RU-vid recommended this,even if it's 5 years later

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Do you think you would get more velocity by adding a trigger on the front of gun that you would pull after the bottle is primed, but before it is ignited? The trigger would nudge the bottle forward on the PVC so that it is seated on the fully round PVC (not the carved down portion) so that when it is ignited there is no leakage for the first few milliseconds like there is now in the current design. The trigger could be designed to be dual purpose to first nudge the bottle forward and then hit the ignition switch on the propane torch. Do you know if you would get more velocity on the bottle with a design change like this or is the leakage during the first few milliseconds so minimal that it has no significant effect on the bottle's launching velocity?

Nicely explained Great video Thanks

Fantastic I have been looking for a project for our neighborhood and this would be great! Super video thank you very much. Perfect made my month!!!!

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Killer looking gun man. Ty for sharing

Great video. Great slowmo footage. Well done. Loved it.

Try MAPP gas Years ago I built a potato cannon that had a fuel metering system and I always found that MAPP gas was the most energetic "safe" fuel...acetylene always made me nervous

I don't know why but your face looks like a selfie with the beauty filter maxed out....

Really nice project, it looks great!

Missed watching your videos man, love your content.

Make liquid air using linde himpson air liquefier setup.. It's quite easy

Really cool Project! i think the bottleneck (sorry) of the range of those soda bottles is them being not very aerodynamic. in that one shot the Bottle turned mid-flight. Maybe you could put a tip and some wings on to stabilise their flight or put some weight at the bottom of the bottle. It takes away a bit of the simplicity of the projectile so maybe you already thought about that and ditched the idea.

TOP GUN re-mastered !! So amazing : and the video is priceless !! Thanks !!!

I love it. Can't wait to make one. Maybe but fins on the bottle to have a further and straighter flight.

Why won't those "pencil flame" torches work for this?

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Nice, simple and efficient!

Love the slow motion real nice touch!!!!!!

2 minutes ago and coments from 3days.. what is this madness!

Make one that shoots airsoft bullets!

Some of those slow motion shots were awesome

The slow mo clip is awesome flame travelling through the clear pipe 😍😍 thanks

How are there three day old comments? It's been up for 30 seconds lol

So many time travellers here...

Man! Your videos are great. Length was perfect. I can’t wait to show my kids this video... I feel a weekend project with them coming on! Thanks again!

Fantastic man! Always creative, awesome