Lol conserbot on owtube mostly censor my comments VPN (any) bypassing that. Then consider ad blockers or grey joy (Louis Rossiman) to bypass owtube ads . Lastly gi chatgpt or equivalent are going to gut goggle revenue. A great couple of years as alphabet cut down to size. Hubris and arrogance laid low.
The King of random curse. -Grant passed away in an accident -William's house burned down -Andy's garage burned down -Cody broke up with his fiance and got depression
Fun fact, if you get your camera advanced enough for film, the original "film" like we think of it today, in the thin strip of plasticky material, AKA Celluloid, was made of nitrocellulose, which is also what gun cotton is. Yes, that's why there were so many fires at movie studios that resulted in many old films becoming lost media. Because they were literally stored on explosive material that was prone to spontaneously combust
Guncotton can be used to make simple plastics like celluloid. When you first started the reset thing, you said that your goal was to work your way to building a steam engine. I find it funny that your more recent videos have been dealing with 19th Century technology, so you've already gone past your goal chronologically.
Considering that at any point in time hundreds of ‘technology tracks’ are being innovated on, I think it makes sense to pick a small one and see it through. Otherwise it would be a lot of unrelated items in flight which would be quite inefficient for his workshop.
Be very careful with your magnesium! It’s used in flashbangs for a reason! You can easily burn your retinas with that stuff. As for the guncotton: it’s supposed to burn cleanly with little smoke. Yours leaves a lot on residue which probably means the reaction did not go to completion. There’s hydroxyl groups on the glucose subunits of the cellulose that did not get converted into nitrate ester groups. So, try running the reaction for longer with a larger excess of reagents. That should do the job. Try cooling the reagents individually before dropwise addition of one to the other as well (usually H2SO4 to HNO3 dropwise). This kind of reaction can be quite sensitive to temperature. Use a lot of ice! You may want to titrate the acids as well; that why any stoichiometric calculations you do will be more precise. Hope this helps! I wish I could be more detailed, but YT has removed my comments for even mentioning the name of this reaction, and explaining the mechanism behind it. Ridiculous.
I understand how you feel, I've had comments removed that were talking about stellar lifecycles though more specifically the end of them. So at this point I'm convinced its a bot system that's searching for keywords and removing comments containing them regardless of context.
You need the whitest/bluest possible light for 19thC photography because silver salts are not inherently sensitive to lights other thatn blue and UV. The problem was solved around 1900 with the development of dyes that extended the spectral sensitivity of emulsions.
Nicéphore Niépce (who made the first camera) also built a 'controlled dust explosion' engine before he experimented with cameras, The engine was basically a gas engine but used dust as fuel and used water as a piston (it sounds wrong but it's true). The engine's called the Pyréolophore and I'd suggest you have a look into it. It's simple as it requires no proper machining and could easily made.
Thanks for the tip, I've never heard of this kind of engine. One can only imagine that Niépce went on to invent the camera after seeing the flashes from his engine!😊
If anybody wonders , the clip with the Photographer went up in flames was taken from ,, A Million Ways to Die in the West FSK 12 2014 ‧ Western/Comedy ‧ 1h 56m with Seth MacFarlane
Any reason why you started calling it "lycodium" instead of lycopodium from the start of the experiments till the end of the video? Or just a repeat mistake?
The YT algorithm is so twitchy I'm surprised you're allowed to mention charcoal, sulphur and saltpetre in the same video. Best of luck making your further videos around gunpowder
Sometimes i think RU-vid forgets that channels like this are based on history and truth. Just because there's a chemical reaction happening, it doesn't mean that its dangerous. If RU-vid wants to make things safer theres so many channels that are fake and are dangerous, but they would shut them down. Keep doing what you do Andy, you're educating a lot of people. 😀👍
In pyrotechnics, there are these things called "Creamoras" that are made with black powder and coffee creamer to produce a big, bright fireball. Sometimes they add a little aluminum powder. But I've also heard about people making them with these spores instead of coffee creamer, because it's supposed to make a more intense flame. I think it's only used occasionally because it's more expensive.
From guncotton you can create collodion by dissolving into ethanol. You then add the sensitive salts and you pour on a glass plate to create photographic negatives. It’s more involved than that, but it’s the basic principle.
@@monke6167 There was a data breach and privacy concerns, as well as something like only 70% of the clinicians on the app were verified and certified medical professionals. The first two caused a big stir because of concerns that people's personal medical data would be used to target specific treatments at them, regardless of their insurance coverage or need of them. Also, medical info is supposed to be extra safeguarded. The last bit is I guess BetterHelp didn't do the due diligence people expected from what was essentially a networking site for patients and doctors/therapists.
In 8th grade Science, we went across the street into the forest and collected lycopodium plants. We dried them and collected the spore powder. Then we built an explosion vessel out of a coffee can, a candle and a bicycle pump. Kapow! Tons of fun.
@@Judethedude thought Andy was dating a different girl? saying that. i haven't seen his friend and camera man who was dating that girl since the fire...
Lauren is her name. She was an employee who moved on to other things. Dont make speculation and rumor out of thin air just because you aren’t in the know.
Magnesium based flashes were common due to the fact that burning Magnesium produces UV light. Before film as the medium for capturing the image Tin or glass plates were common. The silver nitrate solution used to coat these plates was very sensitive to the UV and blue wavelengths. This made the Mg the best solution for lighting an image. (plus the white light would give the best looking image, rather than the hues something like gunpowder would produce)
I wonder, you mention how flour can explode when it’s aerosolized, I wonder how it would work for a flash. Maybe powdered sugar or corn starch even. I don’t think there’s any historical precedence, but I mean you’re experimenting anyway right?
The right word to use is "deflagration" not "explosison". Although things like flour can explode, but low explosives need a container to really explode. Another good one is non dairy creamer. Gun cotton is dependant on acid concentratiion and the higher the acid concentration the faster it wiill burn. You need really highly concentraded acids and the acids do take water from the air making them less concentrated relatiively easily.
Man.... Those implements meant to be stable and hold things in place, do seem to move around an awful lot. Screw down those vises and anvils, people Xd
maybe you should try using some lime in your flasher as limelight was a thing that was really used as a projector but maybe with some experimentation you may get it as a flashing light
Yes, in two very important ways. 1) A blue object won't be illuminated very much by a red flash, so those will appear darker than they really are. 2) Early photographic emulsion were orthochromatic, which means they had very little sensitivity to long wavelengths like red. So a red flash would be very ineffective. Most b&w film these days is panchromatic, but you can still get ortho film and darkroom b&w paper is usually orthochromatic as well.
@@Batman-lg2zj He's right. Explosions require confinement which builds up pressure until a release of energy all at once. This is at best a deflagration, or in other words, burning.
If you want a really bright flash use a mixture of fine Mg powder and KNO3, but for god’s sake use at least sunglasses and do not look directly at a flash
W XVII wieku spory były dosypywane do czarnego prochu żeby zwiększyć jego moc. W tym czasie ogromne polacie kraju były zarośnięte tymi widłakami teraz nie mamy ich prawie nic i są pod ścisłą ochroną.Kłosy zarodnikonośne widłaków wyrastają dopiero po około od 15 do 35 latach.😮
You should build a Light in a bottle (By Illac Diaz) and a washing machine (Like the Advoko Makes waterwheel), then a Zeer Pot Refrigrator, a DIY Sand Heater and then a Pelton Turbine!!
@@NonBinary_Star you're welcome! I've never seen it, but I used Android's integrated image search on a frame to find it. It looks like it could be a fun watch.
@How To Make Everything Flash paper is your best bet. It's made using the same method as flash cotton but with paper instead of cotton. But of course, nowadays they use magnesium powder for the flash.
Give sulfur to the magnesium. Easier ignite if you use with matchhead and thin copper wire for "fuse". You can use thin copper wire from a regular multi-wire electric-cable. :-)
I think you need to nitrate your cotton at least a second time and then do a better job of neutralizing remnant acid and you’ll get rid of most of the smoke and have a white flash. It’s a lot harder than you’d expect to get it all nitrated and then the acid is almost impossible to completely neutralize, it just hides so well in the cotton strands
There's actually also a bunch of other plants (clubmosses and ferns) that produce this powder (fun fact, it's also edible and use in food to this day!)
You need the whitest/bluest possible light for 19thC photography because silver salts are not inherently sensitive to lights other thatn blue and UV. The problem was solved around 1900 with the development of dyes that extended the spectral sensitivity of emulsions.
Have them all over in the woods where I live. Didn't know they were classified as a "moss." I always called them "little mini trees." They do grow in patches. Thanks. The more you know.
Pram is a shortened version of perambulator and perambulate means stroll . So the British and American words "pram" and "stroller" mean exactly the same thing!
My Aunt used to harvest these from the woods, by the bushel, every fall, wire them together and make, beautiful, yet apparently 🧨 explosive 🧨 Christmas wreaths
I wanna know how the first conversations about flash went. Hmmmm we cant always get enough light for a good picture... Maybe we should try setting off a little bomb?
Talk to the folks at Pepperbox TV. They might be able to help ya post content without restriction. Keep up the good work, your content is awesome and you deserve a win after all you've been through.
Thank you so much for sharing with us your awe inspiring endeavour to create everything! It can't be easy to learn this many new skills, and it's impressive how you manage. We feel inspired every time we watch one of your interesting videos :)
When I was a nerdy kid, lycopodium powder was used for magic show effects. I could get a bottle of powder cheaply at the local student science supply house along with many other amazing chemicals that would now days put me on a government watch list. Oddly, it never occurred to me that I could use those chemicals to waste my classmates. Those were the good old days.
The legend I heard regarding gun cotton was the chemist mopped up the acid with his wife's apron, which promptly self-ignited when she went to put it on next. Your second attempt sounds a lot like that.
you know could be fun? Once you got you camera, you could come to france at St-loup de varenne where the first photo was taken by Nicéphore Niepce. The house were it was taken is still here ans now a museum ! could be cool !
You should try rigging up some lime lights. It is just burning lime (the stone) in a stream of compressed air ... Super bright, super hot. Used by theatres before high intensity electric lights.
I really like playing w/ open flames and coffee creamer but now I want to get a container of that Lycopodium Powder.... I bet it would work great in dry flamethrower applications. 😂
Pine tree. Pine Tar. Varsol. Mineral Spirits. Dripping sap that removes paint from cars. Not sure why this isn't common sense when using soft wood tree needles.
Yeah I'm never going to install opera or opera gx, they used to be a good company. Now you can tell based on how much they spend on advertising that they are making bank somewhere.
I'm kind of surprised you didn’t mix magnesium and potassium nitrate-- this will produce a brilliant flash and is easy to set off as long as it's finely powdered.
well, you put it yourself in the beginning of the video. In the early stages of photography you needed an awful lot of light to imprint the light sensitive film, so magnesium was used even in broad daylight. I think you failed to compare all these light sources to just daylight.
You need to rinse gun cotton until there's no color remaining and it looks like white cotton again. It will immediately flash and there will be barely any residue.
I wonder if the youtube channel explosions&fire would be able to offer any insight into what youtube does and doesn't allow when it comes to explosives if you were refering to guns that might be a bit different but there are plenty of gun youtube channels that might offer advice to for a specific channel especially given your historical lens I'd try Forgotten weapons
Dude you just made thermite… Aluminum powder and iron oxide are the two components of thermite and I would imagine gunpowder has a similar effect, maybe a lower temperature though
12:00 It was at this point I thought, if they couldn’t control when it flamed, how did the camera man know when to open the shutter. That’s when I realized, the process of taking a picture back then was much slower. Therefore did he take the picture when he realized the flash fired?
Used to see that all over. But i was hunting up the eastern coast back in the 70 and 80s. Buy the way there were some very good handsaws and coping saws in the 1800s
You need to look into black aluminum powder. It is quite a bit more dangerous because it is milled in a ball mill with a pure carbon source to but it will burn a lot easier. Aluminum builds an oxidation layer pretty quick so adding the carbon prevents the oxidation layer from forming
i feel like people don't have time to react to the magnesium. by the time they reacted the flash should be over. which also why the longer burn time of aluminium is probably a negative in that particular application.
Magnesium burns bright enough to damage your retinae from looking at it. So I hope you didn't do that, or atleast didn't end up with spots in your vision.
