@@DylanSlater-tu7hy Your problem in court would be that the actual law doesn't include that provision. The law prohibits the raw material obtained from currency being physically exchanged for profit beyond the value of the original currency. The key there is physically. As long as he's not selling the actual copper for profit, profit from the video is in exchange for the creative, educational, and entertainment value of the content and is not prohibited by the currency law.
@@theclickening6668 .......meh I'd accept it as legal currency the copper alone is worth that much probably, plus if my boss gives me any crap about it i just threaten to throw "money" at him. Who, without hearing the details, would pay ANY attention to a threat of throwing money at someone?
@@bubblesharrison2110 Not allowed to sell the metal in the pennies for a profit. No one said you couldn't use it profitably, otherwise banks would be violating the law.
Coin sword? Mor like Micro Transaction Sword. (Bad joke) (Enter the Gungeon has the Micro Transaction Gun DLC for real currency that shoots money in-game)
Peggy_Penguin it’s illegal to melt down pennies and nickels for their metal content so it is illegal actually bec he’s melting it down to use the metal content so. Although I’m not sure as to the context but I think as long as you don’t try to profit off it then it might and I mean just might be legal unfortunately. Or what he said in the video XD
As he discussed in the video, there are a few reasons what he is doing is not for profit. However, I would argue this IS illegal because he is producing an online video that will make him revenue. He did this solely for the money.
@@odachikazane3741 incorrect, it's illegal to deface any currency that would result with it being taken out of circulation...for example, drawing on a bill is not actually illegal so long as you do not try to change it's value, or abscure it's serial number. but the complete destruction of a coin would result with it being taken out of circulation.
Work hardening isn’t pushing the atoms closer together. Work hardening increases the grain dislocation density, which decrease the ability for plastic deformation. This is because the slip planes get blocked by the dislocations. Thus, the yield and tensile strength go up, ductility goes down, and toughness can decrease.
Saying "the atoms got closer" is grade-school level understanding, which considering he seems to teach mostly grade-school students, makes sense why he'd say it like that. I mean, *technically* the atoms ARE getting closer, arranged in disarray, but yeah. @@stevenrwh
To simplify what Wil said, basically imagine that a metal is made of crystals. Remember clevage planes? Yeah, those weaken the metal, so you want something that prevents them from sliding. Work hardening forces another crystal oriented in a different direction in the slip planes way, making it harder for the planes to move, causing the bult metal to become harder
To simplify what Wil said, basically imagine that a metal is made of crystals. Remember clevage planes? Yeah, those weaken the metal, so you want something that prevents them from sliding. Work hardening forces another crystal oriented in a different direction in the slip planes way, making it harder for the planes to move, causing the bult metal to become harder
Work hardening is not a result of compressing metal. It’s a result of breaking down the crystalline structure of the metal. Which is why it gets brittle. In the end you wind up with tons of tiny crystals interlocking instead of fewer large ones. Basically, you’re creating more surface area on each crystal, which creates more internal friction. Which creates more resistance to beding. At least that’s the way it was explained to me by a metallurgist.
This is correct except one minor thing. You are reducing surface area of crystallites but increasing surface area per volume. This is called work hardening and many metals exhibit this phenomenon. Copper and its alloys are probably most known for it but titanium and many stainless steels all-so work harden, making them quite difficult to machine.
The metal isn't getting denser when you work harden it, you are increasing the number of defects in the internal crystal structure, most of which will be dislocations. These defects are what make the metal stronger after work hardening. You are not increasing the density of the metal, you are increasing the dislocation density.
HAIL ZANZIBAR Obviously. No honest man is loved, especially not enough to have memorials erected on their name. Honesty hurts, it often isn’t good to tell the truth.
@Kevin Anderson More concerned about how they'd go through with it, would need a biig temperature and forging a sword purely out of paperclips without doing some sort of damascus technique sounds like a living nightmare
This is not illegal. He addressed it in the video, but there are a lot of comments anyway so I'll expand. It is illegal to destroy Federal Reserve issued bank notes. But the Federal Reserve does not issue coins, it only issues paper notes, coins are issued by the Mint which is directly administered by the Treasury Department. Destroy all the coins you want, Uncle Sam doesn't really give a damn. However, if you profit from the destruction of coins, that has been interpreted by the FBI as counterfeiting (I'm not sure how the court ruled) so he cannot sell this sword for more than the $5 of pennies he used.
The fact is that the law isn't clear, and the law that you mention (cite?) isn't relevant, so while it may be true, I'm ignoring it. There is a general rule prohibiting exporting, melting, and treating one-cent coins. 31 CFR 82.1. Clearly the portion of the rule against export doesn't apply. There are exceptions to this general rule under 31 CFR 82.2. There is an argument to be made that this use doesn't qualify for an exception to the rule against melting or treating one-cent coins under 31 CFR 82.2(b) or (c)(2). Under this theory, it wouldn't qualify under sub (b) because sub (b) refers to the "treatment" of coins, which, according to the Treasury's supplementary guidance, refers to things like a science teacher experimenting with a single coin or a child putting a penny into a penny press. 72 FR 18880-02, 2007. Unless melting down $5+ worth of pennies is considered "treatment," he can't claim an exception under sub (b). That leaves exceptions under sub (c), which exempt melting from the general prohibition if it meets 3 requirements. One of those requirements, under (c)(2), is that the melting of the coins is "merely incidental" to whatever activity the individual is doing. Clearly, the entire point of this activity is to melt down coins, and therefore this activity would not exempt him from the general prohibition on melting one-cent coins. This is legal information and not legal advice. You can check the cites and read the relevant law for yourself. At the end of the day, you're right that no one really cares and I highly doubt he would ever get prosecuted for this. At the same time, try to check your law a little more thoroughly before you (probably unintentionally) spread false information. In any case, this is a pretty interesting legal question that, like most interesting legal questions, doesn't actually matter in real life and exists mostly as a hypothetical. Hope this comment was interesting and helpful~
Actually...they definitely won't pull out a gun to stop the bank being robbed. Banks typically comply with robbers and give them what they want, and leave it to the cops to catch them. Their accounts are insured, and the amount a robber will make off with is far less than the amount they could have to pay for lawsuits and such if anyone gets hurt. They want the robber gone, simple. A dead or injured employee or customer is far worse than losing a few thousands, or even tens of thousands, that's insured anyway. Bank robbers almost always get caught before too long anyway. If they actually rob just one bank they could conceivably escape justice forever, but that rarely happens. Somewhere between the third and the tenth time, they almost always get busted, and the game is over.
Fun Fact - You cannot smell solid metals, you can only smell what is on the metal's surface. On almost all coins you can smell oils from people's skin. This fact changed how i see metals as a whole. I say solid meals because metals have TOXIC fumes that you should definatly NOT smell.
Remember a couple years ago when everyone was randomly recommended "can you melt obsidian and cast a sword"? Well, it seem this guy is back for more. It only took 2 years.
NileRed is awesome and definitely deserves some love and sponsorship from MEL... on the subject, I would definitely enjoy a NileRed/HTME collaboration... HINT HINT lol
@@ljk8059 That could be fun... HTME & Cody can source the materials and smelt some steel that Alec can forge and NileRed can make the Ferric Chloride (or similar) to etch the finished product...
For those who don't know why hitting the edge of the sword makes it stronger; what they are doing is called strain hardening and it's very common. The mechanism behind this is atomic scale dislocations being created and 'pinned' in the metal. This makes it harder for the metal to deform when a stress is applied. Hitting the metal does not move the atoms closer together.
@@CrowleyRises I mean all I'm saying is his explanation is complete bs and has nothing to do with "density". But technically the addition of energy to some metallic structures (hitting it enough would heat it up) can change the atomic bonds. Iron is a good example of this.
It simply mashes the metal together closer and therefore more material in the same amount of space is harder. Picture taking a full trash bag and mashing it down then putting more trash in. It takes up the same amount of space but it is denser more materials there and therefore heavier and stronger.
MEL stands for MEL Educational Laboratory. The MEL in MEL Educational Laboratory stands for that as well. It is a recursive acronym, much like many things are in chemistry and science and maths.
Oh i like those. Nerded out when i learned that GNU (an operating system) stands for GNU's not Unix. PHP-> PHP Hypertext processor. Or Visa. Stands for Visa international service Association. How crazy!
yeah, you cant really "push thr atoms closer together" permanently. you will either just deform the shape or get a new crystal structure or get defects. the latter two can increase toughtess if done right
Thank goodness someone else caught that. If you are making a video and don’t understand a concept, leave the description out. If you do know the answer but you feel time would be wasted in the video giving a description, just say “look up work hardening if you want to know more.”
Just a couple of tips from someone who did similar many years ago. Use a fibre brush on your grinder to do the initial polish and to draw the blade into a more inherent edge before sharpening. Use a hard cloth polishing wheel on your bench grinder to work it further. Believe me, it makes the temper more forgiving than brittle as temperature and resonance don't overwork the metal. Finally, your belt sander should be using the lower temp and finer blue honing belt not the red one. Keep up the great work, your sword is an enviable piece. Hope this helps.
Work hardening isn't about packing the atoms closer together. The hardening is caused by fracturing the metal crystals so the metal has many small tightly interconnected crystals.
martin brajkovski I always wondered if it is actually possible. Not actually slaughtering 2000 people, but doing a massive donation drive getting the blood. Or maybe get a hospital give you their excess blood (blood has a limited shelf life, so to speak).
@@KristijanKL Oh, yeah I get that viewpoint but if I were to sponsor someone I would probably only expect to see the advertisment on the channel, not that Matt (or whatever his name is) to do it. In my opinion It's a whole other thing if Beyonce were to be sponsored as her character is her whole image, this not being the case for this TH-cam channel I don't see a problem.
On Corporals Corner, he made one out of copper and while testing it, he used it on a ferro rod and it threw sparks like a steel knife. These we viable weapons for a very long time, far longer than we have been using steel.
12:10 this explanation is completely inaccurate. The atoms do not get compressed or closer together. What you are doing is called strain hardening. By applying stress to the metal (i.e. beating it with a hammer) you are causing little parts of the metal lattice to break and slip past other parts. This causes different regions of the atomic lattice to be misaligned, and this misalignment creates barriers that prevent other parts of the lattice from sliding past the misaligned regions.
Also how about trying to find a way to make a blood sword or knife. Yes I know it would take a lot of blood to make a blood sword but I did the math and it is possible if you can collect the iron. Also the blood doesn't have to be human and some ethnic grocery stores sell blood to make cultural dishes. I know it wouldn't be practical or economical but it would be a neat thing to make even if the Iron in the sword doesn't have the level of quality you'd want from a sword.
Still though I do think it could be possible to make one it would still take a lot of blood so I suggest collecting all of the dehydrated solids over time and not buying all the blood at once to at least make the economics of this impractical project a little more practical (making blood dehydration a side project). Also I would suggest starting with a knife first and consider if it's just too much work for a sword.
i did the math once, and i think it was something like, youd need every drop of blood from about 76 full cows to make one long sword...so it might be a while until he can do that. im sure if he finds a slaughter house willing to help, they would do it no problem, but most sell their blood for blood meal and such. a knife would take far less though, wink wink ^.- (thats about 600 gallons of blood, or 3k liters)
Nobody said anything about historical accuracy and that's a Greek Xiphos not a Roman Gladius, I'm peeved because he could have made a copper sword, he didn't have to add the tin and make a bronze one
The entire time he was cutting stuff, I kept thinking how bad it would be to get hit by that and how easily it would cut through flesh and was feeling uncomfortable because of it. And then he pulls that joke and I recoiled hard.
A good bronze sword is actually expensive, ranging from 500 to 1000 dollars, blacksmithing is a thought profession, so the products are quite expensive
2:50 Please tell this to every person I tell that I use silver quarters or copper pennies for experiments that. Educational, Entertainment, and Artistic purposes are allowed, which is why people with 'penny floors' are not arrested and those Lincoln portraits where you glue pennies to a frame are completely legal.
But melting down pennies are illegal because of stuff that was happening in 2005. Not really relevant anymore, but the law hasn't changed. Most money is on cards anyways. I say we change the law, along with Mary Jane. These laws are outdated.
It's still illegal to melt them down. Everyone knows pennies are not made with copper anymore, but they still haven't changed the law. Don't get all upset.
MEL stands for Mastering the Exchange of Leptons because chemistry is about the movement of the common lepton, the electron, between atoms and molecules.
Maybe not if they say he is making money from the cinematography and knowledge gained from the video as apposed to him making the money from burning the pennies. He isn't making money from making the things he does, but the information he gives in all of his videos. Even if the giveaway is a stand alone video if he makes money from that video it could be from using his likeness. But idk i could be wrong about all of this.
That wouldn't be profiting from the metal content of the swords, which is the key part there. It's not like the people receiving them are buying it with views.
@@RiverShock technically, they are... The "profit" would be very small, since the person watching probably counted as just one view out of the hopefully hundreds of thousands of views, one person getting the sword would in theory pay an infinitesimal fraction of a dollar for such object. I'll admit that argument is scratching wherever it can to say it's illegal, but with the YT's policies... You never know.
@@IrKeNoVa You're not really profiting from the fact they were made from pennies, though. The composition of the sword is completely irrelevant to the profit made. It's primarily for entertainment purposes, which seems to be covered in the exceptions. (I guess you could argue "amusement" could solely be personal, and not for others, but I doubt anyone would go after you on that point alone given how open to interpretation it is.)
As long as he doesnt export it to another country, the exceptions are pretty broad, even going so far as to say that melting stuff for "amusement" qualifies as an exception.
The penny sword, Lincoln's weapon of choice.
Ha! Nice!
His top hat actually had a hidden circular blade under the rim, so that if thrown it would cut into anyone who is in the way.
@@atomicwinter31 SPEEDWAGON
@@jrovy3807 IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE?!?!?! Lol
@@carlosfuentes9807 lmao Lincoln was a jojo reference
The law be like...
“It’s illegal to profit from it, but if you use it for fun it’s ok.”
But by posting it on youtube he profiting by it?
Then it is contradicted in of itself because of the fact that it was used for entertainment. I wonder what the ruling on it is.
I heard ulamog eats pennies for breakfast... but emrakul can stomach nickels 0.0
AJ Gallego last time I checked she was stuck in a damn moon.
@@DylanSlater-tu7hy Your problem in court would be that the actual law doesn't include that provision. The law prohibits the raw material obtained from currency being physically exchanged for profit beyond the value of the original currency. The key there is physically. As long as he's not selling the actual copper for profit, profit from the video is in exchange for the creative, educational, and entertainment value of the content and is not prohibited by the currency law.
Cashier: ok sir, that'll be $25
HTME: *pulls out the sword and gives it to them*
LuigiHorror 64 lol
That would be funny if HTME successfully purchase something with that.
@@theclickening6668 .......meh I'd accept it as legal currency the copper alone is worth that much probably, plus if my boss gives me any crap about it i just threaten to throw "money" at him. Who, without hearing the details, would pay ANY attention to a threat of throwing money at someone?
You’re not allowed to use them for profit! 😂
@@bubblesharrison2110 Not allowed to sell the metal in the pennies for a profit. No one said you couldn't use it profitably, otherwise banks would be violating the law.
"What did it cost ?"
*"$5"*
5 dollars pre 1982 lol
EVERYTHING
They all put their two cents worth in.
About tree fiddy
$5 you buffoon
My heart jumped when you hit the hot dog glove. Totally got me. Props on that.
Right, i havent been got by a play like that in a long time, it was well shot.
Me too.
16:15
David Gerritzen is that a lincoln assassination joke
Lol Damn y did I read comments before watching the.vid all the way
Name: coin sword
Damage: 38
Durability: 759
Description: need a lotta coin
But it's worth it
*Penny Sword
*ATK 200
*From 'that' corner of the Internet, you know the one.
Coin sword? Mor like Micro Transaction Sword. (Bad joke) (Enter the Gungeon has the Micro Transaction Gun DLC for real currency that shoots money in-game)
Every kill = 1 penny
@@FluffyEnbyneering *yes*
@@kyokeekyo3234 every kill=50 coin
Wait, that’s illegal.
Wait, THATS NOT ILLEGAL!?!?
Edit: CPG Grey would be proud
Peggy_Penguin it’s illegal to melt down pennies and nickels for their metal content so it is illegal actually bec he’s melting it down to use the metal content so. Although I’m not sure as to the context but I think as long as you don’t try to profit off it then it might and I mean just might be legal unfortunately. Or what he said in the video XD
As he discussed in the video, there are a few reasons what he is doing is not for profit.
However, I would argue this IS illegal because he is producing an online video that will make him revenue. He did this solely for the money.
He would be arrested here in Brazil. It's considered a crime against nation's property.
y’all realize pennies are monetarily useless right?
@@odachikazane3741 incorrect, it's illegal to deface any currency that would result with it being taken out of circulation...for example, drawing on a bill is not actually illegal so long as you do not try to change it's value, or abscure it's serial number. but the complete destruction of a coin would result with it being taken out of circulation.
Aight lesson learned.. I must collect pennies, so incase of an apocalyptic event I could smelt it and make it into a sword.
I would cast bullets with them. Which, im already thinking about doing. Even the zinc ones would make ok plinking ammo.
@Chillsy there is enough copper in a junkyard
They are cents, not pennies.
Also, it would be melting, not smelting.
Smelting is extracting copper from ore.
Sword of wealth
- +30% more coins from the monsters
From there WALET
YOU play teeraria ? Minecraft? what do you play? and wjar game have that affect
Diablo 2 😁
But only copper coins
some one from no where +XX% Gold is a pretty popular effect
Your total is $5.47, how would you like to pay? Cash or Credit.
Uh...
The blod of your enemy or your own?
+etherious natsu dragneel The blood if the one to ask the question.
+Caitlin Wilson *of
Good!
Plz kill fast for no distraction later on
"Hands cashier One sword and two daggers made of pennies."
Work hardening isn’t pushing the atoms closer together. Work hardening increases the grain dislocation density, which decrease the ability for plastic deformation. This is because the slip planes get blocked by the dislocations. Thus, the yield and tensile strength go up, ductility goes down, and toughness can decrease.
Yes, I think he misspoke.
Saying "the atoms got closer" is grade-school level understanding, which considering he seems to teach mostly grade-school students, makes sense why he'd say it like that. I mean, *technically* the atoms ARE getting closer, arranged in disarray, but yeah. @@stevenrwh
I have no idea what you just said but it sounds smart, so I'm gonna believe you XD
To simplify what Wil said, basically imagine that a metal is made of crystals. Remember clevage planes? Yeah, those weaken the metal, so you want something that prevents them from sliding. Work hardening forces another crystal oriented in a different direction in the slip planes way, making it harder for the planes to move, causing the bult metal to become harder
To simplify what Wil said, basically imagine that a metal is made of crystals. Remember clevage planes? Yeah, those weaken the metal, so you want something that prevents them from sliding. Work hardening forces another crystal oriented in a different direction in the slip planes way, making it harder for the planes to move, causing the bult metal to become harder
"I smell pennies!!" -famous last words
*finally i can keep these pennies to myself self* stomp stomp *What the hell?*
@@Mariocat99 finally they can’t take the pennys any more *pulls out penny sword*
"I smelt pennies"
You should have drilled two shallow recesses, one on each side of the handle, and glued pennies in there - one heads, one tails.
Work hardening is not a result of compressing metal. It’s a result of breaking down the crystalline structure of the metal. Which is why it gets brittle. In the end you wind up with tons of tiny crystals interlocking instead of fewer large ones. Basically, you’re creating more surface area on each crystal, which creates more internal friction. Which creates more resistance to beding. At least that’s the way it was explained to me by a metallurgist.
This is correct except one minor thing. You are reducing surface area of crystallites but increasing surface area per volume. This is called work hardening and many metals exhibit this phenomenon. Copper and its alloys are probably most known for it but titanium and many stainless steels all-so work harden, making them quite difficult to machine.
"What does MEL mean?"
M - Meaty
E - Elastic
L - Lasagna
Darn. I wanted to win. Now you will.
Meaty
Elastic
Limph Node
Yeah Jon, where's my l a s a g n a
Minecraft
Engulfed
Leard
M-MOMS
E-EAT
L-LASANGA
16:14 when you’re not expecting it, it’s genuinely horrifying for a second
Oof
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The metal isn't getting denser when you work harden it, you are increasing the number of defects in the internal crystal structure, most of which will be dislocations. These defects are what make the metal stronger after work hardening. You are not increasing the density of the metal, you are increasing the dislocation density.
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Cody's Lab explained it better, he used 24k gold foil and a weight. :)
Everything is better when you're looking at something shiny though.
God thank you, this made me unnecessarily mad when they said that.
Garret Jacobs shut up
You aren't increasing the density, you're actually increasing the density.
I wasn't really paying attention near the end cutting montage, and I actually freaked out for a second thinking that the finger was actually cut...
Same
yah I was likeee ahhhhhh! youuu dickkk! XD
Same too
i jumped cuz i was falling asleep there 😅
I was getting a drink when he said that and I was freaked out
$5 Sword vs. $5,000 Sword (not clickbait)
I sense buzzfeed derps
@@dimitrijenovakovic7942 -your nose is broken-
@@EchoHeo So is you sense of humor
@@homosexualgayming9706 so is yours
@@EchoHeo fair point
"Now i know what your thinking, im commiting federal crime"
Wow wasent expecting that
Abraham Lincoln's sword., (The Sword Of Honesty).
except abe wasn't that honest
HAIL ZANZIBAR Obviously. No honest man is loved, especially not enough to have memorials erected on their name. Honesty hurts, it often isn’t good to tell the truth.
If he makes a sword putnof quarters its George Washington's sword of freedom
@@TonyisToking I get why you think so, but really... that is such BS.
The handle is made of a nice tan wood from a cherry tree.
IDEA! Try seeing how many paper clips it takes to make a sword
Yaaaasss
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@Kevin Anderson More concerned about how they'd go through with it, would need a biig temperature and forging a sword purely out of paperclips without doing some sort of damascus technique sounds like a living nightmare
@@ZaZi-Zeta01 uuuhhhhhh you do know steel is half iron right?
@@ZaZi-Zeta01 in fact steel averages around 97% iron.
"I'm not sure it is a sword, more of a letter opener really.." you can name it Sting as well
Mykhailo Hohol you get big ass letters
yo I was thinking that
Ah yes, the perfect thing I needed at 4:26am
I just watched this at the same hour... spooky
16:14 arhhhhh my !!!
Very strange... I’m also watching this at the same time but 5 months difference
2:00 am
1:28
I legit screamed when he smacked the glove with hot dogs....
Yup.
yeah my fuckin heart stopped
My heart fell into my stomach
@@NataliesChatalie lmao same
That was crappy of him. Bad joke.
Breaking the flow of the video with multiple ads is a bit excessive. Just sayin.'
gotta make money somehow, just sayin'
and illegal, as he is using the video of him destroying federal currency for profit.
@@clintonleonard5187 It is not illegal to destroy federal currency it is only illegal to alter it to make it look more than it is worth
laughing and typing this on my youtube premium
@@clintonleonard5187 He's not making money off the metal, listen from 2:45
next video: how to make a prison shank
Welp the next episode is: This HTME and were here in prison teaching you how to make paper knives. Crossbows and improvised prison weapons.
Wrong you use a shiv to shank someone
@Nikolaus Lihrs I wanted to post that
Yeet
its called shiv
*Defaces US currency to make a weapon*
HTME: “I’ll let you know if I go to jail.”
This is not illegal. He addressed it in the video, but there are a lot of comments anyway so I'll expand. It is illegal to destroy Federal Reserve issued bank notes. But the Federal Reserve does not issue coins, it only issues paper notes, coins are issued by the Mint which is directly administered by the Treasury Department. Destroy all the coins you want, Uncle Sam doesn't really give a damn. However, if you profit from the destruction of coins, that has been interpreted by the FBI as counterfeiting (I'm not sure how the court ruled) so he cannot sell this sword for more than the $5 of pennies he used.
The fact is that the law isn't clear, and the law that you mention (cite?) isn't relevant, so while it may be true, I'm ignoring it. There is a general rule prohibiting exporting, melting, and treating one-cent coins. 31 CFR 82.1. Clearly the portion of the rule against export doesn't apply. There are exceptions to this general rule under 31 CFR 82.2. There is an argument to be made that this use doesn't qualify for an exception to the rule against melting or treating one-cent coins under 31 CFR 82.2(b) or (c)(2). Under this theory, it wouldn't qualify under sub (b) because sub (b) refers to the "treatment" of coins, which, according to the Treasury's supplementary guidance, refers to things like a science teacher experimenting with a single coin or a child putting a penny into a penny press. 72 FR 18880-02, 2007. Unless melting down $5+ worth of pennies is considered "treatment," he can't claim an exception under sub (b). That leaves exceptions under sub (c), which exempt melting from the general prohibition if it meets 3 requirements. One of those requirements, under (c)(2), is that the melting of the coins is "merely incidental" to whatever activity the individual is doing. Clearly, the entire point of this activity is to melt down coins, and therefore this activity would not exempt him from the general prohibition on melting one-cent coins. This is legal information and not legal advice. You can check the cites and read the relevant law for yourself. At the end of the day, you're right that no one really cares and I highly doubt he would ever get prosecuted for this. At the same time, try to check your law a little more thoroughly before you (probably unintentionally) spread false information. In any case, this is a pretty interesting legal question that, like most interesting legal questions, doesn't actually matter in real life and exists mostly as a hypothetical. Hope this comment was interesting and helpful~
Hu whell shit im just going to delete my coment now
this video is monetized so he is profiting
How would they even find out
@@자시엘-l1s Posting a video of you doing it on the internet.
Next Video: How to make a prison shank from scratch. lol
Maxjoker98
We already have the Prisonshank Channel for that.
@@DASSAMWASHERELP lol theres a prison chank channel !?
Hmmmm? They'll need that prison shank. Just a little illegal to destroy currency isn't it?
@@kelleymiller7738 he just said it isn't only if he doesn't earn from whats left of the coins.
Just go watch The Modern Rogue for all you prison weapon needs
Did you do it?
Yes.
What did it cost?
Penny
penny
Penny
pENNY
P E N N Y !
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“Penny Sword isn’t real, Penny Sword can’t hurt you”
*Penny Sword* :
That sword really was worth every penny
and the propane
and the sand
and the wood
Would you say Perfect for the holiday season?
@@maheswaraakram2216 whooosh
actually increased the value
Hahaha :D Good one!
Now gain those pennies back and more by using the sword to rob a bank...
Great idea!!! The person running the bank will definitely not pull out a gun to prevent him from robbing the bank
He needs to round up a posse with Lances so they can charge the security guards.
@@torresfishingFL the owner of a bank doesn't stop robbers that's the cops and security job
Actually...they definitely won't pull out a gun to stop the bank being robbed. Banks typically comply with robbers and give them what they want, and leave it to the cops to catch them.
Their accounts are insured, and the amount a robber will make off with is far less than the amount they could have to pay for lawsuits and such if anyone gets hurt.
They want the robber gone, simple. A dead or injured employee or customer is far worse than losing a few thousands, or even tens of thousands, that's insured anyway.
Bank robbers almost always get caught before too long anyway. If they actually rob just one bank they could conceivably escape justice forever, but that rarely happens. Somewhere between the third and the tenth time, they almost always get busted, and the game is over.
Yea but then he's using the casted pennies to make a profit.
Next video: “Hey guys we’re gonna learn how to make a prison shank from scratch.”
*Furiously begins scratching a comb against the floor*
Mayonnaise
Toothbrush, not a comb. ;)
Ha. Scratch
William Schrimsher Thank you
Imagine how his hands smells after holding those pennies
Fun Fact - You cannot smell solid metals, you can only smell what is on the metal's surface.
On almost all coins you can smell oils from people's skin.
This fact changed how i see metals as a whole.
I say solid meals because metals have TOXIC fumes that you should definatly NOT smell.
*"I S M E L L P E N N I E S"*
AHHHHHHHHHHH
I understood that reference
No please no
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
EEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHH
PERFECTION
Thumbs down, my Ads were interrupted by some guys casting a sword.
addblock is the answer ! i havent seen ads on youtube for like 5 years now :D
If only adblock could skip sponsored shit, but then again i like free content.
@@jailbreaker1214 just press the right arrow on your keyboard a few times to skip them or if you are on mobile double tap the right side of the screen
I think you guys read his comment backwards. Try again.
If not ads, who pays?
16:14 i was actually legit scared
same
I said "Jesus Christ"
same
On god i got goosebumps idk why
Poor hot dogs
Remember a couple years ago when everyone was randomly recommended "can you melt obsidian and cast a sword"? Well, it seem this guy is back for more. It only took 2 years.
Andy George
Race: Human
Lvl 3 Artificer
Specialty: HTME style crafting
Lvl 1 Fighter
Fighting Style: Two-Weapon Fighting
Yes
16:15 legitimately made me recoil
same
He had me for like 2 seconds there. I was like. What!?!?!
my stomach twisted for a solid minute afterwards just thinking about it
I looked in the comments to see if anyone else did this right away.
ikr i jumped
Mel better sponsor NileRed
@AT22 comeon man you getting free entertainment here, you can sit trough 1 min of advertisment. some people
NileRed is awesome and definitely deserves some love and sponsorship from MEL... on the subject, I would definitely enjoy a NileRed/HTME collaboration... HINT HINT lol
@@John-lx8iu totally agree! How about a YT dream team? HTME, NileRed, Cody's Lab and (the now America-based) Alec Steele!
@@ljk8059 That could be fun... HTME & Cody can source the materials and smelt some steel that Alec can forge and NileRed can make the Ferric Chloride (or similar) to etch the finished product...
《 LJK 》 you totally forgot Nerd Rage....
Sword casting guy sounded like the guy from Mythbusters
Joseph Anderson holy shit you are right
"I'm Jamie Hyneman and this is Mythbusters."
16:15 you got me
same, my butt puckered for like 100 milliseconds
You've been gnomed
My hotdogs
@@slartbarg "My butt puckered" is my new favorite phrase
IKR?? scared the crap out of me ;;
For those who don't know why hitting the edge of the sword makes it stronger; what they are doing is called strain hardening and it's very common. The mechanism behind this is atomic scale dislocations being created and 'pinned' in the metal. This makes it harder for the metal to deform when a stress is applied. Hitting the metal does not move the atoms closer together.
What? You mean striking metal with a small hammer won't change the bond between atoms? No way! lol
If iit becomes more dense then atoms are closer together.
@@CrowleyRises I mean all I'm saying is his explanation is complete bs and has nothing to do with "density". But technically the addition of energy to some metallic structures (hitting it enough would heat it up) can change the atomic bonds. Iron is a good example of this.
No it changes the layout of the atoms
It simply mashes the metal together closer and therefore more material in the same amount of space is harder. Picture taking a full trash bag and mashing it down then putting more trash in. It takes up the same amount of space but it is denser more materials there and therefore heavier and stronger.
How much did Mel Chemistry pay you to get 3 ads, tf
Like 20k probably
Based off what they offer me; about 1000$ per ad break so 3 or 4k probably. Then again i'm not nearly so advertiser friendly.
@@theCodyReeder Damn, thanks for the transparancy. Love your work
@@theCodyReeder What new adventures do you have planned for this year? (videos)
What’s MEL mean to you?
Coin Sword:
Damage: 12
Weight: 1
Value: 5
Yeah! Hahaha
Stolen item
$5 for a sword!? count me in.
5 dollars and some time in federal prison!
And hundreds of dollars for the tools
@@JackassCass457 only if you sell them.
@@anonmouse4357 No its illegal to destroy federal currency on camera.
@@ZazairS7N except pennies
MEL stands for MEL Educational Laboratory. The MEL in MEL Educational Laboratory stands for that as well. It is a recursive acronym, much like many things are in chemistry and science and maths.
Stefan Lopuszanski
MEL Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library
Oh i like those.
Nerded out when i learned that GNU (an operating system) stands for GNU's not Unix. PHP-> PHP Hypertext processor. Or Visa. Stands for Visa international service Association. How crazy!
Dammit, I was thinking the same.
12:08 - it's not compression, but defects in the crystal structure that is making it harder to bend.
yeah, you cant really "push thr atoms closer together" permanently. you will either just deform the shape or get a new crystal structure or get defects. the latter two can increase toughtess if done right
Thank goodness someone else caught that. If you are making a video and don’t understand a concept, leave the description out. If you do know the answer but you feel time would be wasted in the video giving a description, just say “look up work hardening if you want to know more.”
Just a couple of tips from someone who did similar many years ago. Use a fibre brush on your grinder to do the initial polish and to draw the blade into a more inherent edge before sharpening. Use a hard cloth polishing wheel on your bench grinder to work it further. Believe me, it makes the temper more forgiving than brittle as temperature and resonance don't overwork the metal. Finally, your belt sander should be using the lower temp and finer blue honing belt not the red one. Keep up the great work, your sword is an enviable piece. Hope this helps.
It slices, it dices, it even works under water!
I'll TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK
Also in prison!
Robert Webster ILL TALK YOUR ENTIRE STOCK
Hi, My name is Robert Webster, and I am here with Flex Sword.
SHUTUPANDTAKEMYMONEY
“Riveting is kind of a lost art”
*wears fedora*
*makes sword*
Garry Reyom I don't get it
@@bennettt5380 oof
Rivets are easy to make compared to swords
Riveting is a lost art? Allow me to introduce you to aircraft maintenance.
@@HekateMGO what he means is people have started using screws and adhesives more commonly in recent history
I don't know or really care what it stands for, I'm just glad youtube has a way to quickly skip ahead.
Work hardening isn't about packing the atoms closer together. The hardening is caused by fracturing the metal crystals so the metal has many small tightly interconnected crystals.
It takes the blood from more than 2000 bodies to make a sword
martin brajkovski I always wondered if it is actually possible. Not actually slaughtering 2000 people, but doing a massive donation drive getting the blood. Or maybe get a hospital give you their excess blood (blood has a limited shelf life, so to speak).
What if sword vampire?
Sounds like a hero sword..
@@LetsTakeWalk This channel have a video of that If im not mistaken!
Sufficiently advanced made a blood sword before
Mel stands for "Magical Experiences Learning"
@@KristijanKL It's a sketch. I don't see how he's in any way taking advantage of them.
My expensive lab
@@KristijanKL Oh, yeah I get that viewpoint but if I were to sponsor someone I would probably only expect to see the advertisment on the channel, not that Matt (or whatever his name is) to do it.
In my opinion It's a whole other thing if Beyonce were to be sponsored as her character is her whole image, this not being the case for this TH-cam channel I don't see a problem.
_The Sword of Lincoln._
Perfect name.
I like the comment, but why would Lincoln weild a sword made from his own melted faces?
_Why not?_
The sword to chop a nation in half
@@keatoncrandall2471 The statue would...
MEL = “make everyone learn” Chemistry.
Insert first comment on popular channel that I know
Wtf was plex doing here 😐
7:42 Stop! You have violated the Law!
Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's lav
Saves
Murders the whole village
Loads
*Resist arrest*
"Then pay with your blood!"
you have comitted crimes against skyrim and it's people. What do you say in your defence?
The hotdog glove part was comedy gold lol
i agree but with the snowflakes from the internet it could backfire
@@danielborbolla4677 Wtf are you even talking about
@@danielborbolla4677 Shoulda used vegan hotdogs.
that legit scared me the first time I saw it.
Absolutely not a single soul on Earth...
Forged in fire:
So to test your blades hardness we're going to chop through this brick wall.
Chapzer YO! My dad watches that show!
And after we'll test the sharpnes by cutting a whole pig in half.
It will keal
Me: *Reads the title*
Me: “Less then it takes to buy a sword.”
who else was kinda thinking of the guy from forged in fire saying "It will kill" I sure was at the end
Was actually looking for this comment
He probably didn’t slash dead animals for a season because he stubbed his toe.
IT WILL KEAL
On Corporals Corner, he made one out of copper and while testing it, he used it on a ferro rod and it threw sparks like a steel knife. These we viable weapons for a very long time, far longer than we have been using steel.
Mel chemistry stays for;
Making
Elemental
Language
Clear,
Halcyon,
Entertaining,
Mysteriously intuitive,
Simple,
Tremendously revolutionary,
Yo
When someone says “Penny for ya thoughts” but want no information
The sword is now worth more than the pennies you used
the copper is too
But you can't sell it because it's illegal
too bad it's illegal to profit from it
@@elpato20001 so, does that mean he could theoretically sell it for the amount of pennies he used to make it?
How whould the government ever know if you profited from it?
That scene when pennies melt, though. Satisfaction.
Your hotdogs scared the crap out of me
Why did you do that😂😂😂😂😂😂
Don't do it. 😱
@@TheUltimateMachineGod i thought the point was to make a sword out of pennies🙀
Did you do it?
Yes..
What did it cost?
About the same of a big Mac..
Mel=Mostly Easy Learning
KenKaneki __981 most easiest learning
12:10 this explanation is completely inaccurate. The atoms do not get compressed or closer together. What you are doing is called strain hardening. By applying stress to the metal (i.e. beating it with a hammer) you are causing little parts of the metal lattice to break and slip past other parts. This causes different regions of the atomic lattice to be misaligned, and this misalignment creates barriers that prevent other parts of the lattice from sliding past the misaligned regions.
Psh nerd
i learned this in school lul
Mr. Krabs had a heart attack after watching this
He can kill for the money
@@sovietww2radiooperator141 *with his money
@Infinity Sim the feeling is mutual. You especially
*How ye destroy me money!!!*
Man with beard 1: Hey son! Let's work on Mel Chemistry!
Man with beard 2: Yay!
Also how about trying to find a way to make a blood sword or knife. Yes I know it would take a lot of blood to make a blood sword but I did the math and it is possible if you can collect the iron. Also the blood doesn't have to be human and some ethnic grocery stores sell blood to make cultural dishes. I know it wouldn't be practical or economical but it would be a neat thing to make even if the Iron in the sword doesn't have the level of quality you'd want from a sword.
Oh great!!! Does this mean I can recover my own health anytime I use it against a live object of some kind?!
+lifesteal
Livebearer Fancier hope he sees this comment it’s dope!
Still though I do think it could be possible to make one it would still take a lot of blood so I suggest collecting all of the dehydrated solids over time and not buying all the blood at once to at least make the economics of this impractical project a little more practical (making blood dehydration a side project). Also I would suggest starting with a knife first and consider if it's just too much work for a sword.
i did the math once, and i think it was something like, youd need every drop of blood from about 76 full cows to make one long sword...so it might be a while until he can do that. im sure if he finds a slaughter house willing to help, they would do it no problem, but most sell their blood for blood meal and such. a knife would take far less though, wink wink ^.- (thats about 600 gallons of blood, or 3k liters)
A penny saved is a penny sword.
MakoRuu well technically 500 pennies saved is a penny sword
@@subswithoutanyvideos-dw3jw r/woooosh
IanVelesGDツ I don’t think that was a whooosh
IanVelesGDツ dude I could say r/ woooosh cause I was making a joke
IanVelesGDツ so r/woooooooooooossh
Gaz would be proud, your Mellon slashing skills are impressive.
9:23 Best $5.00 Ever spent!
I agree
MEL stands for Massively Educational Literature.
Either that, or Michael's Elephant Library, but that doesn't sound quite right.
16:14
OHMYGOD WTF ARE YOU
"No! My hot dogs!"
WHY
Why? Yes!
*sells penny sword for profit*
*Goes to jail*
Me: "It's not breaking the law it's currency exchange"
Just like the ancient Romans. Using their sink to cool then cleaning the edges with their angle grinder 😎
Nobody said anything about historical accuracy and that's a Greek Xiphos not a Roman Gladius, I'm peeved because he could have made a copper sword, he didn't have to add the tin and make a bronze one
@@philanthropical5520 I did
@@Justin-Outdoors
lol
Who said the greeks didnt have grinders?...
@@allangibson8494 🤔
Using antler for work hardening, as opposed to an iron hammer, would be more true to the roots. I mean come on..... Who hammers bronze with iron?
@Common Logic no such thing as common logic........And yet you are here. Odd. I wonder if the other oxymoron Common sense will show up also. :P
A well-off smith in the Iron Age. Funny thing, just because it was called the "Iron Age" doesn't mean they just stopped using bronze for everything.
16:16 that scared the hell out of me that’s a good one 🤣
16:14 scared the crap out of me lol
AlphaCharlie4 No kidding, i also thought the worst
bruh i winced
i died XD
The entire time he was cutting stuff, I kept thinking how bad it would be to get hit by that and how easily it would cut through flesh and was feeling uncomfortable because of it. And then he pulls that joke and I recoiled hard.
i thought "oh ok"
MEL - Meh, Everybody learns!
99th like why cant i be 100th T-T
lol
You should’ve make the handle out of pennies with epoxie
Epoxy*
“How many pennies does it take to make a sword?”
My entire piggy bank....
_This gives new definition to 50 cent sword lol_
About the same as it takes to buy a sword is my guess
Edit: well, a really crappy sword.
That takes away the whole point of this channel
AG3nt47 only if you want to make everything out of money.
A good bronze sword is actually expensive, ranging from 500 to 1000 dollars, blacksmithing is a thought profession, so the products are quite expensive
It's actually a 10000 dollar fine per penny to melt them down
Never mind just watched it
Metallurgics
Electronics
And latrines
(Btw thats a good name for a hardware store)
stolen :P
@@CivilCIA that indeed is a good name for a hardware store
Them: **uses it for education**
Me: hehe yes it poke slime for gel for fire stick
Terreria reference btw
Random Things 225 Copper shortsword XD
2:50 Please tell this to every person I tell that I use silver quarters or copper pennies for experiments that.
Educational, Entertainment, and Artistic purposes are allowed, which is why people with 'penny floors' are not arrested and those Lincoln portraits where you glue pennies to a frame are completely legal.
But melting down pennies are illegal because of stuff that was happening in 2005. Not really relevant anymore, but the law hasn't changed. Most money is on cards anyways. I say we change the law, along with Mary Jane. These laws are outdated.
@@inkphoenix5707 No. Melting down pennies in order to sell the copper and make a profit is illegal
It's still illegal to melt them down. Everyone knows pennies are not made with copper anymore, but they still haven't changed the law. Don't get all upset.
Fixin Nixon becouse most penny’s out there are copper, or at least half are still copper
This is the only reason i haven’t made a video where I made a bar of zinc from pennies because im too lazy to say “THIS IS LEGAL”
MEL stands for Mastering
the Exchange of Leptons because chemistry is about the movement of the common lepton, the electron, between atoms and molecules.
If you monetize the sword giveaway video that might actually be illegal.
Maybe not if they say he is making money from the cinematography and knowledge gained from the video as apposed to him making the money from burning the pennies. He isn't making money from making the things he does, but the information he gives in all of his videos. Even if the giveaway is a stand alone video if he makes money from that video it could be from using his likeness. But idk i could be wrong about all of this.
That wouldn't be profiting from the metal content of the swords, which is the key part there. It's not like the people receiving them are buying it with views.
@@RiverShock technically, they are... The "profit" would be very small, since the person watching probably counted as just one view out of the hopefully hundreds of thousands of views, one person getting the sword would in theory pay an infinitesimal fraction of a dollar for such object. I'll admit that argument is scratching wherever it can to say it's illegal, but with the YT's policies... You never know.
@@IrKeNoVa You're not really profiting from the fact they were made from pennies, though. The composition of the sword is completely irrelevant to the profit made. It's primarily for entertainment purposes, which seems to be covered in the exceptions. (I guess you could argue "amusement" could solely be personal, and not for others, but I doubt anyone would go after you on that point alone given how open to interpretation it is.)
As long as he doesnt export it to another country, the exceptions are pretty broad, even going so far as to say that melting stuff for "amusement" qualifies as an exception.
Think we should just get rid of the 1 Cent (Penny). IE stop making them.
In NZ, we got rid of 1c and 2c coins about 30 years ago, and 5c coins about 5 or 10 years ago. Makes things so much easier!
Not worth tax dollars
12:42 riveting content
You got me. 20 points to you!
Fiat Equality Czar 20 points to gryffindor
stop
Nice
I hope you pulled out any Wheaties or if there would of been a Indian Head. Those coins need to be saved not smelted.
Yes, thank you. People shouldn't melt history.