Building A Water Heater Rocket! | MythBusters | Season 4 Episode 21 | Full Episode
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 พ.ย. 2024
- Jamie and Adam see if a water heater can rocket through the roof and into the atmosphere!
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"By the time we're done with this, we'll actually know what we're doing."
A very underrated Jamie line XD
I also liked the deadpan delivery when he was talking about the house that got condemned after its water heater blew through the roof: "A couple of people were injured. Killed a dog."
I fully knew what was going to happen with that boiler since saw the episode as a child… but until today I can’t stop watching it over and over again with a grin.
Completely unexpected realization of the amount of power available. One of the greatest episodes.
I remember watching Adam on Tested talking about how that is still his favorite explosion made me wanna find this episode again. The sound, the power, the giant steam cloud and the fact that thing stayed airborne for several seconds was peak mythbusters imo. That and the one were they filled a concrete mixer with c4 and vaporized the truck.
RIP Grant. He will always be remembered
He picked the quickest way to go... RIP
We miss you Grant. You’re not forgotten
@@jordanbridges He didn't pick it; he was unlucky.
@soundspark is English your second language?
@jordanbridges No, I looked up how he died and it was by horrible luck rather than an accident.
45:15: Gotta love how all the chaos of this moment is punctuated by the almost comical 'THUNK' of the heater landing a few seconds later. Absolutely priceless.👌
Also hearing Jamie laughing as heartily as Adam was a treat!
One of the classic episodes that has just about everything you want out of a Mythbuster's episode.
RIP Grant, thank you for the awesome childhood. Your kindness and softness still radiates to this day.
the great thing about this show was that it was just so darn fun to watch . it was much like a mad scientist club put on tv . an i still think mythbusters need a star on the walk of fame .
Im 16 years in as a plumber
Heard about this episode as a kid. Now its my turn to watch this!
You heard about this episode as a kid? The first episode of this was in 2005 when I was just under a year old, and this is from season 4. So unless you were a plumber since age 4, I think you're either lying about how long you've been a plumber, or you weren't a kid
@@Lil_Warrior_Princesswow i didnt know that everyone is the same age as you. anyways , say you start plumbing at 18 in 2008, you could've heard about this episode at 15 in 2005, being a "kid". Then plumbing for 16 years to watch it on youtube at 34 in 2024
@@TheBubbanot wanna do something other than vomit words?
@@Lil_Warrior_Princess be happy!
@@Lil_Warrior_Princessyour first comment was some good trolling but the second comment is lazy and reveals that you're just a character. Try not to break the ruse so early next time
Props to the team for recognizing the danger with that small water heater, and moving it somewhere else... even without it exploding in that container.
The scary thing is thinking about what would have happened if it did blow up in the bunker. Seeing what happens when they blow, it would have been pretty catastrophic inside that container.
For some reason, Grant doing an experience that risks creating blood cloths hurts my heart.
Yeah... Technically, an aneurysm is bleeding caused by a weakened vein rupturing, and to my knowledge doesn't have anything to do with clots directly, but still... It hits dangerously close to home.
Euugghh...honestly I'm just gonna skip over that part of the episode. I'm sorry it's too painful. I can't picture that stuff in my head without cringing.
I think it’s hilarious. Good stuff.
“blood cloths”? Also, I think you meant “experiment” not experience, though I guess that technically works as well.
The grammar in this comment hurts my trust in humanity.
Miss you Grant, what a brilliant person 😢😢😢
pretty sure this is the exact episode that gave me my irrational fear of exploding water heaters when I was younger lol
Grant wearing skin-tight vinyl pants and a shrink wrapped muffin top is just the kind of weird real Mythbusters fans appreciate.
In retrospect, theyre lucky that a sensor failure or leak aborted their small scale water heater failure test in their bunker. That little 6 gal water heater at 400psi could have handily leveled their bunker if it failed catastrophically.
This was one of my favorite episodes as a kid. I had watched the T&P valve work on my parents water hater prior to this episode when it over-pressurized, so it was crazy to see what would have happened had that failed as well.
I feel like this episode is just as iconic as the cement truck.
When Jamie laughs, you know it's good.
When i was at vocational school my plumbing teacher always spoke about this episode when ever we were doing water heaters and anything that heats water like furnaces/boilers, no valves that can be accidentaly closed and disabling safety features or the heater will go trough the roof or blow out side of the house its in. I will never do this mistake or install anything that the client could fck up and blow up accidentaly. if theres maintanance valve near expansion chamber the handle must be removed so it cant be shut off accidentaly by client, only can be done by repair man/plumber
Thank you so much for putting these videos on TH-cam!
Honestly not too surprised it shot skyward rather than just exploding. I've sold and warrantied water heaters for over 11 years, and something like 90-95% of warranty exchanges are from leakages in the bottom of the tank. Part of it is from sediments accumulating at the bottom and rusting out the tank (don't skimp on a water softener and draining your tank every once in a while), but it's also the thinnest section, with little to no insulation or outside sheeting
there was a us chemical safety board video about a similar incident, where there was a rusted bottom. ended up killing people across the street
BEST. EXPLOSION. EVER.
Loy-Lange Box Company in St Louis, Missouri. April 3rd, 2017. A severely corroded pressure vessel failed sending it rocketing through the roof and into a nearby building. 1 worker died, another was injured and 3 bystanders perished when the pressure vessel came back down.
33:55
Jeans deliberately are hard to set on fire. The conduct heat very poorly and have a tendency to char rather than catch fire. This is actually what they were originally intended for, as work clothing for people who work around hot things like steam engines.
5:23 - 5:25 *"Ah, that's better!"*
Heh, the narrator's wise cracks and jokes are such a vital part of this show.
😂
The Narrator almost always made it better, it was great in an anime called _Kaguya-sama: Love Is War_ , it was great in MythBusters, except for during the Paris Olympics for the US peeps...(and likely many other country's Olympic Broadcast Partners)
45:53
“Did you know what was lurking in your basement?”
- James Franklin Hyneman
"There's danger everywhere... Did you know what was lurking in your basement?"
I remember after a bad flood our water heater started to bulge like crazy my mom saw it and quickly turned it off. Still wild to have seen it
"Come hell or hot water."
"Gets me all steamy" lol
"How can you tell the sex of a chromosome? You pull down it's genes!"
I don't know why, but this just might be my favorite MythBusters episode. There's just something about water pressure being used to propel a projectile that gets to me.
(Water rockets are a favorite of my students as well.)
I know a guy at work who works on pressure vessels a lot and he told me about this episode. They can certainly be dangerous if they fail without the safeguards
8:58 tori sounds so genuine here that im almost convinced it wasnt even in the script
Steam/hot water burns are absolutely horrible. I burned myself with boiling engine coolant by opening the radiator cap when my truck overheated. Yes i know it was stupid and i knew better. I had a coolant leak and my truck would overheat every few days. It wasnt technically a radiator cap, it was the cap on the overflow tank. I had opened it numerous times while overheated with no issues but this time was different for some reason. Stopped at a gas station to let it cool off and add water just like i had done nunerous times before. After 20 minutes of cooling off i went to take the cap off and as soon as it unlocked the pressure launched the cap off and a geiser of boiling water and steam rained down on my scalp and bare arms. They were only mild burns but they hurt like hell. I'm a welder/fabricator so im used to burns but boiling water burns ere totally different.
I remember when the rolled out the water heater during Jamie’s Farewell Tour and the whole theater cheered and he commented that they (Adam and Jamie) never so much cheer for a water heater.
Water is odd, when you think about it. It expands when heated from liquid to gas, like most everything else, but it also expands when chilled from liquid to solid, where most everything else contracts
During hurricane sandy we had 5 duplexes in a row directly next to one another on the same street as our most flooded road in our town burn down at the same time as the water heater exploded
It does that because, unlike other substances that continue to contract as they go from liquid to solid, water molecules spread out and arrange themselves into a nice neat crystalline pattern. That's what forms snowflakes- tiny crystals made up of that pattern.
It’s a good thing it expands otherwise life on earth would be very unlikely to survive.
This is one of my favorite episodes.
The explosion is simply glorious at the end!
Probably my favorite myth and slow-mo but also it gave me PTSD, not post but PRE-tramatic Stress Disorder.... I don't trust my water heater anymore and every little ting and pop sound it makes reminds me of that slow-motion footage. Basically this episode made me live in fear everyday.... LoL 😂😂
Remember they had to bypass the safety equipment for this- just make sure your temperature and pressure valve is in good shape, you can manually open it with the handle to make sure it is free flowing. If it really bothers you you can put a new one on with a wrench yourself without a lot of fuss with a big wrench.
21:13 “Because I do LOVE tight jeans”
That was creepy.... 😂
"at least one of our crew seems to think they'll get it this time" 🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️ lmfao bro was outta there
This has still got to be by far one of the best episodes in the entire series.
Pure nostalgia being injected into my Millennial veins
Knowing what we know now, it is interesting they started at the bunker...before moving to more open spaces. I guess they still had the safety features in place...but still!
Huh?
They moved to a safer place further away from the explosion what are you on about
Gotta wonder what the difference between old designs and new designs of water heaters would change the results.
Well many water heaters today also has a secondary safety feature known as a thermal expansion tank that stops steam from forming in the first place. Its not mandatory though and can most likely fail for the same reason as the T&P valve. A built up of sediment.
@@jimhjortsberg2990 Would that be enough of a difference to show in the results?
What's impressive is how robust that water tank really is. The pressure had to get well over twice its rated PSI before it failed. Might have been nice to know the peak temperature and pressure inside the "house" when the water heater blew.
That is good engineering doing a 2-2.5 times factor of safety.
@@Kaznil46 I believe most stuff that has a danger factor has a high safety margin, especially for the bridges meant for heavy traffic and to last in the 50-100 years ranges. Even Jets have a safety device with double to triple redundancy to safety margin it. (Boeing's MCAS is an outlier due to Approval Authority missing in action)
I miss grant. The world lost an important man with him.
Mythbusters uses the infomercial format. Lots of repeating until the program is done. Didn't mind it too much with the waterheater, but the jeans were TGF fast forward.
Well... at this moment of the series, they were considered the _B plot_ , just something to pad the time and not so monotonous
Knowing what we know now, it’s kinda scary that they were conducting water heater tests at M5. Could you imagine if they reached failure even on one of those small tanks?
Thank goodness you're here, Mythbusters.
The more I watch this and realize what happened to Grant, the more it really makes this experiment hit closer to home.
Love the moment at 46:13. Really tops off the episode really well.
I remember watching this episode when I was a kid.
yeesh that vein myth made my legs hurt but the water boiler one made it worth it
Remember watching this when it came out, had a respect for water heater safety items despite having to deal with the watery cleanup when they went kaput. But on the jeans, I always wondered if it wasn't some matches in the backpocket or stones and the metal rivets on the jeans causing a fire.
House ? That's a shed for garden tools 😂
One of my favorite episodes
Jamie called it-- elegance. "House . . . no house!"
Ive seen the valve do its job on our old water heater. We eventually had to get a new one because it just started breaking down too often
I loved, loved loved this show !
What would you have to design your water tank closet out of to protect the house? IRON.....
It's very unlikely it would have happened in a well maintained device. Unless it was left in abuse, it's almost unheard of.
38:30 thus why i refer to red house paint as 'Mythbuster's Red'
This actually happened to my uncle 15 years ago in the middle of the night. Woke up to his bedroom wall on top of him and his house completely destroyed. He also didn't have insurance so it was a total loss
Adam.. Hot Water Heater?? LOL
It is the correct usage. GIYF.
@@thesweeples3266, hahaha. It's a water heater.
This almost happened to me back in 93. Renting a room and the hot water heater failed and didn't explode but a shit load of steam!!!!
This channel and video is very underrated
This show was peak RIP Grant
42:42 well that aged like milk
they shouldn't have used flexible jeans
"Hey, I'm Tory Belleci, and this is Jackass!!"
Is that his name? Grant? R.i.p man. "Jim Morrison, eat your heart out" 😆
Quoting the great George Carlin: "Why do hot water need to be heated?"
The planet is fine
The people they are bucked
Would've been something if they actually had someone volunteer their house to test the water heater myth 😉🤣
love the water heater explosion yet because the inlet and outlet are capped, they in effect just made a steam bomb your home water heater would never do this
"chroma-zone."
Negative science points, Kari. I AM depressed!
Dog, I have a 55 gallon water heater in the garage of my two story. I will pay more attention to it.
Adam, you just have (now had) seen the most beautiful thing that you have NOT (ever) filmed, high speed or any speed. Utterly disappointing they forgot to aim, or turn on, those cameras would capture the airspace! I literally am physically feeling sick of them even in the second experiment where they made that water heater explode inside the mock-up of a house, STILL not managing to get a camera set up so that it could actually capture the full flight path, with that allowing us to see get to the height it reached indeed. You want to see such things with the camera either following the object at it moves keeping it in the center of the image seeker (and consequently, screen) as much as possible, OR a wide(r) shot of the whole area (in this case, air space) the object is expected to (possibly) move through, in that case so that at the maximum distance (in this case, height) the images will still capture some of the space it did not reach but possibly could have ~ you don't want the object of is all about to be at the very rim or in a very corner of the final footage at that point; that would not look good. Other than that, a truly fantastic couple of experiments, fantastically carried out.
i can see jeans starting on fire if you leave a lighter in your pocket, or maybe you hit a piece of flint with your button/grommet or belt buckle maybe.
Weatherproofing might be a potential contributor too, if they're using wax or oil on the denim for use when it's rainy. Or various sketchy folk-medicine uses of kerosene.
I wish that used terracotta tile roof tiles or a metal roof for the water heater to go through.
i know of 2 cases of heaters blowing up like rockets through concrete and brick walls, landing 500 meters away.
I love ❤️ the look 👀 of blood 🩸 to the natural action of oxygen to air blue to red is amazing 😻!!!
Ever wonder if this episode contributed to what happened to Grant?
I wish there was a show that discusses it.
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Also, for you using Celsius out there, 212 degrees Fahrenheit is 100 degrees Celsius. Now you understand 5:01.
Just to take it a bit further, for anyone wondering how to switch between Fahrenheit and Celsius, there is a fairly simple formula, but for those moments where you feel too lazy, just remember these four specific temperatures, and from them, you can reasonably guesstimate any other.
0°C and 32°F - Freezing point of water
25°C and 77°F - Room temperature
37°C and 98.6°F - Normal human internal body temperature
100°C and 212°F - Boiling point of water
And because I have been asked personally about this, I include this little note:
You will find that some say room temperature is 20°C/68°F. The reason why the given temperature for the list of four is 25°C is because in scientific calculations, the standard room temperature value used is 298 Kelvin (K). Kelvin is calculated by adding 273 (273.15, if you want to be more exact) to the value in Celsius. 298 - 273 = 25, hence the usage of 25°C for the list.
As a less maths-abled person in Celsius-sphere, I just let it all float away like the steam after the explosion.
"Hot Water Heater"?
Why would you heat Hot water?
That’s the correct usage. GIYF
Two guys casually turning house hold appliances to bombs
Well, if you know the chemistry, technically, you could turn fertiliser into bombs...
ANFO explosives (see _supersonic cement truck_ ) are essentially fertiliser used professionally as a bomb.
Wow I got a water heater add before this video
Fact that always impressed me was it takes1200 calories to get a gram(this is where I need to be checked)of water to 211 from room temperature and 752 calories to get it to 212 fro 211?
Poor Tory, they could have use dummies instead of dragging him across poop scattered field
Why do people call it a "hot water heater"? You don't need to heat hot water. It's already hot. It's just a "water heater."
Eh, even water you might call hot might not be hot enough for whatever your application is. But I do get your point. Similar to if a bit less direct than something like ISP provider or VIN number
Anyone else get an ad for a water heater while watching this?
lmao they just dragged him with a horse
"Appliances that provide a continual supply of hot water are called water heaters,, hot water heaters, hot water tanks, boilers, heat exchangers, geysers (Southern Africa and the Arab world), or calorifiers."
For all you getting irrationally bothered about Adam calling it a "hot water heater." It's semantics, take your meds.
For the jeans on fire, what if they had matches in the pocket?
Calculate the speed of the water tank.
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During these days, I smoked a lot of pot. Don't remember any names but Adam.. I heard the Asian dude died. I am truly sorry to hear that. ✌️😔
Happy SnowFurfee i hope everyone is having a beauitful night i wish you ALL a magical EarthRise..&.EarthSet
🥶StayFurfee🥶
i'd like to know the velocity of the water heater
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Skipping through anything that's not Adam or Jamie !!!!I
Red bluff ca is my home town
honk
Didn't know water heaters existed anymore we haven't had them in the uk for many years we have gas central heating and not the gas you fill cars up ie petrol ether 😂😂
Dude, they bought like six pairs of jeans for $180. I can’t even get three pairs for 200.
it was Obama years...
i... never realized how cringey the trio is until I rewatch this as an adult... yeesh
Man, I think we all were in love with Kari when we watched this all those years ago.