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yeah just get a few packs of sparklers and a pair of wire cutters/side cutters. Don't waste your time taking the stuff off the metal, if you look up videos of bundles of sparklers it's the same if not better. Cut off the extra metal at the bottom place one or two sparklers to the side and commence cutting the rest in half until they are about 2-3 inches long. Bundle with duct tape leaving the top open using 5+ wraps and leave either a fuse or a longer sparkler out of the center of the top. putting a cap or zomething on the top just limits the speed and creates a chance of building pressure. It should be at least an inch in diameter but you probably want it taller than it is thick. You can also add a layer of tin foil or pack them into a Redbull can with the top cut off for more of a directed fountain. You might also want to look into the channel Tech Ingredients for some nice smoke bombs and look into having them come down to Texas for at least 2 weeks. You will need the time. He can also help build a cheap giant swamp cooler for the garage of the back if you want to tame the summer heat.
I feel like a small bucket of water could have really helped out on this one. The first device had smoldering plastic... if it was dropped into water the fumes would have been contained. The failed devices could have been dropped in to be made safe. its a clean way to completely extinguish things almost instantly.
Yes!!! Or one that some progression with quotes like "I don't think I put thermite in there, did I?" - "That's probably fine" - "We need to reset the injury counter"
at some point as a joke, they should have to unscrew something, and despite having a screwdriver at the table, go and grab a butter knife or something to unscrew it.
start the Morningstar next to the pile of brush, and then stand over there on a wide pile of gravel. You can tell they've become acclimated to catastrophic failure; they're anticipating it going wrong so picked the safer spot to stand, rather than starting the Morningstar on the gravel, and when things fail, they're standing next to the dry brush. Clever.
"We should probably take this outside..." 5 minutes later: *lights fuse inside* Also, welders goggles are HIGHLY suggested for thermite ignitions. Youre not making retina smelters.
It isn't as stupid as you might think. What are the typical table options? Metal, wood, plastic. Metal won't get lit on fire by whatever you're doing, but it also conducts heat *really* well, which could lead to having hotspots in the table long after the fire or whatever explosives are out and cooled. Easy way to burn yourself if you touch the surface too soon. Also the heat could potentially catch or melt other things on the table. Not great. Plastic isn't quite as good a conductor of heat as metal, but it is alright at it. So you have some of the metal problems, but also the issue of the plastic actually melting underneath the pyrotechnics. And once it melts, it could have a surface where bits of the plastic could catch fire as well. Wood doesn't conduct heat hardly at all. And while yes, obviously wood burns, it will never melt. So you can expose it to very high temperatures and not have to worry about the surface remaining super hot or being damaged aside from some small char marks. It can technically catch fire, but since it doesn't melt, the surface is always going to be flat and very solid & dense. Starting a fire on such a material, especially when the source of the flame is ABOVE the material is really quite difficult. It would be like trying to light a campfire by setting out a massive log and placing a lit match on top of it. That's never going to work. Obviously going outside and using a dirt or cement etc. base for the more dangerous stuff is smarter, but for small things like these, wood is perfectly fine, and actually the safest of the available materials.
@@BlackSoap361 Glass and sudden and extreme temperature changes aren't a good mix. Also have you seen these guys? They smack things with hammers all the time. Concrete isn't really a table, but it would work alright. You'd still have some of the conducting heat issues though.
The basic ingredients are aluminum powder, steel powder for branching sparks, an oxidizer, and a binder, usually gum Arabic or CMC. Roughly: Barium Nitrate 50% Dextrin 10% Steel powder 30% Aluminum powder 8% Charcoal, 150 mesh 0.5% Boric acid 1.5% The boric acid is a neutralizer to stop the aluminum reacting with the barium nitrate in the wet slurry. It takes no part in the sparkler action. Some high end sparklers use titanium powder for an even more intense white, and magnalium (a 50:50 alloy of aluminum and magnesium) can also be used. The oxidizer is often a mixture of two parts potassium nitrate to one part barium nitrate - barium nitrate gives a more intense white light than most oxidizers. Aluminium or magnesium or magnalium, producing white sparks Iron, producing orange branching sparks Titanium, producing rich white sparks Ferrotitanium, for yellow-gold sparkles
Can we just appreciate the fact that they went to the trouble of going to do it outside, just to set the whole thing up next to a massive pile of what looks to be dead wood and brush?
"We should take this outside" Eventually goes outside and burns shit NEXT TO A PILE OF DRY WOOD I am 100% sure they're trying to burn down the HQ for insurance purpose, forgetting that the insurance company probably watches their show
7:28 absolutely my favorite part of this video is that Jason has to leave to get the fuses. When he said 'do you want to try a fuse? we have fuses' that wasn't him saying 'I bought fuses for this project', it was him saying that they keep fuses in stock on the premises and he can go get them
Small note, use wooden or other non-sparking tools when crushing flammables like sparklers. Kinda dangerous to mash metal sticks with metal pliers when dealing with oxidizers and fuels.
yeah, god forbid the sparklers ignite.... y'all are laughable. this isnt black powder. its a SPARKLER! they couldnt even get ignition without the blowtorch, pretty sure the pliers arent going to do sh*t
@@RichardCranium321 sparklers going off themselves isn’t exactly the end of the world, at worst you’re looking at eye damage or burns to the hands, and the risks are pretty low of either. It would take a pretty unlikely confluence of circumstances for that to be a problem. But safety is about consistency. That’s critically important. You need to establish good habits so that you’re not counting on perfect foresight every time to undertake a potentially dangerous action. I work in industrial automation, for example, and just because I’ve locked out a breaker doesn’t mean I don’t test the circuit before I handle it. Is it likely for a breaker to be mislabeled so badly as to confuse me? No. Is it likely that some sort of voltage storage could exist on the circuit without my knowledge? No, people don’t usually stick batteries or capacitor banks on circuits that don’t require them. But why chance it? What value is extracted from doing something badly when doing it correctly takes no appreciable extra effort? What benefit do metal pliers give that any wooden tool, or even taped plier ends wouldn’t? Is there some huge materials cost to a wooden roller or electrical tape that I’m unaware of? Doing things the risky way because 10 seconds of extra effort seems like too much is a bad idea. And yeah, this time it’s a sparkler, it’s junior grade thermite, it’s not like it’s massively risky. But these guys wear face shields to fire alcohol rockets, they’re clearly concerned with safety, they just missed this one. So, I pointed it out. That way they know a best practice if they ever make anything more dangerous, like an explosive.
From what I remember, most of the stuff in the AH Just straight-up doesn't work or is an incomplete version of something that does work, so it won't work and it'll blow up.
The classic way to use sparklers is to tape up a few packages together with one sticking up as a fuse. Tape them tightly around the metal handles rather than the active section. You get a fast high flare. Do not use indoors or next to dry dead brush under any circumstances.
As teenagers my cousin and I dismantled like 6 or more boxes of sparklers and then we just piled up all the dust. It shot sparks a few feet into the air, and towards all the flammable stuff around us. It was very pretty but also super stressful trying to not burn down the garage because idiot me thought it would be a good idea to do this inside. Also handfuls of sparkler dust throw into a campfire can be fun. Don't remember that being any more dangerous than the bottle rockets and firecrackers that also got tossed in the campfire.
So, at what point. did you decide it was a good idea to light all the really sparky/fire-y/explodey things immediately next to the huge pile of dry twigs and branches? It seems there was plenty of other wide open spaces in the near vicinity available to choose from, but no .... right next to the huge dry pile of kindling.... that's definitely the best option.
I used to make these all the time as a kid for new years. One thing I learned is that keeping the crushed up sparklers in chunks made for a bigger display than crushing it into a fine powder. Must be because in chunks it has more gaps for trapped oxygen to help with the burning.
Safety Advice from a pyrotechnition! Fuse should be cut using an anvil cutter or utility knife instead of scissors. Scissors or shears can cause a premature ignition because of the high point of friction where the blades touch. Anvil cutters are best. Metal blade and plastic anvil. Just a tip to help ensure that you guys can keep counting to 10...without taking off your Crocs. Love the channel!
As a kid I hated loud noises, but loved fireworks that were quiet, so I got really familiar with sparklers and those little balls that when lit would produce smoke [leaving out actual name for obvious reasons]. Some of the best sparklers to breakdown for other uses are those wrapped in paper, as they are basically already powder wrapped around a wooden stick, no crushing necessary. I used to use that for a trick around my friends to, "light water on fire."
now u just need a self lighting fuse contraption and some way to have them land upright all the time if you were to throw them, some kind of weight in the bottom, or a different container that will land upright.
For future reference, if you think you may have inadvertently created a B-word that fails to "do the thing," DO NOT cover it with a potential source of SHRAPNEL in case your B-word becomes an angry B-word!
I mean, safety wise, so many things went wrong in this vid dads xD I do love it BUT... here are some of my highlights!! 1) Flammable table where you test the "firecrackers" 2) You take the safety glasses/mask off to "See better and more close" what is going on when something is NOT igniting immediately. The rule is, more closer you are something ignitable/burning stuff, more safety gear you should have ON. This happened multiple times, indoors and outdoors :D 3) When outdoors and making the fire, definitely stay on the sandy, rocky ground, not in front of a dry brush. 4) and if you really, really need to go poke something "on fire" or smoldering, don't do it with the dry wooden sticks :D 5) Where are the gloves??
Yeah, so we make these down here in Australia and we tend to use cans (milo tin, cleaned out fruit tin, etc) to store the sparkler powder in. Then we'll usually just have a piece of paper or no lid and use a long sparkler to act as a fuse. This avoids the problem you ran into of the plastic melting as it burns down. The metal of the can/tin is a bit more resistant to the heat.
I would love to see them have a series of taking an idea and developing it to perfection like making a fairly large trebuchet and going through a couple iteration to get the max range and then developing their own payloads and having competitions to see who’s can start a fire the best or knock down a brick wall the best so one and so forth
Same thing happens if you get a lot of the old sparklers (not the ones with the wooden handle) and tape them all together in a tight bundle. Leaving one slightly farther up then the rest to use as a fuse. You're going to want to light the tip top of it and run.
Now take a spent CO2 cartridge and fill it up with the sparkler dust, light with another sparkler. If the opening is pointed down, it'll go off like a rocket. If it's pointing up, you first have a funny sparkler until the opening gets clogged. When that happens, be away from it and cover your ears.
In terms of the practicality of them, they could work well as a distraction against someone you were running from since they wouldn't know what they were. It's a small container with a lit fuse, 'ooo, pretty' probably isn't the first thought someone would have.
We used to bend the end of about 9 small sparklers, put them in a small pvc tube slightly shorter than the sparklers (basically filling up the tube), and use one as a fuse to light them on the top end. This created a very dense smoke, but I wouldn't know if it's from the plastic tubing, or the confined sparklers (haven't tried it for 20 years or so).
My brother and I used to make similar every year, a full box of sparklers in a tennis ball, cut a hole width about half an inch (leave open) fill with powder and one cut sparkler as fuse. find a good foothold to place in, light and watch a huge fountain of sparkles.
I've played with "sparkler dust" and the metal is normal (IT STAYS HOT). Like gunpowder, the grain size affects the burn rate. Gun powder (black or smokeless) actually works better when its not too fine NOT A LAWYER but the container is USUALLY more of an issue. If gunpowder possession is legal in your area, burning a pile is fine. BUT, if you seal it in a pipe. Around my area putting dry ice in a pop bottle even though its not a true explosion could land you in front of a judge.
Me and a couple friends back in high school went to the local outlet that had cheap, piddly fireworks and bought a couple hundred sparklers and some fuse wire. Ground up the sparklers, put it in a coffee can with the fuse wire, set a ceramic flower pot, with an army man we had found melted to the side of an electrical pole, on a wire frame above it, and lit the fuse. The whole thing went up like crazy, completely vaporized the plastic army guy. In hindsight, we took no precaution as to avoiding static electricity as we ground up the sparklers by hand, and that could have been an oopsie.
I don't have any experience with this, but some suggested improvements would be using a metal can like a soup can, and make a bigger opening for the sparkler fuse. The sparkler may actually be blocking any air from entering the container and snuffing itself out, while the fuse was completely burning itself away so there was nothing blocking the oxygen from entering. You could also try multiple holes at the top to allow for air or for the sparks to exit.
On a episode y'all did 3 years ago about Mongolian archery they will meet a joke about fermenting horse milk whilst riding. I'm calling y'all out! I wanna see it. Love the channel!
Guys, I know it's often funny that you don't follow safety protocols. But why are you lighting a fire next to a pile of dead, dried up wood? If not you guys, the crew should say something.
Your artillery firework Vietnam story reminded me of a similar experience when I was a kid. My dad thought it would be cool to launch TWO shells, simultaneously, from the same tube...he just dropped one in on top of the other and held the fuses together as he lit them. The fuses burned unevenly, first one went off and knocked the tube over. It was aimed directly at me, and even though I didnt know the science at the time, I knew it wasn't good. Lol. I just remember realizing my fate, turning around and sprinting away, and then hearing the *thump* of the shell launching, I risked a look back while still running, and as my head swiveled back to the front it detonated about 5 ft from the back of my head and yellow fiery streaks flew through my vision, seemingly from all sides. I just kept running til I heard my dad laughing his ass off. Definitely felt like a Platoon scene. 😂
As a kid I used to make badass sparkler bombs and bottle rockets with nothing but sparklers and duct tape. I'd cut the excess wood or metal off and wrap them tightly in duct tape with a sparkler sticking out for the fuse. The amount of layers and tightness on the fuse end would determine if it was going to explode or propel.
I used to do this as a kid, then I'd crush match heads, scrape out caps, and then the mercury fulminate you get in little snappers, then mix it all together in some kitchen roll. Worked a treat!
On the days after the 4th of July, fireworks have last minute blow out sales. My parents would regularly buy fireworks after the 4th and save them for the next year. One year our garage flooded and the fireworks got wet, but had dried out by the 4th of July. It was supposed to shoot off individual spinning rockets one after the other. Instead the whole thing blew up in a giant ball of fire sending rockets screaming out in every direction.
All about Nozzle pressure. More pressure in small nozzle = Bigger flame. Big bottle will melt the plastic so no pressure will build up. Also most flammable things that are non explosive will slow down the sparkler reaction. Thermite g powder and match heads add to the flame most other things will slow it down.
A couple of things here First of all, it really doesn't help lighting stuff outside if you do it right next to a bunch of dry sticks. That stuff will light up real fast. Good thing you had those fire extinguishers though. Secondly, i think the morning star burned too hot. It melted the metals instead of lighting them on fire. Now im not a fireworks specialist or anything, but i would imagine that is what was happening from just the visuals.
have you guys ever tried making "diy" thermite? you basically remove the contents of a hand warmer (iron oxide) and then you mix that with some fine bits of aluminum foil (putting it in a blender works pretty good to get the pieces small). the effect is pretty good and gets at least hot enough to melt locks and stuff like that
guys the mix on sparklers is already thermite aluminum and iron last for the sparks and a pinch of barium so if you ignite a big amount of that mixture it will also burn under water because in the mix is a oxidizer too
I’ve heard that taking a few dozen sparklers, making a bundle with one sticking out the end for a fuse, then wrap the whole thing with lots of electrical tape except for the fuse, makes for an impressively bright b-word. Supposedly.
BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN DOING THIS!! Local kid some years ago put a plastic bucket over one right as it went off. He was too close to the bucket and the plastic shards created a claymore and shot into him. Rumors said the paramedics couldn't do a thing because he was full of holes and blood was gushing out every time they did chest compressions. Even more people have lost hands in the process of doing this. The stuff goes up FAST when it's all powdered up and anything other than soft-ish plastic would just make it a weapon. Stay safe.
If you really want to make this something distracting, add the beads from crackler balls and add powdered up strobes. DO NOT use metal containers or hard plastic.
What you've done there is a DIY anti-IR defence flare like they use on combat jets, so a hand full of them all going off at once would probably play merry hell with an IR sensor/camera system, and probably any LowLight/NV gear too
I know something that me and my older brother used to do we had pop it the ones you through on the ground and explode so we took the paper off of at least a thousand and put the rocks in side of a spice can and the sound was so loud it sounded like a g-u-n shot super fun but you should make the hole in the lid a little bigger so oxygen can make the sparks bigger. I know it’s time consuming but get a pop can empty the contents and fill it with (trade marked) spark dust to the brim and put the fuse a bit lower kind of like a rocket. A wise man told me go big or die trying. I think that’s how he said it. It might of been go big or go home but I like to think it was the other one.
The rogues spend this video poking fun at using these for distractions, but i think that that's actually a good use of these. it mostly derives from the fact that if someone doesn't know that there's only sparkler dust in there, all that they're seeing is a fuse going into a sealed container, which could mean all sorts of things. it'd be best to play it safe in case there's actually something serious packed inside being lit and not just sparklers.
get a tube, about 3/4 inch diameter and as long as you feel comfortable with. glue that very solidly to a board. that's the housing. now mash up a bunch of those sparklers, 2/3 of it should be very fine, and 1/3 should be chunky. mix that all together on a paper then pour it in, making sure the chunky bits are reasonably spaced though out the mix. put a fuse a little ways in, then tamp down the mixture firmly. when lit this should send sparks flying and have miniature spark balls shoot out with it. tamping down the mixture is to make sure the reaction doesn't go too fast for the hole at the top to accommodate causing it to go boom.
ya see what you wanna do is get a BUNCH of sparklers (the more the better) wrap them in a bundle with tape around the sticks as tight as possible leaving one in the middle sticking up 3-4" over the rest Find something to put it in so it sticks straight up and wont tip (PVC cut to length as close to the bundle size as possible with a base works well) and light the sparkler in the middle. It makes what can best be described as a spark beam or spark cannon a good distance in the air
We used to crush a couple of packets and fill up a plastic coke bottle. The fountain will start at the mouth of the bottle but as the plastic melts more holes will open up. Different bottle brands will make different patterns. Very entertaining
If you packed the sand down into the cinderblock, more of the reaction would be forced upward. Sand by itself isn't particularly dense, which is why you can dig in it easily at the beach, and therefore why it couldn't contain the reaction.
Take a handful of sparklers, with a fuse in the center. Wrap them tightly with an abundance of electrical tape, followed by duct tape, then light, back far away and enjoy! I would advise using the sparklers with wood sticks.
we got a perfectly safe firepit thing that we can hose down from all direction...nah, lets do the possibley exlpody, possibly thermite fueled open fire experiment right next to that pile of dried clippings...yeah! never change guys! not enough peter pans!
Fireworks story for ya I had the same thing happen with the plastic mortar things, except it melted the bottom enough to fall over pointed almost directly at some friends and I, who were sitting in front of a wall. It made impact with the wall about 5 feet from me and spun for a few seconds, and all we could really do was cover our heads (and ears) and hope for the best. Needless to say, it could've come directly at us and we could've been injured.
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yeah just get a few packs of sparklers and a pair of wire cutters/side cutters. Don't waste your time taking the stuff off the metal, if you look up videos of bundles of sparklers it's the same if not better. Cut off the extra metal at the bottom place one or two sparklers to the side and commence cutting the rest in half until they are about 2-3 inches long. Bundle with duct tape leaving the top open using 5+ wraps and leave either a fuse or a longer sparkler out of the center of the top. putting a cap or zomething on the top just limits the speed and creates a chance of building pressure. It should be at least an inch in diameter but you probably want it taller than it is thick. You can also add a layer of tin foil or pack them into a Redbull can with the top cut off for more of a directed fountain.
You might also want to look into the channel Tech Ingredients for some nice smoke bombs and look into having them come down to Texas for at least 2 weeks. You will need the time. He can also help build a cheap giant swamp cooler for the garage of the back if you want to tame the summer heat.
You guys outta get in contact with the folks over at Ordnance Lab
I feel like a small bucket of water could have really helped out on this one. The first device had smoldering plastic... if it was dropped into water the fumes would have been contained. The failed devices could have been dropped in to be made safe. its a clean way to completely extinguish things almost instantly.
u guys were made to work together
best TH-cam channell
For the record, I would totally buy a “That’s probably fine” shirt. I already say it all the time!
Btw the Australian version of that's actually she'll be right and I do say that alot thought u might wanna know probs not tho
@@sebbruh4572 Oh! I'd buy a 'She'll be right.' shirt if I'd could find one in the states! New mission for next week! ;-)
Yes!!! Or one that some progression with quotes like "I don't think I put thermite in there, did I?" - "That's probably fine" - "We need to reset the injury counter"
That's probably fine ...
I mean it's either is or isn't
I love watching the rogues use a screwdriver for literally everything except turning screws.
Screwdrivers. The Rogues duct tape.
at some point as a joke, they should have to unscrew something, and despite having a screwdriver at the table, go and grab a butter knife or something to unscrew it.
thats why there's hammer and bigger hammer
I love that the "safe place" they set it off was next to a pile of dry brush.
yeah...i honestly was expecting a spreading fire any moment....
Not to mention the wooden table inside they were using not five minutes prior.
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start the Morningstar next to the pile of brush, and then stand over there on a wide pile of gravel. You can tell they've become acclimated to catastrophic failure; they're anticipating it going wrong so picked the safer spot to stand, rather than starting the Morningstar on the gravel, and when things fail, they're standing next to the dry brush. Clever.
Would you say it was a pile of... Brushwood?
"We should probably take this outside..."
5 minutes later: *lights fuse inside*
Also, welders goggles are HIGHLY suggested for thermite ignitions. Youre not making retina smelters.
Also places it next to dead wood
@@duncandixon6203 they did call themselves out. Not that it makes it any better
Grammarly would've helped you spot that missed apostrophe in "you're"
They might get more views if they kept it inside and it burned the place down! It would go viral! :-)
@@htmagic there's footage out there somewhere of Jason slicing Brian's hand open with a RATHER large knife.
Brian, holding a fire extinguisher, and blowing the burning plastic out, as standard.
I love how they, especially Brian “literally wrote the book on fire eating” Brushwood, always use pyrotechnics on a wooden table.
Seems safe, if there's a Fire he can always eat it.
It isn't as stupid as you might think.
What are the typical table options? Metal, wood, plastic.
Metal won't get lit on fire by whatever you're doing, but it also conducts heat *really* well, which could lead to having hotspots in the table long after the fire or whatever explosives are out and cooled. Easy way to burn yourself if you touch the surface too soon. Also the heat could potentially catch or melt other things on the table. Not great.
Plastic isn't quite as good a conductor of heat as metal, but it is alright at it. So you have some of the metal problems, but also the issue of the plastic actually melting underneath the pyrotechnics. And once it melts, it could have a surface where bits of the plastic could catch fire as well.
Wood doesn't conduct heat hardly at all. And while yes, obviously wood burns, it will never melt. So you can expose it to very high temperatures and not have to worry about the surface remaining super hot or being damaged aside from some small char marks. It can technically catch fire, but since it doesn't melt, the surface is always going to be flat and very solid & dense. Starting a fire on such a material, especially when the source of the flame is ABOVE the material is really quite difficult. It would be like trying to light a campfire by setting out a massive log and placing a lit match on top of it. That's never going to work. Obviously going outside and using a dirt or cement etc. base for the more dangerous stuff is smarter, but for small things like these, wood is perfectly fine, and actually the safest of the available materials.
@@Kurse_of_Kall glass table? Concrete?
@@BlackSoap361 Glass and sudden and extreme temperature changes aren't a good mix. Also have you seen these guys? They smack things with hammers all the time.
Concrete isn't really a table, but it would work alright. You'd still have some of the conducting heat issues though.
@@Kurse_of_Kall but it might look cool.
And there are plenty of concrete tables.
14:50 I love how Brian pulls up his face shield as it starts to burn to see it better 😂😂
The basic ingredients are aluminum powder, steel powder for branching sparks, an oxidizer, and a binder, usually gum Arabic or CMC.
Roughly:
Barium Nitrate 50%
Dextrin 10%
Steel powder 30%
Aluminum powder 8%
Charcoal, 150 mesh 0.5%
Boric acid 1.5%
The boric acid is a neutralizer to stop the aluminum reacting with the barium nitrate in the wet slurry. It takes no part in the sparkler action.
Some high end sparklers use titanium powder for an even more intense white, and magnalium (a 50:50 alloy of aluminum and magnesium) can also be used.
The oxidizer is often a mixture of two parts potassium nitrate to one part barium nitrate - barium nitrate gives a more intense white light than most oxidizers.
Aluminium or magnesium or magnalium, producing white sparks
Iron, producing orange branching sparks
Titanium, producing rich white sparks
Ferrotitanium, for yellow-gold sparkles
Dude how many government lists are you on?
@@justsomeguy-yd3yw at least 3... have fun xD
Lmao
@@zinaidanitikin4886 lol yea you definitely didn't copy and paste straight from Google
Can we just appreciate the fact that they went to the trouble of going to do it outside, just to set the whole thing up next to a massive pile of what looks to be dead wood and brush?
The dead brushwood seems like a REALLY on-the-nose omen, but they ignored it.
MR: We have a maybe b word, where should we light it?
Also MR: Oh next to the pile of dry wood, that sounds safe
It’s okay, they had very small fire extinguishers!
Made these as kids at family gatherings and Christmas parties, good to know the rogue has always been a part of me lol
"We should take this outside"
Eventually goes outside and burns shit NEXT TO A PILE OF DRY WOOD
I am 100% sure they're trying to burn down the HQ for insurance purpose, forgetting that the insurance company probably watches their show
7:28 absolutely my favorite part of this video is that Jason has to leave to get the fuses. When he said 'do you want to try a fuse? we have fuses' that wasn't him saying 'I bought fuses for this project', it was him saying that they keep fuses in stock on the premises and he can go get them
Like, okay you have and can can go get them... what where you planning to do before he asked?
@@TheRealAlpha2 Use bits of sparkler like the original 'hack' did.
Who doesn’t keep cannon fuses in stock?
"What do you use them for?"
"My cannon..." (Tremors)
"Thermite probably makes it safer" what a time to be alive
Why would someone make these? Because in Australia, fireworks aren’t exactly readily available to the general public… so we make our own 😍
Australia almost always seems supercool…and then there are these times when I want to offer to rescue them
Same in alot of the United States where local regulations outlaw anything much more than sparkles :/
Making your own fireworks is the most American sounding non American thing
dude i remember making these in like year 8 out of a red bull can duct tape and some ungodly amount of sparklers
@@Fragger-1 yeah, it's not like China has been doing it for close to a millennia or anything... 😅
Small note, use wooden or other non-sparking tools when crushing flammables like sparklers. Kinda dangerous to mash metal sticks with metal pliers when dealing with oxidizers and fuels.
Wasn't the back of the screwdriver plastic?
@@AdriaanZwemer yes, but the pliers werent
@@thomasminnick7019 ah
yeah, god forbid the sparklers ignite....
y'all are laughable. this isnt black powder. its a SPARKLER! they couldnt even get ignition without the blowtorch, pretty sure the pliers arent going to do sh*t
@@RichardCranium321 sparklers going off themselves isn’t exactly the end of the world, at worst you’re looking at eye damage or burns to the hands, and the risks are pretty low of either. It would take a pretty unlikely confluence of circumstances for that to be a problem.
But safety is about consistency. That’s critically important. You need to establish good habits so that you’re not counting on perfect foresight every time to undertake a potentially dangerous action.
I work in industrial automation, for example, and just because I’ve locked out a breaker doesn’t mean I don’t test the circuit before I handle it. Is it likely for a breaker to be mislabeled so badly as to confuse me? No. Is it likely that some sort of voltage storage could exist on the circuit without my knowledge? No, people don’t usually stick batteries or capacitor banks on circuits that don’t require them. But why chance it? What value is extracted from doing something badly when doing it correctly takes no appreciable extra effort? What benefit do metal pliers give that any wooden tool, or even taped plier ends wouldn’t? Is there some huge materials cost to a wooden roller or electrical tape that I’m unaware of?
Doing things the risky way because 10 seconds of extra effort seems like too much is a bad idea. And yeah, this time it’s a sparkler, it’s junior grade thermite, it’s not like it’s massively risky.
But these guys wear face shields to fire alcohol rockets, they’re clearly concerned with safety, they just missed this one. So, I pointed it out. That way they know a best practice if they ever make anything more dangerous, like an explosive.
"It doesn't have just thermite in there...." lol my favorite sentence
"my time in the fireworks stand" he says as if it were a prison sentence
From all the things I hear about Texas it could be community service at the very least.
*takes drag from cigarette* it changes you, man- my wife didn’t look me in the *eyes* after my time…
Seems like we're getting close to testing out "Ye Olde" Anarchists Handbook, and see how well turning Pens into IEDs works.
I mean they made a pen smokescreen
From what I remember, most of the stuff in the AH Just straight-up doesn't work or is an incomplete version of something that does work, so it won't work and it'll blow up.
@@pennyforyourthots So, completely on Brand for Modern Rogue?
@@pennyforyourthots isn't that what you want for an IED?
"Hey, lets test DIY pyrotechnics!"
"Good Idea! But we need to be safe so let's do it indoors and on a wooden table"
Brian and Jason (probably)
Just rebrand it as "survival fire starter" and you're good.
The classic way to use sparklers is to tape up a few packages together with one sticking up as a fuse. Tape them tightly around the metal handles rather than the active section. You get a fast high flare. Do not use indoors or next to dry dead brush under any circumstances.
I disagree, tape the active section with many layers and it shoots up far higher
As teenagers my cousin and I dismantled like 6 or more boxes of sparklers and then we just piled up all the dust. It shot sparks a few feet into the air, and towards all the flammable stuff around us. It was very pretty but also super stressful trying to not burn down the garage because idiot me thought it would be a good idea to do this inside.
Also handfuls of sparkler dust throw into a campfire can be fun. Don't remember that being any more dangerous than the bottle rockets and firecrackers that also got tossed in the campfire.
So, at what point. did you decide it was a good idea to light all the really sparky/fire-y/explodey things immediately next to the huge pile of dry twigs and branches? It seems there was plenty of other wide open spaces in the near vicinity available to choose from, but no .... right next to the huge dry pile of kindling.... that's definitely the best option.
It's a good day when Modern Rogue uploads a good ol' fashioned 'guys doin dumb stuff' video!
I used to make these all the time as a kid for new years. One thing I learned is that keeping the crushed up sparklers in chunks made for a bigger display than crushing it into a fine powder. Must be because in chunks it has more gaps for trapped oxygen to help with the burning.
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I don't hear the D. 0:46 onward?
@@GirishManjunathMusic Ok.
@@OlaMagnusLie ok.
Don't forget the massive run-on sentence
lol. "Let's go outside" Then proceeds to burn an unknown item next to a very DEAD bush....
Looks like an instant bonfire
it's Brian and Jason. would you have wanted a safer outcome from these two? lol
@@techfreak244 Hahaha not at all.
Safety Advice from a pyrotechnition!
Fuse should be cut using an anvil cutter or utility knife instead of scissors. Scissors or shears can cause a premature ignition because of the high point of friction where the blades touch. Anvil cutters are best. Metal blade and plastic anvil. Just a tip to help ensure that you guys can keep counting to 10...without taking off your Crocs. Love the channel!
As a kid I hated loud noises, but loved fireworks that were quiet, so I got really familiar with sparklers and those little balls that when lit would produce smoke [leaving out actual name for obvious reasons]. Some of the best sparklers to breakdown for other uses are those wrapped in paper, as they are basically already powder wrapped around a wooden stick, no crushing necessary. I used to use that for a trick around my friends to, "light water on fire."
I love how it ends up where they just poke it with a stick just before trying to light it on fire again... modern caveman lol 😆
Watched the last three quarters of the premiere. Now to go back and watch the begining.
I usually just rewind the the video and play it from the beginning before it's over rather than watch out of sequence.
now u just need a self lighting fuse contraption and some way to have them land upright all the time if you were to throw them, some kind of weight in the bottom, or a different container that will land upright.
For future reference, if you think you may have inadvertently created a B-word that fails to "do the thing," DO NOT cover it with a potential source of SHRAPNEL in case your B-word becomes an angry B-word!
I mean, safety wise, so many things went wrong in this vid dads xD I do love it BUT... here are some of my highlights!!
1) Flammable table where you test the "firecrackers"
2) You take the safety glasses/mask off to "See better and more close" what is going on when something is NOT igniting immediately. The rule is, more closer you are something ignitable/burning stuff, more safety gear you should have ON. This happened multiple times, indoors and outdoors :D
3) When outdoors and making the fire, definitely stay on the sandy, rocky ground, not in front of a dry brush.
4) and if you really, really need to go poke something "on fire" or smoldering, don't do it with the dry wooden sticks :D
5) Where are the gloves??
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thanks!
Yeah, so we make these down here in Australia and we tend to use cans (milo tin, cleaned out fruit tin, etc) to store the sparkler powder in. Then we'll usually just have a piece of paper or no lid and use a long sparkler to act as a fuse. This avoids the problem you ran into of the plastic melting as it burns down. The metal of the can/tin is a bit more resistant to the heat.
I would love to see them have a series of taking an idea and developing it to perfection like making a fairly large trebuchet and going through a couple iteration to get the max range and then developing their own payloads and having competitions to see who’s can start a fire the best or knock down a brick wall the best so one and so forth
Dibs on Sparky Caltrops as the name for my next DnD character. I think he should be a goblin artificer.
brian: puts on face shield to protect himself from fire
lights fuse
raises face shield as fire starts.
Same thing happens if you get a lot of the old sparklers (not the ones with the wooden handle) and tape them all together in a tight bundle. Leaving one slightly farther up then the rest to use as a fuse. You're going to want to light the tip top of it and run.
Now take a spent CO2 cartridge and fill it up with the sparkler dust, light with another sparkler. If the opening is pointed down, it'll go off like a rocket. If it's pointing up, you first have a funny sparkler until the opening gets clogged. When that happens, be away from it and cover your ears.
Yeah make a mini pipe bomb what could go wrong
"Please don't try this at home, we're what you call idiots, we have no experience to keep us safe." To paraphrase Mythbusters.
In terms of the practicality of them, they could work well as a distraction against someone you were running from since they wouldn't know what they were. It's a small container with a lit fuse, 'ooo, pretty' probably isn't the first thought someone would have.
When cinnamon is aerosolized it produces really awesome sparks
We used to bend the end of about 9 small sparklers, put them in a small pvc tube slightly shorter than the sparklers (basically filling up the tube), and use one as a fuse to light them on the top end. This created a very dense smoke, but I wouldn't know if it's from the plastic tubing, or the confined sparklers (haven't tried it for 20 years or so).
Even semi-confined in a metal tube, sparklers tend to throw off a lot of smoke.
My brother and I used to make similar every year, a full box of sparklers in a tennis ball, cut a hole width about half an inch (leave open) fill with powder and one cut sparkler as fuse. find a good foothold to place in, light and watch a huge fountain of sparkles.
I've played with "sparkler dust" and the metal is normal (IT STAYS HOT). Like gunpowder, the grain size affects the burn rate. Gun powder (black or smokeless) actually works better when its not too fine
NOT A LAWYER but the container is USUALLY more of an issue. If gunpowder possession is legal in your area, burning a pile is fine. BUT, if you seal it in a pipe. Around my area putting dry ice in a pop bottle even though its not a true explosion could land you in front of a judge.
Jason's laugh at 20:34 is just so perfect.
Me and a couple friends back in high school went to the local outlet that had cheap, piddly fireworks and bought a couple hundred sparklers and some fuse wire. Ground up the sparklers, put it in a coffee can with the fuse wire, set a ceramic flower pot, with an army man we had found melted to the side of an electrical pole, on a wire frame above it, and lit the fuse. The whole thing went up like crazy, completely vaporized the plastic army guy.
In hindsight, we took no precaution as to avoiding static electricity as we ground up the sparklers by hand, and that could have been an oopsie.
I don't have any experience with this, but some suggested improvements would be using a metal can like a soup can, and make a bigger opening for the sparkler fuse. The sparkler may actually be blocking any air from entering the container and snuffing itself out, while the fuse was completely burning itself away so there was nothing blocking the oxygen from entering. You could also try multiple holes at the top to allow for air or for the sparks to exit.
I love this channel so much! The content, the format, the banter. I have been following for many years. Never change :)
On a episode y'all did 3 years ago about Mongolian archery they will meet a joke about fermenting horse milk whilst riding. I'm calling y'all out! I wanna see it.
Love the channel!
brian: Is holding a fire extinguisher
also brian: Blows out a fire with his breath
MR: setting stuff on fire on a wood table
MR: also setting stuff on fire next to a pile of dead dry wood.
me: hehe fire go brr
Guys, I know it's often funny that you don't follow safety protocols. But why are you lighting a fire next to a pile of dead, dried up wood? If not you guys, the crew should say something.
Your artillery firework Vietnam story reminded me of a similar experience when I was a kid. My dad thought it would be cool to launch TWO shells, simultaneously, from the same tube...he just dropped one in on top of the other and held the fuses together as he lit them. The fuses burned unevenly, first one went off and knocked the tube over. It was aimed directly at me, and even though I didnt know the science at the time, I knew it wasn't good. Lol. I just remember realizing my fate, turning around and sprinting away, and then hearing the *thump* of the shell launching, I risked a look back while still running, and as my head swiveled back to the front it detonated about 5 ft from the back of my head and yellow fiery streaks flew through my vision, seemingly from all sides. I just kept running til I heard my dad laughing his ass off. Definitely felt like a Platoon scene. 😂
I love that they are trying these out burning inside and on a big wooden bench... Lol
Man I love the Rogues!
As a kid I used to make badass sparkler bombs and bottle rockets with nothing but sparklers and duct tape. I'd cut the excess wood or metal off and wrap them tightly in duct tape with a sparkler sticking out for the fuse. The amount of layers and tightness on the fuse end would determine if it was going to explode or propel.
I used to do this as a kid, then I'd crush match heads, scrape out caps, and then the mercury fulminate you get in little snappers, then mix it all together in some kitchen roll. Worked a treat!
On the days after the 4th of July, fireworks have last minute blow out sales. My parents would regularly buy fireworks after the 4th and save them for the next year. One year our garage flooded and the fireworks got wet, but had dried out by the 4th of July. It was supposed to shoot off individual spinning rockets one after the other. Instead the whole thing blew up in a giant ball of fire sending rockets screaming out in every direction.
Totally adding Sparkle-trops to my D&D campaigns now. Thanks!
All about Nozzle pressure. More pressure in small nozzle = Bigger flame. Big bottle will melt the plastic so no pressure will build up. Also most flammable things that are non explosive will slow down the sparkler reaction. Thermite g powder and match heads add to the flame most other things will slow it down.
West Texan here, so yes!! Those summers can be brutal!!!
A couple of things here
First of all, it really doesn't help lighting stuff outside if you do it right next to a bunch of dry sticks. That stuff will light up real fast. Good thing you had those fire extinguishers though.
Secondly, i think the morning star burned too hot. It melted the metals instead of lighting them on fire. Now im not a fireworks specialist or anything, but i would imagine that is what was happening from just the visuals.
have you guys ever tried making "diy" thermite? you basically remove the contents of a hand warmer (iron oxide) and then you mix that with some fine bits of aluminum foil (putting it in a blender works pretty good to get the pieces small). the effect is pretty good and gets at least hot enough to melt locks and stuff like that
They have an episode where they cook steak with thermite
I love Jason's D&D references. I'm here for it
all of a sudden Brian looks like the sidekick because of his hat. bring back the darth maul look
guys
the mix on sparklers is already thermite aluminum and iron last for the sparks and a pinch of barium so if you ignite a big amount of that mixture it will also burn under water because in the mix is a oxidizer too
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I’ve heard that taking a few dozen sparklers, making a bundle with one sticking out the end for a fuse, then wrap the whole thing with lots of electrical tape except for the fuse, makes for an impressively bright b-word. Supposedly.
BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN DOING THIS!! Local kid some years ago put a plastic bucket over one right as it went off. He was too close to the bucket and the plastic shards created a claymore and shot into him. Rumors said the paramedics couldn't do a thing because he was full of holes and blood was gushing out every time they did chest compressions. Even more people have lost hands in the process of doing this. The stuff goes up FAST when it's all powdered up and anything other than soft-ish plastic would just make it a weapon. Stay safe.
If you really want to make this something distracting, add the beads from crackler balls and add powdered up strobes. DO NOT use metal containers or hard plastic.
What you've done there is a DIY anti-IR defence flare like they use on combat jets, so a hand full of them all going off at once would probably play merry hell with an IR sensor/camera system, and probably any LowLight/NV gear too
- Holds fire extinguisher.
- Blows out plastic on fire.
“Running through the streets of Waterdeep.” Lmao
I 100% support the tagline for The Modern Rogue being changed to The Modern Rogue: It's Probably Fine
I know something that me and my older brother used to do we had pop it the ones you through on the ground and explode so we took the paper off of at least a thousand and put the rocks in side of a spice can and the sound was so loud it sounded like a g-u-n shot super fun but you should make the hole in the lid a little bigger so oxygen can make the sparks bigger. I know it’s time consuming but get a pop can empty the contents and fill it with (trade marked) spark dust to the brim and put the fuse a bit lower kind of like a rocket. A wise man told me go big or die trying. I think that’s how he said it. It might of been go big or go home but I like to think it was the other one.
So first of all, start an unpredictable fire next to a dry brush pile then if in doubt, poke it with a stick. Great stuff!
The rogues spend this video poking fun at using these for distractions, but i think that that's actually a good use of these. it mostly derives from the fact that if someone doesn't know that there's only sparkler dust in there, all that they're seeing is a fuse going into a sealed container, which could mean all sorts of things. it'd be best to play it safe in case there's actually something serious packed inside being lit and not just sparklers.
3:45 I love the thought but dude, it was already gun powder. Exact same ingredients save the glue and sparkey bits.
get a tube, about 3/4 inch diameter and as long as you feel comfortable with. glue that very solidly to a board. that's the housing.
now mash up a bunch of those sparklers, 2/3 of it should be very fine, and 1/3 should be chunky. mix that all together on a paper then pour it in, making sure the chunky bits are reasonably spaced though out the mix.
put a fuse a little ways in, then tamp down the mixture firmly. when lit this should send sparks flying and have miniature spark balls shoot out with it.
tamping down the mixture is to make sure the reaction doesn't go too fast for the hole at the top to accommodate causing it to go boom.
"I stole *so* many fireworks!" -Jason Murphy - 2021
ya see what you wanna do is get a BUNCH of sparklers (the more the better) wrap them in a bundle with tape around the sticks as tight as possible leaving one in the middle sticking up 3-4" over the rest Find something to put it in so it sticks straight up and wont tip (PVC cut to length as close to the bundle size as possible with a base works well) and light the sparkler in the middle. It makes what can best be described as a spark beam or spark cannon a good distance in the air
I too worked in a fireworks stand in Texas in July once. Once. It was indeed hell on earth.
We used to crush a couple of packets and fill up a plastic coke bottle. The fountain will start at the mouth of the bottle but as the plastic melts more holes will open up. Different bottle brands will make different patterns. Very entertaining
As you can probably tell, I commented before finishing the video...
The video you posted was exceptionally exhilarating.
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If you packed the sand down into the cinderblock, more of the reaction would be forced upward. Sand by itself isn't particularly dense, which is why you can dig in it easily at the beach, and therefore why it couldn't contain the reaction.
Take a handful of sparklers, with a fuse in the center. Wrap them tightly with an abundance of electrical tape, followed by duct tape, then light, back far away and enjoy! I would advise using the sparklers with wood sticks.
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Editor - Got it slow motion time.
Thermite starts igniting-- Brian immediately pulls up his face shield XD
this is a gem of a video
10/10 Sparkle Caltrops
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we got a perfectly safe firepit thing that we can hose down from all direction...nah, lets do the possibley exlpody, possibly thermite fueled open fire experiment right next to that pile of dried clippings...yeah!
never change guys!
not enough peter pans!
15:02 _thermite burning_
Brian: _takes off face protection_
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We used to make them a different way, and they didn't go sparky sparky, they did something much more exciting (and way louder) :)
when i was a kid we made sparkler bombs using an entire pack of sparklers. we stopped after someone got burned pretty badly
Fireworks story for ya
I had the same thing happen with the plastic mortar things, except it melted the bottom enough to fall over pointed almost directly at some friends and I, who were sitting in front of a wall. It made impact with the wall about 5 feet from me and spun for a few seconds, and all we could really do was cover our heads (and ears) and hope for the best. Needless to say, it could've come directly at us and we could've been injured.