Thermite

[iskatelikeanoob]

what kinda thermite composition did u use

[D4rkst4r235]

Makes you wonder what he had on the hard drive... O.o

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

hackers should have all their sensitive data on hard drives with the wires so that its outside the computer. if the cops stomp down their draw, they could have pottery with thermite and a fuse ready to go. they cant put it out. its super hot and needs no air to burn. basically a full proof way to destroy data. how to do that without burning the place down it up to them.

[mariah128]

Wouldn't burning those plastics and metals release harmful toxins? (Not meant to sound condescending).

[ComputerGamerify]

5000 degrees of awesome

[Brianfellowes]

So does the hard drive still work?

[Viratic]

SCIENCE!

[Morsam1995]

What ratio did you use?

[jadeisonlinetoomuch]

@Morsam1995 it's 8grams of iron oxide to 3 grams aluminum

[lk0056]

I HATE ADS THUMBS UP IF U AGREE!!!!

[ctcole77]

3 QUESTIONS 911 TRUTHERS DON'T WANT YOU TO ASK THEM:

Why did Dr. Steven Jones circumvent the peer review process by not showing his nanothermite paper to the chief editor and printing it without her approval?

How can Marvin Bush be in charge of WTC security when he stopped working for Securecom in June of 2000?

If the WTC was destroyed via demolition, how did the charges survive the plane impacts and how did the perpetrators know exactly where the planes would hit the buildings?

[bombbuilder2010]

what kind a fuse dide you used light the thermite??

I life in the Netherlands but do you ore sombody else know if thermite is illigal in the Netherlands??

[CheckOutThisComment]

ok im cooking my steak like that tonight

[MegaAstroFan18]

That hard drive was gone very early in the video lol

[deathreaper1996]

whats all the stuff around the pots?did the thermite make that?

[mikemoseley]

@deathreaper1996 are you kidding? look at the beginning of the video before its lit then after it extinguishes...

[darthjeff3]

i want to make a knife. i was hoping i could put thermite in a negative mould of a knife made in plaster and light it and use the iron it produces as the blade. would this work?

[mbparrish]

@darthjeff3 I have no idea

[kentofmississippi]

@mbparrish it sounds like it would work. Of course, there is only one way to test it. Who wants me to make a video?

[darkfang77]

@darthjeff3 It might work, but you'll get really low quality iron as its contaminated with Aluminium Oxide and the plaster mould would probably burn, use a high resistant mould. Obviously, this is more expensive than just buying a iron knife.

The detail would also be unpredictable.

[Iolfish]

@darthjeff3 no

[HaibaneRakka571]

@darthjeff3 No. Even if you had enough left over iron in the mold, iron is brittle and weak and not good for a knife. That's why knives are made of composite materials like steel, even though iron is a cheaper metal.

[FilippoGatti1991]

@darthjeff3 I think, if you find the right plaster, it can work... But be careful...

[Hayden1911]

@darthjeff3 well I don't know that much about it, but the iron MIGHT now replace the whole area of thermite, so maybe only part of the mold might be filled

[TheCrazyFinn]

@darthjeff3 It wouldn't make a very good knife... You can buy a better one for $2

[joshua99999999]

@darthjeff3 i would just get liquid iron and then just put it in a metal knife mould and just let it cool :) and thats it

[lvlss42190]

@darthjeff3 in essence it would but pure iron is very brittle so the knife would be fragile

[souprcheff]

@darthjeff3 No. It's not just iron in thermite. It produces a lot of aluminum oxide, which is not good for making knives. That, and it's not like pouring in liquid metal. It is a very exothermic reaction and could actually forcefully explode your mould. Do NOT attempt this.

[phisher453]

@darthjeff3 it would probobly melt through the plaster, thermite burns at around 4,00 degrees farenheit

[metalmanga]

@darthjeff3 it does, but your knife will be really weak, becouse it wont be hardend

[vilago5]

@darthjeff3 screw the knife just throw thermite at your enemies

[shotgunninja0]

@darthjeff3 it would be full of impurities, and unless you had some miraculous feat of engineering ingenuity which allowed you to immensely compress ONLY the iron and extract the aluminum oxide, then it would just give you a mould full of powdered or encrusted iron and aluminum oxide. The "blade" it produces would flake and fall apart right away, since the material structure would be so irregular.

[Collinoeight]

@darthjeff3 not even close. 

[booksandvideos]

@darthjeff3 I know you said this a year ago, but for everyone else's knowledge I have also experimented with thermite. If you tried to make a knife out of thermite iron, you'd probably have a really crappy blade. The iron at the end of a thermite reaction is not really pure and solid. It's kinda crystalline, lightweight and fragile.

[dipdat33]

Waste of pot....

[Stuna2150]

i highly doubt this is thermite as thermite is reduced to a lava like substance and would easily melt through those pots and even the brick its sittiing on and w.e is under the brick ..

[VoijaRisa]

@Stuna2150 Ceramic pots can easily handle the heat. I just did a thermite demonstration for my chemistry class today using the same pots.

[epicpenguinz]

you can make thermite by adding rust and aluminium filings. The ratio of rust:aluminium is 8g to 3g. Have fun:)

[gr8daym8]

haha, bit overkill, think its safe to say that hard drive has seen better days.....

[Jemalacane]

What can you put thermite in that won't roast in the heat.

[mbparrish]

You basically need some kind of high temp ceramic. The flower pots were the cheap version of that.

[canmoore]

@Jemalacane Carbide, or diamond will also probably hold up well to thermite.

[sithnick]

@canmoore diamond would actually evaporate

[OpenFormula]

look at all that dust

[sonicsn4ke]

Where can you buy Thermite? Is it illegal to own this stuff?

[mbparrish]

You can buy it online from a variety of sources, such as ebay. The temperature required to ignite it is quite high so it is safe to ship. I am not a lawyer, and your municipality may differ, but I believe it is not illegal where I conducted this experiment. However, any damage or jeopardy you cause to others others is probably illegal. In short, don't freak anybody out and you'll probably be fine, but you should check your local laws to be sure.

[roboawsome]

or you an make your own just buy aluminum powder and iron oxide. mix and use the slow burning sparkler.

[thealfonzo1]

@sonicsn4ke completely legal.

[mynameismatt2010]

@sonicsn4ke It's legal, all it is is rust and aluminium. We messed around with this stuff in my chemistry class. :)

[bestSVMS]

yeahm its just molton iron, go head and stick your finger into that red glowing stuff

it shouldnt hurt you

i wonder how much illegal stuff you had on that

wipe it with some sopftware, take it apart, hamer it, blowtorch it a little, and then melt it with thermite

you must be real desperte

still pretty awesome

[mbparrish]

If I did want to really get rid of some data, this would be effective and fast. However in this case it was just an old non-working hard drive a friend gave me for this purpose.

[legionnaire100]

i dont belive that it did not eat through the flower pot o.o

[mbparrish]

It cracked the inner pot, I heard that you could do it with 2 and that seemed to work well.

[zuzerey]

what did you use as a wick?

[mbparrish]

A long thin piece of magnesium.

[zuzerey]

thanks

[paintball227]

It is not a good idea to burn or melt hard drives. there are neodymium magnets in the hard drives that when burned give off poison gasses. but as long as you did not breath the smoke.

[mbparrish]

Oh really, no I didn't know that. No, we were standing quite a ways away (20ft) when it was burning.

[Geoffzippo]

ron paul 2008!

[Leiflton]

thats right!

you goin to DC?

[SockPupp]

please, please, please edit it next time, way over half of that video is useless

[Leiflton]

Thermate brought down the WTC in controlled demolition!

[ryng64]

Or it was a bunch of pissed of Muslims.

[Leiflton]

Have you seen Loose Change or Terrorstorm or 9/11 Mysteries?

[Seduns]

Have you seenn "Screw Loose change" or any other documentary that debunks much of what loose change claims? Have you bothered to research anything stated in Loose Change for yourself? Or do you simply believe them because they are passionate? Many of the claims made in loose change are laughable, and easily proven untrue, and have been. Their movie title "loose change" is ironically appropriate.

[Leiflton]

Yes i have, and their claims are baseless. They can argue against the hundreds of eyewitness testimony's to bombs in the buildings, but they wont touch Dick cheney ordering NORAD to standown, or Ahmad of ISI being in DC ON 9/11 and wiring Atta $100k, and wasnt even investigated by the 9/11 commission! Bombs going off in the basement before any PLANE EVEN HIT! Trace put options back to head of CIA. etc etc.

[Leiflton]

Not to mention declassified false flag operations like Operation Northwoods(JFK stopped) Operation Ajax(CIA staging terror atacks) and Gulf of Tonkin(false flag pretext to ionvade vietnam). Also, look at the executive orders like John warner defense authorization act, military commissions, patriot act, how bill of rights is being destroyed, no more posse commitatus, no more habeus corpus or due process or 4th ammendment.

[shibogee]

i think leifton right theres some pritty interesting shit about thermite shpaed charges and tower 7 and all that on youtube

[Leiflton]

Yeah, i dont know what happened, but there is an overwhelming ammount of evidence against the official story! 9 of the "terrorists" found to be still alive?! Cheney ordering NORAD to standown?! Ahmed, of ISI, being in washington DC on 9/11, and wiring ATTA $100,000?!?! Why didnt the 9/11 commission investigate that?! Were in so much trouble! God is our only hope when things really start to fall apart.

[Shannariano]

Thermite is an Iron oxide and alluminium powder right?

can I use alluminium powder mixed with rust powder?

[Dooobs]

Your such an idiot, Iron Oxide is rust.

[Shannariano]

First: I asked a question politely... you're supposed to do the same...

Second: I Know that rust IS one of the oxides of Iron... but hey, that's not the only one! You need an oxide with Fe(III) in it

Third: Next time avoid to answer if you do it in that way...

[SockPupp]

you can use either oxide

[thelaughingjackle]

wow, what a douchebag.

[jimmy7conway]

arsehole

[thelaughingjackle]

yeah, you can use iron(III) oxide, but the ration changes and i'm too lazy to calculate it for you, so you'd have to do it yourself. Fe3O4 is pretty easy to get a hold of, its like $4/lb on ebay, and the ratios are 24% Al and 76% Fe304.

[vilimaaman]

can i use black iron oxide?

[chrintov]

yes u can

[vilimaaman]

cheers. will try some. also does anybody know how well powdering Al foil in a blender works?

[chrintov]

al foil tends to have all kinds of aditives in it a far as i know..might not work

[vilimaaman]

yeh, i just went and tried it. it worked ok, it wasnt as vilent as id hoped, more of a stong, and VERY hot fizz.

[chrintov]

awesome :D free thermite for you eh? good job

[crowtheraven]

wow this kinda reminded me of the 4th of july but hotter :P

[bxsephjo]

um, shouldn't those pots have been vaporized?

[Drammm]

Ceramics are usually extremely heat tollerant and efficient at dispersing it.

[samuelrj]

maybe tilt the camera up a bit next time

[cfx3]

what is the ratio of iron oxide to alluminium?

[CaptainNorris]

The Reaction is Fe2O3 + 2Al ---> 2Fe + Al2O3

The mass of Iron(III)oxide is around 160g/mol, and Aluminium is around 27g/mol, so the Ratio of a stochiometric mixture would be 80:27 or rounded 8:3 or more rounded 3:1.

[goneo89]

wow ur one smarass XD

[98209276]

thankyou and yes i do except gays in society but in future please do not refer to my ass mabey someone else can fit you fantasy

[Drammm]

whut?

[austin777136]

ive heard its 1g aluminum to 2g iron oxide. i dont know if those are the best results but i wathed som1 use it and it woeked pretty well

[willancs]

i use 3 parts rust to 1 part al - it works

[LizzyAston]

how did you get the rust and the aluminium, and then make it ready for the reaction?

[98209276]

2 parts iron oxide and 1 part aluminum : for example 1 table spoon aluminum and 2 table spoons iron oxide hope this helps

[CaptainNorris]

Never work with vol%s, use weight%s. 8:3

[Auron1186]

wtf..what happened to the guy in the backround at the end???

[Nequame]

That HD is a goner. :)

[freakinsweet1224]

that was a lot of thermite...

[laidback4sho]

thermite. we use it all the time at work. if you know an electrician, ask him to get you a "Cadweld shot" ...that's thermite. it comes in a container that looks like a 35mm film tube. electricians use it to weld copper together. enjoy...

[chewykiller]

thats kinda what thermite is.....

[cah87]

cool vid thanks!

[mattiasfattias]

Very cool video.

[xunderground]

where can i get thermite?><

[mbparrish]

I bought it off ebay...

[mbparrish]

Actually I used 2 nested clay flowerpots. The inner one cracked heavily.

[TexasTechStudent]

Uhm, why did the clay pot stay together?

[HaveYouEverNoticed]

THE POWER OF FUCKING POTTERY BARN! shit burns through an engine block but held by some damn clay..pretty wicked

[bja6a]

hot stuff!

[Listendamnyou]

Show us the hole through the HDD, please.

[mbparrish]

There wasnt really a hole so much as a few high-temp parts left. The little titanium ring in the center and a bit of something from the circuit board. The rest was just gone.

[stevemanson]

what illegal shit was on that hard drive?

[slither888]

We once did 5lbs on top of a computer, and did it leave a nice hole :)! It shot molten iron 10ft into the air. BTY it looks cooler right after instead of waiting a minute. Use dark sunglasses or welding goggles!

[jbakerutexas]

this is the only real way to get rid of data. excellent work!

[whatisup1121]

Did you guys bother to do any research? If you did you'd know that thermite has the power to burn out your corneas... Still, pretty sweet flames!

[t239]

Cool. Must've been a pretty precise mixture.

[mbparrish]

What doesn't come across was how amazingly bright this was. We could see afterimages when we closed our eyes after it was done.

[noekiyu]

I could tell its really bright. Because the outside turned into night because the intensity of the thermite reaction.