thermal lance - nastiest tool ever!(cookie monster in action)

[thepatrioticright]

We use something of the sort at work to scarf old weld, burn through the center of stuck pins, cut stainless pins...its called an x-torch. basically magnesium rods in the center of a copper tube.

[andyroo24601]

"Now son, before we start, are ye wearin' anything flammable?"

[PurelyUnintentional]

Works great on bank vaults, or so I hear!

[Sagramorbald]

the wind hates you!

[jeabo0adhd]

brave men are awesome!!!!

[CuntDaddy69]

jeebus that's intense.

[snowdog90210]

Big deal... I get the same effect from eating Taco Bell.

[boxellj]

used on of these today. first time. good fun. joys of the job

[hayleygant]

All a thermic lance is, is a copper tube packed with copper rods. You heat the end up with a gas welding torch until it starts the go white hot, and then neat oxygen is blown through the tube. The copper than starts to burn into cupric oxide, and creates around 3200 C temperature. Thermic lances create huge amounts of smoke, and cant really be used indoors. However, there has been an instance of one being used to burn a hole in the two foot thick concrete roof of a bank in order to rob it.

[werewolf7789]

were can i get a thermal lance

[nightforcemana]

that's why colossi are OP

[quadkid4]

a real mans sparkler

[wboquist]

Did they use one of those to burn their way into a safe in the movie "Thief"?

[st8pl8guy]

@wboquist

I know one was used in the movie "The Bank Job", 2008.

[Thekaiserwill]

dear santa

[jaysoltesz]

This is the nastiest tool ever... but it can get a whole lot nastier than that moment of sparks you see there. Imagine a blast furnace melting down and all the molten iron making a 3 foot layer of metal the size of a football field. Then go use that lance for back to back 12 hour shifts for days on end to cut that all into chunks small enough to crane or drag out.  NON STOP! At that point you have the "NASTIEST TOOL EVER".

[allistairc123]

@jaysoltesz  is it a different tool? can we have vids of this?

[Corp0ralPunishment]

hmm, I bet it can't burn through some of my wifes cooking........

[hunterziegelmann]

im not sure what would be scarrier see all the fire and sparks or hearing the laugh.....

[stockcar4d]

so as long as you're quick you can cut what you want before the rest heats up too much??

[techhax0rz]

ouch that actually looked like it could have hurt someone Really badly. Hope they were wearing all the proper safety gear.

[freeskakel]

thats an awesome video and tool, could use them on my loader pins, sure beats carbon arc gouging anyday

[allistairc123]

yeah, it can reach into a small diameter pin like carbon rod cant

[natescamp]

They did it in the popular science magazine two or three issues ago. Use meat and pure O2.

[cUin530]

omg thats the same crane in holland that collapsed on google earth in 06 sum1 on utube showed that....if thats the 1?

[allistairc123]

do you have a link to this video?

[bowlingkingpin]

I've seen lances being used to remove stuck pins on other videos but my question is this; how do you stop it burning through the pin guides or surrounding metal?

Cheers!

[allistairc123]

with great difficulty!, typically it cuts where it heats ... straight in line with rod, and it is simmilar to oxy acetylene cutting torch, the oxy will only melt heated metal, so the seperate surfaces are usually enough to keep temps down enough on surfaces beside target to stop them melting

[stockcar4d]

kol

[natescamp]

You can also make a thermal lance out of some kind of meat. It doesn't burn as hot though.

[gabesprofile]

Meat?

[tarpsman4life]

we used these to get a broken axle out of a mack r model diff coz it was jammed and to get a broken shaft out of a chipper main wheel

[benspeed1974]

ha, thats nothing more than about 20 or 30 packets of matches all set off at once ,just like we used to do as kids, we cut through a bridge when we were 'bout 10 or something, if that pin was stuck why didnt you get a big rock off the ground and hit it out? any bloody excuse to get the thermal lance out eh? (im not takin the piss, its this stuff im smokin...)

[King441]

you cut through a bridge when you were like 10 or something? stay of the devil's lettuce mate

[Lemurai]

Nothing can match these things tool for tool in all out destructive force.

[cowbubbles]

my dad has one but im not aloud to play with it .

[marianoaldogaston]

why not, it seems not dangereous

[cowbubbles]

its not the dangerfactor truct me .

[BarronTD]

Is it the spelling, then?

:-P

[alwinovich]

you remind me of the 8 year old kid that wrote to brainiac because he didn't understand why his parents said no when he asked for thermite

[constructioncartoons]

those lances Are complete f**k*rs

[allistairc123]

ha ha, you got that right!!

[constructioncartoons]

if at all posible weld a flange on ang rip it out with the trackhoe grapple...

[allistairc123]

100t ram wouldnt move it, so no backhoe is gonna move it

[constructioncartoons]

I know It just if a 200 tonner ususally pullsi t out...

[allistairc123]

even an 800 tonner would be no good, because it would pull whole job toward itself, thats if you could weld strong enough eye on

[constructioncartoons]

okay alistair

[citydriver]

now thats a hot shower

[surferirl]

how does it work sir?

[allistairc123]

pure oxygen will burn anything, google it for some info i spose for finer detail

[tearsoflaughter333]

It works by having oxygen run through a tube which is packed with iron rods and sometimes magnesium rods as well then the oxygen is lit with an oxycetalene torch. The iron and/or magnesium rods along with the oxygen burn, and the oxygen being forced through the tube creates a lance of flame which burns at around 4200 degrees celsius or about 7500 degrees fahrenheit and can burn through most anything.

[Argibon]

Thats what the CIA used to help bring down the twin towers.

[allistairc123]

lol ha ha ha ha ha

[constructioncartoons]

no, my dad and I could not tell you that

[JamesRRedford]

Actually, it was nanothermite which did that. For the details on that, see Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley and Bradley R. Larsen, "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe," Open Chemical Physics Journal, Vol. 2 (2009), pp. 7-31, doi:10.2174/187441250090201000­7, bibcode: 2009OCPJ....2....7H. See also the Journal of 9/11 Studies.

[trueChaos23]

hey, i was wondering if someone could tell me where to get one that would be greatly appriciated :)

[cowbubbles]

we have one but i not aloud to use it

[allistairc123]

the funniest part of this is the guy in the basket behind us screaming and hiding under the white fire blanket!lol

[ray3rd]

Nice. My dad has one of those for when nothing else will do the job. I stand well clear when he uses it. Damn things go through steel like a hot knife through butter. Pins get so hot that they try to swell in the bore, then cool to a smaller size and you can poke em right out.

[allistairc123]

yep, thats how they work.... aparantly they cut anything.... concrete, glass, rubber etc...

[jimmybigbucket]

thats class, cant beat the old thermal lance...

[stevenhazard]

holy shit!!!

[heavyhaulage1]

Bloody hell mate your right what a nasty bugger

[rangiemadharry]

shit!! that is impresive!

[peterv930]

beside richardsons??