How to Disassemble a Smoke Detector

[cartowngangsters]

3:45 to 4:00 close your eyes and listen! :O

[Thecoinvideos]

First of all your a dumbass. It's pronounced amereesium not amerikium. And there is no 1 isotope of any element.

[stdane96]

you pronounced americium horribly. And you absolutely have no idea what you're doing. Dumbass

[KyleXe]

You made a mistake. The title should read, "How Not to Disassemble a Smoke Detector."

Look, even when I first took things apart as a kid, I discovered scissors and side-cutters were safer than knives and slot screwdrivers. Why on earth would you randomly stab something like that?

You made me remember what not to do: the things I learned well a long time ago.

[ULTRAMEGAGOD]

u can desoder the metal case off

[91770158]

touch that stuff and youll never recover from its effects.........is it even safe to come near it????

and i heard u can make plutoium bY BURNIN' it.

[CabalFreekSlayer]

@91770158 Just touching americium will not do anything to you. It emits alpha particles, which can be blocked by bare skin, but if you ate it, it would cause severe damage to your body. And, no, it is not possible to make plutonium by burning americium-241

[Berowra290997]

@CabalFreekSlayer What about the gamma emissions though?

[CabalFreekSlayer]

@Berowra290997 It emits a very low quantity of gama rays. If you had several grams of americium, it would be a serious problem, but at a quantity similar that is used in a smoke detector, it's not much of a big deal. Nonetheless, I wouln't reccomend you to play with americium in any circumstances.

[columbusmozart]

You need to pronounce it correctly, first: am-ur-EE-see-um.

[DuNuful]

Is this not a dangerous thing to do, considering the radioactive materials inside? Are you still alive?

[columbusmozart]

@DuNuful

Only about a microcurie of stuff...maybe slightly more radiation than your television set.

[JORDYRASTELLI]

All that ...... for that?!!!

[UnoRaza]

You should consider being a surgeon with that dexterity.

[tiagandremo]

just slide right out,,,,god,,damn u!!! l0l

[SuperDevin000]

geek geek

[s28400]

they clearly don't want you to take it apart lol

[imaball]

its pronounced am er ri see um

[vitorix24]

Where you find a smoke detector? :)

[TheGooseproductions]

is that a metal lead alloy or what is encasing it

[thecaster]

@TheGooseproductions Steel.

[tomato098]

There is a reason why it is so difficult to get into dumbass..

[airnza380]

your gonna kill yourself doing this

[ve2zzz]

@airnza380

Watching his manual dexterity, This guy has A LOT more chances of killing himself by digging a screwdriver in his wrist that by the side effects of Americium !!!

[ema576]

you said americium wrong and just throw it on the floor a few times and the chamber pops off, thats what i did.

[MsAntoniaGraza]

what can we do with a radioactive "THING"

[thecaster]

For videos of what I did with this radioactive THING, you can click on the video response to this video, and then the video response to that one. I made an cerenkov radiation detector and a cloud chamber.

[tiagandremo]

@MsAntoniaGraza put it in a sandwich and offer it to your worst enemy

[LUNARTICK007]

just done 6 of these, I used tinsnips and just cut the PCB, then the chamber cover pops off, then just use the snips to cut the rivet off, and finally carefully cut the plastic until the AM241 disk pops out. Wear gloves though and don't ever touch the source with your hands! and

[zebidee55]

Interesting! Very few people know that the vast majority of smoke detectors work with radioactive material. Good way to freak people out.

LOL! I have to second the person that said watching you with the knife was terrifying!

[onthecuttingedge2005]

Could you pop off one of the ends of a small linear fluorescent bulb and place the 241Am inside the bulb to see if it fluoresces from the ionizing radiation bombarding the white phosphorus in the bulb while in the dark?

[thecaster]

What a nice idea. I will do it.

[onthecuttingedge2005]

could you take a piece of glow in the dark material and place it over the 241Americium to see if it excites the Phosphor and causes it to self illuminate

[vitorix24]

how cust? in € ??

=)

where i find it?

[xXKentoXx]

is that encloser made from lead

[Dharok60]

the encloser is not lead, i should know i have 3 americium 241

[vitorix24]

:D Am 241 its radioactive, alpha particles...

There is an isotope of lead that is radioactive ...

[vitorix24]

€??

americium!

its bad have in my hand all the time, in my school, ..... "in my room"?

[thecaster]

The enclosure is steel.

[xXKentoXx]

thanks

[91770158]

@xXKentoXx You could be right as radiation cannot pass trough lead.. 

[gh0ste]

so is the cast going to become like a science channel?

[SWAB737800]

I am amazed that you didn't cut yourself, they way you were hacking into that. It totally distracted me from my question of "why are you doing that?"

[thecaster]

Second sentence in the video description :)

[kokobaboko]

Eat it.

[thecaster]

As stated in the description that would not be very harmful. What would be bad though would be to get it stuck inside one of your lungs.

[Lover180backflip]

''DEEPER....IT'LL SLIDE RIGHT OUT''

Lmfao!

The caster gets down and dirty.

[Lover180backflip]

OMG I'm flagging.

= D

[PocketFire]

ok so whats the point of taking out the americium

[thecaster]

The video description tells you everything. :)

[ProFriend]

Several things: You need a better set of tools. I can't believe you missed two obvious ways of getting those three tabs loose - twist them off with pliers or prop them open with toothpicks whilst pulling off the cover. And the L in soldering is silent. For more fun, search for "aquarium smoke detector test" to see how useless the ionization type smoke detectors used in most US homes are. My home has the more expensive commercial photo-electronic detectors which actually detect smoke!

[thecaster]

I tried pliers on the tabs, they were too small, smooth and low. I didn't have any smaller or better quality pliers. I also tried "propping" one of the plastic tabs open and trying the other two with my fingers— wouldn't move.

As it happened, The metal housing for the plastic housing was soldered to the board anyway.

Thanks. It made me feel better to pronounce the "solder" how it was spelled, until I looked up the entymology: French.

[HungarianMafioso]

Dang, I was kinda hoping that for whatever reason, you would cut the blue cable and the whole thing just explodes.

[WhoDaresW1ns]

@HungarianMafioso

EPIC WIN! Just the image of that happening... Haha!

[xwidget]

cloud chamber of something similar?

kid tried to make reactor story:

David Hahn

dangerouslaboratories . org/radscout.html

*** obviously, don't do this ***

[l0gically]

I remember reading a story about someone about your age that collected a BUNCH of the radioactive material from clocks (the glow-in-the-dark paint) and other sources, that he amassed enough to cause some very serious concern.

Now all you need to do is suspend that from the top of a jar with a bit of alcohol in the bottom, and sit it on some dry ice. Voila - you have a cloud chamber.

Interesting stuff.

[thecaster]

The Radioactive Boyscount! Originally published in Harpers mag.

[HeadCrabMK4]

I'm sorry, but what was the experiment you needed this for?

[thecaster]

It's in the description, HeadCrab. :)

[enderwigginsx]

reminds me of the time i took apart my first stereo

i was 2...

my mom left the room and came back a few minutes later.. i had the cover off, a screwdriver in my hand, and components lying all across the living room floor.

it was still plugged in mind you.

[RebiFokkusu]

That was awesome. Make more disassembly vids. :P

[isselman2000]

Good luck building that bomb, buddy.

[Matt6069]

Wow, that was really interesting mac, you should do more videos like these, it was really fun to watch. I would do the same with my smoke detector but at my apt. buildings they require that I not take apart things... :(