Pile of pennies melted by giant Fresnel lens

A stack of pennies melted into a flowing stream of zinc using a very large Fresnel lens removed from a rear projection TV. More info can be found at http://www.brotherswhitney.com .

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• brotherswhitney
• penny
• pennies
• fresnel
• lens
• magnifying
• melting
• burnination
• trogdor

[jammamammaa]

Who gives a shit if it's illegal or not? It looks really, really, really cool.

[nattsurfaren]

0:38 Pubic hair

[juki0h]

@drewsisely ya, your probably right

[drewsisely]

@juki0h There is almost no copper in modern pennies, they only plate the outside of it. Pennies are mainly composed of zinc.

[supertweetygirl5]

"honey! we need 15 pennies for the debt collector!" "oh..."

[tester123532456]

BRB secret service

[prozacgod]

It's not illegal to destroy or damage coins, it is only illegal to deface them "fraudulently" as in to make one coin look like a valid currency of a different value. (google it)

[juki0h]

@TheChickenrun3 yup! totally illegal too! lol, but who gives a fuck!

[TheChickenrun3]

@juki0h that's why people do this, you can make a cent and 1/2 out of every penny!

[juki0h]

i think copper is worth more than the actual pennies itself

[mynameisjeny]

@punkskamp420 As long as you don't try to spend a stretched penny after the fact (or farm melted pennies for metal to be sold) you can destroy money all you want to.

[DeathbyEnzyte]

It is indeed Thermite on top at the beginning,just for show.The temp under the focal point of a fresnel lens is over 2000 degrees,there is no need for an "acetolene" torch to help it at all.You can't breathe those vapors,btw,they are toxic.