Part 4 Build a Putt PuttPop Pop Steam Boat s1 cut top can

Part 4 is Step 1 of the actual building instructions. Are you confused enough? Sorry! The steps are small. This Step 1 is just cutting off the top of an aluminum beverage can.

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Science & Technology

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• pop pop
• putt putt
• steam engine
• boat
• build
• make

[sebastiansibbesen]

Do you also have to cut the bottom off?

[sciencetoymaker]

@sebastiansibbesen Yes, it's in the next step. Due partly to youtube's time limit, the video instructions are a bit chopped up.

Slater

[TallTinkerer]

Quick note for Europeans:many cans here are not made out of aluminium(yes that is an -i :P )but out of steel(for example cola)....

[sciencetoymaker]

I don't know how steel would work. It's easy enough to test: magnets attract steel but not aluminum (note the correct spelling [sic!]). Has anyone tried using a steel can?

Slater

[Cooldudealoha]

Steel makes the boat slow down, and dosent pop like its suppose it pops randomly not in a pattern

[sciencetoymaker]

But you can get aluminium cans in Europe, right?

[pretjim2011]

@sciencetoymaker Only Americans spell the metal as aluminum. The rest of the English-speaking world correctly call it ALUMINIUM - as in barium, plutonium, radium, etc, etc !

Ameicans have been famous (or infamous) for years for their inability to spell and pronounce words correctly . . . Apparently it is a feeble attempt to prove their independence from the Mother country, Britain.

[MUTLYMAX8]

@ForTheTurtle1 i did a v8

[ForTheTurtle1]

Who else chugged a mountain dew?

[NVorigami]

very very very detailed.

thank you very much :D

[mrRaleigh97]

the epoxy i have you cant squeeze out you scoop it out with a toothpick and its a weird color ive been having problems with it ive mad 4 engines and it doesnt work and i dont know why if you could help me out that would be great - thanks

[BJOlson]

I'm not pulling your leg or trying to make a joke. But you should really take up voice acting. You could narrate for Discovery or the History channel any day!

[dumle29]

i live in Denmark and i have NEVER seen a steel can. they are all aluminum.

what contry are you from?

[Cooldudealoha]

Um yeah u can, some food cans, and from Sprite yes u can