 The following demonstration is for informational purposes only. Please do not attempt. At DynaVap, we make very durable vaporizers. What kind of beating can they really take? Can you use a VapCap as a golf tee? Can a VapCap survive a trip in a rocket? And what happens when you put a VapCap in a box full of explosives and light the fuse? That was loud. We conducted four experiments to see how much abuse a VapCap could take. That is really, really hot. We'll show you what happened and how well they held up to our intentional destruction on this episode of Exploring the Dynamics. Our first experiment was to see if a VapCap could stand in as a golf tee. If you're golfing with a VapCap, who needs a tee when you have an M, right, Coley? We stuck our all stainless steel vaporizer, the 2020 M, in the grass. The 2020 M can be a tee if you need it to be. So it appears that our M functions just fine as a tee and looks like it's still in completely usable condition. We lost our ball in the woods, so we thought we'd see if we can golf with an M. A direct hit and our 2020 M suffered minimal damage. Nice. Coley's golf club, on the other hand. I don't think we should hit vaporizers with golf club. Next, we turned up the heat. We're going to burn some titanium and we're going to see what kind of effect it has on some of our devices and how well they hold up to what should be over 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. We've got a 2020 M, we've got a Hydrovong Darkwood, an Omni-Stem, a Lightwood Vong, a Gray BB9, a Rosium, a Phantom, and looks like a CVAP. With temperatures of up to 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit, there's not likely to be much left of the wood Hydrovongs or the O-Rings. Our high temperature O-Rings are rated to withstand a continuous temperature of 415 degrees Fahrenheit. We may have exceeded that by just a little bit. You just see it glowing, it's bright white hot as the wind blows here. That is really, really hot. It was intense from a couple meters away. You can actually tell a lot about a fire by the color of the light that it's giving off. When you see white areas, you know you're over 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. And in some cases, when the wind's really blowing or if you have a little extra source of oxygen, you can significantly exceed those temperatures. I think it's cooling down, it's only orange right now, so if the wind blows a little bit more, we might get a little more of that white heat. Look how hot that is. It's like coals. It's so interesting because it's metal burning. Wow, that held up surprisingly good. Wow, I honestly thought this would melt. And all the BBs are intact. Don't break it. Wow, oh look it. There's something. That looks like an omni. I wonder if this is the phantom. That is just sweet. Look at that color. My best guess is we can clean this up through on some new O-Rings and everything should be fine, although the cap might be out of calibration. For our next experiment, we wanted to see what would happen if we launched a 2020M in a model rocket. We carefully packed our VapCap into the cargo bay of our rocket and took it to the launch pad. We've got our rocket over here and we've got our flag so we can check our wind direction. And I think it's about time to gain some altitude in five, four, three, two, one. Turns out the wind stopped blowing and our parachute didn't deploy. That might be a hard one to recover. We may have to try this one again. For our last experiment, we packed a box with explosives, put an M on top and lit the fuse. I was just thinking that this would be a good spot for a little bit of that chariot of fire soundtrack running away from the box. And it started burning a little bit faster than I anticipated. There's actually several explosions here, three of them to be precise, and a fair amount of burning metal and other things for dramatic effect. Smoke flashes, it was kind of loud and hot burning metal flying through the air. Oh boy, that was loud. Well, oh, look at that. And there's our M that might be hot. It's smoking. It's not terribly hot. They made it. So how much abuse can a little 2020M really take? We can see we've got a little bit of a bend in our tip in the M that was the T. But it seems like it's still completely functional. It just might give a little bit of a wobble when you're rotating it. If we look at the mouthpiece of the unit that we tried to stand in for a golf ball, it's got a little bit of a ding, but the o-ring still seats. And I feel confident that this device is also still usable. But it also left a pretty nice mark on the golf club. And here's the M from the rocket. Oh, wait, it's still out there in space. The 2020M in the box of explosives is pretty dirty. You can see there's a lot of metal oxide and ash on the surfaces. If I rub it with my glove, you can see that most of it comes right off. And I feel pretty confident that with a little TLC, this thing can be cleaned up and put right back into service. I don't think we'll have to replace any parts, but it will take a thorough cleaning to get things back to a usable condition after this combustion event. And from the fire, here's some of our parts. Some look better than others. But I'm pretty confident that nearly all of these devices, save for the caps and the o-rings, are cleanable and would be functional again. Even this omni-stem, which has a lot of titanium dioxide on it, which is why it's so white, will clean right up. It just might take a little extra effort to get them there. We did get some really interesting colors, though, from the time in the fire. Nice browns, bronze, coppery, some unexpected colors. This rosium got kind of blue, burned off some of that coating. Not much left for o-rings there. Here's another example of the high-temperature o-rings, not exactly liking temperatures that are well beyond their design limitations. I really wonder what color these are going to turn when we just wash them up and get all the loose stuff off. These might have a really interesting permanent patina. In conclusion, the Dynavap M may not be indestructible, but it can certainly take some significant abuse. It can take a beating from a titanium golf club. It can survive some colorful explosives. It's not terribly hot. And maybe even survive a ride in a model rocket. But extreme temperatures will damage the o-rings and will permanently decalibrate the cap. In fact, the three most vulnerable components on your VapCap M are the o-rings, the cap, and the CCD. And it turns out you can damage your tip as well if you really want to. What destructive tests would you like to see us do next? Leave us a note in the comments below and please leave the dangerous experiments to us. 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