Can Thermite Actually Melt A Lock?
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- Опубликовано: 13 май 2023
- This experiment isn't repeated in the same way as in the show, and therefore I can't make any real claims about the shows legitimacy. In Breaking Bad, Walt uses thermite to melt through a lock, but can thermite actually melt a lock? Let's find out! I make thermite and burn a lock with it.
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Trust me, I can melt a lock with thermite, but the way it's done on the show is misleading.
The reaction needs to be done in an enclosed space to contain the heat, like how railroad tracks are welded together.
Sure, I didn't use the same lock as in Breaking Bad, which is necessary for a proper experiment, but simply placing the thermite on a lock won't cut it.
I've checked out some videos on your channel, (I came from the meth explosive vid) and I like the channel so far. Keep it up.🙂
Also if you did it in something like say a metal container or something would it have burned the lock since the heat is contained?
@@Firebolt7317 I'm honestly not too sure. I'd have to try it out. It'd definitely soften up enough to be cut easily though. Some other thermite mixtures that burn hotter and or longer may be able to melt it entirely, especially if you use a lot of it.
@@SomethingAbtScience true pure thermite probably wouldn't be able to melt through it by itself but it is actually an interesting idea. Until somebody is crazy enough to do it themselves I guess we'll never know. 🤷♂️
Wow, you lit that stuff easy! It burns through faster than my stuff too and my thermite is red hot for a while afterwards! What mixture do you use? Fe2O3 or Fe3O4?
What if Walter white is actually just the lock picking lawyer's alter ego?
“I am the ONE who locks!”
thats saul
It’s the meth cooking lawyer
What if it's the other way around?
@@Zomby_Woof I like the way you think!
You're insanely underrated. Keep it up.
Waltuh. You aren't the lock-picking lawyer Waltuh. Put the Thermite away Waltuh.
You can add barium nitrate and sulphur to the thermite to melt through.
What does that make exactly?
Cool video.
But it’s definitely possible for the thermite to melt the lock. They use thermite to weld railroad track together. It most definitely will melt/weaken steal enough to open the lock just takes more effort/different mix of powder
It works on railroads because it's done with a mold. The mold acts as refractory and contains the heat from the thermite reaction and allows it to transfer to the iron. The explanation in this video is a good simplification, but the underlying physics are a bit more complex and difficult to understand. Essentially, raising a solid to its melting temperature is not alone enough to melt a solid. There is an additional amount of energy called the latent heat of fusion which is required to actually cause the solid to melt. Unless you can increase the temperature to melting point and have enough energy left over to supply the latent heat of fusion, it will remain solid, which is what I'm guessing is happening here.
I belive it can be done if you get a mixture that 1 burns slower and longer and 2 is placed precisely but im just a dumb smooth brain
Waltuh's legacy lives on
How is this not viral
surely has potential, breaking bad vid whit this premise
I've seen them use a thermite mixture to weld train tracks but it's in some kind of clay or putty and burns very slow and even.
The clay piece is called the shoe. It guides the molten metal where it needs to go.
1:05 PHAHAH , yea forklift certified so you can do chemistry. I didnt expect it
So heres the thing, I just skipped to the reaction part, your thermite is not well mixed at all, you have pockets of reactions throughout the powder instead of just one large reaction. You can see this because of how quickly your reaction dies. This could also be due to having an uneven ratio. Another problem is I don't think your maintaining a sustained reaction due to temp as well. Usually mixing in Mg powder helps alot too.
There is cases of thermite being used to melt thru tank armor in WWII so there is no doubt it would work, but its all in the mixture quality, grain size, additives and many other things.
I give you props for making homemade thermite, you're on the right track, just keep working at it, it all gets easier with time (or at least science does)
Look into how thermite grenades work ik they use some different combo of set up for more power could be fun to recreate
Repeat the experiment but wrap it in kaolwool. It's not time that's the problem but rather heat transfer. If you increase the time, so does heat transfer, but you can also increase heat transfer to the lock by using insulation to minimize heat loss to the surroundings.
Yeah, I was thinking of pushing the lock into the dirt with the thermite and covering it up. Maybe in a part 2 ill wrap it up.
would you mind elaborating whats a kaolwood?
@militerrorist kaowool is a type of ceramic insulation similar to fiberglass insulation, but for higher temperatures.
Proud to say I am his 500th subscriber, great video and very educational.
I've been waiting on 500 for a while! That's pretty cool. Thank you!
surely pack the thermite into a cardboard tube eh? focus the heat and controls the duration of the reaction
Using the blue laser to ignite the thermite is hilarious for some reason.
Lol, maybe I'll switch it up and use a green laser next time. It'll be pretty funny
Actually there are several formulas for thermite but great video! If you want to get into locks fast I would recommend kidnapping the Lock Picking Lawyer! He might even be able to get you out of trouble after the burglary charge?????
LMFAO "I'm forklift certified" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Bro need s a clay pot with a hole in the middle
Contact DCAU for Batman's voice role. You got it
I did a thermite reaction in a saucepan when I was a kid and it melted the bottom of the saucepan off. I think you need to contain the reaction more, in your setup the thermite is too distributed and most of the moltern iron is lying on the ground around the lock. If you created a kind of funnel using sand to direct the heat towards the shackle I think you would find more success
Wow great video but I think the reaction could be improved by making the size particles smaller the powder you are using came for industrial grade for pigments or additives, if you mill them in a ball mill (you can make it with ball bearings and a can) you can get a smaller particle making improving the reaction, also in the burn of your reaction it looks some spots burn faster than others maybe it needs more homogeneous mixing. Hope to see more of your work
Ceramic cup with a hole in the bottom. Fill the cup with your thermite, place the cup on top of the lock..
All the run off will flow through the hole that should melt the lock..
👍😊
Walter white should’ve just used a lock cutter
Thermite can make a hole in an engine block.
And Thermite is also used to weld rails together for trains.
Something is missing from your application.
Copper thermite is usually used to weld train rails together. I'm using iron oxide like they did in the show. I certainly could've done the experiment better, though
Contain the heat in a form or mold..
I wonder if the rapid heating and cooling of the lock would make the metal interior of the lock brittle enough to pull apart after flash cooking it with the thermite a few times.
I myself am also fork lift certified up to 20k diesel.
Now that's a good idea! Maybe use liquid nitrogen and thermite, as it'd need to cool quite rapidly to get really brittle.
And hell yeah 👍 I have no idea what the limitations of my certification is or what 20k diesel is, but good on you.
Just dumping the thermite on top of the lock isn't going to work, but thermite can easily cut through any lock if used properly.
Thermite is like gunpowder, no pressure no work. Put the thermite in a pipe and put the pipe on top of the lock. Square pipe with a slot will let you cut vertical and create the pressure jet you want.
Yeah, but that doesn't replicate what they did in the show. Then again, neither is what I did. I'm sure it can melt a lock, just not how they did it in Breaking Bad.
Wall-Thermite.
thought thermite eats wood.
I love that drone storm footage at the end, how did you get that?
It's a DJI mini 3. I flew it into an oncoming stormcloud, big mistake, it got very wet. But luckily, it came back all good.
I've looked at the sun
ya think ??? thermite was used to disable artillery canon by melting through the barrel, safe to say it'll melt a lock
Walt's story of how a one-man commando used thermite to disable the Gustav Gun is made up. It was destroyed in another way. That story was just used to show Jessie and the viewers how powerful thermite is. But the way he melted the lock would be utterly ineffective in reality.
Bro you sound like Hunter S. Thompson.
You are seriously underrated... keep up the good work!
I got locked out of my house so I had to break in through the window to get my shotgun so I could blow it open.
You're forklift certified, I will not try this at home
Yo I never thought of using a laser to ignite it! I have a 5500mW Zeus laser and I literally tried it last night after seeing your video, and voila!! Never using magnesium again!
What recipe did you use?
i dont think this guy's looked at the sun
You're damn right
this video willl go viral
Yes it can. Thermite is very potent. Manganese thermite is insanely hot.
I didn’t watch the video cuz I don’t feel like it and I’m eepy. But if he is saying that the shows wrong, he prolly just did it wrong, cuz I think thermite is what they use to melt railroad tracks together, so if it can instantly melt through 2 inch thick steel, then it can melt a lock.
That’s fair, but no, it won't instantly melt through 2-inch thick steel. To join railroad tracks using thermite, a mold is used to contain the heat and shape the molten product. This molten substance includes alloying elements to create the steel that connects the tracks. Instead of directly welding the tracks together, they are separated by a gap that's filled with the molten steel product. Simply throwing thermite onto the track without a mold won't work due to the principles of basic heat transfer. And wrapping some thermite in tape and placing it on top of a lock like in breaking bad won’t cut it either.
Hmm I don’t think you mixed your thermite the best your burned way faster than when I tried mine so I think your burns out before it could do real damage, I heard the Copper Oxides are used instead of iron oxides to weld with thermite, I also suggest adding sulfur and a nitrate/chlorate salt to get a hotter burn. Magnesium might have some effect on the burn temp, I’m gonna try them one once I electrolysed enough chlorate. But very nice video.
If you watch indian workers, they actually use thermite to melt train tracks so they can join them. I highly doubt that wouldn't work on a lock. You must have done something wrong, but I am no expert !
Neither am I, obviously, lol. But copper thermite is used to weld railroads all over the world. I'm using iron oxide like they did in the show. I could've replicated the show better, though.
Thermite may not help you in this situation, but thermate might. you'll have to replace the door after tho
Your laser pointer resembles a 😢 you familiar with the technology? And KS it on purpose??
bro make it with Normal iron oxide and Magnesium
Claro que não vai derreter, o calor está sendo dissipado. Tem que ter um recipiente de barro para que o calor se concentre. É muito jovem, tem muito o que aprender.
Sim, eu tenho muito o que aprender. Mas esse era todo o ponto do vídeo. Eu estava mostrando que a série de TV 'Breaking Bad' estava incorreta e que o termite não poderia derreter um cadeado apenas colocando-o em cima.
@@SomethingAbtScience Ok, desculpe se soou arrogante de minha parte, não foi intencional.
WW não disse com qual óxido ele fez a Thermite, (a temperatura que a reação alcança depende diretamente da temperatura que o metal do óxido exige para alcançar a ebulição), ele conta a estória do canhão Gustav, e prepara um saco com aproximadamente uma libra. Detalhe o cadeado tem um alojamento.
your voice sounds amazing
Your thermite wasn't 99% pure
True, it wasn't blue enough
how don't you have more viewers?
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you ... know how train tracks are welded together... do you?
Nice vid,but this substance is not even close to real thermite
Thanks. And yes, it is. There are many variations of thermite, and they're all "real." This is the most common form, and it's used in the show.
Couldn't do it more wrong.
All the things written below are in fact useless, cause you think a whopping 10g of termite should be enough to melt a lock, otherwise it's all bs, waltuh was wrong and your proof is undoubtable.
If you want to do it properly:
Try making a finer powders of rust and aluminium, and get your ratios right, like molar balanced. Dry your chems. Mix them VERY thoroughly. Get yourself some sort of tube and PRESS your termite there, layer by layer, you should really compress it, and at the end have a nice stick.
That's like, all you need to melt a lock, but that wont allow you to make a loud statement of a popular series bullshitting about a thing you have no idea about
You must be super popular at parties.
cad welding look it up