In today's video,
we're seeing what happens if we run cinnamon,
a highly flammable powder,
through fire at high speeds using our sandblaster.
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Guys, not too long ago,
we did a video showing you some cool things you
can do with cinnamon, throwing it to a fire,
and how it not only burns,
but makes them really cool sparks.
A lot of people commented to see
if we could actually put cinnamon in our DIY sandblaster,
and shoot it through a flame.
So we decided not only that we're going to try that,
but we've also got
a couple other types of flammable powder
that were also going to try throwing in our sandblaster.
And then, we thought we might scale it up as well.
Some of you may remember our fire extinguisher flamethrower.
We're going to fill it with cinnamon.
And the other two powders.
And everything else.
This is just a really high volume of powder at once,
and we want to see how it works.
Here's the basic idea.
We have three different highly flammable powders.
We are going to put those into our DIY sandblaster,
shoot them through a fire, and see what happens.
So I took up our sand blasted into a compressor,
fill it with cinnamon,
maybe build the fire up a little more,
and then shoot it through, see what it's going to do.
Okay, this point, we have air flow,
and I'm keeping the whole thing turned upside down
so that the cinnamon is not flowing into it.
So it should just be air.
I've got it on fairly low PSI at the moment.
Let's just give a blast in the fire.
This is going to be extra oxygen,
should help the fire grow a little bit.
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That looks amazing.
Let's add a little bit more lighter fluid,
because if you haven't seen that other video,
to get that effect from the cinnamon,
that spark effect, it really works better
if it goes through the open flames of the top.
With sugar and coffee creamer, sometimes works better
if you throw it down onto the fire.
But with cinnamon,
you really want to go through the flames.
Okay.
Air compressor with cinnamon.
Come on, cinnamon.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Okay, that's about what I thought might happen.
While it's blowing through,
the volume of cinnamon is pretty low,
and the speed is quite high.
So I think it's just flying
right through without having a chance to catch on fire.
But you may have seen,
when this sandblaster goes, air travels through this pipe.
There's a hole down in the bottom of this pipe,
and the cinnamon should be feeding down through that.
The Bernoulli effect of the fast-moving air
through the tube sucks some of the cinnamon into the tube.
In the process however, it does add a little bit
of pressure into the bottle itself that's full of cinnamon.
And when all of the fast-moving air is turned off,
because I release the trigger,
they're still pressure in that bottle,
and that squeezes it a little bit,
and we have a higher volume,
but much slower amount of cinnamon that then comes out
as that stream of thick cinnamon that you were seeing before.
So there's the high volume,
and then when I let go, there's this secondary slower,
but larger quantity of cinnamon,
and that I think is what's actually catching well.
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Yeah.
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Oh, that looks so cool.
That really look like a cinnamon flamethrower right there.
We're trying this again.
We've turned up the pressure.
Before, we're running at about 25 psi.
Now we're running at about 80.
Ow.
Why would you?
I was just trying to clean the extra cinnamon off my hand.
Ready?
Ready.
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Yes.
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That was like our best one yet.
Oh, I love that.
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Is it pretty much out again?
That is how fast we are going through cinnamon.
And this higher pressure,
those, those spurts like this bottle was half full.
It goes through--
It's super fine so it's not--
It doesn't last nearly as long as like a salt
or a courser grit.
Yeah.
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Here it goes.
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What?
That was a 10-foot purple flamethrower.
Holy cow!
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Yes!
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>> Okay. >> That was beautiful.
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Coffee creamer.
This stuff is fun.
Flares up nicely.
I've got high hopes for this.
Oh, this is going to be beautiful.
Yes.
Yes, it will.
Fill her up.
It also pours a lot more easily than the powdered sugar,
or cinnamon.
Yum?
Mm-hmm.
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That's a really good flame.
But it seems...
I think it's so flammable that is just all burns.
Way too fast.
Yeah, so that's short.
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That's a really good flame.
That looks, it's just like straight-up Dragonfire,
like it goes straight and concentrated,
but it all burns up.
It seems a lot more intense than the other one.
I think it does.
>> Yeah. >> The other ones,
I'm like I'm not too afraid to be that close,
so long as you're not standing in the dust cloud
of the cinnamon or the powdered sugar,
then you're pretty safe.
This one, I would not want to be close to.
All right, so we are mixing all three now,
because we want to know what's gonna happen.
Maybe we'll get purple sparks and intense fire.
Oh, yes.
That'll be neat.
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The cinnamon, of course, has the strongest flavor,
but you get some good sugar, and...
That's why it's delicious.
Yeah.
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I don't really see the purple,
but it's got a good flame,
and it's got sparks from the cinnamon.
That's fun.
I like it.
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Whoa. Okay.
Nice.
Now, we want to try scaling this up a little bit,
maybe not in terms of pressure,
but definitely in terms of volume.
So we're going to be using our good ol' flame thrower
made out of a fire extinguisher.
It's got a Schrader valve on it
so we can add pressure with a bike pump.
We're just going to add powder in here.
We're going to start out with a mixture
that's mostly powdered sugar
with some cinnamon coffee creamer in it.
And I think we'll also try one that's just cinnamon to see
how much of a spray and sparks we get off of that.
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That is delicious.
This one's mostly powdered sugar.
Little bit of coffee creamer and cinnamon in it.
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3, 2, 1.
That was amazing.
This is my new favorite toy ever.
Man, that worked well.
Oh my gosh.
That works so well.
That is my favorite.
Woo!
>> That was-- >> Do it again.
Well, it's empty.
No.
We have to refill now.
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I think we got double
the distance that we had with our small-scale one.
So it was mostly powdered sugar.
So you saw we got some good purple.
Yes, that was gorgeous.
I like that.
And then, we got a little bit
of a sparkling in there from the cinnamon.
The coffee creamer may have helped a little bit
with some more orange or keeping it all together.
That looked really cool,
but I do want to try one that's just cinnamon.
That is a fire extinguisher full of cinnamon.
I've never been so happy.
Which is a weird thing to say.
Not sure if anyone's ever said that before.
For anyone who gets this, today is January 30th, 2019,
and a very certain game is currently at my house waiting
for me to play.
This is my only consolation.
Here we go.
About 99% cinnamon.
Little bits of residue from the other powders in there.
And go for it.
So much sparks.
Yes!
I don't think it burned quite as well,
but the sparks were unreal.
That was crazy.
That was just like a giant sparkly fireball.
I don't really care.
That's-- Ahh, that was amazing.
That's really fun.
I really liked that.
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