this video is sponsored by KiwiCo more on that later this is the next generation in actual
high pressure web shooter technology portable powerful superhuman strong and one of three
brand new pieces of sophisticated comic book inspired spider-man tech building these complex
devices was no easy task and this isn't even the first time that i built a web shooter my
first web shooter was a backpack system that held enough hot glue to lift a car yet was lightweight
and ergonomic enough to be worn by spider-man after completing that web shooter i wasn't sure
that there was much that i could do to really improve the design that is until i saw this
on the other side of the earth in our piece of the multiverse is a guy named JT who runs the
channel Built IRL jt is a leading expert in web swinging technology and in his most recent video
he made some truly spectacular advances on the road to swinging like spider-man watching jt
put so much thought and effort into advancing the swinging side of the spider-man web shooter
lit a fire inside of me thinking back on all that i had learned from building all of my hot glue
guns i began to realize that with that great power i also had the great responsibility to continue
the quest towards creating true sticky spider-man web shooters and maybe even something more
i used to think that fitting full web shooter technology onto just your wrist wasn't possible
and then i remembered one of the most overlooked pieces of canonical spider-man tech the utility
belt spider-man's utility belt goes way back to the very first comics and this is where he keeps
his web cartridges among other spidey gadgets in order to properly fire our hot glue web it
needs both heat and pressure and packing both of these into a small package is no easy thing so
once i realized that the secret to keeping the web shooters small was to outsource the heating aspect
to the belt that's exactly what i did in order to understand the heating system we need to first
look at the web cartridges they start out as empty co2 cartridges with a quick disconnect fitting on
one side and a hole drilled in the other the hole size depends on the web you want to shoot tiny
for web rope and massive for web blast i insulated the cartridges with a mixture of high temperature
paint and micro ceramic vacuum spheres each one of these tiny ceramic balls has a vacuum inside of
it and it insulates just like a thermos since the coating makes it difficult to pass thermal energy
in or out of the cartridge i use an induction coil to pass a magnetic field through the cartridge
which causes the metal casing underneath the coating to heat up the cartridges sit
inside of a silicone cup that is wrapped with an induction coil while they heat up from the
inside once they are up to temperature they are ready to be loaded and fired from the web shooter
the web shooter was designed to be simple ergonomic powerful and most importantly look cool
its core component is a co2 bike tire inflator that is lever activated i replaced the lever with
some custom aluminum brackets these rest against your palm and act as the trigger when pressed
co2 cartridges have an internal pressure of about 800 psi once activated the gas leaves the co2
cartridge passes out the side of the inflator and into the pipe that then leads to the quick connect
fitting where the web cartridges attach the web shooter is comprised of two quickly separated
pieces the shooter itself and the wrist mount the co2 cartridge in the web shooter snaps securely
to the wrist mount via a piece of modified pvc pipe the pipe is mounted to an anodized aluminum
wrist plate in between the wrist plate and the pipe is the watch strap bracket
cut from aluminum then bent to secure the strap and embellish the pipe i ultimately chose the
watch strap because it was a simple sturdy and attractive looking mechanism that was already
designed to easily attach to my wrist with just one hand i considered using two straps for extra
strength and stability but the single strap fit perfectly and moved more organically with my body
i love how this turned out because it contains no electronics its simple valve system ensures
greater reliability and the quick connect system allows for the rapid swapping
of a variety of web cartridges even the ones that i haven't invented yet unlike other makers
i don't make mistakes when i build things for instance i'm a very competent machinist
the ideal material-based formulas of feeds speeds chucking and lubrication are like a
second language that's actually more like a first language for me coding the cartridges
was also super straightforward dialing in the proper surface preparation paint selection
coating thickness curing times and temperatures was a one and done oh and the wrist strap design
it just came to me right away i never even thought of trying any other stupid waste of money and time
really it was surprising how easy the whole process was i mean you would have thought that
firing the thing properly would have taken some trial and error or that i would have burned myself
with either hot or cold to the point of permanent scarring but i guess i'm just that good even
getting the web shooter to hold a ton of weight was a piece of cake but you're gonna have to stick
around to the end of the video to see more about that i guess that's why this project was so cheap
i mean when your comprehensive understanding of specialized technology allows you to elicit
the desired result sans malfunction or damage of any kind you just don't run into something
like a bloated materials budget you know which is why i really don't need a sponsor for this video
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building this web shooting system was a slow process of trial and error
piece by piece brick by brick but there's one last brick that we need to lay first brick and building
a very important bridge until now swinging and sticking have been two separate endeavors for
web shooter builders like jt and myself that is until i cut this little piece of metal
this is my first glue anchor prototype and it's a way to harness the strength of even this
small amount of hot glue webbing because it is cut out of metal mesh that is full of holes
it maximizes the amount of surface area that the glue makes contact with vastly
increasing the strength of the bond this anchor is an interface between the rope and the glue
spreading out the weight of the rope onto as much glue as possible this figurative brick
is a literal brick because spider-man swings in a city full of them making it the ideal test surface
and believe me when i say there's nothing figurative about the strength of this anchor
the anchor system held my weight 14 separate times over the course of several days before it finally
gave out if my first prototype performed this well just what could future prototypes do yeah there's
absolutely more that we can do and ever since i got like a taste of swinging like spider-man
for real i would love to have more of that and so getting more developments and maybe just by
a bit of a shifting perspective we'll be able to come up with a whole new way of doing this with
fewer limitations and even closer to the real thing what if i combine
glue anchor and rope into a single cartridge i don't know if it's possible but i definitely
can't do it without you this new web shooter platform would be ideal for prototyping new
cartridges that push closer and closer to the real thing but people like JT and myself
depend on your support to continue this epic journey so please like subscribe and comment
if you liked this video and if you think it's worth taking another step i'll see you next time