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On the last episode of Make it Real we made this awesome full metal Iron Man gauntlet,
but what makes an Iron Man suit an Iron Man suit is the tech
that goes into it.
So on this episode Make it Real we're gonna be trying to
make Iron Man's wrist mounted cutter.
Now in a movie it seems like it's some kind
of laser, but the problem is lasers don't really work like they do in the movies.
So we're gonna use a different technology that'll let us cut through
steel just like butter and that technology is a plasma cutter.
Now this projects actually been on our list of things to do for a really long time
but Bogdan recently saw it was like it sounds like an awesome project we should do that.
So I'm going to let Bogdan take it away.
Wait? Me?
Now you might be wondering what is a plasma cutter?
Well plasma is simply the fourth state of matter.
Basically a super heated gas, and a plasma cutter is a machine which
is able to create plasma by using compressed air and a high energy power source.
This plasma being over 20,000 degrees Celsius is actually hotter than
the surface of the sun allowing it to cut through metal.
I can't believe that's not butter.That's half inch steel plate but we don't wanna
think of part of our plasma cutter so I'm gonna go pick up a new one.
I just picked up a plasma cutter that we're gonna use for a plasma cutter gauntlet.
Alright it's all set up. Let's see if actually cuts.
The plasma cutter works great but unfortunately we have to plug it into
the wall to make it work and it'd be pretty silly if we had to
plug our Iron Man suit into the wall.
So step one we're gonna take it apart and
see if we can make the whole thing run on batteries.
Now that I've got the plasma unit disassembled I've done some reverse
engineering and I think I figured out how it works let me show you.
We start off with an input of 240 volts AC which gets rectified and filtered into 288 volts DC.
Then we use an IGBT age bridge to create post AC which passes through the
three to one Torro transformer in order to step up
the curtain and step down the voltage.
Finally that gets re-rectified into
pulse DC and outputted to our plasma cutter nozzle.
Theoretically that means
we should be able to bypass the entire AC system and feed it 288 volts DC,
but in order to get a high power output we need a high power input.
To do that we're gonna be using 12 of these Tattu Gens ace lithium polymer batteries in series,
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If you'd like to see how our circuit works, we've actually got a full circuit diagram
available on Maker.io in the description below.
Time for testing.
It's very important to have the dead Bogdan pokey stick.
Battery powered plasma cutter.
Alright while Bogdan finishes up with electronics of
the plasma cutter I'm gonna start working on the other half.
You see for a plasma cutter to work the circuit needs to be completed
which means you need a grounding clamp.
In this case what we're gonna do is we're going to turn one of
our hands into that grounding clamp.
That way you'll be able to hold the door or whatever you're cutting
and then cut through just like that.
So we got a nice welding glove,
got a whole bunch of wire,
and some washers somewhere. Here we go.
Let's get started.
Alright so that's basically what the palm is going to look like.
Now I just have to fold the wires over to the other side.
I want to make sure this stays in
the same place so I'm actually gonna fill the inside up with superglue.
Now we just have to mount this terminal block on the back like this, bring these wires in,
and we'll be good to go.
Alright that's looking pretty good.
Now so have to connect the actual grounding
wire to the back of this block.
We're gonna have to figure out how to fit the nozzle into the gauntlet.
Let's start by taking it apart.
Here's a disassembled plasma nozzle.
I'm gonna model this in SolidWorks,
then 3D print a nice little case and mount it into our plasma gauntlet.
The new body of the nozzle seems quite sturdy.
Next we have to figure out how to
make it extend and retract from the plasma gauntlet body.
To do that we're
actually gonna use this low-profile pneumatic cylinder which is actually the
same one we used in the wakandan shield two years back.
This cylinder is quite
thin and it's got a rectangular board which will simplify the design significantly.
It's time to mount it onto the gauntlet, throw the plasma cutter
into a backpack, and get to testing.
Instead of using this bulky old enclosure I've got a nice new stainless steel one,
to package everything and make it more compact.
This is a high pressured air tank.
Which we're going to use in order to
make the whole system portable.
However we can't get a re-filler during the quarantine
so instead we'll just be using standard shop air for the first tests.
Alright air lines hooked up,
all the batteries are plugged in.
It's gonna be the first bench test.
So first we'll test the extension with cylinder.
Full extension.
Now I'm going to do the exact same thing with the system powered up.
Fingers crossed.
Let's grab some more scrap metal.
How about some quarter-inch plate?
Think it can cut quarter-inch Bogdan?
No problem.
Alright so in the last episode when we made the gauntlet,
we showed that you can just grab a sword with the Iron Man gauntlet
because it's got the chainmail glove.
Now he can also cut through it!
That's my nice sword Bogdan.
Here you go Bogdan!
Yum.
I got to try this thing myself.
Alright this is freaking awesome.
I feel like Iron Man. I mean look at this!
Alright now you might be wondering does this actually have any real-world applications?
Well I'm glad you asked.
Let's say you accidentally locked your
shipping container and you lost the key.
What do you do?
Are you still using boring hand tools?
Look at that, piece of cake.
Power tools letting you down?
This works too!
Look at that perfect hole.
Bogdan! Bogdan!
What? Why wouldn't we use anything but this?
Okay this is literally designed for cutting metal Bogdan.
Why would you use a shear?
The problem in today's society is
everyone's preoccupied with building walls and fences to keep people out.
Which is really, really unfortunate.
You know Iron Man's supposed to bring people together.
Which is a good thing because no fence can stop me now.
As you can see no fence to stop Iron Man.
My god!
I can make another gauntlet!
I can use the gauntlet to make the gauntlet.
We use the stones to destroy the stones.
Now I've seen lots of Youtubers break into locked safes,
using power tools.
Why would you use a power tool when you have this?
Is that a paper swan?
Now really what we've created here is actually super useful for like search and rescue.
Cutting through wreckage, locked doors, etc.
Or in our case breaking into the hardware store next door at 2:00 a.m. because we
need some parts.
Just kidding it's not the apocalypse yet and looting is wrong...
but I really do want to cut through a steel door.
So we made one!
That's friggin awesome!
Alright this wouldn't be a Hacksmith test video if we didn't test our project to
the absolute limit.
So we've got a scrap car here.
It's a Chevy Impala and I'm gonna give it a sunroof,
and then maybe cut in half. We'll see.
Oh
Alrighty here we go!
Sunroof!
Ha! I am victorious!
Alright until we build the rest of this suit and I'm able to fly...
might as well use the car!