They are still coming through!
So in our last episode of make it real
We made the world's first proto-saber and now it's time to test it out
We realize that this blade design isn't quite as durable as we had hoped so we've already come up with a much better design
That's going to be hotter, stronger, and easier to cut through things
But something like that's gonna take quite a bit of time and money to produce
So make sure you subscribe to the channel and enjoy our other content while we develop the world's first
Real lightsaber. In the meantime let's test this out and see what it can do before we break the blade
All right, let's start with something easy a Styrofoam head
It's exactly what I was worried about
So we kind of saw that coming
what happened was the heat actually ate through the fiberglass insulation that we had and then caused an arc between the
Core rod and the wire, which is why it sparked really brightly down here at the wire now
We've tried replacing that section with new Kanthal wire and new insulation and hopefully it works
So we're going to try turning it on right now and see what happens
Now this fix worked the whole blade should start glowing and we have heat at the other end
I
think
That's just a scotch tape all right. It's getting there
Bring me another head
All right the fix worked so we can go back to testing
But hopefully that doesn't happen again because it was pretty tricky to actually fix
Die stormtrooper!
Now this blade is hot Kanthols operating temperatures around 1,400 Celsius, which is almost
2500 Fahrenheit in fact it's so hot it ignites things just by touching... ah!
As I was saying steel melts at a temperature of just over 1300 Celsius and since this saber is
1400 Celsius does that mean we can cut through steel
Now the problem here is metal is a great conductor that means all this heat energy is actually being dissipated by the steel table
But if you have something with much less mass you can cut right through it
Now another fundamental flaw of a lightsaber like this is the total heat input power
This has about 6 kilowatts of heating power, which is the equivalent of about 4 space heaters
which really isn't that much now a plasma cutter could cut through this table no problem
And it's only about 3 kilowatts or half the total power of this lightsaber
But that three kilowatts is concentrated in a tiny point which allows you to cut through the steel
For this lightsaber to have the equivalent cutting power of a plasma cutter you would need to probably have
Over a hundred kilowatts of input power now to provide a lightsaber with that much energy
Some batteries just wouldn't do it. You literally need Tony Stark's arc reactor. Now, let's have some fun melting some everyday objects
Pop bottle
Whoa
I am dripping molten lead, man, Crayola
Weird that bucket of water go I'm sure we put out
Now we actually got quite a few comments on last lightsaber video explaining that basically we built a giant vape coil
Which is true we use Kanthal which is the main material used for heating elements in
vaporizers or east cigarettes, so let's see if we actually just made the world's biggest vaporizer. It'll just
Let er' soak in first then we'll power up
Alright what about... that smells good... This is this is a nicotine free fog juice
Didn't know it was flammable
And there you have it the world's most inefficient vaporizer
And that's our cue to unplug it. Alright so for the final test
I'd like to recreate a scene from arguably the very best Star Wars movie ever produced and of course talking about the Phantom Menace
enjoy
Have you ever encountered a Jedi Knight before son? Well no, but I don't... seal off the bridge!
He's still coming through! This is impossible!
Wait a sec... this wasn't locked
All right, hope you guys enjoyed that but since Disney owns Star Wars now
We thought it would also be relevant to include a scene featuring Darth Disney himself
Kylo Ren
Sir we were unable to acquire the droid on jakku
Not exactly sir, it had help
We have no confirmation, but we believe fn-2187 may have helped in the escape
Anything else? The two were accompanied by a girl
Well we hope you guys enjoyed our attempt at building a real life proto-saber
We do have plans to make an even better proto-saber so make sure you're subscribed with notifications turned on
But it might be a while before that happens. A big thank you to Xcoser costume for providing
The kylo Ren and obi-wan costumes there's links in the description below if you want to get one yourself
Also check out our other make it real projects we take fictional ideas from comics movies and video games and make real working prototypes