whey! Here's a bit of a old behind-the-scenes Invention Show. Now then, been messing around
with some thermite for another project which you'll get to see a bit later on,
but while I was doing it, I kind of thought of the idea of a thermite kettle. So I've mixed
this bit of thermite up, just iron oxide and aluminium at 8:3 ratio by weight, but I did this
particular mix and I used some quite big mesh aluminium so it wasn't as fine as it probably
should have been, and this is interesting because it created quite rubbish thermite,
now for what I was doing previously it was no good, but for this, it's going to be perfect!
So if you were to fill this bit of pipe up with thermite, fill it up.
Normally it would just melt it get rid of it completely, for the kettle that's no good,
but the rubbish thermite just makes it glow really hot so my idea for the kettle was born
so we're gonna put this tube, we're gonna force a thing in the side of the kettle,
make it so we can slide the tube into the kettle with the thermite in. Tighten it up
so it's all watertight and we can light our thermite. Tube will glow red hot and
you nothing puts thermite out and hopefully we can boil it kettle's was worth of water very
quick and give the Kettle run for its money! yes! I'm a genius, I really am!
Now before we get too involved in this, we're going to do a little test.
So I've got a bit of pipe with some thermite in, I'm going to put it in some water out here and see
if we actually starts to boil. I don't wanna make a whole kettle and the blooming thing don't work!
Well, let's have a feel, it's not boiled it, we've had steam coming off it, it's hot! that's hot!
think a little bit less water or a bigger pipe and we're on to something here.
There's a hole in my kettle, my kettle, a whole
Reuined it haven't I. Nooo! OK, so I've got a kettle, drilled a hole in it. We've got our
lovely machine piece of thing, just fell on the floor. Put the two together, weld
them up around there, and then we can slide our thermite cartridge into the kettle,
light it up, boom cup of tea! If there's an award for this,
I'm getting it! Now honestly, I have no idea why anybody would buy in aluminium kettle,
it scratches easily, and when the woman was selling it she said 'you shouldn't
really use Aluminium kettles, they give you Alzheimer's', but she still sold it to me.
All right, there we are. let's give it a bit of a polish and then, we're nearly there!
OK, there we go, nicely polished kettle. Get your tube full of thermite, slide that in the end
there. Get the Nut and Olives, it's on a reducer so it can go through, put that in, tighten that up
and that'll make it watertight like that fuse sticking out the end, put your water in,
light the thermite, boom cup of tea and in hopefully record time. So if you want to see it in
action, there the bit where you click on Furze's Invention show and you'll see it all happen!