[sneezing]
[aggressive coughing]
[modulated voice] The Modern Rogue makes gas masks.
>> Dude, this is a big one. >> Yeah.
>> Homemade gas masks. >> Yeah!
>> Are you nervous? >> Well, cautiously optimistic.
>> Haha, that's encouraging. >> I think this is going to be okay.
My only misgiving is that all of these ingredients are readily available, and none of them are
terribly exotic. It's really easy to put this thing together.
We got two-liter soda bottles, we got soda cans that it looks like you make the housing
out of, but what's the magic go-go juice?
The most important thing, are the activated
carbon pellets. Now these are what you find in Brita water filters. We got it at a pet store for aquariums.
So this is just from a pet store.
>> Yeah! >> Activated charcoal, now I know activated
charcoal is what they'll give to people who've overdosed, or who have something in their belly.
Yeah, it bonds with the contaminate that you've
taken into your system. The vets often recommend that you give it to a dog if he eats chocolate,
or something else that will make an animal sick.
Theoretically we're going to breathe through this stuff, and whatever the tear gas is...
Theoretically, it's going to filter out all the impurities and we're going to put some
cotton in there to add a little extra layer of protection on top of it.
All right, let's start. Let's just dive in here.
>> Step one. >> Yeah, step one. What you want to do, is you
want to cut the bottom off of the canister. Then the bottom of the two-liter will actually
be the top of your mask.
Okay.
You want it to fit over your face, so you don't want to cut too much. You'll just take
it and cut a rectangle right out of here.
So the idea is, the wide part should be a band across your forehead.
What you want, is something like this.
>> Aaahh, yeah! >> That your face fits into, and you want the
sides to wrap around a little bit.
It's going to work great!
Okay, from the front mine looks like a roman centurion mask.
[muffled] Okay!
See? Is that a fit?
The tape will help with that, but yeah you want to make sure that you get as much contact
with your skin as possible. >> What about, there's kind of a gap up here
and then this is poking in? It feels like the pokey bits are pushing the
mask off my face, so I'm going to try rounding these down.
>> Oh that feels much tighter. >> Yeah?
And in fact- [inhaling noises]
If you have it sealed off and you can suck and keep it in, then I think you've got a good seal.
[inhaling noises]
Oh and you can take the cap and toss that.
So what we're going to do is wrap electrical tape, not only for sealing it up, but just
for comfort, really. So you don't have these sharp edges jabbing into your skin.
I kind of feel like we're the Elon Musks of garbage.
[laughing]
All right, I'm feeling pretty good. It's a tight seal.
The next part is that we want to set up a
filtration system. So what we're going to need to do, is we're going to take these cans
and I was making mine rather long, actually. >> You figure, the more that you're breathing
through the better, right? >> Yeah, and before you cut it, it's a little
easier if you poke the holes in the bottom first.
>> Breathing holes first, okay. >> Yeah.
So you want to get plenty of these in there.
Now you're using a compass, right?
Yeah, just to make several punctures.
So I assume the thought here is, we want enough
that there's a free way for air to flow through, but we don't want so much that the charcoal
can fall right out, right? >> Correct.
>> Is that looking good? >> That looks great.
After that, you're going to want to put some cotton padding in there, you can use these
regular little cotton disks. >> So those pads keep the charcoal from spilling
out, but they also keep you from inhaling any kind of heavy duty, that probably filters--
>> Any particulates. >> Correct.
Yeah. The trick is, though, the more you put in
there, that's another obstruction. >> And so that's the balance, you want the air flow
to be going through this respirator part, not coming in through the sides.
Exactly. We're going to take several spoonfuls of the
charcoal pellets, and just fill them up in the can. And then for extra added measure,
you can take another piece of cotton and put that on top.
You were mentioning that those were difficult to breathe through, so I'm going to try thinning
this out a little bit. >> I went ahead and did the same thing you did,
and just kind of split them in half. And before you tape it all together, go ahead and just
put it up to your mouth and see if you can breathe through it when you put the cotton
in there. >> Try to breathe through this and make sure?
Yeah, I can feel it coming out through the bottom.
The next step, take your can and just place it in there like that.
Do we seal up the top of the can? Or we're not worried about cutting in?
>> You know, I didn't find that that was necessary. >> Okay.
Maybe later I will find that it is very, very necessary.
[laughter] We'll find out!
The key here, is making sure that you don't leave any leaks.
Okay! [pellets rattling]
>> Oh s---, s---! >> Yeah, don't do that.
Here, I'm going to take just a little bit of this cotton and wedge it on top. I mean,
we're going in in a controlled environment, but it seems like if you just want to have
this in your backpack you would want it totally sealed up.
>> Yeah, that's a good point. >> There we go, so in this case I just stuffed
a little bit of cotton in there. >> Now see if you can breathe through it.
>> Brian (muffled): Oh, it is harder! >> That is one of the biggest challenges, is
you have to be really careful about how much cotton you put in there. Because that can
quickly obscure your airway. >> Okay, so it seems like we're just about set.
>> Yeah. >> We've got our respirator part, we've got the
seal on our face. How do we keep it attached? >> For convenience sake, just take a rubber band,
cut it in half. Punch a hole over here. I usually get it up by the temples, just
by the corners where it connects. And just take a rubber band and cut it in half, and
then tied knots at the end and put it through the hole there.
So I guess it's important to figure out the right amount of tension on your rubber bands
to keep it sealed on your face. Absolutely, I mean you want something flexible
where you can just slip it on and off. But I have seen other people who have made fastens,
and clasps, and adjustable belts. It feels like I'm actually going to have to
hang on to it, and keep it pressed to my face. The airway is just occluded enough that whenever
I exhale, air starts escaping the sides here. >> Well, I think it's okay on the exhale, right?
That's probably so, yeah.
I'm taking these two guys, threading them through.
Yours looks a little bit more official than mine.
[laughter]
My plan is not so much for it to work, but for me to look good when my corpse is on display.
[muffled] Oh wow! That's a good tight seal!
>> Oh nice! >> Brian (muffled): Look at that!
That looks really effective.
[muffled] I've got to seal this off.
Yeah, you got-
[muffled] You can hear the charcoal dancing around when you inhale.
[charcoal rattling] Okay, all right. I'm a believer!
All right, I think our homemade gas masks are pretty much complete,
now we get to the brutal part, the testing.
How about some actual tear gas, Brian?
These were available just on Amazon.com, I picked up three of them. These are from Fox.
They're called Five Point Three. The "Five Point Three" refers to the fact that most
pepper sprays are rated about a million or two million scoville heat units, SHUs. This
is like, the most brutal stuff. It's rated five point three million SHUs.
In the event that we have to treat our faces, if it's worse than we thought, if these don't
work, an alleged home remedy is fifty percent antacid like Malox, this is an off-brand,
and fifty percent water. You just spray it in your face and it should, help? Question
mark? They're like fog grenades, you trip'em, you
toss them in, it fills up the room and they come out crying.
It's like a bug bomb, but for people.
[anxiously] Yeah.
I'm going to need some more duct tape.
[tape eject sound]
>> All right, welcome... to my meth lab! >> Oh, good.
[rustling]
We can start by sealing this up.
I feel like we're about to commit a murder. [stapling into wood]
>> Jason: We just dug our own graves, didn't we? >> Brian: I mean, this is a thing, right?
I can't think of a place more effective, than in here. We essentially have no ventilation,
we really are just relying on our homemade, janky gas masks.
Code word! If we come running out and pull off the masks crying, it means it didn't go very well.
Fox, Five Point Three, and nothing but our
janky-ass homemade equipment to save us.
>> Brian: Modern Rogue test of the tear gas grenade against the homemade gas masks.
[click of grenade cap]
>> Brian: Attempt one.
[jettisoning spray]
Jesus, hah!
>> Jason: Oh, yep, it's- oh it's very bad!
It's very, very bad!
>> Brian: Oh god, it is burning.
[Brian lightly coughing] >> Jason: I need to get out, I think.
>> Jason: It's terrible, yep.
[coughing] >> Brian: If you breathe very slowly--I got a leak.
>> Jason: It's not good!
And I think I inhaled lava.
>> Brian: It's not ideal, but uh, hey we're doing it!
>> Jason: Breathing slowly works, man!
>> Brian: Yeah, you gotta let that charcoal activate. I can't believe it works!
>> Jason: I know!
>> Brian: Oh my god, it's getting better.
>> Jason: Yeah!
[laughter]
>> Brian: Holy crap, holy crap this works!
>> Jason: Are you not entertained?!
>> Brian: Five point three million scoville units!
[coughing and rustling]
Oh! Oh man.
[coughing and exhaling] I can't believe that worked.
The worst part was, yeah if you breathe too quickly it started burning my throat, and
it tasted terrible. >> Well, and it is, I still feel a little bit
of the burn all the way down my throat, but when you breathe too quickly you could hear
all of the charcoal rattling around and you could tell it wasn't binding to the capsaicin.
>> Yeah. >> And there was a brief moment of panic, when
I hit it at first I was like, "I can't do this. I gotta go, I gotta go. I gotta go."
Oh I almost called it, but right now when I took the mask off I immediately felt it
like stinging my face. My hands were fine.
Yeah, dude, I mean I'm not going to touch my face or nothing, but-
>> Oh I've been touching my face. >> I mean, I'm going to call it. That's a success
for the homemade gas mask. I've not seen anybody stand up to the five
point three mil before. >> Have you seen any videos of it taking people down?
Oh yeah, no, it's brutal. You see big, tough bouncers just crumble before this stuff.
[aggressive coughing]
Okay, well that answers that! [coughing mixed with laughing]
[sneezing] Oh my god, I just walked in there and it destroyed
me. That's just the residue left in there. >> I stood by the door as your were opening it,
and that was too much. >> All right, well I'm going back in!
Bye!
[tape ejection sound]
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