Thanos: This does put a smile on my face...
Jairus: Hey!
Riley: Oh my god man...!
Jaiurs: And it starts to burn the steel off.
James: Hey guys! I'm the Hacksmith,
and on our channel we take fictional ideas from comics, movies and video games and make
real working prototypes. Some of our most popular projects have been Marvel
projects, like our original electromagnetic Captain America shield,
his new wakandan one, a real working Iron Man helmet and I've even made a hundred
and fourteen pound Thor hammer out of tungsten.
[Hulk Roar followed by pain]
And of course, Stormbreaker too.
Bring. Me. THANOS! [Lightning strikes]
Now, a few months ago, Riley asked me if he could try making the
double-edged Thanos sword. Naturally I said yes and we're doing it
right this time we're gonna be using real knife steel for the blades and
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Ian: Good timing. James: It was good timing?
Riley: So for the sword design we're gonna take a reference
image of a Thanos statue and just draw around it, for the size we got to scale
it down to my height because in reality it's supposed to be eight foot four, I'm
gonna make it six foot two. After that we got to design the details separately and
then mirror it and it's ready to send to the plasma.
So now that the design is done,
we can cut it out on our maverick CNC plasma cutter
provided it to us by Elite Metal Tools.
Riley: To start cutting press 'Start'
All right, so our parts are done it's been about 15 minutes and now we can
take them off the Wazer and we just got to wash all the sand off.
They came out way better the plasma cut parts
just cuz the Wazer is so much more precise.
Okay so, now that we have all the parts cut out
we've gotta weigh every part and make
sure that both sides are actually the same weight so that when we put the blade
together it's perfectly balanced as all things should be.
Okay, 145 grams, 5 grams, 1 point 16 kilograms.
So for the blade section we're actually using 1084 high
carbon steel now. This is different than mild steel and when we weld it
we need to preheat it first so that we don't thermal shock it
and we get a nice even finish.
Jairus: Riley went home for the weekend so I'm taking over.
I'm Jairus from Jairus of All, Master of None and today we're gonna do some
chemistry together so that we can get this sword ready. Metal ready, for the
sword let's play with some acids.
First of all Riley messed up a little bit,
he welded these pieces together before he removed the mill scale but the
mill scale has to come off of here for us to be able to do anything to this
metal and it's really difficult to remove.
The best way to get it off is to dissolve it.
You can dissolve it very easily with different types of acids I'm
gonna use muriatic acid which is hydrochloric acid mixed with water.
And you can see the reaction happen when I put this acid on.
See how quickly this acid is burning through the mill scale on the steel.
It's made a definitive difference,
if I leave it on there for more than just a few seconds,
I'll have perfectly clean steel underneath.
I'm just gonna wipe it off and put some new acid on,
to finish burning this mill scale off.
And I'm doing this outside because this process
is not a complete reaction and sometimes it gives off chlorine gas.
Which is not really good for you to breathe.
Now that one is fully treated and done,
which only took a couple of minutes
I just need to do three more of them.
Time to put the two parts of the blade together
I'm gonna slip this into the exact right position
so that I can start welding it.
Time to weld.
Anytime you weld long, thin metal and you try to run a bead all at once
it will warp it so, I need to do this in stages with little stitches and let it
cool in between because I need to keep the heat, balanced, as all things should be
in this steel so that it doesn't warp all over the place.
Alright, the swords are all cooled off obviously I clean this one up so you see the welds
that one's still dirty but they're both fully cooled down now and-
Riley: Jairus... Jaiurs: Hey Riley...
-Why'd you touch my swords? -Well before you left for the weekend,
you told me that I could work on this project.
-I didn't tell you anything before I left for the weekend.
-Well I did the fun part I guess you can do the grinding now. Have fun!
-Alright...
Jairus: We decided we're gonna have ourselves a little grinder race.
Angle grinder race that is. We have our respective locations set up and we're
about to do this, we need to clean the surface and put the bevels on.
Ready, set, go! Riley: Wokay, okay, okay!
[Intense music plays]
Narrator: You win! Perfect!
You lose! [Solid snake scream]
Jairus: I just finished, but Riley got done about 10 minutes
before I did but mine's done.
There's a couple little things that need fixed,
re-welded. Let's look at his.
He didn't gouge as deep on his, his lines aren't
straight, the surface isn't evenly cleaned and he doesn't have these bevel
areas between the changes on the blade those lines right there. So I mean in my
mind's I won, but he did finish before me so.
Riley: I don't know man, I'm pretty comfy ever here.
-Alright, so we've got both blades
done and I think that it's time to actually break some stuff with them
because they are feeling mighty solid, they're sharp. Let's get to it!
This one goes out to all those keyboard warriors.
This guy's sharp!
Who even eats fruit nowadays?
You're a pain in the glass- Jaiurs: Riley, move!
-My turn!
Riley: Alright so, I'd say these swords are pretty
tough but they need to look a lot prettier because the Thanos sword is an
ornate sword. Jairus: Time to do some fancy stuff.
-Fancy stuff time.
Riley: Come with me outside.
Evan: What's outback Riley?
-What's outback is we're painting the aluminum side pieces.
Riley: This thing's looking mad tasty...!
Alright so, now we need to cut some slots
into our handle piece so that we can put the
blades into the handle weld it all up it's gonna be super strong.
Alright, this is done we got all our slots made so let's join the swords together.
Jesus that's heavy.
It's a sword now!
Time to put the second blade on.
Oh my god!
How much does it weigh? 29 pounds.
Way under budget we can put more heavy things on it now.
[Yoda Mrrrmm] Owen: *while laughing* Stop!
Riley: To put the finishing touches on we need to do some detail
work so we're gonna do some sort of saltwater etching thing to put these
patterns into the metal but I don't know how to do that.
Jairus: But I do. 'Cause I've done it before.
-What's going on here is we're putting salt water and electricity on the
steel and it makes it go away.
You have sodium chloride which is the salt and
iron and you put electricity on it and just like with electricity something
magic happens and it makes the reaction occur super fast and the steel goes away.
You're basically rapidly rusting the steel. It's kind of crazy and you just
need a DC power supply and apply 32.7 volts or something around there like we are.
And it starts to burn the steel off, if you're ever gonna do this be very
safe you have to either do it outside or in an extremely well ventilated area.
It's bad for you.
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It's done and now it's time to clean it off and see the final product.
That is the metal that has been removed with salt water.
This worked out just like it's supposed to.
this is actually burned down into the
metal so this plate can be polished and that pattern will stay there.
One side of the blade is done,
three more to go!
James: Alright so up until this point
Riley has been able to make all the parts for the Thanos sword in house
using our own equipment, unfortunately the handle guard for the
Thanos sword is a bit too big for our CNC machine so we're gonna be using one
of our new partners: Protolabs, to help us manufacture this part.
Now I first used Protolabs years ago,
when I was working as an engineer it's a rapid prototyping
shop that can produce 3d printed, parts CNC milled parts, sheet metal parts and
even injection molded parts. And their standard delivery time is just three
business days it's also super simple to use. You just go to their website, you
upload your part, you select the process you want to use to make your part and
then you get an automated quote that you can customize and it does a manufacturing
analysis to let you know if your part is actually going to be able to be made
properly. So let's see how they actually make the part.
[Door Bell]
Riley: Oh it's here we, got it.
Here's our package from Protolabs, this should be
the final pieces of the Thanos sword and then we'll be ready to actually put it
together and break stuff.
Oh my- oh my gosh, that is some impressive machining if you
want to take a look at that, oh that is so ridiculously pretty oh there's our
spacers individually zip-locked.
Thanks to Protolabs for providing these
parts you can check them out at Protolabs.com or check the link in the
description below. Alright now let's just do a quick test
fit and see how this looks.
That is a really really nice looking sword.
So now we're gonna go paint it ,
we'll drill some holes and get this thing finished.
And then we're gonna break stuff!
Alright, so I've got these painted in a really nice gold color, it's gonna
contrast really well with the rest of the sword. Watch this part this is the
part where it doesn't fit... Oh it fits!
Alright, first sides done so let's do the other side and then... Yeah.
It's finally done and now it's time to present it to him...
Thanos: But this... Does put a smile on my face...
Alright, Riley did a fantastic job making the Infinity Blade
now we just have to test it. You ready?
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Riley: Thanos does not drink weak alcohol!
Huge THANK you to Thanos- Thanos?