Iceman, The X-Man that can freeze stuff! Yes, he can freeze stuff by touching it.
He can shoot kind of boltign freeze rays from his hands,
and of course his most extreme thing is he can turn himself completely into ice. But what can Mr
37-degree body temperature Colin, how am I gonna replicate that? Well of course I have a plan.
Now my first thought was co2. I kind of used this in the freezer wave and it did sort of work,
but if you get a glass, put it there, and then kind of blast it with co2...
Now as impressive that looks, it kind of chucks out dry-ice,
which is very nice. Got a nice little bit of it there.
Now that's all very well, but this is X-Men. This guy freezes stuff just by touching it,
so I kind of want my little adaption to work a bit quicker than that. So although that looks a
kind of interesting, we need something that's a little bit colder than that.
Yes got myself some liquid nitrogen. This stuff's a bit better - 192 degrees.
So what happen if we pour liquid nitrogen into the water? Let's have a crack!
Look at that. Nice and smoking. there you are. now rather than it
just freezing around the top of the glass, it's completely frozen like the top 10 mil
of water inside it. Which is a lot better, so I reckon this is the stuff. OK here's the plan;
we're gonna get some liquid nitrogen, store it in like a backpack, and then we'll have
a tube coming out, come down my arm to my wrist or palm of my hand, so I can be like
Boom, freeze stuff. Now then, how are we going to store it, well the jurors which I must have. It
cost a blooming fortune! Are basically just joined thermos flasks. So we get a flask,
gonna make a little adaption to the top, then a difficulty is like pumping it, because you can't
like stick an oil pump on it, it just freezes, it breaks everything, they seized up, it's no good.
Think simple, we're going to make a little adapter for the top here,
have a dip - which will go all the way to the bottom of the thermos flask. And
then we'll literally just put a bit of air in the top, Compressed air and it will force the
liquid nitrogen down, up the dip tube, down the tube, out to my palm and BOOM! Iceman!
Now what do we need to do? Make a little adapter for the top... let's get on it!
Excellent and after all that elite, it appears there's not enough room for screws
and an o-ring in the top of a flask! So I've made a stainless steel one. I can weld this to
the top of the flask and that's probably a better job. Now just to explain what these outlets are,
we've got compressed air in, we've got a way to fill it up and of course we've got the liquid
nitrogen to come out of it. Now, next I'm gonna need in my backpack is a source of compressed air,
so for that, we're gonna use this, a wonderful piece of stainless! Yeah,
basically we'll make a separate reservoir. So we'll do it similar size to the flask.
cut it off, cap it off, stick a regulator valve on and an inlet valve then the pressure in here will
go through a solenoid valve, can push the liquid nitrogen out, down the tube, out to my hand,
BANG! Iceman! That's next job. Chop and weld, chop and weld, chop and weld it all up.
There we go, it's pretty cool, so we've got our compression cylinder which we can fill
with air or was thinking you could actually put co2 in if we like. Through the regulator valve,
around this tube, down through the solenoid valve, push the liquid nitrogen out, BOOM,
Iceman! Now this leads us on to the next job.
OK so I've got to take the liquid nitrogen from the backpack, down to the palm of my hand. Just
pump it down a tube I said, in reality Oh! So I conducted a little experiment, poured some liquid
nitrogen down a tube and well it kind of did the obvious really it froze it, went super rock hard
and brittle, which is no good. If I'm sticking my arm out to try and free something. I'd like
to still be able to move it around a little bit and not get stuck in whatever position
that turns out to be. So need a different material, something that could take the - 192
degrees and still remain flexible and it turns out that material is motorbike brake
line. Seems to be able to do the job, no idea why but it works, let's go with that.
That's got me tubes, that can either like kind of come under my shoulder and hook under my wrist,
or we can try and route
it through me safety shirt and do it like that way.
Now when I did X-Men Pyro, I added the flame throwing nozzle, mounted around about here,
but I'm thinking this one I want to be a little bit different. I'm going to try and get it to
come out the palm of my hand, so I'm going to make something which can kind of slip past me
hand just there, so this cable will kind of come round there on a little spray nozzle,
so it can be like (tushhhh) and actually come out my hand, rather than my wrist.
There we are, that's my little nozzle done. That will sit there on the palm of my hand,
now next thing we need to do is something to kind of keep it there, fix it in,
and also protect my skin, because like you know when you see people lick lamp posts in the cold,
which people don't normally do, but if they do their tongue will stick to it. That's kind
of the same thing, that will happen with that because that. Cause that pipe is going to get
like proper cold, so I need to make, make a bit of a protection for the palm of my hand as well.
So here we are , here's
my final thing. Now arriving at this concept was a little bit tricky. I tried many other things,
putting them on gloves and stuff and bits and bobs, but it was all just little bit, (woof) down
boy! So I've got this little stainless band. It's got like a neoprene line, to stop it freezing and
sticking to my skin. You put your hand through there, now you could wear a glove of course,
but just wearing one glove would be a little bit, (woohoo!) NO! So, now as far as controlling it is
concerned, rather than on the pyro system of me having like a big switch on the back,
that my wrists clicked into, I've embedded a little tilt sensor underneath this heat ring,
so when my hands like that nothing, lift up freeze! nothing, lift up freeze.
Yes, so that's the next job, it's to make something for the
little cable, which I've put on the end. Connect into a little box with a battery and to wire up
to control the solenoid. Excellent, very neat!
Right I'd say that's done, just got a tidy up, polish it up, and then maybe stick it in a
backpack or kind of give it straps itself. I don't know I've not decided yet. now give it a demo.
I've charged it up with air, so you can imagine we're ready to freeze something. let's turn it on.
Then you like... Yes I'd say that's a win. Now then, next video of course,
we will fill it all in liquid nitrogen, liquid, liquid, liquid nitrogen,
and then try on freeze stuff, that'll be available in this video down here when
it's uploaded. But if you can't wait till then, want to see me make other X-Men modifications,
up here we've got fully automatic Wolverine claws, making magnetic shoes, and wrist mounted
flamethrowers. BOOM! SUBSCRIBE! Don't miss the next video, see you there.... Liquid nitrogen!