We Made Thermite Grenades!

[@AndreiKucharavy]

9:00 - I see the Finish space program is progressing nicely and developed a first stage methane-based thruster…

[@frankfuller975]

🤣

[@codahighland]

Propane-based!

[@scwfan08]

*Finnish

[@UniverseUA]

Fun fact: its common practice to use thermite to burn a tank if you have to abandon it during a battle so that when the enemy claim the tank, all they actually get is some partially melted scrap metal

[@adamb89]

Yep, and the difference between a thermite grenade and a thermate grenade is thermite is designed primarily for antimateriel purposes as you said, while thermate is better used for incendiary munitions due to its explosive properties. Matter of fact, that's what their grenades were made of...thermate. Not thermite. Thermate contains an oxidizer. Edit: The bucket is even labeled "Thermate."

[@kebabchlorate]

@@adamb89the oxidizer is often Barium nitrate "Ba(NO3)2" at least in the military stuff

[@zengrath]

I imagine it's way more thermite then used in this video, i wonder how much is needed and what components they target. crazy though.

[@Xeridanus]

It's also one of the main non war crime uses of White Phosphorous, scuttling your own equipment to prevent capture.

[@azgarogly]

@@adamb89 Termite also contains oxidiser. In case of classic Al-FeO* termite iron oxide is an oxidiser. Reduced iron is a byproduct of oxidation of aluminium.

[@RyanMoser]

Omg the frantic sprint away with the giggling is hysterical. Optimal vibes.

[@TacShooter]

It's like an Edwin Sarkissian video. lol

[@mduvigneaud]

And the roar from the bottle!

[@strongestgamer2501]

Excessive autism

[@daveangels]

So if the FBI comes calling I can quickly light a thermite grenade 😂 sitting on my PC

[@akizeta]

That's what I do!

[@brothernobody1775]

Old school, thermite on the drives saves hackers lives

[@PictishPrince]

FBI won't go where they are, no authority there.

[@TheAnonymmynona]

It would probably be more reliable to mount your harddrives besides the pc and place the thermite directly on them.

[@AllanFolm]

Friction igniter. That way you only have to pull a cord to light it. Saves fumbling around with matches or lighters.

[@charlesstewart9246]

The gas cylinder was EPICALLY AMAZING. You have to do more like that. Maybe a row of them going off in sequence. Thanks for the show,you have a nice day also. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤔😃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@PsychedeliKompot]

Love the data recovery guy bonus clip edited in there! You should do stuff like that more often where you send the results of your shenanigans to professionals to see if they can save/recover anything.

[@psychocuda]

Russia: "We will invade Finland." Finns: "We play with thermite for fun."

[@Torby4096]

They are just reminding Putin of who stands between him and the Baltic!

[@azgarogly]

Also Finns invented Molotov cocktail. And first tested it on soviet tanks. They seem to be a soft constantly bit grogged up teddy bears at first glance. But actually, better don't screw with Finns, might not end well.

[@GlebanBaraban-uy3qe]

why russia bruh

[@azgarogly]

@@GlebanBaraban-uy3qe who else would invade Finland?

[@Torby4096]

@GlebanBaraban-uy3qe History: In the winter of 1938, the Russian foreign minister Molotov ordered the invasion of Finland. It did not go well for the Russians.

[@Yonkage-ik5qb]

Machine-translated the first and last of the letters in Finnish out of curiosity. "Electricity bill past due 15,000 euros" "District court fine"

[@Ceelvain]

Oh yes! The music during the propane tank burn is so cool! It really adds to the stupid epicness. I missed those moments. ^^ Hope we'll get more.

[@Ceelvain]

I start to understand why some say "it's all in the edit".

[@chir0pter]

I love that “run for cover” is a key part of the Finnish incendiary safety protocol 😂

[@dtaggartofRTD]

Can't say I expected the heat pipes to explode. neat The propane tank was suitably epic. I can appreciate the sentiment. Still alive and would prefer to stay that way.

[@marekvojta9648]

Right heat pipes... I though it was a capacittor but on motherboard there are not so big ones.

[@VoltisArt]

The small explosion that knocked the computer off the pole was near the top, where the power supply is. Some PSU's have relatively large capacitors and other parts with the potential to explode when burned or even overloaded during use.

[@leopiipponen7693]

A flower pot and thermite is a better combination if you want to burn a hole in metal and a larger amount will better result :)

[@robertnixon1557]

30 years ago USA government: NO you cant download and read the anarchists cookbook! Today: welcome to beyond the press channel today we are making thermite grenades!

[@Nefville]

The cookbook would tell you its 3 parts iron oxide red to 1 part granular aluminum and you'll need something really hot to start it like sparklers.

[@FluidKaos]

​@@Nefvillethat and a lot of now obsolete phone hacking tools.

[@pirobot668beta]

Most of the 'recipes' were flawed, or missing steps.

[@jessec4677]

@@pirobot668beta Man, I still haven't dried and smoked the banana peels 😅

[@Xeridanus]

@@pirobot668beta Exactly. If you want to learn that sort of stuff, the US military wrote their own manuals for it which is available for free and has all the correct info.

[@mathieumartin9344]

"Dont be where the interesting physics happens" -I think XKCD said this once. Words to live by.

[@JustPyroYT]

8:53 sounds like music to my ears 🔥

[@ruffelhouse561]

For someone who works with explosives, I always find strange when he lights a fuse with a match when we have perfectly good jet flame lighters in this modern age

[@Beyondthepress]

Usually we use electric ignition but we wanted to have some fun and went old school :D

[@ruffelhouse561]

@@Beyondthepress Ha ha fair enough. Great video as always!

[@patrickspapens5497]

Nostalgia is hitting hard sometimes 😂

[@RickD5468]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@ts757arse]

Next time I want to see one of those pecking bird things with a match in its mouth...

[@LeftCoastStephen]

“I went slightly bigger, because, why not? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Beyondthepress]

Just to be sure!

[@albert_vds]

@@Beyondthepress You really need to be sure when it comes to explosions and fire.

[@LeftCoastStephen]

@@albert_vds Obviously from the “If a little is good, more is better, and too much is almost enough” school of thought!!!

[@stewm1267]

Science isn't about "why?". It's about "why not?".

[@robertroy1878]

1:40 Absolute market leader in deleting your mail! LMFAO.🤣🤣🤣

[@cullendarling7916]

She is so cute! I love her facial expressions as he talks. 😀😃

[@DanielWillems1995]

If you put those thermite grenades insulated with a larger tube filled silica sand. Could really direct the heat to where you want it to go. Out the base of the grenade.

[@DanielWillems1995]

Ahh didnt get to the later part of the video, where this was done with propane tank! Good shit!

[@TacShooter]

Thermite Grenades: "Nothing burns like we do." Propane Tank: "Hold my beer."

[@lesallison9047]

He does it, so we never ever have to!

[@VoltisArt]

Heavy metal music has never been a more appropriate companion to video footage than the destruction of that propane tank.

[@jesseshort8]

Perfect soundtrack to the propane tank burning.🤘🏻

[@kma3647]

Loved that propane tank going up! People don't appreciate just how much is actually in those things. Something like this is a pretty impressive demonstration of just how much energy is there. Honestly, this reminded me of images from 1991 when Saddam Hussein lit the southern Iraqi oilfields on fire to prevent their capture during the Gulf War. Those runaway oil wells shot flames into the sky just like this. Those ones had to be carefully extinguished and capped with huge amounts of concrete. This one, fortunately, will just burn itself out.

[@morgan4870]

Reminded me of being a kid. The metal and running on the slow mo brought a tear to my eye. Paljon rakkautta!

[@dennix01]

Finally some decent music in a youtube video. Thanks

[@G0RSHK0V]

One thing Noita taught me is to never trust a propane tank. Great thing you chained it down

[@RichardHartness]

With every video you guys post on the channel, the more I come to realize that Finland is the "South Carolina" of Europe. (As a native SC boy, that's a compliment.)

[@Sniperboy5551]

I was thinking Texas, but hey 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Rennrogue]

The big difference is that Finland has a far better education system, so instead of ignorant crazy fun they have educated crazy fun.

[@jackn4853]

@@Rennrogue And a health system for all the people. Happiest population in Europe possibly the World.

[@Ole_CornPop]

​@@Rennroguethe highest concentration of NASA workers is in Charleston, SC.

[@mduckernz]

@@Ole_CornPopMote a function of the size of the country. Space is expensive, yo

[@SuperAnatolli]

When I was a little brat, me and my friends did similar with mailboxes. But we did not have termite, so we used potasium nitrate, sugar and instant coffee. The coffee is for an added smoke (it smokes a LOT). We got som real "effcient" smell effect as a bonus.

[@cantubloodaxe768]

Lauri, you still got it! That was intense. And the jams. I wrote some lyrics while I watched it burn.

[@toddsommers7993]

They run and giggle like little kids lighting a Black Cat every…single…time… I love it.

[@chevyinlinesix]

This video was AMAZING. The metal playing during slow-mo was *chef's kiss*. The videography, reactions, the sound of the cylinder exploding was intense!

[@OrdnanceLab]

Hopefully, KZbin doesn't give you a community strike about this like they did with us. They removed our video on thermite grenades this past week because they define thermite as an explosive.

[@kaden-sd6vb]

Pretty sure Styropyro got hit for something similar a while back. God I fucking hate censorship.

[@PiotrBarcz]

Ironically thermite is perfectly legal XD

[@Alexandros.Mograine]

There is something inside every man that makes destruction so interesting.

[@petuniasevan]

"Make noise and break things"

[@Kualinar]

Why do you think demolition worker is one of the most rewarding job ? Destroying things is fun, and, you are paid to do it.

[@Tekdruid]

It's actually worse if the tank barrel doesn't melt through, that means all the molten iron is now welded to the inside and blocking the barrel.

[@LightbringerDesigns]

I came here to say this; also, if the Bad Guys don't know you did that, when they try to use it again, first shot they try to fire hits that lump welded to the inside - if the design is intelligent, there would be a plug outside the turret to blow off first & relieve the pressure if the barrel is obstructed. Otherwise, all those propellant gasses will blow back into the turret. Sounds like a Very Bad Day.

[@drstrangefart]

I guess you could say that the SSD was.... FINNISHED

[@wouldiwasshookspeared4087]

:slow clap:

[@darkaxel1991]

The molten steel left in the end of the tank barrel probably wouldn't cause the barrel to rupture. However, that intense heat inside the barrel kills the metal's heat treatment and weakens it to the point it MAY fail. When it comes to disabling artillery and big guns, troops usually go for the transverse mechanism or the breach. Thermite grenades do wonders on those. Getting one on a tank's engine deck can kill a tank, too.

[@MicroRotors]

It would be very interesting if you did the propane tank again, version (2.0), but next time put a scale underneath it to see how much thrust it produces.

[@donniev8181]

You guys running away from the grenades is my favorite part of the video!

[@willkeno]

10:01 fire and heavy guitars ...chefs kiss 🤌

[@FCFDave]

I absolutely loved this video! Only thing that I could wish for would be seeing the copper thermite in a mailbox as well for comparison. Great job as always!

[@JoeC88]

The 'mail' was just as funny as the rest of the experiment. 👍👍

[@bghoody5665]

The slo-mo at the end of the video is amazing!

[@empireoflizards]

That definitely looked like a fun video to make! Well done!

[@lewistasso8866]

More Thermite, more gas, please!!🚀

[@Craider79]

8:38 For a second there - you actually made a mushroom cloud! :-D Good job.

[@ehsnils]

One interesting observation here is that on the propane tank the flame is starting a bit away from the tank. It's about flame propagation speed.

[@danielwaddingham9672]

Y’all are more American than 90% of Americans. And I love it.

[@jepolch]

The propane can was awesome and the soundtrack was perfect!

[@ForumArcade]

I didn't realize thermite was such a simple combination. Sulfur thermite also leaves behind a byproduct which can react with water to form Hydrogen-Sulfide gas, so it's doubly dangerous.

[@kebabchlorate]

And the hydrogen sulfide smells like shit

[@pazsion]

in higher concentrations it burns out your sense of smell... you smell thick shit stop breathing , itll literally take your breath away in low comcentrations... all you have time to do is wtf? unless you know the smell... use whatever breath you have to leave the area... use a balled up shirt or carbon filter if you muat take a breath. but dont stay there

[@henriknykvist]

Can you test thermite grenade vs Russian oil refinery?

[@scotttod6954]

Why stop at one?

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

put them in the mail, print a cigarette box on them, i bet they start it lol

[@anthonyrosati-i2z]

Fuckin democrats

[@t.mendous7922]

Best video of both channels yet

[@ElectraFlarefire]

If you have access to someone who knows chemistry, you can replace part of the thermite mix with plaster of paris(calcium sulfate) and make a castable thermite. The ratios have to be right to make the chemistry right, but you can also change the amount of plaster to control the burn speed. We made a high plaster shell and filled it with a faster burning(low plaster) version that gave us a sort of 'shaped charge' that would considerate the heat in one spot and consume it'self completely over time. Maybe you can have fun with this idea.

[@weedfreer]

Did you make the tubes for your grenades using carbon fibre additive PLA 3D printer outs? Thinking that the added strength that the carbon fibre would provide may increase the compression prior to explosion Hmmm 🤔

[@joemarchinski914]

Love your channel, awesome slow motion footage 👍👍...OLD SCHOOL

[@myrlyn1250]

I'm glad everyone got through that uninjured - propane tanks are dangerous! But, if you want the big boom, put the therm. under it. ;)

[@foundwisdom]

Love these videos you guys do. Destruction and mayhem (controlled obviously) but watching how these things look and work in real life is pretty cool

[@shneewawhoo]

I am pretty sure I saw the tank barrel warp from 1st charge. Front of barrel raised. Great stuff!

[@ZMAN_420]

The Propane Tank was the best, good Music!🤘🏻👍🏻

[@reaperoflostsouls4323]

Can the copper mix be used to fire a cannon, Maybe something you want to try.

[@kebabchlorate]

Way to powerful

[@john-ic5pz]

wow, very nice finale! it would've been cool to have a pressure transducer under the tank because it looked like a bloody rocket 🤯

[@rootbrian4815]

The mailbox was history. The Computer case (and motherboard), it had a trick up it's sleeve: A capacitor grenade. BOOM! Had enough force (thrust) to knock it over! The propane tank was THE most spectacular! What a huge amount of thrust, it would've easily flown a kilometer or two into the air! The steel pipe? Should've sealed the end with a longer fuse! BANG!

[@mikoajpietrych6168]

Now I know why Finns are happiest people on the planet. I would be happy too if I could casually play thermite.

[@Smasharaj]

great video! name of song at the end?

[@zevakikel]

Very entertaining! Thanks for sharing!

[@MercutioUK2006]

6 years of safely avoiding stupidity as you do it SO much better than me! Keep it up :)

[@MG650B]

Anyone looking for the music I think it is Sightless in Shadow - In Darkness (Instrumental Version) which can be found on youtube.

[@MrDavesbronco]

Any way to put a strain gauge under the propane cylinder to see what the downward thrust would be?

[@stoffls]

You didn't mention your usual warning in the video, so I assume it's safe to try this at home? But then I read the description. Really loved the propane tank.

[@lvcifer-cloverfield]

what a beautiful change of pace

[@dennismoro-p2k]

how about an episode on ev thermal runaway? love your channels!

[@ShooterMcNut]

Bro got Hotmail.

[@LightbringerDesigns]

Underrated comment!

[@Monkeyb00y]

Amazing footage. End song?

[@napleswolverine7189]

Did you ever do with termite what it would do to the motor in a jeep or another car and what would it be like a half pound or a quarter?🎉

[@mankihonda983]

3:20 that was probably a wet capacitor popping off. They are like little pressure vessels that are supposed to have a scored end that breaks if they cook off. Oh okay it was the heatpipes from the CPU cooler. Makes sense that it would be more loud bang as those don't usually have an intentional weak spot that fails.

[@wrongusername]

I remember Kevin Rose made a laptop with an integrated thermite charge way back in the day. Cool stuff.

[@stanislavczebinski994]

The stuff exploding on the computer is liquid metal in the cooling pipes. Gun barrels are heat treated to resist the extreme forces when firing a shell - therefore, the extreme heat of a thermite grenade renders the barrel unusable. Greetings from Germany!!

[@pirobot668beta]

Tank/Artillery barrels are heat-treated; thermite would spoil the temper while welding steel/slag into the barrel. Fun times.

[@russbilzing5348]

Since most of your igneous forces are being wasted on the open atmosphere, have you ever tried igniting it from the bottom of the cannister? It seems to stand as as a reasonable method by which to increase the efficacy of your efforts. I am only guessing, but I believe it might be worth a trial attempt. Separated layers of base material might be useful as a test medium, much like wooden barriers are used for bullet penetration tests, but indexed to the vertical. Good video, thanks.

[@ricardoolivares6906]

I didn't know you guys had a second Chanel. I love HPC

[@andyanderson9165]

Great Job!!! That was Awesome!!!

[@Advatar042]

wow that was bad ass!!! you should try it with the bigger Tanks you use for welding.. oxygen, and Acetylene..

[@chadscatharsis3287]

love THE GUITAR RIFFLOVE the guitar riff almost as much as the flames!! If it ain't metal it ain't shit!!

[@RemoteCamper]

What is at the end of the fuse? What are you using to get the thermite to ignite?

[@TimWochomurka]

have you thought about 3D printing these with thicker side and top dimensions and a really weak bottom? you could run the fuse through a copper pipe so it ignites bottom -> up, maybe? I’m not sure, I’m just a random person.

[@xBlackThoughts]

The Last one looks like a Rocket-Engine Test for the finnish Space Program. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@acada6594]

Note for future tests: Point the flame towards the planet Earth.

[@seanman6541]

​@@acada6594 They got bigger goals in mind. Who needs a space ship when you can just push the entire planet around with some big rockets?

[@LoisoPondohva]

​@@acada6594 the point is not to leave Finland, but to move Finland

[@georgevindo]

I still hope to see him test out different pressure cookers with the steam vent closed off. He could compare brands as to which is the safest. This video was good too. I enjoyed it.

[@karlpron]

Nice to see slow motion with proper music. I miss the old intro with Thor's Hammer :)

[@3800S1]

That static test fire of that methane engine looks promising.

[@buzzbrayable]

Excellent video. Maybe try a bigger propane tank or several smaller ones?

[@notold37]

The gas cylinder was freaking brilliant, bloody awesome video guys, just fantastic, cheers from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

[@arthurneddysmith]

For the "tank barrel," part of the problem is that you had the device close to the end of the pipe and most of the energy was expelled. Push it deep into the pipe with a rod after ignition.

[@joshuadbybee4906]

I would have loved to see your pipe/tank barrel over the propane tank.

[@boogerzekesweldingemporium4833]

Well this was good news. I had already scheduled a visit to take my old computers to my local Thermite Grenade Computer Data Cleaning Corporation office but I was unsure how well the process works. Now I can feel confident that my data will be safely erased and not recoverable.

[@scottjohnson7803]

What was that song at the end, please tell

[@hulkthedane7542]

Crazy... and GREAT fun👍👍

[@UncleManuel]

Those tare-mites are pretty effective! 😁😁😁

[@jeremywpg]

Hi lauri..... I am little afraid for your safety to suggest this but... have you thought of an acetylene tank instead of a propane tank?? 😅

[@mankihonda983]

Pretty sure the standard US thermite grenade has barium nitrate in it to prolong(?) the reaction...Its been 20 years since I looked into this stuff in more detail. Basically the grenades were supposed to be used to melt through hardware and destroy important information you didn't want the enemy to find but do so in a semi controlled fashion.

[@kebabchlorate]

The barium nitrate was added to lower the ignition temp which is a very smart idea

[@mankihonda983]

@@kebabchlorate That sounds right. Also gives a nice green hue I assume :D