How to Make an Alcohol Mortar Launcher

[@daviddietrich9449]

I really wish we had KZbin back when I was growing up. I could definitely see my friends and I building a few of these and giving our parents a few more gray hairs.

[@adamyasingh3713]

Intresting, I have/had KZbin but no Friends

[@thelethalpredator672]

I have youtube and friends, but none of my friends are stupid like me to do this lol, so I do it with my older brother and dad, or do it with my brother while dad's at work, and then tell him later, cause half the time when I ask him then he'll say no, so I just do it and tell him later lmao, I used to do Co2 "grenades" Used Co2 cartridge, drill a hole in the top Then take sparklers break off the outer powder, put the powder in a blender you'll need probably 30 sparklers per, then poor all into the cartridge, and after that put a 45second fuse in the hole, and then wrap it 6-8 times with electrical tape... put it outside light it and run behind cover and I mean run at least 45 feet away just for safety, we ran about 30 feet away and behind a car, but yeah its very loud so if your in an urban area don't do it, only in a rural environment where neighbors don't mind what sounds like a 12Guage X 3, but with the effect of a firework mortar on the ground, get behind cover cause we recovered shrapnel from the cartridges... if you do this please be safe use a longer fuse if need be, but if you don't have the means of safety it could cost your arm or life

[@Howhungry1234]

@@thelethalpredator672 Pipe bomb moment

[@YourLocalIndieDood]

do it anyway

[@mawi4112]

i wish we wouldn’t have to adhere to the law as much like back then due to protective parents

[@SpecificLove7]

Very cool way to use plastic bottles and PVC. Wish I had thought of that.

[@karanchandra2491]

Yea throwing at neighbors house

[@Eyes0penNoFear]

I built something similar to this before KZbin was a thing. It was a tennis ball mortar using 3 Pringles cans taped together, and powered with lighter fluid. We had some really fun times with that thing!

[@johnshea0905]

How did you build that?

[@igor30]

Cool mortar. Try to shoot something that will tear a plastic bottle in the air.

[@colossalproductionsmeme4906]

Fr

[@ucitymetalhead]

I made an alcohol fueled mortar as a kid though I used the bottle for the explosion and old co2 cartridges for ammo. How I'm still here is a mystery.

[@JimDog794]

Congratulations. We all just made it to a government watch list.

[@crisprat5004]

I'm currently building a Halo SPNKr rocket launcher based off of this; mechanically it's two of these in a big shell

[@SuperJorai]

please load that one up on YT if you're done :D

[@Rick_Sanchez_C137_]

Video,or it didn’t happen...

[@AssassinRainbow]

Through some of my own trials I have figured out that one this works the best in warmer weather and secondly that denatured alcohol increases range and speed dramatically.

[@alltime10s]

Very cool!!!

[@MRBAdventures1]

hi i love you

[@blackburgundy1659]

whoa

[@nothitler4327]

take him out for dinner first, man.

[@vdreeh8601]

ayo

[@CarlosRodriguez-dd4sb]

I remember making something similar as a young kid growing up in PR - except we used cans taped together and fired tennis balls. This looks far nicer and safer - thanks for the video!

[@rickcoona]

Reminds me of my old *"Beer can Mortar"* I made using a length of seamless steel tubing, back in high school in the late 1970's

[@moonstryder1740]

Oooh please do tell more

[@proto6086]

I need a version for small molotov cocktails. Just for fun, it would be cool

[@Perktube1]

I knew someone who did a similar thing but with steel cans and tennis balls. He cut the tops and bottoms out of four cans and set them on top of each other connected by duct tape. he put a fifth one on the bottom but left the bottom on and cut a quarter-sized hole in the top. He then drilled a tiny hole on the outside bottom of the bottom can. He stuck a tennis ball 3 cans deep from the top and put 3 drops of lighter fluid in the tiny hole, then rotated the whole thing until it evaporated, 20 seconds i guess. Then he set it straight up and put his lighter to the tiny while. UP went that tennis ball around 100 feet or so!

[@Coloradohomestead22]

Perktube1 my brother and I built exactly what you are describing when we were kids back in the late 70's, early 80's. It was a blast, pun intended.

[@ArbJunkAgeG]

Your sponsor introduction is prolly the smoothest/most professional of all youtube celebs.

[@justahappyfellow]

Awesome man. This was exactly what I was thinking when I saw the first video. Next stop, RPG-7 version.

[@renzbenjaminrsawit2641]

Im watching it bcs most of the time me and my bro is home alone and its for defence bcs some people go to our gate so maye it's time right?

[@turntable2]

Now I wanna see a bottle rocket filled with paint that explodes midair, thus raining droplets everywhere. Might be hard considering possible plastic shrapnel flying everywhere.

[@DxBlack]

Plastic shrap' that high and of that thickness isn't harming anyone. The fragments would actually float to the ground...

[@astralguardoriginal]

Anti air gun

[@Obsiqax]

All your projects are so cool, I'd love to make these when I get the money.

[@scrapi2012]

I hate those tutorials which say "And how to make this you can see in my earlier videos" then i have to watch 10 extra videos to build this.

[@Nighthawkinlight]

madroce Don't whine. It's one extra video, and you don't even need to watch it if you pay enough attention to this one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rabdYZarp8eSnsk

[@Frau61]

+madroce more clicks more money

[@jmgriffith424]

madroce u couldn't figure it out from watching once it's a simple thing the static spark from a BBQ lighter with alcohol vaper in a compressed atmosphere creates explosion=thrust the PVC cannon was just for looks and also directional

[@terriblegoatman826]

Now I can pollute the ocean from a distance!

[@ivory231]

Say goodbye to recycling with the new pollution mortar!

[@pyrosimple]

You could try making one that shoots pressurized bottles filled with BB's which explode on impact, that way it would be like a real mortar!

[@benryangarcia]

Personally, I would prefer not to loose an eye.

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

I plan on making one that will fit tennis balls for my dog.

[@killakanjo7748]

I just made a shoulder mounted version of this launcher, I modeled it after the LAW and it works pretty good.

[@AslanAtreyu]

Littering like a boss!

[@trevorgritz5321]

You have the perfect voice for what you do. Tutorials

[@catch262]

This has the makings of a really great outdoor game!

[@tomwolfe6063]

There is an easy way to make the bottles fly straighter and look a lot cooler. You use the cap attached to a cardboard roll. Drill as large of a hole as possible in the cap and hot glue the roll to the outside. Then, make some fins and attach them to the roll. You can make them straight or offset to impart spin. You will have to add a little weight to the nose. A couple of pennies and hot glue works fine. Paint it all OD green and stencil some yellow numbers on the side. They end up looking like real mortar rounds.

[@markowease9947]

I've been watching this guy for quite a while now if you don't like his videos and don't watch him . But they're very good and informational.

[@OnlyNotes]

2:15 Wow, that drill bit has seen better days...

[@dangerdoberman]

This was recommended to me in 2021. Amazing.

[@davidharris9077]

Very cool. Did anyone else ever make tennis ball launchers using soda cans taped together. This was before they were made of aluminum and the ends weren't tapered . The propellant was the old BBQ lighter fluid . Anyone else old enough to remember when you squirted the charcoal, backed away and threw matches at your grill and.......whoosh.

[@SLP-zs8et]

OMG! Thats the coolest thing i've ever seen on youtube, dang, i love all of tour vids

[@gnomologist]

Made one like this when I was a child. Nearly blew my hearing when I once fired it with carbide instead of alcohol as before. The bang could be heard in the whole town.

[@stormtrooper9839]

Now I can finally use this during a nerf war

[@JamesBritemusic]

I've been watching this guy since i was 7 years old man its been 10 years!

[@13andsim]

Very awesome idea! You could also possibly install a protractor and string with weight somewhere on pipe to get a rough sighting/trajectory path too (do you think?).

[@Mikey8567]

Idea: push the whole thing down a little deeper add a 1/2" piece of foam (cut a disk out of 1/2" think foam) then insert a water balloon filled with paintball paint mix (you can buy the powder on the web and mix with water). The bottle would more or less be the propelling force to launch the paint balloon at other players that may be hiding out in a fort or such.

[@kgraebes88]

i am so making one for my airsoft team! this was an awesome video! :D

[@deadmike73]

did you make it? did it work? im thinking about building one too,for airsoft.

[@kgraebes88]

yea! it works great if your field allows it.

[@dantebarchiesi3781]

I clicked on this just to do that 5 years later!

[@happy_dutchman]

Thats where we all came for

[@happy_dutchman]

Can you shoot smoke granades?

[@syork24]

Very good information for an armed homeowner. Thank you.

[@loyseugene]

just had a thought. once fueled and placed on the launcher how long would the bottle remain fire-able? For airsoft/paintball combat you could make an RC version with a cheap RC receiver and remotely trigger a multi-launcher version.

[@Nighthawkinlight]

Should be good to go for at least an hour.

[@marq666]

Awesome! I'm totally making this with my son asap. he'll love it. Maybe some paint and extra detail to the mortars. simple to build. Thanks for the idea!

[@johnshea0905]

It seems kinda hard to make

[@omgwtfkthxbai]

OMG i could just see myself with a backpack full of bottle mortars and that tube slung over my shoulder! Red team would soil themselves! XD

[@albertpolak786]

I thing that little bit of soap will make it easier to insert the noodle. Cool project!

[@steveyork8069]

Back in the day of steel pop cans we would make tennis ball cannons.The bottom can just needed a hole punched into the side near the bottom for the hairspray which was the fuel.The middle can was turned upside down and the bottom cut out inside the steel lip those cans had and the third can just needed the top and bottom cut out the same way.Duct tape the three cans together drop the tennis ball in and it would sit on the bottom of the middle can which is actually the top part of the can with pull tab pulled of corse spray in the hair spray in the hole you cut on the bottom can hit the same hole with a lighter and the tennis ball would blast out of site it was very impressive.

[@jjohnston94]

I've discovered that with aerosol-fueled potato cannons, you have to fire immediately after loading or you get an underpowered dud, probably because the droplets of fuel start to condense out right away. Does the same thing happen with alcohol, or could you, say, load up this thing, walk around a while, and then expect it to fire reliably?

[@ddoherty5956]

Not sure why my brain immediately went to scaffold poles and petrol, sometimes I scare myself 🤣🤣🤣

[@francisconti9085]

The bureaus of alcohol toys & fun got together to enjoy this one!

[@CoffeeConsumer643]

I want see bazooka style bottle launcher

[@Nighthawkinlight]

You can take the stand off easily enough...

[@francescoquadrio5824]

Slaughter round the colour is not that important, just think how cool it would be to put some fletching, a longer barrel and first of all some more weight on the bottle: a lot more range. or you can tie explosives to the bottle and weaponize the concept, thhough i'm sure firecrackers would be fine too. by the way, i know that nighthawkinlight is into pyrotecnics, ever considered to use theese things to propell something up in the sky?

[@Jesses001]

I made something like that when I was rather young, though I used solid state rocket fuel rather than alcohol.

[@AdelieDoo]

Actually you can do that just remove the stand and put some ADS on the front and its a L.A.W launcher how epic is that. And before i miss in our country this thing is called BOGA i dont know why:-)

[@natacharoshell]

Yeah that would be very cool😉

[@smiley3012]

thats pretty cool. when I was a kid we would get soda cans (back before cans were aluminium ) take 4 tin soda cans the bottom one leave alone the 3 others cut out top and bottoms tape all together make a small hole in bottom can near the base. lots and lots of tape. electrical tape works well. then put about 3 drops of gas in the top part and 2 drops gas in the bottom hole. Then shake whole thing like he does with the bottle. to vapor the gas. drop a tennis ball in the top and light the bottom hole with a lighter. and boom the tennis ball goes a good 100 yds. For night time we would soak the ball with a little gas and fire ball time.

[@OddJobEntertainment]

Dang I don't think I've watched a video from this channel that I haven't wanted to implement myself. Well done.

[@Buzzhumma]

Don’t you go and break a ants toe with that thing ! 😂

[@harmoniefullautomatique]

i just made one ! no bipod and more like a rocket launcher handheld style. works flawlessly !! i totally love it ! thanks for the video !

[@axi0838]

Love your projects man, keep up the good work!

[@Perktube1]

I know of someone who made a tennis ball launcher out of five steel Gatorade cans( maybe Nutrament shake cans can be used). He cut out the top and bottoms of four of the cans and stacked them with the onset can on the bottom, and duct-taped them together. Then he bored a hole on the side of the bottom can near its bottom. He stuffed a tennis ball three cans deep, then put three drops of lighter fluid in the bored hole. He retired the whole tube so the lighter fluid would vaporize, then he set the can straight up on the ground and light his lighter near the bored hole. I heard a giant THOOM and the tennis ball mustve gone up over 100 feet.

[@NoMoreVoxPops]

Very informative. A simple yet effective design. Thank you. Incidentally, what height can you obtain from a bottle when released from the launcher?

[@greglambrecht1803]

As a former 11C 120 Mortarman, I approve this video💥🤘😁🤘💥

[@billlaird7332]

All pool noodles are not the same. In gathering materials for building one of these, I was at the local ACE Hardware, and they had pool noodles in several colors. I measured the diameter of them and found they varied by up to a 1/4" by color. The orange ones were exactly 3" diameter and slid perfectly into the 3" PVC pipe. Your mileage may vary.

[@butchssurvivorranch360]

Everything is on the previous video 😂... why am I watching this then 😅

[@captaindookey]

I made one styled after the RPG 7. It worked a few times but requires eye protection because gas tends to blast back in your face. Also it was too small and hairspray is not a greatly reliable propellant. The hard part is making it visually pleasing.

[@h.s.thompsonduke8105]

Soup cans, duct tape, zippo lighter fluid, and tennis balls. Good fun for 13 year Olds in 1973. Not a new thing.

[@swankscabinet1625]

Just updated and refined a little. Still a cool idea though

[@ReffaDay]

When I was younger I made one that shot beer bottles and used black powder. Put duck tape on the bottles so they wouldn't break, could get about 100 yards with two tablespoons of powder.

[@patrickemery5077]

This would be fun for airsoft and it would be a much safer alternative for the commercially sold airsoft mortar. I need one of these before I start my airsoft event business

[@Tac0Tuesday91]

Careful this is illegal in some states

[@esra_erimez]

I'm a time traveler from the year 2021, your voice changes a lot since this video.

[@AbhinavSubramanian]

"The 21 Gun"- I see the Green Day reference.

[@sergalcube1003]

This would be so fun for airsoft! Put a capful of alcohol in each bottle to prep them and store like 30 in a backpack. Spray paint em to look like mortar rounds and give em fins

[@samueltehbengtiong6800]

Hi Night,I'm ur fan in Malaysia,my birthday is coming,can u make one of those for me?I like that.

[@heiyatwong08]

For every protester ,your every single video make they have a chance to fight back ,thank you

[@lewis2553]

Looks good as long as no one thinks of modifying it to launch Molotov cocktails. Oops, did I say that out loud? Forget you heard it.

[@r1cebo130]

This guy would be prepared for the zombie apocalypse

[@haroldkerwinjr3026]

When i was a kid a friend made a coke can cannon. Taped up coke cans using lighter fluid to launch a crushed coke can. I like this better.

[@d3athl0rd88]

I'm going to make this,but as a 2 handed paintball rocket launcher and mortar hybrid,and might even make some bouncing Betty's!

[@drewundersmoke3512]

Long-Range Anti-Infantry Littering. Hahaha this is really cool though

[@zulufoxx3829]

Now THIS is outstanding!!!!

[@papun5880pr]

You can cut the bottom of the bottle and leave the cap. Put some FOAM on that end and it will have a more stable flight. And if you push it more inside the pressure will be a little stronger. Just an idea dude.

[@VisualBasic6]

yet one other amazing and easy project you made . good job bruh !

[@Ozzy3333333]

In the 80s we made tennis ball cannons and using gas, was getting ~175 yards. Neighbors didnt like the boom, haha

[@DANVIIL]

Just a quick note, you can bend the low carbon steel stand without any heat in your vice. Just bang it with a hammer. Good job!

[@mosellakepoint9088]

If there was a way to use a two chamber glass bottle, you would have a nice Molotov delivery system.

[@bradsuhr7538]

I never make any of the creations kipkay or grant thompson makes but the projefts are fun to see

[@bradsuhr7538]

*Projects*

[@haydenfrost2692]

Hey night hawk try making a Gundam suit for airsoft and paintball. I bet That'd be a fun challenge for you

[@MrSMAN98]

Is it possible to make rocket, that can be fired out the mortar, that also explodes upon impact

[@jimbob7568]

You could, but it would be far too heavy to be thrown a safe distance, if at all by this

[@spectrerevenant7655]

Perfect method of getting rid of bottles to neighbours backyard 🤣🤣🤣 - kamran tony

[@VivaGamer1]

Lol i don't have Any of those tools except the bottles :P hahaha

[@paulrichards2365]

Yeah, I think I missed your previous edition. It looks like a lot of fun - for a grown man...

[@KennAirsoft]

Frat parties are about to pop off LMFAOOO

[@FigmentVFX]

It would be awesome if you could somehow combine this with dry ice so the bottle explodes after you shoot it. Would be great ambience for airsoft/paintball! :D

[@jakelakota3010]

That sounds like a pop gun compared to my propane potato launcher. BWAHAHAHA!

[@SNAZZYWOLF225]

Can you make a shoulder fire version with a handle please:)

[@gunfumaster1024]

That's what I was thinking.

[@tomsRecovery]

you should make one where you can drop it in and if fires automatically like a real mortar

[@renzbenjaminrsawit2641]

I was trying to find it's been four years in you comment did you already find

[@renzbenjaminrsawit2641]

Im finding the one that when you put it, it launches automatically

[@tomsRecovery]

@@renzbenjaminrsawit2641 bro it’s been to long

[@marq666]

My son and I made one today. ours is a rocket launcher style. I couldn't get it to work with alcohol but from reading through the comments I'm thinking it was too cold? In the 50's today. I did get it to work with butane from a bic lighter.

[@shommershabbots9862]

Marc B what size soda bottles did you use?

[@shommershabbots9862]

Marc B okay thanks. I was using 1qt or 33oz bottle, didn't fit.

[@jacobriddle7230]

Marc B lighter fluid

[@Copper.Cowboy]

Hair Spray

[@jarnodatema]

I'm going to use this to kick ass at a snowball fight

[@SavvygeMediaGroup]

any resistance fighters remember this. This plus a warhead containing a 22lr primer + an amount of flash powder

[@gardenofnightmare]

that 18 wheels of steel music though :D

[@kilijshark7667]

I actually had an idea of making a pop bottle mortar like this one but have the bottles filled with pop and a nail or tack at the bottom of the mortar barrel to puncture the bottle lid. Thanks!

[@philippmuller-litz401]

put in glass bottles and you have an extremely effective AA gun :D

[@CaptainGuntu]

Now if there was just some way to launch a large paintball so that you could get 'shrapnel' wound effects on enemy combatants.

[@DxBlack]

Water Ballon-like membrane container and low-power firework on a fuse?

[@conrailfan6277]

My friends and I used to build tennis ball cannons out of 5 pork and bean cans and use Zippo lighter fluid to set it off, they could launch a tennis ball so far up you couldn't see it at the top of its flight!!!!

[@TopLifeHacks]

Finally I'm in the 0-300 views club :D

[@EnderMalcolm]

So, would you consider 3D printing some more areodynamic rounds now, since 3D printers are around? A heavier object would be blown off course less, and would still hold enough alcohol vapors to fly a good distance.

[@Nighthawkinlight]

That wouldn't be a bad excuse to get a 3D printer. I'll have to think about it

[@chokamano]

should make a mold to fit on soda bottle...melt some aluminium for extra weight (farther range purpose).

[@hayfry9352]

I gotta make this into an airsoft RPG or maybe even a smaller shotgun version