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

[@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.

[@Flandersfieldscollector]

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!

[@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.

[@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...

[@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!

[@Justafewanimals]

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.

[@Obsiqax]

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

[@ArbJunkAgeG]

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

[@killakanjo7748]

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

[@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?

[@hellpark5321]

You have the perfect voice for what you do. Tutorials

[@AslanAtreyu]

Littering like a boss!

[@catch262]

This has the makings of a really great outdoor game!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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 !

[@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.

[@dangerdoberman]

This was recommended to me in 2021. Amazing.

[@SLP-zs8et]

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

[@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

[@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

[@albertpolak786]

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

[@syork24]

Very good information for an armed homeowner. Thank you.

[@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.

[@JamesBritemusic]

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

[@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.

[@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?).

[@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.

[@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.

[@greglambrecht1803]

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

[@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

[@OddJobEntertainment]

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

[@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.

[@zulufoxx3829]

Now THIS is outstanding!!!!

[@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

[@ExtraFreakyBobTv]

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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

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

[@axi0838]

Love your projects man, keep up the good work!

[@OnlyNotes]

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

[@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.

[@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?

[@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?

[@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!

[@terriblegoatman826]

Now I can pollute the ocean from a distance!

[@ivory231]

Say goodbye to recycling with the new pollution mortar!

[@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 !

[@bradsuhr7538]

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

[@bradsuhr7538]

*Projects*

[@Paiadakine]

We used to make tennis ball cannons. Hair spray and a lighter.

[@richardcranium5862]

Damn, you're old.

[@Paiadakine]

@@richardcranium5862 haha. I am.

[@richardcranium5862]

@@Paiadakine me too.

[@stormtrooper9839]

Now I can finally use this during a nerf war

[@wrongintro5420]

I love your weapon vids

[@andrebartels1690]

You've come a long way from quite nice to fantastic 👍👍👍

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@TheModernDayPhiIosopher]

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

[@renzbenjaminrsawit2641]

Will it still shoot if i added a half bottle of fuze so it can explode during impact

[@mrlefo8652]

Can it work with normal alcohol?

[@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

[@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!

[@peenopiani7209]

You didnt tell how your ignitor works.how many voltag?

[@FireNLightnin]

really cool! and good idea for the airsoft/paintball games.

[@mp-fp4bl]

could this be put in a different housing to make a shoulder mounted bottle launcher?

[@DUONGBESTDIYANDTECH]

Very creative one ☺️

[@zacharysahnger9621]

Another great project! You make some awesome stuff.

[@IceWolf243]

Im not gonna do it but if you increased the propellant significantly, could you potentially launch something heavier like a molotov cocktail?

[@francisconti9085]

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

[@SNAZZYWOLF225]

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

[@gunfumaster1024]

That's what I was thinking.

[@FortressCube]

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

[@stevel1475]

Wow it goes quick! Nice.....👍

[@NoMoreVoxPops]

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

[@Frostieyy]

Does it matter how long the half inch PVC along with the wires are for the mortar cuz I want my button to be higher up on the tube

[@johns.matty.632]

I liked your instructions on how to make, would you be able to let me know length diameter and how far down the tube for the noodle and what size to use. Does the ignighter wires go up through the noodle and through the blast shield? Are the batteries inside the tube then…?I really want to make one and just wanted to check…Thanks!

[@Nighthawkinlight]

Here is the earlier video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rabdYZarp8eSnsk The noodle is 3 inch in diameter and pushes into the tube far enough that a bottle sits flush with the end when pushed inside. I no longer use alcohol for my current launchers because it doesn't always work in cold weather. See this video for my updated way of launching them: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5qrYp9pr7mGl7M

[@carlostrujillo3854]

Is it 1 shot per c02 cartridge cuz by the size of the closing valve it seems like it would release all gas and not conserve any...

[@Skullair313]

I have tried to "manualy" launch a bottle without the surrounding just to see if it works. I used Isopropanol and the fueled bottle rather "burned" for one second then exploding and launching the bottle. I also tried it with pure ethanol, but the the results were the same. Does it have something to do with me using a BBQ lighter instead of a spark ingniter or is the used alcohol just the wrong one?

[@Nighthawkinlight]

The pipe in the center provides compression and gives the combustion pressure something to push against.

[@Skullair313]

Thanks for the fast reply :) Yea, that seems legit. But it is normal, that it burns down and does not explode?

[@Nighthawkinlight]

Skullair313 Yes, that's normal.

[@Skullair313]

Allright, thanks :)

[@UFCedits_ontop]

Does the projectile surpass 10 joules or 16.9m/s?

[@Ballenger96]

is there any way you could modify the bottles to carry a small water ballon that would splash on impact? other than the bottle bouncing off the ground? it would be a bit more fun.

[@teamunexpectedboys9703]

How would it work if you had paint in the bottle or balloons!? I'm very intrested in making a paintball cannon! Please help ?

[@haroldkerwinjr3026]

Can the bottle be modified as a dart and still lift off? I could see making it a game of accuracy.

[@hermanhansirahm9754]

Does it shoot as long as the alcohol rockets?

[@KhanterWinters]

is there a way to do this and with fragmented bb's for airsoft?

[@themanwithoutaplan5626]

what liter of bottle should be used for launching?

[@haydenfrost2692]

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

[@TheMeowmixzzz1]

What is the drill bit called that you used to make the hole for the igniter

[@Nighthawkinlight]

It's called a stepped bit. They're kind of expensive, but they're worth the cost. Regular bits will work fine to drill the hole as well.

[@battel6596]

what more or less is the range without wind?

[@micleger622]

Question. We constructed one but we used a smaller pvc pipe then 3 1/4 would that affect it as we can't seem to get it to launch. We are also trying to shoot it in -20 c could that be causing it not to fire.

[@Nighthawkinlight]

As long as the barrel is 1/2" diameter the rest doesn't really matter. It doesn't work very well in the cold though, that's probably your problem.

[@micleger622]

NightHawkInLight Thank you I will try using it in a warmer area and go from there.

[@nickyu9548]

Is this pattend or is there one placed on it

[@ronbrown4551]

How long will the alcohol fumes last in the bottle if you don't fire it off right away ? Hours, Days ?

[@XenomorphDude11]

you should add weight to the ends of the bottles to stabilize them during flight and make them fly farther

[@theamazingpancake2489]

That would make them plummet to the Earth before they got over a tree.

[@XenomorphDude11]

ah but if you add just a little weight

[@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

[@totalbaconninja7482]

Im thinking about creating this but would it be possible to launch a bottle with no inner tube sorta like in your rocket video

[@LEXIBABY2001]

if you skip or remove the bipod for the mortar you can fire it shoulder fire and it resembles an AT4 anti tank launcher

[@komodobadger3687]

Alexis Freeman im building a fucking iron man suit and making this into shoulder mounted ones, JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE TOLD ME IT WOULDNT WORK