Moonshine Myths! | MythBusters | Season 9 Episode 23

Moonshine Myths! | MythBusters | Season 9 Episode 23 | Full Episode

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In this episode inspired by "Moonshiners," the MythBusters explore a fascinating mixture of moonshine stories!
Using science as a tool, Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk rumours, urban legends and popular myths that have captivated the minds of many individuals.
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@thetruerift 2 ай бұрын

Didn't know I needed 90s goth-grant, but I did, and I approve.

@TheSumOfAnIdeod 2 ай бұрын

I love that they are finally uploading these on yt, this was my favorite episode back when i was smaller

@kGs62 2 ай бұрын

It's the 3rd time they uploaded it this month... they will reupload it again next week

@juliakovacs4885 2 ай бұрын

I live in a country where moonshining is legal. My grandpa once caused an explosion. He was distilling in the basement, the alcohol fumes leaked out and filled up the room. When he went to check on the still he flicked the lightswitch, causing a spark and BOOM. The sudden pressure change blew open doors all the way to the attic, and my grandpa suffered second degree burns on his back. He swore off moonshining after that 😂

@MrMarinus18 6 күн бұрын

I have some serious doubts about that. Alcohol vapors have an extremely strong odor.

@Foxtrott_4 2 ай бұрын

Tonight on Mythbusters: Grant joins Rammstein

@timthompson7205 2 ай бұрын

Oh good, I thought I was seeing shit. Nice pun too 😅

@arneldeleon3060 2 ай бұрын

Rest in peace grant 😢

@Kalleballethetwo 2 ай бұрын

@@timthompson7205 mee too

@HMSConqueror Ай бұрын

i would prefer Officer Kari in Charlies Angels or CSI

@redwarrior69340 Ай бұрын

29:25 that is a metal fire extinguisher (K class) it is just very dry salt (if you wondered these fire extinguishers are very expensive)

@nataliealphonse4634 Ай бұрын

Huh neat. Thank you for the knowledge morsel

@joaoibarra 2 ай бұрын

In Brazil, cars can be fueled with both gasoline (in Brazil, gasoline has 25% ethanol) and sugar cane ethanol. One of the problems that alcohol-powered cars had in the past was starting (as is the case in tests), especially starting at low temperatures, because ethanol has a higher ignition temperature. In modern cars, this is not so common as the engines are prepared for both fuels

@leoa4c 28 күн бұрын

What's the price difference between the two fuels in Brazil?

@joaoibarra 28 күн бұрын

@@leoa4c the price may vary per region/city but the average is BRL 4,04 for ethanol and BRL 6,07 for gas. Ethanol has faster combustion, so it tends to yield 30% less than gasoline. To be worth it, the price difference also has to be at least 30%.

@leoa4c 28 күн бұрын

@@joaoibarra The percentage in Europe is about 40-50%, perhaps because gasoline is more expensive to begin with, or the ethanol is relatively cheaper to produce (which I don't think so). I'm assuming that the minimum 30% is due to the higher fuel consumption of ethanol? Greetings from Portugal.

@Jayjay-qe6um 2 ай бұрын

Currently in the United States, there are four states that allow the production of moonshine for personal consumption (Alaska, Arizona, Massachusetts, and Missouri). Additionally, North Dakota law permits the production of moonshine for personal consumption up to the federally legal amount, which is zero gallons; entailing that production of any amount is illegal.

@BusterHimen-1202 2 ай бұрын

North Dakota’s law about moonshine is just downright stupid 😂

@lloydsumpter7735 2 ай бұрын

I would suspect the cars the rum-runners used to run away from the Law while on alcohol were SERIOUSLY modified: both to run well on alcohol and to go fast.

@Lee-At-Green-Pheonix-Rc 2 ай бұрын

Nascar origin 👍

@Mugthraka 2 ай бұрын

One aspect that i din't catch if they talked about it is that alcohol like this often ahve glucose or sucrose in it: sugars. So with the heat of the engine, thos sugars are gonna acumulate and melt and then just plug shit up in there, well i suppose anyways

@Lee-At-Green-Pheonix-Rc 2 ай бұрын

@Mugthraka depend on the alcohol content as yeast turns sugar to alcohol but like when u burn alcohol in say a lamp of camp fire it burns clean with no residue same with rubbing alcohol

@UFO-047 2 ай бұрын

@@MugthrakaBrazil has ran straight Alcohol for vehicle fuel since the 70s. Main issue I believe was cold starting below about 59-60F/ 15C. Previously they used a small tank with petrol to start when cold then switched to the alcohol/ethanol tank. Later models heat the first amount of alcohol fuel to help it start easy.

@leoa4c 28 күн бұрын

@@Mugthraka Why would it have sugars in it? During the distillation process, alcohol turns into vapor, it is cooled down into a liquid, and then stored. The sugars stay in the distillation vessel. That's the purpose of distillation: evaporating the alcohols while leaving substances with a higher boiling point behind (water, sugars, yeast, etc).

@able_archer01 2 ай бұрын

For those who don't know, 156 proof is 78% alcohol by volume. The typical bottling proof for spirits in the United States is 80 proof (or 40% ABV)

@derrickstorm6976 Ай бұрын

So it's just twice the content by volume? What a weird system

@able_archer01 Ай бұрын

@@derrickstorm6976 I suppose it might be more intuitive than saying the concentration of the alcohol.

@Valfaun 2 ай бұрын

12:28 "it was jerking while it was idling" sounds familiar

@bryankirk Ай бұрын

You guys are really meticulous in your presentations. Thank you very much.

@artur6359 2 ай бұрын

Flex engines (accept a range of petrol to ethanol ratio) have ECUs that detect the fuel composition and adjust the ignition timing. IIRC ethanol requires more fuel by volume and less pressure before ignition, so it moves the ignition forward. The more petrol you add to the fuel, the more it retards the ignition accordingly.

@ozoraidani Ай бұрын

Does Grant have eyeliner on this episode?! Cool!

@GreySectoid 2 ай бұрын

Classic show, peak 2000s

@nickyoung9108 2 ай бұрын

I think this was also the last peak science show; there has been none since.

@mordapl1641 Ай бұрын

This episode was from the 2010s since the car is from 2013

@Ma_X64 2 ай бұрын

I'd be using TIG process to seal those systems. Copper can be welded quite good and it brazes itself with almost any steel easily.

@alextopfer1068 2 ай бұрын

if anyone is curious about how to do it properly check out Making Pure Corn Whiskey. You can find a PDF if you hunt around. It's legal to know how to do it, but get the right permits before making anything

@angjingheng9162 2 ай бұрын

drinking on the job? i like it

@leoa4c Ай бұрын

Narrator: "Ethanol burns with an invisible flame" A few minutes later: Shows ethanol burning with highly visible blue and yellow colors.

@simonbaigrie2485 Ай бұрын

That would have been the timber frame burning

@leoa4c 28 күн бұрын

@@simonbaigrie2485 No, it would have not. I have ignited pure ethanol myself, and it always showed a visible flame. But don't take my word for it. If you google "ethanol color", it should tell you that "Burning ethanol has a flame that is mostly blue with yellow accents". Or better yet, just rewatch this exact video. Whenever they ignite their ethanol, you can clearly see the blue and yellow colors.

@dgthe3 Ай бұрын

4:50 This is what happens when you mix equal parts Adam & Jaime.

@LaraCroftCP 2 ай бұрын

Hmmm... Seeing Kari in high boots and a police uniform is definitly that what i needed to see today. She looks beautifull

@michaelripley4528 2 ай бұрын

To me: Just pigtails and nothing Else 😂

@The-Zer0th-Law 2 ай бұрын

One thing about this myth... Particularly the moonshine car chase... Is that: shouldn't the moonshiner be a car with most of its internal stripped?

@99hilux6 2 ай бұрын

I run my lawn mower on moonshine sometimes runs fine just a dry fuel one tank here and there to keep the grass down seems fine. Just make sure you run it dry when finished. Hot motor and carb should evaporate left over water

@NoOneSpecial13 2 ай бұрын

Cheers 🍻

@katiehunter7313 2 ай бұрын

lol Grants wearing eyeliner/mascara first half of ep~

@owenmatwe2272 2 ай бұрын

Good for him!

@ButeSound 2 ай бұрын

'90s outfit'

@LaraCroftCP 2 ай бұрын

90's were strange

@thomasbach-zy1kn Ай бұрын

I would soften the rivetts prior to using them. And maybe ask a copper-smith about a couple of things.

@TheMiojox Ай бұрын

They should've tested it on brazilian cars. We've been running cars on moonshine for years.

@stokermeister3 16 күн бұрын

Have the myth busters ever been asked to takle any supernatural myths like the blair witch ?

@Rednerdthenerdneck 2 ай бұрын

You should have tried pickup trucks to run on moonshine. I ran an '03 F-150 on isopropyl alcohol and I ran an '05 Sierra on chainsaw gas (1:50 oil:gasoline). so maybe that would have given better results.

@ryanbuckley3314 2 ай бұрын

I once ran a ramage with fireworks fueled on moonshine. I ran a 1:2 ratio of shine to water at 3.5 shots per hour with a lime and pineapple fruity chaser. I was running a little hot, for sure, but I ws told that I had been air cooling, somehow, at the time. To the best of my memory, the whole run was a great success.

@BlueWafer Ай бұрын

If using Jaso FD 2t oil, it won't do anything to the engine, even if it's a 4t engine. People add 2t oil in older diesels that aren't common rail injected, to lubricate the injection pump, as sulphur got removed from fuel (it worked as a lubricant) and the new diesel formulas destroy those injection pumps

@conexant51 2 ай бұрын

We're all living in America... America... it's wunderbar...

@colingregory7464 Ай бұрын

I loved Mythbusters but sometimes they were a little bit literal, Myths are short on detail? The people who knew probably did not want the truth getting out? The Shine as fuel one - either desperation need fuel now (probably no adaptation) ! Or Shine is what you USE and for that I would suggest you make the setup as optimal as possible !?!

@colingregory7464 Ай бұрын

Question ! Which is faster ? Top Fuel or the Top Alcohol dragsters ? May not be definitive but its probably "suggestive" ?

@Original50 2 ай бұрын

Everything tastes better out of a jelly-jar!

@benbonsall7305 2 ай бұрын

Copper pipe solder melts at 400-500F... seems like a joint failed due to the heat. Brazing the joints probably would have held up though...

@Rednerdthenerdneck 2 ай бұрын

there were 2 people in the cop camaro. that little bit of extra weight would have slowed down the car.

@peteypops 2 ай бұрын

‘Ethanol burns hotter than gasoline’….mmmm…

@kuunib7325 2 ай бұрын

Honestly over in the civilised world we have been driving on E10 so 10% of Ethanol for as long as I, a son of this millenium have been able to drive.

@gavbarker8689 2 ай бұрын

Thats because the American farmers union have a lot of power, they grow corn to produce ethanol, using food producing areas to produce fuel, so they can make lots of money from the ethanol, and keep food prices higher! I use the E5 super unleaded, E10 rots the fuel lines of older cars, just so rich farmers can get richer.

@albertofui 2 ай бұрын

Try that with a Brazilian car, we've got etanol cars for decades

@GorianDray 2 ай бұрын

Wohoo!

@soniccdx 2 ай бұрын

suddenly reminded of the random event in RDR 2 that has a moonshine shack explosing in the New Austin desert .. lol

@j-ro4574 Ай бұрын

Hmmm if all is spoilerd in the first 30 seconds, why should I watch the full show

@Sethioz Ай бұрын

they did moonshine as fuel all wrong .. identical cars doesn't mean identical performance and driving gas first, means he learned the track. and doing it on dirt? what the eff? you need to do this on actual racetrack, drive at least 30 minutes with same car on gas and get a race driver who can do consistent lap times. then completely drain the car from gas and put moonshine in it, then drive it for 30 minutes just to make sure all gas is out, then fill it up with moonshine so weight is same as with gas, then drive another 30 minutes and compare lap times. they had too many variables in the test, that was test of personal skill and difference in cars. i thought they were smarter to test. to make it even more consistent, they could just use dyno-run to measure how much power car has.

@Rednerdthenerdneck 2 ай бұрын

they used a modern bic lighter in the old timey 1800's style silent film.

@Hammermongo 2 ай бұрын

those poor donuts

@HumanShield777 2 ай бұрын

How did they try and bump start an automatic?

@desmoworldbw 2 ай бұрын

the question is can the cars run on Johnny Walker Red! can they!?

@SusanPearce_H 2 ай бұрын

No. 60% water.

@desmoworldbw 2 ай бұрын

@@SusanPearce_H we are married now! i want 3 kids, 2 boys and 3 girls

@inricristo_ 2 ай бұрын

in brazil the cars would work

@ilcattivo13 Ай бұрын

Moonshining is the national sport in Poland, so I think I have the right to suggest something. Explosions while making moonshine occur almost exclusively when the boiler is heated by an open fire (gas burner or traditional wood/coal stove). As for alcohol vapors in the air, they most often result from insufficient cooling of the vapors in the condenser coil. In normal devices, flowing cold water is needed for proper cooling - standing water in a regular tank (as in Adam's project) warms up over time and at some point stops condensing vapors. And when the right proportion of these vapors accumulates in the air, an explosion will occur. Most moonshiners remember this, but there are those who are too busy testing the quality of their moonshine to check whether the cold water is still cooling the condenser ;)

@danielmadar9938 Ай бұрын

😂❤😂❤

@gabrielv.4358 2 ай бұрын

Bacana

@bengardiner1075 Ай бұрын

So many variables 🤦‍♂️😂😂 I’d love to get funding to try these in 2024, Also prove most other other crazy mental myths bs too, but that’s not in keeping with government tactics is it 😂

@Fishforbrains_nz 2 ай бұрын

If only they knew how to tune a carb only need a basic tools coulda had that carby Camaro flying

@dgthe3 Ай бұрын

The myth was for an unmodified car. Tuning = modifying

@piratepete1961 2 ай бұрын

they said it was 200% alcohol not a chance best they could of was 194-196%

@dgthe3 Ай бұрын

They said 200 proof, not 200 percent. 200 proof = 100% = pure ethanol with nothing else whatsoever in there. 200% (or 196%) is nonsense. And yes, 200 proof / 100% ethanol is absolutely a thing. You can obtain it from chemical supply companies. I believe they run the distilled alcohol through a reverse osmosis filter, possibly multiple times, to make it.

@markc6714 2 ай бұрын

Ease up on the ads guys

@lukeowen3072 2 ай бұрын

2017

@davidbalog4285 Ай бұрын

Could of used a pressure cooker?

@photobackflip 2 ай бұрын

"inspired by "Moonshiners,"" = production company using it's popular product to promote it's unpopular product. Using a smart program to promote a stupid program, derp.

@cesaru3619 2 ай бұрын

2013

@Lee-At-Green-Pheonix-Rc 2 ай бұрын

U have to thank moonshiners because you would have no nascar

@galvestonbragg9718 2 ай бұрын

LMAO, who's the idiot helping them? For starters a hydrometer does not measure the proof of alcohol, it measures the gravity of the mash which gives you a potential alcohol reading depending on if if ferments out completely. An alcometer measures the proof of the distilled product! Damn i'm only 6mins into video and already mistakes are made!