Atomic Trampoline! - Part 2 - Nuclear Engineer Reacts to NileRed

[TJK]

$15, 000+ to bounce a metal ball.... priceless

[GHar]

I’m not usually a fan of ‘reaction’ channels but you do such a good job at teaching and telling anecdotal stories and asking important questions, not just laughing and saying minimal things, it’s worth the watch . (Even about a welder psu, the relevance is amazing)

[soulwynd]

The fume hood keeps a pressure lower than the pressure outside it. That small opening is always pulling air in, so unless the pressure inside changes too much, no dust or fumes can come out.

[msclrhd]

NileRed entering values in a spreadsheet: "I proceeded to very carefuly enter the values ..."
NileRed working with the arc melter: "I just started blasting!"

[markandrew]

I have experience as a welder, and I believe that the reason he had trouble with it when there was too much metal is because it struggled to keep the entire mass at a high enough temperature. Just like in the beginning where he had to flip it multiple times to get it to fully melt, more metal means more contact area with the cooled mold. I'm definitely not an expert on this particular thing though.

[mjp]

Considering the melting chamber was sufficiently air tight to create an argon atmosphere and fume hoods have negative pressure and he had a secondary filter- is there danger? Sure, but do you have any idea the amount of toxic stuff chemists work with in professional labs with 1/10 this degree of safety? A good fume hood is incredible with how well it contains airborne particles

[angela_eric]

You know I love seeing how far Nile red has come. I remember watching him in his parent's garage doing crazy experiments. Now he has his own lab, and is still doing crazy experiments.

[Essence]

The fume hood isn't just a box, it's got a fan constantly pulling the air out of it. The lower glass means air will be rushing from the room *into the fume hood* and then outside. No need for a mask there

[ferdynandkiepski]

At 8:20 the reason there is a gap is to allow airflow. He mentioned that the fume hood was set to the max. At max setting, other than being quite loud, there is so much airflow there is no way for the dust particles to get out. Im sure there is some kind of rating system for fume hoods

[windhelmguard]

about the whole dust issue with machining/sanding it:
moisture is your friend here. water or oil would bind any dust particles together, none of it would get into the air like that, it would just stick to the sand paper, which is toxic waste after this project anyway.
nigel even uses wet sand paper in the video, so he clearly knows this, which is why i don't quite get why he didn't go all the way to try making at least one of them perfect.

[valen]

Our friendly Nuke Man used to play with warhammer models? He is one of us!!!! You should totally react to “Armoring of a Space Marine” and the 9th and 10th anniversary videos.

[kittycatcaoimhe]

Oh man, I managed to refresh 30 seconds after this released. Looks like I've got my next 40 minutes planned!

[scorinth]

I really can't wait to see his video about the cleanup and disposal of waste, like he did for the Uranium and Gold waste.

[dolphin]

It'd be funny/cool if Nigel reached out to Tyler for help on the glowing baby project...

[punkinhaidmartin]

All of a sudden, I'm disinterested in buying surplus equipment from Nile Red.

[ProfTydrim]

Seeing him painstakingly measuring out all the metals in accordance with the particular container of beryllium they belong to and then NOT LABELING ANYTHING makes my hair stand up.

[duskymage]

Fume hoods need to have a small gap to work properly, fully closing the front would prevent airflow, the main protection the fume hood provides.

[markmittelbach]

Talking about the potential uses for metallic glass that is just too expensive to be practical make me think immediately of sci-fi uses.
If you want a shielded reactor that has to last a long time and uses a lot less space while still providing good shielding for some sci-fi craft, you can justify it by say saying the shielding is made of metallic glass which both sounds cool and is somewhat supported by real science.

[foshyurgason]

I just finished watching the first part and went to see other videos of yours to watch and saw this one was just uploaded lol. Couldn't have been timed better

[Psycorde]

That idea with using two discs on opposite sides of the closed tube sounds awesome