Nile: *spends $5000 on a press* Also Nile: "WE GOT PINE BECAUSE IT WAS THE CHEAPEST"

@plotwok

5 ай бұрын

he didnt have money left to buy anything else than pine lmao

@crazynthree

5 ай бұрын

Haha. Someone get this man a bottle of titebond

@mothgirl326

5 ай бұрын

Dont forget the US$1,556.37 at 33:52

@Nadiki

5 ай бұрын

He’s gotta save money _somewhere_

@CubeNinja07

5 ай бұрын

You gotta realize that they could sell or use that machine in the future, aswell as the fact that they were buying the actual machine for more money than the material because they wanted to proove that even the bad wood could turn bulletproof

RIP the dream of Nigel owning a “nugsmasher pro” would’ve been a truly legendary piece of lab equipment.

@average_super_jew1234

6 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing 😂😂😂

@EddieBurke

6 ай бұрын

lol if he smoked he could get good use out of it, too bad it was aluminum since it was cheaper than the other option.

@doughnut1107

6 ай бұрын

He has a Nugsmasher Ultra. More power, more pressure, more nug smashing!

@dwp8200

6 ай бұрын

Wewd!! ❤

@-dystopic-

6 ай бұрын

I really want one so it would have been cool to see one in use!

Code Bullet randomly appearing in Nigel's video might just be the most Code Bullet thing I've ever seen

@jagunreal7419

2 ай бұрын

Yeah

@masterpiece1817

Ай бұрын

Yeah I had to stop what I was doing because Code Bullet was the LAST name I expected to hear during this.

@michael9433

Ай бұрын

Honestly I think the most cold bullet thing is that his solution to the rig falling over was just grabbing a random wet piece of wood and slapping it up in the back.

@ScienceDiscoverer

Ай бұрын

@@michael9433 He didn't had his Artificial UnIntelligance to think for him!

@robertdascoli949

Ай бұрын

Also, codebullet appears on the only episode where bullets are actually being fired. What's the odds.

4K Hydraulic Press-Nah 6K Candy Shaper - Take my money

@andyfriederichsen

2 күн бұрын

Why do you think he lacks the money to buy a hydraulic press?

@azraellie_

Күн бұрын

​@@andyfriederichsen read those numbers again, slowly this time

@andyfriederichsen

Күн бұрын

@@azraellie_ You're the one who needs to read the numbers again.

Hey Nile! I used to work as a Materials Engineer in body armor manufacturing, and what you've experimentally found are some of the core principles of the materials science behind high-performance ballistic armor! Towards the end you mention that you could likely make something half the thickness and still stop a 9mm; take a look at the construction of NIJ level II or level IIIA soft armors: what you'll find is that they are *remarkably* thin. Turns out, high tensile strength is pretty much the number one reason that poly-aramids (Kevlar and the like) are such great armor materials. What I think your pressed-wood plates would serve a better function as is as an up-armor for level II or level IIIA soft armors. This is usually done with a ceramic plate that provides the compressive strength to the initial impact zone that the fibrous soft armor is able to absorb as tensile load, but the densified wood could serve as a great substitute! If you want to get really deep into the armor classification side of things, you can also take a look at "back-face deformation" tests that are done to classify/test armors. Drop me an email if you'd like and I can answer any questions! I'm not in the armor space any more but I have a ton of knowledge built up from the time when I was, and I would love to put it to good use somewhere :P Edit: Someone made the great point that my email isn't super obviously available; it's on my channel (or here: timothy.mgregg@gmail.com) if anyone wants to reach out. I can't promise a prompt response, but I'll try! Also someone pointed out I should have said "Level IIIA soft armor" not "Level III", thanks for the correction, I've edited above!

@DSlyde

6 ай бұрын

Ever thought of making a few videos yourself? I'd love Armor Material Science 101

@gertrude1585

6 ай бұрын

great explanation, but i never trought i would see a body armor expert in a chemistry video comment section XD. anyway, have a wonderful day

@johan0220

6 ай бұрын

cool

@dakotareid1566

6 ай бұрын

Make your own videos on armour

@MrSonnyfy

6 ай бұрын

​@@DSlydeagreed

If you fancy revisiting this, try carrying out the first chemical wash step under vacuum. The wood contains lots of air, and the presence of the air within the cells prevents the chemicals penetrating through the whole cross section of the piece (thats why the centre looked dry). When pulling a vacuum, most of that air is removed. The vacuum can then be realased forcing the chemicals deep into the piece. In order to remove the chemicals, you can then place the treated piece under vacuum again to help draw out excess chemicals before washing. This is basically how they pressure treat timber with wood preservatives.

@GlazeonthewickeR

6 ай бұрын

You explained this so well that I feel smarter now, even though I know I’m not

@sachiko6530

6 ай бұрын

yeah I thought the same, vacuum would help to make the chemicals penetrate fully, also help when drying too

@dereks1743

6 ай бұрын

This is the way

@pingugames9942

6 ай бұрын

@@GlazeonthewickeR you're better than that!

@nahusomega1007

6 ай бұрын

i was about to comment that in a less well explained way... i like watching videos where mashmallows go brrrr under vaccum, yup

We use Sodium Nitrate to wash salmonid eggs at the fish hatchery I work at. It used to clean off bacteria, viruses, and fungal spores without killing the developing eggs. This year we used hydrogen peroxide on pike and Muskie eggs (bad idea), and milk for walleye eggs.

Thanks NileRed, the video is very informative, and I can learn your persistence regardless of failures.

@user-uz1ky5fp8y

22 күн бұрын

hong kong

I love that we get sentences like "It hit me in the head and I was genuinely really surprised" in the classic Nile Red monotone.

@blasttyrant3228

6 ай бұрын

Timestamp?

@neogmz

6 ай бұрын

@@blasttyrant3228 29:59

@johnsmith-jq1uc

5 ай бұрын

do you think we can get him to send these to demolitionranch?

@delbrooke7655

5 ай бұрын

As well as “i then got rid of the gun I probably shouldn’t have been running with” That made me lose it 😭😭

@MrFailman552

5 ай бұрын

My favorite is "And again, after fifteen hours of work, I was left with a wet block of wood." at 25:08 I don't know why it cracks me up so much lmao

He started this project almost 4 years ago! That's insane. People underestimate how long these chemistry videos take

@MusicAddictMAD

5 ай бұрын

It’s what makes me truly appreciate his videos when they come out because they are years of work just for internet strangers, but because he is passionate about his subject the videos are always amazing.

@KakavashaForever

5 ай бұрын

This was just barely a chemistry video honestly.

@dyvdwastaken

5 ай бұрын

@@KakavashaForever this guy probably dont even know was dihydrogen monoxide is, and thinks NaCl is a dangerous chemical

@jimmykrochmalska3501

5 ай бұрын

@@KakavashaForever all in all you gotta appreciate the effort

@klausklebbi3772

5 ай бұрын

@@dyvdwastakenYou don‘t need to go around telling people you have a small penis

I love how Nile always says "carefully" then goes on to swing away with an axe.

I love how Nile narrates opening the crate with the exact same tone of voice and cadence as he does for narrating very serious chemistry stuff.

An hr long NileRed video? Best Halloween ever.

@wagnerramosmidichannelabso514

6 ай бұрын

[insert blank comment here]

@MayeulVarin

6 ай бұрын

Yup😊

@vinvin_2lit

6 ай бұрын

@@wagnerramosmidichannelabso514shut up NERD

@lachlanbrown3112

6 ай бұрын

It's not Halloween for me

@welltoastybread8838

6 ай бұрын

Um technically it’s 59:37 ☝️🤓

Code Buullet doing literally anything besides being productive is hilarious to me, love the vibes of that man

@NbNgMOD

6 ай бұрын

Litterly no one asked about cb: never mind didnt watch the video fully sorry

@Rev_Erser

6 ай бұрын

does he show up at all i'm only 22 minutes in @@NbNgMOD

@Teh_Random_Canadian

6 ай бұрын

I am absolutely shocked Code Bullet was in this video lol, how TF did that even happen lol

@Rev_Erser

6 ай бұрын

40:17 there he is!

@Rev_Erser

6 ай бұрын

ok anyways shut up this is a public comment section@@NbNgMOD

So according to Nile’s gun permit he’s 8’2 😂😂

@TheGuyWhoComments

2 күн бұрын

He used the chemicals to make him taller

So glad to see you got a mold machined. I did a very similar process while I was in grad school to make particleboard out of sisal fiber and waste carpet. The diagonal lines you were observing in your earlier attempts were likely shear delamination due to the wood slipping as it was compressed. And as others have pointed out, the Poisson effect causes materials to expand in one axis when compressed in another. It would be interesting to see the densities of the boards compared before vs. after using the stainless steel mold. And kudos for highlighting one of the most frustrating aspects of reference papers: not enough detail on their actual procedure that would let you repeat it yourself.

Let’s applaud the real chads here: the delivery guys who brought the heat press inside.

@MeltedMask

5 ай бұрын

Jack Pallet, is hes name. True Chad, made of steel. For the friends he is Pallet Jack Lifter of half ton.

@davidgarner7948

5 ай бұрын

Had to have used a pallet jack

@lonelyredgiant

5 ай бұрын

That was the first thing I thought when he received it.

@justinmckee2256

5 ай бұрын

@@MeltedMaskthere’s half ton ones? The pallet jacks we use are good to 5500lb

@dearthofdoohickeys4703

3 ай бұрын

No way they didn’t use a jack

Nile really takes peer reviewing to a new level. 😂

@frandurrieu6477

5 ай бұрын

Peer reviewing the shit one of those shitty srticles would focus on

@Jbrimbelibap

5 ай бұрын

peer rewewding

Man. The dedication is both super impressive and appreciated. That is the most I've enjoyed a KZread video in years. Cheers

the honesty in your narration made me stay and eventually subscribe, in case you wondered or no one else had given their reasons for subscribing. absolutely great content!

I have no idea why but seeing security footage of nigel just running into a box on the floor over and over again can't make me stop laughing

@gardenthefermentingsound6218

5 ай бұрын

It looked like he was hugging it at first 😂

@bradzulick69

5 ай бұрын

And his friend just stood there, watching, waiting...

I'm happy you tested a control experiment with normal wood, it really puts the strength of dense wood into perspective

@dieSpinnt

6 ай бұрын

There was a wrong assumption from the beginning on (several times mentioned, like after 24:00 ): "Not hard enough", "Hardness", etc. This feature does NOT stop bullets. The ability to completely take up an IMPULSE force and to equalize it over a big area, in contrast does.

@lucam8758

6 ай бұрын

@@dieSpinnt correct me if I'm wrong: a very hard material could be brittle and be unable to stop a bullet, right?

@DNVIC

5 ай бұрын

​@@dieSpinnt Webster definition of the word hard: "not easily penetrated : not easily yielding to pressure" I'd say hardness is a fine word to use here. Hard itself is a fairly vague word, and stuff that's hard on for example the Moh's scale might not be hard when judged by a different metric. Given the definition for the word hard says "Not easily penetrated" and he's testing to see if a bullet can penetrate it, I don't see any problem with using the word hard or hardness to describe the situation.

Was on the edge of my seat with this one! Amazing content, would love to see this revisited with improvements and cross testing (like how it performs against other commonly used ballistic stopping materials)

Only recently found your channel(s) but have been enjoying it so far! Also was not expecting the random Code Bullet.

Just casually inviting code bullet to shoot some condensed wood in a random forest is the most NileRed thing. The crossover none of us knew we needed.

@Avruthlelbh

6 ай бұрын

I have not once cared about celebrity appearances in shows or anything, but the moment I saw Code Bullet on a Chemistry-based channel, I actually jumped out of my seat a bit.

@KamielDV2

6 ай бұрын

The collab of Heroes we needed

@Thugshaker_thequaker

6 ай бұрын

Have you discovered safety third podcast yet?

@apollocosmic3780

6 ай бұрын

Evan was the last person i expected to see on a nile red video ngl

@BobbieTheFish

6 ай бұрын

Brings him to the forest like "wait I thought you were a shooting channel"

Finally, we know what Code Bullet has been doing, shooting wood in the woods with Nilered.

@justsomekidthatsinfinitely7090

6 ай бұрын

This is somehow weirder the further it goes on

@watch_nana

6 ай бұрын

Now we know why he never uploads. He's just too busy helping Nigel test how hard his wood is.

@j.m.ematthijsse6251

6 ай бұрын

Together with Emplemon and Barely sociable

@satiric_

6 ай бұрын

Code Bullet, now with real bullets.

@enkays_den

6 ай бұрын

I am not familiar, but looking at their gaming channel, I presume this is a joke because their name has bullet in it. I will return if an actual gamer appears in the video to shoot the wood.

Exceptional dedication and persistance. Congratulations!

Nigel is kind of like the barn cat that only visits you a few times a year and makes you very happy every time

@jiquerez

6 ай бұрын

Absolutely underrated comment, imo.

@superstar5123

6 ай бұрын

What are you even trying to say

@TheThiccestChungus

6 ай бұрын

​@@superstar5123he's kinda like that barn cat, ya know.

@SweatiestToes

6 ай бұрын

he got dat barn ket in him

@Daavaloscxv

6 ай бұрын

Literally just saw the same comment under a wendigoon vid

The fact that code bullet and Nilered are friends makes so much sense

@aero8921

4 ай бұрын

he's also friends with Michael Reeves

@Vector_vr.6

4 ай бұрын

Wouldn’t be surprised if he is freinds with vsause :/

@definitelynotanAIchatbot

4 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, he's also friends with notorious child predator Carlos the Frog. 😒

@TheManudo00

4 ай бұрын

He is friends with javrils too

@morbrakai8533

4 ай бұрын

​@@Vector_vr.6 Or is he? 🤨

If you decide to revisit this, i think adding a layer of strong fabric or some foam between the wood layers might make it so that even 2 layers would be enough - my thinking is that something flexible/ soft absorbs the shock better than having 2 hard materials back to back

I like the idea of revisiting 1)Under a vacuum. 2)add resin a bath 3)add a resin multi layer welding blanket layer as a backer.

You used a 9x19 carbine. The longer barrel will allow the bullet more velocity than a pistol, so the wood stopping it was even more impressive seeing as most armor ratings for 9x19 is based on hand-gun velocities.

@mistyslee7962

5 ай бұрын

exactly i was thinking that so even tho the first time he used a gun it blowed the back it actually didnt do so bad because its not a hand gun or a small gun

@Calysto929

5 ай бұрын

I think he should try 5x thinner layers and go 10x layers and laminate them similar to Kevlar.

@SirBilliam96

5 ай бұрын

I was going to say the same thing! So he stopped a 9mm at what is basically the maximum energy (or penetrating power if you prefer) that you can expect out of the caliber. Very impressive!

@eyesonthekingdom

5 ай бұрын

you'd think it would but longer doesnt always mean better.. in fact the 9x39 mm optimal barrel length is around 7 1/2 in. anything more you start to lose velocity to friction on the barrel rifling due to the gunpowder being used up prior to bullet leaving barrel

@sat_homeless

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I was gonna mention that. I was really surprised.

It’s also worth noting that you shot the wood with a 9mm PCC witch has a significantly longer barrel than a handgun, meaning that it had a lot more energy than a handgun. You did better than you thought. 👍🏻

@bradleysmith9431

5 ай бұрын

Yep, 9mm out of a 16" barrel gives the 9mm as much knock down power as a .357 mag. The longer barrel drastically increases the speed of the projectile

@joshl90

5 ай бұрын

@@bradleysmith9431omg knock down power hahahaha. That fake term is still being thrown around? Is this 2005?

@DashsChannel

5 ай бұрын

At first my brain couldn't wrap around the idea that a longer barrel would give the bullet more energy, since it's the same amount of energy being put into the bullet. But then I realized a longer barrel means more time for the propellant gases to expand and impart their kinetic energy to the bullet.

@CameronLarson330

5 ай бұрын

@@DashsChannel Exaxtly right, and that’s the appeal of PCCs. It allows you to get a full powder burn and utilize all that the round have to offer.

@Epsilon2042

5 ай бұрын

​@@joshl90haha lol, everybody is ignoring you 🤣

What helped its the waves (circles parts) are straight paralel to the ground, not tilted

Thanks for doing the comparison against normal wood at the very end.

As a woodworker, this is incredibly fascinating.

@JJFX-

5 ай бұрын

The first thing I thought is I totally want to turn a cheap 2x4 into a fingerboard for a guitar. What's really interesting is the potential to mold the wood as it's formed. You could potentially compress scrap wood into 'hardwood' into a specific contour or add other features at the same time. Hell, I'm curious how it'd look if you just stuck a quarter under the wood in the press.

@BobbyLovesOranges

5 ай бұрын

hmm, same, though of turning it into a pickaxe or something, would be kinda cool

@emissaryofelohim1431

5 ай бұрын

Try it with Hemp. Henry Ford built a Hemp Composite bodied model-A and demonstrated its durability by shooting it with a .30 cal machine gun. After which, he walked up, wiped the powder burn and fragments off, and proclaimed, "See folks! Not a Dent! And hardly a Scratch!" But then Stanley steel, Standard oil, and Hurst timber, made sure ol Henry, "got with the program."...

@emissaryofelohim1431

5 ай бұрын

#HempCrete #HempCeramics

@emissaryofelohim1431

5 ай бұрын

I wonder what ol Henry's recipe was.

The Code Bullet collab was HIGHLY unexpected! Cool that you guys are friends

@fallen_angelmemesforlife9172

5 ай бұрын

dumb shit coding and dumb shit chemistry. Now those are two things I never thought would become related.

@hidennarror3952

5 ай бұрын

what i love is taping the wood to the block and propping a stick behind it is so a Code Bullet idea

@GeckyWecky

5 ай бұрын

Hm I wouldn’t call it a collab, more like a cameo.

@gusmalone2005

5 ай бұрын

Code Bullet was on the Safety Third podcast which Nile is usually a host on. I can't remember if Nile was on that particular episode though, he hasn't been hosting as regularly recently.

@beardsntools

5 ай бұрын

Idk who this is, but he is very handsome, unlike the dude running this channel.

Appreciate the subtle nod to Bobby Dukes Art.

Your experiments made me think you should try using several even thinner wood plates stacked with alternating fiber directions. Besides that you should find a forum where you could submit a factual report on your findings. Any serious contribution like yours to life saving methods should never just be forgotten. 😊

So here's the thing. This is something you will see with weaves like carbon fiber or kevlar where a single layer will splinter, a double perpendicular will hold. You could significantly improve this by using thinner pieces and just stacking a bunch of them together because the impact has to keep changing direction instead of just cleaving through lines that line up behind it. So if you ever want to revisit this project, take a bunch of thin boards (the thinner the better, like you can break it by looking at it wrong thin), treat them all, stack them in your press going horizontal, vertical, horizontal, vertical, squish them all together, cook them, and try shooting it. Squish them all together to basically make them stick together on force alone. L3 plates are like 1.5 inch thick which is basically what you should be aiming for as the higher bound on thickness, and who knows, maybe it'll work. Another thing you should do with the bigger blocks you've treated is to take a hammer and chisel and break one of them apart before crush/cook (or you can shoot it with your pellet gun to make a hole down) and see if it's actually wet inside, there's a lot of different non-water liquids that can still stay behind in wood and judging from the dark color you might've been pushing out resin especially in pine that's known for holding a lot of it and crackling in fire because of it. If that's the case you didn't really have treated wood, you just had a weird hotpocket of treated wood with filling of compressed wood.

@ruolbu

5 ай бұрын

hotpocket of treated wood Man you got ways of putting it. I agree with your suggestions though. This is really interesting to me and I would love a revisit.

@Lasershark666

5 ай бұрын

Underrated comment, honestly best advice I’ve ever seen in a KZread comment

@seanmoran9406

5 ай бұрын

This shit would work. It’s straight up what he’s doing but using the logic of grapheme and Kevlar as your discussed. The layers splintering and dispersing the weight evenly. W comment

@ascendantindigo271

5 ай бұрын

I think the problem is he's not heating/cooking it while compressing it.

@ians5337

5 ай бұрын

Perhaps taking several of these panels made as you described, and stacking them with an elastic contact cement. Spread the energy out further with the same principal as ballistic glass

After the first test I was just mentally screaming "Use a form in the press!" And I am so glad you did.

@agent57

5 ай бұрын

Haha, I was screaming that before he even pressed the first piece.

@lysdexiar31

5 ай бұрын

me too!@@agent57

@BobWidlefish

5 ай бұрын

Same! Obviously the press is tilting dramatically I don’t see why he struggles to see that. Each crank of the handle shows clearly a tilt.

@nicholas31415

5 ай бұрын

I really had hoped he was going to use a puck press to not allow it to spread out in any direction. Plus he could have easily used a hole saw after soaking the wood to make it perfectly fit the mold. If I were to do this experiment, I would have tested the impact strength of different thicknesses of the glue lam wood plus the strength if one of the layers had the grain pointing towards the bullet. Adding a table and graphs would have been borderline ready to publish his findings. But yeah, it looked like quite a tedious boiling and pressing process, so I can see why he is kinda done with it.

@ww-pw6di

5 ай бұрын

Also would make sense that if compressing the wood 5x makes it 5x stronger (denser), then why wouldn't 10x do the same just 10x stronger? There's probably an upperbound for how much lignin and hemicellulose can be removed, but just the fact that it could be compressed from 5x by 10% more, what we're seeing probably isn't that upperbound yet.

I am on a road trip and your vids are the only thing keeping me entertained😊

Superwood! Wow that is incredible. Just think of all the possibilities for construction alone. Seems pretty straightforward and could easily be scaled up with large industrial machinery. Best part, its a renewable resource, unlike iron, aluminum, and steal! I have high expectations for this "super wood"

i like how his script always makes him sound like hes reading off a chemistry procedure paper this will be the most thorough explanation of opening a box you will hear in your life

@theshanamaster

5 ай бұрын

he shouldve used walnut, and along the grain, rather against the grain

@jupiter_adept

5 ай бұрын

He has such a particular cadence to his speech; I feel like you could set your watch to his pauses and upward lilts

@karet2490

5 ай бұрын

@@jupiter_adept his voice is so intriguing he made a video about it

@siqi1790

5 ай бұрын

@@karet2490what video?

@karet2490

5 ай бұрын

@@siqi1790 I don't remember thr name

It’s so surreal that this guy and code bullet are friends… completely different energy

@Stillcrown239

5 ай бұрын

CODE BULLET!?

@dylanmccormack5600

5 ай бұрын

WHAT

@YourPlaywright

5 ай бұрын

Like… Code Bullet is a chaotic Australian and Nile is textbook stereotypical polite Canadian… how did that happen?? I need to know all the details of how they met and became friends because that sounds like an awesome story

@shakes.816

5 ай бұрын

They aren't "friends" it's a Collab

@WalterZombie69

5 ай бұрын

​@shakes.816 how is it a collab if code bullet provided almost nothing for the whole video

I feel like a way to improve the cooking process would be to dry the wood before cooking it in chemicals, seems that the excess water that is being stored in the wood is not allowing the chemicals to be completely absorbed into the wood, preventing it from being 100% treated. I bet if it were dried out the chemicals would be able to make their way throughout the entire piece allowing it to dissolve the lignin and hemicellulose in the middle of the wood, allowing for the center to become much more dense and fused together during the pressing process, further improving strength. I would love to see more on this project in the future it was one of the more entertaining projects to watch you do!

honestly I feel like if you started with thinner pieces to begin with and made super thin hardened plates you could laminate them like plywood. that mixed with the kevlar layers that surround plates in modern body armor would probably go crazy

The only KZreadr who can make an hour feel like five minutes. Thank you Nigel for the awesome and engaging content.

@TylerMusgrave9

5 ай бұрын

Dang! I didn't even realize this was an hour-long video!

@TecMlt

5 ай бұрын

Same here.

@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy

5 ай бұрын

yes when I keep skiping it XD

@BetoVickers

5 ай бұрын

I thought it was only 20 minutes.

@RogerLiem

5 ай бұрын

don't forget Primitive Technology

After 12 years of school, I didn't think it would be possible for me to sit through an hour of chemistry without zoning out. I stand corrected.

@dylutant

6 ай бұрын

Most academic things become fun and interesting once you're out of compulsory education. I was finishing up my masters (physics) around the same time when discovering that history, get this, is captivating as hell and twice as metal if not told by a pompous old bag that regurgitates dates. Now I'm 35 and if I could, I'd drop the job and transcend from weekend hobby into full-blown classics study in a heartbeat.

@pedroamerico9992

6 ай бұрын

@@dylutant Yup history is pretty fucking brutal and i hate my teachers for not showing me that

@MaskedDeath_

6 ай бұрын

@@dylutant Hard agree. I hated lots of subjects back in school, but I love learning about topics related to them now. I think that the worst problem is that most of education focuses on memorization and not actual learning and building critical thinking skills. I understand that some basic knowledge is required, but what the education system tried (and is still trying, university isn't much better) to force into our brains is superfluous, and a waste of time and energy that could be spent on building actual skills.

@thezipcreator

6 ай бұрын

@@MaskedDeath_ cos the primary point of the education system rn is to churn out workers, actual education comes second

@stirfryjedi

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the PSA that this is nearly an hour long lol

bro code bullet is one of my favorite creaters

Dude, that was so f#@%ing cool. I'm so glad you didn't quit in the early stages

Are we just gonna ignore the fact that his gun license says nigel is 249 cm or 8ft tall 😂😂

@Smona

5 ай бұрын

and it says his name is Neil Red

@andrew_sfs

5 ай бұрын

@@acidbong204 thats just a normal centimeter

@ahyaan2552

5 ай бұрын

@@andrew_sfsbut it is canadian

@vygh1957

5 ай бұрын

​@acidbong204cm is short for Canadian meter

@jenn9677

5 ай бұрын

bro i noticed that too wtf😭😭

nile went from precise chemistry into alchemy into ballistic research and now he's going back to alchemy next

@waleedabdullahkhan5706

5 ай бұрын

lol some months later nile would say so we are testing if my wooden bunker can a bomb

@LuisSierra42

5 ай бұрын

And then to construct an atomic bomb from apples

This is my first time watching your video and was very surprised seeing code bullet

You put a lot of effort into this. Very interesting. Thanks.

I can't believe this video was almost 1 hour long. It felt like 15-20 minutes. Never felt bored at any point.

@peterobinson3678

5 ай бұрын

I dunno... there was the 15 mins i was , like, 'put 2 at 90 degrees opposition!'...

@jbjb679

5 ай бұрын

​@@peterobinson3678cool

@lemonke8132

5 ай бұрын

@@peterobinson3678 the whole time i was pissed cuz he would let it boil overnight where the psi dropped to 0. Obviously that means water left gaps and there's more room to squish it...

@elwynalderman3356

5 ай бұрын

@@lemonke8132pfp says it all

I love how in chemistry there seem to be so many moments where you proceed in the experiment based on "Color changed. Things happened. ONWARD"

@EmiStar070

4 ай бұрын

I f-cked around, I found out, I'm recording it, and now let's kick it up a notch!

@TheMichaellathrop

4 ай бұрын

Just remember that stuff is in fact a technical chemistry term

@dominikbeitat4450

3 ай бұрын

@@EmiStar070 "Remember kids, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down." - Adam Savage, Mythbusters

@EmiStar070

3 ай бұрын

@@dominikbeitat4450 it's science if you record it!

@mariannatatarska1140

3 ай бұрын

well that's basically how it works colour changed so chemically something happened (probably)

Do to having the most hated teacher in the school for the last 4 years, I have disliked science. This channel (and nile blue) have made me enjoy science again. This is awesome

It makes me so happy to know that I watched you and code bullet and you guys are friends😂

The biggest shock here was that he knows Code Bullet. Absolutely not the crossover I expected!

@ValeBridges

6 ай бұрын

My jaw genuinely dropped when I heard that.

@antonliakhovitch8306

6 ай бұрын

They were both at that big event that William Osman organized, so they probably met there if they didn't already know each other

@bob-hacking6027

6 ай бұрын

And his face

@Bobbias

6 ай бұрын

@@antonliakhovitch8306 Yeah that's a good point. KZreadrs meet each other both just through discords, mutual friends, etc. but also through events like that.

@marksalot5035

6 ай бұрын

no doubt ..... code bullet is legend

Huge thanks to nile for showing us his very hard wood ❤

@hello-qw3mw

6 ай бұрын

HELPPP

@juicyouioui4432

6 ай бұрын

Ong he's so generous

@SupermotoZach

6 ай бұрын

Lmfao 😂😂 I couldn't help think this the whole video tehehe

@lovell8983

6 ай бұрын

that's what she said

@yourlocalflacofiero

6 ай бұрын

let him cook

I love the Bobby Duke Arts wewd shirt. It makes me happy to see creators support each other! These videos never fail to amaze me

I would recommend vacuuming the wood with the chemical compound so that the wood lets air out and allows more liquid to enter deeper.

This is what cybertruck should’ve been made of

As a woodworker, I have a number of comments about the wood treatment if anyone wants to take this farther: - grain direction makes a huge difference in wood. It looked to me like flat-sawn grain performed the best, but it would be worth experimenting with quarter-sawn grain as well. - wood can be open grain or closed grain. It seems to me that the treatment to dissolve lignin would work best in an open grain wood. - To get the wood fully treated throughout, it should ideally be exposed to vacuum in the chemical and rinse baths. This is done for resin impregnation of wood, so those methods could be copied for this purpose. - I also think the pressure should be applied with the wood at steam-bending temperature, i.e. with the press at 100°C and the wood fully heated through before crushing it. Then it should be allowed to cool completely before taking it out of the press - same process as steam bending. - The best mechanical properties would come from more layers of thinner cross-grain laminations, just like plywood. It would be interesting to see if those could be compressed together at the same time and bond together. - I'd also be very curious if all of this could be combined with resin impregnation, so the wood is both densified AND resin impregnated AND cross-grain laminated... That could make for an incredibly strong material!

@SirLouiz

6 ай бұрын

And pretty fucking light compared to equivalent metal weight.

@thenarwhalmage

6 ай бұрын

I do question if resin impregnation would even work. You use resin to fill the empty space in the wood, but the point of densifying the wood is simply remove the empty space from being there in the first place. I don't know if there would be space in the wood for there to even be resin.

@blindsniper35

6 ай бұрын

​@@thenarwhalmageI think they're referring to the fact that in order to get the chemicals fully impregnated. Using the same procedure you would use to impregnate wood with resin would work much better. Which honestly I was thinking that near the beginning of this video. Which I'm glad to see somebody with actual experience confirm that my intuition was correct.

@itsKeeN

6 ай бұрын

This guy woods

@arvana

6 ай бұрын

@@thenarwhalmage I agree with you. We can think of wood as bundles of drinking straws, so it would be like the difference between a bunch of empty crushed straws, vs crushed straws whose insides are glued together. I can't say for sure if it would make a big difference but it would be interesting to try!

I'm really surprised that Nile didn't use a vacuum chamber to help saturate the wood with the chemicals. I think that if the entire block was saturated, it would help with the layers bonding and causing less splitting when shot.

@wiliestrogue2924

5 ай бұрын

When he cut the wood and it was dry in the middle...this was my thought. A vacuum chamber would make this process far more reliable.

@chrisguest5528

5 ай бұрын

Either that or pressure cook it

@thexguard9492

5 ай бұрын

I saw this process being used to pickle cucumbers within like a minute

@gearhead1302

5 ай бұрын

My thought exactly. Like the pickle from Action Lab

@SoranDK

5 ай бұрын

So fun coming to write a comment and finding exactly the same already here and even citing the exact same pickle video I was thinking off when he cut the side 😛

Really glad to see the null hypothesis at the end

would recommend putting it in the first step where you leave it in the chemical put it in vacuum chamber so all air from inside the wood goes out and then slowly add air back so the wood under chemicals solution goes to the wood more and wait maybe repeat vacuum few times and then do the rest like you did

I saw the inside of the wood being dry from the start of the video. I do a lot of woodworking and have stabilized wood before which is kind of the same concept of what you were trying to do. You have to completely submerge the wood and pull a vacuum until it stops bubbling, then let it sit still submerged so the liquid can replace where the air came from in the wood.

@fakinyamo

6 ай бұрын

Indeed. Probably he would have ended with a much stronger single piece of wood if he had applied vacuum.

@frankthechemist

6 ай бұрын

Came to say that exact same thing. I would even go further and suggest to do a few cycles of vacuum to atmospheric pressure, or even higher pressure if possible. Considering that the timing of the reaction is important in order not to remove too much lignin, it is important to get the caustic soda and sulfites inside as fast as possible. Same thing for the rinsing afterwards.

@StoneAndersonStudio

6 ай бұрын

I was going to leave this comment, with the caveat that pulling a vacuum on it will make the water boil, and having a solution of boiling sodium hydroxide under vacuum might be a little dangerous/impossible depending on the kind of vacuum pump.

@alextoppen

6 ай бұрын

What about pulling a vacuum through the end grain to draw the chemical bath through the wood continuously.

@downstream0114

6 ай бұрын

I was thinking thinner plates of wood.

i swear these videos have better plot twists and story arcs than 96% of TV shows

@SaffronTheBat

5 ай бұрын

thats cause unlike tv these stories are real and unpredictable lol

@SaffronTheBat

5 ай бұрын

also nile the goat

@fadedlight8596

5 ай бұрын

@@SaffronTheBat yes

@block4976

5 ай бұрын

,,It went right through."

@v.k.mensah2093

5 ай бұрын

Bro, for real!

I work with a lot of wood. That four dimensional press was the idea. Also, the grain structure matters alot. You should try this with Ash or White Oak.

If you ever want to do this again, try impregnating the wood with resin after the final wash before you crush it, and glue the layers together under the extreme pressure, and alternate the grain diagonally rather than 90 degrees each time. Could also add a layer of fiberglass between the wood layers.

My favorite thing about your channel is that you show and discuss your failures. I think a lot of our society is geared towards avoiding failure or even mention of it, and that's a shame. Failure is an extremely important part of science, and life as a whole. Often, an important part of finding out what works involves finding out what doesn't work. You can't learn from your mistakes if you don't think about them and try to improve your process, and from a viewer's perspective, it makes it much more satisfying to see you succeed when we see how many times you tried things that didn't work like you expected. I appreciate that.

@Noober_king

6 ай бұрын

Sorry but i aint. Reading. Allat.

@camonangeland676

6 ай бұрын

@@Noober_kingYimzzz

@genius171

6 ай бұрын

ong

@Everythingz127

6 ай бұрын

​@@Noober_kingdon't worry your low attention span is just what you should work on. You got this babe

@ManHeadRambo

6 ай бұрын

Well said

A summary of all NileRed videos: "It turned out to be way more work than I thought."

@d4slaimless

6 ай бұрын

But that's what makes them good., I guess. Imagine he'd do it in 5 mins ).

@PandaliasKay

6 ай бұрын

My thought exactly. "It seemed relatively simple" to "It turned out to be way more work than I thought."

@dembro27

6 ай бұрын

Only after "it seemed surprisingly simple" at some early point in the video 😎

@cvspvr

6 ай бұрын

"i was honestly really nervous"

@FIGHTTHECABLE

6 ай бұрын

Rule of thumb: Guess your time + 33%.

I love NileRed videos And I very much appreciate he only very briefly mentions his sponsors at the very start abs then gives a full showing at the end after all the actual content of the video is finished I appreciate that What I don’t appreciate is the unskippabke ads ranging from 15 to 45 seconds long 😢 those suck ass

The orientation of the grain in the wood is impacting when you press it. The more parallel the grain the better chance of it not cracking or rolling over its self. Also on last test shooting untreated wood only you didn't use the glue. would have liked to see the difference with and with out glue. Great job on the video. Extremely entertaining!

I was 100% sure the dry middle part was going to be foreshadowing for some critical issue that would fix everything but it just, didnt get mentioned at all 😭

@Ace-nq4cp

2 ай бұрын

yeah, I actually wonder if it was a big thing though. Makes me wonder if the wood in the study was well seasoned and dry first. IM gonna do a google search on getting stain to penetrate all the way through wood. Also were the depth dimensions he used the same as the study? because that could change everything, because even if the outer shell is fully treated, he's then potentionally mixing that outer shell with the untreated inner shell, and that could throw off the whole chemical fusion aspect. the water is assumedly the only thing in the treated part by the time he was pressing, so it's not transfering over the first solution he used while pressing even. I wonder what would happen if he cut it into thin strips adding up to the same depth of starting wood, and then pressed them like that. One time with all the grain going the same direction, and one version with them criss crossed(even though that's not what was cited in the study, we might get some data from that)

@thebakedchef

2 ай бұрын

I absolutely think it played a good part kinda a weird oversight

@Preston241

2 ай бұрын

I wonder if drilling very small holes through could help disperse the liquid through the whole block. I imagine it would affect the structural integrity of the final product but it would be worth a shot if the idea is revisited someday.

@Ace-nq4cp

2 ай бұрын

@@Preston241 It might not, considering the fusing process it is supposed to later go through when compressed/heated. You might be on to something!. Space the hooles a little less than the distance he observed it soaking through when he cut it? i think you're on to something worth trying.

@cantthinkanameup

2 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠I also thought about the pressing process eventually permeating deeper into the wood, however, since the wood was washed several times and soaked, the solution would not remove the lignin and hemicellulose deeper in the wood. I think a reasonable solution would be to pressure treat the wood, instead of soaking it. Or prior to that, attempt soaking it for much longer. Or perhaps soaking/pressing multiple thinner layers, gluing them together with the grains reversed until a net desired thickness is achieved, and then try shooting it! I would also say that since wood glue is designed for wood and not designed for densified wood, I would also experiment with different types of glue if issues continued to persist

This is not the crossover I was expecting. Never in my life did I imagine I'd see Code Bullet helping someone with questionable science. XD

@LegoGoblin

6 ай бұрын

more of a cameo

@wolfsiejk

6 ай бұрын

and niel filming with a "wewd" shirt.

@bullet2275

6 ай бұрын

My exact thoughts on the matter 😂

@Scurvyy

6 ай бұрын

And he showed up when there was bullets and never appeared again

@wolfsiejk

6 ай бұрын

@@Scurvyy lol

For the chemicals to soak all the way through, maybe dry the wood beforehand so the internal moisture is as low as possible. Additionally maybe use a pressure cooker, I'm not sure what pressure industrial pressure treated (PT) woods use, but it could help.

When you did the cross section of the wood and the middle still wasn’t treated with your solution I suggest placing the wood in a pressurized changer to force the solution inside the wood.

If the inside of the wood is still dry, maybe you should try using a vacuum to suck all of the air out of the wood while it is submerged in the chemicals so that when the vacuum is released, the holes from the air are filled with the solution. This process is often used to stabilize wood by filling it with a resin which hardens with heat.

@kellerbailey4353

6 ай бұрын

I had the same idea

@Glenn_Rainwater

6 ай бұрын

I used to work in a treatment facility for power poles and this is exactly how our process was. The wood would first be placed into a tank under vacuum to remove moisture, drained, then the tank would be filled with chemical and pressurized to force the chemical deep into the wood.

@noobFab

6 ай бұрын

Exactly this!!! The pressure pot is commonly used by knifemakers to make much harder knife scales (the wood handles) by drawing the air out of the tubes in the middle of the wood allowing it to be replaced with the hardening liquid. This experiment also needs to be much more scientific with a non-soaked, non-crushed original, a crushed, non-soaked control, and maybe a second option like epoxy used on pre-densified but untreated wood and also on un-crushed wood before crushing - this probably wouldn't work as well, but that's what experiments are for!

@AdamRapW

6 ай бұрын

That would require a much more complicated setup. Pulling a vacuum on a heated, frothing, caustic liquid would surely make a big mess and kill your pump rather quickly.

@karlpron

6 ай бұрын

Was looking for a comment like this. Totally agreed. Wood would not just soak in chemicals. @@Glenn_Rainwater

I just want to thank you for not cutting the failed experiments, all of them are genuinely interesting to watch

@ZorakiSassan

6 ай бұрын

Yeah seeing all the steps and reasoning after each successful or unsuccessful experiment is the best part

@brotherin

6 ай бұрын

frfr

@harpintn

6 ай бұрын

Failure and trying something else is a big part of science.

@Kauppamopo

6 ай бұрын

its a hook to keep you watching

All house framing timber in Australia has been treated and pressurised the same way so it meets out timber framing standards as it makes it so much stronger

This is probably the best video I've ever seen.

"My wood was ready to be cooked" Greatest NileRed quote

@0osk

6 ай бұрын

53:35

@dex6316

6 ай бұрын

7:06

@LawTaranis

6 ай бұрын

I think "brand new, never used anal lube" might be better.

@ChesterManfred

6 ай бұрын

​@@0osk"Cock and ball torture (CBT) is a.."

@Arceusmemesidk-zk7tm

6 ай бұрын

13:55

Forgetting the amazing bulletproof aspect, imagine a floor made of tiles of this wood, it looks downright manageable and beautiful.

@mikealbrecht3990

5 ай бұрын

But cutting it would be hard on blades.

@NoahSteckley

5 ай бұрын

Yeah! Might not stain

@MegaBrokenstar

5 ай бұрын

Scratchproof hardwood, in literally any shape… holy shit.

@StarBigBang

5 ай бұрын

@@MegaBrokenstar Hexagons, hexagons are the best-agons,

@MegaBrokenstar

5 ай бұрын

@@NoahSteckleyyou could pre-stain the wood before densifying it, or stain it during the chemical treatment which would likely result in a perfectly full-depth stain. Alternatively, the results of processing are already pretty beautiful and highlight the grain nicely. I’m actually kind of excited about this material as hardwood flooring and especially as trim and shoe moulding. Not to mention tabletop, workshop, and kitchen applications. Imagine an entire dining room table that is usable as a cutting board without the slightest trace of damage. The idea of a relatively cheap to manufacture scratchproof and dentproof wood product is tantalizing.

Loving the Bobby Dukes merch ❤

idk if something like this exists in Canada, but in Germany, we have a type of wood, that is called multiplex, it's made from many layers of wood, making it much stronger

Nile's gun licence really reminded me how young he is. He's been making these fun science videos since he was like 15, and now he has an entire lab at just 24! That's so wild to me.

@TheWolfProd

5 ай бұрын

Is he really 2,49 meters tall? Like wth i never saw a person with that height im surprised.

@dishria

5 ай бұрын

bro that entire ID is a joke did you see that height bro its 98 inches😭😭 im pretty sure hes like 31 or 32 by now

@revolverjesus98

5 ай бұрын

He's Canadian. He doesn't have a gun license, he has a projectile device permit

@baguette4607

5 ай бұрын

No he’s like 31. In the safety third podcast he states he got his drivers license like 15-16 years ago so he’d have to be in his thirties. Also, there’s never been a person who’s 8 feet tall LOL

@harryboynton7800

5 ай бұрын

@@baguette4607Tallest man in history was 8 foot 11

Fun fact: Shields used by the Roman Legion also used 3 layers of wood, with each layer being at 90 degrees (in regards to grain pattern.) However, they would use different types of wood, depending on which layer it was.

One thing you should try is end cuts.. sandwich 8x8 pine or oak treated the same way.. and then also glue three layers.. wood is dynamic and is different from end grain to profile.. you may be surprised..

It's actually impressive how easily that 22lr went through the first compressed wood. It's almost like you made it less bulletproof.

@dylandenton7576

5 ай бұрын

I see what you mean lol mybbad

@ThePapino134

5 ай бұрын

he made it harder but it was so thin it just made it brittle what you want isnt hardness but tensile strenght. youd probably get an even better result by somehow infusing that pressed wood with some resin or other polymer

@TrentR42

5 ай бұрын

Long grain is one of the weakest sides

@georgenichols1638

5 ай бұрын

Now shoot some high carbon steel to see the victor! But seriously, good job. Very interesting video.

@SDSypher

5 ай бұрын

@@georgenichols1638 shut your mouth

Something to keep in mind also is that you used rifles to fire the rounds and not handguns. The longer barrels allow for more velocity to build up for the bullets. So you were making it even harder for yourself, and it still worked out. Very cool stuff!

@chemistryofquestionablequa6252

6 ай бұрын

Canadian laws make it really awkward do do anything with handguns unfortunately. They can't even be sold or transferred between owners anymore.

@iridium1118

6 ай бұрын

​@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252Canada gun laws are big stupid

@TrilliumGrandiflorum480

6 ай бұрын

Only ways he could have used a handgun for the tests would be to either: 1. Go to a range where they'd allow him to test it or 2. Own land in a rural area and submit papers to make it a personal range Easiest to just use a rifle honestly

@pewpew9193

6 ай бұрын

​@@TrilliumGrandiflorum480Turdeau is a subhuman tyrant.

@Cynder887

6 ай бұрын

@TrilliumGrandiflorum480 wasn't really criticising it, I know canada's gun laws are all sorts of dumb. I am in the US, so I don't know the specifics up there. Just thought it was good context to add that is not mentioned in the video about the barrel lengths.

@NileRed I was screaming at my screen for the first half of this video, saying the following, "Use something to stop the wood from just expanding out the sides". I'm so happy that you finally did that. I kept face palming every time you put the wood in the press. This is a perfect example of how it's useful to have more than one person look at a problem/issue - the more people, the higher the chance of someone spotting something that could be better, or done differently to give better results. No disrespect meant by my comment. We all miss things that others may spot/pick up quicker.

@post-leftluddite

Ай бұрын

I was doing the exact same thing, basically he needs a male and female set if dies

Great as a stab plate for armor, which uses thicker and larger plates of ceramic. Would work fairly well, I think.

Wow. A CodeBullet cameo. That's oddly kind of awesome. I love seeing all the youtubers I like combine in weird ways.

@voltagevictor5765

6 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. The collab we never thought of but appreciate.

@shivers5718

6 ай бұрын

yeah when i saw CodeBullet i was like "holy fucking shit"

Nile, have you looked into how they industrially pressure treat wood? Pieces are placed in a giant vacuum chamber and heated to reduce moisture content and then placed in a pressurized chamber filled with the liquid chemicals they want to force into the wood pores, also at temperature. I think if you added some vacuum drying (to encourage the wood to soak more liquid) and pressurized chemical cleaning you would get the chemicals to penetrate considerably deeper into the wood grain.

@derpmaster2732

6 ай бұрын

I feel like that would be out of his budget.

@Nebulaofthenorth

6 ай бұрын

@@derpmaster2732 yeah but i think thats how the paper made the test

@LavaDonuts

6 ай бұрын

​@@derpmaster2732 eh, you can make a vacuum chamber for relatively cheap and adding a hot plate shouldn't be the hardest addition. For the small sizes he's working with it shouldn't be super difficult or expensive

@juliofoolio2982

6 ай бұрын

@@LavaDonutsI am looking for some plans for a relatively cheap vacuum chamber, got any hot tips? Thanks.

@funkstrong

6 ай бұрын

For the initial step you could use a similar setup woodworkers use to stabilize wood. Pull a vaccum with the piece of wood in the solution, the vacuum will pull all of the air out and the solution in. Not expensive at all.

i imagine if between the hardened wood layers he added something like a rubber or a fiberglass layer it would only serve to improve its effectiveness. i think the energy of the bullet would be better dispersed and in turn less effective. I would love to see future tries.

I'm pretty sure Haida canoe makers used to do this exact process. Treat (I think they used lye), soak, warm, then pound. If I recall it takes weeks to make one.

thanks to nigel for showing us his hard wood 🧡

@muslimsoomro4889

6 ай бұрын

🤨ayo

@timeblade

6 ай бұрын

Oh god, not one of these comments 💀

@polmitol

6 ай бұрын

thanks for making this whole video weird

@Stewartist1

6 ай бұрын

Huh..

@Torrentman777

6 ай бұрын

Dude I spit my drink out at my screen 😂