we’ve got several tiki torches we’ve got
methanol for fuel and we’ve got a whole
host of chemicals that we’re gonna mix
in and see if we can get a nice display
of colored tiki torches a while ago we
had a video showing how to make several
different colors of flame I thought that
worked out pretty well on that video
YouTube user red vs. blue fan full
wanted to know if we could use the same
ideas to make colored burning tiki
torches rather than just burning the
fuel in the little candle receptacles
let’s look at some of the things we’re
gonna try burning we’ve got lithium
inside of our lithium batteries which as
we’ve seen before it can make a really
cool bright magenta flame the boric acid
in this Roach killer has done a pretty
good job of making a very bright green
we’ve had mixed results using potassium
chloride which is a salt substitute
trying to get a purple flame it kind of
works although it’s not great so normal
isopropyl alcohol gives us a very bright
yellow color and in fact it’s so bright
that can often wash out other colors
that we get from burning the methanol so
I might try using just a little bit of
this mixed in with the methanol to get a
smaller yellow flame I’ve done a couple
of experiments recently mixing calcium
carbonate with the methanol and I think
that might give us another option as we
try and go for a purple flame the copper
sulfate that makes up this root killer
chemical doesn’t an okay job of making a
bluish-green flame we had some mixed
results and in fact we had some mixed
colors we had sort of blueish green with
orange mixed into it we’ll see if we get
the same thing when it’s burning in a
tiki torch and then of course the
methanol by itself does a pretty good
job of burning blue although it’s a
fairly faint blue so if there’s a lot of
light you can’t see it very well that’s
one of the reasons we’re doing this at
night I’ve also got this large bag of
driveway salt which is made of calcium
chloride and that’s what we tried to use
to make an orange flame it did an okay
job and sometimes I thought that
crushing it up into a powder work better
and sometimes it seemed like just
leaving this pellets worked better
so we’ll try using the pellets and see
if we can get an orange flame more
orange than the yellow color of other
types of fuel here’s the basic idea
we’ve got some tiki torches and some
methanol for fuel we’ve got several
different chemicals that we can use to
try and change the color of the flame
will it work in the tiki torches the
same way it did in the little candles
the two that I’m most confident will
scout or the red and green colors given
to us by the lithium and the boric acid
respectively I’m so confident those are
gonna work I’m just gonna fill one of
these pots each with some of our
methanol and then add our lithium and
our boric acid to that and see if it
burns out through the torch
I bought these tiki torches at Walmart
where they were two dollars and fifty
cents each so really not breaking the
bank if you want to try this that is
like a perfect amount 12 ounces I guess
it was designed to hold about 12 ounces
well that was unexpected
[Music]
guess let that be a warning that there
is a reason we often say don’t try this
at home apparently there is a chance of
spontaneous combustion with batteries so
[Music]
whoa
this one I suspect will be less exciting
the boric acid while doing a great job
of turning the flame green doesn’t
typically you know react quite so
violently as the lithium now for these
tiki torches to really work the wick
needs to take the methanol and lift it
up through the wick to the top so little
light and so actually be burning the
fuel rather than just burning or melting
the wick itself it’s a little hard to
tell once it’s done that but the easiest
way is if the wick feels kind of cold
you might be able to tell that it’s wet
too if it’s properly wicking you can see
that it will bring some moisture up of
course methanol evaporates so quickly
but nothing stays wet for long boom
right there I would say we’ve got a
magenta flame and a green flame going
quite nicely the magenta one you can see
does have a little bit of blue down at
the bottom and a little bit of orange up
at the top but overall that’s a pretty
reddish flame as a color comparison
here’s a tiki torch with some regular
torch oil you can see how much more red
and obviously how much more green our
flame is here those are the two I’m most
suspected we’re going to work and so I
just put them directly into the tiki
torches and it does work some of the
chemicals are going up the wick with the
methanol fuel and we’re getting some
great color out of them for the rest of
the tests I think we’re gonna try some
smaller scale things before moving on to
the full-size burns we’ve got a red
let’s see if we can get a nice yellow I
know we can get a nice yellow by just
burning the regular Tiki oil but I want
to try and get a smaller yellow flame so
it’s not drowning out the others the
same way so I’m gonna have mostly
methanol and a little bit of the
isopropyl alcohol see if we can get a
nice yellow color but smaller yellow
hey that’s a yellow flame where’d it go
this is safe it’s a yellow flame on the
top let’s see if we can get ourselves a
nice orange by adding some of the
calcium chloride pellets we’ve got quite
a bit of our calcium chloride inside
this container let’s fill it up with our
fuel and see if we can get a nice color
that’s got some orange to it it’s also
almost got a little bit of purple to it
it’s not too different from some of the
purple tests we’ve seen before question
is whether it will keep that same color
when we’ve got it coming up through a
wick screw on the lid and try and gently
encourage some of that liquid to go up
well it’s got some color it’s not bad I
think that’s an okay orange it’s not a
super vibrant traffic cone kind of
orange but it’s certainly more orange
than pure methanol got some of this salt
substitute which as I said before is the
potassium chloride trying to get a
purple and this is one that’s always
given us sort of shaky iffy results
let’s see what happens if we try and
burn it through a wig now with this we
are hoping for purple me this is looking
pretty yellowish orange II not too
different from the calcium chloride I
don’t know if I can call that purple we
got sort of a middling response using
the potassium chloride let’s see what we
gotta say that mostly just looks blue
like playing methanol so maybe this test
isn’t gonna work out so great after all
we’ll try it through a wick and see if
it’s any different here is our calcium
carbonate next to our potassium chloride
and both of them have maybe little hints
of purple down at the bottom but for the
most part they’re kind of just orange
yellow these colors are already sort of
if you’re getting it to show through
with a wick makes it a little worse I’d
say it’s just not very purple one final
color test let’s see if we can get
anything worth mentioning out of this
mmm that is just the color of methanol
right there little bits of green jump
out in these tiny little spurts there
you go so if it’s constantly being
agitated we can get some cool green in
there
agitation in the air it splashed kind of
a cool effect in some kind of cool
colors but really not something that’s
gonna work very well through a wick
we’ve got five torches set up here and
I’m not a hundred percent convinced that
all of them are gonna work this is a bit
of a final test rather than a final
exhibition but let’s light them up and
see if we can get some good colors I’m
hoping for red orange yellow green blue
the blue is pure methanol which through
our calcium chloride looks almost
identical to our pure methanol at this
point which makes me think that the
calcium chloride isn’t really doing too
much to change the color maybe it is
changed in color but only the same
amount that the wick is changing the
color for the methanol honestly that
might be that might be a better blue
than the one that’s supposed to be blue
maybe we should switch our blue and our
green works excellently the magenta is
not too bad it’s not the strongest color
not compared to the green at least but
it’s pretty good the yellow works pretty
well by adding quite a bit of isopropyl
alcohol and you can probably burn pure
isopropyl alcohol and get a similar
result although in my experience that
does make a little bit bigger of a flame
not necessarily a bad thing but if
you’re going for a bigger flame in this
color then you can just use the normal
tiki torch fuel getting the orange and
the blue and the purple didn’t work out
so well so I would say you probably want
to stick to the green or the magenta one
other thing they did have this much
larger tiki torch available as well I’ve
got some green tinted fuel and this one
we’re gonna see how much bigger we can
the idea with this one I believe is that
it’s supposed to have the fuel vent up
to the top and you can get a much larger
flame because it’ll come out all the way
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methanol for fuel and we’ve got a whole
host of chemicals that we’re gonna mix
in and see if we can get a nice display
of colored tiki torches a while ago we
had a video showing how to make several
different colors of flame I thought that
worked out pretty well on that video
YouTube user red vs. blue fan full
wanted to know if we could use the same
ideas to make colored burning tiki
torches rather than just burning the
fuel in the little candle receptacles
let’s look at some of the things we’re
gonna try burning we’ve got lithium
inside of our lithium batteries which as
we’ve seen before it can make a really
cool bright magenta flame the boric acid
in this Roach killer has done a pretty
good job of making a very bright green
we’ve had mixed results using potassium
chloride which is a salt substitute
trying to get a purple flame it kind of
works although it’s not great so normal
isopropyl alcohol gives us a very bright
yellow color and in fact it’s so bright
that can often wash out other colors
that we get from burning the methanol so
I might try using just a little bit of
this mixed in with the methanol to get a
smaller yellow flame I’ve done a couple
of experiments recently mixing calcium
carbonate with the methanol and I think
that might give us another option as we
try and go for a purple flame the copper
sulfate that makes up this root killer
chemical doesn’t an okay job of making a
bluish-green flame we had some mixed
results and in fact we had some mixed
colors we had sort of blueish green with
orange mixed into it we’ll see if we get
the same thing when it’s burning in a
tiki torch and then of course the
methanol by itself does a pretty good
job of burning blue although it’s a
fairly faint blue so if there’s a lot of
light you can’t see it very well that’s
one of the reasons we’re doing this at
night I’ve also got this large bag of
driveway salt which is made of calcium
chloride and that’s what we tried to use
to make an orange flame it did an okay
job and sometimes I thought that
crushing it up into a powder work better
and sometimes it seemed like just
leaving this pellets worked better
so we’ll try using the pellets and see
if we can get an orange flame more
orange than the yellow color of other
types of fuel here’s the basic idea
we’ve got some tiki torches and some
methanol for fuel we’ve got several
different chemicals that we can use to
try and change the color of the flame
will it work in the tiki torches the
same way it did in the little candles
the two that I’m most confident will
scout or the red and green colors given
to us by the lithium and the boric acid
respectively I’m so confident those are
gonna work I’m just gonna fill one of
these pots each with some of our
methanol and then add our lithium and
our boric acid to that and see if it
burns out through the torch
I bought these tiki torches at Walmart
where they were two dollars and fifty
cents each so really not breaking the
bank if you want to try this that is
like a perfect amount 12 ounces I guess
it was designed to hold about 12 ounces
well that was unexpected
[Music]
guess let that be a warning that there
is a reason we often say don’t try this
at home apparently there is a chance of
spontaneous combustion with batteries so
[Music]
whoa
this one I suspect will be less exciting
the boric acid while doing a great job
of turning the flame green doesn’t
typically you know react quite so
violently as the lithium now for these
tiki torches to really work the wick
needs to take the methanol and lift it
up through the wick to the top so little
light and so actually be burning the
fuel rather than just burning or melting
the wick itself it’s a little hard to
tell once it’s done that but the easiest
way is if the wick feels kind of cold
you might be able to tell that it’s wet
too if it’s properly wicking you can see
that it will bring some moisture up of
course methanol evaporates so quickly
but nothing stays wet for long boom
right there I would say we’ve got a
magenta flame and a green flame going
quite nicely the magenta one you can see
does have a little bit of blue down at
the bottom and a little bit of orange up
at the top but overall that’s a pretty
reddish flame as a color comparison
here’s a tiki torch with some regular
torch oil you can see how much more red
and obviously how much more green our
flame is here those are the two I’m most
suspected we’re going to work and so I
just put them directly into the tiki
torches and it does work some of the
chemicals are going up the wick with the
methanol fuel and we’re getting some
great color out of them for the rest of
the tests I think we’re gonna try some
smaller scale things before moving on to
the full-size burns we’ve got a red
let’s see if we can get a nice yellow I
know we can get a nice yellow by just
burning the regular Tiki oil but I want
to try and get a smaller yellow flame so
it’s not drowning out the others the
same way so I’m gonna have mostly
methanol and a little bit of the
isopropyl alcohol see if we can get a
nice yellow color but smaller yellow
hey that’s a yellow flame where’d it go
this is safe it’s a yellow flame on the
top let’s see if we can get ourselves a
nice orange by adding some of the
calcium chloride pellets we’ve got quite
a bit of our calcium chloride inside
this container let’s fill it up with our
fuel and see if we can get a nice color
that’s got some orange to it it’s also
almost got a little bit of purple to it
it’s not too different from some of the
purple tests we’ve seen before question
is whether it will keep that same color
when we’ve got it coming up through a
wick screw on the lid and try and gently
encourage some of that liquid to go up
well it’s got some color it’s not bad I
think that’s an okay orange it’s not a
super vibrant traffic cone kind of
orange but it’s certainly more orange
than pure methanol got some of this salt
substitute which as I said before is the
potassium chloride trying to get a
purple and this is one that’s always
given us sort of shaky iffy results
let’s see what happens if we try and
burn it through a wig now with this we
are hoping for purple me this is looking
pretty yellowish orange II not too
different from the calcium chloride I
don’t know if I can call that purple we
got sort of a middling response using
the potassium chloride let’s see what we
gotta say that mostly just looks blue
like playing methanol so maybe this test
isn’t gonna work out so great after all
we’ll try it through a wick and see if
it’s any different here is our calcium
carbonate next to our potassium chloride
and both of them have maybe little hints
of purple down at the bottom but for the
most part they’re kind of just orange
yellow these colors are already sort of
if you’re getting it to show through
with a wick makes it a little worse I’d
say it’s just not very purple one final
color test let’s see if we can get
anything worth mentioning out of this
mmm that is just the color of methanol
right there little bits of green jump
out in these tiny little spurts there
you go so if it’s constantly being
agitated we can get some cool green in
there
agitation in the air it splashed kind of
a cool effect in some kind of cool
colors but really not something that’s
gonna work very well through a wick
we’ve got five torches set up here and
I’m not a hundred percent convinced that
all of them are gonna work this is a bit
of a final test rather than a final
exhibition but let’s light them up and
see if we can get some good colors I’m
hoping for red orange yellow green blue
the blue is pure methanol which through
our calcium chloride looks almost
identical to our pure methanol at this
point which makes me think that the
calcium chloride isn’t really doing too
much to change the color maybe it is
changed in color but only the same
amount that the wick is changing the
color for the methanol honestly that
might be that might be a better blue
than the one that’s supposed to be blue
maybe we should switch our blue and our
green works excellently the magenta is
not too bad it’s not the strongest color
not compared to the green at least but
it’s pretty good the yellow works pretty
well by adding quite a bit of isopropyl
alcohol and you can probably burn pure
isopropyl alcohol and get a similar
result although in my experience that
does make a little bit bigger of a flame
not necessarily a bad thing but if
you’re going for a bigger flame in this
color then you can just use the normal
tiki torch fuel getting the orange and
the blue and the purple didn’t work out
so well so I would say you probably want
to stick to the green or the magenta one
other thing they did have this much
larger tiki torch available as well I’ve
got some green tinted fuel and this one
we’re gonna see how much bigger we can
the idea with this one I believe is that
it’s supposed to have the fuel vent up
to the top and you can get a much larger
flame because it’ll come out all the way
red vs. blue fan full thank you for your
suggestion check your youtube inbox
we’re sending you 25 bucks remember guys
if you’ve got a cool idea you new let us
know and we make a video from your idea
we will send you $25 nope guys that’s
not all we’ve got more for you to see if
you click that little box up at the top
it’ll transfer you directly to our last
video and you should go check that out
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