today we’re gonna see what happens if we
take a vacuum storage bag and hook it up
to a pump that has way more power than a
vacuum
[Applause]
guys I don’t know if you’ve ever seen
these vacuum storage bags before I’ve
seen commercials for them and them in
stores quite a bit I’ve never actually
used one before but I had a thought I
wanted to see just how they work and if
we can sort of up the ante a little bit
I should point out this is not a
sponsored video I have no allegiance to
this magic bag brand there’s lots of
brands out there they all work pretty
much the same way these are just the
ones that I bought at Walmart because I
wanted to try this out most of the time
these bags work with a household vacuum
or a shop vacuum you put fluffy
compressible things like clothing or
blankets into them it’s got a one-way
valve well it occurred to me that we
have some pretty powerful tools around
the shop something they can pull a lot
more air than just a regular shop vacuum
we’ve got vacuum pumps we’ve got a
couple of them this one right here this
is our harvest right vacuum pump this
thing is quite powerful I think and I
wanted to see if there’s a difference
between just using our regular shop
vacuum to pull air out and using our
vacuum pump and then I’ve got a few
ideas for things that we want to try
putting these bags that aren’t exactly
what the manufacturer recommends here’s
the basic idea these storage bags are
usually used with a household vacuum to
make your bedding and clothing smaller
well we’re gonna try attaching it to our
vacuum pump to see just how much air we
can pull out of them to start off though
we’ve got these ingredients over here
you may recognize these as the
ingredients used for proto putty proto
putty is a mixture of silicone of
water-based activator and some
cornstarch to make it easier to
manipulate if you haven’t seen this
before we’ve used this several times
you’ve got whole videos on how to make
it
it just becomes a sculptable rubber that
cures and then it’s just solid but
slightly squishy rubber forever and I
want to try using some of that to make a
seal for a vacuum pump this already
pulls pretty well if I just put it on my
hand or this valve right here but I want
to make sure it really gets a tight seal
to suck out every last bit of air that
we can get so let’s start mixing up some
proto buddy now I’ve got food coloring
and this serves two purposes one it adds
a little bit of colour to it which is
always nice but very importantly this
food coloring is water-based and the
silicone is activated by the water the
water is a very necessary step in fact
you could use plain water with no food
coloring and you’d get just sort of a
translucent
or clear or white proto putty but we
like to use the color because we can see
how much we’re putting in and it’s easy
to control and single drops now if I
just stir this up and let it sit for a
while this will care this will turn into
a proto putty but it’s immensely sticky
this right now we’ll stick to pretty
much everything it’s really hard to work
in shape so what we use is cornstarch
and can use other things too if you
wanted to use like talcum powder baby
powder which i think is mostly tough
powder you can do that as well but we
use cornstarch because it’s cheap and
it’s you know it’s edible so it’s pretty
safe to have around it’s gonna pour a
bunch of that in there this will mix in
it will make it a little bit more opaque
but it’ll also make it much much easier
to handle it makes it less sticky and so
you have a chance to shape it even with
the cornstarch though it sometimes is
helpful to just give it a little bit of
time it takes some time a couple of
minutes to really start curing with that
water mixed in and so if it’s too sticky
sometimes the answer is more cornstarch
but if you’ve just been mixing it for
only a minute and then the answer might
just be a wait a little bit and I should
also warn you mixing this stuff up puts
off a very strong acetic acid smell it’s
gonna smell like vinegar when you more
concentrated than an actual bottle of
vinegar from the grocery store it’s
pretty strong so good ventilation is a
while it’s coated in cornstarch it’s not
going to be sticky once all the
cornstarch gets mixed in it will start
sticking to my gloves again there it is
it just goes everywhere you know what I
already have a vacuum right next to me
so that’s alright this doesn’t actually
leak much air once it presses down this
so this brass collar actually moves up
and down and once it’s pressed down it
doesn’t leak anymore it forms a tight
seal but because we’re not screwing this
on to a flange or a valve or anything
like that it does have a little more
flexibility so we’re just gonna throw
this on just to make sure we’ve got a
nice tight seal on it okay we’ve got a
couple of decently large blankets in a
very large bag I’m not sure if we’re
able to fit both these in here but I’m
gonna try and we’re gonna see how flat
they squish just using the regular
vacuum before we move on to using
vacuum pump I am probably exceeding the
recommended total amount being put into
ha all right
yeah no I can seal this off properly
this isn’t a zipper that opens one way
and closes the other it’s just a little
tool to help you close down the to zip
all right I think that is stopped moving
that’s pretty dense I’m gonna be
interested to see how much more this can
pull out because that seems like it’s
pulled out quite a bit
it’s definitely flatter and skinnier and
they add some unintended wrinkles into
things but for storage not bad
we’ve got a suction cup should just fit
nicely on there make a nice tight seal
and they so on so yeah certainly
suctioning well to my hand probably
oh that is still getting a lot flatter
that is pulling out a lot more air so
I’m gonna say yeah we’ve got a lot more
suction power that than with our regular
vacuum cleaner oh my gosh I just want to
let more air back in and watch it go
okay I’m gonna try and just break the
seal here open the zipper and just have
all that air rushing all at once
here goes that’s fun to watch so we know
that the vacuum pump pulls a lot harder
than our vacuum cleaner and we we’ve
seen what it can do to a pair of
blankets it shrinks them down it’s
basically a board but we’re not just
gonna do this with blankets we’ve got
some other things we want to try this
with let’s see I think first off I have
a couple marshmallows I like these ones
you can even like an apple
[Music]
[Music]
marshmallows make a really tight seal
once they smoosh themselves together so
it’s not really able to pull more than
that although I don’t think there’s much
air in there except inside the confines
of the marshmallows themselves it’s kind
of just making a interesting texture
there – you ever seen those gel-like
pillows I’m just gonna do this a quick
little test oh it’s not bad pretty good
it’s also really nice for a good late
night snack just like oh man I could go
for a marshmallow next up we’ve got oh
about two gallons of Orbeez here and
we’re gonna see what happens if we try
and vacuum these this would be
at pulled in water pretty quick and then
it started pulling it or bees we managed
to pull in some Orbeez sludge into our
hose here don’t think they got so far as
to actually get into the vacuum so I
didn’t last very long but we do have one
more thing we’re gonna try with that
we’re gonna use the shop vac and it’s a
wet/dry shop vac so that gets a little
bit of water in it it’s not gonna cause
any problems it’s not gonna pull as hard
but at least it’s not gonna get Orbeez
stuck inside our nice expensive vacuum
pump so let’s try this
or bees full of water large non
compressible marshmallows full of air
unfortunately non-porous but we do have
one more thing that we want to try
that’s mostly full of air and I think is
fairly porous it should smash down quite
a bit
we’re news one of our big bags again
this time we’re gonna start with the
vacuum cleaner again our shop vac just
because there’s a good chance that some
of this popcorn could get crumbled up or
the air flow going out could pull lots
of little bits into it and that’s fine
with the shop vac again we don’t want
that to happen the vacuum pump but I’m
hoping that after it compresses down
there will be less of that dust and we
can move on to using that but let’s see
how squished it gets with just our shop
this is already quite entertaining
there’s there’s no flexibility to this
at this point all the airs been pulled
out enough that like even though this is
just single popped kernels of popcorn
like there’s no bending they’re just
pressed together so tight listen to that
that’s the sound of popcorn
all right let’s let’s try and kick this
up a notch and see what’s gonna happen
hopefully we don’t end up pulling a lot
of popcorn just into our pump there goes
I can hear all the popcorn getting
crushed I gotta try something this feels
very sturdy much more sturdy than
popcorn traditionally is yeah that’s
barely like it’s not moving and it’s
barely making any noise even like I
[Music]
wonder if you can use this to just sneak
here on popcorn into a theater maybe I
should have used the medium-sized bag
guys popcorn does compress down a little
bit all the air gets pulled out and it
just becomes really a mobile and rigid
which I thought was pretty cool that
really had a lot of strength to it I was
able to stand on it
like well it didn’t even seem like it
was moving or shifting guys if you have
any ideas of things you’d like to see us
try putting in these vacuum bags let us
know down in the comments you can
actually add a hashtag so we’re gonna
use hashtag vacuum bag can use that we
should be able to search and find it and
find all the things that link to the
video so let us know if you’ve got some
ideas guys some of our favorite projects
are about to become available as kits in
a monthly subscription like the link
down below it’d be the first to find out
what’s coming guys we’ve always got more
for you see the box up there at the top
is gonna take you directly to our last
video check that out the other box shows
you what YouTube thinks you should be
watching next that’s probably a good one
too and if you hit this bomb here in the
middle you’ll be subscribed to the
channel that way you’re never gonna miss
a cool video especially if your member
to ring that bell so you get the
notification about it we’ve seen the next one talk to you then
take a vacuum storage bag and hook it up
to a pump that has way more power than a
vacuum
[Applause]
guys I don’t know if you’ve ever seen
these vacuum storage bags before I’ve
seen commercials for them and them in
stores quite a bit I’ve never actually
used one before but I had a thought I
wanted to see just how they work and if
we can sort of up the ante a little bit
I should point out this is not a
sponsored video I have no allegiance to
this magic bag brand there’s lots of
brands out there they all work pretty
much the same way these are just the
ones that I bought at Walmart because I
wanted to try this out most of the time
these bags work with a household vacuum
or a shop vacuum you put fluffy
compressible things like clothing or
blankets into them it’s got a one-way
valve well it occurred to me that we
have some pretty powerful tools around
the shop something they can pull a lot
more air than just a regular shop vacuum
we’ve got vacuum pumps we’ve got a
couple of them this one right here this
is our harvest right vacuum pump this
thing is quite powerful I think and I
wanted to see if there’s a difference
between just using our regular shop
vacuum to pull air out and using our
vacuum pump and then I’ve got a few
ideas for things that we want to try
putting these bags that aren’t exactly
what the manufacturer recommends here’s
the basic idea these storage bags are
usually used with a household vacuum to
make your bedding and clothing smaller
well we’re gonna try attaching it to our
vacuum pump to see just how much air we
can pull out of them to start off though
we’ve got these ingredients over here
you may recognize these as the
ingredients used for proto putty proto
putty is a mixture of silicone of
water-based activator and some
cornstarch to make it easier to
manipulate if you haven’t seen this
before we’ve used this several times
you’ve got whole videos on how to make
it
it just becomes a sculptable rubber that
cures and then it’s just solid but
slightly squishy rubber forever and I
want to try using some of that to make a
seal for a vacuum pump this already
pulls pretty well if I just put it on my
hand or this valve right here but I want
to make sure it really gets a tight seal
to suck out every last bit of air that
we can get so let’s start mixing up some
proto buddy now I’ve got food coloring
and this serves two purposes one it adds
a little bit of colour to it which is
always nice but very importantly this
food coloring is water-based and the
silicone is activated by the water the
water is a very necessary step in fact
you could use plain water with no food
coloring and you’d get just sort of a
translucent
or clear or white proto putty but we
like to use the color because we can see
how much we’re putting in and it’s easy
to control and single drops now if I
just stir this up and let it sit for a
while this will care this will turn into
a proto putty but it’s immensely sticky
this right now we’ll stick to pretty
much everything it’s really hard to work
in shape so what we use is cornstarch
and can use other things too if you
wanted to use like talcum powder baby
powder which i think is mostly tough
powder you can do that as well but we
use cornstarch because it’s cheap and
it’s you know it’s edible so it’s pretty
safe to have around it’s gonna pour a
bunch of that in there this will mix in
it will make it a little bit more opaque
but it’ll also make it much much easier
to handle it makes it less sticky and so
you have a chance to shape it even with
the cornstarch though it sometimes is
helpful to just give it a little bit of
time it takes some time a couple of
minutes to really start curing with that
water mixed in and so if it’s too sticky
sometimes the answer is more cornstarch
but if you’ve just been mixing it for
only a minute and then the answer might
just be a wait a little bit and I should
also warn you mixing this stuff up puts
off a very strong acetic acid smell it’s
gonna smell like vinegar when you more
concentrated than an actual bottle of
vinegar from the grocery store it’s
pretty strong so good ventilation is a
while it’s coated in cornstarch it’s not
going to be sticky once all the
cornstarch gets mixed in it will start
sticking to my gloves again there it is
it just goes everywhere you know what I
already have a vacuum right next to me
so that’s alright this doesn’t actually
leak much air once it presses down this
so this brass collar actually moves up
and down and once it’s pressed down it
doesn’t leak anymore it forms a tight
seal but because we’re not screwing this
on to a flange or a valve or anything
like that it does have a little more
flexibility so we’re just gonna throw
this on just to make sure we’ve got a
nice tight seal on it okay we’ve got a
couple of decently large blankets in a
very large bag I’m not sure if we’re
able to fit both these in here but I’m
gonna try and we’re gonna see how flat
they squish just using the regular
vacuum before we move on to using
vacuum pump I am probably exceeding the
recommended total amount being put into
ha all right
yeah no I can seal this off properly
this isn’t a zipper that opens one way
and closes the other it’s just a little
tool to help you close down the to zip
all right I think that is stopped moving
that’s pretty dense I’m gonna be
interested to see how much more this can
pull out because that seems like it’s
pulled out quite a bit
it’s definitely flatter and skinnier and
they add some unintended wrinkles into
things but for storage not bad
we’ve got a suction cup should just fit
nicely on there make a nice tight seal
and they so on so yeah certainly
suctioning well to my hand probably
oh that is still getting a lot flatter
that is pulling out a lot more air so
I’m gonna say yeah we’ve got a lot more
suction power that than with our regular
vacuum cleaner oh my gosh I just want to
let more air back in and watch it go
okay I’m gonna try and just break the
seal here open the zipper and just have
all that air rushing all at once
here goes that’s fun to watch so we know
that the vacuum pump pulls a lot harder
than our vacuum cleaner and we we’ve
seen what it can do to a pair of
blankets it shrinks them down it’s
basically a board but we’re not just
gonna do this with blankets we’ve got
some other things we want to try this
with let’s see I think first off I have
a couple marshmallows I like these ones
you can even like an apple
[Music]
[Music]
marshmallows make a really tight seal
once they smoosh themselves together so
it’s not really able to pull more than
that although I don’t think there’s much
air in there except inside the confines
of the marshmallows themselves it’s kind
of just making a interesting texture
there – you ever seen those gel-like
pillows I’m just gonna do this a quick
little test oh it’s not bad pretty good
it’s also really nice for a good late
night snack just like oh man I could go
for a marshmallow next up we’ve got oh
about two gallons of Orbeez here and
we’re gonna see what happens if we try
and vacuum these this would be
at pulled in water pretty quick and then
it started pulling it or bees we managed
to pull in some Orbeez sludge into our
hose here don’t think they got so far as
to actually get into the vacuum so I
didn’t last very long but we do have one
more thing we’re gonna try with that
we’re gonna use the shop vac and it’s a
wet/dry shop vac so that gets a little
bit of water in it it’s not gonna cause
any problems it’s not gonna pull as hard
but at least it’s not gonna get Orbeez
stuck inside our nice expensive vacuum
pump so let’s try this
or bees full of water large non
compressible marshmallows full of air
unfortunately non-porous but we do have
one more thing that we want to try
that’s mostly full of air and I think is
fairly porous it should smash down quite
a bit
we’re news one of our big bags again
this time we’re gonna start with the
vacuum cleaner again our shop vac just
because there’s a good chance that some
of this popcorn could get crumbled up or
the air flow going out could pull lots
of little bits into it and that’s fine
with the shop vac again we don’t want
that to happen the vacuum pump but I’m
hoping that after it compresses down
there will be less of that dust and we
can move on to using that but let’s see
how squished it gets with just our shop
this is already quite entertaining
there’s there’s no flexibility to this
at this point all the airs been pulled
out enough that like even though this is
just single popped kernels of popcorn
like there’s no bending they’re just
pressed together so tight listen to that
that’s the sound of popcorn
all right let’s let’s try and kick this
up a notch and see what’s gonna happen
hopefully we don’t end up pulling a lot
of popcorn just into our pump there goes
I can hear all the popcorn getting
crushed I gotta try something this feels
very sturdy much more sturdy than
popcorn traditionally is yeah that’s
barely like it’s not moving and it’s
barely making any noise even like I
[Music]
wonder if you can use this to just sneak
here on popcorn into a theater maybe I
should have used the medium-sized bag
guys popcorn does compress down a little
bit all the air gets pulled out and it
just becomes really a mobile and rigid
which I thought was pretty cool that
really had a lot of strength to it I was
able to stand on it
like well it didn’t even seem like it
was moving or shifting guys if you have
any ideas of things you’d like to see us
try putting in these vacuum bags let us
know down in the comments you can
actually add a hashtag so we’re gonna
use hashtag vacuum bag can use that we
should be able to search and find it and
find all the things that link to the
video so let us know if you’ve got some
ideas guys some of our favorite projects
are about to become available as kits in
a monthly subscription like the link
down below it’d be the first to find out
what’s coming guys we’ve always got more
for you see the box up there at the top
is gonna take you directly to our last
video check that out the other box shows
you what YouTube thinks you should be
watching next that’s probably a good one
too and if you hit this bomb here in the
middle you’ll be subscribed to the
channel that way you’re never gonna miss
a cool video especially if your member
to ring that bell so you get the
notification about it we’ve seen the next one talk to you then
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