oh yeah look at that that’s beautiful
hey what’s up guys welcome back to the
workshop I’m hanging out again with my
buddy Nate and we are getting ready to
play with some colored pyrotechnics we
scrolled down into the comments and
found this request from Benjamin Yonkers
that says make colored smoke bombs polls
polls polls making colored smoke this is
something that I’ve been trying to do
for about six years with common ordinary
chemicals I’ve tried using colored
crayons I’ve tried potassium nitrate
I’ve tried all the recipes I found
online in all different variations with
absolutely no success I’ve also reached
out to my friend nurdrage and contacted
pyrotechnic companies and the feedback
I’m getting from all these sources is
those recipes online may not actually
work if you’ve tried any of them
yourself you probably understand my
frustration so in this video we’re going
to show you step by step how to make
colored smoke bombs that actually work
now unfortunately we do have to crush
your expectations to get this to
actually work we had to reach out to a
pyrotechnics company and order
specialized chemicals but now that we’ve
got them we’re gonna tell you what they
are and what recipes we’re using to
achieve these results I think we can all
be proud of the chemicals we’re using
for this recipe our potassium chlorate
lactose magnesium carbonate Industrial
dyes and good old-fashioned baking soda
now I got my potassium chlorate and
lactose from a pyrotechnic supply
company you can synthesize potassium
chloride however it’s not very easy or
practical to do at home
now lactose on the other hand you’ve
heard of people being lactose intolerant
and that’s because lactose is extracted
from cow’s milk that’s where this stuff
came from how does this stuff taste it’s
a little bit sweet but I wouldn’t
recommend eating it by itself or if you
mix it with water and make milk
magnesium carbonate is an inorganic salt
that’s obtained by mining a mineral
called magnesite so this stuff feels
kind of like powdered sugar but it’s
even lighter and less dense the
industrial dyes you see here came from a
company called walrus enterprises now
they deal on massive scale they’re used
to dealing in 50 pounds or more so for
me to get 1-pound samples was very
difficult and very expensive but here
they are
and of course household baking soda
which you can pick up at the grocery
store
so before we color our smoke the plan is
to make a double batch of all the white
ingredients so we’ll separate those into
six different piles then we’ll measure
out the dyes and add those to the six
different piles giving us our different
colors in theory so that’ll give us six
different samples to play with so we can
test whether or not they’re even gonna
work let’s get busy
[Music]
so here are guys we have a hundred and
twenty-eight grams of our smoke
composition and base the recipe that we
used was 27% potassium chlorate 18%
lactose 16% magnesium carbonate and 3%
baking soda so we’re gonna do now is
divide this white powder into six
different piles just over 21 grams each
we’re gonna measure out 12 grams of each
of the colored dyes mix those in and
theoretically we should get some colored
smoke
[Music]
now we’ve just made our first
composition here this is the yellow
smoke we put it in a penny wrapper with
a fuse sticking out the top here we’re
just gonna test this off to make sure
they even work at all oh yeah look at
that that’s beautiful
oh that’s beautiful and a very rich
yellow it looks like we got the ratio
right if this were too little it
wouldn’t be burning off at all if it was
too much the dye would actually be
turning black so we found a very good
ratio here ooh and it’s getting hot spit
dang so our first test was very
successful getting them to go off in the
penny wrappers my question now is what
happens if we just let this burn in the
open air so let’s set the powder down in
a brick and use a lit fuse to see if we
can get into the night ready ha ha if
you just kind of blows it away whoa
oh look a little bit of it’s burning oh
and it’s spreading yeah a little bit of
it’s burning it did catch and I
definitely see yellow smoke coming off
that that is thick yellow smoke I got to
back away whoa that’s uh some of
yesterday’s flash powder now it looks
like we are pollinating the neighborhood
all right guys I’m calling that a
success yellow smoke bomb is in the bag
let’s go load up six more
[Music]
alright guys update now that we know
that our test smoke bomb worked
we divided all the powder up into tubes
and we got 21 different smoke bombs that
was enough for 3 from every color and we
had a little bit extra so we have three
that are all of the colors mixed
together so now that we know these
things work there’s only one thing left
to do that’s to take them outside line
them all up and let them off at the same
time so we can see how all the colors
work together through outside we’re
gonna set off a test of blue smoke
grenade just so we can see which way the
wind is blowing then we’ve got a whole
line up we’re gonna set up all at once
[Music]
you’re on the GoPro
[Music]
that was kind of interesting we had all
kinds of different colors there we had
like violets blues live with gray smoke
but I’m calling that a success because
it was colored so let’s go ahead and get
the whole lineup and let them off at
once
[Music]
there we go
we’re all kind of going the wrong way
let’s look at that there
[Music]
and still went for the white car
that’s pretty cool all right so that
first test didn’t really work out so
well we actually lined everything up so
the smoke was blowing right in line with
each other so this time we’ve offset it
a little bit we should get a little bit
better flow
[Music]
I got him that’s why we have a backup so
that’s pretty red has such beautiful
orange in it
so that one worked a lot better we
actually put it so that the wind was
blowing it this way and we could see all
the colors you could see we actually had
red orange yellow blue we had two violet
we had the black all didn’t seem to work
really really well in this mixed color
wasn’t just black smoke was it Nate yeah
I was just kind of a black mix with
maroon a really dark purple maybe found
like an Ursula purple that’s like that
dark evil purple which is really really
fun
we got a few left over so we’re just
doing it one more time
[Music]
so from our experiences so far guys it
looks like these are working every
single time we’re getting very
consistent colors we’ve got thick smoke
everything looks really good so for one
final experiment why don’t we make a
legitimate smoke grenade out of PVC pipe
light it off and throw it off and see
how that goes
[Music]
to update guys we just made some really
cool looking smoke grenades each of them
are a different color and there’s quite
a bit of composition so they should burn
a little longer I’m thinking these will
actually be safe to hold on to the
bottom of it before it heats up too much
so I’m gonna try that I’m gonna hold
this in my hand light it off and watch
the smoke walked off and observe the
results light it up cool
moment of truth is it going to work it’s
a red smoke her name gonna work Booya I
think that’s the yes oh that’s gorgeous
look at that look at the way it’s
wafting up into clouds they’re gorgeous
you know what awesome thing is you could
probably throw this thing like smoke
grenade style and just like have it roll
into a building if you’re playing
airsoft or paintball would that be an
epic smoke grenade I’m gonna go get that
before it stains this it’s still going
that was awesome we got three more let’s
light another one
[Music]
yes yes Wow mine spitting off little
there’s the grill oh that’s coming
coming that is actually pretty we’ll
look at that dicking Hut
no whoa that’s beautiful
let’s interchange and what’s mixing like
this that’s getting done yep yep it is
that was amazing
that’s a lot of smoke the PVC actually
is a better thermal insulator in this
case didn’t steal that steal got really
really hot
the PVC worked out really nicely though
I can hold this and it’s actually really
cool to the touch the steel on the other
hand you got to like play hot potato
with it that is quite warm quite warm to
the touch
what would have been cool is if we would
have juggled these while they were
blowing smoke that would have been epic
any case I think we’ve got a pretty good
show we learned something here we got
colored smoke to work I’m calling that a
success so you have a guys that’s how
use potassium chlorate lactose a little
bit of baking soda and some colored dye
to make yourself some colored smoke with
the right way the way that actually
works and a huge shout out to our friend
Benjamin Yonkers for putting this
suggestion down in the comments below
you can go check your youtube inbox
Benjamin we’re sending you 25 bucks
we’ve got a lot of materials left over
so if there’s anything you want to see
us do with it tell us about it in the
comments that’s right and thanks for
joining us for this experiment today
guys we’ll be looking for you the next
one to talk to you man oh look at that
you can actually see like all the ash
leftover on the inside wonder if that
means these could be reusable
smoke here we got a hey guys I want to
jump back in for just a second to invite
you to come follow me on Instagram
I’ve got a very active page where I post
daily pictures and stories of behind the
scenes and every day is an adventure
just take five seconds right now to
click the link in the description to
come follow me on instagram at the king
of random I’ll see you there
[Music]
hey what’s up guys welcome back to the
workshop I’m hanging out again with my
buddy Nate and we are getting ready to
play with some colored pyrotechnics we
scrolled down into the comments and
found this request from Benjamin Yonkers
that says make colored smoke bombs polls
polls polls making colored smoke this is
something that I’ve been trying to do
for about six years with common ordinary
chemicals I’ve tried using colored
crayons I’ve tried potassium nitrate
I’ve tried all the recipes I found
online in all different variations with
absolutely no success I’ve also reached
out to my friend nurdrage and contacted
pyrotechnic companies and the feedback
I’m getting from all these sources is
those recipes online may not actually
work if you’ve tried any of them
yourself you probably understand my
frustration so in this video we’re going
to show you step by step how to make
colored smoke bombs that actually work
now unfortunately we do have to crush
your expectations to get this to
actually work we had to reach out to a
pyrotechnics company and order
specialized chemicals but now that we’ve
got them we’re gonna tell you what they
are and what recipes we’re using to
achieve these results I think we can all
be proud of the chemicals we’re using
for this recipe our potassium chlorate
lactose magnesium carbonate Industrial
dyes and good old-fashioned baking soda
now I got my potassium chlorate and
lactose from a pyrotechnic supply
company you can synthesize potassium
chloride however it’s not very easy or
practical to do at home
now lactose on the other hand you’ve
heard of people being lactose intolerant
and that’s because lactose is extracted
from cow’s milk that’s where this stuff
came from how does this stuff taste it’s
a little bit sweet but I wouldn’t
recommend eating it by itself or if you
mix it with water and make milk
magnesium carbonate is an inorganic salt
that’s obtained by mining a mineral
called magnesite so this stuff feels
kind of like powdered sugar but it’s
even lighter and less dense the
industrial dyes you see here came from a
company called walrus enterprises now
they deal on massive scale they’re used
to dealing in 50 pounds or more so for
me to get 1-pound samples was very
difficult and very expensive but here
they are
and of course household baking soda
which you can pick up at the grocery
store
so before we color our smoke the plan is
to make a double batch of all the white
ingredients so we’ll separate those into
six different piles then we’ll measure
out the dyes and add those to the six
different piles giving us our different
colors in theory so that’ll give us six
different samples to play with so we can
test whether or not they’re even gonna
work let’s get busy
[Music]
so here are guys we have a hundred and
twenty-eight grams of our smoke
composition and base the recipe that we
used was 27% potassium chlorate 18%
lactose 16% magnesium carbonate and 3%
baking soda so we’re gonna do now is
divide this white powder into six
different piles just over 21 grams each
we’re gonna measure out 12 grams of each
of the colored dyes mix those in and
theoretically we should get some colored
smoke
[Music]
now we’ve just made our first
composition here this is the yellow
smoke we put it in a penny wrapper with
a fuse sticking out the top here we’re
just gonna test this off to make sure
they even work at all oh yeah look at
that that’s beautiful
oh that’s beautiful and a very rich
yellow it looks like we got the ratio
right if this were too little it
wouldn’t be burning off at all if it was
too much the dye would actually be
turning black so we found a very good
ratio here ooh and it’s getting hot spit
dang so our first test was very
successful getting them to go off in the
penny wrappers my question now is what
happens if we just let this burn in the
open air so let’s set the powder down in
a brick and use a lit fuse to see if we
can get into the night ready ha ha if
you just kind of blows it away whoa
oh look a little bit of it’s burning oh
and it’s spreading yeah a little bit of
it’s burning it did catch and I
definitely see yellow smoke coming off
that that is thick yellow smoke I got to
back away whoa that’s uh some of
yesterday’s flash powder now it looks
like we are pollinating the neighborhood
all right guys I’m calling that a
success yellow smoke bomb is in the bag
let’s go load up six more
[Music]
alright guys update now that we know
that our test smoke bomb worked
we divided all the powder up into tubes
and we got 21 different smoke bombs that
was enough for 3 from every color and we
had a little bit extra so we have three
that are all of the colors mixed
together so now that we know these
things work there’s only one thing left
to do that’s to take them outside line
them all up and let them off at the same
time so we can see how all the colors
work together through outside we’re
gonna set off a test of blue smoke
grenade just so we can see which way the
wind is blowing then we’ve got a whole
line up we’re gonna set up all at once
[Music]
you’re on the GoPro
[Music]
that was kind of interesting we had all
kinds of different colors there we had
like violets blues live with gray smoke
but I’m calling that a success because
it was colored so let’s go ahead and get
the whole lineup and let them off at
once
[Music]
there we go
we’re all kind of going the wrong way
let’s look at that there
[Music]
and still went for the white car
that’s pretty cool all right so that
first test didn’t really work out so
well we actually lined everything up so
the smoke was blowing right in line with
each other so this time we’ve offset it
a little bit we should get a little bit
better flow
[Music]
I got him that’s why we have a backup so
that’s pretty red has such beautiful
orange in it
so that one worked a lot better we
actually put it so that the wind was
blowing it this way and we could see all
the colors you could see we actually had
red orange yellow blue we had two violet
we had the black all didn’t seem to work
really really well in this mixed color
wasn’t just black smoke was it Nate yeah
I was just kind of a black mix with
maroon a really dark purple maybe found
like an Ursula purple that’s like that
dark evil purple which is really really
fun
we got a few left over so we’re just
doing it one more time
[Music]
so from our experiences so far guys it
looks like these are working every
single time we’re getting very
consistent colors we’ve got thick smoke
everything looks really good so for one
final experiment why don’t we make a
legitimate smoke grenade out of PVC pipe
light it off and throw it off and see
how that goes
[Music]
to update guys we just made some really
cool looking smoke grenades each of them
are a different color and there’s quite
a bit of composition so they should burn
a little longer I’m thinking these will
actually be safe to hold on to the
bottom of it before it heats up too much
so I’m gonna try that I’m gonna hold
this in my hand light it off and watch
the smoke walked off and observe the
results light it up cool
moment of truth is it going to work it’s
a red smoke her name gonna work Booya I
think that’s the yes oh that’s gorgeous
look at that look at the way it’s
wafting up into clouds they’re gorgeous
you know what awesome thing is you could
probably throw this thing like smoke
grenade style and just like have it roll
into a building if you’re playing
airsoft or paintball would that be an
epic smoke grenade I’m gonna go get that
before it stains this it’s still going
that was awesome we got three more let’s
light another one
[Music]
yes yes Wow mine spitting off little
there’s the grill oh that’s coming
coming that is actually pretty we’ll
look at that dicking Hut
no whoa that’s beautiful
let’s interchange and what’s mixing like
this that’s getting done yep yep it is
that was amazing
that’s a lot of smoke the PVC actually
is a better thermal insulator in this
case didn’t steal that steal got really
really hot
the PVC worked out really nicely though
I can hold this and it’s actually really
cool to the touch the steel on the other
hand you got to like play hot potato
with it that is quite warm quite warm to
the touch
what would have been cool is if we would
have juggled these while they were
blowing smoke that would have been epic
any case I think we’ve got a pretty good
show we learned something here we got
colored smoke to work I’m calling that a
success so you have a guys that’s how
use potassium chlorate lactose a little
bit of baking soda and some colored dye
to make yourself some colored smoke with
the right way the way that actually
works and a huge shout out to our friend
Benjamin Yonkers for putting this
suggestion down in the comments below
you can go check your youtube inbox
Benjamin we’re sending you 25 bucks
we’ve got a lot of materials left over
so if there’s anything you want to see
us do with it tell us about it in the
comments that’s right and thanks for
joining us for this experiment today
guys we’ll be looking for you the next
one to talk to you man oh look at that
you can actually see like all the ash
leftover on the inside wonder if that
means these could be reusable
smoke here we got a hey guys I want to
jump back in for just a second to invite
you to come follow me on Instagram
I’ve got a very active page where I post
daily pictures and stories of behind the
scenes and every day is an adventure
just take five seconds right now to
click the link in the description to
come follow me on instagram at the king
of random I’ll see you there
[Music]
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