I'm Dan

We're the Slow Mo Guys

...without our lab coats

Yeah, we've actually got these very fashionable

sort of space-suit-things

Little bit of Babylon Zoo

They are!

I feel like I should be playing like a robot the whole time like

Yeah

Where, uh, where are we right now?

We're at the Metal Casting Research Lab at Purdue University

And we're going to be doing some molten metal pouring

on to this plate

I'll stop you there

Not just any metal, right, you can- I've seen, you know, videos of melted aluminium being poured

but that melts at 600°C, but we're doing-

CHILD'S PLAY

-Nothing, isn't it? Nothing

You can do that in the back garden

This is copper, which melts at over 1085°

and we're going to be pouring it at 1200°C, over 2000° Fahrenheit

I'm thinking for this one, resolution is going to make this a lot nicer than speed

so we'll film it at 1000 frames a second, but in 4K

uh, first we'll get a light on it, and I think after that, we'll just let it- we'll expose to its own glow

so, it'll just be kinda surreal molten droplets splashing in 4K

I think it's gonna be class

I think it'll be class, too

Yeah

Well, now that we're agreed on the fact that it'll be class

let's move on

Havin' a bit of an issue, here

What's up?

Basically, I'm, uh, pretty scared

Yeah

obviously 1200° hot, molten copper

and, uh

Heh

I've got these to pour it with, and I'm like

Heeeh meeeheh

Trying to practice with it

and by the time I've, like, got the grip, right? I'm like "ok, yeah, I'm ready"

it's already solidified

You're going to be pouring it in like *shakes camera*

Yeah, hah oooooahaaa

it's heavy, cuz' it's a thing full of metal

and I've gotta grab it with this and pour it

you know

Yeah

It's not easy, cuz' it's 1200° in a minute, but then as soon as it goes below, sort of

what is it?

1085

Then it, uh

it solidifies.

So we got very few- very small amount time to be able to pour it

You always forget that about metal, it's that, when it's liquid, it's still metal

Yeah., it's still heavy

Alright, here we go

You wanna be up higher than this, right?

OK

Ready?

Cool

Got it?

Yup

Step back

Did you get hit?

You alright?

Awesome

You get it?

Yeah

*Sighs*

You got my hand

Really?

Yeah

Nooo

You alright?

Yup

You can't really push the button with these things

*ambient slow motion noise*

*speed up sound*

*ambient slow motion noise*

How did that go?

It went well

I didn't chicken out

It was a good aim, you went really high, and it landed straight on the, kinda, pan

Was quite happy with that

it's quite, like, distracting and a lot of pressure when you've got

m-molten copper at 1200° in your hand and you're like, trying to aim it

Right, let's show off the little splat that we've got

So that went nice

I think what we'll do now, for a bit of variation,

is, repeat the experiment, we'll turn off the lights, though

and I'm gonna go wide open on this lens

so hopefully, it'll- it'll just be illuminated by its red-hotness.

Woo

ahaha

You alright?

Yeah

hah

It's gone everywhere

*ambient slow motion noise*

You did well to get it in focus, actually *ambient slow motion noise*

th-the focus that I gave you is about an inch *ambient slow motion noise*

and, you s- you're nailing it *ambient slow motion noise*

That quality... *ambient slow motion noise*

I love that *ambient slow motion noise*

This is one of those things, I could just watch this all day *ambient slow motion noise*

this could be a screensaver for me *ambient slow motion noise*

That looked deluxe

It looked like melted metal rain

perfect balls of glowing hot metal falling and then just splashing.

And it's- it's the exact same as water where it just turns into individual droplets by the time it hits

so you get loads of lovely splashes.

Yeah

Very surreal looking

Rain doesn't glow-

Haha yeah

-spreads everywhere and burns people in an instant.

You got me! You got me in the hand

I was actually aiming for you, I was like "That wasn't high enough last time"

Yeah keep going keep going

Thankfully, we didn't crack a lens, and uh, just some skin got burnt on mine.

Once again, the glowing hot metal where I get burnt and you don't, I don't know how that keeps happening

HOH

AH

FU- AH

AH HAHA

*Bleeeeeep*

Yeah, I was standing next to it, pouring it

but to be fair, when I was watching, cuz' you were watching the camera, I was pouring it here,

and it spread, you know, a good couple of meters, everywhere, like liquid metal pouring all over the place

you could probably find balls of it all over the floor

Well, hopefully you enjoyed that video

please let us know if you like these science lab experiments, cuz' we can do more.

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He's- We got a second channel, too

You done? You finished?

Yeahah