FYI you can do this with 2 car batteries in series, so 24v. my welder is only 18v at 200 amps, 2 car batteries will put out about the same power 👍As for the BB's, i got them from ebay. search "steel shot blasting". Mine were size s460, about 1mm. I also got the Silicon Bronze from ebay, but it can be pretty expensive. Wisconson Wire Works also sells it for around $6.90 a pound. But you can find broken rolls on eBay for really cheap sometimes. I was using 3/8 carbon gouging rods as electrodes to melt the bb's. Steel or copper would just fuse to the sculpture. As for the batteries you would wire them on series for 24V. If that's not enough get another one or two. You can get used batteries for cheap at junkyards. Like $30 each. You need heavy duty wire rated for 200 amps. Positive on top or bottom doesnt matter. It won't work as well as the welder because the welder has a high voltage start that helps it start an arc at longer distances. You would want to stick both ends in the bb's, THEN connect the wire to power.. It would be a bad idea to just connect the wire in your hand directly to the battery terminal, it will spark and vaporize lead with every strike. You would be better off connecting a short length of wire to the battery terminal and using that to complete the circuit. And instead of just touching the two wires togeather you would want to find a way to securely connect them, and remember you are moving a lot of current so the connections need to be robust, the thinnest part will control how much current flows.

Florida man attacks mailbox, seriously injuring himself in the process

BYS: “ SO HOT!” also him *Proceeds touching hot metal*

Alternate title: Backyard Scientist repeatedly forgets metal is hot

INCREDIBLE!! Though, from the thumbnail, I thought you were gonna make molds of the fulgurites, cast them in glass, fill them with argon, and make custom plasma globes!

2:50 " I like having RETINAS " -Florida Boy 2020

Backyardscientist: “Ow... that’s hot!” *Proceeds to hold it with no protection*

*Literally melts sand* *Touches it" Ooh, that's hot!

The amount of burns and bandages gives you a small hint of how hard it is to make the stuff he does.

"to fuze these steel balls together" Yup that's the spirit Florida man

I was really expecting an April fools day twist to pop up out of no where.

I was a seasonal worker for a rubber works factory when I was 19. We mostly used the metal shot in large high pressure hoses. Looked a lot like a fireman's hose on a hydrolic arm. It rips clothes and can pierce skin but it had never hurt me that bad. The helmet it came with had an air flow into the mask but I don't think it had an exhaust so it was suffocating

5:53 “daddy saw” 😂

I love that he's doing all of this a few centimetres away from an iMac

I guess you could call it An _ELECTRICITREE!!_

Backyard scientist: puts brains and effort in experiment Me: 5:32 voice crack

I like how this guy has been doing the same thing for so many years and how he's made so much money but he's still the same person

Flippin sweet

"But how do i grab it its still kind of hot" Me: gloves

It’s amazing how much the metallic petrified lighting looks exactly like native copper veins

Very cool, like always. I always learn something from your videos. Thank you for sharing!

New Intro: "Welcome to my backyard were safety is the last priority."

Fun fact: Steel balls are also required for many of the experiments on this channel.

I love your energy and enthusiasm, keep it up 👍

I absolutely love it when you could use science to make beautiful art. 😁👌✌️

Imagine being that person who's mailbox got hulk smashed by a scientist riding their bike for fun and sues them for 10 dollars.

"you should see he other guy, lets just say I delivered a message to him."

Found your videos about a year later looking through random videos I always tried to find your channel again now I finally can enjoy watching experiments

Saw a short from Hank Green about making lightning in acrylic with a particle accelerator, and it reminded me of this

Other science channel: Using a proper equipment for protection BYS: Maybe i should wear this 🤷

Holy cow there’s a freaking gator behind him 6:33

Those beads are for sand blasting I think, we have those at our Job (where we paint big metal items in a giant furnace) and it's how we quickly clean off old paint or smoothes edges! It's lovely to work with an item that has gone through it.

That was awesome reminds me of the bolts you captured in glass and the ones you did with wood once again awesome keep it up.

This is like real life chorus fruit

Now when he inevitably become the backyard MAD scientist, we know his only weakness; mailboxes.

Before 2010: stem (science, technology, engineering, math) after 2010: steam (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) after 2019: stream (science, technology, religion, engineering, art, math)

This is my third video from this channel and this one warranted a “subscribe” -great casual lighthearted delivery of super cool science fun stuff 😎

"this video is sponsored by helmets. NO!" *Throws helmet* That's my Kevin!

“No, I didn’t get in some industrial accident.” Why do I feel an overwhelming desire to press X?

One of your videos popped up in my suggested and, just like when I found #MrBallen, I am hooked and now bingewatching every episode. Awesome channel dude

You gotta love when the intro shows someone throwing an object and the object is being zoomed in on and followed by the camera perfectly.

Forget Nord VPN or Raid Shadow Legends you need to be sponsored by GLOVES

Kind of reminds me of when I watched a guy pour liquid metal into an ant hill

God of a science: Backyard

I used to love doing tinker crates! I would be so excited for it to come in the mail. This just reminded me of my childhood

1:24 He's been holding onto the hot rod for like 15 seconds until he noticed it was hot lol

When every second of the video you're wondering if anything is real

this video tells a journey.....just start doing whatever you can and put in all your effort you can and end result will be beautiful always

This is awesome, thanks! Pretty sure I'm going to have to try this myself.

8:25 it's so cool, still hot still hot, it's so cool . . . ... Pls make up your mind

Every video I'm seeming from this channel ranges in how high the natural volume is and I can't even tell if it's mic quality because each have a pretty solid audio quality to the naked ear.

Queen Elizabeth: I am the most invincible person Backyard scientist’s cameraman: “laughs in invincible”

“I like having retinas” man this is accurate, you get used to it eventually though

BYS: “Still kinda hot... ooh!” *proceeds to touch and grab metal*

Loved every second of it.

The kiwi co dog in the background 🤣

Fantastic!

"That's so cool! That's still hot!" Make up your mind ;P

2:05 I work at a steel mill and they call those steel bbs “shot” and their used to stop metal from pouring out of the fixtures we use etc

You're such a nerd and i love it haha, just discovered your page and been watching your videos. You''re a mad scientist, try not to burn any body parts!

i like he how he's welding 50 pounds of metal with a $3000 iMac 2 feet away.

3:33 freshly lighted(baked) metal crisps 😃😃

_TBS, You should try this with the MIG Wire bits and Glass Beads like they use in glass bead blasting. You could experiment with different colored beads and sizes. If it works the light will diffract through the glass. You might even be able to illuminate it through the base with LED's._

I did this with the sand at the ship yard and those same exact bbs you had all the time in ship yard qith a arc gouging rod and my stick welding lines lol it looked so cool and helpers who was like 18 had no clue how or even why it did that lmao I was 21 at the time and was a first class fitter for 5 years there but we did all kinds of cool things with electricity and welding machines just playing around when not super busy

Dado (DAY-doe). For those playing along at home; its like a wide table saw blade for cutting a wide grove, or dado, into a piece of wood. Comes with several blade sections and shims to get you anywhere from 1/8” to ~1” cut.

It’s awesome to see how you gathered more and more knowledge about electrics over the years

hilarious, entertaining, informative, educational, interesting. this is why youre the goat.

I haven’t even Watch the video yet and I’m already so excited because petrified lightning is just so cool it also burns hotter than the surface of the sun to get well the petrified lightning

Why didn’t I come across this mans sooner? He’s cool, legit, cringey at times, but not too overdone, and is still entertaining. Keep up the good work, bucko.

i sympathize with your arm incident, when i learned how to ride a bike as a kid one of the first things i did was crash face first into my neighbors mailbox. the bike kept going and i did not.

Lol you being excited to grab the super hot metal made me think of me being so hungry I don’t wait for the hot pocket to cool off 😂 Very cool video :)

Definitely your coolest project

Alternative title: Professional dipstick scientist experiments with electricity - burns self repeatedly.

ah yes, the electricity is made out of electricity

How can anyone give this a thumbs down??? That was awesome and so creative!

Bro this is a great product idea no cap

I love how when you pour the metal bbs, it fits perfectly Into the pan!!! So satisfying:)

Dude you're wild! I love this channel. I've learned so much because of you.

Never seen a more satisfying video

I wonder what a finer grit steel shot would look like? It might melt a little easier than the s460. Either way, that was an interesting idea you had. Worked out well.

Totally forgot to rewatch your vids!

I legit thought this was gonna ba a April fools joke

This guy is good, I'm hooked

3:40 got the strong impression of a catbox X'D pulling a metal turd covered in metal litter out of a metal catbox - so metal, maaaan!

10:06 I love the way the fulgurites glow in the dark

I was so anxious watching this. You should've worn insulating gloves while doing this. I know of a man who died trying to create lightning patterns with high voltage on a table.

Great thumbnail idea! Keep up the good work my man

LOVE LOVE LOVE the Glow in the dark version. What would you suggest for the glow pigment?

4:09 minecraft chorus fruit trees bee like:

i swear to god, ive never laughed so hard when that mailbox thing came up!

Have you tried sending those petrified lightning figures to a coral project? Because it might be useful for growing coral

Something tells me this guy and the ather would be very funny to not only talk to but hang out with, very funny and interesting 😁

That’s so cool! Wish I had the tools to make one of these myself! :o

You know it’s going to be good when you combine him and high-voltages.

1:23 are you a Tie-Fighter? 😂😂😂

That why I love science. Science is beautiful

As I was watching this I realized that the scrapes are on his left arm. That means when he hit the mailbox he was on the wrong side of the road.

i'm just waiting for the day he looses a limb.

I grow something like this in my kitchen, I use a small electrical charge to induce the growth pattern in ammonium phosphate. The crystals grow like an electrical tree... but isn't that how trees grow anyway!

This bb's are used for grinding concrete floors before coating those floors with some kind of resin