Smelting a Poisonous Cup
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Before learning to smelt more difficult metals, I start out learning how to smelt lead, and create a cup that would be toxic to use, as well as some more useful items as well. Along the way I visit the lead mines of Galena, Illinois and learn about the history in the area as well.
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"Be careful with lead, it is toxic"
Cody's Lab: "hold my mercury"
yum mercury
You mean plutonium
Pure mercury is not toxic at all
Cody is formally educated in geology and chemistry. He knows what forms of a substance are toxic, which ones are not, and the proper handling of these substances. Because he knows what he's doing, he can take appropriate precautions to confidently do things that may be borderline hazardous.
On this channel, he's just a guy with a camera trying things out. He does NOT know what is hazardous and what is not, so he must be extra cautious in handling toxic substances.
Cody also basically ended his mining series when he found high levels of lead in the ground he was digging. That should tell you something
Andy : We're gonna take as many safety precautions as possible.
Cody : Hey guys today I'll be squirting molten lead through the gap between my teeth.
I laughed so hard at this.
"I've surrounded my mouth in mercury to stop the molten lead from burning my mouth, along with that i have some solid sodium to have an easy way out in case of an emergency " - The insane(er) version of Cody
That was mercury, not molten lead.
just by the way as a professional dumbass I once licked lead... I was fine, or maybe I damaged my brain, but didn't notice it
Mercury not molten lead. Very similar though.
Be sure to keep some galena. it can be used as a semi-conductor to craft a foxhole radio in the future
At first, I thought you were referring to gallium arsenide diodes, which I believe people do use in at least modern crystal radios, but sure enough, galena is one of the crystals used in crystal radios. Learned something new. Thanks.
He's going to have to smelt copper and draw it into a wire to form the antenna and the coil.
This is an excellent episode idea for his next series: explore how much sooner we *could* have had certain technologies. Everything we needed to make radio broadcasts existed by 2,000 BC, including crystal detectors, copper coils, shellac for insulating the wires, magnetite for making the speakers/microphones, and batteries to power transmitters. The finest artisans of ancient Greece could definitely have made a vacuum tube.
@@andrewakrause the bulb part, sure. the vacuum part, not so much
@@herzogsbuick I thought the same at first, but then i remembered a Cody's lab video, where he shows a vaccum pump that only uses mercury dripping through a glass tube. upon research is called "Sprengel Pump", so they could in theory build a fully functional vaccum tube at the time
@@herzogsbuick It's a pretty impressive aparatus as well, being able to produce way better vaccums then needed in a vaccum tube
Andy: be careful, lead is toxic.
Cody: can lead be used a substitute for chewing gum?
Indium is a better choice. Cody has chewed on Indium before. :)
It can
You will get poisoned tho
"In the future it will be useful for things like radiation shielding" Andy how long are you going to keep this going
@@Ravenist if anybody could it'd be Andy and Annalise. She'd probably make the radiation suits...
@Frederick Beck wish they would collab
I can't help but wonder if someday he's gonna build a rocket and put a satellite in orbit...
@@dynagoat7374 He's gonna build a rocket, put his nephew in it, then it'll tip over when he tries to use it.
How to make the nuke from Hiroshima
Andy:ok so basically we will need to go to our nucealer power plant and...
That outro deserved a separate music video
that ending will be talked about for decades to come
XD
"Lead caused hallucinations" Awh yeah boi pop some lead and I'm sweatin'
Inb4 a massive wave of kids getting lead poisoning storms the US...
@@LordDragox412 Lead cup challenge! You saw it here first.
i like how the censored image was just of his face and upper body
Poopsy boy
Anything else would be too sexually charged for mere pixelation to hold back and most us us would become instantly pregnant.
I thought it was him eating a bananna.
maybe, i looked at it again and it's probably something like that
"In the tristate area"
*doofenshmirtz wants to know your location*
Uh... Useful for radiation shielding?
*500 episodes later*
"Making a nuclear reactor"
He has to get to modern civilization sometime
@@cosmicrider5898 he needs to build a rocket
@@cosmicrider5898 get dem moon rocks
maybe he can trade with Cody's lab for a flux capacitor
I mean, they did find one that occurred naturally in Oklo, I think?
Andy: “We must take as many safety precautions as possible.”
Nile Red: “Today I’m going to try distilling mercury in my house.”
Nile Red :Today I'll be making Dimethyl Mercury
Cody: alright today I'm gonna make an atom bomb out of a tin can and some uranium
@@alexandergordon648 Andy: and to get uranium from its natural source I'll be traveling to Athabasca Basin, Canada and harvesting it myself
When you create your character in an over populated server.
@@qvindicator not overpopulated just toxic
I like that despite not progressing in use, you took the time to make this episode for the history and being thorough
Lead can be very useful for certain applications.
"il do it so that its all contained"
proceeds to splash lead on grass
The lead in liquid and solid form isn't dangerous particularly. It was the first stage of smelting the ore that was and needed to be contained.
@@hanvyj2 still good to reduce how much you put into the environment, dont want it slowly leeching into groundwater
@@plum_pie6402 because it definitely didn't come from the ground lmao
@@donwalker1882 .....it was in ore form. it wasnt metalic lead.
Never knew "smelting" and "melting" were different things. In Dutch, we just have the word "smelten" which translates to both
😂
The same in Denmark
Lead was also the original artificial sweeter for the calorie conscious Roman.
Hmm lead sugar. Let's make a skittles commercial : taste the lead poisoning.
@@theblackbaron4119 with no artificial sweeteners and completely non GMO flavors.
@@ahmodhoward2334 Technically yes, lead is pretty naturally occurring.
Mmm, I love the taste of lead.
Also, despite common myth (even implied in this video) the Romans were well aware of the dangers posed by lead.
Dr. Stone over here is trying to restart humanity all by himself.
I have been waiting for this comment. lol
Ikr, serious doctor stone vibes... Next he's gonna do is create gunpowder out of miracle fluids
he isn't as smart as dr.stone XD but he's trying
@@awolfgod he's got all the scientists he needs lol
@@awolfgod Before the reset he did use bat poop for gunpowder, though
17:05
When you use the wrong plants to make your wine.
"Not doing it like they did back then"
"They should never have done it like they did back then."
Even as of the 1980's, house drapes - the ones that hung to near the floor - had really soft (very malleable/workable) lead buttons sewn into the bottom corners to hold them down.
@Goolius Boozler lol, you can get a blood test for lead levels if you are really worried or something
that ending was so worth it to stay til the ending
"Little House in the Big Woods" mentions how easy it was to melt lead in the chapter "Long Rifle". Laura describes the freshly molded bullets Pa made as "bright and shiny", and until I watched this video I didn't know what she meant, since I knew lead as a dull dark gray metal and thought it glowed some fiery color when it melted the way some other metals do.
“Oo look at this perfectly good charcoal grill. Who would throw this out?”
Native Americans: *Use lead for bodypaint*
Chinese emperor: *Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary.*
@Jacob Locklear Who's "we" though? China "we" or Indian "we" ?
@@tunnar79 He's an American so he thought that included him, as he's an American born in America, therefore "native".
@@LordDragox412 Ah,yes....when that 0.0025% Cherokee blood comes into play :D
@@tunnar79 He heard someone saying "Hey, rookie!" to him once, so he's 100% actually heyrookie, not just 0.0025%. Give him some respect!
@@LordDragox412 I have a decent amount of Native in me...and am American...and how long does someone have to live somewhere to be native? Since no Native is 'native' to America. Heck, some tribes are only 'native to this region' since about 1300...
The lead protection is way overkill. The amount of lead you could come into contact with in a few hours is negible. The problem is with daily exposure as it builts up in your body.
working with something you've only been told is poisonous and causes deaths and illness leads to overkill precaution.
@@alexjones2004 There's lead in literally everything you touch or consume. its not as deadly as people make it out to be. like he said its due to high levels of exposure daily. like 20 years of drinking out of a lead cup which can corrode making you ingest lead. but one time isn't harmful.
Best not to get it in your body at all since you are gonna pick it up from the environment too and then you might end up with poisoning in the future
@@MannyJazzcats Thats not how it works
@@greatleader4841 This is true. Hell lead pipes were in use for thousands of years and people lived to be 80. His protection is silly as all hell.
That trip at the end though ahaha
So if the people in those houses were called Badgers is that why they're called the Wisconsin Badgers?
Likely
Indeed it is. (not because we have wild badgers, I don't think there are many of those around WI.)
Yes it is and that's why we have a miner on our state flag also
Wow, someone had fun editing that final scene. It's like a dark version of the shooting stars meme.
If you ever cast lead again, try to pour it quite a bit faster than you did here in this video. It solidifies pretty quickly so if you pour too slowly, you get this lumpy appearance, sort of like candle wax.
1:37
Don’t you know anything about mine life?!
NEVER DIG STRAIGHT DOWN!
"we'll dig our way out"
* digging noises *
"... No, dig UP, stupid"
"used today as [...] gasoline additives" yeah about that, i think that issue has been solved since 1990/95
Tetraethyllead is still used in some aviation fuels. The channel Project Farm has a video with it.
yeah he said that...
100LL Avgas is still widely used in general aviation.
@@5thDragonDreamCaster someone get thos planes some Corn juice pronto!
Chemtrails ARE real then... I KNEW it!
I’m excited for episode 50000: Making a Tesla from scratch and episode 1000000 building a mars rocket from scratch
An electric car can be made once you have access to lead, sulfuric acid (which you might be able to make by bubbling the lead/sulphur fumes through water), insulated copper wire and iron, so if that is the goal, it could be done fairly quickly
manaquri you made a battery, not a car
@@acr_-kj8gd a battery and a motor, which is what you need for an electric car, the rest can just be wood and iron, you can make lead bearings, grease is one I forgot though.
i dont think he would make a tesla they arent energy efficient its best to burn the fossil fuels once in the engine instead of making power from it then using the power for the tesla
12:30 Wait, with this setup and outfit... it really won't be long before "Cooking Crystal Meth from Scratch"!
17:19 Nevermind, looks like they already did!
I know the meaning of life
Really happy with the direction your channel is headed!
I used to chew lead split shot fishing weights while fishing.
OFFF
As a kid we would smelt lead in the chimney to cast small lead soldier figurines. We had molds from the 1870s . Never used any protection because we weren't that smart
Next time use the p100 7029's not only are they as effective as the 7021's they have an added charcoal filter. They are also a lil' cheaper. I love em'
keep em coming, love these
I have a mercury cup! Granted, it freezes any water you put in it.
Haha
That makes no sense, is there something I’m missing because last time I checked H20 and Mercury don’t react, nor does it observe an endothermic process that would spontaneously cause water to freeze.
@@emilie6466 think about this, what temperature would it need to be for mercury to be solid?
@Frederick Beck that makes no sense, you can freeze one thing without freezing another
My great grandfather was a coal miner, after he came to North America in 1900. I believe he did that, when he was still in Eastern Europe. Miners did, and still do a very risky job. A lot of towns in North America, where mines used to be are ghost towns. With lead, it still has it's purposes. It's in the solder, with tin, which holds electronic components on circuit boards. I'd like to see you work with other metals in the future. Cheers!
Lol, the end bit was pretty funny. You’ve gotten much better at talking on camera and including your dry humor these days. And your jack of all trades skill has leveled up a lot! Big kudos, dude
I live about 40 miles from one of the largest lead mines ever to exist and back in the day, they'd smelt it right there and all the lead dust would fall all over the valley and it's towns and poisoned a ton of people as recently as the 70s. All their tailings also ended up in the river so it's still polluting the water supply and it's still not safe to even handle the dirt in the valley. Legend has it there's still a huge amount of lead in there and someone is looking to reopen the mine. Let's hope with modern methods it'll not pollute the environment
This would probably be one of the places where you wouldn't do as much extra damage by polluting further.
I grew up around lead paint, lead toys, lead added to gas (which they think increased violent behaviour in the 70's and early 80's), and as late as the early 1990's figurines like those used in Role Playing Games like Dungeons and Dragons and Tabletop Strategy games like Little Wars, Warhammer 40K, and so on, were still all made of cast lead alloys. Growing up when I did it was almost impossible to avoid it.
Lead sling shot was super effective. The Romans used a special set of tong like pliers to reach into wound cavities of soldiers who were hit by enemy slingers.
props for the end
great as always
Nice historical overview!
These are the coolest videos
Great video! I especially liked the part at the end xD
I love your videos man
That ending was amazing
One thing I like about CZcams videos is they mostly don't have long intro or none at all
Video quality is getting amazing
Awesomeness learned a lot. Moar videos!
To be fair, when it was used in the 70's and 80's in plumbing, it was used only in solder in joining metal pipes. The solder would only be half lead and the rest tin, and the surface exposed to water was very small.
Andy, I believe you're your own Indiana Jones. You're able to visit a random site and tell what types of materials you can find, how they were used and what is useful to your current goals. I think it's pretty sweet.
Cody'sLab - Swishes mercury around in his mouth and eats lead
HTME - Maximum protective gear while handling that delicious Pb
This is the lead ore. You can tell that its lead ore because of the way that it is.
Sweet, I have a leadplant (Amorpha canescens) in my garden!
You forgot to mention one of the primary uses of lead in more modern times, as a component to electronic solder to prevent the tin whisker effect. Tin in solder builds up very small crystalline "whiskers" that spread out from joints. Eventually, these can touch and short out near by components. It was found that adding lead made this process much slower, although with modern ROHS requirements, leads use in most electronics is fading out. I spent years in a job where I would clean a solder pot in a wave soldering machine. I'd walk out of the area with spots of lead solder splashed on my pants.
a lead mace is very functional and packs a wallop
Im binge watching these new videos and the green screen segments get me everytime rofl.
Great video! Really enjoyed it. I saw the thumbnail and thought he actually did it, glad to see he did not that would have been terrible
You were 'Rona ready ahead of time!!
I really love these episodes, I couldn't wait for this episode.
That ending was great.
Oh dude that outro was perfect!
the ending was purfect ;D
Amazing outro
I go to a place called galena a lot in Idaho and was sad when you didn’t go there
I cast lead rounds for my muzzleloader, just using an old cast iron skillet and a propane stove, takes a while but eh easy enough to do
Amazing indeed
Puter is a soft safe mental that you can make any thing I’ve made a necklace out of wood first then we used the cut pice to make a mould then I file it out to get rid of the ruff edge it was fun in intermediate.
I love the history lessons
Ayy! You went to Pendarvis in Mineral Point, WI! You should have went to Linden, WI (20min away). Has better lead deposits. Weird to see you in a local (to me) area.
The end!!!! Ahhh! I’m dead hahaha so good
Wait... You were in Platteville, WI!!! Omg I go to college at UW branch university there
Liked the lead hallucination at the end 👌🏻
HTME *makes poisonous cup*
OUTSTANDING MOVE!
My dad worked as an oil refinery technician in the 1970's and 80's so he was tested regularly for lead exposure.
Once he used some high lead aviation gas to clean off the belly of his airplane and his next lead test showed sky high levels in his system.
Don't handle high lead gasoline without PPE.
I seriously wish I could come help you crafting things. A lot of this stuff would be so much easier with small modifications to the things you make and how you do it.
That's awesome
I want to see more metals because they are importand
Maybe like Gold or like Gallium or even gemstones?
Anyway, love the series!
Important*
Punctuation pls. You are welcome, from grammar police
Btw, he can’t get gold and gallium considering he doesn’t even have a blast furnace or a place to go for gold yet
Because of this video, I learned my graphite was actually lead. Thanks HTME
That bit at the end got me
Galena, Kansas is near a Superfund site that was heavily contaminated because of lead mining.
Hello from Dubuque!
Love that outro
Love ur vids
bruh that outro was fantastic
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Facts.
I like the contrast between the whole build up of lead safety with the hazmat suit and all and then you just pour motlen lead all over your backyard without giving a shit ...
The ending had me😂😂😂
Thanks my guy now I know how to make poisonous arrows in minecraft!
Ending top class XDD
I like how out of all the metals he casted he messes up the easiest
17:14
That lead hits different
lmao that last bit was unexpected :P
in the old days of hot rod cars they used to use lead to form body panels like they do today with bondo and fiberglass.
lead ashtray FTW!
I am so geeking out on Tekkit Minecraft right now.