Making the world's heaviest baseball and lightest bat.
Then we used them on each other.
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Okay now I want to see a normal ball vs a balsa bat and a normal bat vs the tungsten ball!
Your wish is your command
well your first wish has already been done
I wanna see a tungsten bat vs balsa ball 😁
@@WaterjetChannel Damn he said do it yourself.
I think it's classed as animal cruelty to throw tungsten balls at bats, not to mention hitting them with a balsa bat.
Now I want to make one out of platinum. 😆
The bat or the baseball?
Yes
That’s a lot of platinum. You got that amount?
Depleted uranium? You would probably find a way to make it happen
@@romanvarcolac2238 it'll take a lot of catalytic converters, but I think they could make it work
Holding a saw blade to wood spun up in a lathe is one of the sketchiest things I’ve ever seen lol
I barely trust my saw blade spinning inside of its cast iron enclosure, never mind raw dogging one with a friggin lathe
@@chillary8372 just wear a condom lol
I thought making a holder for an angle grinder (it had 3xm12 that we connected it to) was sketchy
The lathe made of a drill and some scrap metal
I don't know whether it's better or worse that they weren't wearing gloves
I love that you took the time to actually stitch it into a proper baseball cover
Easier than fusing the two pieces together.
NileRed: Wears gloves while handling bismuth WaterJetChannel: “Bismuth dust, don’t breathe this.”
That's the difference between a scientist and machinists for you lol
F, I forgot about Will It Blend
I'm a machinist and scientist, listen to the scientists. Neurological disorders later in life are not fun for you or your friends.
@@Orofino6 Can't hear you over the sound of me injecting mercury directly into my bloodstream
The most worrying thing is NileRed being the _safe_ one here
You did it for me. My mouth was wide open when I saw how you guys made a lathe for your water jet… and the sawblade to top it off… just *cheffs kiss* so good
Machinists and welders build their own tools most of the time.
That sawblade thing was reckless AF. Holding a sawblade with your bare hands and applying it to a spinning lathe is just asking to have your fingers chopped off, or worse. A lot worse. If one of those teeth on the sawblade catches on something in the wood like a knot or something, it's going to yank that sawblade and throw it in God-knows-what direction. Maybe across the room away from the person holding it. Maybe into the user's chest. Or maybe it'll launch it straight into his face. You just don't know. Most people who do woodturning would have used a lathe knife or chisel for that.
@@Dhalin but it didn’t happen so they’re fine. What if it would’ve caught? What if a pink elephant fell through your roof? What ifs are useless.
@@zyftis6927 Right, so we should just disregard safety and/or do stuff like that on camera so some poor shmuck who doesn't know any better can try that at his home and wham, next thing you know, someone's dead or had body parts chopped off. It's like "Hey, I just ran a red light, it's fine, I didn't get into a wreck or get pulled over."
@@Dhalin shut up
I like how much work they put into the bat like it wasn’t going to immediately shatter
Yea, I really wish they had tried a normal bat too.
At 5:32 I was having visions of horror. LOL. No gloves, and if for some reason that blade got pulled out of position, your hands would be in very bad shape.
To be fair, if they were wearing gloves, they probably would have gotten caught on the blade and caused worse injuries than they would get without gloves. There's a reason you don't use gloves with any kind of spinning equipment
Like a boss
5:39 "Someone's going to really like that method, I did it for whoever that person was" looks like they found you
@@ughmas to be fair it's not hard to find that person. Of course i know him, he's me
It's the dumbest thing I've seen this year.
A balsa wood bat. I'm honestly amazed you could even turn that without it exploding.
using the bismuth to bind the tungsten was a really interesting idea, it's safer than lead and more dense than iron. On the other hand, holding the saw blade and using it to cut off the bat was also an interesting idea, just not the good kind.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t tungsten carbide have a similar density to lead? Pure tungsten is way more dense than tungsten carbide
Pure tungsten is also significantly more expensive than tunsten carbide, so they used the carbide instead. They explained it during their “world’s heaviest baseball bat” video.
No it’s like 30 % heavier
@@CascadePSA If they get it in the powdered form and then held it together with with something like lead it would be cheaper than soild metal and probably weigh a lot more than the one they created as well.
In powdered for, the material is 30% larger. It isn't unt the soft "powdered" carbide is sintered where it shrinks and becomes a very hard, but brittle material. I work as an engineer at a carbide processing facility where we make carbide from start to finish..
Yeah. I was wondering why they used bismuth instead of lead for the filler. Lead is about 20% denser.
Girl at end of video talking to a friend: "So these three nerds come to the batting cages today." Us: "Go on."
Who knew there was a whole subset of the population this passionate about elemental tungsten?
Heavy Metal fans all over the world XD
@@aleisterlavey9716 underated
@@aleisterlavey9716 I love this comment so much.
tungsten is the sexiest metal
@@jeremymcadam7400 Mercury is sexier, but I have to admit it's Rock, not metal.
tbh i thought you were gonna make the ball completely out of tungsten so i was confused for a minute why you were messing with bismuth, then i realized what you guys were planning and it makes sense you probably didnt have the right stuff to melt the tungsten and bismuth is the heaviest stable non-radioactive element there is so it fits with making a heavy baseball
fun fact: bismuth is actually radioactive. It’s half-life is just so incredibly long that it doesn’t matter in the slightest.
I was hoping for some crazy way to melt tungsten.
I would have assumed lead tbh, closer in SG and melting point not that much higher than bismuth, readily available, extremely stable.
"The balls trajectory didn't change in the slightest" When the unstoppable force and the immovable object are the same thing
1. That's tungsten carbide, which is less dense than tungsten 2. Breaking down the tungsten carbide in to even smaller pieces would allow you to fit more, making it even denser 3. You should've used lead instead of bismuth. Lead is roughly 15% denser than bismuth Overall, 10/10 cool vid
lol
Yeah i was just wondering why they didn't use lead. Its a whole lot cheaper to use, and it'd work better.
Midwest tungsten service does sell a tungsten sphere that is 2.75 inch in diameter, very close to that of a baseball. So they could of just fit that in the baseball and it would be the heaviest possible tungsten baseball.
Isn't lead toxic
7:50 for the people who do not want to see the explanations
Good to see Cheff John making an appearance!
I'm so glad someone else noticed
From food wishes?
@@wearealllaughingatyou7997 Indeed!
The old tappa tappa
Remember, you're the Stan Musial of your Tungsten Ball.
4:20 bro that just left me stunned like ".. was that a sponsor or simply a fact?" Lmao
Imagine making a golf ball, would be interesting to see them trying to make a round.
Man, I wish they'd let two of the baseball players pitch and hit not because it would have looked any different for us, but because for those two baseball players the visceral experience would be informed by years of interaction with traditionally weighted bats and baseballs. Plus those guys would be able to tell the story for years.
My shoulder is hurting from thoughts of destroyed shoulder muscles throwing that thing. You might as well be trying to throw a small cannonball like it's a baseball
It would’ve been more visually appealing because his form on that swing was appalling haha
We don't have a leith, oh well let's use a water jet and cut it with a saw blade we're holding 🤣 Awesome stuff
Lathe* just so you know :)
Now I want to see a tungsten bat go up against a balsa wood ball. Better yet, I want to see the tungsten ball break normal bats. It was obvious from the get go that the balsa bat was going to break. What about a normal wooden bat though?
There's something beautiful about watching experts craftsmen with a mastery of tools bring a physical object into reality with their hands and mind. And then there's this video. Where they hold a saw blade to spinning piece of wood. Though the waterjet-lathe is cool.
Now make a baseball bat out of baseballs, and hit a wooden baseball. And make it spinning a lathe around a stationary plank of wood.
Weird cereal at 2:24 at least they pour the tungsten first and then the bismuth and not the other way around that would be horrendous
ok, gotta give, pretty amazing how the ball just dose not care. Thats a great demonstration of power of mass. The bat was just "nope" and over.
"we gave the handle a mahogany finish because that's a stronger wood" lmao too good
Can't believe I don't see anyone else calling that out. Lmaoo
you probably would get a world record for the lightest baseball and for the heaviest baseball!
Can't get a record with a shattered bat, right?
00:10Seeing you hold that circular saw blade bare handed to cut the bat early in the video gave me literal fear goose bumps.
I'm the person that liked that method. Watching the bat turned using the water jet was mesmerizing. MORE!!😁
You know, I was expecting a mild deflection in the balls path
Tungsten carbide is not tungsten. Elemental tungsten is even more dense than its carbide.
ya it's just under 4 gram per square cm heavier it also about half the price.
@@3RaccoonsInATank Point is, tungsten carbide isn't tungsten, it's tungsten carbide. It's like people calling silicone rubber silicon.
@@timramich What, you don't like fine silicon implants?
@@timramich Please make a tungsten (no carbide) baseball and send it to them so that they can demonstrate the power of pure, dense, elemental for tungsten against soft delicate balsa.
Mate, if you're not willing to settle for them using the closest equivalent they could feasibly get without going bankrupt, then send them the elemental tungsten yourself. Especially right now, with how ridiculously inflated the price of tungsten is due to a bunch of people buying cubes of it for no real reason.
I honestly love just how much the newer, younger people in the videos are adding to the enjoyability of the videos on this channel.
the method of making the bat with the waterjet was so satisfying.
Tungsten alloys are often used in kinetic tank projectiles for its high density. Those are rods of about 5-8 kg/11-18 lbs weight that travel so fast (over 1500 m/s which is about 5400 km/h or 5000 ft/s) that they literally can't shatter. The shock waves from the impact travel through Tungsten at around 350 m/s. But since the material feeds into the collision with the target over 4x faster, the shock waves can never actually travel backwards in the projectile. The entire rod will eliminate itself against the armour it hits until either the armour is destroyed or the entire rod is eroded away. The length of the rod is therefore one of the most important things to determine the penetration ability. With a length of about 70 cm/28 in, modern projectiles of this kind can penetrate over a meter of hardened steel.
A meter of hardened steel... Wow I want to see that in slow motion.
Honestly... I suspect a Tungsten ball might break an actual bat... and probably the arms of the guy swinging it. All that energy straight down the bat's core... I agree with Alteran - I'd love to see Destin's robo-batter machine take a whack at it... measure the forces down the bat when that lump of W hits it. LOL :)
Could you imagine the poor pitcher facing a line drive come backer with this ball.... OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
@@petert3355 Only for that moment just before it went through his body. If you hit a 100 mph+ tungsten projectile with enough force to change it's direction and momentum... ... someone is losing body parts.
@@BryanDelMonte Oh yeah!!!!!!
If you're wondering why they didn't just melt some tungsten into a ball instead of using tubes kept together by bismuth, it's because tungsten is the metal with the highest melting point so almost no mould would be able to handle liquid tungsten without melting. Some materials like carbon or alloys like tantalum hafnium carbide have a higher melting point for example but a mould made out of them would react with tungsten creating tungsten carbide which has a density lower than that of pure tungsten making it lighter. Even the "buyable" tungsten is (basically) mined, made into a powder, compacted with a hydraulic press and sintered ( powder metallurgy), which means it was never actually in a liquid form. However it is still possible to melt tungsten but the methods used are way too complicated for a KZhead video. Also the "tungsten" that they used in the video is actually not tungsten but tungsten carbide, they probably used it because, a) they had it lying around, b) it is still very heavy compared to other metals and alloys (twice as dense as steel or iron all while not being poisonous or radioactive like other very dense metals) c) it prevented them from going bankrupt since it is less expensive. If you wanted to use platinum instead (since it is even heavier) just like Cody suggested (as a joke of course lol) it would cost you 130 000 $ to make a simple baseball ;/ They probably used bismuth to fill the gaps because it is also a bit denser than steel or iron and is "easy" to melt (tungsten melting point: 3422°C Bismuth melting point: 271,5°C).
Well done Kelsey 👍
what about using Tantalum Hafnium Carbide Alloy or graphite mold lol?
@@blengi @blengi Graphite is actually a crystalized form of carbon so I believe it should react with the tungsten and create tungsten carbide. It's true that tantalum hafnium carbide sould be able to contain molten tungsten due to its high melting point but it is extremely expensive (almost 10k$ for 1kg). I've changed the comment so the focus is on the fact it's to complicated and pointless to try and melt rather than that it is "impossible".
@@kelsey3881 Hi thanks for reply. I was just being playful, so never really considered the reaction potential of various materials - Cheers for pointing that out! When I randomly googled I noted that tungsten coated graphite tiles were considered a good choice for high temperature regimes like Tokamaks so I thought precluding oxygen issues graphite molds might be viable lol. Perhaps a graphite mold with a super thin surface layer of tantalum hafnium carbide via vapour deposition could be a feasibly inexpensive "hack" too?
@@blengi That's fine Iol - what do you mean by precluding oxygen ? That might be possible but at the same time, tantalum hafnium carbide unfortunately contains carbon. So I think the tungsten might react with it and create tungsten carbide. But I think you're intuition is right, if an easy way of moulding tungsten is ever possible, it will most likely be thanks to the research in fusion technology and in the materials constituting the panels of the tokamak's (or other fusion reactors they may develop in the future).
I cant watch a perfectly good baseball bat that they put work into get totally destroyed 😔 great detail too!
I expected exactly what happened to happen lol. Nice work guys.
I really love the synergy between you guys.
I nearly thought you were going to make a solid tungsten ball, which would be physically impossible to throw like a normal baseball
shotput time
i love that the ball didn't even slow down
This is one of those things where you gotta ask, "what did yall really think was gunna happen? " Lmao 🤣
7:22 it's the moment of action
5:27 that process was made for me and I loved it 😂😂
This was gold, Neil is becoming a favorite
Using bismuth to fill in the gaps… what a simple yet genius bit of problem solving.
I caught that Chef John reference
The Waterjet Channel does sewing now, what an age we live in.
The all mighty YT algorithm suggested this video to me and your use of Tim and Eric references has made this channel an instant sub for me. Great job!
*bismuth dust* "dont breathe that in" *holds sawblade with bare hands, cutting the baseball bat* this channel is the definition of safety fourth
I have a degree in engineering, multiple courses in physics and material strengths. Have played sports before, have built countless things out of balsa, have seen maple bats break on regular baseballs, did I know the outcome to this experiment by the title, yes. Did I still watch, Yes.
We need a baseball made out of resin and a bat made out of resin! (Also nice to see Dan recovered from his hysterectomy.)
solid resin, of course
"The old Tappa Tappa" - Chef John would be proud.
1:24 I wasn't expecting a Food Wishes reference, but nicely done.
Seeing these normally chaotic men actually knowing what they are doing is so weird to me. For some reason, even though I know they are normally workers, I just feel like they wandered into a shop and nobody kicked them out because their shinanigans were amusing
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Holding that saw blade barehanded made me really nervous
Why? Not everybody has soft little baby hands and not pay attention to what they're doing. It's not like it's gonna turn on and start spinning and cut his hand in half. If anything, cutting with a table saw in the manner in which they did should have made you nervous.
When cutting wood kickback can happen... no matter how manly your hands are that is still a bad time
Gotta watch that balsa wood kickback
Ump: "Yea, you got HBP, you gotta take your base." Batter: "My hip"
The mahogany stain for strength is the big brain move of the century
3:51 "Fits like a glove..."
I love it when y'all bring this stuff to ordinary people haha. "Oh my gosh why is it so heavy???" 😭
Love the rudimentary wood “lathe” setup😂
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I really appreciate the latherjet printer.
5:28 wow that seems very dangerous.
Love how they went through the effort of staining it, haha
That's no Tungsten baseball, that's a carbide baseball. It's essentially Tungsten, Cobalt and Nickel mixed up in a slurry and baked at several thousand degrees to convert into the powdered metal we know as Carbide.
What about a deadblow baseball?
vs a deadblow bat! with tungsten balls as the filler!
@@dimitar4y Yes!
The hit 7:37
Never heard of a table saw in a machine shop. Lol. A wood machine shop. 😄
8:07: do you guys need something? Me: yes, your number.
If you want to see them hit the ball with the bat, skip to 7:32.
Im all for science and experimentation but this showed us nothing we wouldnt have already easily suspected. Thanks for the video
Youve got your self a genuine old world swatter there
2:15 forbidden cereal
That part where you're holding the saw blade without gloves to cut a spinning object is easily the most irresponsible thing I've seen all year.
Well it is only the first day of the year ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lmao as soon as i saw that i was like bro thats way too thin. That 2nd pass killed it Also, its not tungsten, thats tungsten carbide which is less dense than pure tungsten.
Imagine the surprised look on the pitchers face when he breaks his arm in multiple places trying to launch this behemoth.
Ol' tappa tappa?! I salute Chef John
0:51 yummy
Using the waterjet as a lathe, I love it
You hold the crown until someone makes an Osmium baseball.
5:30 my anxiety is through the roof…😂
The ball was as unfazed by the bat as protestors are unfazed by the prospect of arrest
I want to see a Tungsten bat vs a Balsa ball!
This channel is so scuffed and I love it
“Mom can we watch Stuff Made Here videos?” “ no we have water jet channel at home”
Nice to see that Mohogany stain doing it's job at the end. 🤣
Looks like you boys had fun! Happy New Year guys!
That is kind of like saying "I made the world's most rigid rubber band" and presenting a loop of steel.
It's really just a ball of metal wrapped in baseball leather.
@@lopiklop The title is quite latterly exactly what the video is, Tungsten is the densest commercially available metal in the world, so by definition he made '' The World's Heaviest Baseball''. Idk what else you expected the video to be hahaha.
I run a waterjet almost everyday. I'm that person that really liked the method. Thank you.
Fun thing is a lead ball with 73mm diameter also weighs 5,1 pound then add the leather casing.
This whole video feels like a fever dream
The ol tappa tappa! He said it! The madman!
Watching some of those "machining" skills made me think of. "Come with me...and youll see....a world filled with oasha violations."
Im here for the chef john tappa tappa clip 🤣
Now we need the world's heaviest bat against the lightest Baseball
I like how you used the water jet as a lathe
Awesome ball, Great job!