MAGNETIC BUCKSHOT- Unexpected Results!

hotel fledermaus I was just wondering if you could shoot some of these magnetic ball bearings out of a shotgun for me I think they'd make a really good projectile and if you could that would be great hello everyone this is jeff of taofledermaus first of all I want to thank Zane for taking the time the expense the pain in the butt effort to mail these bucky balls to me i definitely appreciate this an awesome idea i created two different types of rounds this one I call a hollow round and this is a solid round each round consists of 28 magnetic balls I believe these balls are 5 millimeters and this hollow round fit perfectly into a 12-gauge shell the solid round was a little smaller in diameter so I used a makeshift secondary shot cup to hold it snugly into the shotgun shell we weren't sure since this was never done before what configuration will work better so we decided to go with two different types and we'll be able to see if it actually makes a difference or not was awesome since magnets stick the steel we decided to put that cover from a microwave oven as a backdrop hoping to capture some of the magnets and we found about three or four of them next we'll shoot one of the solid magnet projectiles at our block of clay not too bad and once again we found three or four of the magnets still intact stuck to our steel cover now we'll go back to the hollow round there's a straw stuck in there kind of works like an internal sabo sabot so Bo however you want to say it this was the hard drive on the right it just put dents in the cover but the hard drive on the left we got penetration and some of the magnets were still stuck inside the hard drive and a few of the magnets actually shattered too and now we'll go back to the solid round and we'll shoot it at about 70 yards at our truck door magnets there you go that's amazing found this in the dirt somehow a ring of magnets transform from group of seven to a group of eight and slept nice and flat into the truck door okay military-grade buckshot hit it double on and that's the end of the video if you're one of those people that can't stand my low resolution high-speed footage thank you for watching and if you're not one of those people and we're curious on what happened here's the high-speed footage this is filmed it's 600 frames per second I have three Casio xf1 Pro high-speed cameras and I consider them field grade cameras I don't need a group of camera operators standing by on each camera they'll film continuously for as long as I want and I don't need to plug them each into a individual laptop to control them now the shot is 1,200 frames per second which is the maximum speed of the camera interesting enough some of the buckyball stayed connected together like little ball chains in groups of three or four and it appears that the magnetic strength of the balls wasn't enough to make them regroup and stick back together in flight I wasn't sure if the way we stacked the balls either the solid or the hollow configuration would make it much of a difference but we actually are seeing slight differences in their flight characteristics [Music] it looks like the hollow magnet round had a little more of a spread and we had fewer of the magnets sticking together you can't see a chain of about four balls stuck together still just missing the left side at the bottom of the left hard drive [Music] seventy yards is kind of pushing the limits even on double-aught buckshot but Darren was able to hit the truck door still with the magnetic buckyball rounds I set the focus on this camera so that we could see what was happening the moment it left the barrel I believe that the magnetic balls can act like a Newton's Cradle accelerating the front balls a little faster than the back balls and that left that unusual flying ring of eight magnets I never would have imagined that a ring like that could have formed and flown in the orientation that it did it flew straight through the air in a ringed configuration we always get a lot of comments from people wanting us to shoot some kind of a standard round along with our improvised round to kind of compare the tube all the white stuff that you see flying through the air is called a buffer it's kind of a granulated polystyrene the buffer acts like packing peanuts when the round is shot it prevents the LED balls from smashing into each other and deforming and a deformed ball is going to fly pretty irregularly so that stuff is just there to keep the balls round and flying straight I hope you enjoyed this video thanks for watching

Channel: TAOFLEDERMAUS

Views: 6,286,158

Rating: 4.6649003 out of 5

Keywords: buckyball, neodynium magnets, exotic, slow motion, slomo, science, futuristic, taofledermaus, rhnb, fantasy, viewer suggestion, contest, toys, weapons, weaponized

Id: 4Ib6h1lwsH0

Length: 7min 33sec (453 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 09 2015