It ’s not often you get along across a real - lifespan mad scientist . They ’re usually just over - the - top adversary in comic books , butColin Furzeis the real matter . He has a penchant for build matter that often bollix up — on purpose — like this impossibly dangerous - looking thermite shank .

Not familiar withthermite ? It ’s an especially foul chemical penning made of metal power and oxide that cut as hot as 2,500 level Anders Celsius . If it fire up , you do n’t need to be anywhere near it , which is why a cannon that order a lot of distance between you and a flare thermite grenade is n’t the Earth ’s sorry idea .

It should go without saying that building your own thermite cannon is a very grievous undertaking . But watching a train … err … professional like Colin build his is still quite entertaining . And you might even learn something about whythermiteisn’t exactly something you want to be play around with .

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