using dry ice and bubbles.

Then we'll try and use the same principles,

and see if we can make bubbles that are full of colored smoke.

[Music]

I've seen dry ice vapor being used to fill bubbles before,

and it makes a sort of milky-white, not quite see through bubble,

that when it pops,

it just releases a bunch of carbon dioxide gas, and it looks really cool.

Steve Spangler had a video where he showed how he did that.

I wanted to try using the same basic setup that he did,

and see if we can recreate his results.

Then I want to see if we can use similar techniques to use the smoke

from a smoke ball to make colored bubbles.

Not just the white that we'll get with the carbon dioxide,

but I want to see if we can really get some like rainbow bubbles going on.

That should be pretty fun.

Here's the basic idea.

Dry ice in a container with some water will cause vapors to travel down the tube,

through our nozzle into our bubble soap.

Hopefully, making bubbles that are full of dry ice vapors.

We'll then try a couple different methods to get smoke from a smoke

bomb to fill bubbles the same way.

We've got a little plastic container with a lid on it.

This lid, if you don't put the handle down,

does a very nice job of popping on and off with no pressure at all,

and that's what we want for anything that's going to have dry ice in it.

We are going to have a hose running out that will relieve some pressure.

But it is dry ice.

We don't want it sealed in a container with a lid doesn't come off.

Our hose is 7/16 inch hose, and we're going to try drilling a hole

into the side of our container, just very slightly smaller than that.

So, when we put the hose in, it will just kind of keep itself wedged in place.

[Music]

This container doesn't drill super well.

I'm just going to patch that up.

Try again a little bit slower on the other side.

[Music]

Let's try this again.

Hopefully-- hopefully, it doesn't just keep cracking or we'll just end up with

an entire box made of electrical tape, with a hole punched into it.

[Music]

Okay, this style drillbit seems to cut into the plastic much more easily.

Of course, that's not quite the right size.

So now, we're going to try and widen it just a little bit.

[Music]

That is working great!

Hoses attached.

I can pull it out if I really try, but it does seem to stay in fairly nicely.

Second time's the charm.

I've got this little plumbing extension piece.

It's designed for switching from a type of hose to something that threads on.

We're just going to use this as our bubble nozzle.

So will fit this onto our hose,

and now we can dip this into our bubble fluid,

and hopefully, bubbles should come out.

We've got a couple kinds of bubble fluid we're going to test out.

This is just some water with some soap mixed into it,

and then I've got actual bubble fluid, and I'm just going to try both of these.

See what kinds of results I get.

[Music]

That's-- that's some bubbles.

Let's try the actual bubble soap.

[Music]

I guess probably not.

Too surprisingly, real bubble soap gives us better bubbles

than trying to mix up our own version.

There are some really good recipes for DIY bubble soap,

but I do think it's pretty easy to use the premade stuff.

It's not expensive, so we're just going to be using that today.

[Music]

We've got our container.

Here's a pitcher full of warm water.

Now, we're going to take a piece of dry ice, drop it into our container,

put the lid on but not seal it, so, it's still comes off nice and easily.

Not close down, which makes it grip really hard.

Vapor coming out of the nozzle just like we like.

[Music]

Take the lid off, and that stops, and in the bubbles and...

Oh, that works really well.

[Music]

It's great.

Because the nozzle has threads on it,

I think it does a good job of holding bubble soap for a while,

so we get a good amount of bubbles out of this.

[Music]

My fingers covered with soap.

So, I'm actually hitting the bubbles, but it just kind of bounces off them.

[Music]

Oh, that's-- that's good too. Get that.

This little contraption is easy to throw together, and it works quite well.

The dry ice vapor is starting to slow down now

because our water has cooled down considerably.

But while it was still nice and hot,

we were pumping out bubbles really nice quick.

It's really fun to watch them drop.

They're like translucence, but you can't actually see through them.

They're just light coming through,

and you know, if you've got a nice cotton surface,

these do a really good job of letting the bubbles be preserve

for a second to not popping immediately.

Or if you cover your hand in soap, then usually, you can touch the bubbles

a little bit like that as well.

Now, we want to see if we can create a similar effect using colored smoke.

So we'll try and light these off, and see if we can get them to fill a bubble

the same way the dry ice vapor does.

So my first thought is that we could maybe just take one of these

little smoke balls,

put it in a sealed container with a small hole,

and the pressure that builds from the smoke coming out

might be enough to just blow air powerful enough to blow a bubble on its own.

Let's build a little container that will hold these, and then drill a hole

into it and see if that's true.

To make our little impromptu smoke pressure chamber,

I've just got this little piece of PVC,

the smoke ball fits right in the side,

and then I've got a couple of pieces of wood

that I can just tape one to the bottom,

and tape one is sort of a hinge on the top.

That way, I can light the smoke ball, drop it in, and hold this down.

And that should give us a decent seal.

We can see if enough smoke comes out to blow a bubble.

[Music]

There we go.

That won't be a 100% perfect seal but I think it's going to be good

enough that we can see if this concept is going to work.

If it builds up enough pressure that it can blow the smoke out in one direction,

hopefully, that will be enough to blow some bubbles full of smoke.

To help to direct the smoke flow, I'm going to drill a small hole the same

way we did on the big one, and attach a small piece of tubing to it.

[Music]

Here's a little contraption.

So the plan, we light the smoke ball, drop it in, throw the lid down on,

and see how much smoke we get out of here.

[Music]

Quite a bit of smoke, good amount of color coming out.

The question is whether or not that has enough pressure to blow any bubbles.

This bubble one has several different bubble holes.

I'm going to try for this one right her,e because it seems

like a good size for the hose we've got.

[Music]

Well, my timing wasn't great.

But that still seemed like it just popped the bubbles like immediately.

Try this again, and you can time this better.

[Music]

It's not really blowing the bubble soap at all.

So I think, we're gonna have to come up with a different method to do this.

A lot of smoke does come out the nozzle but for whatever reason,

it's not really blowing anything at the bubbles.

I didn't even see the bubble soap start to move, and most of the time,

it just popped it immediately.

So let's move on to design number two.

Since this isn't putting out very much pressure, I want to try something else

where I build a device, fill it with smoke,

and then use my own lungs to blow air in, and have that travel through the container,

and out the other side.

Cut my piece of PVC pipe, and I've got two round pieces of thin plywood,

and I think I'm going to make those into the top and bottom.

So I'll tape one on so it's completely sealed on in,

and the other one, I'll add sort of a hinge

so I can just open it, drop the smoke ball in, close it again.

This tape here is just to sort of work as an improv gasket.

It's not as good as a real gasket, or even a Proto putty seal

but we don't need this to be 100% airtight.

We just need to contain most of the smoke.

That's our goal.

Okay, that's looking good.

Now, let's drill the hole back.

[Music]

Perfect.

Now, we need to drill the hole for the front piece of PVC.

This spade bit is going to make a hole.

That's just a little bit too large.

So after we put our piece of PVC in,

we're going to have to secure it with some tape.

[Music]

When I blow into this tube, It goes down into the chamber,

up through the chamber, and out through the nozzle.

So before we add any smoke,

let's see if this is going to work for blowing bubbles.

Just take our bubble wand, and see what we can do.

[Music]

We are getting bubble when we blow into the tube,

and hold the bubble wand in front of the nozzle.

I think it's time to add some smoke.

[Music]

That's a bubble full of smoke.

[Music]

Ah! Look at those bubbles.

[Music]

Now,. I'm just gonna keep doing this over and over till I run out of smoke balls.

[Music]

I'm pretty sure that some of the smoke powder that comes off actually

causes the bubbles to rupture.

You have to get just the right amount.

If you wait too long, then there's really not going to be much color left.

If you do it too soon, the chemicals seem to just destroy the soap bubbles,

which is problem I've had a couple of times now.

[Music]

That's the look.

[Music]

Oh man.

[Music]

>> Start.

I don't feel so good.

>> Dry ice bubbles work really well,

and smoke bomb bubbles work pretty well.

Not quite as uniformly or smoothly as the dry ice,

but we did get a lot of really good results.

That's something that I really want to take to another level.

I want to see if we can soup that up.

I'm thinking maybe a device that will automatically blow six

different colors of smoke at once.

So we can just sort of have a rainbow cascade of different

smoke-filled bubbles falling down.

That might be a video you want to look for in the future.

Guys, we've got more for you to see.

That box up at the top will take you directly to our last video,

and you should go check that out.

The box at the bottom will show you what YouTube thinks

you should be watching next.

If you hit this bomb in the middle, you'll be subscribed to the channel

so you never miss out on the fun.

Don't forget to ring that bell, and we'll see in the next one.

Talk to you then.