Making the world's most expensive carbonated water!

Hey! I'm a jeweler by trade. If you ever need any small diamonds, gold, or anything in that field, let me know. I'll get them for you at cost + shipping. I can get Pt wire too.

Rocinante

Tapping steel is tricky. Did you have the correct drill size for the tap? Approximate won't do. Your first tap was a four-flute tap, which is weaker than a two-flute, you weren't using a sulfur-based tapping fluid, and probably you weren't going in exactly vertically, all of which contribute to bad threads. The thing worked in the end, though, so who cares :)

John Ioannidis

"A company called McMaster-Carr". Welcome to the Dark Side.

John Ioannidis

So, not only could you use better water, you could clean up the oxygen a bit too. Welding grade oxygen is likely to have some oils and other junk in it. Medical grade would likely have some H2O in it. I dont know if the amounts in either would cause issues. I know welding grade is dry but oily from safety courses in welding and from talking with guys at the welding supply store. The inside of the tanks are gross... I know medical grade has H2O in it because that is what they told us was so dangerous about welding grade O2 and why not to huff it from the torch... (it would dry our lungs out, like trip to the hospital kinda dry them out) Also from experience and for future endeavors, when drilling and tapping 304/316 stainless (they are almost the same) try using bacon grease. I work with metal(especially stainless) for a living and I cant tell you the number of times bacon grease as saved my arse. Some of the "old school" cutting fluids (ones that are now banned for industrial use) used animal fats and some of the chlorides. Methylene chloride and trichloroethane were the ones I think i've seen before on the cans the Old School metal wizards kept for emergencies. The bacon grease does about as well as any of the Old School fluids I've used and smells awesome as well. Keep up the good work!

Clifton Ballad

The amount that i lost was very small though, especially because i used warm water. Without pressure and in warm water, its pretty much nothing. I am pretty sure they were natural diamonds

Nile Red

lol i fixed that typo in the final version

Nile Red

That's actually pretty funny

Nile Red

There IS a difference, though! Diamonds are incredibly old (on the order of ~100s of millions of years), meaning that the carbon they contain will be almost completely pure C12. All the C14 will have long since decayed away. Surely there's a way to market the "radiation free" properties of diamond water!

jason black

I thought this was amazing, and doubled as a nice jab at the brand. FYI, the text at the bottom near the beginning reads "destory," which is also probably true, but I doubt it's the point of the video. OR IS IT

That was fun. You do realize that by bubbling the gas through a water bubbler you were losing some CO2 to that water, right? Do you know if these were synthetic diamonds or natural? If the latter, then not only were you drinking water made from diamonds, but a sample of carbon from the Earth's mantle that was transformed into diamond billions of years ago. Yes BILLIONS of years. Diamond-bearing kimberlite 'pipes', which are what these volcano remnants are called, have not been created, for the most part, in the past billion years. To me, that's even more exotic than soda water made from plain, old 21st C. (probably) synthetic diamonds.

mrkhrdr@gmail.com

You Sir, is a mastermind!

Emil Almberg

Would it be possible to make sulfur hexafluoride water with the soda stream machine?

Ahh yes, another very entertaining video to watch. Diamonds are cool, and was also cool learning that you can burn them to produce carbon dioxide.

Jeremy Neil

I learned a lot from this video. Thank you so much Red.

Wonderful concept and execution!

Holden M.J.

This is the most extra thing I've seen in a long time and I applaud you

dirtknight

"Weeks of work to have something that is indistinguishable from regular soda water", you say. I say, "That's the point of YouTube". The facepalm shortly after is also priceless.

This is genius! A giant middle finger to the homeopathy industry.Thank you for clarifying that it makes no difference where the CO2 comes from.

that is very true! A very weird cocktail bar

Nile Red

close to freezing

Nile Red

What temperature was the water when you carbonated it?

Moonshine, soda water... if you keep this up, you could have a nice little cocktail bar going.

I predict the first pirate of your video will be an advert extolling the healing power of diamond water.

Michael Aichlmayr

Your reaction to the taste at the end was the carbonated cherry on top of this video haha

The Gayest Person on Patreon

I think its kind of a form a edible chem!

Nile Red

Great video! I never realized diamonds would burn but it does make perfect sense.

Have to agree, I can see Diamond Water being some kind of fancy health drink for people with money to burn ;-)

Very cool would u consider this a form of edible chem Red Nile. I liked even tho it was complex the diamonds being converted into CO2 and making Carbonated water.

Daniel Blake Shoemaker

This almost sounds like some crazy health trend that might pop up in a rich neighborhood. Is the procedure patentable?