Home Experimenter Vaporizes Aluminum With A Device In His Backyard

this is just AWESOME…

Adventurous home experimenter makes a vaporizing device and shows it off. Some people make robots, others experiment with Tesla coils…this guy makes things that vaporize stuff. Lucky for us he filmed it and describes a bit of the process involved ;). Here is a bit more on this experiment:

Using a rock as film to capture a temporary image of the sun 0:36. Backyard Lava Homemade Obsidian Rock conversion and How the sun can vaporize aluminum with a Professional grade Fresnel Lens. Forming borosilicate glass tubing. At 0:36 the image of the sun is exposed into the rock surface.
The maximum working temperature of plaster is 1,200 °C (2,200 °F), so higher melting temperature materials would melt the plaster mold. Also, the sulfur in the gypsum reacts with iron, making it unsuitable for casting ferrous materials.

Isn’t physics cool? Apparently just a special type of lens and the sun can vaporize certain metals.

Let’s watch this guy melt stuff in the video on page 2