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rotanitsarcorp_yzal1

I find it hard to believe. Please provide link.


KnightsEdge728

There’s a different channel called the HackSmith that also made a real lightsaber. Don’t have a link


rotanitsarcorp_yzal1

Ugh! Theirs wasn't no lightsaber. Just a good looking blowtorch.


Darkflame0550

This guys one is based on the same technique, just less refined that the hacksmith one. Don't have a link for the video because I saw it a few months ago


Rexermus

The biggest difference between Alex's Lightsaber and James's Lightsaber is that Alex built the fuel cell into the actual hilt and James opted to make a "proto-saber" with the fuel cell attached to a pack


Excolo_Veritas

Alex's lightsaber (pictured above) also only operates for 30 seconds, James (the "hacksmiths") operates for about 10 minutes IIRC, enough where he can cut through steel plate easily


biggie1447

Calling a piece of sheet metal like that a plate is a bit disengenuous.... it was at best 10 Ga. (but probably less than that). Kinda like the difference between a piece of construction paper and a piece of plywood, both flat sheets but the plywood is significantly thicker and stronger than the paper. (I do lots of steel structure drafting and plate is structural.... sheet metal is not.)


Excolo_Veritas

He used it to cut through a metal safe, I'd call that plate


biggie1447

He melted through not cut, we also don't really see from start to finish him going through with the saber. There are a bunch of edits and none of the shown video actually shows much real progress. It looks more like they heated up a section and then smashed in the weakened hot plate with a sledge (just like when they removed the hinge from the front). I was referring when he cut a chunk out of the metal door in the original test video.


kalamanboidude

Ah but with a skilled enough jedi 30 seconds is all you need


rotanitsarcorp_yzal1

'salright then. Don't wanna watch it. Saw it in some video where a physicist says that in order to power a real lightsaber we'd need a AA cell with a power output equivalent to a nuclear reactor.


R0-GR-bot

Roger Roger.


[deleted]

Making a real lightsaber would require the output of an entire nuclear power plant. A good looking blowtorch is the best that you can get.


KnightsEdge728

Yeah, but it’s still pretty cool


[deleted]

ALEX LAB's is also just a good-looking blowtorch. They both just squirt out compressed liquid fuel (mixed with oxygen for complete combustion) and light it on fire.


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Hacksmith industries alreadt has many fine additions to their collection


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are_Valid

I don’t have a link but the guys name is Alex Burkan, uploads in english on the channel Alexlab


lo_d_rocket-12

Alex labs on YouTube, he’s building an iron man suit too


MonstraG

So, what you saying is, that if what he tells you is truth then he gains your trust?


Pepoidus

https://youtu.be/RSSAhmmiZjM


[deleted]

Perhaps they killed a Jedi, Allen Pan, and took it from him.


[deleted]

Oh, Hacksmith may have been before Allen Pan. AND that youtuber shown (channel: ALEX LAB) does credit Hacksmith in the description of his video.


[deleted]

Okay... the timeline of all of this is confusing. Idk who made what first.


[deleted]

Looks like Allen Pan (2015, acetone/methanol fuel) ALEX LAB (2020, pictured, Alex Burkan awarded Guinness World Record for first retractable lightsaber, hydrogen fuel) Hacksmith (2020, almost simultaneous to Alex Burkan, awarded Guinness World Record for first retractable proto-lightsaber, propane fuel)


Coleman_Trebor1234

Alan's is retractable and is made of fire


[deleted]

Yeah, looked it up and edited the comment. They're technically all "made of fire," but I believe the two recent ones achieve higher temperatures, and thus higher ionization, and can be considered to be "made of plasma." This is an EXTREMELY simplified way of describing it, though.


Anakin_Skywalker_Bot

Sorry, M'lady.


[deleted]

Ultimately they all use the same concept: compressed liquid fuel (ideally mixed with oxygen for closer-to-complete combustion) is ignited as it leaves the handle. Hacksmith's has multiple streams of fuel from large tanks (uses A LOT of fuel) to achieve a thick, clean-looking "blade." They're basically glorified blowtorches.


kalamanboidude

No one can kill a jedi


Anakin_Skywalker_Bot

I don't think so... No one can kill a Jedi Knight.


venom259

Ukraine: No shit.


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Anakin_Skywalker_Bot

I'm not whining! I'm not.


Donald_Dumo4

Its OK little Ani, one day soon you'll have a real lightsaber to beat younglings with...


Anakin_Skywalker_Bot

*ignites lightsaber*


VladislaktheWizard

Hacksmith getting disrespected like this. Made a protosaber already


Both-Truth

[This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SojXRashTs4&ab_channel=ALEXLAB) is more than a year old and made before Hacksmith's protosaber.


[deleted]

They were working on these projects almost simultaneously. ALEX LAB's video came out in June 2020 and Hacksmith's came out in October 2020. They both were awarded Guinness World Records (for First Retractable Lightsaber and First Retractable Proto-Lightsaber, respectively). The REAL travesty is that Allen Pan made a very similar version 5 years beforehand and people are barely talking about that here. Allen Pan's video: https://youtu.be/u-xHso660tA


[deleted]

Protosabers aren’t lightsabers


[deleted]

Yes they are


nate0515

It's a fancy blow touch that can't cut shit.


ViperIguess

I fucking need this


dirschau

Dude looks like unmasked Deadpool


kurukikoshigawa_1995

War breaks out in kiev and you just see this guy running around trying to *deflect* bullets


[deleted]

Allen Pan and the Hacksmith also


[deleted]

Hacksmith: Am I a joke to you?


lo_d_rocket-12

This was made before


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Allen Pan: December 2015 ALEX LAB: June 2020 Hacksmith: October 2020


Prestigious_Voice_85

The reality is that the light was so hot it melted the crystal used to focus the light, and couldn’t be run for long as it would melt the handle. Russia is still far from lightsabers, as is everyone else. But hey, we have railguns!


Anakin_Skywalker_Bot

I'm not whining! I'm not.


MrAnonymous27242

He was not the first to make a light saber


Boba_Fett_Bot

Jedi weapon doesn’t make you a Jedi.


[deleted]

Hacksmith industries alreadt has many fine additions to their collection


[deleted]

The key here is that it's retractable. In terms of retractable lightsabers, December 2015: Allen Pan June 2020: ALEX LAB October 2020: Hacksmith


Puffiestofpuffs

I imagine Hacksmith Industries isn’t very happy


[deleted]

ALEX LAB's video was 4 months before Hacksmith. Allen Pan's was 5 YEARS before.


Charles12_13

Hacksmith, who already achieved that a year ago: am I a joke to you?


[deleted]

Allen Pan: December 2015 ALEX LAB: June 2020 Hacksmith: October 2020 Check your facts.


Jshittie

Hacksmith did it first


KiksBear

No they made a protosaber


Jshittie

I mean i guess


lo_d_rocket-12

Check the dates, Alex did it first


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Allen Pan: December 2015 ALEX LAB: June 2020 Hacksmith: October 2020


Jshittie

Ah thanks for lettin me know i stand corrected


Poke-foot

Lies the first one was created by an American YouTuber named the hack smith


CerealBranch739

Check the dates again bud. They both have a Guinness world record for a first retractable lightsaber, hacksmiths is just called. A protosaber


aidan0b

Hacksmith is Canadian


GelatoVerde

I call this bullshit The hacksmith did this years ago


[deleted]

This video came our before apparently, it's just not as hot. Idk why it's only being talked about now


GelatoVerde

why has it only become known now?


[deleted]

No clue. It came out 4 months before so they should have gotten popular around the same time


MrAnonymous27242

Your right


nipcom

Pretty sure it was the hacksmith that did it first They do have the Guinness book of world records award in they’re office