Explosive Bat: crushing MLB records. Ft: Smarter Every Day

Summary by Krater

The creator builds and tests an "exploding bat V3" powered by four 27-caliber rifle blanks to hit a baseball further than the distance record, concluding that the extreme pressures involved shatter the stop rods and destroy the bat mechanism.

From the video

Answers: Can you build a baseball bat powered by explosives to hit a baseball a record distance?

• Exploding baseball bat
• Pneumatic and powder-actuated mechanisms
• Home machining and engineering
• Ballistic testing of baseball bat power

What it concludes

• A single-shot version of the explosive bat achieves a verified home run distance of 575 feet.
• Four 27-caliber rifle blank charges generate up to 6,000 pounds of stopping force, causing the stop rods to break.
• Four-shell explosive bat shots generate extreme pressures that shatter the bolts and mechanical parts of the bat.
• The 4-shell configuration with a modified 1/2-inch steel breech achieved a hit distance of 710 feet.