Adam Savage's Miniature Vault Door Build, Part 1: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hZ2AmquzerbUqbg.html

@MichaelBerthelsen

24 күн бұрын

How critical is it for all the racks to start with the same tooth profile? As in all starting at the peak or trough of a tooth, I mean. Because just because they're the same length of rack doesn't mean they start at the same point. Or is it not that big a deal, because of the amount of movement they're doing in the final door?

@MichaelBerthelsen

24 күн бұрын

OK, I JUST got to the part where you explain that it's important, but how critical is it, exactly? Because the locking pins still register and lock, even if it's not perfectly even. So is it just esthetic (matters for transparent lock), or mechanically significant for the actual locking function?

@MichaelBerthelsen

24 күн бұрын

Can you grind each rack down to the peak or trough at the racking end before turning the pin end? Would that be accurate enough? (I'm thinking peak is better, gives you a little further extension of the pins when locking the vault.)

@kaboom-zf2bl

24 күн бұрын

time to retire the mouth interface and go to the mk 42 LOL

@travweeve

24 күн бұрын

teeth on both sides of the pins?

Adam trying to explain something while a mechanical hacksaw is just working through a giant round in the background is pure "mad scientist" energy to me. I love it.

To be honest, the noise of your channel and many other maker channels to me is relaxing because the natural sound of tooling and machining. I may be an odd ball for saying that but between shifts and at the end of work n all, things like this are a nice wind down to listen to.

@tested

23 күн бұрын

Appreciate that!

@lennartb

22 күн бұрын

I think many of us like some workshop ASMR haha, the best part about it is I really don't mind if the neighbors are remodeling their home

@DeliriousProductions

18 күн бұрын

If they get to some laser etching/cleaning, I'd listen to that all day. Guaranteed, he'd make that thing sing.

Using the squeaking of the hacksaw for the narrative is just brilliant. The notion that the build is being marked by anticipation for "the day this damn squeaking finally stops" is such an incredible, hilarious way to show the progression of time! Your spirit for storytelling is incredible!

Hello! I'm a Swiss watchmaker and I have a book with a chapter on making gears, if you want advice and mathematical formulas for making and adjusting these gears in particular with the depth of the teeth so that the gears are neither too close nor too far, I can send you scans of this chapter, the text is in French but I can help you translate it if you need.

@armoredsaint6639

24 күн бұрын

Personally, don’t work on too many watches however I do have a 1944 K-31 Schmidt Ruben I could use some help with!……lol

@moldyzucchinis3251

24 күн бұрын

legend

@kschleic9053

24 күн бұрын

Is the book you have still in print/copyright? If not, your local library might be able to assist you in scanning the entire book. Many books on esoteric technical subjects are being lost because they were printed in small quantities and they aren't collected because their authors are unknown. This is especially true of books in languages other than English, just because printing quantities were even smaller.

@horlogeur

24 күн бұрын

@@kschleic9053 I think it's not still published in France and Switzerland, most of my watchmaking colleagues have a copy, not sure about the USA. As for the scan, I have everything I need in my workshop to take care of it.

@thomgizziz

23 күн бұрын

Yeah a book in french is going to be super helpful and the hours of time trying to understand it is going to be doubly good... smh

When it comes to creating a new thing, I always say "It's amazing what we can build if we don't mind building it twice." Awesome series!

Hey Adam, I wanted to leave this comment in hopes that you see it. I just want to let you know how appreciative I am of the work you have done throughout your career. There's just something about you. You have that spark. You have been a constant figure of creativity, ingenuity, and intelligence in my life. And as I grow older, I grow evermore appreciative of the memories I have of watching you and your colleagues work. You have bestowed upon me and many others a portion of your spark in one way or another. And, I just wanted to make sure that at least one person has said so. So thank you.

A man and his imagination and a limitless workshop. It cannot get any more interesting and entertaining

@eskee1

24 күн бұрын

Nevwr say never... jork

@thomgizziz

23 күн бұрын

imagination? he is literally trying to copy something from a game.

@_Spacecraft

23 күн бұрын

@@thomgizziz He isn't copying something from a game lol.

@CharlieTheNerd91

23 күн бұрын

@@thomgizziz This is not related to the fallout collaboration, started before that, and it is an absolute little piece of art :)

@adamstankiewicz5015

22 күн бұрын

That workshop is my nirvana.🙏🏼

One thing I love about Adam's videos is how it inspires and motivates me to craft, tinker and build stuff myself. My little projects are not related to the things Adam does and no where near the same level, but it gets me started and I love it. It has also totally changed my view on "failures" in the process. Thank you very much mr Savage!

I enjoy the amount of thinking time you leave in your videos. KZread can be a very unrealistic depiction of the making process, but the fact that you sometimes just stand in front of the camera and think reminds us that it's a normal part of the process.

On metric gears. The module is the distance in from the gear outside diameter, this gives the PCD which is used to determine the center distance between two gears. For a simple example, two equal gears with a diameter of 21mm with a 0.5mm module will have a PCD of 20mm so need to be mounted 20mm apart. Incidentally divide the PCD by the module gives the number of teeth.

I like the sign on the mill that says 'This machine has no brain. Use your own'

@microbuilder

24 күн бұрын

AvEs "Not to be operated by fkwits" would be equally appropriate lol

@christopherdean1326

24 күн бұрын

I have stickers next to all my machines saying ; "This machine does not know the difference between metal and flesh. Nor does it care." But now I want those stickers as well!

@JCGver

23 күн бұрын

I went for the "It's nothing personal, it does that to anyone and anything."

@user-eo2ow8mi4g

23 күн бұрын

I've got a graphic pictorial sticker on my Table Saw that says, "Remove Head From Ass Before Using This Machine." Same idea.

I love how excited Adam is about this. in the beginning, he can't talk because his brain is going faster than his tongue and, in the end, he is so proud that he can't stop talking. There is nothing like the feeling of turning a piece of material into a thing

Watching you measure the acrylic on your arm makes me want that tattoo as well!

@Silvermander

16 күн бұрын

I want a similar one for measuring fibers, thread, and yarn for my medieval fiber arts. Talk about some engineering marvels, medieval weaving and knitting creators were some badass engineers.

Glad you touched on stacking of tolerances. Love this project.

Im really enjoying this project just because Adam loves it so much, hes loved vault doors for decades and thought about them longer so its really nice to see a project he wants to work more than usually simply because he loves the ... no.... loves everything about them and his build.

Being a person with a mind nearly as busy as Adam's, it's such a treat to get to watch him wrestle his racing fast mind down to human speeds. I hope you live a long and healthy life while still being able to take us all along for the journey. Cheers!

watching lathe work is so satisfying

My son and I appreciate your enthusiasm for the arts and science. I hope I get the opportunity to meet you some day, my dude. Keep inspiring ❤️

This man is my hero, a true jack of all trades. I think theres more value in being a jack than a master of one, and this guy has been an exemplar of that to me since i was like 10 watching mythbusters for the first time. This shit puts me in absolute awe. I only wish Jamie Hyneman had the same online presence as Adam so i could learn from my two idols as they took their separate paths.

"Squaricity," the most Adam Savage word ever.

Vault-Tec approved.

@fen4554

24 күн бұрын

is it designed to perform psychological experiments on adam? lol

I love watching an American machinist work in metric. so simple!

Oh, the blimp from bladerunner in the background is amazing!!

@tested

24 күн бұрын

The video! kzread.info/dash/bejne/e3mOupVmcZmZgrw.htmlfeature=shared

@davidclaxton4537

23 күн бұрын

@@tested I'm trying to finish this video. You're not helping my ADD. Damn you! Lol

@bajaDave

22 күн бұрын

It looks like an early prototype for an arc-reactor.

@NeonDripKitty

10 күн бұрын

was wandering what that was so a big thank you

Adam, I could honestly watch you forever.

You really are insane in the best possible ways. Mad science, and mad engineering, at it's finest.

I start thinking I am getting pretty good at making stuff.....then i see this! Love all the videos, and i get a lot of ideas and techniques from Adam.

love the way your constantly challenging yourself

I love miniature mechanical things

Looking Good Adam 👌 ✌️

Enjoying every second of this. So satisfying and cool. I was just smiling while watching.

Wow Adam, every video I watch of yours I can’t fathom the amount of brain power pumping through your head. Keep amazing everyone, we love you!

Watching Adam Savage build stuff AFTER, taking a university machining class hits different

In a world where we get everything on demand, and entire seasons at our fingertips, I’m genuinely excited to have to wait for the next installment of this series. Thanks for keeping life interesting. 💯

This is the best and coolest build series on youtube right now. Feels like watching Tony Stark build and refine his arc reactor.

@thomgizziz

23 күн бұрын

no, no it doesn't. Watching a person make a new high tech invention would be nothing like watching a dude try and blunder through replicating something from a game.

@ashtonhoward5582

23 күн бұрын

​@@thomgizziz hold up. From a game? He's building a vault door based on real vault doors used by banks. The other thing I do agree with in theory though. In practice, watching someone inventing something like an arc reactor would be super boring, but it's obviously played up in the work of fiction to show he's smart instead of saying it. Which a certain tabletop war gaming company could learn a thing or two from.

Every time you whistle, it sets my dogs off.

Something about bank vaults and seeing how they work really is so satisfying

This vault door series is pinnacle Savage content. Love 🤌

Would love to see an update on Adam's workbench from Andrew Klein and how it's holding up to the abuse!

@VAXHeadroom

23 күн бұрын

2nd this request!

With such a worldwide audience, by Christmas I'll bet even Rudolph the Red knows Ring Gear !! - Chuck in Belize

Adam, thank you for tackling the things that a majority of us can only imagine in our heads and making them real. Inspiring to watch you work out problems.

Loving this build! Looking forward to the next part 👍 🇬🇧

Loving this build!

The only thing I can hear when watching at this is in the voice of Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges) saying "Adam Savage was able to built a Vault Door in his cave...with a box of scraps..." Such a joy to watch. Thanks Adam.

I just Absolutely Loved Adam's palm with the word vault written on it at the beginning of this video 😘

I’m so excited to see this whole series when it’s all complete!!! 🎉

Crazy build !!! Love the visual of the acrylics !!!

the arm that moves the door into place also moves the pins into place . love this

This by far is my favorite build to date, I am completely intrigued by the entire learning experience your going through and learning a lot from it👍👍👍

I love this series so much, how accurate it needs to be is beautiful

I love the narrative through line of the hacksaw noise

I just love Adam and his enthusiasm and approach to problem solving. I envy his brain. Absolute legend and a real hero and inspiration of mine. Cheers, from an 47 year old bugger from Melbourne Australia.

I love the fact you have the knowledge but are proving to yourself you can do it

I love watching you figure things out on the fly. The way your brain works is just like mine. Seems scattered and disjointed, but it's all part of the process.

@thomgizziz

23 күн бұрын

You know what is better than that is understanding what you have to do and doing it right the first time with a good plan and not trying to wing it and make a bunch of mistakes. You are trying to pretend that the way you think is a good thing when it is clearly not.

@ltcolthorin8661

23 күн бұрын

@@thomgizziz "clearly not" interesting opinion. Otoh, figuring things out as you go is a fun way to learn new things. Yeah, sometimes you try something and it doesn't work out. Sometimes it does. You learn things either way. Sometimes you figure on doing it one way, based on what you've done in the past or what others have done or whatever, but then get an idea part way through and try something new. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. He's building a vault purely for the joy of it. A tiny, but functional vault. He doesn't NEED it. He's not selling it. It's not part of some other production. There's no specs he's required to follow. He's so excited about the gears he cut. Not because he had it all figured out and knew exactly how it should be done, but because he'd never done it before and he tried it and it worked. If you've never tried to do something you've never tried before, just for the fun of it, I highly recommend it. It's so incredibly rewarding to have a thing that you did that you hadn't done before.

@CitizenMio

22 күн бұрын

​@@thomgizziz Yours is worse, with the way you think you can only ever make things that others have precisely detailed before you. Prototyping is all about iterative design and the resilience to deal with your "mistakes" while you discover and learn a better approach. Finding enjoyment in that process is even better.

I'm absolutely loving this build.

23:34 Adam obviously using his ruler tattoo here had me cracking up lmao

What i find amazing is the amount of tools you have. Its not like you have just the basic stuff. You literally have a tool for everything and I just think that's amazing

I like the numbers changing on the DRO in the background as you were banging the collet down ha ha

Best simple editing ever! Nice job editor.

Making the same part over and over brings back memories of one of my first jobs in high school in the 90s.I worked in this tiny little machine shop. The owner was a fishing guide and he also made his own arrow heads for archery hunting and sold them. It was just him and he would hire 2 or 3 kids every summer to come in and crank out thousands of arrows heads for minimum wage. I sat in front of a drill press for 4 or 5 hours after school cutting slots into those arrow heads over and over and over. Pop a fresh one in, clamp it down, cut a slot, turn it, cut a slot, turn it, cut a slot, pop it out, on to the next. And then we'd have to assemble them which was slipping the blades into those slots and putting a tip on them to hold the blades in. Gives me chills thinking about it.

The noise is soothing , it’s in furtherance of a goal . About to buy the rotary phase converter that will get my lathe working.

even the music is straight out of How It's Made. i love it

I was really looking forward to the second part of this vault, now I need to wait for the third!

This is so much fun. I'm not a machinist (I dabbled in high school though) or a maker even, but it's so interesting to see something being constructed from scratch.

Your big Q-tips are giving me Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration vibes. If you haven't seen that channel, you're welcome.

Adam Salvage has been an inspiration since I was a kid, I loved watching Mythbusters growing up, and now seeing him on KZread, he's only gotten better since then, seeing him get excited about what he does is awesome and seeing how he's the exact same giddy and excited nerd that he was while on TV really puts things into perspective, the entire time he's been himself and it's awesome, he's the most relatable TV personality I've ever seen

This build gives me so much more appreciation for the engineering and precision that goes into the giant vault doors.

Nice video Adam , I love the idea .

I sooooo missed these long format mechanical builds, just by Adam himself. Great stuff.

5:48 I love the DRO behind him updating as he taps the collet against the lathe.

I'm watching this project with bated breath!! SO cool!!

Absolutely inspiring! Great work. I love to see Adam's thought process as he works this stuff out. He's a national treasure!

This would make a great lego kit

Sometimes, I think you are too excited about things, but I love it!

10 hours of that saw please! I could listen to that all day

And it’s obvious he’s just that excited

The parts that were sped up with the music gave me a 'How it's made' vibe.

its weird watching back Mythbusters now because i feel like i KNOW Adam now after years of Tested, and it makes it obvious that he was kinda playing a character on TV

I love the energy and passion coming from you making something meaningless to many and meaningfull to some, I'm so happy to be some, you're so blessed having all these precise machine tools at hand, honing you're machine skills to near perfection. I wonder how'd you do when you would have a 5 axis cnc machine at your disposal.

I appreciate that even Adam gets to a point in a project where he hits the "ill just clean it up with a cordless drill" (27:18) tolerances be dammed.

You either built a mini vault door or an arc reactor. Seriously a cool project. When I was in college, the bank I used had a vault with a round door. The inner side (the side facing out when it was open) had a transparent panel. It was gorgeous. Every part was engine turned or engraved. I've seen high end Swiss watches that weren't as nice. I hope if that building is ever torn down that somebody saves that door (as tough as that will be).

My god that's incredible or a wonderful lesson in machining and mechanics.

duud, your explanation blew my mind. im waiting for full reveal :)

Why do i find watching adam think so interesting

I was waiting impatiently for part 2.

It's cool you're still learning new skills. Designing fixtures is all about the details, especially with timing racks and gears. It took me a lot of "mistakes" to learn how to make things. Solid works helps a lot with that now

it warms my heart to hear an American using millimetres! So much easier, right? .

@davidfriedline7525

23 күн бұрын

Unless it's compromised like our mathematical system is!!

@davidfriedline7525

23 күн бұрын

Unless it's compromised like our mathematical system is!!

@armedvsokord

23 күн бұрын

Some of us would use it more if we could. Most people, like me, who bake seriously use metric because it scales better. But society is still stuck in imperial units. 😔

@thomgizziz

23 күн бұрын

@@armedvsokord Companies that do precision machining would beg to differ. They use thousands of an inch.

@FunkyBuddha81

23 күн бұрын

@@thomgizziz no they don´t, look at NASA for example they use metric, and every big companie that does precision work uses metric. And i tell you exactly why, only 3.5 country's in the world use your lunatic method of measuring things: USA, Myanmar, Liberia and the United Kingdom has a mix, everybody else (191 countrys ) uses metric. So if you need to order parts or give instructions it´s easier to just use metric.

I absolutely love this series

I'm really hoping Adam makes a vault for his vault door. And when you open the vault, the interior of the vault glows bright and you see inside, let's say a 1/6 scale Ark of the Covenent or something lol.

This is one of the most satisfying builds I've ever seen. I can't wait to see the finished project!

Can't wait to see you finish this. It looks great.

I, personally, like the pun shafts not being perfect on center. Looks neat.

5:03 this sums up my adhd brain so perfectly. The silence speaks volumes about the chaos of the mind.

@DustinHorvath1987

23 күн бұрын

Don't mind me, just need to think about 15 different things real quick. And I'm back.

Inspiration at its finest! Thanks for the amazing video!

I've no idea what he's talking about but I love it

When you get into any kind of precision work it is incredible how enormous a millimeter becomes

Pro tip, use the die holder the other way round, the tail stock chuck will engage with the die instead of the holder which is slightly better assurance.

You could use a piece of the rack as a registration fixture for cutting the smaller pieces exactly the same ‘toothwise’ if end cut on the mill.

I'm still amazing what Adam can achieve. He and Jamie was my inspiration to go into engineering when I was young and discovered mythbusters.

This is exciting! I can't wait to see the outcome!