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@PleiadianDreams

2 жыл бұрын

Simulate Gravity

I would love to see a video showing how 1-2-3 blocks are used.

@FennecTheRabbit

2 жыл бұрын

Me too to be honest, because I am confused.

@pasquasio

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/a2WM17pxmNTMiZM.html

@henryokeeffe5835

2 жыл бұрын

me too. Even as an engineer that's done plenty of machining on lathes and mills at different companies, I don't think I've ever seen one (in the UK). Certainly never used one. We used either a vice if the part was small enough, or the T-slotted base of the mill to clamp down the workpiece. Either directly, or on some sacrificial material.

@shiftonephoto

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah totally confused what they're for, but look so cool

@bryonmorgan5208

Жыл бұрын

Some 1-2-3 block uses for woodworkers: kzread.info/dash/bejne/a2WM17pxmNTMiZM.html Some 1-2-3 block uses for machinists: kzread.info/dash/bejne/q3WWudKLcavWZKg.html

I just started reliving my childhood rewatching mythbusters and im loving every second of it :D

@adaml3010

2 жыл бұрын

is it on a streaming site of did you DL all of it?

@ohurspecial5404

2 жыл бұрын

@@adaml3010 its on hulu

Barrel of bricks... I always thought it was funny that their biggest problem ended up being that the barrel would just NOT break. Repeatedly dropped it, deliberately weakened it, then had it drop onto a raised board.

@MakeItWithCalvin

2 жыл бұрын

If anything it shows just how durable they really can be!

@glennmorganfan9411

2 жыл бұрын

There's a reason they've been used for centuries.

@CooroSnowFox

2 жыл бұрын

It's a one in a million or that ONE Barrel was weakened in a certain way for it to work as described...

@davethekiwibloke

2 жыл бұрын

@@CooroSnowFox Not necessarily...barrels on those sites would have been well used and abused and not replaced until they literally fall apart. The one that the myth pertains to could have been in use for countless years, been overloaded daily, abused, left out in the weather, banged around etc. It's really more of a miracle that this was the only described instance of such an event.

@rodimusmaximus3912

11 ай бұрын

@@davethekiwibloke The joke supposedly originated in 1918, maybe barrels were weaker then and it was a more plausible possibility?

1:13 I love that he actually uses his ruler tattoo lol.

I just love Adam's enthusiasm...for any number of subjects! From Star Wars to cosplaying, tools, movies, etc, etc!!!

While discussing the barrel of bricks, Adam mentions how he, with more experience, would now be *less* confident that such a thing could be executed: I have noticed such a phenomenon watching Forged in Fire; the young smiths often do surprisingly well, and I boil it down to this; rookies don't know what can't be done, so, in their blissful ignorance, they just push forward and DO IT. Because nobody ever told them ir couldn't be done. Fresh perspectives are important.

1-2-3 Blocks were, and to a certain extent still are, one of the proofs a machinists apprentice have to do to show they are able and ready to take on more advanced work, and potentially becoming a machinist in their own right.

@wobblysauce

2 жыл бұрын

Yep... they are the stepping stone of future work.

I loved Myth Busters, still do. As for window drive systems. Almost all modern (post 95) cars use cables to drive the windows. Basically if it's electric driven, it'll be cables because that's the easiest way to couple an electric motor to a piece of glass. In the UK, window cables for most European cars are available as cables only for about £10, or as the regulator assembly for £40-60, depending on model. The USA is just expensive for import parts, whereas parts for America cars here in the UK can be expensive.

That little tiny one gave me flashbacks to your "this is a wobbewy" joke in that silly voice 😂

I love those small blocks and This Old Tony's videos. I'm going to have to buy a pair now and put them with the TIG welder and mill that I don't need 😬🤦‍♂️

When I was a kid, my family had a real biscuit bazooka experience. Just like the myth, we'd gone to the grocery store on a hot day. We stopped at the pharmacy to pick up something else, so the groceries had a few extra minutes in the back of a Datsun hatchback. On the way home, the biscuits exploded. We didn't have the OMG WHAT'S ON THE BACK OF MY HEAD? reaction, but there was definitely some concern about what had gone horribly wrong with the car. Was it a blown tire? Something else? We got home and figured out it was the tube biscuits, but I've always had some affection for this myth. In their youth, my parents had a similar experience involving a camping trip, some beer cans on the floor, and the part of the back of a van that runs just above the hot exhaust system. That van smelled like old beer forever after.

I feel so lucky to be in at the beginning of MythBusters. And Barrel if Bricks was like a touchstone for me. Was it a strange coincidence (?) crossing of the streams(?) pure happenstance (?). I saw the video for the song mere weeks before the episode aired. And I loved it. Seeing you recreate it so flawlessly made me want more. And our family was hooked. Thank you for what I consider a pinnacle of family television time.

Barrel of bricks has to be one of the myths that made me laugh the most. If anyone hasn't seen that one, you've got to find it and watch it. It's absolutely hilarious the way poor buster gets completely wrecked.

@matthewelliott7294

2 жыл бұрын

I believe it because I have Mega Collection 1 on DVD that has Barrel of Bricks in it.

You can also get metric 25 * 50 * 75 blocks that are nearly the same size as Imperial 1 * 2 * 3 blocks

I remember when Mythbusters first aired on TV... I came home from school and randomly watched it. Instantly hooked! 😍 definitely fueled my passion for engineering.

Watching Adam measure stuff on his tattoo fills a hole in my heart that I didn't know I had

@glennmorganfan9411

2 жыл бұрын

It made me smile.......until I remembered that tattoos SPREAD over time so that isn't going to be 100% accurate after awhile.

@fireballxl-5748

2 жыл бұрын

What a foolish thing to do.....if he really wants to measure things.

@fireballxl-5748

2 жыл бұрын

@@glennmorganfan9411 You're correct except it needs no time. Just getting to within a 1/16th inch is going to be total guess work.

I have this theory that you could really upset a machinist by secretly swapping all their 1-2-3 blocks for metric 25-50-75 blocks.

@crazicat

2 жыл бұрын

As a machinist, most times I use 123 blocks the actual size does not matter. If using a pair then they must be the same ao if I grabbed one 123 inch block and one 25-50-75 block thinking they were the same size then there would be trouble. P.S., please do not upset the machinists.

@robertogrady1321

2 жыл бұрын

Not really. I'd spot the difference straight away with my eyecrometers 😁🧐

@katelights

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertogrady1321 its 15thou, on the 1" side, so you probably would if they were next to each other.

@robertogrady1321

2 жыл бұрын

@Kate Cole you'd spot the coarser thread in in the imperial one's even without them being side by sied 😉🧐

@katelights

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertogrady1321 ooh, hadn't thought about the threaded holes.

You need a 1 * 4 * 9 block for monolith building.

@frankharr9466

2 жыл бұрын

Teeny tiny ones that you can feed and grow.

There are 2x4x6 blocks. Used them all the time at the shop I worked at.

Hearing Adam Savage, a bonafide engineer, complain about the Germans over engineering the simplest, most tried and true mechanics in their cars, brought a smile to my face. 😂

@pijnto

2 жыл бұрын

"A bonafide engineer" not buy a long long way

@SyzygyNoon

2 жыл бұрын

It’s not done until it’s done, until it’s done.

@seanw4148

2 жыл бұрын

As a VW owner dealing with a window regulator that freezes in the winter, I fully support Adam's rant

@chain3519

2 жыл бұрын

Adam isn't an engineer but he's been around stuff for a long time and has a decent eye for design. I say he's not an engineer because he doesn't do any numerical design or analysis beyond measurements, not because he's not smart or anything

19 years ago? Seems impossible...times fun when youre having flies!

@Arukorstza

2 жыл бұрын

19 years ago? Dang, I was 10 back then.

Jessie Combs time was short on the show and her life. But she was awesome.

Perhaps you should also try the Fireball tools magnetic 1-2-3 blocks :)

7:00 im glad im not the only one to complain about this, i have a mid 2000s ford escape which *also* has a cable system and i had the driver side one break on me so i needed to disassemble most of the door to remove the window so i could replace the cable mechanism

Daewoo cars also used a cable system. Mine broke when the cylinder cross threaded the cable and toasted it. Had to replace it with a piece of 2x2.

Been an aircraft machinist for 27 years. The blocks are plenty in my collection. Precision is fun 😁

I've done work on GMs a fair amount as well as a few imported cars. GMs have always been easier to work on. Maybe they break more often but repairing them is cheaper (in terms of parts) and easier. I remember working on my friend's Honda civic replacing the alternator (something which usually breaks once on every car if you keep it 10 years or more). It was right along the firewall (a red flag already). We disconnected it and unbolted it but could not actually take it out of the car. It was stuck in there (loose). We would have had to take out a whole bunch of other things. Finally we dragged the part all along the fire wall, lifted it, dragged it all along the firewall the other way to finally lift if out. Took us an entire Saturday (10 hours). For a GM, one hour and that includes picking up the part at the store. On top of that the Honda part cost three times the GM part. Foreign cars may last longer but they are a bitch to repair when they do break.

I’ve watched each Mythbusters episode at least two times.

I recently watched barrel of bricks and was slightly disappointed that they version they tested was very simplified compared to the one I knew from "the sick note". I'm glad to hear Adam does in fact know the extended version (now at least) but there's still some more steps. The one I know is he hit the barrel on the way up, hit the pulley at the top half the bricks spilled out and now he's falling, hit the barrel coming back up, landed on the pile of bricks, the barrel hit the pulley wheel and broke open raining bricks down on him, and finally he let go of the barrel and it fell on him. Obviously this version is even more absurd and probably impossible to replicate.

It makes me so happy that you watch This Old Tony. Its like when 2 of your friends meet and they become friends. (weird, i know...)

Adam...Volkswagon is not the only one that changed to the cable window mechanism I have a Jeep and have the same rant. Thank you for helping bring this to the forefront...simple is easier and more reliable.

I remember watching that cookie dough episode on tv.. think that was the first one I watched instantly was hooked on mythbusters from then on.. always loved science but seeing it visually and explained visually was well perfect.. it definitely contributed to my love of tinkering with mechanics and experiments… and trying to understand how things work even if they seem far fetched hahaha .. thank you for destroying you own car partially with the show in the beginning I’m sure there was a lot of early day sacrifices for the show.. can’t really imagine if mythbusters wasn’t a thing so I’m truely thankful it was.. and wow 2002 haha

The Bricklayers Lament. I have never NOT laughed at this song. This is one of the very few the situational comedies I laugh at, normally I walk off; think how sad and unfortunate the situation was. That was nothing to laugh at. But Patty Murphy. and his bricks is worth a good laugh. Thank you Adam for bringing a smile to my face. Thank you very much. Did anyone write a reply song about the Construction sites Manager back to Patty and his incident?

Because that's what Volkswagon does, to be blunt. As an engineer, I've run into this over and over again. There's some crazy stories about how they replaced a reed switch blinker in a standard car with an electronic circuit, including even a little speaker to emulate the 'click' sound. And it was not nearly as cheap as the simple reed switch it replaced. I'd be surprised if it had any advantages at all.

Those metric blocks are DOPE! I saw the 2-4-6’s on Stuff Made Here and had to have them (haven’t used them-but they are going in the clay with me🤣)

I am a machinist and engineer, i have my own 1-2-3 and 2-4-6 blocks. I haven't seen anyone at work have a 2-3-4 block. At first i thought you had a 2-4-6 block haha. Thanks for the great vids Adam!

That site that makes those metric blocks are about to get an insane boost in sales. Heck yeah!

Just got the pilot episodes on DVD yesterday and found this-tonight

I'm so sorry you deal with allergies. I can totally relate. They are just miserable! I hope you are able to find ways to keep them under control.

Fairly certain Mythbusters used the abandoned airbase in Alameda, CA.

I love that moment of pure confusion at 2:34. That short pause then What is This?! Oh, right, it's metric! 🤣 I don't think I should find this that funny.

My favorite Jetta related repair is the pneumatic locks that was fun if one air hose goes they all go no variable valve or nothing.

Had to replace two of those car windows last month and it was such a pain

your giddiness is the best part of this video :D the rest was good too!

Did a 2000 ish VW window myself and it's the single most frustrating thing I've worked on with cars. I was pulling my hair out to the point I went inside, and my wife actually came out with me and gave me a second opinion and second pair of hands. We did it in the end but took it to a garage for the other one. 🤣

OMG Jetta! So much fun working on that car

Okay, I should've wait til the brick barrel story, that was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣

reminds me of those safety films I used to see...the stunt man does it wrong, spectacle, crashing out.... I remember he was flying down the street on a creeper; he went under a semi, and into a storm drain...end of episode.... What ever hapened to those films...where do you find them!

just having those lovely block in your shop makes you LOOK LIKE a pro builder, i know Adam is a very capable machinist

So what do you use these cute blocks for besides weights?

It's VW EVERYTHING that's stupidly complicated and expensive. My wife had two Jettas and my mother in law had two Passats. The stupid latch for the trunk was $50.

Have you realized that in a few years Myth Busters will be studied as "early 21st century video entertainment"?

I use my 1 2 3 blocks in woodworking all the time. Super useful.

so you love your one,two,three blocks of steal. awesome. have you considered making four,five,six blocks made of kiln dried wood for you table saw? they are very handy when adjusting the blade angle back to 90 degrees . i first ruff cut mine a bit big and sanded it down to squatness and size. it will come in very handy for you!

my mazda protege had cable driven windows, i tried replacing it but after the metal cables piercing my leather gloves. i just replaced the whole door.

They also make 20 40 60mm blocks. These could be of major use to me. Thanks for the heads up

I'm confused. Is this a re-upload? I could swear you answered these exact questions like 3-4 months ago.

I had a Jetta that the rear windows didn't work because even as a mechanic, at the time, I wasn't going to pay several hindered dollars per window regulator to replace myself!

Oh I always thought those blocks were just fancy paperweights used to hold down the corners of fabric and stuff when you cut it

I remember hearing the Barrel of Bricks as a comedy routine on the radio in the '70s, but I can't remember who did it.

The mention of the original buster made me think of this. Do either you or Jamie have any original parts you saved from him?

I'd love to hear about the mythbusters shop

If anyone here hasn't seen it, Jude Law read the full letter from Fred Allen (the man in the Barrel of Bricks myth) about the injuries and how he acquired them. Wonderful thing, available on youtube if you search "Letters Live Jude Law."

I thought the biscuit bazooka car was a Saturn. Just going from memory though. I could be wrong. The car in the thumbnail is definitely a Saturn SL.

@soulreapermagnum

2 жыл бұрын

i do recall that they used a saturn in a myth one time but i couldn't tell you which myth

I have been working as a tool maker in a shop for 7 years now with 13 other guys and have never seen anyone ues 1 2 3 blocks. I even made some in collage as a project . Maybe some day ill use them.

I got my first 123 block last year. I've only used it a few times, but already worth it.

I have an older VW Passat and Adam's digression on VW's wonderfully insane nonsensical engineering that cost like ten times as much to replace than any other car is so true

Every car I have ever worked on that had electric windows used cable driven windows. All of them sold fully assembled in a guiding assembly that would be trivial to thread a new cable through if they actually cared at all about repairability. Instead the cable is permanently bonded in place forcing you to throw out a perfectly good high torque right angle 12VDC motor and a large chunk of non-recyclable plastic because a thin cable broke. Could you imagine if every time your brakes on your bike stopped working you had to remove all the brake hardware, throw it away and install all new hardware. Pretty much what the auto industry has done to use with our car windows.

That's why we can accomplish more when young. We don't know enough to understand how difficult something will be.

would have loved to see them in action , im still lost lol , but im going to figure this out lol im still stuck on the pica pens , most amazing tool

The old jeep cherokees and comanche had a cable ish system also

You used hefty, fitted-stave, hooped, wet-cooperage barrels. Construction- site barrels would have been relatively flimsy, unfitted planks, most likely with twisted-wire "bands"- dry cooperage, not at all liquid tight... A step up from a nail keg, but not much of one. THAT would have been spectacular! FWIW I worked in a cooper's shop for a while, and read up on the history a bit... Wonder if that mini block was Lego-compatible!

Getting release right on the bang is tricky...

"I was lucky enough to not know how difficult that was going to be" I always think back to the stories of how the original ILM crew for A New Hope were too young and inexperienced to say "we can't do that"

Is the "v" in "2/3v/22" a typo or intentional?

@tdherbert

2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering the same! It's in just the right place to remove ambiguity around DMY and MDY date formats, which seems like a good idea, but at a glance I couldn't find any other examples of this convention on the net.

Why don't those things develop a layer of rust? Do you put something on them to prevent rusting?

Spooky, I just bought some 20-40-80 blocks from that site last week. I'm in the UK, so delivery was cheap.

I want Adam's tattoo so much lol

I have a pair of 2-4-6 blocks. They're hilariously huge.

I love when he uses his tattoo

I was 1 year old when Adam was filming the pilot, now I'm a junior in college

Okay, but what are those 123 blocks used for? Also, does Adam have a ruler tattooed on his arm?

I just came from a video with a Hullo pillow ad, and he starts the video with, Hello. I thought I was still in the ad.

"Do you mind if I go off on a tangent?" Yes, _please!_ Actually though, I find it so annoying when someone references something like that but then _doesn't explain._ Like, why did you bring it up if you weren't going to tell us about it? So thank you so much for going off on that tangent.

I use my 1-2-3 blocks as weights and squares when making boxes.

Ahh, that cable driven window mechanism… I have replaced at least one on every VW & Audi I have ever owned.

Wood by Wright recently did a video about 123 blocks, and he had some really cool sized blocks! Give him a check out, he's a decent woodworker

Speaking of 19 years ago I wish you lot would consider redoing Junkyard Wars. :-)

Barrel of Bricks is a Bert and I story from Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan

my dad is dealing with repairing his aging jetta right now, sucks

Hi Adam, have you tried building the Portal gun from Rick & Morty?

What are those?

I've seen lots of other cars with cable systems.

U use 123 blocks designing and building model aircraft from Adam’s ready board.

Y, also shocked by Jetta windows repair cost so I fixed mine with $5 of bicycle brake cable.

You can also get machinists tools at fireball tools. He has a KZread channel too.

Lots of European manufacturers used cable driven power window solutions. Its yet another "solution" from the engineers at Bosch who supplied many, many euro cars with very similar solutions.

4:22 - Why did you have to say that, now I feel old.

i replaced two windows on my VW tiguan and had no idea that crazy cable system was not how all windows worked, lol