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@sorrowschism

Жыл бұрын

if you are going to tell us in the video that you are going to include a link to something in the description you really should follow through, failing to do so makes you look unprofessional and unreliable, not to mention making us feel as if you do not actually care about your viewers.

@cavemanvi

Жыл бұрын

@@sorrowschism check the top comment complainy pants.

@sorrowschism

Жыл бұрын

@@cavemanvi you mean the one pinned to the top by Tested? that would be the one this thread is in.

@gibberishname

Жыл бұрын

@@sorrowschism YES!

@tested

Жыл бұрын

@@sorrowschism We're very short staffed. What item are you asking for a link to?

Hey just wanted to say thanks for watching the video and talking about it! Really cool to hear your view on it!

The bird in the window was the star of this video. Always love these Q&A things with Adam.

@clarkpatterson753

Жыл бұрын

I was seven minutes in until I realized it was a pigeon! 😆

@starhawke380

Жыл бұрын

Dammit! Im never first on these things...

@dotails

Жыл бұрын

I thought it was a reflection of someone in the same.room the first time it showed up obscured.

@ME10920

Жыл бұрын

Pigeons getting it on

@scottmantooth8785

Жыл бұрын

*so that's what it was*

For anyone wondering, the Chanel Adam mentioned is Wristwatch Revival (Tho I don't remember the exact video). Marshal does GREAT work, but Its also just super relaxing to have him on in the background.

@humanasfarasiknow8634

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/fY1s0LdwcrKzY5c.html title if people don't like clicking links: This Beat Up, Non-Running Omega Seamaster Has Big Potential! Vintage Watch Restoration he starts talking about dropping the parts at 27:00 minutes

@yourneighborhood

Жыл бұрын

Great channel!!! Love watching it! You are right, his narration is fantastic.

@MrDjmca

Жыл бұрын

I’ve spent hours watching Marshal’s fingers fix watches

@345tom

Жыл бұрын

It's so funny that this is Marshal Sutcliffes like OTHER hobby still- Dude is a MtG commentator, and it's always fun to see worlds collide like this.

@nathan_james

Жыл бұрын

You sir are an internet angel!

When I was 15 my dad told me I had to read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I argued with him but than gave in and read it and it remains my favorite book.

I like watching James May series the Re-assembler, on Prime. The humour is just as fascinating as the re-assembling.

@caryrodda

Жыл бұрын

Great show!

Something I'd like to add to Adam's point of "watching yourself back the first couple hundred times is a 'horror show'" is that it's exactly the same with music and recording yourself! I will be fully honest in saying I've never done studio recording, but I've been a musician for most of my life and have been recorded what feels like thousands of times. Whether its on parent's cameras at school concerts, random people recording you on their phones at bars/gigs, or (my personal closest experience to studio recording) being decently mic'd up for college concerts for classroom discussions after. Listening back to yourself is HARD, and probably one of my least favorite things to do as a musician. But I cannot deny that it can be one of the BEST ways to learn and grow in music. You learn to get past the "cringe" of noticing every tiny little mistake, and eventually start to take the performance as a whole. What could you have done better, and what did you nail? How can you improve upon the mistakes, and make sure you continue doing the good aspects? These are all questions that can be more easily answered when you actually listen to the performance. Also, though it's a horror, it can also do wonders for your confidence when you have good moments! I'll never forget the first time I played the drums for a jazz band I was in in college. Jazz isn't really my type of music, but that band was the only way I could play drums in a live setting at the time, so I sucked it up. And I thought I did AWFUL at the concert, and in some ways... I was. But I was fairly new to the genre, and still figuring stuff out. When I went to listen to the recordings from the concert, I was dreading it! Thinking I was gonna sound like garbage and ruined the whole thing. To my shock.... it sounded pretty good! I didn't do anything technically complicated (a really basic swing groove with crashes at the top of the round. Really basic fills if any) but I was a rock solid tempo, I didn't overpower the other musicians, and all in all it was... basic, but strong! After that, I was a lot more confident to go outta my comfort zone and get more creative in the music! It was scary, but FUN! And I would have never tried doing that if I didn't listen to the recording! So if there are any young and/or upcoming musicians reading this comment, record and listen to yourself play! It'll hurt, but you'll be thankful for it later! If anyone has a similar experience or fun story they'd like to add, I'd love to hear it! Thanks TESTED community, and have a great day! :D

@daalelli

Жыл бұрын

I learned through painful listening that I am able to keep tune better when I sing on the higher end of my range than the the more comfortable lower end of my range.

When I'm disassembling anything (most often computer/electronics, but not always), I've found a muffin tin and tape for writing labels is a quick and easy way to keep small pieces like screws or connectors organized. Combine like-sized/like-purposed pieces together in each of the muffin tin's 12 cups, and you can place a piece of flat-colored tape on it to write a note to yourself on said cup if need be.

Another great reason to heavily document a tear down. Life happens, and you may be ripped away from that project due to a family emergency, not being able to return to it for weeks or months.

I did the trick for a while of foam core and stabbing all the bolts and screws into the core in a left to right order of how I removed them, putting their washers and lock rings etc. with them.

when I was in high school my dada taught me to repair fishing reels from the sporting goods store he was manager of so I could make a little extra money. The process he taught me I still use today anything I take apart anything mechanical. As I remove parts I lay them out in a line next to each other so when I’m ready for reassembly I just start with the last part in the row & go backwards until complete

For those who wanted to watch the video (Wristwatch Revival) Adam was referencing, here it is: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fY1s0LdwcrKzY5c.html

My favorite part of any of your videos is watching the pure joy you have in making and figuring things out.

What I get from watching this video is that no amazing story cant be made more amazing through thoughtful and heartfelt collaboration.

I love how you started this on KZread your truly amazing to watch listen to and great to learn from thank you for being a inspiration

Was watching the video and wondering what the heck was in the background to the left.. pigeons.. Also yes, most of my tutorials were me off camera, after 100 videos produced on KZread did I reveal myself.. a strange thing when all your doing is showing prop builds or in my case car repairs. Thanks for the video!

You've mentioned Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance many times, and tonight I finally ordered both it and Every Tool's a Hammer from Target. Look forward to receiving and reading them!

Oh, that Omega watch video was brilliant. Frankly, I seldom have enough time/attention span to watch more than 20 minutes of youtube video. But in this case I was just watching that piece by piece during three days. It was so satisfying to see how the old (comparatively) watch is coming back to life.

That book is how I learned mechanics! Edit: I shouldn't say how, but the inspiration to my ability. It taught me how to diagnose easily,

You just made me feel better about my anxiety level pre-disassembly!

Just wanna say I love the little edits josh does. It's really nice and adds some funny humour 😃

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle is probably the most important book I've ever read in my life. I wasn't ready for it the first time I read it, but I understand it differently every time I have read it since. Absolute must read

disassembling/reassembling tip... get a magnetic mat with a whiteboard surface. when i work on stuff, i stick the magnetic screws and other parts to the mat surface and write with dry erase marker where it was and sometimes a note to remind me about something when i need to reassemble it. the mat can hold several groups of screws and parts.

Wow. 'Wristwatch Revival' is one of my favorite channels along with 'Tested'. It's kinda cool to know that Adam watches it also.😁

I found familiarity with an object to be the factor in how much I trust my memory when disassembling items. I can completely strip some items and put all the fasteners into one container and all the other parts into a single box when I have done it many times in the past. If it is something I have never done before or only a couple of times then I bring out my muffin pan and butcher paper to assist my memory.

@tothesummit5864

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, knowing well the item you are reassembling makes all the difference. In my 20s I went to work for a shop as an auto mechanic for about a year. One of the guys there taught me to do brakes. I had done brakes jobs on my own vehicles but I would always disassemble one wheel at a time and use the other as reference. He taught me to fully understand how the brakes worked and made me learn to reassemble without reference points. By the time he was done with me I could be handed a 5 gallon bucket of parts for drum brakes (on a vehicle I did not disassemble myself) and put it all back together correctly. Springs, clips, wires, levers, and many of the parts were specific to left or right side. 30 years on and I am still a very competent brake tech even though I haven't officially worked as a mechanic since that job.

I know of the watch repair guy from another context and I was excited to find that he was who you were referring to. Worlds collide!

I loved the Jazz / Blues type music overlays for the long builds during lockdown, I still have those in my favs list for quick retrieval...usually when I'm scale modelling LOL

Dude I was so confused what that alien creature was moving outside the window in the left corner of the screen the whole video. But now I'm pretty sure it was just a pigeon lol

@Akavir7

Жыл бұрын

It holds so still and then just a burst of movement - I lost more than a minute just trying to decrypt what it could be!

@SierraPrine

Жыл бұрын

Ya, rarely read comments but I had to because of the bird.

@tested

Жыл бұрын

There are SO many pigeons.

1:29 Adam I just watched that video of the watch restorer yesterday! Funny, I am starting to do watch restorations because of his channel and others. Wristwatch Revival. He mentions to record every step of the process so I setup multiple cameras to do the same thing.

My first career was being a Diesel Mechanic (Trucks, off road machinery, stationary equipment, etc.) in the mid 90s. Things were evolving slowly and working at a dealership, on the same engines/transmissions/differentials all day, I was able to mix all the bolts into a single baskets and put them back where they belonged. Not look at shop manuals for torque specs, knowing them from memory. You also learn which types of materials goes where (cupper nuts on turbo flange, as an example). BUT, these days, with things moving so fast, I wonder if one could still do it. In your case, you work on such an eclectic assortment of projects that you just can't learn the specifics and be able to not track your parts. Just something to keep in mind.

Love that book. Top three for sure.

I think you'd love the KZread channel My mechanics. First he shows the item, then he pulls it apart piece by piece and, before working on them, shows them all on the same table together in an 'exploded' view. What I mean is, all the parts are sat next to each exactly where they would fit in the original item. At that point he starts work but now he at least has that footage to refer to when rebuilding. He will then take the build section by section working on them and replacing them back on the bench (granted he doesn't do it on all the builds, sometimes due to space).

Thank you for the engagement (which is, of course, is not the same as-nor does it require-response). 7:27

I guess I'm different cause i can see how things go together. And can rely on memory

When I disassemble things that I want to put back together, I lay out paper in roughly the same size as the item in question and run lines of tape across the paper with the sticky side up, except at the ends which hold it down, and place every screw in the place corresponding to where it came from. For multi-layered things like laptops I'll lay out multiple sheets of paper and label them top, bottom, layer 1, 2, etc. If I were to make a regular thing of this, I'd make some trays and put magnets on the underside of them. For anything large, taking multiple pictures and/or video is definitely the way to go. Orientation shots are helpful so you can find your place.

Very deep subjects! I am having a ton of fun as a fairly new content creator!

I tried to read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" back in the 70s, but couldn't get into it. I suspect that I'd like it now. I need to give it another shot.

Be the arrow. Was one of the best books I ever read in my long and book filled life. I too tear my motorcycle apart as described in that tome.

You are a legend!! Keep it up!

Zip lock bags and a felt pen. Notes with the part when necessary.

Been watching wristwatch revival for years and years its my all time favorite watch channel

My eye opener from “Zen” was that nobody can quantify Quality, but everyone recognizes the absence of it. It is the process, not the product, it is the way you approach or execute a task. “Zen” defined the way I do my job as a maths teacher to this day.

I do computer work and I always draw a version of the device on a piece of paper and put the screws in the places where I remove them.

Just curious if Adam has been watching Wristwatch Revival for a while or if it was the comment I left on his April video titled: Ask Adam Savage: My "Why Didn't I Think of That Moments", that prompted Adam to begin watching WR. Thanks for all the incredible content not only to Adam but to the whole Tested Team.

You described the anxiety I feel watching Handtool Rescue

thanks for the video an the information

I've lost count of how many times I've read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It's a book that keeps on giving on every read. It's top quality (wink wink). 😀

I do enjoy watching your videos, especially with my adult sons.

It's interesting, because it is the same (yet modified) set of issues encountered in preparation of fossils. You bring them into the lab from the dig site, and then... everybody has their preference. Do they refer to the field book, hoping to understand the fossil layout and how they have been fractured, crushed or displaced? Do they use methodical deconstruction, then reverse that for reconstruction in reverse order? Or do they use intuition and a keen eye for jigsaw-style piece-fitting? Every style is an absolute migraine-inducer for someone who does it differently.

I recently ran into an issue I wondering if you have had. Have you ever been working on a project and had to substitute a cheaper material for something you knew would be better due to the exorbitant cost of the material you wanted to use?

Now in the age of digital cameras it is *so* much easier to take photos of your dissassembly process so you can reverse it when re-asembling. It's also frustrating how many times a manufacturer will end up building something with 3 subtly different screws where A and B will fit in the slot for C but C won't fit in the slots for A or B.

7:57 - I love how "videotaping" sounds dated, yet "filming" doesn't for some reason. I wonder if it's because "filming" has actually been a term for longer, so it doesn't feel quite as jargony as "videotaping" or even "recording"…Idk, I just find the way we describe processes in the face of technological change to be fascinating!

Surprised, not surprised that you mentioned Zen and the Art.

The dowel falling still cracks me up

"It's going to suck for a while." This makes sense but I have also seen some of the opposite. I have dabbled in making a Lets Play series (of Armored Core) and my earliest videos are perhaps most fun. I was most excited, then as I went on I was just going through the motions. The series is unfinished but I want to complete it, and find a renewed passion along the way

Morning Mr Savage from the UK. I see a thread of Zen, permeate both through your book and the channel. In a world of so much uncertainty, I worry for my children's future. And the real-world events that are unfolding. To the question, do you subscribe to the, my backyard mentality in your work ethos or a casted net approach to your work? Thank you for the positive Diatribes, many reminding me of my time teaching Young Paramedics how to survive and thrive in the London Ambulance Service. Kind Regards. And glad to be a Patron. PEACE

Hello from Windom, MN

I don’t know how to start a new thread but Adam I was wondering if you guys ever decided to test the scene of the snow speeder wrapping around the walker and having the walker fall and get destroyed. You know for the empire strikes back tested. Is that even plausible ? Just curious. Maybe you can respond to this and let me know.

Wow, so early. I haven't seen this show in *YEARS*

I knew which watch video you were refering to :)

I actually don't have trouble watching myself back I think it's stranger to actually go back to something I shot a long time ago and rewatch it, because there's so much more time separation between the way I was then and the way I am now. I actually thought it was much harder when I first started live streaming on YouNow back in the day, because I had to keep talking to an audience I couldn't see and I'm not naturally a talker to begin with.

I like this at this at 7:40

I've only edited a handful of videos of myself, but I was surprised how quickly I separated myself from the recorded me. That initial shock is rough though lol.

@EvanCops

Жыл бұрын

I'm still not comfortable being on camera. I have time lapse video where I'm coloring and where I'm doing one or two lego builds. Although I've started doing shorts to just try and get over this weird feeling I have

@EvanCops

Жыл бұрын

@@GeneCash yeah I'm finally getting used to how my voice sounds played back

Hehe.. yeah I get you on that, but really it is about experience more than it is about memory. I remember when we had a trainee mechanic working for us and watching in fascination as he laid out a blanket and one buy one lay out the parts, nuts, bolts and shafts of a gearbox. He spent a long time doing this and my father watched him and when he was finished congratulated him ,, picks up the blanket and dumped them all in the parts' washer. The trainee was horrified. But my dad explained to him , taking apart something mechanically is not understanding how it works. Putting it together is. He then spent an hour or two explaining to him what every part was and where it has to go to make it all work. Once the trainee got the understanding of how the gears, synchromesh and selector all worked, he became much more confident about tackling even more complicated gearboxes. He still laid out the parts neatly, but he would then wash them all himself all at once and lay them back out neatly, knowing where everything went and why it went there. There is no substitute for experience, and can look at books and videos all you want, but until you do it yourself and try it yourself you will never learn. Never rely on memory alone. And never assume that just because you have a screw left over, it was not needed in the first place.

I wonder what is moving behind the frosted window over his right shoulder.

Happy place commenter chiming in!

It greatly depends on the technician. Personally I can toss everything in a single bin. I have no trouble putting it back together for about 2 months. Longer than that It starts to be a puzzle game. Put this part on, did it fit? No try it the other way.

Yeah, sounds familiar. When I was a kid, my father took apart a film camera so that he could fix it. He ran out of time and the parts of the camera stayed in an empty beer can for years.

4:44 can I interpret that as foreshadowing to an upcoming video 👀🤞

Who else found their eyes constantly wandering to the corner window to watch the shadow of the birds on the window sill ? 😂

It's so crazy to me that Adam rarely/never watched the final cut of MythBusters. It's fascinating how Adam experienced the show in a totally different way compared to viewers, to the point where the end result, the show and my entire MythBusters experience, Adam experienced little to none of that.

@chris-hayes

Жыл бұрын

On that note, if Adam ever wanted to watch and provide commentary over episodes, I'd buy that in a heartbeat. John Cheese did that for the show, Faulty Towers, and that commentary is freaking amazing. I've listened to it all the way through, multiple times at this point. The commentary audio is actually available on KZread.

@anon_y_mousse

Жыл бұрын

@@chris-hayes I'm guessing auto-correct struck again, but Cleese not cheese.

@slcpunk2740

Жыл бұрын

@@anon_y_mousse Mmmmm John Cheese, hilarious and delicious!

I've always want to come up with my own method for doing disassembly, something more 3 dimensional like exploded schematics

Do those birds (I assume pigeons) nest of the window ledge of your shop?

@tested

Жыл бұрын

This is the Tested office, and ... yes. We have LOTS of pigeons.

I think the piegeon on the window ledge was taking notes.

Great book. I think it was a Honda but always thought it was a bmw too.

🎵🎻🥁If theres something strange in your neighbourhood who ya gonna call☎️Mythbusters🎷🎸🎹🎺🎶

I also watch Wristwatch Revival and I remember the unfortunate incident.

Hi Adam !!

Hello from San Francisco!

"We're all a little vain" "Am I missing an eyebrow?"

Had to chuckle when he caught himself using a deprecated term ("video taping") and changed it to another one ("filming"). 😀 we know what you meant.

I've always intended to read Zen.. just never owned it. I've just changed that, ordered.

Adam, you mentioned you didn’t tend to watch the broadcast cut on Mythbusters. How about you pick (or maybe a vote?) a favourite episode and we’ll all watch it live?

I watch all of Edd China's videos and constantly see them taking practically entire cars apart and tossing the bolts to the side, but I asked about that in the comments once and got a reply that they always put all the bolts that go together in their own plastic bags with labels and take thousands of pictures, but that boring stuff just doesn't make it to the final video edit :-). (No recent videos as the heat wave has chased them out of their tin roof workshop).

@7:57 Funny that "video taping" is passe but "filming" is not, when film is the older technology!

Wait what happened to Gunther?

@3:32 - By the act of observing and internalizing an object, we become ENTANGLED with that object. With recent research suggesting that the essential nature of consciousness is, in fact, quantum... this isn't as silly as it may initially sound. Your initial encounter with an object may not change it... but it WILL change YOU.

“Video taping”, “filming”, both usable but acknowledgeable as passé. I suppose “recording” will become the most correct term.

What is going on in the window behind him in the beginning

@tested

Жыл бұрын

Pigeons!

@BillMulholland1

Жыл бұрын

@@tested ooo 🤣🤣👍 thanks

Does the bird in the window have a name?

hi from argentina

Seriously, every time, I think that’s the Halo “SPNKR” in the background.

"when taking a camera apart, do you take pictures of it?" Hold up-

I love how Adam scoffs at the anachronism of "video taping" and then immediately says "filming", as if folks making content for KZread are using silver halide crystals on celluloid.

I imagined Adam watching himself talking about watching himself while watching this video.

And where is this fubar link?

What is that in the window?

@tested

Жыл бұрын

Pigeon!

@AnnaAnna-uc2ff

Жыл бұрын

@@tested Thanks. What on earth is it doing?

I use the Bryce-technique off the Tombraider movie with Angelina Jolie.😅

Video link talked about in the video?

@Siberius-

Жыл бұрын

True, but also: "Wristwatch Revival - This Beat Up, Non-Running Omega Seamaster Has Big Potential! Vintage Watch Restoration" At 26:50

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Persig/Phedrus was not riding the BMW. His friend had the BMW because it required little maintenance and was reliable. Shaft drive meant no chain adjustment, fuel injection meant not needing to swap carb needles based on elevation, etc.Thus, even though the two of them experienced the same views and time in the saddle, etc... they had very different personal experiences because for one, the bike was a means of transport that was almost irrelevant, but for Persig the care, time, knowledge and interaction with his machine framed every day's travel. Persig rode a Honda 900.

@alexoest

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Well explained, thank you. John Sutherland's choice of a BMW is very telling of his approach to technology.

@peterjones6888

Жыл бұрын

@@alexoest Hi. Sorry, got to chip in here. Persig rode a Honda alright, but it was much smaller, like 310 cc or so. Something like a Honda Gold something or other. Honda didn't produce a 900 in the '60s.

@peterjones6888

Жыл бұрын

HI. I replied, quite lazily, to alexoest about the motorcycle and then felt guilty and looked it up. Persig's motorcycle was a Honda Super Hawk, of 305cc.