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They are called Huck Towels. Look for Surgical Huck Towels (Not Micro Fiber). Do not buy Huck Towels without the word surgical or surgery before it, because they are fake and micro fiber but cheaply made.
Chemical and plastic waste are problematic since it's the type of waste that becomes enviromentally deleterious pollution. Something to consider when adding a new tool (e.g., 3D printer) to your kit. How does the Tested crew handle the byproducts of their creative/hobby pursuits? Good topic for future video?
Generating waste is a great discussion in the maker space. A whole vid contemplating that from Adam, Norm, and others perspectives I think could fill an hour!
Hi Adam My dad just went into hospes yesterday but meeting you at Cincinnati comic Con last year was the best memory from the Con thank you for being there and being so nice
I had a client doubt my abilities and they over-questioned all the ins-and-outs of the process of the project. Some of his expectations exceeded my tools and setup, but not my abilities. I made the executive decision to reassure him 100% that all would be well and the finished product would exceed his expectations. I threw-in some free extras and he was absolutely elated in the end. Had I given into his doubts - I would have lost the job. In the end, everything worked out and I’m proud to say that my customer/client was very satisfied with the finished product. Know your abilities. Know your worth. Know your value. Believe in the value of YOU!
"That's just called being a person" Well said! It seems like more and more everyone (of all ages) feel the need to broadcast their bad moods to everyone around them to try and make themselves feel better.
Hm... I don't know about others or the specific examples you think of but i don't like faking my mood, feels like lying, like masking, tho it also doesn't mean i would just be saying to everyone i meet "shit day huh?"
I really appreciate you discussing these kinds of topics openly. I also struggle with generating unnecessary waste, especially if I know the material I'm working with is environmentally harmful in its production and/or disposal. Like, how do I justify repainting a wall just because I want it to be a different colour? How do I stop feeling guilty for using brake cleaner on anything that could have been cleaned by less harsh means?
Quenching has no effect on the annealing of Copper (or Aluminium). It's done for two reasons, firstly to cool quickly so you can continue working and secondly because it knock a lot of the scale off. My workshop lacks a proper water supply and I'll often just set things aside to cool naturally.
Yes! When you have rags you start with clean ones in one pile, and then built new piles sorted by dirtiness and that goes on and on until the last pile might be good for starting bonfires! lol
@@spicy110 As I’m sure you’re aware, storage of soiled rags needs to be carefully managed. Spontaneous combustion is real and happens more than you would imagine. I keep some soiled rags but only ever sit individually on the bench with nothing on top. 🤔
@@jimyeske8498 I do not use linseed oil or turpentine so this is not a worry for me. Also the risk of that happening requires you to do a few silly things that you do not do when you know the risks.
I love that point about material cost - they are definitely the most expensive part of my practice, at least for now. Thankfully, as a disabled student, I can get reimbursed for a lot of my materials through sponsorship. Cannot put into words how thankful I am for that.
Copper does not need to be quenched to anneal it. Just letting it cool down in air ends with the same result, it just takes longer. For something large like that disk, quenching may distort the copper. Just let it air cool to avoid any distortion from quenching in water.
I love that time vs. material inversion theory. I've found it so true. These days, as I get older, I find that I need to be careful about which projects I get into. For example, If I can buy something that does what I need, I'll usually buy it, so as to preserve my remaining time for more novel projects.
Going through that right now, in fact my time has been more worth while than my materials for a bit now, but just coming to the realization of it and kind of changing my goals and plans is like figuring yourself out all over again
I struggle with the wasted from 3d printing. I know when I buy a 1kg roll that eventually all of it will be waste. But depending the builds, having 100g of a roll end up being instant waste does bother me a lot. I hope that it becomes easier to turn waste 3d prints at home back into usable filament, that would be awesome.
look up polymer pressing the printer waste. essentially you grind it in a blender, put it in a hot press (like a tshirt press), and you now have a workable polymer sheet for doing cutting work on a laser cutter or mill. make badges, boxes, whatever. the sheet and it's waste is recyclable again and again, until it gets brittle from the repeated heating breaking the long polymers down.
Stainless work hardens a bit but what makes it so difficult to machine is the ductile properties of the nickel in it. It's gummy and hard to cut and makes the cutting tools overheat and dull fast. For example drilling stainless sheet metal is a pain in the butt as it gives and heats up fast and prevents the drill from cutting through. Grinding the drills with a sharper point and more relief angle helps. Slow speed, high pressure and coolant is a must.
I made the mistake of drilling fast once. Not only did it dull the drill, it hardened that spot in the stainless to where the only thing that would go through it was the plasma torch.
An interesting effect I used for some gorgon faces on shields is a heat gun. If you apply a heat gun to still wet milliput it does some interesting things.
Adam; kudos you for speaking about your mental health. Not enough men own their mental health, especially in a way in the public realm that encourages others to seek support and help.
@@pim1960 there's a gender difference in this behavior. Men are more likely to interview for jobs that they know they can't do yet, on the assumption that they'll fake it 'til they make it. Women are much more likely to restrict themselves to interviewing for jobs for which they are fully or nearly qualified. This is one source of the pay gap.
@@OrigamiMarie Never thought about that! Its how I got my job, but more because I am a big fan of "if I cant yet, I'll learn it" instead of faking it, but in the core I still got my job without being 100% ready for it.
@@pim1960 There's a statistic on it. Men will apply for a position they meet 60% of the criteria for. Women will only apply for positions that they are 90% qualified for. Of course, there are exceptions to that data, but it was an interesting aggregate study.
@@pim1960 it's another part of the greater risk taking that men do (it's a risk to put yourself out there for a higher chance of rejection, and it's a risk to take a job that you can't do yet and could get fired from if you can't get up to speed fast enough). These things might not feel like significant risks to men, but that's just the testosterone talking 😃
I love these talks and relate completely as a maker and tinkerer in my mid 50s. I have so many of the same thoughts, mechanical processes, and experiences. I look at my shop time as practice time. I have a plan, an idea of what I want to do but the journey is almost more than the visualized or hoped for goal. Awesome.
My spouce works in surgery, every time they crack a package of rags in the room, they have to waste any that arent used. They come in 5 packs, sometimes they use 5, most times they use 0 or 1... so we have stacks and stacks for cleaning, they are so so nice. Forget about sterilized and resold they are fresh from the pack.
I love that you describe it as being thin. It’s so interesting to me the words we use to describe these intangible things. “Worn down” is a common one that I feel deeply. Like gears that aren’t meeting correctly, and the friction is causing them to destroy each other rather than work in tandem.
3 R- reduce, reuse , recycle. My "making" is really just geared at fixing things, repurposing end of life gear and on energy saving projects- I find positive action is the only way to take a semblance of control. I get depressed when I see things like woodworkers with projects are more plastic than wood. Anything which wastes food for clicks particularly irks. When I was younger I would hope smart people who understand the consequence of waste & excess would change their behavior....but alas, they're just more skilled at justifications and ultimately we're still in a society where excess is equated with success.
Hi Adam... I spent an entire career in electronics fixing things, and the better you get at such a job, the more you understand there are days when you feel like you could shape the clouds, and other days that you can barely figure out which end of a screwdriver to hold. It really helps to recognize this, because, though experience lets you fake it through when you need to, those won't be days of brilliant creativity. There you just rely on doing by the book fixes until the feeling passes. I suspect this is the same as imposter syndrome, and it is definitely related to depression. The days when you just have to suck it up and grind out the work are not exactly the fun times, but the feeling always passes.
Silver is annealed in the same way as copper. Before making a bezel setting, for example, one heats the silver to a certain temperature and then quenches it quickly. Makes the silver softer, more malleable.
Drilling 304 ss is a pita, sharp bits and cutting wax is a must. If you don't care about the finish, heating the spot and then drilling it with a sacrificial bit works well too.
You can spend money on books and courses and those can be good investments that pay you back and then some. "Wasting" materials because you mess up and are learning is the same thing in my mind, it's all the cost of education.
If you're getting into metal spinning, you should talk to guys who spin bells for brass instruments. They mostly work brass, but I'm sure they have some transferable insights. I have Miles O'Malley in mind - he has a UA-cam channel and he knows exactly what he's doing. Truly a beautiful art.
The red in shop rags is actually a litmus detector and is a holdover from the days when a lot of lubricants and fluids would turn acidic when they degraded. With 304; lots of coolant, low chip load
Interesting point about brass stock size. I’ve played around with 1/8” brass round stock making screws, etc, and found it was very pleasant. Interesting that this may not carry over to larger pieces.
I like working with waste materials since they're free and you're not really generating any more garbage than you had before. If anything, you're reducing it.
Spinning is definitely one of the most DIFFICULT hand processes for metal. It’s all about feel with a maddeningly small amount of actionable insight from writing. It makes all other sheet work tame by comparison including english wheel and hand hammering.
I love your videos they are so informative and creative. They are a joy to watch. Do you have suggestions for what tools are necessary for a beginner. Furthermore what brands would you recommend for a beginner with an almost non-existent budget?
The environmental part of my brain cheers for Adam's devotion to maximizing the use he gets from things. The fire safety part looks at that oily rag and goes ＊AAAAAAAARGH!*
Having recently completed an auto project with the cursed red rags Adam mentioned, I can confirm that they are the absolute worst. They leave themselves behind everywhere. Bought some of the blue surgical rags and those are all that I will ever use again! Thanks Adam!!!
As a disabled maker/crafter/artist, I definitely understand the idea of bringing the extra energy. For me it's kind of the ultimate "fake it till you make it," because when i deliberately evoke my own passion about what I do, that often translates into the emergence of actual energy and excitement. This is, in fact, how I do pretty much anything. This was true for me as a classroom teacher for 14 years as well.
I am still in the young mode where I hoard every last bit of scrap. I also thrift my tools, usually broken, and fix them. This whole making thing is exciting!
Concerning the 304 type stainless steel, there are concerns about welding and any use you intend. I have worked with chemical mixing and have had equipment with 304L standard. Don't try to put a super high polish on it, it won't work it will be more prone to staining. Welding should be tempered in a very certain way for certain uses.
Watching him handling that steel sheet so casually terrified me. In my past, I worked in a warehouse where we had to transport sheet metal, just transport. You gain a healthy respect for sheet metal and edges when moving it. I'm still squirming while thinking about it
Materials are only wasted when you throw them away. As Adam said, that piece of copper isn't going to be wasted, he will use it for something else. Even woodworking, sawdust can be used for things. I've known people who pelletized their own sawdust for firewood. I am an electronics hobbyist, and there isn't an electronic hobbyist worth his or her salt who doesn't have quite a lot of "trashed" electronics gear that they keep on hand to scrounge through for parts. Buying new parts can get expensive, but scrounging from a used piece of gear is basically free, a lot of time, except for the usually minuscule time required to remove the part (or parts) in question from the old gear.
A) How did Adam learn that those rags exists and are available to purchase? B) Are there other examples of second-hand inventory that goes for pennies after it's been used by the intended professions? C) I got a box with cables and small PC peripherials. I can't imagine the size of Adam's "I might need it one day" boxes
B) one example of the top of my head is playing cards from casinos. They are opened fresh, used in one game, then must be retired , so they are re-sold as casino used cards. Typically with some kind of mark, or the corners cut off or something. Lots of uses for cheap playing cards though
I co-owned a costume for almost 42 years, where not only did we do a lot of vacu-forming, I was the chief pattern maker and cutter... I hated throwing out any paper, fabric or plastic scraps. We had plastic bins full of fabric scraps, piles of plastic cuttoffs, pex & pvc cutoffs, you name it. Only in the last few years did I start to just throw fabric cutting scraps out - short of usuable sized pieces we'd keep for given shows - it just became too time consuming to sort and find the plastic bin to put the scraps in. Still had a hardtime throwing out plastic scraps, as also being a model railroad hobbyist, ANY piece of plastic may come in handy. 😃
If you think brass is grippy, stainless is 10 times more grippier of an material. I tried to put threads in a stainless bong and eventually after 4 broken tabs I just welded it.
For all my foam work i keep every scrap to use as packing materials, and all the 3D printer waste is just sitting in boxes and bins, one day ill get around to reusing it into molds and such
304 Mah to much iron . 316 L Stainless is a new material . Butter soft and hard as granite. Of course. Its not new . You can scratch it with your freshly washed finger. And brake every tool you own working with it. Blending welds in a piece of furniture. Obtaining a grade 8 finish on even an osculation plate. Would be a joy to see. Blue rags or the only ones for me now. Thanks Tested , Mr Savage.
I have so many small scraps of wood in my shop from projects it's almost as if I'm a hoarder. However they always come in handy for testing a machining setup and many other small projects. Is that a 70mm motion picture camera I see in the background, want to know more about it 💯
drilling a 5/8 hole in a brass rod on a lathe with a new drill bit will teach you real quick about grippy brass . especially on a turret lathe it will grab that drill and pull it in like a screw
9:00 oh you can get nice finish on 304 for sure, you just need to play it by its rules. I never done it on manual mill but if you can flood it just matter of not pushing it
At the 9 minute mark I'm wondering if the chamfer tool is anything like Mr. Tom Lipton hand held cordless chamfer tool..I think I've heard Adam refer to Mr. Lipton in the past, being as they are both in CA.
Sometimes faking it helps you make it. There's plenty of research showing that smiling makes you feel better even when you're down. If that doesn't work there's always dogs. This reminds me of the episode where Grant announced that he was able to borrow something on the condition that it not be blown up or burned and Tory responded "Have they watched the show?"
I love the surgery rags, my best friend works at a hospital and gets them by the hundreds, but they do have a downfall. You can only wash them 5 or 6 times then almost on queue they fall apart. Still recommend them anyway.
My employer buys rags in bulk from clothing recycling companies. But most of it is absolute garbage, just shredded clothing. Almost no absorbency at all and sheds lint and threads everywhere. Also, some of it loses colour when exposed to solvents. I’ve seen big expensive failures on the railway because a single thread from a cheap rag has been in an electrical contact. Every now and then, we’ll even get a bag of rags that is mostly old denim. Denim is a great hard wearing material, and completely ineffective at cleaning anything. I’d love proper cleaning rags, but I appreciate the costs involved.
The whole waste thing is interesting to me, because as an individual you will almost certainly never make a dent one way or another in even your local dump. Let alone global trash. I work in construction, and it's astounding the vast amount of trash generated just in that one industry. Sometimes it's hard to reconcile trashing dumpsters and trailers full of hypothetically useable things and raw materials. Even things like full rooms worth of brand new carpet, because the homeowner didn't like the color, or entire granite countertops for the same reason, not to mention perfectly functioning fixtures and appliances, all in the name of aesthetics. Someone doing just a simple remodel on their house could easily generate more trash in a month, than they would the entire rest of the year.
I work in retail, I have to phone it in all the time. Some people are just boring or annoying, gotta be professional and friendly. It becomes routine, I can act like I'm genuinely laughing eventhough I can be super triggered by cringe people. Been in retail for nearly 20 years.
Those red rags are auto shop rags. They are for cleaning up motor oil spills specifically, which they are great at. Anything else, they're crap. I scratched my head when they started selling them at Home Depot and Lowes. The boss found out real quick why I told him I wouldn't use them when he first bought some because they were a buck cheaper than a bag of other rags after he used one.
Did you upload this video earlier under another name? I swear I saw a video about waste during the making process this morning that I cant find anymore.
I'd buy some of the towels from the link, but I don't think I'd ever use 200 of them!! I'll check out some of the others that you can buy a lesser quantity though.
@@robadams1645 Hee heee. I have to say, having worked with those towels for over 30 years using them both in the hospital and at home as shop towels, even the worst gets pretty clean.
🤔I find 304 to be the easiest stainless to machine although they definitely don’t get as good of a surface finish as 316 but 316 is harder to machine I find
I grew up poor so I keep a lot of the scraps from projects to use in pretests of things. And I saved screws and such from broken things. I only throw things out when they are completely useless.
Decades ago I had a cheap Unimat mini lathe and made a brass and aluminum chess set. I thought the brass machined like a dream, and the aluminum was not just grippy but annoying in many ways.
Yeah. ...which i don't really appreciate ngl Having to do things when you don't want to do them, sure, but masking your feelings feels like... Being a people pleaser. At least that's how it came off from the way he described it and how some described it in the comments.
It's a Typo by the company. They could not sell non-sterile material. I think they call them non-sterile because after being sterilized they have not been hermetically sealed and exposed to the air and thus are now again unsterilized for use in Surgery but have been sterilized from their use before packaging for sale to the public.
What are your thoughts on the waste that creation can generate?
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Waste should be taken into account in the planning if only to conserve resources. ❤😊
They are called Huck Towels.
Look for Surgical Huck Towels (Not Micro Fiber).
Do not buy Huck Towels without the word surgical or surgery before it, because they are fake and micro fiber but cheaply made.
Chemical and plastic waste are problematic since it's the type of waste that becomes enviromentally deleterious pollution. Something to consider when adding a new tool (e.g., 3D printer) to your kit.
How does the Tested crew handle the byproducts of their creative/hobby pursuits? Good topic for future video?
@@bentationfunkiloglio
It is possible to 3D Print without PFAS and PTFE being present.
When you have softened the copper, how do you harden it again,
“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.” - Bilbo - Fellowship of the Rings
Every year I comprehend that quote just a little bit more.
This made me laugh, thank you
I bet my copy of LOTR that Adam said it with full knowledge of that quote. 😁
@@cookymonstr7918 Subconsciously he was reaching for it.
I like toast
Generating waste is a great discussion in the maker space. A whole vid contemplating that from Adam, Norm, and others perspectives I think could fill an hour!
Eh it'll be a waste of time lol jk couldn't help myself
@@SCUL-E haha. It's true. They don't have as much "free" free time, as Adam references in the vid
Only way to avoid generating waste is by not eating HEYOOO
@Balthazar2242 heyooo indeed 😉
The oily rags keep things shiny and take the dust off real nice
"Here comes the Mythbusters, pull out the old K-rails for them. They need replaced anyway".
There's often a deposit on rental items to allow for damage.
I wonder if they kept the really beatup ones to the side and always rented those ones first out to Mythbusters xD
With safety stuff like that I'd imagine there's also an "if these fail we'd like to know about it" factor.
Hi Adam My dad just went into hospes yesterday but meeting you at Cincinnati comic Con last year was the best memory from the Con thank you for being there and being so nice
As an anesthesiologist, seeing that second huck towel gave me palpitations.
I had a client doubt my abilities and they over-questioned all the ins-and-outs of the process of the project. Some of his expectations exceeded my tools and setup, but not my abilities. I made the executive decision to reassure him 100% that all would be well and the finished product would exceed his expectations.
I threw-in some free extras and he was absolutely elated in the end.
Had I given into his doubts - I would have lost the job.
In the end, everything worked out and I’m proud to say that my customer/client was very satisfied with the finished product.
Know your abilities.
Know your worth.
Know your value.
Believe in the value of YOU!
"That's just called being a person" Well said! It seems like more and more everyone (of all ages) feel the need to broadcast their bad moods to everyone around them to try and make themselves feel better.
Hm... I don't know about others or the specific examples you think of but i don't like faking my mood, feels like lying, like masking, tho it also doesn't mean i would just be saying to everyone i meet "shit day huh?"
Mention "metal spinning" and i had to go look it up. Oh my, what a delightful process to watch when it's done well!
I really appreciate you discussing these kinds of topics openly. I also struggle with generating unnecessary waste, especially if I know the material I'm working with is environmentally harmful in its production and/or disposal. Like, how do I justify repainting a wall just because I want it to be a different colour? How do I stop feeling guilty for using brake cleaner on anything that could have been cleaned by less harsh means?
I own a window cleaning company. Recycled surgical rags are essential. The most absorbent, lint-free, reusable rags I've ever found. Fantastic.
Quenching has no effect on the annealing of Copper (or Aluminium). It's done for two reasons, firstly to cool quickly so you can continue working and secondly because it knock a lot of the scale off. My workshop lacks a proper water supply and I'll often just set things aside to cool naturally.
Yes! When you have rags you start with clean ones in one pile, and then built new piles sorted by dirtiness and that goes on and on until the last pile might be good for starting bonfires! lol
@@spicy110
As I’m sure you’re aware, storage of soiled rags needs to be carefully managed. Spontaneous combustion is real and happens more than you would imagine. I keep some soiled rags but only ever sit individually on the bench with nothing on top. 🤔
@@jimyeske8498 I do not use linseed oil or turpentine so this is not a worry for me. Also the risk of that happening requires you to do a few silly things that you do not do when you know the risks.
I love that point about material cost - they are definitely the most expensive part of my practice, at least for now. Thankfully, as a disabled student, I can get reimbursed for a lot of my materials through sponsorship. Cannot put into words how thankful I am for that.
Copper does not need to be quenched to anneal it. Just letting it cool down in air ends with the same result, it just takes longer. For something large like that disk, quenching may distort the copper. Just let it air cool to avoid any distortion from quenching in water.
I love that time vs. material inversion theory. I've found it so true. These days, as I get older, I find that I need to be careful about which projects I get into. For example, If I can buy something that does what I need, I'll usually buy it, so as to preserve my remaining time for more novel projects.
Going through that right now, in fact my time has been more worth while than my materials for a bit now, but just coming to the realization of it and kind of changing my goals and plans is like figuring yourself out all over again
"Taking more energy to get there" is a fantastic way to put it, and one that resonates with me deeply. Thank you!
I struggle with the wasted from 3d printing. I know when I buy a 1kg roll that eventually all of it will be waste. But depending the builds, having 100g of a roll end up being instant waste does bother me a lot. I hope that it becomes easier to turn waste 3d prints at home back into usable filament, that would be awesome.
look up polymer pressing the printer waste. essentially you grind it in a blender, put it in a hot press (like a tshirt press), and you now have a workable polymer sheet for doing cutting work on a laser cutter or mill. make badges, boxes, whatever. the sheet and it's waste is recyclable again and again, until it gets brittle from the repeated heating breaking the long polymers down.
Stainless work hardens a bit but what makes it so difficult to machine is the ductile properties of the nickel in it. It's gummy and hard to cut and makes the cutting tools overheat and dull fast.
For example drilling stainless sheet metal is a pain in the butt as it gives and heats up fast and prevents the drill from cutting through. Grinding the drills with a sharper point and more relief angle helps.
Slow speed, high pressure and coolant is a must.
Slow.
Everything with stainless is slow.
It'll gum everything up
It'll work harden
And it'll give right until it doesn't.
Evil stuff
I made the mistake of drilling fast once. Not only did it dull the drill, it hardened that spot in the stainless to where the only thing that would go through it was the plasma torch.
ADAM!!! Omg! I'm sooo glad I found your channel! I am beyond late 🤦🏽🤦🏽
An interesting effect I used for some gorgon faces on shields is a heat gun. If you apply a heat gun to still wet milliput it does some interesting things.
Adam; kudos you for speaking about your mental health. Not enough men own their mental health, especially in a way in the public realm that encourages others to seek support and help.
I faked it at my job for about 20 years until I realized I had become an expert.
Isnt that what we all do?
@@pim1960 there's a gender difference in this behavior. Men are more likely to interview for jobs that they know they can't do yet, on the assumption that they'll fake it 'til they make it. Women are much more likely to restrict themselves to interviewing for jobs for which they are fully or nearly qualified. This is one source of the pay gap.
@@OrigamiMarie Never thought about that! Its how I got my job, but more because I am a big fan of "if I cant yet, I'll learn it" instead of faking it, but in the core I still got my job without being 100% ready for it.
@@pim1960 There's a statistic on it. Men will apply for a position they meet 60% of the criteria for. Women will only apply for positions that they are 90% qualified for. Of course, there are exceptions to that data, but it was an interesting aggregate study.
@@pim1960 it's another part of the greater risk taking that men do (it's a risk to put yourself out there for a higher chance of rejection, and it's a risk to take a job that you can't do yet and could get fired from if you can't get up to speed fast enough). These things might not feel like significant risks to men, but that's just the testosterone talking 😃
I love these talks and relate completely as a maker and tinkerer in my mid 50s. I have so many of the same thoughts, mechanical processes, and experiences. I look at my shop time as practice time. I have a plan, an idea of what I want to do but the journey is almost more than the visualized or hoped for goal. Awesome.
My spouce works in surgery, every time they crack a package of rags in the room, they have to waste any that arent used. They come in 5 packs, sometimes they use 5, most times they use 0 or 1... so we have stacks and stacks for cleaning, they are so so nice. Forget about sterilized and resold they are fresh from the pack.
I love that you describe it as being thin. It’s so interesting to me the words we use to describe these intangible things. “Worn down” is a common one that I feel deeply. Like gears that aren’t meeting correctly, and the friction is causing them to destroy each other rather than work in tandem.
That movie camera in the background is AMAZING!
3 R- reduce, reuse , recycle. My "making" is really just geared at fixing things, repurposing end of life gear and on energy saving projects- I find positive action is the only way to take a semblance of control. I get depressed when I see things like woodworkers with projects are more plastic than wood. Anything which wastes food for clicks particularly irks. When I was younger I would hope smart people who understand the consequence of waste & excess would change their behavior....but alas, they're just more skilled at justifications and ultimately we're still in a society where excess is equated with success.
have to build many kits for my boss. the amount of boxes and little plastic bags , almost for every single screw, drives me insane
Hi Adam... I spent an entire career in electronics fixing things, and the better you get at such a job, the more you understand there are days when you feel like you could shape the clouds, and other days that you can barely figure out which end of a screwdriver to hold. It really helps to recognize this, because, though experience lets you fake it through when you need to, those won't be days of brilliant creativity. There you just rely on doing by the book fixes until the feeling passes. I suspect this is the same as imposter syndrome, and it is definitely related to depression. The days when you just have to suck it up and grind out the work are not exactly the fun times, but the feeling always passes.
Silver is annealed in the same way as copper. Before making a bezel setting, for example, one heats the silver to a certain temperature and then quenches it quickly. Makes the silver softer, more malleable.
Drilling 304 ss is a pita, sharp bits and cutting wax is a must. If you don't care about the finish, heating the spot and then drilling it with a sacrificial bit works well too.
You can spend money on books and courses and those can be good investments that pay you back and then some. "Wasting" materials because you mess up and are learning is the same thing in my mind, it's all the cost of education.
As I say to my colleagues - “I’m always happy - and when I’m not, I’m good at bluffing.”
If you're getting into metal spinning, you should talk to guys who spin bells for brass instruments. They mostly work brass, but I'm sure they have some transferable insights. I have Miles O'Malley in mind - he has a UA-cam channel and he knows exactly what he's doing. Truly a beautiful art.
Red shop rags are for cleaning off your hands after you hand pack a bearing with grease.
The red in shop rags is actually a litmus detector and is a holdover from the days when a lot of lubricants and fluids would turn acidic when they degraded.
With 304; lots of coolant, low chip load
Interesting point about brass stock size. I’ve played around with 1/8” brass round stock making screws, etc, and found it was very pleasant. Interesting that this may not carry over to larger pieces.
Great video Adam .
I like working with waste materials since they're free and you're not really generating any more garbage than you had before. If anything, you're reducing it.
I tell people that they wouldn't believe the stuff that gets thrown away, and they never do.
Spinning is definitely one of the most DIFFICULT hand processes for metal. It’s all about feel with a maddeningly small amount of actionable insight from writing.
It makes all other sheet work tame by comparison including english wheel and hand hammering.
Spinning is magic
I love your videos they are so informative and creative. They are a joy to watch.
Do you have suggestions for what tools are necessary for a beginner. Furthermore what brands would you recommend for a beginner with an almost non-existent budget?
When you have softened the copper, how do you harden it again,
The environmental part of my brain cheers for Adam's devotion to maximizing the use he gets from things.
The fire safety part looks at that oily rag and goes ＊AAAAAAAARGH!*
Question for Adam: for organising tools, do you prefer; french cleat, pegboard, or wire mesh? Thanks for all the great videos!
Having recently completed an auto project with the cursed red rags Adam mentioned, I can confirm that they are the absolute worst. They leave themselves behind everywhere. Bought some of the blue surgical rags and those are all that I will ever use again! Thanks Adam!!!
As a disabled maker/crafter/artist, I definitely understand the idea of bringing the extra energy. For me it's kind of the ultimate "fake it till you make it," because when i deliberately evoke my own passion about what I do, that often translates into the emergence of actual energy and excitement. This is, in fact, how I do pretty much anything. This was true for me as a classroom teacher for 14 years as well.
Sterling silver anneals the same as copper. Heating to red hot and quenching in water reduces work hardening.
With 304 stainless, make a crappy surface then polish with scrub pads. Smooth with sandpaper as necessary. Or use coolant.
I am still in the young mode where I hoard every last bit of scrap. I also thrift my tools, usually broken, and fix them. This whole making thing is exciting!
"That's just called being a person." Spot on.
Concerning the 304 type stainless steel, there are concerns about welding and any use you intend. I have worked with chemical mixing and have had equipment with 304L standard. Don't try to put a super high polish on it, it won't work it will be more prone to staining. Welding should be tempered in a very certain way for certain uses.
Watching him handling that steel sheet so casually terrified me. In my past, I worked in a warehouse where we had to transport sheet metal, just transport. You gain a healthy respect for sheet metal and edges when moving it. I'm still squirming while thinking about it
Great work sir
Materials are only wasted when you throw them away. As Adam said, that piece of copper isn't going to be wasted, he will use it for something else. Even woodworking, sawdust can be used for things. I've known people who pelletized their own sawdust for firewood.
I am an electronics hobbyist, and there isn't an electronic hobbyist worth his or her salt who doesn't have quite a lot of "trashed" electronics gear that they keep on hand to scrounge through for parts. Buying new parts can get expensive, but scrounging from a used piece of gear is basically free, a lot of time, except for the usually minuscule time required to remove the part (or parts) in question from the old gear.
A) How did Adam learn that those rags exists and are available to purchase?
B) Are there other examples of second-hand inventory that goes for pennies after it's been used by the intended professions?
C) I got a box with cables and small PC peripherials. I can't imagine the size of Adam's "I might need it one day" boxes
B) one example of the top of my head is playing cards from casinos. They are opened fresh, used in one game, then must be retired , so they are re-sold as casino used cards. Typically with some kind of mark, or the corners cut off or something. Lots of uses for cheap playing cards though
I co-owned a costume for almost 42 years, where not only did we do a lot of vacu-forming, I was the chief pattern maker and cutter... I hated throwing out any paper, fabric or plastic scraps. We had plastic bins full of fabric scraps, piles of plastic cuttoffs, pex & pvc cutoffs, you name it. Only in the last few years did I start to just throw fabric cutting scraps out - short of usuable sized pieces we'd keep for given shows - it just became too time consuming to sort and find the plastic bin to put the scraps in. Still had a hardtime throwing out plastic scraps, as also being a model railroad hobbyist, ANY piece of plastic may come in handy. 😃
If you think brass is grippy, stainless is 10 times more grippier of an material. I tried to put threads in a stainless bong and eventually after 4 broken tabs I just welded it.
Adam: I wouldn't say I fake it
Person titling the UA-cam videos: That's okay I will
For all my foam work i keep every scrap to use as packing materials, and all the 3D printer waste is just sitting in boxes and bins, one day ill get around to reusing it into molds and such
304 Mah to much iron . 316 L Stainless is a new material . Butter soft and hard as granite. Of course. Its not new . You can scratch it with your freshly washed finger. And brake every tool you own working with it. Blending welds in a piece of furniture. Obtaining a grade 8 finish on even an osculation plate. Would be a joy to see. Blue rags or the only ones for me now. Thanks Tested , Mr Savage.
I have so many small scraps of wood in my shop from projects it's almost as if I'm a hoarder. However they always come in handy for testing a machining setup and many other small projects.
Is that a 70mm motion picture camera I see in the background, want to know more about it 💯
drilling a 5/8 hole in a brass rod on a lathe with a new drill bit will teach you real quick about grippy brass . especially on a turret lathe it will grab that drill and pull it in like a screw
I miss mythbusters man, it’s just hard coming up with new ideas all the time.
9:00 oh you can get nice finish on 304 for sure, you just need to play it by its rules. I never done it on manual mill but if you can flood it just matter of not pushing it
If you're not too deep into the stainless project, switch to 303 stainless... night and day difference in machining...
At the 9 minute mark I'm wondering if the chamfer tool is anything like Mr. Tom Lipton hand held cordless chamfer tool..I think I've heard Adam refer to Mr. Lipton in the past, being as they are both in CA.
Sometimes faking it helps you make it. There's plenty of research showing that smiling makes you feel better even when you're down. If that doesn't work there's always dogs.
This reminds me of the episode where Grant announced that he was able to borrow something on the condition that it not be blown up or burned and Tory responded "Have they watched the show?"
I love the surgery rags, my best friend works at a hospital and gets them by the hundreds, but they do have a downfall. You can only wash them 5 or 6 times then almost on queue they fall apart. Still recommend them anyway.
Brass, try CZ121 grade, contain lead for better machining
My employer buys rags in bulk from clothing recycling companies. But most of it is absolute garbage, just shredded clothing. Almost no absorbency at all and sheds lint and threads everywhere. Also, some of it loses colour when exposed to solvents. I’ve seen big expensive failures on the railway because a single thread from a cheap rag has been in an electrical contact.
Every now and then, we’ll even get a bag of rags that is mostly old denim. Denim is a great hard wearing material, and completely ineffective at cleaning anything.
I’d love proper cleaning rags, but I appreciate the costs involved.
The whole waste thing is interesting to me, because as an individual you will almost certainly never make a dent one way or another in even your local dump. Let alone global trash. I work in construction, and it's astounding the vast amount of trash generated just in that one industry. Sometimes it's hard to reconcile trashing dumpsters and trailers full of hypothetically useable things and raw materials. Even things like full rooms worth of brand new carpet, because the homeowner didn't like the color, or entire granite countertops for the same reason, not to mention perfectly functioning fixtures and appliances, all in the name of aesthetics.
Someone doing just a simple remodel on their house could easily generate more trash in a month, than they would the entire rest of the year.
I work in retail, I have to phone it in all the time. Some people are just boring or annoying, gotta be professional and friendly. It becomes routine, I can act like I'm genuinely laughing eventhough I can be super triggered by cringe people. Been in retail for nearly 20 years.
i first saw that air chamfer tool on cutting edge engineering.
Those red rags are auto shop rags. They are for cleaning up motor oil spills specifically, which they are great at. Anything else, they're crap. I scratched my head when they started selling them at Home Depot and Lowes. The boss found out real quick why I told him I wouldn't use them when he first bought some because they were a buck cheaper than a bag of other rags after he used one.
Like Bilbo Baggins " Butter spread too thin over Bread 🍞"
Did you upload this video earlier under another name? I swear I saw a video about waste during the making process this morning that I cant find anymore.
Great bits of wisdom, as usual..
I'd buy some of the towels from the link, but I don't think I'd ever use 200 of them!!
I'll check out some of the others that you can buy a lesser quantity though.
Fake it until you make it, as they say
Today I Learned...
Jersey Barrier and K-Rail are the same, but K-Rail is just what California's DoT (specifically) calls them!
Just to help out k-rails is the California specific term for Jersey barriers
I bet if you sent that cymbal to dankpods Wade, he'd love it. He has an entire channel ("the drum thing") devoted to dumb cymbals.
Adam, those towels can be washed.
I doubt a towel that Adam has fully used would benefit much from being washed 😊
@@robadams1645 Hee heee. I have to say, having worked with those towels for over 30 years using them both in the hospital and at home as shop towels, even the worst gets pretty clean.
Your try at metal spinning should go to Dank pods for his drum stream!
It's not just about being a person, but about being a MORTAL person (vs. ones who have progressed beyond).
🤔I find 304 to be the easiest stainless to machine although they definitely don’t get as good of a surface finish as 316 but 316 is harder to machine I find
we use 3064 (and 316) steel sheet at work almost all the time - you probably know this, but a slower cutting speed is much better.....
I grew up poor so I keep a lot of the scraps from projects to use in pretests of things. And I saved screws and such from broken things. I only throw things out when they are completely useless.
Thought they was talking about hitting kettamine ☠️
I thought the "faking it" was in reference to the manbun I thought Adam had in the thumbnail.
Do you ever look at the mountain of millings for a project and think about the waist?
bulk discount with rental companies .. yeah i bet, especialy temp fence rentals 😆
Haven't watched the video yet, but the thumbnail makes it look like you have an EPIC man-bun...
Decades ago I had a cheap Unimat mini lathe and made a brass and aluminum chess set. I thought the brass machined like a dream, and the aluminum was not just grippy but annoying in many ways.
Correct on both accounts.
Metal spining is tricky... it is I don't know what it is doing, then it just clicks.
My struggle is that sometimes I look at what I'm doing and think that looks great, another day I think, what am I doing.
Your description is quite like most AuDHD folks and the struggle to fake it (masking).
Yeah.
...which i don't really appreciate ngl
Having to do things when you don't want to do them, sure, but masking your feelings feels like... Being a people pleaser.
At least that's how it came off from the way he described it and how some described it in the comments.
Send the rivets! Laura will love it
@tested Just a note .. the towels you linked to say "Non-Sterile - Pre-Washed" and yet Adam has said (multiple times), that they're sterilized?.....
It's a Typo by the company.
They could not sell non-sterile material.
I think they call them non-sterile because after being sterilized they have not been hermetically sealed and exposed to the air and thus are now again unsterilized for use in Surgery but have been sterilized from their use before packaging for sale to the public.