I knew that it would be either a Fallout door, yes, or it would be exactly this, a solid metal mechanical miniature of a seemingly mundane thing haha. Those are the two possible options with Mr Savage.
Indeed. Especially if it was from the real fallouts, fallout 1 and 2. Those doors were epic looking. The Bethesda vault doors are okay, but they lack the charm of the originals. What would be epic, would be to have the claw from FO1 or 2 come out from the side, engage the center, and roll the door open on the floor track. I would pay a fair amount of money to see one done correctly. Maybe not enough to have someone custom make one, as i imagine the man hours would kill a project like that. I doubt i could get a maker to make a metal fallout vault door for $500 or less. The labor alone would be worth more than $500. But i guy can dream. Maybe somebody with a decent CNC machine could make one for that price, but even then, a lot of the work would be hand fitting and designing. Unless the maker were going to make a run of, say 100 or so, the design time would kill the project.
i would expect adam to be a fallout nerd too. but considering the cool things he has done, and will do, nerd in the dictionary should read: Nerd: (See adam)
In my 20s, nothing could stop me from watching Mythbusters on discovery. I often said to my wife that if we had children, I would love to watch that show with them. I now have a 10 year old that can't get enough of Mythbusters and loves science. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your genuine enthusiasm. A saying in our house is that failure is a learning expirence and that you guys never gave up when things didn't go as planned either.We are huge fans!
I worked as a bank teller for a couple years at the start of my career. I always got a thrill when I got to set the clocks on the vault doors at closing in the evenings. This was less than 10 years ago, and it blew my mind that such primitive mechanical technology was still the best way to ensure things were secure even in our modern digital age.
mecanical things seem to be more reliable / resistant to disturbances from outside theres a saying : to make misstakes is human but to make a great big mess you need a computer
Mechanical devices can't be hacked. You need to physically be there to break in. I come from an IT background, and my favorite professor used to say the only way to prevent a computer from being hacked would be to encase it in concrete.
@@controllerpleb6568 Magnets and pokey things can disturb them if poorly designed, but otherwise full agree. I've heard that along the lines of "There is no perfectly secure computer system, the closest you can get is one that is completely disconnected and buried in concrete"
It inspires me that you are 56 years old and still into engineering stuff and learning stuff. You made my childhood with myth busters program. And you still make me a happy person with your interest in this world. I hope you will love the things you are doing for a long time.
Fun fact. In industrial gear boxes that run at hundreds of RPM for years at a time, we actively seek out gear tooth combinations with no common factors, preferring prime numbers of gear teeth. These sets of gears wear more evenly over time. Definitely not the same design constraints that drove the gear tooth counts for vault doors!
Adam I know a man who is probably the last living installer and technician for Diebold and Mosler round vault doors. He owns a business that deals exclusively with used and antique safes from the late 1880s into the 1980s. I’ve worked with him in the past and was a wealth of information.
My dad worked for Mosler. He left the company and helped Marlin Smith start Smith Banc Equipment, many years later Marlin sold the company and my dad continued to work for the new company. Marlin started up another company Smith Hamilton. Marlin passed away in 2020. My dad Jim Arnett passed away in 2021. My dad was one of the best out there. When a bank needed someone to break open their vault he was the one they called on. He worked for 30 yrs. After he retired many still called him to open up old safes. I have a lot of cool stories about him.
Love this.😊 I literally open up and almost 100 year old round vault door every morning. That still works beautifully and almost no change since the day it was new. I call it the highlight of my day.
I could watch this all day. Not only because lathes are the most amazing tools ever (because of the bootstrapping problem: you need a lathe to make one, so getting the first one to work was an amazing achievement) but because of Adam's enthusiasm for learning.
Machinist Adam: "yeah, I'll get rid of those. It needs to be perfect" Propmaker Adam: "you know what? If I flip it over, noone will be able to see it". It's just fun seeing the mindsets interact like that. :D
It might be the difference between profession and hobby. I'm not sure Adam did much machining for props, and when making props I get the impression that being on the clock and getting things done was super important. I only realized this recently with my profession. A lack of perfection and more happy that my work does what it's supposed to do. But stuff for my hobbies has no clock. I'm not charging anyone for my time. I can take all of the time I want and be as big of a perfectionist as I want.
I had a situation like that where the vanity doors of my bathroom cabinet got damaged on the upper edge. I thought I'd have to replace the entire vanity as there would be no way to match the doors. My friend Dave says "take the doors off and put them back upside down". Beautiful out of the box thinking!
Im 25 and have been a Myth Busters fan since i can remember the discovery logo being a D with a semi photo realistic globe in it, and how its made was coming out with new material. I can say in all my years of learning, Mr. Adam, you byfar are my favorite most inspirational teachers ive had the joy of learning from and with. My creative thinking process is very similar to yours in that pictures and hands on, self study, are more impactful than any classroom can be. Thank you
@11:02 After the first few teeth are cut, it starts to make a lovely harmonic. As the cutter first enters the workpiece, it sets up a nice resonance with the nearby tangs - that are now tuning forks - and it's just the most pleasant sound ever.
I love that you use a manual mill on your channel and show the real engineering work / complex thinking that it takes to get from a drawing to a finished part using a non-CNC mill. I'm a university student and we have quite a large machine shop (part of the engineering college's makerspace) and while most of the machines are CNC, some of the older profs prefer to use the manual mills, I think its becoming a lost art very quickly. Thank you for this, its great!
You have always been one of my idols from when myth busters first aired when I still wet the bed to even know when I just had my first kid... I will always aspire to be more like you!! Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do!! You inspire the world!! Thank you
Getting a job in machine operation is the first step. It’s entry-level and they’re ALWAYS hiring. It’s a dying art, especially since illegals will do the same jobs for $3-$5 less per hour most times. Don’t wait on it…
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I'm trying to figure out where i heard the drums before. I first thought it was from the movie Birdman, but could'nt find it on the soundtrack. Going crazy right now
Adam, you never cease to amaze. From your selection of a non-copyright version of "Wrench & Numbers" to your honesty about mistakes that happen to ALL of us hobbyist machinists. Keep up the great work.
Adam, you the MAN!!! Awesome to see how to make gears and what goes into it all. The ratios, precision and measurements. I honestly wish I could learn to do these things myself. What a true inspiration to people to learn a new trade and skill. I'll be 40 in a couple weeks and I can't stress it enough to my kids that trade skills are our future. Severely lacking in certain generations in my opinion. Thank you good Sir.
Milling metal is just an art form in itself! I personally don’t have the patience nor the machinery to do even the simplest project, but I love it when a plan comes together! Can’t wait to see the whole door! Such an endeavor! Your excitement runs through all of us I think!
I don’t know if you’ll see this comment, but I wanted to say you are a marvel. I grew up watching mythbusters and loved watching all the experiments and just seeing how they all were thought out. Even now, watching videos like this I am fascinated, while watching your mind work. You are an inspiration, and I adore the sheer joy you have in your projects. Thank you for the joy in my youth, and thank you for the inspiration today.
My wedding ring has gears on it. When you dropped the center ring in.. I felt that emotionally. It represents the effort one should put into a relationship for me. Thanks for sharing your joy with us.
There’s a H&M here in Dublin (Ireland) that is occupying an old bank, and downstairs in the man’s section, there’s a room that used to be the vault, but they kept the door. It’s a huge, square, heavy, thick metal door and it has the pins protruding. It’s really cool
I think anyone who sets up in an ex bank will choose to do the same. Setting aside it looks cool, as Adam mentioned its a HUGE difficult- and probably very expensive task to get a vault removed. Its so much simpler to just repurpose the room.
Hi Adam. Thank you for posting this clip today. Im having a really shitty day. But seeing your enthusiasm and utter glee at machining teeth and making your safe door has been a really nice positive breath of fresh air. Im an ex machinist, so i totally get your excitement of making chips and swarf and setting things up in a mill or lathe. I so miss taking a blank hunk of steel and turning into a functional thing of beauty. Keep up the good work. Youd be surprised at the number of us out here who are getting enjoyment through you vicariously. Thank you.
You have to love Adam Savage! He is brilliant, and he loves to share that with people in a way that everyone can understand. On top of that, he never stops smiling with laughter mixed in.
Adam, I bet for the same reason you love mechanical vaults that you’d also love the latch systems on spacecraft hatches. Lots of rotary-to-translational systems as well as some spherical coordinate system over center latch mechanisms. Add in some engineered compliances for effort management. Lots of cool bits!
You don't seem like a guy that needs to hear it but please keep being yourself. Your personality is so genuine and I'm here for it. I think all of us subscribers feel the same way, but never let anyone dissuade you from being you
The amount of positive endorphins released into the World when Adam put the big cog in is enough to make the sun shine and lift everyone's mood 12 notches. Thank You
Adam's joy is contagious! It makes me think of all of the discoveries and inventions that humans have made throughout time and how those folks must have felt when figuring it out and "getting it right".
As satisfying as the time lapse was seeing the grooves being cut in, seeing the wide view time lapse Adam working on the mill made me appreciate it even further.
Ok, so I am 1/3 in, and I love how Adam machines everything. I guess the 3D print person in me would design this in cad, 3D print it, see it work, and then go mill it out of cast iron (if I was a machinist). Love it.
As a machinist,i completely feel his joy when the whole ensemble fits on first try,to non-machinists;you have to understand there's an incredible degree of perfection that goes into it to get that working right...hence his overjoyment when it worked 😋
I may be mistaken, but I suspect it's built that way because base 12 is one of those numbers that makes for convenient math (being evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6), which is why we divide time in 12's, 24's, and 60's, and circles into 360 degrees. (60 being especially convenient because it adds in divisibility by 5.) So in other words, having it in base 12 means you can evenly split it in half, 3rds, quarters, or 6ths, and since circles are already measured into 360 degrees, using base 12 means it's easy to design for a circle. So they probably didn't say "we need to design this so it'll work well on a dividing head", but rather dividing heads are built the way they are for "math reasons", and the vault is designed that way for the same math reasons.
Yea, it's a so-called abundant number, the sum of its proper divisors is greater than the number itself (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 6 = 16). Well, it's abundant, highly abundant, superabundant, and highly composite. In short, it's a very versatile number lol Circle division, clock faces, calendars, etc., it's been around for a long time.
YES! This is why the Sumerians (or possibly the Babylonians) used sexagesimal (related to 60) numbers for all their horrendously complicated astrological calculations. If you do everything in sexagesimal numbers, you never end up with something unsolvable when, for example, you don't have algebra or zero.
Yeah, base 12 is actually one of the positive things about the imperial measuring system. I would expect working from base 12 made a lot of sense for carpenters, bricklayers, merchants etc in an age where people might not have learned to do arithmetrics, while splitting in half and thirds is more intuitive and directly available.
Love to see someone geek out over the beauty of math in things like this !!! 😊 I worked in construction of varying types for years and i had one boss that would yell numbers across a jobsite out of the blue I'd yell back the answer he was looking for out of my head. Since I knew what he was doing (usually something entirely different than me) i knew what he was looking for. Division or subtraction or whatever. It was his party trick. It was fun. I of course used it frequently for myself as the boss but it's not as hilarious to see I'd imagine. I'm very jealous of your tattoo and would love to do something similar. Can't just copy you without your permission !!!
Adam is a maker and believes in open source. I am positive he would be fine with you getting the same tat. He sells temporary versions of his tattoo as well. Bring it in to a shop and get er done
I worked in IT traveling to community banks for over 30 years. I always loved the mech of vault doors. One particular door that I was most amazed by was over 12 feet in diameter and was hauled in by horse teams. All the brass and jewelled parts are beautiful.
I find so much appreciation in Adam for my love of science. From good old Mythbusters to his more recent shop videos. And watching him very slowly loose his razor sharp edge with age is saddening, however he is still so incredibly smart and creative. We all love you Adam, keep handing out smiles man
Most everything that uses compound gears (planetary gears and similar) use a geometrically proportionate relationship, especially when all teeth need to fit together. I'm working on a group of gear boxes to precisely measure out lengths of filament for custom colored filament and multi material 3D printing. Precision gear manufacturing is what separate us from the animals. I love watching Adam work, it's therapeutic in a way.
I live in Vegas. I have seen them. Demolish a small bank. And all that was left. Was the VAULT. It sat on the property. For at least a year. No BS I drove by it 2 times a day. The vault is so heavy duty. Even the DEMO crew . Won't mess with it.
Gorgeous work! I feel your pleasure about the amount of time and effort into making an item like that, and seeing it fit perfectly into the space it was designed for. Congrats!
43 years ago my dad worked in an old historic city building that had a walk in vault and nobody nobody knew the combination, luckily the door was opened (I was 15) and by taking the lock apart was able to figure out the combo. I then bey my dads friend $25 that he can lock me in there and I could get out with the lights out as well. Of course I did. // Always loved locks and safes as well!! **Great job Adam**
I really love ho enthusiastic you are about your work Adam! Never change, you are incredible! God bless you brotha! Also, just wanna say, you're incredibly smart. The stuff you make is really incredible!
Thank you for having the fantastic idea to let us come along with your process! I feel a loss that I know there were times when you did things like this in private and the world will never get to share your joy in figuring something out.
153 isn't prime, and I determined that almost instantly with a little math trick. If you add up all the digits of a number, and then do that again (if necessary, over and over) until you have a single digit (the "digital root" of the original number), if that remaining digit is divisible by 3 (that is to say a 3, 6 or 9), then the original number is divisible by 3. In this case 1 + 5 + 3 = 9 so it is divisible by 3 and not prime. Another example would be 23643: 2+3+6+4+3 = 18 and 1+8 = 9, so it is also divisible by 3.
You could even turn some custom bolts for the 12T gears cam style so you can dial in the backlash perfectly. No matter what you do I’m sure it’ll be cool! Thanks for sharing Adam you’re the best!
I remember about a month ago there was a video talking about how he thiught the porta-ban was the most dangerous tool in his shop, so i would imagine that danger would scale up a lot for the floor model.
@@TheGruntMeisterI own a porta-band also, and also consider it a dangerous tool to be used only when nothing else will do the job. I literally haven't used it in several years now. The horizontal band saw, however, is one of the safest, most versatile, and most used machines I own.
@@edbennett8257 Agreed. I used to cut heavy steel angle iron and box iron on one and I did it so long I learned everything about the machine. It's very easy to get into a routine where your hands are never anywhere near the moving blade. It had a vise mounted in the bed, so you'd clamp your piece and never turn it on until lowering the blade. Very useful tool.
think he has a portaband , think i saw it in the background on the intro video of his mecanica hacksaw that said trying to cut through a round object on a bandsaw is not eazy as the piece wants to roll along with the direction of the sawblade and that can cause it to bind up or at least jump away from the saw verry unexpentingly , it can be cone if you clamp it intoo sumting with a wide flat base , but that that works in the mecanical hacksaw too
I used to work on a large estate and we had a workshop that was in the former wine cellar vault, complete with a large heavy vault door. We always keep it open but... One day it shut and was locked and an irate and unstable staff member took a sledge hammer to the combination dial. (Yes, they are designed clearly to prevent getting through that way!} Luckily only a week before i was curious about how the mechanism worked and took it apart to study it. When we realized the door was permanently damaged we had the guy from the auto shop bring a torch over and cut a hole at just the right place so i could fit my hand in to access the mechanism and work it backwards and blind and finally get it opened! Great puzzle challenge that was!
My 6 3/4 yo grandson is autistic. Since babyhood he has been obsessed with shapes and things that have specific shapes. At first it was the moon. Then it became spinning things like windmills which persists to this day. He had a gear game that he loved for awhile.He’s also obsessed with cars and since maybe the age of 18 months he’s been able to tell a car by its grill and hubcaps as well as its logo. He loves to examine the hubcaps on cars. His other obsession is churches . He loves to hear the bells ring and on a visit to one church a lady showed him the bell tower and let him pull the rope to ring the bell. For awhile my husband was taking him to a different Episcopal church in Rhode Island every Sunday because Oz wanted to see differnt churches. He loves the stained glass, the shapes of the windows, the shape of the cross, and the ritual. It had to stop because when he started kindergarten in January it got weird and he said some innapropriate things. He was very upset but it at least re-booted his “safer” interests like the windmills. I can totally see him developing a fascination for vault doors.
My high school was in a former bank building and one of the classrooms was in a vault. The vault door was still there and had been anchored open. It was fantastic.
I am a tech at Vault-Tec; The Vault doors we make are in the shape of a spur gear. To open the door the door pulled back onto a gear rack & is rotatated out of the way using the gear rack as track. Quite amazing to see when it opens & closes.
Seeing you happy Adam, makes me happy too. As a machinist ive always dreamt of having my own shop. One day maybe but your videos along with Inheritance Machining keep my machining vibes turning!!
I had a friend who did demo work in S Texas. He bid on an old bank demo and got the bid. When it came time to demo the vault walls they didn't even budge with their largest wrecking ball. Using a diamond saw, they cut into the wall to see what the heck was in it - turns out whoever built the vault used old blasting matts instead of rebar. They had to go to the Brownsville Ship Cannel and rent burning bar equipment to take the walls down - he said he would never take another bank demo. Speaking of the Brownsville Ship Chanel - Adam you'll enjoy this. That's where the USS Hope hospital ship was demolished... The USS Hope was the only ship ever built that had a standard 120 / 240 / 480 volt generator. Mr. Smith of EFI Furniture in Austin, Texas bought that generator / boiler and fueled it with the wood scrap they produced in the manufacturing process. He was able to power the entire operation and sell the excess to APS - all with scraps they would have burned anyway...
I am really happy to see you got the metal that you purchased from me and are doing a really cool project with that. I have been wanting to make some gears for a while now.
Always a pleasure to see you create, even if I thought Vault Door was referring to Fallout Shelter Vault Door, not money vault door! Gears interlocking together seamlessly is always a treat
5:20 Danish electrician here. About a decade ago I had to do electrical installations in an old bank vault. The building was nolonger home of a bank, but instead a big chiropractor buisness. We had to do some basic lighting and installations for work area and tratment areas. In the old vault they were making a big fancy treatment room. The vault door looked awesome being open looked awesome and set a kind of professional and esteemed athmosphere. Anyways. We had to do some outlets and power supplies for different things in the vault room and doing so we needed to get several cables in there as powersupply. Drilling through showed to be impossible; As Adam mentions here, there were layers and layers of rebar. My apprentice melted 3 drillbits getting not even close to 1/4 of the way through. We ended up giving up and decided to pull out cables through the only small airvent that led into the v ault room. It ment our cables would be visible in the finished design, but it was the only feasable way through! lol even drilling holes for cableclamps and to hang lights was a pain. The concrete was hard AF!!!
I've only walked through two vault doors in my lifetime. One was at our local bank, the other was much cooler. I took a tour, when they still did them, at the Greenbrier Resort in my homestate of West Virginia. In case you didn't know, it was a cold war bunker that would house congress in case of an attack. We did a full tour of the "Oval Office" and everything. The coolest part to me was the vault door and their way of concealing it. We walked through a 20 ton blast door and didn't even know it! It was made by Mosler Safe Company.
Love your attention to detail, and ability to so thoroughly geek out on these types of things. Even happier that you share it with us. Oh, also... as I'm sure you know by now, 153 isn't a prime. :P
When I read the title, I thought that Adam was recreating a Fallout vault door given how nicely that show has popped off.
I thought the same
I knew that it would be either a Fallout door, yes, or it would be exactly this, a solid metal mechanical miniature of a seemingly mundane thing haha. Those are the two possible options with Mr Savage.
Indeed. Especially if it was from the real fallouts, fallout 1 and 2. Those doors were epic looking. The Bethesda vault doors are okay, but they lack the charm of the originals.
What would be epic, would be to have the claw from FO1 or 2 come out from the side, engage the center, and roll the door open on the floor track. I would pay a fair amount of money to see one done correctly. Maybe not enough to have someone custom make one, as i imagine the man hours would kill a project like that. I doubt i could get a maker to make a metal fallout vault door for $500 or less. The labor alone would be worth more than $500.
But i guy can dream. Maybe somebody with a decent CNC machine could make one for that price, but even then, a lot of the work would be hand fitting and designing. Unless the maker were going to make a run of, say 100 or so, the design time would kill the project.
i would expect adam to be a fallout nerd too.
but considering the cool things he has done, and will do, nerd in the dictionary should read:
Nerd: (See adam)
going with the algorythm
In my 20s, nothing could stop me from watching Mythbusters on discovery. I often said to my wife that if we had children, I would love to watch that show with them. I now have a 10 year old that can't get enough of Mythbusters and loves science. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your genuine enthusiasm. A saying in our house is that failure is a learning expirence and that you guys never gave up when things didn't go as planned either.We are huge fans!
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I worked as a bank teller for a couple years at the start of my career. I always got a thrill when I got to set the clocks on the vault doors at closing in the evenings. This was less than 10 years ago, and it blew my mind that such primitive mechanical technology was still the best way to ensure things were secure even in our modern digital age.
mecanical things seem to be more reliable / resistant to disturbances from outside
theres a saying : to make misstakes is human but to make a great big mess you need a computer
Mechanical devices can't be hacked. You need to physically be there to break in. I come from an IT background, and my favorite professor used to say the only way to prevent a computer from being hacked would be to encase it in concrete.
Sometimes you just can’t beat a good old fashioned chunk of steel
@@controllerpleb6568 Magnets and pokey things can disturb them if poorly designed, but otherwise full agree. I've heard that along the lines of "There is no perfectly secure computer system, the closest you can get is one that is completely disconnected and buried in concrete"
@@watahyahknow As an IT pro, can confirm 🤣
It inspires me that you are 56 years old and still into engineering stuff and learning stuff. You made my childhood with myth busters program. And you still make me a happy person with your interest in this world. I hope you will love the things you are doing for a long time.
This is such a kind and sweet sentiment! I couldn’t agree more :)
Fun fact. In industrial gear boxes that run at hundreds of RPM for years at a time, we actively seek out gear tooth combinations with no common factors, preferring prime numbers of gear teeth. These sets of gears wear more evenly over time. Definitely not the same design constraints that drove the gear tooth counts for vault doors!
Thanks. New knowledge for me, but if I'd thought about it...
Makes perfect sense! Thanks for sharing
Adam I know a man who is probably the last living installer and technician for Diebold and Mosler round vault doors. He owns a business that deals exclusively with used and antique safes from the late 1880s into the 1980s. I’ve worked with him in the past and was a wealth of information.
My dad worked for Mosler. He left the company and helped Marlin Smith start Smith Banc Equipment, many years later Marlin sold the company and my dad continued to work for the new company. Marlin started up another company Smith Hamilton. Marlin passed away in 2020. My dad Jim Arnett passed away in 2021. My dad was one of the best out there. When a bank needed someone to break open their vault he was the one they called on. He worked for 30 yrs. After he retired many still called him to open up old safes. I have a lot of cool stories about him.
Love this.😊 I literally open up and almost 100 year old round vault door every morning. That still works beautifully and almost no change since the day it was new. I call it the highlight of my day.
That is awesome!
I could watch this all day. Not only because lathes are the most amazing tools ever (because of the bootstrapping problem: you need a lathe to make one, so getting the first one to work was an amazing achievement) but because of Adam's enthusiasm for learning.
watching Adam enjoying playing with his ring piece makes me smile
Oh, now......
@@jmurray886 what?
Comment of the day 👏
You have got to be from the UK hahaha
@@hadawaco me? Yes indeedy, what gave me away?
Adam's enthusiasm is so infectious! I need to get into the workshop...
Machinist Adam: "yeah, I'll get rid of those. It needs to be perfect"
Propmaker Adam: "you know what? If I flip it over, noone will be able to see it".
It's just fun seeing the mindsets interact like that. :D
perfect observation!
I worked as a model and prop maker for about 15 years and a very commonly used phrase in the business is "If you can't see it, it isn't there"
@@AxisBold1 It's the exact same with 3D art and assets for games :D
It might be the difference between profession and hobby. I'm not sure Adam did much machining for props, and when making props I get the impression that being on the clock and getting things done was super important. I only realized this recently with my profession. A lack of perfection and more happy that my work does what it's supposed to do. But stuff for my hobbies has no clock. I'm not charging anyone for my time. I can take all of the time I want and be as big of a perfectionist as I want.
I had a situation like that where the vanity doors of my bathroom cabinet got damaged on the upper edge. I thought I'd have to replace the entire vanity as there would be no way to match the doors. My friend Dave says "take the doors off and put them back upside down". Beautiful out of the box thinking!
Im 25 and have been a Myth Busters fan since i can remember the discovery logo being a D with a semi photo realistic globe in it, and how its made was coming out with new material. I can say in all my years of learning, Mr. Adam, you byfar are my favorite most inspirational teachers ive had the joy of learning from and with. My creative thinking process is very similar to yours in that pictures and hands on, self study, are more impactful than any classroom can be. Thank you
Congratulations! I 100% understand your excitement after cutting the gear 🎉
Happy to see all the coolest people here! :D
Adam Savage starring as Tony Montana
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Great to see you here Stefan!
Thank you for being a joy to the world Adam!
"half a tenth of a millimeter" LMFAO god Adam never fails to make me laugh with his relationship of measurements
You can safely eyeball a half.
So a twentieth of a millimeter
@@DerpleDude We metric folk just call it 0.05 mm, or 50 micron. 😄
"The idea of 1 half pint of an inch squared" - Metric is the vastly superior measurement system.
Yeah but freedom units has FREEDOM built into it @@spankyjeffro5320
@11:02 After the first few teeth are cut, it starts to make a lovely harmonic. As the cutter first enters the workpiece, it sets up a nice resonance with the nearby tangs - that are now tuning forks - and it's just the most pleasant sound ever.
I’ll be honest, I was expecting fallout vault 33 door, but this is way cooler.
Same but vault 13.
Same, but vault 111.
Same. I saw Vault door and thought Adam took his love of gears to a whole new level.
Same. Certainly wasn't the vault door I was expecting, but OK, i'm in for the journey.
You're not alone
I love that you use a manual mill on your channel and show the real engineering work / complex thinking that it takes to get from a drawing to a finished part using a non-CNC mill. I'm a university student and we have quite a large machine shop (part of the engineering college's makerspace) and while most of the machines are CNC, some of the older profs prefer to use the manual mills, I think its becoming a lost art very quickly. Thank you for this, its great!
You have always been one of my idols from when myth busters first aired when I still wet the bed to even know when I just had my first kid... I will always aspire to be more like you!! Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do!! You inspire the world!! Thank you
Getting a job in machine operation is the first step. It’s entry-level and they’re ALWAYS hiring. It’s a dying art, especially since illegals will do the same jobs for $3-$5 less per hour most times. Don’t wait on it…
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The moment at 20:42 really makes you appreciate how beautiful geometry is and how satisfying it is to see your math on paper work out in real life
Love the addition of the drums during the tedious bits!
I'm trying to figure out where i heard the drums before. I first thought it was from the movie Birdman, but could'nt find it on the soundtrack. Going crazy right now
@@spreacejackson6510 Might be from Fargo TV show.
Adam, you never cease to amaze. From your selection of a non-copyright version of "Wrench & Numbers" to your honesty about mistakes that happen to ALL of us hobbyist machinists. Keep up the great work.
These videos are just video journals of mad science and I love every minute of it.
The sound of true happiness at 21:01
Chef's kiss on the tiny gear cutter 😂
Adam, you the MAN!!! Awesome to see how to make gears and what goes into it all. The ratios, precision and measurements. I honestly wish I could learn to do these things myself. What a true inspiration to people to learn a new trade and skill. I'll be 40 in a couple weeks and I can't stress it enough to my kids that trade skills are our future. Severely lacking in certain generations in my opinion. Thank you good Sir.
Milling metal is just an art form in itself! I personally don’t have the patience nor the machinery to do even the simplest project, but I love it when a plan comes together! Can’t wait to see the whole door! Such an endeavor! Your excitement runs through all of us I think!
I don’t know if you’ll see this comment, but I wanted to say you are a marvel. I grew up watching mythbusters and loved watching all the experiments and just seeing how they all were thought out. Even now, watching videos like this I am fascinated, while watching your mind work. You are an inspiration, and I adore the sheer joy you have in your projects. Thank you for the joy in my youth, and thank you for the inspiration today.
My wedding ring has gears on it. When you dropped the center ring in.. I felt that emotionally. It represents the effort one should put into a relationship for me. Thanks for sharing your joy with us.
Lol what
@@philmcclenaghan7056 use your noggin m8
@@philmcclenaghan7056😂
There’s a H&M here in Dublin (Ireland) that is occupying an old bank, and downstairs in the man’s section, there’s a room that used to be the vault, but they kept the door. It’s a huge, square, heavy, thick metal door and it has the pins protruding. It’s really cool
There is a guitar store in Morristown Tennessee called Guitar Vault. It was an old bank and they kept the door.
I think anyone who sets up in an ex bank will choose to do the same. Setting aside it looks cool, as Adam mentioned its a HUGE difficult- and probably very expensive task to get a vault removed. Its so much simpler to just repurpose the room.
Hi Adam. Thank you for posting this clip today. Im having a really shitty day. But seeing your enthusiasm and utter glee at machining teeth and making your safe door has been a really nice positive breath of fresh air. Im an ex machinist, so i totally get your excitement of making chips and swarf and setting things up in a mill or lathe.
I so miss taking a blank hunk of steel and turning into a functional thing of beauty.
Keep up the good work. Youd be surprised at the number of us out here who are getting enjoyment through you vicariously.
Thank you.
No.
You have to love Adam Savage! He is brilliant, and he loves to share that with people in a way that everyone can understand. On top of that, he never stops smiling with laughter mixed in.
Adam, I bet for the same reason you love mechanical vaults that you’d also love the latch systems on spacecraft hatches.
Lots of rotary-to-translational systems as well as some spherical coordinate system over center latch mechanisms.
Add in some engineered compliances for effort management.
Lots of cool bits!
He built an Apollo era hatch door!!
You don't seem like a guy that needs to hear it but please keep being yourself. Your personality is so genuine and I'm here for it. I think all of us subscribers feel the same way, but never let anyone dissuade you from being you
The amount of positive endorphins released into the World when Adam put the big cog in is enough to make the sun shine and lift everyone's mood 12 notches. Thank You
I love how far you've come Adam, been a fan since Mythbusters. Still out here doing what you love! You inspire me in many ways ♥
3 careers back, I worked at a radio station which was located in a former bank branch building. Their record vault was the actual vault.
I presume the stations played mostly gold & platinum records? I could under stand why those records were stored in a vault!
/sarc!
@@guytech7310 Nice one! 😂😂
Adam's joy is contagious! It makes me think of all of the discoveries and inventions that humans have made throughout time and how those folks must have felt when figuring it out and "getting it right".
As satisfying as the time lapse was seeing the grooves being cut in, seeing the wide view time lapse Adam working on the mill made me appreciate it even further.
Adam, your joy in doing what you do is infectious. I really appreciate you taking the time to share these videos.
Ok, so I am 1/3 in, and I love how Adam machines everything. I guess the 3D print person in me would design this in cad, 3D print it, see it work, and then go mill it out of cast iron (if I was a machinist). Love it.
As a machinist,i completely feel his joy when the whole ensemble fits on first try,to non-machinists;you have to understand there's an incredible degree of perfection that goes into it to get that working right...hence his overjoyment when it worked 😋
I may be mistaken, but I suspect it's built that way because base 12 is one of those numbers that makes for convenient math (being evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6), which is why we divide time in 12's, 24's, and 60's, and circles into 360 degrees. (60 being especially convenient because it adds in divisibility by 5.)
So in other words, having it in base 12 means you can evenly split it in half, 3rds, quarters, or 6ths, and since circles are already measured into 360 degrees, using base 12 means it's easy to design for a circle. So they probably didn't say "we need to design this so it'll work well on a dividing head", but rather dividing heads are built the way they are for "math reasons", and the vault is designed that way for the same math reasons.
That was what I thought too,
Yea, it's a so-called abundant number, the sum of its proper divisors is greater than the number itself (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 6 = 16). Well, it's abundant, highly abundant, superabundant, and highly composite. In short, it's a very versatile number lol
Circle division, clock faces, calendars, etc., it's been around for a long time.
YES! This is why the Sumerians (or possibly the Babylonians) used sexagesimal (related to 60) numbers for all their horrendously complicated astrological calculations. If you do everything in sexagesimal numbers, you never end up with something unsolvable when, for example, you don't have algebra or zero.
Yeah, base 12 is actually one of the positive things about the imperial measuring system. I would expect working from base 12 made a lot of sense for carpenters, bricklayers, merchants etc in an age where people might not have learned to do arithmetrics, while splitting in half and thirds is more intuitive and directly available.
Its videos like this that remind us what a treasure you are Adam. Your enthusiasm is infectious.
Love to see someone geek out over the beauty of math in things like this !!! 😊 I worked in construction of varying types for years and i had one boss that would yell numbers across a jobsite out of the blue I'd yell back the answer he was looking for out of my head. Since I knew what he was doing (usually something entirely different than me) i knew what he was looking for. Division or subtraction or whatever. It was his party trick. It was fun. I of course used it frequently for myself as the boss but it's not as hilarious to see I'd imagine. I'm very jealous of your tattoo and would love to do something similar. Can't just copy you without your permission !!!
Adam is a maker and believes in open source. I am positive he would be fine with you getting the same tat. He sells temporary versions of his tattoo as well. Bring it in to a shop and get er done
You're one of my favorite people, outside of my friends and family. I'm happy to someone like you so happy. Kids at heart, creating and doing good
As someone with an enthusiasm for clockwork mechanisms and complex mechanical interactions, I was very happy to see this title on my feed
I worked in IT traveling to community banks for over 30 years. I always loved the mech of vault doors. One particular door that I was most amazed by was over 12 feet in diameter and was hauled in by horse teams. All the brass and jewelled parts are beautiful.
As soon as he said "dollhouse scale" my mind started really going. It's time to build that dollhouse!
I find so much appreciation in Adam for my love of science. From good old Mythbusters to his more recent shop videos. And watching him very slowly loose his razor sharp edge with age is saddening, however he is still so incredibly smart and creative. We all love you Adam, keep handing out smiles man
I love the sound of gears running on each other.
Most everything that uses compound gears (planetary gears and similar) use a geometrically proportionate relationship, especially when all teeth need to fit together. I'm working on a group of gear boxes to precisely measure out lengths of filament for custom colored filament and multi material 3D printing. Precision gear manufacturing is what separate us from the animals. I love watching Adam work, it's therapeutic in a way.
I live in Vegas. I have seen them. Demolish a small bank. And all that was left. Was the VAULT. It sat on the property. For at least a year. No BS
I drove by it 2 times a day. The vault is so heavy duty. Even the DEMO crew . Won't mess with it.
Hold my beer
There were vaults left standing after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki!
Do you know how sentences work?
@@christopherdean1326I think it's Christopher Walken. Or possibly Captain Kirk.
@@robadams1645reading it in walken’s voice makes it infinitely better 😂
I want to be Adam Savage when I grow up, that gear system is art can't wait to see finished door
Just that ring gear in itself is a great fidget toy
And when he adds the locking pins it will also be a great fidget toy.
Gorgeous work! I feel your pleasure about the amount of time and effort into making an item like that, and seeing it fit perfectly into the space it was designed for. Congrats!
43 years ago my dad worked in an old historic city building that had a walk in vault and nobody nobody knew the combination, luckily the door was opened (I was 15) and by taking the lock apart was able to figure out the combo. I then bey my dads friend $25 that he can lock me in there and I could get out with the lights out as well. Of course I did. // Always loved locks and safes as well!!
**Great job Adam**
I really love ho enthusiastic you are about your work Adam! Never change, you are incredible! God bless you brotha! Also, just wanna say, you're incredibly smart. The stuff you make is really incredible!
"there's gonna be a fair bit of preamble, so strap in"
*salutes* Yessir! I am ready!
Thank you for having the fantastic idea to let us come along with your process! I feel a loss that I know there were times when you did things like this in private and the world will never get to share your joy in figuring something out.
The Lock Picking Lawyer 😮 my dorky world's collide
Nice 👍🏻 Yea i was gonna post that Adam should chat to Deev! (Deviant Ollam for those reading who may not know).
a master maker in the zone. what a pleasure and an inspiration!
153 isn't prime, and I determined that almost instantly with a little math trick. If you add up all the digits of a number, and then do that again (if necessary, over and over) until you have a single digit (the "digital root" of the original number), if that remaining digit is divisible by 3 (that is to say a 3, 6 or 9), then the original number is divisible by 3. In this case 1 + 5 + 3 = 9 so it is divisible by 3 and not prime. Another example would be 23643: 2+3+6+4+3 = 18 and 1+8 = 9, so it is also divisible by 3.
Oh That makes my brain happy, thank you for teaching that!
Ooh that's awesome! Thank you. I just pulled out a Calc real quick and hit /9 as a guess and saw nope not prime
Yep! I had the same reaction. "Hold on, I know a trick...nope." After a second I also realized it's 150 (easily divisible by 3) plus 3.
This is awesome!
I just mentally went. “153. 50x3 + 1x3”. Nope. Not prime. I’d forgotten that other trick Hopefully I won’t forget it again!
You could even turn some custom bolts for the 12T gears cam style so you can dial in the backlash perfectly. No matter what you do I’m sure it’ll be cool! Thanks for sharing Adam you’re the best!
I simply cannot wrap my head around Adam not owning a horizontal band saw. Inconceivable!
I remember about a month ago there was a video talking about how he thiught the porta-ban was the most dangerous tool in his shop, so i would imagine that danger would scale up a lot for the floor model.
Right!?
@@TheGruntMeisterI own a porta-band also, and also consider it a dangerous tool to be used only when nothing else will do the job. I literally haven't used it in several years now. The horizontal band saw, however, is one of the safest, most versatile, and most used machines I own.
@@edbennett8257 Agreed. I used to cut heavy steel angle iron and box iron on one and I did it so long I learned everything about the machine. It's very easy to get into a routine where your hands are never anywhere near the moving blade. It had a vise mounted in the bed, so you'd clamp your piece and never turn it on until lowering the blade. Very useful tool.
think he has a portaband , think i saw it in the background on the intro video of his mecanica hacksaw
that said trying to cut through a round object on a bandsaw is not eazy as the piece wants to roll along with the direction of the sawblade and that can cause it to bind up or at least jump away from the saw verry unexpentingly , it can be cone if you clamp it intoo sumting with a wide flat base , but that that works in the mecanical hacksaw too
Ma! Get the camera, Mr Savage is building a passion project again! This is my favourite. ❤
You made some of my favourite child hood memories
I love when Adam gets excited about something moderately obscure. :)
I used to work on a large estate and we had a workshop that was in the former wine cellar vault, complete with a large heavy vault door. We always keep it open but...
One day it shut and was locked and an irate and unstable staff member took a sledge hammer to the combination dial. (Yes, they are designed clearly to prevent getting through that way!}
Luckily only a week before i was curious about how the mechanism worked and took it apart to study it.
When we realized the door was permanently damaged we had the guy from the auto shop bring a torch over and cut a hole at just the right place so i could fit my hand in to access the mechanism and work it backwards and blind and finally get it opened! Great puzzle challenge that was!
My 6 3/4 yo grandson is autistic. Since babyhood he has been obsessed with shapes and things that have specific shapes. At first it was the moon. Then it became spinning things like windmills which persists to this day. He had a gear game that he loved for awhile.He’s also obsessed with cars and since maybe the age of 18 months he’s been able to tell a car by its grill and hubcaps as well as its logo. He loves to examine the hubcaps on cars.
His other obsession is churches . He loves to hear the bells ring and on a visit to one church a lady showed him the bell tower and let him pull the rope to ring the bell. For awhile my husband was taking him to a different Episcopal church in Rhode Island every Sunday because Oz wanted to see differnt churches. He loves the stained glass, the shapes of the windows, the shape of the cross, and the ritual.
It had to stop because when he started kindergarten in January it got weird and he said some innapropriate things. He was very upset but it at least re-booted his “safer” interests like the windmills.
I can totally see him developing a fascination for vault doors.
This is super awesome, but you know everyone wants to see you pull off a Fallout vault door next.
My high school was in a former bank building and one of the classrooms was in a vault. The vault door was still there and had been anchored open. It was fantastic.
I am a tech at Vault-Tec; The Vault doors we make are in the shape of a spur gear. To open the door the door pulled back onto a gear rack & is rotatated out of the way using the gear rack as track. Quite amazing to see when it opens & closes.
Your enthusiasm as you build is infectious! Also, thank you so much for putting this kind of content into the world. ✌️
Adam Savage is truly one of god's own muppets when he's excited or happy.
Adam I gotta say man I’m so envious of your shop. The amount of projects I could do… man. I don’t know how often I’d leave.
I came for the Fallout vault door. But I stayed for the shop fun! Adam rocks!
Seeing you happy Adam, makes me happy too. As a machinist ive always dreamt of having my own shop. One day maybe but your videos along with Inheritance Machining keep my machining vibes turning!!
I don't know if @DeviantOllam counts as a vault historian but if not then he probably knows someone who is.
I had a friend who did demo work in S Texas. He bid on an old bank demo and got the bid. When it came time to demo the vault walls they didn't even budge with their largest wrecking ball. Using a diamond saw, they cut into the wall to see what the heck was in it - turns out whoever built the vault used old blasting matts instead of rebar. They had to go to the Brownsville Ship Cannel and rent burning bar equipment to take the walls down - he said he would never take another bank demo. Speaking of the Brownsville Ship Chanel - Adam you'll enjoy this. That's where the USS Hope hospital ship was demolished... The USS Hope was the only ship ever built that had a standard 120 / 240 / 480 volt generator. Mr. Smith of EFI Furniture in Austin, Texas bought that generator / boiler and fueled it with the wood scrap they produced in the manufacturing process. He was able to power the entire operation and sell the excess to APS - all with scraps they would have burned anyway...
How can you build a vault door and it not be Fallout themed
What is Fallout?
Because vault doors existed before even the idea of Bethesda as a gaming studio...
It was definitely an opportunity missed.
He's a star wars nerd not a fallout nerd
I am stoking to see the rest of the build.
he did the stuff for starfield i'd love to see him make a Vault door from Fallout. lol.
I am really happy to see you got the metal that you purchased from me and are doing a really cool project with that. I have been wanting to make some gears for a while now.
I was really really really hoping this was a fallout vault door build. Still cool, but not quite as cool.153 is divisible by 3 yea?
I expected this to be Fallout with the timing of it
Same
the fit, was SOO satisfying. FIRST TRY TOO!!!! High five!
This is awesome! I'm hoping for a full series so we can see the process through to completion.
20:38 the most satisfying feeling imaginable. First try!
Can’t wait to see what it’s like 👍.
Always a pleasure to see you create, even if I thought Vault Door was referring to Fallout Shelter Vault Door, not money vault door!
Gears interlocking together seamlessly is always a treat
This is one the best things I've seen you do! Thanks.
5:20 Danish electrician here. About a decade ago I had to do electrical installations in an old bank vault. The building was nolonger home of a bank, but instead a big chiropractor buisness.
We had to do some basic lighting and installations for work area and tratment areas. In the old vault they were making a big fancy treatment room. The vault door looked awesome being open looked awesome and set a kind of professional and esteemed athmosphere. Anyways. We had to do some outlets and power supplies for different things in the vault room and doing so we needed to get several cables in there as powersupply. Drilling through showed to be impossible; As Adam mentions here, there were layers and layers of rebar. My apprentice melted 3 drillbits getting not even close to 1/4 of the way through. We ended up giving up and decided to pull out cables through the only small airvent that led into the v ault room. It ment our cables would be visible in the finished design, but it was the only feasable way through! lol
even drilling holes for cableclamps and to hang lights was a pain. The concrete was hard AF!!!
I share your stuff with my son all the time. Way cool.
Watching Adam Savage machining is my happy place.
Excellent Use Of The Fargo Drums!
So happy for you! I audibly laughed when you placed your gear into the other! Well done, friend!
This screams for a colab (or spot consultation) with Clickspring. Loving it Adam!
I've only walked through two vault doors in my lifetime. One was at our local bank, the other was much cooler. I took a tour, when they still did them, at the Greenbrier Resort in my homestate of West Virginia. In case you didn't know, it was a cold war bunker that would house congress in case of an attack. We did a full tour of the "Oval Office" and everything. The coolest part to me was the vault door and their way of concealing it. We walked through a 20 ton blast door and didn't even know it! It was made by Mosler Safe Company.
The getting it on the first try moment is such a testament to most of finicky making is about the good set up :)
Love your attention to detail, and ability to so thoroughly geek out on these types of things. Even happier that you share it with us. Oh, also... as I'm sure you know by now, 153 isn't a prime. :P