Weirdest Thing MythBusters Ever Built
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- Was there a particular MythBusters build that Adam Savage looks on fondly now for either its form or its execution? Has weather ever affected Adam's delivery date on a project? How is having a "hardware store" in the shop working out? In this live stream excerpt, Adam answers these questions from Tested members @ianrigby7395, dannydaniel138 and Trevor Higgins, whom we thank for their support! Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks, like asking Adam questions:
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I would like to see a re-boot of "Junkyard Wars" with Adam at the helm
Adam what's your secret to being AWESOME? Serious question from a fan...🐕🔥🎄
Adam, PLEASE tell me you've seen Steamboy (speaking of the power of steam), an anime with the dub voiced by Sir Patrick Stewart, Ana Paquin, and Alfred Molina!♥️😉 Directed by the genius who made Akira, his next movie. Took over a decade before the tech needed caught up to his vision.😁
@@broadstken Adam is the only person other than Llewellyn who could ever do that show justice.❤👍
A guy got out of life in prison because he saw a mythbuster episode that proved his case.
Dude, I LOOOOOOVE the idea of a "Prop Master" show, modeled after Ink Master, with crazy borderline ridiculous challenges to test contestants' ability to handle all aspects of prop-making, individually and in forced teams. Except it would be Adam instead of Dave Navarro, and no one would have to wear anyone's mistakes on their bodies for life.
Penny Arcade did a reality show with LRR a while ago to look for a webcomic artist to work with them in their studio for a year. Despite being fairly early, before the wide popularity of these reality shows, they really hit it out of the park, a great atmosphere between the artists. and generally good feels all around.
Another great show is "School of Chocolate" with Amaury Guichon - they had eight contestants, but no eliminations, the worst performing contestants skipped a challenge to instead have a one-on-one teaching workshop with Amaury directly, making sure that everyone was able to learn and improve throughout the series.
I really think a "prop master" show could work, especially with an experienced hand like Adam to give advice. The reality knockout show format tends to skew heavily towards good vibes and camaraderie when the contestants all share an interest, and those shows I find super cozy.
@@SocksAndPuppets @jerrysstories711 There is a show called Forged in Fire, and whilst not being specific to props, they do blacksmithing, which is almost kinda similar.
That sounds sweet!
That’s an awesome idea!
@bogchampclips isn't that the one with the participant screening fail, and getting some way into the competition with a white supremacy extremist on the show?
Jamie: not interested.
Adam: you can build a weapon.
Jamie: let’s do it.
classic jamie
I love how honest he is.
Jamie: No
Adam: Bazooka
Jamie: Yes
Reminded me of that scene in Firefly lol
It's like a TomSka bit.
My dad is a retired boiler operator. He impressed upon me at an early age how much respect one needs to have for steam.
Steam and really anything under pressure. Everyone takes it for granted because of relief devices but your hot water heater, your air compressor, etc all potentially just bombs.
Why does steam cause invalidation of special homosexual rights ?
Will also conform that a hard boiled egg, boiled to military cooking specifications, will absolutely shatter a windscreen of a vehicle.The eggs are boiled in a 44 gallon pot, and the process starts with filling it to a quarter of the way with water, then adding in a 2kg bag of salt. Then eggs are started loading, from trays of 60 dozen, and the cooker is turned on full. Eggs are loaded till the top, and then the unit is left till it is boiling vigorously. Then a 20 minute timer is started, and at the end of 20 minutes the power is turned off, and they slowly start to remove the eggs, packing them back into the trays, and back into the boxes. Then off to the walk in cooler.
If you are lucky, you get one from the top of the pot, which only has been cooking for a half hour or so. Unlucky and you get the ones from the bottom, who have been cooking for 2 hours or so. Top ones are edible, bottom ones are black and blue all the way through, from the white to the yolk. They do bounce when dropped out of the bus at speed, and yes somebody did throw one at an approaching vehicle who was driving badly, and it shattered the windscreen.
there is a reason the military cooked were nicknamed fitters and turners. They fitted it into the pot, and turned it into crap not even a pig would eat. Yes some of the messes had pig farmers who took all the surplus food, and sometimes even the pigs would not eat it.
Sounds like government work, alright.
I still remember the noise the hot water heater in "steam machine gun" made when you first cranked it up. Like a hell creature trying to escape to this plane. So creepy and dangerous-sounding.
"Centrifugal devices are often ... the scariest devices I have built or been around"
Yeah, respect the lathe.
I'm still wondering why he put a two-liter of soda on the lathe that one time
a few years ago my boss told me "if you're going to be a good machinist you have to know what's going on with the weather" WHAT!!!! well he was right. I was writing, setting up and running cnc programs that would run from 6-16 hours and we worked 10 hr days. One would run over night and maybe another during the day (first shift, only shift). So if there was a thunder storm coming just make sure you're doing rough cuts until after the storm passes. In case the power drops. You don't want to lose power during a finish cut or it will screw up the part you just spent 6 hrs of cnc time on :( ... so sometimes I would put a dwell in the program so that it would run until 8pm, dwell 4 hours and start back up on the finish cuts after the storm had, according to the weather report, passed by. been machining since the mid 80's and I had never thought of this
I would assume that it's less of an issue as you'd have the machines in a climate controlled space, but temperature differences might be another issue if you have to deal with tight tolerances.
@@Roccondilclimate controlled is great and much better but if the power goes out and your machine turns shuts down abruptly without gracefully leaving the surface, it may make a small or large mark or gouge in the part
@@scottderyck1467It seems to me that an even better solution would be an uninterruptible power supply on the machine used for finish cuts.
@@tookitogo that would be great but 220 3 phase / 70 amp ups would pretty cost prohibitive
Work,had this policy
Then lost production time so dropped with end result of machines shutting down loaded in middle of a storm and 8 hours clean up plus maintenance when power went back on
It's official. Adam has reaches legendary status. A 100 years from now, someone is going to buy his cave, restore it back to the way he has it here, and make an Adam Savage Museum. Mark my words.
It'll be long gone by then.
The 1st "prop" TV show.....Junkyard wars. Based on the Apollo 13 incident of making CO2 filters from parts in the capsule. in it's 2nd iteration Grant Imahara was on it.
I loved that show, it seems like the predecessor of so many other shows.
@@gl15colIt was the 1st.
@@clbcl5Not quite: Have a look for The Great Egg Race.
That show was awesome
@@clbcl5 Wasn't it based on Scrapheap challenge, which was a British show?
On the topic of dangerous spinning things the flywheel you built on Savage Builds was one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen
That and his lack of lathe safety
Centrifugal devices are scary?
*Blendo has entered the chat*
@SpinLaunch scoffs at that.
One evening (already dark) I was moped-ing on a overpass in Santa Barbara, CA. going 35mph when someone traveling at 50mph heading toward me thought it would be fun to throw a full slushie out their car window. When it hit 2 ribs snapped and I was lifted off my moped and down the embankment to the highway 101 into traffic. I tried to roll to the side of the highway but the pain from the ribs stopped me, a driver who was paying attention swerved around me (running over my hand, that just hurt though, nothing broke) and he stopped and jumped out with bright flash and road triangles. Police were there quickly.
The point, yes, they can cause damage. It isn't funny.
People just don't understand the physics or care about other people. They may as well be throwing a baseball at 70mph.
My favorite part of this is the fact that R2-D2 is just chilling in the background....
As one does …
@@tested And every second seeing it, makes one want one, too.
As one does.
Good program in the UK The Great Egg Race From 1979 to 1986, science-based show 'The Great Egg Race' introduced BBC Two viewers to teams of inventors who took on the challenge of building gadgets using limited resources and their own ingenuity. Initially focused on creating rubber-band powered devices to carry eggs the furthest possible distance, the series also made a household name of scientist Professor Heinz Wolff.
Sounds like junk yard wars little cousin😂
I loved that show as a child! I remember the finale they had to actually race egg carrying contraptions over an obstacle course? ... My memory is a bit vague but I think I remember a clock-work walker with an egg-sling pendulum... ?
OMG, there are episodes on UA-cam (I mean, of course there are - just never thought to search before).
Thanks for the comment!
Have you ever seen a photo of a steam locomotive with a catastrophic failure? It is a terrifying Lovecraftian looking monstrosity. Absolutely awe inspiring.
I LOVE your adjustment to the prop challenge show. The ability to keep things fresh over time is amazing, the only thing i think the contestants would need to know is that each of the "spontaneous challenges" are pulled from industry experiences (potentially dialed to 11). Make it a 6-8 episode season, with a fresh twist each episode, im sure you could make it at least 3 seasons before wanting or needing to recycle anything. I can already imagine having a tunnel to the display area with "movie rain" set up. "Its time to deliver your prop to set, but the rain between your shop and the set is monumental, you have 1 hour to figure something out, good luck"
Only on mythbusters they would make a steampunk machine gun just to see if it would work.
What episode was this?! I have to try to find it! 😆
@@jedironin380 season 5 episode 24
@@SkvlKat-youtubeThanks! I found the short clip of the finale with it. I would like to see the full build.
I remember from the Steam Machine Gun episode that when you guys got the steam system up to pressure, there was an audible and ghostly howl coming from the system itself that kept going until a valve was opened.
You must have a thermometer and a hygrometer in the workshop.
So many things are influenced by temperature and humidity.
Several things I have learned to look at the instruments before I even start.
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This became a necessity for me when I was working with clear, flowing epoxy.
This stuff have a quite narrow working window, if it is too cold it wont go off, bubbles won't come out and won't flow, if it is too hot it is too runny and won't stay on the job, if it is too humid it goes cloudy ...... AND the job is ruined.
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Pollyester resin ( commonly use with fiberglass) just won't go off if it is too cold no matter how much hardner you use.
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If you start reading data sheets SOOO many things require specific temperature and humidity to work properly.
I could listen to Adam all day long. Very very interesting.
Talking of dangerous stuff (do not try this at home)... Got a story from my Dad, he was a teenager just after the second world war in Birmingham UK. He had a friend who just started at a metal working company. For kicks they decided to see what happens if you weld up a 6' by 6' by 6' cube with a 1 inch hole in the top, fill it up with home made gun powder and light it... Well, this was set up in a field and lit by home made lighting paper - my dad lit it, ran away, and for a minute nothing happened. Just at the point where they going to go back to check it, it lit up - and lets say the loudest high pitched noise they have heard came out. When it stopped and they went over to have a look at the cube, it was no longer a cube, it was a sphere...
tldr his dad made a welded cube bomb turn into a stereotypical round cannonball bomb albeit without any explosive filling afterwords. and it was freaking LOUD.
You doing a prop making show with @ScottPropandRoll would be amazing. You bring the energy, he brings the puns! 😂😂
I work at a Lead Smelter for 7 years and the weather during certain times of the year can make the job bearable to down right unbearable. Going from hot days to hot humid days where the humidity amplifys the heat from the Lead all the way down below zero in the winter and I had to hug the kettle of Lead to stay warm. All the while wearing PPE and a full face respirator. Not a lot of people will put up with working in those conditions
I'll never forget that time when I was a child and I was going through the channels to see what was on and it landed on Mythbusters right when the narrator said, "A 300lb butt..."
I thought, "What the frick is this show about?!"
yes, i would 100% watch a prop-maker contest show that has Mr Snowmiser & Mr HeatMiser as Obstacles
When talking about centrifugal forces and their capacity not only for energy but for terror also, it makes me think that Adam needs to get a trip to SpinLaunch, who are working on "a ground-based, electric powered kinetic launch system".
That bit about the art director changing directions and calling you a liar speaks to my soul! My old boss did that all the time, and it's part of the reason why I left the auto industry.
Adam's passion and personality would make him an awesome host for a prop master show. I'm guessing that the first couple of shows would probably involve elements of shop layout/organization. Or, maybe that would be the first round of each competition to give the contestants a hurdle to overcome to give them first choice for the actual contest.
The description of the sound that was released was the perfect way to convey just how scary that machine was.
Adam, I LOVE seeing the materiel shelving from ILM's latter day model shop. It's a sweet, meaningful reminder of great days of yore!
All of these interesting discussions about Mythbusters make me want to go bsck and watch it! Haven't seen it since I was a kid and I'm sure all of my predictions would be different now.
that weather as a combatant, I remember seeing that on a car building show, I believe it was Fast N Loud, where they had to wait days to get acceptable conditions to paint the car
Thanks for answering my question Adam! Time to redo my “hardware store” space.
"There was no inertia about the ability to change his mind" -Adam Savage, on Jamie Hyneman (Lead Balloon)
Speaking of the prop master thing, I want junkyard wars to come back lol
Adam for the love of making make that prop show happen we are watching ❤❤❤
Adams random use of "frankly" reminds me of Dwayne Johnson's best SNL skit about the evil scientist.
Honorable mention to Grant's random egg dropper, which was one of the weirdest and most amazing things I've ever seen.
i would love a prop show like that, or any crafting type show, thatd be great haha
As a former industrial paint specialist in Kansas, (non aircraft) weather is such a huge factor. It was wild times. Of course, no paint likes 15°f or 120°f. But those are extremes.
Mb is the reason I’m in engineering… and the inspiration that nearly took off my hand with explosives kkk 😂. Wouldn’t change a thing
For anybody that needs a little extra information on how much energy can be stored in centrifugal system, Google, Nissan, LMP Long boy. They wanted to race it in the 24 hour of Le Mans and the endurance car world championship. They use an energy recovery system similar to F1 at the time. They used a spinning mass that spun up under braking . I think it was 10 inches in diameter and weigh 200 kilos. The thing had to be encased in a vacuum because it was spinning so fast the outside edge was exceeding Mach 2…. It’s a very interesting story.
For a short while in the 1950s (IIRC) there were flywheel-powered city buses, called Gyrobus. They didn’t last long. The main reason was that they weren’t as efficient as anticipated, since they were so heavy. Another was what might happen in a crash. And another thing was that they were really weird to drive because of the gyroscope effect caused by the flywheel. (If you’ve ever held a powered-on hard drive in your hand and moved it around, you know what I mean!)
My favorite thing about mythubsters was that there were so many things that only existed and will only ever exist in Jamie’s shop. The creative builds were so fun to watch even when they ended up failing just because of how unique they were.
Oh, dag nabbit, my phone ate my comment again. That or it's the YT brigades.
I remember from the Steam Machine Gun episode (or another one involving steam, they seem to blur together in my brain) that when Adam and Jamie first started heating up the steam pressure system, there was this ghostly howl that no one could identify. After a while of concerned confusion by everyone, they decided to relieve some of the pressure for safety, and the howl never came back, not even at full pressure. That taught me to have a very healthy respect for steam-powered systems.
If I remember right the first myth was that a drink cup impacting a windshield at highway speeds would bust the windshield and impact the driver with enough force to kill them. It was one of my favorite episodes back when they were still running the show. The Little Pop Gun was also used when they were creating a portable shield/shelter for the Stormchasers during the prototype phase to launch wood peices at tornado speeds.
A few years ago, when Mythbusters was still on the air, I had a chance to find M5 and look at it from a nearby parking area. I remember seeing to the side a big hill (if you were to exit the front door and look to the left). Seeing this video, now I wonder if one were to use a metal detector on the side of that hill, how much embedded metal pieces would you find?
Adam: You get to build a soda can bazooka.
Jamie: You son of a bitch, I'm in.
Adam, I hope you really understand how beloved you are by your fans all over the world. 🙏👍
Yes, steam is impressive. I once heard a fireman tell the story of a house fire he went to that had all the characteristics of a potential backdraft situation....blackened windows, smoke escaping in puffs through cracks around the door, the whole thing. He said his captain told him not to open the door but instead he broke the small window in the door (about 6inches square) and stuck the nozzle in the opening and used about 20 gallons of water to smother the fire with steam. But you also have to use a wide-pattern fog spray when you do open the door to keep the fire from flaring up in case of re-ignition, but the effect was fascinating.
always amazing Adam...best wishes from Florida, PB
Doing the ball gun with a set of pneumatic solenoids would be amazing, a bank of them and a feeding mechanism in built. Whew all that steam to power. I’m pretty sure you could get 1000+ rounds per minute
Hey my question got turned into a short for everyone to see! I feel like I've arrived! Lol! :)
Well, it was a great question!
@@tested awww shucks :) I try!
Remember when it rained when you were trying to make artificial rain yourselves during a drought.
Me again. Please find the prop comb from Spaceballs! Best prop ever.
Regarding steam, note below the number of plows each turning over 14” of soil then note the number of pistons. The power of steam on display….
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now im just thinking of cut throat kitchen but propmakers
There will never be another show like mythbusters before or since I have spoken so my two favorite episodes are indiana Jones and Star Wars
The fascinating thing about steam expanding 1600 times in volume is regarding locomotive boiler explosions. I’d see photos of a locomotive where there is no boiler left with just the cab remaining. I had previously thought a boiler could just rupture from too high steam pressure.
I learned that a boiler contains liquid water under pressure. If this pressure is released by a crack in a pipe or something, all that water will turn instantly to steam at 1600 times the volume regardless of the containing vessel.
I used to have a donkey engine made by Mechano a steam engine where various Mechano kit items could be bolted on.
I realize that if a pipe ruptured, this little boiler would have exploded like a bomb.
I wonder if the donkey engine had the steam pipe kept to a certain diameter so the pressure would not be suddenly released.
For as often as they showed Jamie being annoyed by Adam, the times when it’s clear Jamie was entertained by Adam were welcome in those first seasons. Jamie giggled during Adam’s “sir yes sir” in the blueprint room for the confederate steam machine gun. As much as I can see the tension, made visible in the early years, there are also moments of non tension. That was a good episode for the latter.
There's an upstairs? Have you been holding out on us? 😂
Using steam to spin up a terrifying machine to launch cannonballs downrange, or possibly (in the event that something goes wrong) in _any_ direction including straight at you, seems like something inspired by Rube Goldberg. Why not just use the steam to push the cannonball down a cannon barrel? Heck, you could even drop a bunch of cannonballs into the stream of steam to make a sort of machine gun.
I wonder where are most of these machines built on the show today.
That's a great story about the soda can bazooka!
so it sounded like the fireman from Polar Express when he gets his beard yanked
I'm a little shocked that Adam didn't bring up the fart catcher! XD
The British used a steam powered mortar thrower during the 2nd world war. It was extremely cheap and would shoot virtually anything but was created initially for the home guard to fire sticky bombs which came in bottles.
4:55 - So how do you build a centrifugal storage device that can scale to usable amounts?
In this episode: Adam remembers the time they crossed Blendo with a machine gun.
Great video sir
From the title...i was _sure_ his answer was gonna be the 'bathtub bubble-fart collector'
I absolutely love the steam machine gun!, i always thought that a timing mechanism like the WW2 prop planes would have helped with the firing direction
Two words: Junkyard Wars. 👍
Thinking the power of steam is like a shop compressor is like comparing a lawn mower to a muscle car.
Note to self. Do not combine "1 inch steel ball bearings" with "Empire State building penny drop myth."
Just wondering, I have seen you drinking diet snapple on this show and wonder if you mind me asking what flavor of Snapple do you like/drink? I love Diet Snapple Half and Half and Toparocka.
Adam. Please, I want this show.
Which Mythbuster episode was the steam powered metal ball flinger?
What did Adam do with all the extra Sortimos? I understood his universe of parts/pieces was going to expand and accelerate, according to the accepted cosmological standard.
Sounds like an Arlis Loveless contraption.
It’s most dangerous to not only expands but is invisible and will take skin muscle off you in seconds.
Adam, you need to get into Steam Engines. There a few big bar engines left in operating condition in museums. Some of them are big enough that the require little "barring engines" in order to set them to the right position to open the valves to start them running. You should talk to Jay Leno about his steam cars. They're wild. Especially the ones with the two stage pistons.
It's stories like that first one that make me love Jamie all the more.
3 minutes in and I just realized there is an R2D2 behind you... and a few seconds later I'm like... yeah.. that's normal...
The energy stored in steam is on par with explosives.
I'm surprised Adam didn't mention the pig stomach tied into a skeleton
Closing speeds are often forgotten about. You think your car might stand up to a crash at 70mph, but what if it hits a bigger and heavier vehicle doing 70mph in the opposite direction. That’s potentially a 140mph collision against an object you don’t have the force to repel backwards.
Even at lower speeds, such as the default 30mph urban speed limit in the UK. A 60mph closing speed is going to hurt a lot more than a 30mph run into a stationary object.
That is so Jamie 😂, I love it
Adam, can you name all 9 forces of physics represented by my spinning tops I make/sell? Stored centrpical force is stored for a long time your right
When I remodeled my shop, I found so much stuff that I thought I didn't have and rediscovered. Noice.
Those 1" ball bearings make for great monkeyfists. I've been using my horde of them and haven't ran out yet, yes they're surprisingly cheap.
steam machine gun sounds so familiar.
Would you ever work with the walrus again.?
For anyone curious, 50 lbs of 1 inch diameter steel balls would be about 330
The more i grow as an artist, the more i realize i'm a Jamie not an Adam.
a slushy is very different from a can of soda...
Well, now I want to know what's going on with the hair dryer. I've just now noticed it at the end of the videos.
What the band on your left arm for
It's for tennis elbow
Tennis elbow brace.
Makes me think of Spinlaunch. The company that's trying to yeet rockets into space with a centrifuge.
How many times did you think you were going to blow yourself up
I don't remember you building a Magnetic Linear Accelerator? But did you or will you?
Would be awesome 👍