Adam's son: Dad, can you do a quick fix and weld this colander please? Adam: Of course Son, I can improve it for you. Adam's son: No, that's not what... Ok, thanks.
I love Tested, the team and Adam's videos. They are a joy every day they are published. But PLEASE, as someone who has had to witness multiple horrendous grinder accidents, PLEASE use the guard on a grinder. I use them every day and i know how annoying the guards can be, but they will save your life when the cutting disk innevitably breaks. No one is immune to a grinder injury and disk breaks are the most uncontrollable and so often fatal accidents.
⚠️WARNING⚠️ OSHA has entered the chat! On your toes... Look alive, boys.🧐 Safety Steve has once again inevitably shown up to critique any/every little thing that might be even the tiniest bit out of compliance.🙄 Ask yourself... Why would the great and careful Adam Savage be using a grinder without a guard?? Answer: Because anyone who's actually worked out in the real world, using a grinder day in and day out... Knows the first thing you do when you get a new grinder is take the safety guard and throw it directly in the garbage, or toss it high upon a shelf well out of reach to be long forgotten. I mean... if you plan on getting any ACTUAL work done anyway. Also...Please tell me where/when all of these "fatal" grinder accidents are taking place, exactly??🤔
@@RILEYLEIFSON_UTAH I have never had my grinder shield get in the way while working. and if it did it would be a scenario where I would only keep it off temporarily.
@@RILEYLEIFSON_UTAHYou actually know the answer to your last question. It's at the top of your reply. Go to OSHAs website. Took me two minutes to find a "death by exsanguination" fatality in April of last year due to a grinder disk exploding. You be as cavalier with your own safety as you want, but you are wrong about the dangers of grinders. Completely, verifiably wrong
Grinder guards are essential safety devices! I am a fabrication lab manager, and the slight inconvenience of grinder guards is a small price to pay for protecting my ability to do what I love.
Or at the very least use marine grade pop rivets (stainless steel, blind pop rivets). Dissimilar metals in a wet environment will get you galvanic corrosion.
I love the way you take your glasses off to see better and that you have extra lighting on every piece of equipment in the shop. Make me feel better knowing I do the same thing. Great tips as always.
I had a set of mixing bowls that were lacquered in that exact colour. Kind of a candy apple red. Very pretty, but the finish started flaking off and static clinging to everything, so it’s going into the scrap bin.
Yeah, was thinking this looks even nicer than Tamiya clear red for a candy red metallic. It scratches easily too in case you want a weathered paint job, like a battle damaged Iron Man suit or something. Hmmm....
Just a guess, I assume that he was afraid that his welds would also fail after time. Stainless is also notoriously difficult to work with for welding, so it might be a combination of things.
@@yoyopg123 I was wondering why he didn't just TIG weld it... Reading your comment, I guess this material is rather tricky? Never done and TIG welding but it is on the "to do list", plan on taking a class at the local Maker Space this summer.
@@WHJeffBthere a few factors about TIG welding stainless that can put a novice TIG welder off the idea of trying it on a production piece. First is the type of stainless. 303 and 316 have qualities that make them challenging. 304, which is the type this apparently is, is easier but it still has challenges. By far the most important situation is that stainless is a fairly poor conductor of heat, so the weld temperature builds up quite fast and you quickly risk the possibility of denaturing the durable qualities people go to stainless for. So you have be quick and efficient with your torch and filler rod and not linger on one spot too long. That requires practice. There are options on higher quality, modern torches where you can program a Pulse setting, which helps keep the heat build up in check, but you still need to have your technique down to produce a good weld. My Miller unit, while good, lacks a pulse setting. I wish I had it. I know Adam has a new welder in his shop but I’ve never seen him do TIG welding on the channel. Admittedly, it’s all conjecture on my part as to why he didn’t TIG weld it, but I’m guessing he didn’t want to practice on his son’s expensive W&S colander. Best of luck with your future welding endeavors!
For anyone who is needing a new collander, I love my RSVP International Endurance Stainless Steel 5 Quart. Its also ATK's suggestion, and it is incredible.
Exactly where my brain went. I wanted to take one for the last eclipse, but ended up not feeling well when I was meant to be packing for the trip, then forgetting it in the last minute rush.
God Adam you remind me so much of my best friends dad and I just love it. You both just have this curious nature and love doing all the little tinkering and making, it is a great vibe
Who else thinks this would have been a cool tig welding project too? I do not have a tig welder, and I know Adam has brought that up in the past, but this made me think of trying it as a tig weld. That or the original 5000psi jb weld epoxy inside the ring between the base and the ring.
Copper rivets you say? I didn't know that copper was food safe. I always thought that you needed to have a coating on the copper so the food don't touch the copper for it to be safe (I.E: copper pans has a lining inside them) I'm no food safe material expert and would be happily corrected if I'm wrong. Good video by the way. Really love what you at tested are doing and showing us.
Oddly copper coatings are critical for some egg dishes, has to do with ionization, or some Alton Brown level of thinking. But copper is both anti-microbial in that it destroys some bacteria and also prevents others from dividing, (some materials only prevent division) but yeah, it's food safe, the coating is often for ease of cleaning and that it is reactive to acids, so not suited for some foods, similar to raw aluminum.
@@KarltheKrazyonecopper pans can lead to poisening you though if cooper leaches into the food, so I don't think it is actually food safe. Having said that, I think in this use case it's unlikely to be a problem.
@@chrisdturner Foodsafe in terms of using it as a collander. You can't cook or store food in copper as it disolves into the food, but you can use it with utensils. Also its anti-bacterial in properties.
I have repaired kitchen items for my Mom. She had a spatula that she loved to use that had a crappy plastic handle that finally completely broke off leaving the tang that the plastic had been molded around. I took it and used a piece of mahogany scrap to male a much nicer and more durable handle for it. I also did the same for a cheese slicer.
Just use the lid, a plate, a cooking spoon, a fork or a pan flipper to block the noodles I have one of these but refuse to use it because it's something extra to clean. Only sees use when cooking huge portions in a big pot for tens of ppl
I repaired a wire colander for the friends I was living with, while going through trade college for welding. I'd hardly done any TIG (95% structural stick welding), and I did a hideous job. But 15 years later (mostly spent TIG welding, ironically), that damned colander still won't die.
Wondering why Adam didn't just spot weld it again. If it fell apart, the original welds were probably crap (not hot enough for the metal to really bond). Re-doing the spot welds would be a cleaner finish, unless that collander is plated and not stainless.
Yeah. The most straightforward fix would have been simply tig welding the base back to the collander. Even a food safe epoxy would have worked. This is an overly complicated fix.
Like the quick and dirty repair vids, just a small point but i would have reversed the direction of inserting the rivet as the way you have done it if stored upright the holes in the rivets would leave a nice breading ground for bacteria in the little water tht may remain trapped in the holes. Oh and yes im absolutley aware that everyone criticices from behind their keyboards!!
This would have been the perfect time to intrude welding into your life as a maker,repairer,tinkerer and youtuber. The tig weld you would have needed would have little to no consequence in your shop. I do appreciate your method of repairing. It teaches people at home that they can fix it themselves instead of tossing it out
Just recently bought myself a pair of Bellemain colanders off Amazon. I upgraded from cheap plastic ones I had been using for quite a while and the difference is plain out amazing. I'm pretty sure there are pricier, better colanders out there, but for my usage these things hit the sweet spot for value. I should have gotten them years ago.
Doing a quick search, I saw a set of 3 for $20, and nice stainless steel colanders for less than that. Consider the hourly rate of a handyman or skilled maker (or traditionally a _tinker_ is someone who would go around fixing household items), and it's certainly cheaper to just buy a new one. This would suggest that a project like this should be more than just a simple repair -- it should be a unique artwork of some kind. Make a Deathstar™colander, or where the holes spell out a secret message, or something like that.
I thought the same thing watching until I read it is supposed to be a Williams Sonoma colander, which a set of 3 goes for $139. I say supposed to be because another comment pointed out that it is likely counterfeit. When you see the close ups of the interior you can see the poorly punched holes and raised metal. The fact that it failed in the first place might be enough evidence. That being said, buy a new colander...
I was cooking breakfast this morning while watching this, and I thought to myself, "I could literally sit and listen to him discuss how he uses his toilet paper when on the John..." and then I remembered that I actually DID watch an entire Mythbusters episode about exactly thet.
A couple points: 1- copper is NOT food safe. Properly tinned copper is, but bare copper is most decidedly not. Not so bad here as it would be for a pan or kettle that gets direct heating, but the copper oxides are very not good. The quantity here, with the small surface area, is unlikely to be a major issue, but still not great. 2- PUT THE GUARD ON THE GRINDER. Really. I have been using grinders since well before Reagan's first Pinnochiotomy, and in that time have NEEDED to remove a guard for access fewer than a dozen times, and every time have done everything I can to be sure that in case of a problem, the debris won't hit me or anyone else. I have, on the other hand, fired people for removing the guards. I have also been involved in worksite triage for more than one person when they snagged and shattered a wheel. Also, wear a face shield. Glasses are not enough. You can chew with false teeth. You can walk on a wooden leg. You can't see out a glass eye. In my experience, the people most opposed to the guards are the same ones that claim safety tow shoes are more dangerous than unprotected. As a side note on special effects- every time someone says that a blood spatter looks fake, like someone just threw a can of red paint in a fan, I can attest that that is EXACTLY what it looks like. Years ago, we had a mechanic working on a diesel power unit on site, and due to a pressurized hose failure (that he did not consider and didn't protect himself from) stalled the unit with his arm. This was a BIG unit. Looked like someone threw a can of red paint into a fan. He was back at work about half a year later, 90+percent function,. not a lot of peripheral feeling.
So why is it used for water pipes and as a sterilant for swimming pools if it's so 'unsafe 'then? In fact copper is considered to be deficient in the majority of peoples diets. I think that given the unreactive nature of copper the amount your likely to get via a couple of tiny rivets wold be almost undetectable and therefore not worth mentioning.
Seeing you work amongst your stand tools reminds me of my dad’s unfulfilled ShopSmith? Multi tool purchase. It would be sad had he actually used his multitude of other tools more than he did. I ended up leaving behind his old Craftsman radial arm saw on stand with many accessories when I sold the family home. Nobody wanted it and I couldn’t be bothered trying to sell anything.
My dad had a ShopSmith for many years and got a lot of use out of it, but honestly, it wasn't that good a tool in my eyes. It did just an ok job compared to dedicated tools like a table saw, drill press, etc. When he died, I inherited it but donated it rather than keeping it around. I much prefer my collection of specialized tools over one tool trying to do everything. It's possible your dad would have been disappointed had he ever gotten one.
One added benefit to using the copper rivets in this instance is that copper does have some antimicrobial properties which should help minimize bacterial growth in the nooks and crannies around the rivets from any microscopically trapped food material.
@@LukeHoersten I'm really sorry, my old eyes read your question as AI as in artificial intelligence and not as Al as in aluminum, hence my confusion. I suspect his not wanting to use aluminum is that there are some that do not want to use aluminum in cookware as its alleged to have a connection to dementia. I believe that has been disproven but can't swear to it.
i am not too worried about the rivets with food part but more worried about the no guards on the grinders. yes its personal choice but all it takes is 1 laps of judgement for it to be painful.
I just have two curiosities. 1 how many new colanders do you think you could buy with the value of Adam's time went into this repair. 2 if they don't like the rivets how much money would an adam savage modified colander fetch in an auction and how many new colanders could you buy with that money. (I enjoyed the repair and value fixing things before buying new items it was just what I was thinking about watching the repair)
My most useful kitchen tools are tongs and old flippers (spatulas) from the 60s or 70s that were really thin, flexible metal rivetted to a handle. Nobody makes flippers like that any more that I've ever found - they're all much heavier gauge and less flexible. Some folks refer to them as "granny spatulas" because they inherited them from their grandmothers. The closest thing you can get today are fish spatulas, but they're just not the same.
Hey Adam. I saw a video short that showed if you want to remove a sharpie mark, you can cover it with a dry erase marker and it will remove the sharpie mark. Just a tip for you
Or just better tack welds. But you do need stainless rod to weld stainless. Which isn't easy to come by. When I wanted some the supply house just sold it in 5 pound amounts. So it was about $150 for a bundle. But he just threw me a rod for free.
@@1pcfred stainless welding stuff is super easy to come by...both for TIG and for MIG. I'm not sure anyone would use stick rods for this sort of repair, this is definitely a stainless TIG situation and you can buy a pound of ER308L for like $20...
Using one of those cut off wheels without the guard and without eye protection is possibly the most dangerous thing I've ever seen you do, including repairs, etc, to your lathe.
Seems like the perfect excu- er.. I mean, reason to get into some TIG welding, and some more cool - erm... I mean, useful tools. Perfect for stainless steel and where food stuffs are concerned (provided the welds are done correctly).
Knife. Without a quote, hard to verify the Child/colander thing. You can drain a lot of saucepans with just a lid. I have several colanders, depending on use. I prefer the large ones to have 3 separate feet, so you missed a chance here. That colander, set in a sink to drain, say pasta, might dam up the water faster than it can drain and make things disgusting. Rivits are seen in commercial NSF cookware. They have to be tight. And aluminum is everywhere in a commercial kitchen. You have to know what is in conact with the surface to be safe (no acids, no eggs). The NSF/ANSI standard has to deal mostly with material(s), safety, celeanability, etc. As others have mentioned, copper might not be the best choice. Even for just draining, it's going to get green and require some extra scrubbing. But a thoughtful repair, nonetheless. And glad you're repairing and not tossing.
Hey guys. I’m a 16 year old aspiring engineer with 400 dollars saved up. Been watching Adam since Covid and have been pulled into this new world. I have a garage that my dad said I can use for building things, but I only have a table and a chair. Where should I start? A mini lathe? What are some necessities I need to get started?
I'd say figure out what you want to make and then figure out the tools. I love tools, but I have to admit I have spent money on a few without having a clear need for them. I think engineering is at least as much knowledge as tooling. Books are great so is the library. My library also has tools in their Library of Things.
Many years ago, the handle came off my Mom's favorite frying pan. The rivets that held it on got loose. I took it out to my garage/shop and with a ball peen hammer and a vice I fixed it. Even so she never used it again...
@@littlehills739 Try thinking before you type. We’ve used copper pipes and vessels to store water for millennia. Apart from that, it would take years of not washing before those minute rivets to produce verdigris. The only issue would be if left in strong acidic solutions for extended periods which is unlikely with a strainer.
@@thechumpsbeendumped.7797 Yes and usually a strainer is not put away wet. The only time I have seen problems is with Plumbing in a house 50 years old when working on and from onset of shifting the pipe was flat for a drain in bathroom and I had to help my brother fix plumbing. Only worse was copper in basement where a shower was non working since 1990.
Most people use these colanders wrong (or not effective) when straining pasta for instance. Don’t pour everything out into the colander. Put the colander on your pot, hold it and turn it upside down to drain. No need to juggle pasta back and forth
This is my repair!! WAAAYY before I'd rivet, and I can't Tig worth a Tinkers' damn. Speaking of Tinkers, THEY repaired pots with copper rivets. Somewhere, out in the depths of my shop is the remnants of a "pot repair kit."" 3x5" Piece of cardboard with steel bolts, washers, nuts, copper rivets stuck through it. We don't fix stuff anymore ... well, not all of us. If I'd needed rivets, I'd use stainless solids. We use them all the time in the aircraft industry. Update: Google "pot menders". I've used these a time or two in my youth.
Dollars to doughnuts that is a counterfeit Williams Sonoma colander. The metal is thin and all the holes are punched with a rounded edge on the exterior and a raised lip on the interior. Compare to the close up images of the three sizes of colander on the Williams-Sonoma website. All the holes are clean edged and flat, the metal of the bowl is obviously thicker. I bet his son would be more appreciative of a genuine product than a repaired piece of what ought to go to the scrap yard.
Good eye, I see your point. I never expected there'd be a counterfeit market for colanders, but then again I guess there's a counterfeit everything. Learn something new everyday.
For me it's this ancient cast-iron skillet I inherited off of a family friend. I have no idea how old it is, but it heats wonderfully and is easily the best pan I have. It might look a little odd given a nut and a washer are what's holding the wooden handle on, but I don't care.
The item I use the most in the kitchen is a carving knife. I'm always cutting stuff. I have chef's knives too but they're a bit much for my daily use. For me a carving knife is my go to. Chef's knives are like cleavers. I break them out if I'm cutting something really tough. Like say butternut squash. That stuff is like cutting wood.
Hah! I saw Alton Brown at LBC and during the Q&A I wound up asking him who made a decent can opener because they all suck! He said the company that originally invented it still make the best one. I ordered one and it's great. Now if I could just remember their name... ;-)
I think I would have tried brazing it back on. Would have been interesting, and it it failed, unlikely to destroy the utensiland you could fall back to the rivet solution. Both ways interesting, in my opinion. The rivets do make sense, as it looks like the handles are riveted as well. Regardless, a neat, low risk and fun project.
Julia Child's show started EVERY other show. This Old house, Yankee Workshop, yootoob vids, etc. Her show showed that people WILL watch someone else working on something.
Drilling into his workbench was savage. I mean put a scrap of wood into the vise. My workbench is decades old and it's not as chewed up as Adam's bench is. I'd never think to just chew into it like he does to his. That bench isn't that old. I remember when he got it.
@Full-tilt-banana perhaps that abuse should have been better defined then? I understand abusing a workbench to mean pounding over a leg. That they can handle. Chewing up the work surface, not so much. That's beyond the pale.
There are several uses we don't usually think of today: you can use it to squish cooked potatoes, tomatoes etc. thru to turn it into a puree for example
When using a grinder always wear safety glasses and a full face shield. I also usually wear my welding jacket. If you ever have a disk explode in your face, you’ll understand why.
Would it be possible to grind and sand and polish the rivets down to create a smooth working surface, not dissimilar to how ClickSpring removes his rivets? Or would that not be possible, given how thin the stainless steel is?
When the boys tire of the CPR rivets & the upside down channel at the base, drill out the rivets & give them a stainless trivet to drop the colander on
She said it. I saw it in an interview. Hat's off to the current champion of ignoring the most delicate and precision tools ... or the most appropriate.
I'm over here cringing about using Starrett calipers to scribe on stainless. Don't get me wrong, I use calipers to scribe all the time, but I use cheap import calipers for scribing, and I save my Starrett and Mitutoyo for real measurements.
@robadams1645 yup. If he's careful it will likely do no harm. Plus, he can probably afford to replace them when it becomes necessary. But it still triggers me.
That would literally have taken 2 mins with TIG. Plus 30 mins to pickle the heat affected zone and a little buffing. TIG is awesome, I have mine set up ready to use at all times for little jobs..
Adam's son: Dad, can you do a quick fix and weld this colander please?
Adam: Of course Son, I can improve it for you.
Adam's son: No, that's not what... Ok, thanks.
That feeling when you ask your dad to fix the colander and goes to get the angle grinder.
I love Tested, the team and Adam's videos. They are a joy every day they are published. But PLEASE, as someone who has had to witness multiple horrendous grinder accidents, PLEASE use the guard on a grinder. I use them every day and i know how annoying the guards can be, but they will save your life when the cutting disk innevitably breaks. No one is immune to a grinder injury and disk breaks are the most uncontrollable and so often fatal accidents.
⚠️WARNING⚠️ OSHA has entered the chat! On your toes... Look alive, boys.🧐 Safety Steve has once again inevitably shown up to critique any/every little thing that might be even the tiniest bit out of compliance.🙄
Ask yourself... Why would the great and careful Adam Savage be using a grinder without a guard??
Answer: Because anyone who's actually worked out in the real world, using a grinder day in and day out... Knows the first thing you do when you get a new grinder is take the safety guard and throw it directly in the garbage, or toss it high upon a shelf well out of reach to be long forgotten. I mean... if you plan on getting any ACTUAL work done anyway.
Also...Please tell me where/when all of these "fatal" grinder accidents are taking place, exactly??🤔
@@RILEYLEIFSON_UTAH Imagine getting triggered over someone talking about a grinder guard.
@@RILEYLEIFSON_UTAH I have never had my grinder shield get in the way while working. and if it did it would be a scenario where I would only keep it off temporarily.
@@RILEYLEIFSON_UTAHYou actually know the answer to your last question. It's at the top of your reply. Go to OSHAs website. Took me two minutes to find a "death by exsanguination" fatality in April of last year due to a grinder disk exploding. You be as cavalier with your own safety as you want, but you are wrong about the dangers of grinders. Completely, verifiably wrong
Grinder guards are essential safety devices! I am a fabrication lab manager, and the slight inconvenience of grinder guards is a small price to pay for protecting my ability to do what I love.
Adam, this was a perfect opportunity for you to bust out your TIG welder and get some practice. You know you wanna TIG!
Watching you draw that line around the base amazing. Despite the fact that you weren’t pleased with it was still truly impressive.
It's not hard to do. I had my High School Woodwork students do it instead of using marking gauges all the time.
If you're going to use rivets, use an upset rivet not a pop rivet. Less place for food to get trapped.
Definitely "real" rivets!
Even aluminum rivets would work in this case.
So what no leftovers 🤭
Finally a response from a food service expert.
Or at the very least use marine grade pop rivets (stainless steel, blind pop rivets). Dissimilar metals in a wet environment will get you galvanic corrosion.
A true tinker tinkering. Make do & mend at its finest. Great work Mr Savage.
I love the way you take your glasses off to see better and that you have extra lighting on every piece of equipment in the shop. Make me feel better knowing I do the same thing. Great tips as always.
I know it's a marking fluid but that red is beautiful
Ya, I want paint in that color.
I had a set of mixing bowls that were lacquered in that exact colour. Kind of a candy apple red. Very pretty, but the finish started flaking off and static clinging to everything, so it’s going into the scrap bin.
@@darkmagician2904 Dupli-color Metalcast series paints. I used the red to paint over some chrome emblems, and it has that perfect candy apple color.
Yeah, was thinking this looks even nicer than Tamiya clear red for a candy red metallic. It scratches easily too in case you want a weathered paint job, like a battle damaged Iron Man suit or something. Hmmm....
The best colander I have I found at a thrift store 30 years ago. One piece, no feet or handles and so easy to clean.
And just like that. Adam was well on the road to underground kitchen appliance moding. Up next? Food processor that doubles as a wood chipper! :P
That sounds like a Tool Time episode! A reference for us old heads.
You never can tell with Adam.
Though, I've seen string trimmers modified to power blenders.
Tailgate Margarita anyone?
I feel like that's how Red Green got started
Fun video, Adam! I was wondering why you didn't just re-weld the base back on instead of riveting?
Just a guess, I assume that he was afraid that his welds would also fail after time. Stainless is also notoriously difficult to work with for welding, so it might be a combination of things.
If the colander is stainless (which I believe this W&S model is), Adam may be out of his comfort zone trying to TIG weld 304 (18/8).
@@yoyopg123 I was wondering why he didn't just TIG weld it... Reading your comment, I guess this material is rather tricky? Never done and TIG welding but it is on the "to do list", plan on taking a class at the local Maker Space this summer.
@@WHJeffBthere a few factors about TIG welding stainless that can put a novice TIG welder off the idea of trying it on a production piece. First is the type of stainless. 303 and 316 have qualities that make them challenging. 304, which is the type this apparently is, is easier but it still has challenges. By far the most important situation is that stainless is a fairly poor conductor of heat, so the weld temperature builds up quite fast and you quickly risk the possibility of denaturing the durable qualities people go to stainless for. So you have be quick and efficient with your torch and filler rod and not linger on one spot too long. That requires practice. There are options on higher quality, modern torches where you can program a Pulse setting, which helps keep the heat build up in check, but you still need to have your technique down to produce a good weld. My Miller unit, while good, lacks a pulse setting. I wish I had it. I know Adam has a new welder in his shop but I’ve never seen him do TIG welding on the channel. Admittedly, it’s all conjecture on my part as to why he didn’t TIG weld it, but I’m guessing he didn’t want to practice on his son’s expensive W&S colander. Best of luck with your future welding endeavors!
I repaired the exact same issue with a different colander but used just sugru as I’m no good with metalwork. It’s held for about 7-8 years so far!
For anyone who is needing a new collander, I love my RSVP International Endurance Stainless Steel 5 Quart. Its also ATK's suggestion, and it is incredible.
A colander is also great for a solar eclipse. The shadows are amazing :)
Can shadows be more amazing than homosexual special rights ?
@@benjurqunovWtf lol
@benjurqunov I second the WTF here. Where did that come from? lol Also, I wish I had thought of the colander this past eclipse. Great idea!
Exactly where my brain went. I wanted to take one for the last eclipse, but ended up not feeling well when I was meant to be packing for the trip, then forgetting it in the last minute rush.
You could also stick it on your head to block radio signals. :) It should work as a Faraday cage.
It has to be said - I appreciate how often you upload!!! Tested provides me more regular content than anything else I watch. Thank you!!!
God Adam you remind me so much of my best friends dad and I just love it. You both just have this curious nature and love doing all the little tinkering and making, it is a great vibe
Who else thinks this would have been a cool tig welding project too? I do not have a tig welder, and I know Adam has brought that up in the past, but this made me think of trying it as a tig weld. That or the original 5000psi jb weld epoxy inside the ring between the base and the ring.
Copper rivets you say? I didn't know that copper was food safe. I always thought that you needed to have a coating on the copper so the food don't touch the copper for it to be safe (I.E: copper pans has a lining inside them) I'm no food safe material expert and would be happily corrected if I'm wrong. Good video by the way. Really love what you at tested are doing and showing us.
I was thinking along the same line. Copper pans are coated on the inside with tin to avoid poisoning.
Oddly copper coatings are critical for some egg dishes, has to do with ionization, or some Alton Brown level of thinking. But copper is both anti-microbial in that it destroys some bacteria and also prevents others from dividing, (some materials only prevent division) but yeah, it's food safe, the coating is often for ease of cleaning and that it is reactive to acids, so not suited for some foods, similar to raw aluminum.
@@KarltheKrazyone thank you so much for the information. I had no idea about it.
@@KarltheKrazyonecopper pans can lead to poisening you though if cooper leaches into the food, so I don't think it is actually food safe. Having said that, I think in this use case it's unlikely to be a problem.
@@chrisdturner Foodsafe in terms of using it as a collander. You can't cook or store food in copper as it disolves into the food, but you can use it with utensils. Also its anti-bacterial in properties.
Now I see, you (like myself) look at something that's broke and go to fix it and make it better than original. Very ingenious. Thanks for the video.
The heavy footsteps happening as Adam is working is giving me serious Resident Evil 2 Remake flashbacks.
You obviously missed the rare footage of the shop elf organizing things in the background :-).
I have repaired kitchen items for my Mom. She had a spatula that she loved to use that had a crappy plastic handle that finally completely broke off leaving the tang that the plastic had been molded around. I took it and used a piece of mahogany scrap to male a much nicer and more durable handle for it. I also did the same for a cheese slicer.
You’re a good person for doing that. Just letting you know.
Any time I hear Julia Child's name I think of the SNL sketch. "I've cut the Dickens out of my finger!"
I think "that woman was a spy!" 🤣
Save the chicken livers!
Yes I know. The question is does he have brothers and or sisters and what number would he be.
I think of SCTV, where a Battle of the PBS Stars sketch had her boxing with Mister Rogers! She was of course played by John Candy
You are on the upper echelon of human culture. Keep it up! You have knowledge at least of better than most.
As a Pastafarian I can confirm The Colander is The Most Holy Tool in the Kitchen, with The Tongs in second place.
May your marinara be hearty and stay blessed by his noodley apendage R'Amen .
RaMen!
Just use the lid, a plate, a cooking spoon, a fork or a pan flipper to block the noodles I have one of these but refuse to use it because it's something extra to clean. Only sees use when cooking huge portions in a big pot for tens of ppl
I know it makes no sense, but I briefly considered that the _angle grinder_ might be the kitchen tool. Because it’s Adam.
Only for washing those very stubborn stains out.
I repaired a wire colander for the friends I was living with, while going through trade college for welding. I'd hardly done any TIG (95% structural stick welding), and I did a hideous job.
But 15 years later (mostly spent TIG welding, ironically), that damned colander still won't die.
Wondering why Adam didn't just spot weld it again. If it fell apart, the original welds were probably crap (not hot enough for the metal to really bond). Re-doing the spot welds would be a cleaner finish, unless that collander is plated and not stainless.
Yeah. The most straightforward fix would have been simply tig welding the base back to the collander. Even a food safe epoxy would have worked.
This is an overly complicated fix.
Like the quick and dirty repair vids, just a small point but i would have reversed the direction of inserting the rivet as the way you have done it if stored upright the holes in the rivets would leave a nice breading ground for bacteria in the little water tht may remain trapped in the holes. Oh and yes im absolutley aware that everyone criticices from behind their keyboards!!
This would have been the perfect time to intrude welding into your life as a maker,repairer,tinkerer and youtuber. The tig weld you would have needed would have little to no consequence in your shop. I do appreciate your method of repairing. It teaches people at home that they can fix it themselves instead of tossing it out
Just recently bought myself a pair of Bellemain colanders off Amazon. I upgraded from cheap plastic ones I had been using for quite a while and the difference is plain out amazing. I'm pretty sure there are pricier, better colanders out there, but for my usage these things hit the sweet spot for value. I should have gotten them years ago.
Doing a quick search, I saw a set of 3 for $20, and nice stainless steel colanders for less than that.
Consider the hourly rate of a handyman or skilled maker (or traditionally a _tinker_ is someone who would go around fixing household items), and it's certainly cheaper to just buy a new one.
This would suggest that a project like this should be more than just a simple repair -- it should be a unique artwork of some kind.
Make a Deathstar™colander, or where the holes spell out a secret message, or something like that.
I thought the same thing watching until I read it is supposed to be a Williams Sonoma colander, which a set of 3 goes for $139. I say supposed to be because another comment pointed out that it is likely counterfeit. When you see the close ups of the interior you can see the poorly punched holes and raised metal. The fact that it failed in the first place might be enough evidence. That being said, buy a new colander...
I was cooking breakfast this morning while watching this, and I thought to myself, "I could literally sit and listen to him discuss how he uses his toilet paper when on the John..." and then I remembered that I actually DID watch an entire Mythbusters episode about exactly thet.
I, too, have repaired a colander with rivets in order to keep it alive and functioning. It's like healthcare for our durable things!
But if they end up drilling the rivets out, will they have to fill in the holes? Would the colander still work with 4 extra holes? 🤔
Think it will leak
A couple points: 1- copper is NOT food safe. Properly tinned copper is, but bare copper is most decidedly not. Not so bad here as it would be for a pan or kettle that gets direct heating, but the copper oxides are very not good. The quantity here, with the small surface area, is unlikely to be a major issue, but still not great.
2- PUT THE GUARD ON THE GRINDER. Really. I have been using grinders since well before Reagan's first Pinnochiotomy, and in that time have NEEDED to remove a guard for access fewer than a dozen times, and every time have done everything I can to be sure that in case of a problem, the debris won't hit me or anyone else. I have, on the other hand, fired people for removing the guards. I have also been involved in worksite triage for more than one person when they snagged and shattered a wheel. Also, wear a face shield. Glasses are not enough. You can chew with false teeth. You can walk on a wooden leg. You can't see out a glass eye. In my experience, the people most opposed to the guards are the same ones that claim safety tow shoes are more dangerous than unprotected.
As a side note on special effects- every time someone says that a blood spatter looks fake, like someone just threw a can of red paint in a fan, I can attest that that is EXACTLY what it looks like. Years ago, we had a mechanic working on a diesel power unit on site, and due to a pressurized hose failure (that he did not consider and didn't protect himself from) stalled the unit with his arm. This was a BIG unit. Looked like someone threw a can of red paint into a fan. He was back at work about half a year later, 90+percent function,. not a lot of peripheral feeling.
So why is it used for water pipes and as a sterilant for swimming pools if it's so 'unsafe 'then? In fact copper is considered to be deficient in the majority of peoples diets. I think that given the unreactive nature of copper the amount your likely to get via a couple of tiny rivets wold be almost undetectable and therefore not worth mentioning.
Seeing you work amongst your stand tools reminds me of my dad’s unfulfilled ShopSmith? Multi tool purchase. It would be sad had he actually used his multitude of other tools more than he did. I ended up leaving behind his old Craftsman radial arm saw on stand with many accessories when I sold the family home. Nobody wanted it and I couldn’t be bothered trying to sell anything.
My dad had a ShopSmith for many years and got a lot of use out of it, but honestly, it wasn't that good a tool in my eyes. It did just an ok job compared to dedicated tools like a table saw, drill press, etc. When he died, I inherited it but donated it rather than keeping it around. I much prefer my collection of specialized tools over one tool trying to do everything. It's possible your dad would have been disappointed had he ever gotten one.
One added benefit to using the copper rivets in this instance is that copper does have some antimicrobial properties which should help minimize bacterial growth in the nooks and crannies around the rivets from any microscopically trapped food material.
What’s the issue with Al?
@@LukeHoersten I'm not sure what your question is referring to, my comment has nothing to do with AI. I apologize if I'm missing something.
Just asking if you knew why he said he couldn’t use aluminum for food and used copper instead? I’m sorry I know you didn’t mention aluminum yourself!
@@LukeHoersten I'm really sorry, my old eyes read your question as AI as in artificial intelligence and not as Al as in aluminum, hence my confusion. I suspect his not wanting to use aluminum is that there are some that do not want to use aluminum in cookware as its alleged to have a connection to dementia. I believe that has been disproven but can't swear to it.
i am not too worried about the rivets with food part but more worried about the no guards on the grinders. yes its personal choice but all it takes is 1 laps of judgement for it to be painful.
Everyone is always talking about tinkering about on the internet. Finally some actual tinkering.
chopping board. it's like my workbench for assembling food
Yes, no cooking starts without the chopping board, even if I don't use a knife.
I love this kind a video. Waste not, want not.
I just have two curiosities. 1 how many new colanders do you think you could buy with the value of Adam's time went into this repair. 2 if they don't like the rivets how much money would an adam savage modified colander fetch in an auction and how many new colanders could you buy with that money.
(I enjoyed the repair and value fixing things before buying new items it was just what I was thinking about watching the repair)
Was that benzene you used? The dispenser looks very much like what my father used at the newspaper and print shop that I grew up around.
There is a video where he shows and tells about the dispenser. Remembered that I had seen it and then googled 😀
My most useful kitchen tools are tongs and old flippers (spatulas) from the 60s or 70s that were really thin, flexible metal rivetted to a handle. Nobody makes flippers like that any more that I've ever found - they're all much heavier gauge and less flexible. Some folks refer to them as "granny spatulas" because they inherited them from their grandmothers. The closest thing you can get today are fish spatulas, but they're just not the same.
Great to see things being repaired instead of being thrown away.
Ps. What make are the blue handled pliers you used?
Hey Adam. I saw a video short that showed if you want to remove a sharpie mark, you can cover it with a dry erase marker and it will remove the sharpie mark. Just a tip for you
what type of connection are the handles attached using? could you use the same as that and be food safe?
With the advice against this approach why didn’t you just fully weld the base instead of the tack welds it had?
Or just better tack welds. But you do need stainless rod to weld stainless. Which isn't easy to come by. When I wanted some the supply house just sold it in 5 pound amounts. So it was about $150 for a bundle. But he just threw me a rod for free.
@@1pcfred stainless welding stuff is super easy to come by...both for TIG and for MIG. I'm not sure anyone would use stick rods for this sort of repair, this is definitely a stainless TIG situation and you can buy a pound of ER308L for like $20...
@@1pcfred Must be dependant to where you are, area near me has/had everything I ever wanted.
@@wobblysauce Yeah I guess the New York metro area was never the nexus of the Universe I suppose. Well, it was then, come to think about it.
This sort of stuff can be fusion welded with TIG - no filler required.
I work alone too, I love sneezing out in the open air and just letting fly 😁😆
Blue roll is the backbone of any professional kitchen.
I thought copper is quite toxic when used for food prep, which is why copper pans are tinned on the inside.
Battery powered angle grinder, the most useful tool in the kitchen indeed! Also bless you!
For me it's the mighty chopsticks! The most versatile tool
Using one of those cut off wheels without the guard and without eye protection is possibly the most dangerous thing I've ever seen you do, including repairs, etc, to your lathe.
My thoughts exactly.
Seems like the perfect excu- er.. I mean, reason to get into some TIG welding, and some more cool - erm... I mean, useful tools. Perfect for stainless steel and where food stuffs are concerned (provided the welds are done correctly).
Why not silver solder? It is food safe, I think...
Even with drain holes, why would that have an upward facing lip to collect food particles?
It looked like the first holes you drilled were tough to do. Did you use a drill bit for drilling stainless?
Knife.
Without a quote, hard to verify the Child/colander thing. You can drain a lot of saucepans with just a lid.
I have several colanders, depending on use. I prefer the large ones to have 3 separate feet, so you missed a chance here. That colander, set in a sink to drain, say pasta, might dam up the water faster than it can drain and make things disgusting.
Rivits are seen in commercial NSF cookware. They have to be tight. And aluminum is everywhere in a commercial kitchen. You have to know what is in conact with the surface to be safe (no acids, no eggs). The NSF/ANSI standard has to deal mostly with material(s), safety, celeanability, etc. As others have mentioned, copper might not be the best choice. Even for just draining, it's going to get green and require some extra scrubbing.
But a thoughtful repair, nonetheless. And glad you're repairing and not tossing.
That was some unnerving grinder action my guy.
Brilliant idea to remove material to create the tabs.
Hey guys. I’m a 16 year old aspiring engineer with 400 dollars saved up. Been watching Adam since Covid and have been pulled into this new world. I have a garage that my dad said I can use for building things, but I only have a table and a chair. Where should I start? A mini lathe? What are some necessities I need to get started?
@robertstallard7836 I mean like I want to be one. Did I word it wrong?
Aspiring!
I'd say figure out what you want to make and then figure out the tools. I love tools, but I have to admit I have spent money on a few without having a clear need for them. I think engineering is at least as much knowledge as tooling. Books are great so is the library. My library also has tools in their Library of Things.
@@David_Hogue Thanks
When my colander failed in a similar way, I was working with some insanely talented stainless welders, so they welded it back together for me.
I really like these "fix it" type things. Its something relatable. Oh this broke, here is a quick and dirty "fix"!
At what point do you replace the leather for your workbench?
Many years ago, the handle came off my Mom's favorite frying pan. The rivets that held it on got loose. I took it out to my garage/shop and with a ball peen hammer and a vice I fixed it. Even so she never used it again...
she just wanted to buy a new one 😁😁
@@1BigBen No. She just never believed I could fix things and when I did, she didn't acknowledge it.
@@PhilG999 Hey! My mom too. They are, somewhat proliferate.
For me, the most important tool in th the kitchen is a fire extinguisher; followed closely by a stomach pump.
I wonder if a silver rivet would have additional antimicrobial properties for those little interstitial spaces.
Copper and its multiple alloys are antimicrobial too and much easier to source.
@@thechumpsbeendumped.7797 copper " Verdigris" tasty
@@littlehills739
Try thinking before you type. We’ve used copper pipes and vessels to store water for millennia. Apart from that, it would take years of not washing before those minute rivets to produce verdigris. The only issue would be if left in strong acidic solutions for extended periods which is unlikely with a strainer.
@@thechumpsbeendumped.7797 Yes and usually a strainer is not put away wet. The only time I have seen problems is with Plumbing in a house 50 years old when working on and from onset of shifting the pipe was flat for a drain in bathroom and I had to help my brother fix plumbing. Only worse was copper in basement where a shower was non working since 1990.
Where are the guards from the grinders? Safety first
Do we know what hand riveter Adam prefers? I was trying to see during the time lapse section, but was not able.
Use a blade guard and a face mask when using an angle grinder.. You think your lathe accident was bad.
Huh, I thought it would look really ugly with the pop rivets, but you did a great job of smoothing them out!
Hy Adam why U use that tick cut off wheel for this fine work? we use only 1 mm thick disks these days, great work restoring that colander.
My most useful tool is my relatively light cast iron pan. I do have a colander where one of the spot welded handles fell off.
Most people use these colanders wrong (or not effective) when straining pasta for instance. Don’t pour everything out into the colander. Put the colander on your pot, hold it and turn it upside down to drain. No need to juggle pasta back and forth
Always a fun time.
Harris Stay Brite Flux and Silver Solder for stainless.
Slow heat up and let it flow. Can be done with a Heat Gun.
This is my repair!! WAAAYY before I'd rivet, and I can't Tig worth a Tinkers' damn. Speaking of Tinkers, THEY repaired pots with copper rivets. Somewhere, out in the depths of my shop is the remnants of a "pot repair kit."" 3x5" Piece of cardboard with steel bolts, washers, nuts, copper rivets stuck through it. We don't fix stuff anymore ... well, not all of us. If I'd needed rivets, I'd use stainless solids. We use them all the time in the aircraft industry.
Update: Google "pot menders". I've used these a time or two in my youth.
Dollars to doughnuts that is a counterfeit Williams Sonoma colander. The metal is thin and all the holes are punched with a rounded edge on the exterior and a raised lip on the interior. Compare to the close up images of the three sizes of colander on the Williams-Sonoma website. All the holes are clean edged and flat, the metal of the bowl is obviously thicker. I bet his son would be more appreciative of a genuine product than a repaired piece of what ought to go to the scrap yard.
Good eye, I see your point. I never expected there'd be a counterfeit market for colanders, but then again I guess there's a counterfeit everything. Learn something new everyday.
What is that little red despenser that im guessing he has acetone or something in. Holds it uside down and pushes the button and spills the liquid.
For me it's this ancient cast-iron skillet I inherited off of a family friend. I have no idea how old it is, but it heats wonderfully and is easily the best pan I have. It might look a little odd given a nut and a washer are what's holding the wooden handle on, but I don't care.
There's nothing better than a good cast iron pan.
@@robadams1645 Them and carbon-steel woks. Best stovetop cooking implements ever devised I swear.
The item I use the most in the kitchen is a carving knife. I'm always cutting stuff. I have chef's knives too but they're a bit much for my daily use. For me a carving knife is my go to. Chef's knives are like cleavers. I break them out if I'm cutting something really tough. Like say butternut squash. That stuff is like cutting wood.
Hah! I saw Alton Brown at LBC and during the Q&A I wound up asking him who made a decent can opener because they all suck! He said the company that originally invented it still make the best one. I ordered one and it's great. Now if I could just remember their name... ;-)
I think I would have tried brazing it back on. Would have been interesting, and it it failed, unlikely to destroy the utensiland you could fall back to the rivet solution. Both ways interesting, in my opinion. The rivets do make sense, as it looks like the handles are riveted as well. Regardless, a neat, low risk and fun project.
Julia Child's show started EVERY other show. This Old house, Yankee Workshop, yootoob vids, etc. Her show showed that people WILL watch someone else working on something.
Drilling without glasses, that's just Savage. 😅
Drilling into his workbench was savage. I mean put a scrap of wood into the vise. My workbench is decades old and it's not as chewed up as Adam's bench is. I'd never think to just chew into it like he does to his. That bench isn't that old. I remember when he got it.
@Full-tilt-banana perhaps that abuse should have been better defined then? I understand abusing a workbench to mean pounding over a leg. That they can handle. Chewing up the work surface, not so much. That's beyond the pale.
I have to agree about tongues, I couldn't live without them, and my cast iron skillet.
He was talking about tongs not tongues.
@@thechumpsbeendumped.7797 think that was a typo ( or voice to text error ), but there's something to be said for tongues, too 😂
@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power Nah, it's just my tablet is a bit too eager with autocorrect, and I never caught it.
@@Immortal-Headcase
I call it autocorrupt.
There are several uses we don't usually think of today: you can use it to squish cooked potatoes, tomatoes etc. thru to turn it into a puree for example
They make a special gadget for doing that called a potato ricer. Which does resemble a colander. But it also has a lever press arm attached to it too.
@@1pcfred true. But this is where it originated. Simpler times, fewer gadgets
When using a grinder always wear safety glasses and a full face shield. I also usually wear my welding jacket. If you ever have a disk explode in your face, you’ll understand why.
Would it be possible to grind and sand and polish the rivets down to create a smooth working surface, not dissimilar to how ClickSpring removes his rivets? Or would that not be possible, given how thin the stainless steel is?
When the boys tire of the CPR rivets & the upside down channel at the base, drill out the rivets & give them a stainless trivet to drop the colander on
She said it. I saw it in an interview. Hat's off to the current champion of ignoring the most delicate and precision tools ... or the most appropriate.
i know is the marking paint... however metallic/automotive red works surprisingly well on Kitchenwear from an aesthetic point
Is that too deep for a spot weld? Or would it not last?
4:47 Methylated Spirits also does a fantastic job removing permanent marker
Worst cut I ever got in a kitchen was from the burr on the inner fold of a set of cheap tongs. Spring for the good tongs, folks!
I can hear Alec Steele recoil because it's not BLUE dycum... 😂
Adam, you should learn to tig weld. Doing a couple spot welds with tig is very easy.
I'm over here cringing about using Starrett calipers to scribe on stainless. Don't get me wrong, I use calipers to scribe all the time, but I use cheap import calipers for scribing, and I save my Starrett and Mitutoyo for real measurements.
Hurts your soul to see.
To be fair, he's just scribing into the marking fluid. But still, I understand your pain.
@robadams1645 yup. If he's careful it will likely do no harm. Plus, he can probably afford to replace them when it becomes necessary. But it still triggers me.
No one measures on the tip. So it's fine.
@@1pcfred unless what you're measuring has little to no depth, which happens all the time.
Great Repair Adam
If they decide to not use it anymore you can probably save the bowl for a Trek build or similar.
That would literally have taken 2 mins with TIG. Plus 30 mins to pickle the heat affected zone and a little buffing. TIG is awesome, I have mine set up ready to use at all times for little jobs..