Adam Savage Rebuilds His R2-D2 Astromech Feet! 

you beat me to it, Jonas! Yup, that's the death knell phrase in my home shop.

Oh, if you only knew!

Father Time says, "I reject your reality and substitute my own."

😂😂😂😂😂

He should install Alexa in it and have it beep and rotate and such when he asks Alexa a question.

Better yet, skip the center punch entirely as that is likely the source of the errors. Line up a wiggler on the scribe lines, or better still, use an edge finder on the vise jaws or part edge and the DRO to drive right to the spot. No layout required and the parts will be near perfect.

3:50 i missed the "half of a cm" part originally and thought he was saying there was 5 mm in a cm, so thank you for helping correct my brain from its error

Eh, it's less about gatekeeping that R2 has to be dirty, more about not gatekeeping that as a model you must make him pristine. Pristine is a much higher bar than weathered, dirty, and damaged, especially when canonically he is often a bit banged up.

@@NuclearRobotHamster I wish that were true. But when I show off my built from scratch model, everyone says that I'm "too lazy to weather it," rather than acknowledging my point of making a clean version *as seen in the film.*

It's so easy, you just have to be able to count to ten and move the decimal to the matching prefix. It's strange that people find this to hard to understand and chooses to hang on to an antiquated system.

You know those R5 models have bad motivators right ;)

@@streetjutter I can relate.

I'm glad someone else feels that way! I've thoroughly enjoyed printing mine, but definitely can see why folks make aluminum.

This is the way.

@@briandodds this is the way

Hmmm, no. There's not much to work on -- either Adam is filming himself, or he's not ...

@@tested That makes sense. I recalled this video from 2 years ago: "Tested: Hollyland Mars 400S Pro Wireless HDMI Kit!" 6:15 "We're thinking about ways we can amp up our production. Bring people back to help facilitate shoots so that everything isn't landing on say Adam. Adam is shooting a lot of his 1 Day Builds on an iPhone on a stand. He's kind of moving that camera around different places. Doing a lot of that leg work while he's trying to focus on a build. Where I've been thinking about this system is that, there may be a scenario where we toss up a couple different cameras. Have those go SDI or even purchase more of these to go to an ATEM Mixer and let him have a couple different stations of pro cameras that we can move around and back up and let him use those cameras as sort of talking points. And then also attach one of these to maybe a GoPro on a stick. And so he'll have complete freedom with this camera weither it's his iPhone or a GoPro on some kind of stick that he can mount to where he needs to, again without being tethered to anything. Just having his signal going out to one of these, tossing it to one of us who are nearby in a live mixing booth who would then mix that video together. So there's tons of cool opprotunities there as we enter the next phase of what Tested production looks like. We'll give you a little bit of an update later of how we're doing that incase you're interested." I'm interested!

Yes, many builders have.

@@briandodds very cool. Any recommends?

Thank you

I had a machinist co-worker say it “a lume e um” 😅