Adam Savage's Favorite Tools: Fabric Steamer (and a New Hat!)

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Adam tries on a new hat he just bought, and in the process shows how he can make use of a garment steamer and wooden hat stretcher to make this new fedora fit better. For cosplayers and costumers, a good garment steamer is an essential piece of equipment, and portable fabric steamers like ones you find in hotel rooms are oftentimes preferred over irons!
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@tested 3 года назад

Rolling Garment Steamer: amzn.to/3oo9xBU Portable Fabric Steamer: amzn.to/3hMx2U3 Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks: ru-vid.com/show-UCiDJtJKMICpb9B1qf7qjEOAjoin Find our merch, including our pack of demerit badge patches here: www.tested-store.com/listing/tested-patch-bundle?product=1433

@paradox6427 3 года назад

hi Adam

@rexsterlingbuchanan2929 3 года назад

I think what's bothering you Adam is you have a 10-gallon hat with a 5-gallon Brim

@paradox6427 3 года назад

@@rexsterlingbuchanan2929 well thats rude

@rexsterlingbuchanan2929 3 года назад

@@paradox6427 Adam was saying something about the Hat not looking right. I simply pointed out that his brim wasn't big enough for the size of hat

@paradox6427 3 года назад

@@rexsterlingbuchanan2929 alright cool no big deal, kind of looks like a Indiana Jones hat

@Eggo1966 3 года назад

This is pretty cool. You should do a hat collection video. Would be interesting to see what kinds of hats you own

@joshy7759 3 года назад

"How to choose an EDC hat for you" I'd love to have a hat for summer and rain and such, but don't know how to choose one for me or what kinds there are or what's practical or...

@mister-8658 3 года назад

Trouble is where do you define hats. Helmets, crowns, diadems, cosplay masks and so forth.

@patricksanders858 3 года назад

Would that also include helmets?

@Celtic_Blade 3 года назад

@@joshy7759 You can’t go wrong with an akubra.

@BlueSparrow23 3 года назад

Watching Adam trying to put the steamer back together, talking to my screen, "Just turn them off and wait for it to cool down!" Adam: "It's difficult being this impatient." Me: "Okay, valid point."

@atlys258 Год назад

Bahahaha both the patient and impatient sides of myself were thinking almost precisely the same thing as it was happening 😂

@jamesuthmann940 3 года назад

"He's just the same Adam Savage he was before." "But he's got a new hat!!"

@megadestroyer454 3 года назад

They shoulda called him Adam Lionheart.

@SeventhSwell 3 года назад

A band of some sort might deemphasize the crown height, but it looked fine on my screen.

@terisingleton1961 3 года назад

Every good Upholstery Shop also has a Jiffy Steamer. A good inexpensive alternative is a Conair Model GS38R handheld steamer that sells for about $60

@salaltschul3604 3 года назад

I saw this thing about how berets are made and it's amazing, it was one of those How Its Made vids, I think. They knit the round hat and then they beat it up and wash it and shrink it, and then it becomes felt! All tightly woven and bound together. I had no idea that's how felt worked.

@rrh7210 3 года назад

Your hat is the “shizzle” ramble on.

@aaron41 3 года назад

The reason stem works so well to help shape the fibers is two-fold: The organic molecules in that make up the fur are basically a polymer which softens with heat allowing plastic deformation. As the material heats up, there's more energy available to overcome the inter-molecular forces between long chain molecules which allows them to re-arrange. The water is also important, as it acts sort of like a lubricant between long chain molecules (commonly referred to as a plasticizer). Nylon in particular has a strong affinity for water, and when it absorbs too much water, it becomes weaker. The water gets between the chains, and again weakens the inter-molecular forces holding the polymer together.

@assassinlexx1993 3 года назад

Cool man I felt that😏

@RjWolf3000 3 года назад

I now want to see a video of jamie quaffing a beret.

@coalcountrycandles 3 года назад

Adam! Off subject, you have inspired me to take foam boards to another level. I have organized a few tool boxes. While working on one, I saw a greeting card display. Yep, it has slots that are perfect to hold greeting cards.

@70RCH 3 года назад

Do I wear these types of hats? No. Will I ever need to stretch a hat? Probably not. Did I watch this entire video? You bet. For some reason Adam is just so easy to listen to, regardless of the content!

@shogun2215 3 года назад

It's a clever way to stretch it, hats off to you.

@x562x 3 года назад

The Open Road style always has a bound edge brim and 4 ligne ribbon. Resistol's version was the San Antonio.

@Sommertest 3 года назад

I use steam to remove dents from wood when I have a refinishing project. Take a damp cloth (once folded) and put it on the dented spot. Let the water soak in for a minute then hit it with an iron.

@pawelnfm6495 3 года назад

Yes Adam, it really look's pretty good!

@johngogo17 3 года назад

I watched the first 15 seconds of the vid like a dozen times; Pure gold!!!

@seanleafgreen234 3 года назад

Adams last ‘favorite tool’ video will be called Allllllll of them !

@jimadiah 3 года назад

Another great alternative to a fabric steamer is using a kettle. I have a few cowboy hats I wear and I use kettles to soften the felt to shape the brims and crown. It's a little more difficult because you're moving the hat around the steam instead of the steam around the hat, but it still works well and I'm sure more people have tea kettles lying around than fabric steamers.

@lxoxrxexnx 3 года назад

A few years ago I made my own stretcher with the blocks shaped exactly to my own head. I found that you have to leave the tension on over night to get a lasting change in size.

@leosklein575 3 года назад

Fabric steamers aren't a maker tool, they're an EVERYONE tool. There has never been a day I regretted owning one of these things.

@patrickosullivan4354 3 года назад

I think it's time you do some millinery. You have all the equipment to make your own hat blocks. And felting is fun

@LuckyColt2005 3 года назад

Soon as Adam put the hat on and remind me myth busters

@andregranum7896 3 года назад

The height of the crown can be changed visually by using either a wide or a narrow hatband. The look of the hat will be completely different with various widths and even colors of band.

@MB-bt9km 3 года назад

You need a big gold sheriff star on that bad boy

@brandonyoung-kemkes1128 3 года назад

I already bought the whole set separately of the de-merit badges and they went right on my apron that I also bought. Can’t wait to see where you put your badges though.

@wyliecapp 3 года назад

Looks great on you.

@subzeroelectronics3022 3 года назад

“It’s tough being this impatient.” Now if that’s not my senior quote right there

@Scoots1994 3 года назад

The key to ANY hat is confidence. Wear it like you KNOW you can pull it off and others will accept that you can soon enough, then eventually you'll believe it too. But don't go crazy ... some hats just don't work :)

@jimadiah 3 года назад

I live in Texas, so I don't get odd looks wearing Cowboy hats. But when I'm visiting other states, my prepared response is that I'm fair skinned and don't do well in the sun. People don't really argue with that logic and they don't accuse you of trying to be a hipster.

@mortimerdarkwell2260 3 года назад

Fake it till you make it

@kirkbrackmann6385 3 года назад

Looks great!

@fluffylee 3 года назад

That beautiful stretcher (piece of art) needs it’s own display pedestal.

@diegomadrid1684 3 года назад

The Macready hat video was the first video I saw, and every single video with Adam and his hats is so damn fun.

@Nellyboy1971 3 года назад

I fix jiffy steamers Great bit of kit

@davidhiscock1969 3 года назад

Quite apt the name of the hat especially when you go off topic talking and ramble on a bit 😊

@raymondabella4684 Год назад

The hat looks good on you. Looks likr a keeper to me. 👍

@3DJapan 3 года назад

I'm not sure if it's still there but there used to be a hat shop on South Street in Philadelphia called Hats in the Belfry.

@joebland5331 3 года назад

My grandpa was a big hat person, he even had a hat stretcher. He would stretch it a bit and then take a small flat hammer and go around the outside like you did with the steamn to help relax the material to the new dimension.

@ikecech 3 года назад

The open road is a cool hat with a cool cultural history, it was popular with a couple U.S. presidents. I'd love to see you try it with a "cattleman's crease" like it probably came with originally. More yee-haw, which is always fun

@ianbutler1983 3 года назад

I have a steamer just like that. I paid about $75 for it, new. It might not be commercial grade, but it generates lots of hot steam.

@Sembazuru 3 года назад

Another good demerit badge would be the dreaded broken tap. I was working on a balloon payload and was tapping a blind hole in a soft copper busbar. Broke the tap, so I just filed down the sharp bits and drilled and tapped a new hole. That broken bit of tap flew to the Stratosphere on several balloon flights.

@TenementGentleman 3 года назад

I use that brand of steamer every day at work!

@douglascampbell9809 3 года назад

I used to use the same thing at Ashley Furniture about once a week. Other lines ran them more often than mine.

@3DJapan 3 года назад

I have n entirely handheld steamer that I got at Walmart for $15. It works great but the water is so close to the nozzle it occasionally spits a little out onto the fabric. So if you don't mind a few drops on your material it's totally worth the money.

@dannysmolych1172 3 года назад

Adam, the hat looks awesome! ;)

@alekmoth 3 года назад

Leet! Nicely done mr editor

@brandonconway4822 3 года назад

Those steamers are FANTASTIC for cleaning your car. Every surface pretty much.

@b0z0dcl0wn 3 года назад

This reminds me of old school hiking boots. I've seen people putting them in rice cookers to steam them, and then hammering out the toe box on a stretching bar to get them to fit better.

@jimadiah 3 года назад

Every bit of advice I've gotten with boots was to wear them in the shower, walk around a bit, and then take them off and roll them as tight as you could and then let them dry out. I've never heard of people using rice cookers. I don't know that I've even seen a rice cooker big enough to hold a shoe.

@b0z0dcl0wn 3 года назад

@@jimadiah This was at REI about 20 years or so ago. Specifically for old school non goretex lined boots, gore does not stretch. These days I wouldn't recommend a boot that doesn't fit, but back then you didn't have the hundreds of options you do today. Also alot of people were their boots too small, there should be a fingers width (two for plastics) in front of those toes. Heat and elevation cause swelling, so always account for that. I'd also rather have heel blisters, than no toenails. Heel blisters are pretty easy to mitigate, but if your boots too small you can't do anything to fix it.

@yootoob7048 3 года назад

Jiffy Steamer - there were two in the men's clothing store I worked at in the 1970s.

@showsall 3 года назад

This is an in house steamer. Large wheels,easily moved but fairly large. Works great. produces hot steam in about a minute. Flexible hose,brass fittings. Seems like a sturdy quality product.

@samphillips4925 3 года назад

Hat looks good to me.

@SSobotkaJr 2 года назад

I just recently got a white fedora off of amazon, and it's great, but the brim is a straight line without the bend and curve my old black fedora has. Could a steamer help me get it into shape? I'm not sure what it's made of, so I don't want to use heat on it if it's some form of plastic interior or some such.

@hunterodeneal1448 3 года назад

I like the hat

@Knight8365 3 года назад

7:40 standing in front of the steamer - it looks like steam coming from your ears :D :D :D

@Aleph-Noll 3 года назад

crushing the hat could give it a lot of character lol

@CorwynGC 3 года назад

I would bend the front of the brim down rather than up. Just a tiny bit. Nice hat.

@deejayy2k 3 года назад

used one of those daily when i worked in a charity shop. much quicker than ironing clothes. burnt(scalded) my hand a few times when refilling them.

@CaptRedbeardFTW1 3 года назад

Neat.

@GreyDevil 3 года назад

I literally bought a garment steamer like 20 mins ago, crazy

@INFERNO.224 3 года назад

Lookin good there partner. 😂✌️

@mitchio83 3 года назад

I bought a little Conair steamer for $10 a few years ago and i was literally just thinking about how useful it has been. Great for cleaning sticky gummy things too.

@ryzvonusef 3 года назад

what tech is that arm band?

@amochswohntet99 2 года назад

Hey Adam take a look at how these hats are made. Its like shaping wood.

@fatkorn 3 года назад

Is it made outta mink felt?

@katehucks774 3 года назад

Hmm, I’ve got a wool hat that’s just a tad small for me, I should give this a try... Though, I don’t have a steamer, so I’ll probably just boil a kettle of water and hold the hat over the steam from that.

@TerrisQuest 3 года назад

I like it, maybe a hat band?

@judgesunday3455 Год назад

Hi, what is the brand of your steamer? Thank you.

@dionicia12 3 года назад

I watched a milliner recently state that the size of a hat will differ depending on the country the hat was made as each country has their own idea of hat size. Also, you can only stretch a hat about a half an inch. Anymore than that, it would be better to size up. The milliner is Evercrumbly & Witch for those who want to know. I'm thinking this hat may have shrunk a bit due to age.

@uofmrob 3 года назад

This all reminds me of Marc Maron's amazing hat bit from his Too Real special.

@uofmrob 3 года назад

It's definitely what would happen to me if I ever bought something other than a baseball cap.

@brandonyoung-kemkes1128 3 года назад

Man I wish I could rock a hat.

@louderthangod 3 года назад

I had a really great hat from Thorns in SF but it just never felt like me.

@ericham3249 3 года назад

Stetson Open Road. Accept no substitute.

@amondavis 3 года назад

I'm wondering could you show us a video on how to make your own hat stretcher?

@DERTHIX 3 года назад

I want a Bolero hat but idk if I could pull one off! 🧐

@JACKSPARROW-iy7rw 3 года назад

Saw this used on a video that involved the sideway tango and yes she enjoyed it

@dearjuan 2 месяца назад

How does it compare to 200 jiffy

@th3corruptone 3 года назад

Literally only watching this because the length is 13:37 :)

@DrChattan 3 года назад

You can reshape a felt hat with just plain water. No need for steam or heat. Just soak it, reshape it and let it dry. You'll probably need the heat the stretch the leather band though, especially if it's chrome tan leather.

@bigfoot9405 3 года назад

I WENT TO THE HAT STORE TODAY AND I BOUGHT MYSELF A HAT AHA HA HA

@PaulJimenez3 3 года назад

That crown is so tall... it needs a hat band or something to break up the vertical motonony, IMO. The internal band is actually somewhat visible as a ripple from the outside.

@Diago767 3 года назад

I have a hat that I love but its slightly too small, the problem is its make from kangaroo leather anyone know if steam+stretching would work? the hat is an xxl, curse my enormous head

@PavelNygryn 3 года назад

I manage to stretch thinck leather hat with cleaning steamer = much more steam. You can try putting it on the pot full of boiling water. I have to build stretcher. Actually, I used 3D printer to match curves of my head and this hat a stretch it with simple wedges.

@arnoldseivwright2920 3 года назад

I know those steamers are useful, I've used a few before, I understand a gentle steamer is useful for many applications... but, I really dont like them, I'm with the hat makers, pressurized boilers all the way!

@Virtus925 3 года назад

I think it works for you

@kermitfriedman3535 3 года назад

The best steamer on a budget is using a wallpaper steamer :)

@charlie9ine 3 года назад

I’ve purchased hats from JJ’s

@Big-Monkey-Man 6 месяцев назад

So I guess it's Adam I've been bidding against for random eBay hats

@wrorchestra1 3 года назад

You need a Cad Bane hat. In fact, I could imagine you doing the whole costume.

@Chromolume 3 года назад

Adam, you look great in a tall-crowned hat. You just need to bring the front of the brim down lower.

@PaulParkinson 3 года назад

I would have thought the stretcher should stay in until the hat dries??

@Frontseat_Driving Год назад

You need to wear it in the rain. Also, throw it in the dryer, no heat with other stuff.

@simialogue 3 года назад

10:28 - because the image is framed?

@chrisbbill 3 года назад

You said there was nothing more you could do to the hat. But you could have worked on the brim. I think that would have helped. The upturned part in the front put me off, but that’s just my opinion. I didn’t think the crown was too high for you, but I tend to wear big brimmed and big crowned hats, I’ve got a big head.

@sethcarson5212 3 года назад

A pressure cooker works well too. A couple inches of water, bring to pressure, remove the weight and have at it. All the steam you could want, though not particularly safe.

@jimadiah 3 года назад

water kettle is a much better alternative

@sethcarson5212 3 года назад

@@jimadiah How many Americans do you know who own a water kettle? I'm not even sure what that is.

@jimadiah 3 года назад

@@sethcarson5212 I should have said tea kettle. I usually just call it a kettle, but my mind went to water kettle for some reason. Some people call it a teapot, but that is a separate thing. I grew up in the south, so just about every house hold I knew had one for making sweet tea. I see it less with my young adult friends, unless they are into "exotic" teas. I know far less people who own pressure cookers, though I know the instant pot has made them more common place. I would assume more people have kettles than do pressure cookers because kettles are small and you can get them for less than $10 at walmart. They're right with the coffee pots if you want to go look for one.

@sethcarson5212 3 года назад

@@jimadiah I'm not even sure what tea is. Na, i was just giving you a hard time. I'm from out in the country where we all have a garden and a pressure cooker for canning. A kettle is defiantly a better choice for stretching and shaping the brim, I mostly use a pressure cooker for when i want to steam the whole crown. just set in on top and you get a nice even steam.

@jimadiah 3 года назад

@@sethcarson5212 lol, I honestly wasn't sure. If you go up into the northern US, they don't drink tea regularly like they do in the south. So I figured you might be being honest.

@charlie9ine 3 года назад

It’s the brim that’s wonky

@chrisosh9574 3 года назад

Just push the crown out and go buckeroo. I have earned all of those merit badges and then some!

@TacticalSandals 3 года назад

You look like Pharrell Savage with that hat.

@mojosbigsticks 3 года назад

Looks darned spiffy from over here.

@rocktoonzz 3 года назад

Seems like in a budget pinch you could accomplish this with a steam clothes iron

@jimadiah 3 года назад

If you are really in a pinch, you could. But I wouldn't recommend it. They don't put out a lot of steam and they are clunky to move around the hat. What I do, and think is a better alternative, is using a water kettle. That puts out a lot of steam and works excellent. The only draw back is that you're moving the hat around the steam and not the other way around.