Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Lithium Ion Battery Charging Station! 

For this build, Adam used: 12V 8A Power Supply: amzn.to/3csdmit Lithium Ion 2 bay charger: amzn.to/3dFFcIf Wire Strippers: amzn.to/37Axegi Wire Nut set: amzn.to/36646hX

Sometimes I feel like “one day build” are not “builds made in one day” but rather it is Adam saying to himself “I will one day build this”, and the day it happens they record it lol

You could put batteries in the holes upside down once charged and + side up when uncharged rather than using one end for uncharged and one end for charged

Most people: "I mismeasured. Guess I'll recut the pieces." Adam: "I mismeasured. Time to use ALL THE TOOLS."

A word about nail 'blowout': Many of those brads, pins and finish nails have a rectangular cross-section, which give them a tendency to bend along the wider side. Aligning the nail gun so the wider face of the nail is perpendicular to the outside edge of the board can reduce, but not eliminate, the blowout

I feel like by the end of quarantine Adam is gonna have the most efficient shop layout ever.

Adam, you need to take one of your old single cell chargers, rip out the charging guts and connect the bases to a digital voltage readout, mount it all next to your chargers so you can quickly check voltages for your cells.

"It's just not a thing, unless it has a label." This might just be my favorite Adam Savage quote ever.

25:00 A neat trick I learned for lining up nails/screws/drillbits when I'm making blind holes through the backside of plywood into a narrow target is to sandwich some rare earth magnets on either side of the board and butt them up against the piece behind it, it gives a visual dotted line of where the edge of the hidden board is.

Adam: One of the most important questions you can ask yourself throughout a build is "am I doing this wrong". Also Adam: I didn't ask myself "am I doing this wrong".

During these hard times, it makes it easier being able to watch some great content from Adam.

Adam , thanks for being you. I love how Raw these videos have been and they have given me soooo much inspiration to start just making stuff again THANK YOU SO MUCHHH

Ok, new addiction for RU-vid watching.. I've upcycled a 12x8 shed for working on my motorcycle. As space is so limited, these kinds of videos are exactly what I need! Thank you 🙏

For someone as brilliant as yourself, I was surprised to see you using that big-ass table saw without a riving knife, especially since you were recently injured on another big-ass machine in your cave. Love your work, loved your book, love your creativity, would hate to know you got a kickback injury that could be prevented. Stay safe.

Adam, for wiring things together like this you should try out wago connectors if you haven't already. They're great for connecting up lots of things in parallel like this.

Adam… Thank you so much man. You’re actually my therapy while going through some junk.. I’m a nurse in Northeast Georgia and you are truly my respite. Thank you thank you thank you

I love watching Adam make things. Its almost like the logic, orderliness, and quick intelligence of his mind touches my own. Kind of like the Vulcans in Star Trek used to do to people. Even when he made a mistake it became a continuation of the order and flow and righted itself without any chaos happening. Kind of remarkable.

These vids give me soo many ideas of things to build, also i love how high quality the videos are and they come out so fast.

“It’s just not a thing unless it has a label.” A new savagism

Adam did a video specifically to show off his everyday carry apron to he doesn't have to go looking for things..... and then through much of this video he went walking away to get things that were in the apron. Good to see that lasted a long time :)

im glad I'm not the only one who will mess something up, come up with a solution, and then mess up the solution and have to figure something out because of it. Knowing Adam makes dumb mistakes like that too has honestly been a confidence booster today

Ever used wago style wire clamps Adam? Personally never liked wire nuts, and would remove and toss them away if I could while working on existing electric installations.

"No blow throughs! I'm getting better at this" Immediately gets 4, you just HAD to jinx it xD

As an engineer, designer and general tinkerer of stuff I appreciate that you show the "mess ups". I spend my life working though projects and screwing up, but fixing them. People assume things are so simple and easy, even if they are sometimes an easy project, but often we get ahead of ourselves and make mistakes. The genius comes in being able to admit that mistake, own it and provide a solution - Bravo.

Thanks for all the content, Adam and Tested team!

The branding says Tenergy but it only charges eight at a time...

As a cabinet maker, I love the engineering and skin flinty thinking. "I didn't give it enough room" so off to the mill, why not just cut another bit wider? I come from fine furniture making with a lust for making other things, wood has its limits and not everthing can be made from wood so 3 years ago i started venturing into the world of electronics, mechanics and fabricating with metals and plastics. My workshop has changed alot in that time. I look at your cave and think you could build anything youa can think of in there. Thats my goal, anything from a chest of drawers to a full elecric car or whatever. Im loving these videos your posting in these crazy times. Those of us that have many things they would like to do on themlist but normally dont have enough time are ticking them off the list. Those who dont have such hobbies are bored in their house. What do you do will all those 18650 cells? Me and my young son are building an electric ride on trike for him using those. I am using dewalt power tool batteries that slot in with an adaptor. I already have them and the chargers for them, they remove easily and they still power my drill when not in use. Normally we wouldn't have time to do this much but we are almost finished as kids aint at school in the uk. I am spending valuable time with my son, he is learning alot about building and electrical systems and he will hav a blast once its finished. Although this bug is doing horrible things, the situation it has created, isnt entirely horrible at times. Thanks adam for the videos.

Adam: "im gonna use wire nuts" Me: "but you built a whole soldering station ??" lol

The fact that Adam even still cheers and celebrates when checking and seeing no blowthroughs gives me an odd boost in confidence... It's pretty sweet haha

These shop infrastructure type builds are definitely my favorite to watch

Adam, I have always appreciate you and your skills; it is a great pleasure to see others make a mistake and understand they are always going to do that. I am one on that line as well. I always say measuring twice, cutting once is for others; I measure 6, 8 or 12 times and still can cut more than once... :)

I love it when you mess something up, it really makes me feel better about making similar mistakes. Most of your videos you're on point, it's nice to hear "what the hell!" coming out of someone other than myself. Also, Loving all the new content.

Was I the only one who caught the reference to the Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop commercial? TTHHREE-HEEEEE! LOL

Adam, I can’t tell you how happy it made me to see you make the mistakes while building this. Not because I want to see you fail, but because I feel like I make mistakes like that all the time. It’s a HUGE relief to know that you, despite all your fast-build experience, also have days where you make a series of mistakes. And I could see the same emotions run through you that run through me. Except with me there’s a lot more cursing because I’m not on camera. Thank you for not editing that stuff out.

Thank you for sharing Adam, it is an absolute privileged and a joy to watch you happily busy, create and invention within your workshop. Stay safe and healthy 🙏 😁

i adore people who can 'see' the thing they're making in-their-head, as they build it. its a rare gift.

33:05 Oh, I just drilled in to the lithium battery Oh. But it wasn't :(

That table saw make me so nervous. Stay safe, Adam. ♥️

Ingenious Adam! I need this in my life! cant tell you the number of times I've gone to my battery bin to find they are all flat and mixed up. This will definitely be my next ISO project.

Happy to see you're still using the Makita 12v max drill. Its just so small and light and handy yet plenty strong enough for most work. It, aling with the matching driver, is one of my favorite tools.

Wire nuts are good, but I think Wago lever-nuts would serve this project better.

Adam, when you counted to four... "Tha-rhee!". That was from the owl on the tootsie pop commercials. I see you Adam, I see you!

I have been a mechanic , machinist and household engineer for 30 years. And constantly learn all kinds of things from Adam. Life is so much fun and cool!

These videos are excellent! I like they aren’t heavily edited. And they go at a slower pace to understand what is going on. Excellent.

“Wall wart”. It’s always what I though of when looking at transformer plugs but had never came up with a name for them. Thanks.

In the back of my mind I always view the future of this workshop is that it will some day be a display at the Smithsonian somewhere.

Oh look at 21:57, it's the face I make in my shop every day! Thanks for making videos like these Adam. It's helping me refine so many of my approaches.

Whenever I make or fix or modify something, I end up making at least one silly mistake, then staring at the result with the same "why did I do that?" look that you had. I was at the cabin with the boys a couple of summers ago, and just made a tiny, wooden sail boat for the fun of it. It came out looking really good. A big leaf for a sail, a huge mast to help catch the wind, all that. Then we set it on water, and it immediately capsized. I had made a keel of course, but i paid no attention to the weight of the keel. It was basically just a small wooden chip. But for whatever reason, I just didn't even think about when I made it. I was mortified. But I fixed it and it sailed beautifully!

Ahhh! And I see that you enjoy Australia's finest ginger beer. Bundaberg Ginger Beer! So refreshing.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that you had 'blow-throughs' when using the nailer!! lol It made me feel so much better about myself! I know you aren't perfect but I consider you a god as far as making and doing what you do. I appreciate seeing your perfection and your mess-ups as well. You are truly someone to look up to even though I'm not much younger than you! Thanks for all you put out there Adam!

I really enjoy these more intimate, less edited videos. Obviously a multiple day build where crew is necessary and continuity is important needs to have more production value to show what it's worth. But these more step-by-step-y, less artsy-shots-y and... much purer videos are what carry me through the lockdown period right now. Keep on rocking Adam! Cheers from Germany!

Hi Adam, Thanks for you relentless creations and uploads. One tip for full and used batteries: Full ones: Plus-Side-Up, empty ones Plus-Side-Down. No matter where they are stored, if you see the plus side (bulged on top) you know it is charged.....

The instant smile on my face when I see a notification from Tested 😁😁

gluing up on your cast iron saw top made my inner shop teacher die a little inside

I seriously like this format better than the bigger production one :D We get to see a whole lot more of the job being thought out and done! :D

Early in owning my machine tools, I used them to do some wood working (turning and slotting). I got a huge amount of criticism for it. Makes me happy to see others doing it also. In the end, it is our machine, we can do with it as we want!

Was anyone else yelling at the screen when Adam was forgetting to put the handle

I would add a cord wrap on the side so that when you need to move it, the 110 cord isn't dangling.

Adam, I warms my heart to see you still have the Firesword-V and corresponding batteries 9 YEARS LATER! :D

Just what you need sometimes... Adam Savage's Comedy of Errors (aka The One Day (Re(Re))Build) ;-). This show is one of the things that is keeping me sane (or at least at my pre-quarantine (in)sanity levels) during this time. Big love to Adam Savage!!!

I can't wait to tell my wife that Adam saves all of his unused wall-warts for a rainy day too! :D

I love how he uses 'metric inches'

I love how when you make a goof, you show how it can be salvaged instead of starting over. Sometimes, by fixing the mistake you lean new skills & techniques. Like with most makers, only you know when you made a goof. Others have no idea unless you tell them.

I love it that you continue to post mistakes and fixes. To paraphrase someone else "if you're not making mistakes, you're not 'making' enough, and you're not learning enough."

I see Jamie’s frustration with Adam when I watch these videos, Adam just can seem to get out of his own way. Constantly miss measuring having to redo things etc. it’s funny fun but exhausting 🤪

It's reassuring to see that I'm not the only person that has those moments. *Those* moments. Where you're humming along and then hit a brick wall and go, wait...... awww crap..... *sigh* ok, well.... I'll do it this way instead.

19:39 even when he measured twice he still messed up 😆👌🏻 love watching these one day builds cause it’s as raw and as honest as it gets haha

Wall Wart! Never heard that before. Love it.

I love to watch these videos. It’s like ASMR for the mechanically inclined!!

"lithium Flower" from ghost in the shell brought me here. The fun doesn't stop!

hi Adam i dont know if you have thought of it but i built my power supply from a computer power supply. will output 12v at 40a along with 5v at 25a etc, i use it to power all my led lights, plus charging systems for li-ion/NiMh/NiCd and also to run arduino/Pi, foam cutter and everything else you can think of. i built a case with a lot of banana ports on the front and use it that way. also use it as a bench power supply. good thing with pc power supply is very tight tolerances, over volt, under volt, thermal and many other protection circuits so incredibly safe and useful. love watching your videos always thank you

i love both the speed and force Adam punches the stop on his drill press with

The heat dissipation on the transformer should probably be ok in this case as it shouldn't be using the full load but should probably be considered in some cases when tightly encasing it in wood

Sometimes when a mistake is made on Adam Savage's Tested it turns into an Adam Salvage's Build.

I’m loving the personal shot style video ! Love your content thank you for making great stuff for us to enjoy !

Adam, One thing Ive tried, and really works for me when sorting batteries is putting uncharged batteries upside down, and charged batteries right side up. hope this helps, and as always, nice build.

18:08 Who else was saying "HANDLE!"

Adam, have you ever tried :Lever Nuts from Wago? I'm in love with those.

I'm loving how many of these one day builds you are pumping out during lockdown. Hope it stays at this pace. Not the lockdown of course. But your one day builds :)

And some storage left in the back, so you could add a batterytester or the like. Pretty neat.

I saw "one day build: lithium ion battery" I was like oh god no! Then I scrolled down and saw "charging station" ... ok, that seems less likely to explode.

When you get to 20:00 you'll need this: 11:04 When you get back: Adam discovers hand woodworking

I'm so happy you put the chargers at an angle. I was hoping to see 45 degrees, because I find that is the most comfortable and easiest position to place the batteries one handed into the charger. But I'm stealing your idea! My charger bank does not look near as "tidy" hehe. Time to build.

Idea is great. Simple, affordable, and practical. Hope the finger is feeling better, Adam

Adam: "There they are. There's the little wire nuts!" Me: "Adam, you are a nut, but in the best way possible bc I'm on your level".

As an electrician, and computer nerd, can I just say- Thank you for using wire nuts lol Also, they make ground nuts with a hole in the end to pass through a conductor. FYI, the good wire nuts have dielectric gel to insulate, prevent corrosion and other contaminates.

In our video studio, we store empty/used batteries upside down (the positive side down), charged batteries positive side up. Super clear and anyone can walk by and pop in empty batteries when another one has finished charging.

I was in comms during my national service, and that involved a lot of wiring and stuff. Strain relief on wires is a good thing, and it makes me happy to see it. :-D

Every time I watch one of these episodes I start adding tools to my cart like crazy, before I realize I can't afford it.

Also, forgot to say, did you know they make soldering wire nuts? It's a wire nut, but has solder paste inside the nut too! You just hit it with a heat gun after you put them on!

I like this format even better, keep it up Adam

Hi Adam. when you're holding the brad gun, or pin nailer, keep it adjacent to the edge of the work. The nails are designed to fail left/right rather than forwards/backwards. This will help reduce the protrusions. When they occurred at 17:43, your gun was at a 45` to the edge. Hope that helps.

"Is my camera all... catawampus?" Dutch angle reminded me of old Adam West Batman episodes. Batman's Utility Belt vs. Adam's shop apron... might be too close to call.

Am I the only one worried about the heat output of an 8 amp power supply and how closely Adam is cramming it into that box?

Awesome idea , Adam. Thanks for the knowledge on how to make a Lithium Ion Charging Station !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Adam's my handyman hero. Messes up in all the same ways as I do but can unscrew his mistakes.

26:32 - The thing I really like about 22-gauge nailers is... they're 23-gauge. Senco literally does not make a 22-gauge nailer (and few if any companies do; pin nailers are 23-gauge). www.senco.com/tools/details-page/finishpro23lxp Also, someone really needs to explain to Adam that pin nailers do nothing to press parts together (they're just for alignment), and he should be using clamps and / or weights to make those glue joints any good. 10 minutes of clamping would do more for the strength of those joints than all the pins he used plus all the ones he had to pull off because they broke through the sides.

"It's easy to take away, It's really hard to add". Except when it comes to cooking.

your shop is my dream to see in person. i have love all the small stuff you would never think you would want in a shop.

I'm loving that beefy custom stop switch at 13:12. Simple. Durable. What's not to like?