Adam Savage's One Day Builds: New Lathe Chuck! 

Adam you may want to invest in a Sky Hook with a tool post mount. Use it for lifting chucks, vices and large pieces onto lathes, mills, benches up to 500lbs. Don't want to see one of my favorite makers get hurt muscling chucks in and out of the lathe. It also makes fine tuning a hell of a lot easier because you don't have to move the chuck with your back. Smarter not harder. www.skyhookmfr.com/premium-tool-post-mount-sky-hooks.html

What is the green liquid you're using? Is that a kind of solvent?

@@douglascampbell9809 those things are pretty nifty and you can get one with a portable cart that lifts 250lbs.

I don't understand why your wearing surgical gloves - this aint nasa. Btw i quite enjoy the camera knocks. It enhances the experience beyond expectations.

Adam im looking for a mini lathe and mill can u recommend some cheap manufactures (from EU if possible) in range of 500-1000$ (each) for lets say beginer i have not touch milling in like 13 years (last time was in school i think) i want to build a maker shed (it looks like i have a middle age crisis ;)

@@andybaldman I'd be happy knowing half of what Adam has forgotten about general special effect construction. I admire his skills. Very diverse.

Thanks for the tip Joe. My lathe came with what looks to be close to the same 6 jaw that Adam got, except mine does still say that it's a buck. I hadn't really considered how to improve the process of taking it on and off because it was my only chuck. That is until I picked up a 4 jaw and magnet chuck on auction recently and all of a sudden I have multiple stupidly heavy things that I need to move on and off my Monarch :P (the 6 jaw seemed huge to me, but it's now my smallest chuck)

@@rustedfriend You can get a small "crane" to move them if you need help. ABOM (Adam) uses one to save his back and toes!

@@BLKMGK4 Yeah, I'm planning on hanging a block and tackle over the lathe on an i beam track for taking chucks on and off as well as the tailstock and materials.

Joe, we always kept our chucks and faceplate on a rack mounted to the back to the bed. These had tapped holes for eye bolts and we used a hoist. Most of our lathes (LeBlonds*) had L type long nose tapers. *the superintendent was a LeBlond admirer. One feature on the later Regals (1970 or so) was the front ways were replaceable. They were hardened and ground and were held on by cap screws from underneath. Most bed wear occurs near the head stock anyways on the operator's side. Unfortunately LeBlond did not put two sets of tapped holes so you could swap the front way end for end.

i think its a lot about knowing how it works and trying to figure out how it was made, but yes its always nice to get a "new" tool and taking it apart :)

a used pet *

Explains the addiction to restoration videos

How about getting a brand fucking new one 😑 this guy's net worth is $8,000,000.00

I swear I remember hearing it as a quote from one of the doctor who regenerations, I just don’t know which!

@@SegginsProductions that's where I know it from! Think it was when the Slitheen overtook the British parliament?

one of my favorites: "I haven't been talking long, just reading about it"

oral piercings. gotta learn to talk all over again

I knew I was going to find a comment about that weird sentence. Made me think of botox and a "one day builds" chapter about syringes.

I said this in my midterm exam as an industrial mechanic. My instructor´s face was like I will kill u. (he was on of the tester on this exam)

It get's especially confusing when you have a pin vise.

Every drill is a lathe

An old three jaw actually does make a really nice vise when mounted to a work table. Very handy for holding larger round parts. In my opinion about the only use for a non adjustable 3 jaw is as a boat anchor. I was trained during my apprenticeship to do everything in a four jaw.

i cant no more 😂

When Eric was a kid, Dan would tease him that it was grandma that bit off his fingertip during some argument they had!🤣

I live an apartment and it pains me so much I don't get to have all those heavy duty toys Adam has. I do however work with what I have but it just doesn't feel enough. Adam is such a big inspiration to get into creating, modifying and improving stuff. His energy is contagious and he continues to teach even after Mythbusters.

@@TechnologistAtWork I have a 12x14’ workshop in my house that ALL my work, building, designing etc is done in. I also shoot all my videos in that space as well. Not ideal, but you work with what you can! 😎❤️ makers gonna make!

Thanks so much for your comment. We'll pass it along to Adam!

What a dream job!

I reject your vocabulary and substitute my own!

ha ha - well a 2 jaw chuck "could be a vise" - yes still workholding - most definitely a clamp - I think that encompasses all these variations and specialisations.

When I was still working I took an old 3 jaw about 15" in diameter eter, built a mounting bracket for it. And then mounted it to a steel work table. I was constantly working on the end walls for large centrifuges. Worked really handy for doing inspection work, removing bearing races etc.

Isn’t that true for everything he does? 😜

yeah I made a custom block out of a 4x4 with a radius for my chuck on top and 2 v's for the ways on the bottom, it's such a godsend trying to set up my 4 jaw

Hate to disappoint you but that cleaning wasn’t perfect. The way the jaw moved and sounded when he tested it in the spiral was not good. Those components should be stoned to deburr them, the outside of the jaws and the face should be done as well. Needing to hammer a jaw into place is not a correct fit.

The chuck should be tightened on the spindle nose like a tire is mounted. Tighten them in 180 opposing pairs. The D1-6 spindle taper is where the accuracy and repeatability comes from, if the chuck isn’t seated parallel it will cause problems.

@Tullerion Check out Stefan Gotteswinter searching the term "teardown" -- he's definitely not as charismatic or charming as Adam, but he's a terrific machinist, and his teardown, clean, reassemble, perfection routine is amazingly satisfying.

When I was lab/shop assistant, I would have had to kick students out of the shop for jewelry, hoodies, loose hair, loose glasses, etc. almost every single day. Only thing worse was trying to get the EE students to realized that 5 volt circuits don't plug into 12 volt sources even if the plug fits.

yeah, good luck, we have trouble even encouraging him to wear protective gear, let alone safe clothing.

@@coyotetrickster5758 Thanks for the reply. I want you to know how much I like Adam’s presentations. There are many times when his show is the best part of my day. They are fun, informative, uplifting, thought provoking, and inspirational! With that said: In my many years of working around equipment, one thing I have learned .......safety precautions ARE NOT ONLY about protecting the individual from harm but also protecting others from the results an accident/injury can have. For example, lost time, the fact that the people working with the injured have to pick up the slack and ALSO do their work, the emotional trauma seeing someone get hurt, the cost of our insurance for individuals and for the institution, and the list could go on. I worked in a place once that if it was determined you failed to use safety guidelines you could be fired whether you got hurt or not. They even gave a bonus to employees who created additional useful safety hints/guidelines/ measures. I shutter when I hear people say something like, “Look I know I should do this but I just don’t .......I get it”.My reply is” IT ISN’T ALWAYS ABOUT YOU...........” Adam talks about taking care of each other and being kind. Being safe, setting examples of safety is a form of taking care and being kind to each other. As I said so many people depend on Adam, I am sure we all want to enjoy the RU-vid productions for years to come.

@@fredbrooks1386 It is funny, Adam would probably be the first person to tell someone that they should wear, and what gear is comfortable, but is also someone who forgets to put on the gear. He probably hasn't had to work in a strict environment. It is kinda a shame though, he kinda sets the benchmark with others and it's not very responsible.

@@coyotetrickster5758 I just re-watched Adam’s talk on shop safety. He does talk about what he thinks about concerning safety. I have to admit, yesterday I did a quick solder repair, or at least what I thought was a quick solder repair. I did not bother to hook up the exhaust system for soldering. An hour later I asked myself, “Why didn’t I hook up the exhaust?” I felt like a hypocrite. What the heck it is being hypocritical! I know he is a planner and thinks out procedures and steps to complete a project. What about a short safety briefing before he starts. Now I ask myself ,do I do a safety briefing before I start? Sometimes. He has an ongoing thought process concerning safety when using the table saw!! Thanks so much for listening. I do enjoy his entire Cave process!

Same I often find my self looking at it

Missed opportunity not to sync the knife movement in the timelapse to the beat of the music though.

same, also the bit at the end had me questioning my headphones

Yeah, it took me a minute to work out why. My first thought was that he was using a weird tilt-shift lens!

Great .

Be careful though. I tried it with just water, and still got drunk. *hic*

Now I'm dead.

Amazing! Congratulations. I hope you slept enough....you won´t get enough in quite some time now :D

congrats dude!!

Congrats! I've been spending my paternity leave for the past 3 months watching one day builds at 3am. Welcome to the no sleep club.

Love that, reminds me of the new vegas easter egg where you can find a skeleton in a fridge wearing an indiana jones hat

@@HyperpigeonMinecraft that’s the joke

@@dillonqaphsiel7977 Different game dude, chill

@@Stettafire I mean the joke is that the cyberpunk Easter egg isn’t really about mythbusters but a reference to Indiana Jones it’s just that Adam wears a similar hate.

@@dillonqaphsiel7977 on mythbusters they tested the fridge/bomb myth

Grease is best, Oil would sling out of the chuck body far more easily. No matter what chips will still get in the body. It mostly depends on the body design how much gets in.

Mine are certainly for oil but know chucks some specify grease.

Nice

Yes there could be. One is a maker of movies parts. The other is a teacher of words with a attitude of if you don't like what I say or do, than go #@%### don't let the door hit your %$@%%$ ass on the way out.

Jug of Evapo-Rust on the bench, call in Hand Tool Rescue.

additional point, grease is more likely to capture swarf and dust which causes issues in precision metalwork, you want to stick to oil because as you use it, and refill it, it will wash any captured swarf/dust out of the components (so oil seeping out and constantly needing to be refilled is an intended feature). Those "Grease Zerks" are also used for oil using your standard oil can, just hold the tip against the ball at the end to put oil in.

Personal information was on the box labels. So it was blurry

maybe its maybelline