Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Scratch-Built Spaceship! 

Thank you so much for this supply list! I'm not a spaceship builder, but the easy of use of the styrene was catching my attention as I use cardboard, paperboard, and a little bit of solid wood to make doll houses and the like, but with the damage to my spine these materials are incredibly difficult to work with. Most days I can't stand the amount of hunching over, making the same cut again and again and again to cut the whole way through making projects take literal ages. The fact that styrene scores and then snaps had me doing a happy dance.

9:24 I hope those were Samarium Cobalt Magnets, (high temperature magnets) because Neodymium ones will lose there magnetic field from the heat, and we all know Neodymium magnets are expensive.

I once back-to backed Jame's May's "the Reassembler" series and that was A. Roughly ninety minutes. B. Hosted by a much less exciting person. So yeah, ninety minutes with Adam is the opposite of a bad thing!

Hell, I'd be down for a 3 part, 90 minutes per part one day build. For that matter I don't care that these take a day or if it took Adam a week to build something, just like seeing him work and the end result.

At this point I'd just say follow him round with a drone and live stream it 24/7!

@@TheBojaboja I don't know if you meant 3 parts at 90 minutes each, but I definitely wouldn't mind a 3 part at 30 minutes each build.

Agreed. I could watch the whole unedited version.

@@underdweller Bob Ross approves.

chwen hoou yaaaaassssssssssss! ⭐️u⭐️ ✨

Adam needs to grow his hair back out then and get a perm

that should be the main series

Please no

Stephane Mercier Bob Ross is relaxing I agree, but this guy is almost childlike and it annoys me a little. I like his work though.

Had the exact same thought as I was watching this. Totally.

Yes

Bob Ross yet again. Is he the most famous artist in the world now? I was watching a guitar video the other day and he was mentioned there. 'The Bob Ross of guitar instruction.' Madness.

@@zebunker So?

Don't listen to her Adam ...whats more inspiring than really loud over produced generic 'dub-step' ? Nothing , thats what.

except for at 31:00

Yes! Omg yes! It's so soooo nice!

Ripped Torn takes a true musician to make good dubstep. Quit hating

@@waspywasps DEEEeeeeeoooooooooo wubwubwubwubwubwubwub

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Ditto. I was like... wait... he did WHAT for flubber?

@@hatman4818 I know right

Yup. Only Adam would randomly have an old plastic radiator he made for a movie just lying around his workshop. :D

My dad?

Totally agreed. Imo, thats how creative minds are born. And creative minds is the one going to push humanity further at a correct direction. It help and let us think on how to develop ideas, concept, techniques or whatever. In my country, education are born by making us say A is A. Well, nothing wrong with that. Except that we cannot express our creativity, and develop properly. It limits our imagination. Adam way of education is a perfect way of teaching. It will make us think out of the box, be more creative, and the limitless possibilities that we can achieve.

Its kinda lke where you sit back and think, "hey yea I can do that!" then you get a view of Adam's workspace and the O.o/O.O factor kicks in...

Great thing about the way Adam works: he'l show you the little tricks and cheap tools that make everything work. A nice vacuform machine goes for ~$1k, but now we know (thanks to Adam) that you can build one yourself using common tools and items that can be acquired from any hardware store. Yeah, you can do things the hard way, but why do that when an inexpensive trip to a beauty supply store will net you the exact thing you need? Yeah, he has an awe-inspiring shop. Most of the tools he uses aren't all that fancy, and the really nice tools are highly specialized to make a certain task a little bit easier/faster (like a disc sander). Even his materials aren't often very exotic, most of this video was just using normal styrene sheet and weld glue.

thought I recognised that avatar, love your videos on AI safety Rob

I read your comment in your voice

nah, Bob wasnt fine with communist genocides

nah, adam is the bob ross of modelbuilding, bob ross made painting look easy. Adam makes modelbuilding from scratch look easy

@@Nodsaibot wat?

Nodsaibot can you elaborate a little?

"happy evergreen"...lol

Most people watching this video would absolutely have no issue with a 90+ minute Adam Savage One Day Build.

so i wasnt the only one disappointed when he said that... ok, good

Jude Danta that’s how you know he loves why he’s doing I guess

@Time Traveller I did camera work for over a year fairly recently but most content I watch on YT is "put the camera on a fix position and shoot" this kind of videos make me remember how much work goes into being a cameraman.

@Time Traveller I do know that but that doesnt take away the effort all the people around Adam, my comment was just a shoutout for someone people dont think about 99% of the time while watching well produced media. Im not saying camera work is the hardest thing in the world or that he isnt getting paid enough, just a shoutout.

His "Spidey sense" was tingling, I bet. And with his experience he has learned to trust his gut.

Hahaha came to the comments to look for this.

Caulk and paint make what a carpenter ain't 😅

I was thinking a three position toggle switch. But, yeah. That's what popped into my mind.

He said he built it to be a replica of a former owned and operated by a colleague/teacher he admired, he probably wants it to retain that form even at the cost of function.

James Helgesen i would also love to have instructions on how to replicate this specific vacuformer

@@captainmatty me too my friend, me too... Hey Uncle Adam! Can we have a build sheet or some high res pics of the guts of that box?

I was thinking the same! Or even just an ON-OFF for power, and an ON-ON to switch between heater and vacuum.

Sameeee

Me too 👌 the bloke is a genius

I think he has the perfect mix of expertise, showmanship, humility and he still gets so excited over the stuff that he got excited by as a kid even though he has been around this stuff for decades and had so much success! The man is a treasure.

Sammie,... same!

99.99% of my AMAZON saved items lists is all things from Adam's shop.

I drool over that shop ! everything is in place and very practical,a model builders dream workshop.

Won't the heat eventually destroy the magnets? Wouldn't a mechanical lock thus work better?

A machine he made from scratch!

Adam: This is the first 3D printer I ever built, made out of an Epson inkjet printer, a power drill to elevate the platform, and powered by the motor from an old refrigerator.

I was gonna say I could make this on my 3d printer in a couple of minutes and let it print in an hour or five.

@@LordDrast420 True but let's be honest... you couldn't very well use 3d printed miniatures for film work because up close shots reveal too many imperfections, the 'grain' of the print, the fairly low resolution vertical axis... I think if you're going for this kind of look, 3D printers would have a hard time creating comparable results.

@@MK-lk7nc FDM printers, no, no you could not. Buuuuttt there are some admittedly very expensive SLA printers that can create anything you can think of, down to the near micro level. Once you paint whatever you've printed, I'd be willing to bet you wouldn't see any imperfections

That's because it was only 33m

@@sejje No it was pretty much exactly 20mn when Adam said "it's not like you're gonna watch *another* 90 minutes" and Tero was just pointing that out

Yeah with simone's popcorn helmet

And Totoro's eyes when he made his costume.

He used the bigger one when he pulled the thing for the backpack on one of his spacesuits.

I think he mentioned it was purpose built to replicate exactly his early mentor's vacuum former - so he probably just replicated the switch configuration exactly.

@@Gaolii there's replicating, and there's seeing what could be improved and doing it. A DPDT (Double Pole Double Throw) Center Off switch would make it easier to use. Up for heat, center for off, down for vacuum.

Well if you haven't seen it already, he has a video where he made that exact modification!

Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

I did the same thing. Looked it up instantly. That's the word of the day there.

Be still my heart.

not quite

Same here

Then you are missing out on like 80% of the information contained in the show. I admit that I was hooked by Adam, knowing him from Mythbusters and subscribed. Once I did though, I went and watched all the other builds done by other great model builders and I was way more impressed. No offense to Adam, buddy you are awesome and I know you know that lol You don't need me or anyone else to tell you that. If ya do, well I think a therapist might be a good idea. There are at least 4 or 5 other builders and 2 of them are women, which I think is sweet. They show you how to make things from water effects for dioramas, weathering techniques on Gundam models and ships, to large scratch built lights shaped like letters. You are seriously selling yourself short and kinda being trendy if you only subscribe to watch, as you see it, the star of a show. It's cool to get hooked but don't let it stop there. Explore the show. Watch the other vids as I did. Trust me you will learn some cool stuff and there are tons of moments of silence and just building. If that's what you like. Just subscribing to watch only Adam is kinda like taking a beat up old car to a famous hot rod shop, then requiring only the owner of that shop to build it. Not to mention that if you only watch one person build something, you will invariably only learn what that one person knows. Watch multiple builders and you will expand your knowledge base way more than you could just by watching one. All that said, I do love the one day builds and I agree that watching Adam build for 90+ minutes in real time would not be boring. I grew up on Mythbusters and watching Adam build was kinda the whole thing. Not to say Jamie was useless on the show, I should be punched in the face for just typing it, but Adam was more entertaining. Jamie works like I do, in silence. To the people who say Adam needs to have his own show and do more videos, more frequently; can you not see the gold band on his finger?! That means he is married and he most likely has a day job that does not include making videos for tested all day every day. He is only human, so give him a break and learn to enjoy what ya got. Rather than force your will into existence. I really wish the concept of manifest destiny had never been uttered way back when.

What do those words even mean?

@@jakegrube9477 recalcitrant is kinda like stubborn or hard to move and sacrosanct is kinda like precise or exactly in line .....I think.

After a quick Google I have found I was close on the first and off on the second.

It really didn't

Looks like a giant kazoo to me.

@@RedmarKerkhof a baritone lol

Here in Aus that's probably about $30-$50 worth of renshape.

@@Spectral_Penguin I was screaming at him about how he just said a sheet of renshape would cost $100. We don't all have a model shop trash can to go through.

@@MattGilbert it was fairly cheap in the US last time I checked(been a while though), but it's like triple the price to buy here.

Right? As free content goes, this is really expensive.

@@padoco73 So true lol

So many z’s...

Abraham Arthemius That would be trans-atlantic tinkering building „savage may-hem“ ;)

No Adam Savage, but James May and Richard Hammond build Lego cars while drinking. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TxU4pj8l3N4.html

Abraham Arthemius I think you’re on to something. I’d watch that.

Yeah, I guess you're referencing his mini series The Assembler. Very good slow TV.

@@klarkolofsson Yup, The Reassembler to be exact, but his other older shows are also really good and interesting too like Man Lab & James May's Toy Stories for example.