Adam Savage Unboxes a Mechanical Marble Run!

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Adam unboxes and tests this mechanical marble run that was sent to him from Marbolous, and ends up having to tweak and fix the track on the machine to get the marbles flowing through it smoothly. Tuning a marble run is a delicate task, but Adam enjoys the mental challenge of figuring out how every adjustment affects its operation. Can he get it to run smoothly or will Adam lose his marbles?
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@OhAnton 28 дней назад

Manufacturer: "Unboxing video of our product yay!!!" *sees that it's 20 minutes long* "Oh no..."

@tested 28 дней назад

Ha!

@gibberishname 28 дней назад

For $300 there really is NO EXCUSE for something as simple as this NOT to work out of the box

@rasmusvedel 28 дней назад

@@gibberishnameseems you missed a word in there.

@gibberishname 28 дней назад

@@rasmusvedel haha, thanks. speech to text fail. fixed.

@blindleader42 28 дней назад

@@gibberishname There are more than one kinds of "simple". Having effectively only two moving parts is one kind and it applies to this device... sort of. OTOH count up the number of curves and straight slopes add one for a marble and you have a more realistic idea of the number of moving parts. Now make each of these parts adjustable but adjustment of one changes at least two other parts, and your idea of "simple" becomes a joke. You could make a version of this device that needs no adjustments and works flawlessly every time. It would not look anything like this and would most likely be ugly as sin.

@robinmaurer2645 28 дней назад

My two cents: the marbles have large enough differences in weight, diameter and "roundness" that tuning this thing to perfection is a wild goose chase

@dodaexploda 28 дней назад

In one of the close up shots you can see where Adam is having the problem (16:30). It looks like inside wire is disconnected. It transitions from one wire to another lower wire. I suspect it is causing the balls to bounce and be unstable at that point.

@robinmaurer2645 28 дней назад

@@dodaexploda I totally forgot that aspect you are right. My point still stands imo

@keithhogg1963 27 дней назад

He lost his marbles😂

@dodaexploda 27 дней назад

@@robinmaurer2645 your point absolutely still stands and is a potential issues.

@WinstonfieldQPP 22 дня назад

Nah. Marble sizes today are highly accurate, uniform, and void of flaws that would disrupt a run. The problem is not in the marbles, but lies in the alignment of the track rails. They do need to be finessed a lot if they go out of alignment.

@marbolous4409 28 дней назад

Hey Adam! Sebastian here, the engineer behind Marbolous. Your unboxing video totally made my day! 😊 Seeing Marbolous come to life like this is awesome. It was definitely a wild ride getting everything just right - those precision welds were no joke! If you're setting it up, that little instruction sheet really is a life- and timesaver. 😉 By the way, we have in the meantime optimized the stainless steel tracks and they run much better now. BR Sebastian PS: Whoever send the MARBOLOUS to Adam (we bet on a KICKSTARTER or INDIEGOGO supporter?) Thanks so much, you are incredible!

@blindleader42 28 дней назад

I'm glad you showed up, here. There are an awful lot of early commentors that don't seem to understand that it's kinetic art, not an industrial marble delivery mechanism.

@marbolous4409 28 дней назад

@@blindleader42 Hi! Nice to get to know you :-) Indeed we are with MARBOLOUS far, far away from any industrial marble run. For instance our track elements are all stainless steel, laserwelded not any cheap plastic like most available models. If you have ever tried to weld such small parts you do understand how tight tolerancing must be to built a working marble run. Still I guess we need to rework on adjustment instructions. Once understood the adjustment process is easy and fast to handle. But we didn't want to make it too easy for Adam either ;-)

@rondavis3232 28 дней назад

I was anxious just watching the instructions being totally ignored

@marbolous4409 28 дней назад

@@rondavis3232 :D we too

@underadesk 28 дней назад

I almost guarantee he didn't set it on the most level surface ever. Since he rotated the fixture and had different results. Kind of a giveaway

@antstedman117 28 дней назад

I love how the first instruction in the manual is how to open the box… that also contains the instruction manual 😂

@ObsessiveGeek 28 дней назад

A lot of instructions have digital versions available to download so customers could potentially see how to open the box before they have access to the physical copy.

@IntelligentChimp 28 дней назад

@@ObsessiveGeekYou shouldn’t need instructions on how to open a box. Digital or physical.

@immolationangel4124 27 дней назад

Something i learned a long time ago: You can make instructions as idiot-proof as you want, but the joke's on you because an idiot won't read the instructions to begin with.

@SolarAbyss 28 дней назад

Frustrating trying to troubleshoot something when the failure isn't consistent

@pickledeluxe4636 28 дней назад

personally it would be but watching adam do it is quite satisfying

@oneeyedziggy2 28 дней назад

given it sounded like the marbles may be "natural materials" I'd see if it was the same marble or two that are slightly heavier or lighter... thought it could be the total mass of marbles on the run changing the geometry a bit

@gfdia35 28 дней назад

Story of my life , every single time I try to fix something for someone else, a 5 minute fix turns into an hour or hours ,, it's what the universe gives me for being nice (nice guys always finish last)

@davidbarnett3732 28 дней назад

I have to believe that you have a couple of marbles that are ever so slightly larger or heavier.

@JoshSweet 28 дней назад

@@gfdia35. Funny how “nice guys” seem to have such a victim mentality….. If you don’t genuinely want to be helpful, don’t fake it and resent doing so later.

@redseafrog 19 дней назад

Seeing Adam's face contort as the thought " oooo a problem to solve " hits is amazing.

@ThisLittleShow 28 дней назад

I'm losing my marbles just watching this.

@tested 28 дней назад

Well done.

@Joetoep 28 дней назад

Adam almost lost some too :)

@jenoskun 27 дней назад

I love the fact that the instructions on how to safely remove the product from the box is placed inside that box! Genius!

@svpracer98 28 дней назад

For the eternal tinkerer I think the need to tweak this out of the box is probably just as satisfying as the product working... But I don't think more average consumers would be as tolerant

@glenngriffon8032 28 дней назад

Honestly i think if Adam has paid money for this thing and he couldn't get a whole video out of him messing with it he probably wouldn't have been forgiving of the product.

@motivsmaras 28 дней назад

I buy 250$ failure, and open at birthday party for my friend, everyone have the same problem, dont work. "You have one job", to make marble go down, and not working, i spend so much money 250$, and so much time and effort, CEO of company take millions of $ and give this shame? This is the flop of the millenium, everyone hit like button here so nobody buy and spend money and have embbersement like i have, shame on company DONT BUY 250$ dont work. I want public apologies to everyone and 2x money back, ceo make that for 15$ and take 225$ in pocket, am gonna sue the company, and everyone do the same.

@marbolous4409 28 дней назад

Indeed part of the whole fascination with MARBOLOUS should be to interact and adjust it - we think this was always the best back in the good old days once we all played with Marble runs. I assume - and there the blame is on us - we need to improve the instruction on how to adjust the marble run in a structured way. This seems to be the whole "problem" for our point of view

@PilotPhteven 28 дней назад

Yea I wouldn't be.. a little tweaking.. maybe.. but it should work as it should out of the box. because 250 bucks isn't nothing, and you're allowed to have the expectation that it should work as normal.. it simply should have better tolerances to be more forgiving to failure for a consumer market

@Lucien86 28 дней назад

Its a very common problem with marble machines. I think the real problem is simply that the track is formed out of steel wire which is kind of springy and is left floating too much in the air.

@aikumaDK 28 дней назад

I think it's commendable of Adam to remain enthused by the product, even after its shortscomings appear. However, while Adam is the perfect person to send a product that needs tweeking, I doubt that many would share his enthusiasm

@JCGver 22 дня назад

Let's send him a plank of wood and a spool of solderable wire and call it a diy marble run kit. Bet he'll love it.

@RadioactiveLobster 28 дней назад

I cannot see or say the word "Fragile" in my head without going "It must be Italian."

@allisont.6878 22 дня назад

Same with "ESCAPE"... hey, that's spelled just like "escape!"

@yuriverhoeftube 28 дней назад

RU-vid at its best: Watch someone buy something I can't afford and then fix it in a way I wouldn't want to. My brain is happy!

@JR_Hughson 28 дней назад

Just watching the problem solving that Adam does here is so calming. This is why I am a member of this channel. If you aren't a patron, you should consider it.

@mayahampton3325 28 дней назад

Exactly!, 100% agreed. I love watching the way in which Adam's mind works with how he becomes completely focused on a task in order to figure out a solution. It is both fascinating and calming.

@davidmccarthy6061 28 дней назад

So half way through the tweaking, I would hear my wife's voice telling me, "Why don't you read the manual."

@heyimamaker 12 дней назад

When I was a kid the science centers and some malls around me had these kinetic pool call sculptures by George Rhoads. I'd watch them for as long as my parents or grandparents patients would last 😂

@christianbreuer4975 14 дней назад

Adam Savage may be the only person on the whole planet saying "I don't want a Newton's cradle" while playing with some marbles :D

@djgangstaz3215 День назад

12:05 - 12:30 Adam starts having a nerdgasm! 😂💀

@TomMotTom 28 дней назад

Funnily enough the fact that Adam had to fix a faulty product probably gave him more fun engagement with it than if he just unboxed it and it worked 😂

@stewartbladensb 28 дней назад

Love how you got more enjoyment out of fixing this than the thing working perfectly.

@petermgruhn 28 дней назад

Well, there's not that much joy in it when it works perfectly and tinkering is its own joy. So yeah.

@benstrait333 28 дней назад

"Fascination knows no age" --Insert screenshot of Adam's face when he's working on it 😁😁😁

@SuperChrisrg 28 дней назад

Having designed one from scratch myself, I found that a source of "random" failures for me was the fact that my marbles (amazon) were not of uniform size. I laser cut a straight track with a slowly widening slot, and ran them down with small bins underneath, thus sorting them by size. then I found the size that worked best and things vastly improved. Your marbles seemed pretty uniform, but worth mentioning for anyone else working on similar projects.

@thinklikeadog007 25 дней назад

Frustration knows no bounds 😂

@mistabone3899 24 дня назад

Watching Adam having to tune it, and then the smile that comes on his face when it's almost right, but not perfect, so he continues to tweak it. As someone with ADHD and a hint of Aspberger's, the delight is awesome. Now I want one!

@refactorear 24 дня назад

11:05 That exact moment when the marble from below touches the marble from above and eats its momentum, that's hard to time, nice you got that one on camera.

@joshuas7618 28 дней назад

Hey, Boss. This one I can't fix. - Send it to Tested. But it's not working? - He'll fix it for the video. As a joke? - Sure.

@DavidLindes 28 дней назад

haha, indeed. 😂

@Dingle69s 25 дней назад

Watching Adam get mesmerized by a thing you built must be one of the coolest feelings on the planet

@Deathdude4000 28 дней назад

I love marble runs even tabletop ones like that. Now it makes me wonder. If Adam would ever make himself a simiilar style marble run or one on a larger scale that he could make run perfectly.

@thedman1696 28 дней назад

Yeah it'd be great to see Adam make his own. Would show us many small maker skills like soldering and problem solving

@ObsessiveGeek 28 дней назад

*David Morrell - Rolling Ball Sculptures* You’re welcome

@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs 24 дня назад

Adam tinkering with this marble run is very much up his alley

@kevinla6077 28 дней назад

I saw hints in the comments of a couple of these, but I'd begin here: 1. In marble run v2, make the rails slightly further apart to presumably elimnate the chance that the marble would escape sideways due to excessive velocity. 2. Before shipping out sets of balls, build a device at the factory to sort thousands of balls by size. Ship only CLOSE sizes with a given set to reduce inconsistency. 3. Adam, you went right into bending rails--but what if the center tower supporting everything was the only thing misaligned in the beginning? Seems like the start of an endless chase for alignment. :-) Aside from a bubble level which wouldn't seem precise enough, could there be a one-use leveling jig for the customer to use following shipping? Then have three feet on the base to tweak with screws (or just bend the tower), but I'd still argue this could be corrected with suggestion (1). All this is said having never built a marble run, but I've imagined doing so MANY times! :-)

@ReddOchober 28 дней назад

There is so much empathy with Adam watching this.

@mattkrauss7170 12 дней назад

Honestly, it’s one of the most interesting and unique puzzles out there.

@BUGBYTE_ 28 дней назад

I think part of the fun is figuring it out and tweaking it. Im going to hint to my wife to get me one for Father's day.

@TheLazyLabrador 28 дней назад

“Here’s the model for Adam, we hand fitted the parts to make sure it works for the video”. “What do you mean? I just grabbed one off the shelf and shipped it to him yesterday?” “YOU DID WHAT?!?!”

@g60force 28 дней назад

I imagine this guy being homeless now! EDIT: perhaps even his wife leaving him and his son refuses to call him daddy XD

@JXCReplay 26 дней назад

@@g60force Yikes..

@XCmanCraig 25 дней назад

Yet Adam is beside himself! "Oooo... I have a tool for that!" LOL

@Chromaz 28 дней назад

Adjustment like this is basically what I do for a living on mechanical packing machines lol. Its so frustrating when only one in 100 fail

@sixstringsimpleton 23 дня назад

I love the enjoyment he gets with problem solving!

@sharxbyte 22 дня назад

Honestly I think that part of the joy of this kind of toy is the satisfaction of tweaking it until you get it to run perfectly and reliably. It's a fidget toy of sorts

@bobwallace5257 27 дней назад

Just like a kid on Christmas morning. Pure joy!!!

@user-me5eb8pk5v 28 дней назад

This is so a one day build. So many things to show off, simply remarkable

@Ericsimagination 26 дней назад

The “Hey hey hey … doot” moment really resonated with me 🤣

@Chris-hw4mq 24 дня назад

OMG seeing Adam aged so much reminds me how time flies

@justathought5355 24 дня назад

They need to ship him one, let him fix it and ship it back. Then rinse and repeat. He had way to much fun fixing it. lol.

@SimRacingFanDK 28 дней назад

Love the entusiasm and joy in your eyes when it all works out ❤

@CaseyW491 28 дней назад

Not sure if I should feel more or less nerdy that Adam also got excited about the cardboard quality and packaging

@juliogonzalez429 27 дней назад

I suggest marking some of the marbles that fall off and see if they are always the same ones with issues.

@kj3d812 24 дня назад

Basically, manufacturer sends Adam Savage their product for UX testing, which then involves "Adam Savaging" the product to get it to work. 😂

@nicolass2262 27 дней назад

I'm way more impressed by the plier 9:44 that Adam uses to fix the toy than by the toy itself. now I need those pliers

@BrianMPrime 28 дней назад

The look on your face at 18:06 after all the persistence and tweaking of the marble run. It just shows. You were _that_ kid. You were me.

@ectothermic 28 дней назад

If I had paid for this myself and had this much trouble with it I would've been fuming but watching Adam tinker with it and try to fix it is so entertaining. The duality of content I suppose. Watching it is great, not so much the struggle if it was me.

@ricksiegel4224 26 дней назад

To watch Adam in joyful fascination was a lovely moment to see. True to thought, fascination knows no age.

@Frankie_Holt 28 дней назад

Very satisfying sound of the marbles rolling down the track

@keithmiller2714 28 дней назад

I could watch marble runs all day long.

@billted3323 3 дня назад

i really can't 😁

@kainpwnsu 23 дня назад

I NEED THIS... for.. legitimate reasons... That will become evident.

@JocularWand 24 дня назад

the look on adams face when it would randomly jump the track was amazing

@mutanix 28 дней назад

Watching Adam work with this thing is more interesting than actually owning one.

@PBJ. 27 дней назад

That awkward moment when you send something to an influential person hoping for a glowing endorsement, and the item craps the bed. So much for that potential sales bump.

@Doubledeepfried 28 дней назад

Was also thinking about the marketing department going trough all the emotions watching this

@ModelA 19 дней назад

As an engineer, I was (almost) screaming at the screen- No! Not that! Bend THAT!!!"

@user-rr4rs3nt7y 28 дней назад

That thing could keep my cat amussed for hours!

@Darkalyle 28 дней назад

What a beautiful looking time sink.I love how it is mechanical and not electrical

@Maddibitts 28 дней назад

This was just mesmerizing to watch

@chrisdixon5241 25 дней назад

What better example of the dichotemy between "good enough" and "perfect". I doubt this could ever be tuned to absolute perfection since tuning for 1 ball at a time might result in multi-ball sticking or the weight of 1 causing another to jump the track, etc. Add in different ball release intervals and the chaos of the real world is shown in all its glory :)

@user-gg5np5ck8r 7 дней назад

The fun is fixing the gadget.

@BrianFlickMasterMind 20 дней назад

i think this might be a masterpiece

@wiscadams 27 дней назад

If there was a video created to make someone want to buy that marble run, this is the opposite. I have never wanted a thing less than I want that after watching this.

@daveco1270 28 дней назад

Maybe the glass is there to catch marbles that jump off the track.

@_Jester_ 25 дней назад

Ya think?

@billted3323 3 дня назад

@@_Jester_ I thought it was just to keep it dust free

@MrBadgas 28 дней назад

This is the perfect gift for you. You get to problem solve and tinker then enjoy.

@SternLX 28 дней назад

I think tuning that marble run would be part of the joy of owning it. Or maybe that's just the tinkerer in me speaking.

@DaveTpletsch 27 дней назад

It is indeed a beatiful object, one that I would certainly enjoy futzing with for hours. Also, I suddenly feel the desire to watch the Marblympics again. Lol.

@robertweeks4240 28 дней назад

ooh Adam .... i loved watching your eyes back n forth following the marbles! so fun!

@zhurhonji 22 дня назад

The thumbnail looked like something I would love. The unboxing and first impressions made me take out the wallet…but then…thanks but no thanks. Money saved, wallet’s back in my pocket.

@kennypatrick430 28 дней назад

Maybe the endless adjustment process is the product. It's like a puzzle!

@cg_justin_5327 24 дня назад

Did I just watch Adam Savage play with a desk toy for 20 mins? Of course I did 😂

@kylemills7161 28 дней назад

I enjoyed Adam's enthusiasm even while tuning the track, and catching a bit of a grin cross his face as he pushed the lever down to load more marbles on the track.

@goldenTym 28 дней назад

Having to troubleshoot something that costs over $200 bucks is insane. It should be flawless out of the box.

@chloekaftan 19 дней назад

Me with my $4000 computer. 😒

@arstd99 28 дней назад

Adam is happier because he needs to adjust this device. If it worked "outta the box", he wouldn't be able to use his tinkering skills. He forgot about us halfway through the video. See Adam at 18:04.

@DoonAssassin 28 дней назад

the plier set you where using to adjust the marble run is one of my favorite sets. That set has so many good plier angles to use, worth every penny.

@BenTardif 23 дня назад

Spreading the tracks apart just a bit will help slow the marbles down. That’s a cool piece of art

@warrenmchenry5022 28 дней назад

They say Adam's still down there in the old cave, adjusting his marble run, getting just a little closer every day...

@brianmbremer 28 дней назад

This reminds me that you should really do a video with Matthias Wandel. You both deserve visibility to each others' viewers if they aren't already subscribed to one!

@boatbeard7767 28 дней назад

That machine became a perfect toy for any of us like Adam who likes to manipulate the world and devices around them... :) Making a machine work better, or as perfectly as it is capable of is actually hugely satisfying - this machine went up several notches in entertainment level immediately it had a marble stop somewhere! Cheers from Oz, I really like the manual operation, it's not just a battery powered thing that has no more operator input beyond fitting some batteries - mechanisms that do not use batteries are far too under-rated...

@jimgilbert6511 28 дней назад

Wow that really is a great design..........ON THE BOX!!

@matthewring8301 22 дня назад

I remember having a marble rollercoaster as a kid. You could build it and rebuild it in any pattern you wanted. I could spend hours getting it perfect, just to have to go to bed. In the morning the vinyl track would be out of tune again.

@1bytesnack369 28 дней назад

I think it's because it is such a nice looking object that Adam really took the time to tune it. Nice job.

@pgreenawalt 28 дней назад

That company went from the highest of highs with Adam’s appreciation of their packaging, to the lowest of lows for the performance of their product.

@RenaTamer1 28 дней назад

The purrrfect toy for Adam... one that he must tinker and fiddle with to make it work how he wants.

@Lessinath 28 дней назад

Videos like this where you're clearly still a kid at heart are some of my favorite!

@TheTarrMan 27 дней назад

The slow motion feature built into the camera on your phone could have probably helped you identify where the problem is without relying on the naked eye. You could probably even bank all the corners so the marbles go really fast. That is a very cool gadget.

@clumpytat3rs 28 дней назад

Im not sure whats more entertaining, watching the mechanism work or adam watching it to fux inconsistencies haha

@sambrew5023 21 день назад

Couldn't stop playing with my marbolous while watching this video!

@spacemissing 28 дней назад

Manual: Do not peel off FRAGILE label until after... New owner: "Sh*t. I should have read the manual first."

@Buster-Sharp 28 дней назад

Because he is who he is, I bet he had so much more fun with it than he would had it come in perfect working order

@julianaantoninus579 28 дней назад

I used to sell these at work and they would always stop or jump the track at the exact same spots as your did. It’s honestly pretty validating watching Adam make the exact same tweaks to it that I did!

@upem- 28 дней назад

7:03 just casually catches it in a box. If that was me, that ball would have bounced all the way into the shadow realm.

@ericlondon5731 28 дней назад

How many others of us watched to the end waiting to see Adam take the whole thing apart and make a better one with lights

@DerSolinski 20 дней назад

A: That's the one we send to Tested, it's perfect. B: Hm... give me the pliers a sec... A: What are you doing! STOP! I spent hours tuning it... B: I know but send it as is, trust me on that.

@FranciscoAreasGuimaraes 28 дней назад

Adam, I love your work so much. I think this is one of my favorite videos in the channel, because we can just see your mind working. As a software developer, I just identified completely with what I do everyday

@JohnLynch-hn5xt 28 дней назад

Surprised the micrometer did not come out. I'm holding out for the glow in the dark marbles but still fun. Looks like Adam had more fun adjusting than just playing with new toy.