Adam Savage's Miniature Vault Door Build! (Part 2)

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Published 2024-05-22
Adam continues his miniature vault door build, a complicated arrangement of machined gears, racks, and pins that all have to work in concert to operate as an actual functioning lock. The door body gets machined from a large chunk of beautiful cast clear acrylic, and Adam attemps a first test fitting to see if the mechanism works!

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All Comments (21)
  • @HydraMods
    Adam trying to explain something while a mechanical hacksaw is just working through a giant round in the background is pure "mad scientist" energy to me. I love it.
  • @maxfalconi6995
    A man and his imagination and a limitless workshop. It cannot get any more interesting and entertaining
  • @noodleeees
    To be honest, the noise of your channel and many other maker channels to me is relaxing because the natural sound of tooling and machining. I may be an odd ball for saying that but between shifts and at the end of work n all, things like this are a nice wind down to listen to.
  • @donnydavinci1772
    When it comes to creating a new thing, I always say "It's amazing what we can build if we don't mind building it twice." Awesome series!
  • @horlogeur
    Hello! I'm a Swiss watchmaker and I have a book with a chapter on making gears, if you want advice and mathematical formulas for making and adjusting these gears in particular with the depth of the teeth so that the gears are neither too close nor too far, I can send you scans of this chapter, the text is in French but I can help you translate it if you need.
  • @yesterdaze2375
    Using the squeaking of the hacksaw for the narrative is just brilliant. The notion that the build is being marked by anticipation for "the day this damn squeaking finally stops" is such an incredible, hilarious way to show the progression of time! Your spirit for storytelling is incredible!
  • @matthewcarter2683
    Hey Adam, I wanted to leave this comment in hopes that you see it. I just want to let you know how appreciative I am of the work you have done throughout your career. There's just something about you. You have that spark. You have been a constant figure of creativity, ingenuity, and intelligence in my life. And as I grow older, I grow evermore appreciative of the memories I have of watching you and your colleagues work. You have bestowed upon me and many others a portion of your spark in one way or another. And, I just wanted to make sure that at least one person has said so. So thank you.
  • @the_gr8_brandino
    I like the sign on the mill that says 'This machine has no brain. Use your own'
  • @controllerpleb6568
    I enjoy the amount of thinking time you leave in your videos. YouTube can be a very unrealistic depiction of the making process, but the fact that you sometimes just stand in front of the camera and think reminds us that it's a normal part of the process.
  • @connyholm
    One thing I love about Adam's videos is how it inspires and motivates me to craft, tinker and build stuff myself. My little projects are not related to the things Adam does and no where near the same level, but it gets me started and I love it. It has also totally changed my view on "failures" in the process. Thank you very much mr Savage!
  • @JX02123
    Watching you measure the acrylic on your arm makes me want that tattoo as well!
  • @2blazedinfl
    I love how excited Adam is about this. in the beginning, he can't talk because his brain is going faster than his tongue and, in the end, he is so proud that he can't stop talking. There is nothing like the feeling of turning a piece of material into a thing
  • @Eremon1
    Being a person with a mind nearly as busy as Adam's, it's such a treat to get to watch him wrestle his racing fast mind down to human speeds. I hope you live a long and healthy life while still being able to take us all along for the journey. Cheers!
  • @machinists-shortcuts
    On metric gears. The module is the distance in from the gear outside diameter, this gives the PCD which is used to determine the center distance between two gears. For a simple example, two equal gears with a diameter of 21mm with a 0.5mm module will have a PCD of 20mm so need to be mounted 20mm apart. Incidentally divide the PCD by the module gives the number of teeth.
  • @Meredithsmayhem
    Glad you touched on stacking of tolerances. Love this project.
  • @bigsmackisback2052
    Im really enjoying this project just because Adam loves it so much, hes loved vault doors for decades and thought about them longer so its really nice to see a project he wants to work more than usually simply because he loves the ... no.... loves everything about them and his build.
  • @MattHaugh
    "Squaricity," the most Adam Savage word ever.
  • @LiamDosullivan
    This man is my hero, a true jack of all trades. I think theres more value in being a jack than a master of one, and this guy has been an exemplar of that to me since i was like 10 watching mythbusters for the first time. This shit puts me in absolute awe. I only wish Jamie Hyneman had the same online presence as Adam so i could learn from my two idols as they took their separate paths.