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Adam Savage Attempts to Build an Essential Tool for His Pantograph Mill!

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When Adam set up his pantograph mill, there was one tool to adjust it's cutter collet that didn't make it to his shop. Today's build is cutting and brazing a custom hand tool to make that adjustment--without which the pantograph because more of a chore to use. How many attempts do you think it will take for Adam to successfully make this tool?

Adam's pantograph mill: Pantograph Mill: The Coolest Machine Adam ...
PREMIUM VIDEO: Adam in Real Time: Brazing Drill Bits (Unsuccessfully): Adam in Real Time: Brazing Drill Bits (Uns...

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20 Comments

@tested Creator 11 months ago (edited) Pinned

Adam's pantograph mill: https://youtu.be/pku2VRADLGk
PREMIUM VIDEO: Adam in Real Time: Brazing Drill Bits (Unsuccessfully): https://youtu.be/e5v7dI9r0KY

@mikestone-w1q 11 months ago

Quick tip for changing tools in the pantograph and in the mill: keep a hand-sized piece of leather near the machine, and slide it under the quill before you loosen the collet. If the tool drops (as it so often does) it hits a soft leather surface instead of the cast iron bed.. where it usually breaks.

@SCUBAguypnw 11 months ago

You certainly earned or created a new demerit badge with this build.

@lor191ric 11 months ago

This is brilliant I just spent 35 minutes of my life watching a tool being built multiple times, this is my retired life😄I love it!

@Bigrignohio 11 months ago

I love that he shows us the process, warts and missteps and all.

@RagingMonkee 4 months ago

I love how you took six attempts and a whole day to make the equivalent of a $10 spanner wrench! This is why we love you Adam! Never give up! Never surrender!

@DarrinBaird 11 months ago

2:50 I've been putting off a 5 minute job for months because it meant getting out the circular saw, extension cord, safety glasses, help, etc and I didn't want to do it. Yesterday I finally realized that I could use the battery-powered jig saw and it would be good enough and I could be done, so I did.

@drak0v 11 months ago

I find it hard to prototype and design without physically creating the piece. It's amazing watching Adam iterate through his design.

@thymewizard 11 months ago

That little edit on "etcetera" was incredible

@taylo256 11 months ago

Anyone else think Adam should have pantograph his signature on the tool

@UncleManuel 11 months ago

Like Adam has told many times: Jaymie would need the majority of the time to think it through while Adam had built 4 prototypes in the same time - two different approaches to complete the same task. 😁✌️

@mattbaumgart3621 11 months ago

Adam did an amazing job of showing us all 5 ways not to build this tool before finally showing us how to do it. I there’s a Edison quote about failing that sums this up nicely!

@TheMadComputerScientist1787 5 months ago

Dude! Perseverance gets mad respect.

@DieCastoms 11 months ago

3:00 My guitar teacher recommended I get a guitar stand that could be set up with my guitar in it so that it could be grabbed at a moment's notice, and just set down and walked away from, as opposed to the hard case that I had with a pocket for every little thing and a place for the strap etc., etc., because he wanted me to be able to grab the guitar and pick at it on a whim, and not have the overhead of taking it out and setting it up, or breaking it down to put away properly. He didn't want all that effort OUTSIDE of playing to deter me from practicing.

no, i never did learn to play, for various reasons, but I use that advice 30 years later with some of my current shop projects, making sure things are as accessible as possible so that if I want to just work on something, there's nothing in the way . . .

@A_Monty 10 months ago

There is a noise Adam's milling machine makes on start up that is the exact noise the folly artists used in one of the Christopher Reeve Superman movies and it scratches that childhood nostalgia itch so good every time I hear it. It's wild that such a small thing left such a lasting mark in my mind!

@jabbertwardy 11 months ago

I appreciate Adam demonstrating the old maxim: Measure once, cut thrice

@leemarsh3569 11 months ago

It’s one of the main things that drew me to this channel, Adam openly shows his mistakes and the process of correcting them. Rather than just, here’s a Timelapse of my perfect whatever being made!! 😊😊

@johnm.withersiv4352 11 months ago

We have a couple adjustable pin spanners to make it easier to grab one tool to change out a lot of applications where you need to grab and hold while changing--like your mill.

@Sixtyten6010 11 months ago (edited)

I can't get enough of the sounds that his mill makes when turning on... It's such a sublime noise!

It would make an awesome easter egg as a soundfx for some Sci-Fi device in a game or film or something.

@7imbrook 11 months ago

The first 3 minutes of this video so perfectly encapsulates how my brain does everything in life, and how ADHD is both my greatest gift and my worst tool.