hey i think we are live hello
everybody happy uh tuesday uh it is 11 a.m pacific standard time here in
northern california where it is a balmy 62 degrees outside and sunny i'm sorry uh if you're in a
place that is barely bitterly cold right now um i don't mean to rub it in i'm just letting you
know what the circumstances are um hi everybody adam savage here in my cave with another live
stream uh and this one like the last couple will begin with me building uh a few of the uh uh parts
excuse me it begins with me doing some assembly of my eagle moss ecto-1 ghostbusters ghost mobile
here it is thus far it already we're on like stage 27 out of probably well over a hundred stages
and this thing already weighs like six or seven pounds this the final pro i think i may want
to engineer some handles for the final project oh it's just it's gonna feel i think i said this
last time it's gonna end up feeling like someone took a real car and just made it smaller because
it'll feel that dense it'll feel like the right amount of concentration of mass um after i spend
20 or 30 minutes doing some assembly here um i'm going to answer some questions submitted by tested
patrons on the subject of my shop infrastructure i know when i say shop infrastructure
and i can see the frame that i'm in right now i think this is not necessarily an
encomium to shop infrastructure because it looks totally chaotic but it's not it is a relatively
ordered existence here in this part of the cave um yeah and i'll answer some questions about it
i love talking about it i love talking to other people about their shop infrastructure can't get
enough talking about the sorting but for right now let us get to an engine bulkhead also i i i
did i didn't want to um leave it unsaid that i recognized that when i first started assembling
this i was painting as i went on the engine and i haven't done much of that since then but that's
partially because i actually don't have to right now um i have access to enough of this car on the
inside and outside to do the kind of um overall rust and grime washes that i want to do on this
and i plan to do it it's just that um that's some it's probably a couple of hours
for each side for me to dial in the dust and dirt and grime and that'll do off
off camera here um but we have our engine in we've got our battery we've got some uh we've got
some infrastructure even i even built the u-joint and um the u-joint was actually the first
highly complicated well for me at the time repair i did on my volvo i uh my first car was a
1976 volvo 245 dl with this speed overdrive on the on the shifter it's a great car uh and at one
point the needle bearings on one of my u-joints failed and i was looking at a repair that
was expensive and i went to i was buying something else at rpr discount volvo parts up
in uh north berkeley across from the hopsitasi and they were like oh no it's an easy repair
we'll just sell you a u-joint you'll figure out how to put it back in and i totally did so
i've always had a soft spot for universal choice okay uh let's see we've got an engine bulkhead
here oh no let's start with this thing let's see i uh i can't get the specific song out of my
head and i'm not gonna sing that song because all the obvious reasons but i can't stop
hearing dua lipa singing we're good in my head and if you'd like a really good pop hook you
could put that on right now i can't but you can i hope everyone's week has been going okay i hope
that some of your loved ones have already been vaccinated that would be awesome some of my loved
ones have already been vaccinated my 87 year old mom it's fully inoculated i'm very grateful for
that um all right is this is this the part is this that that does look like the part okay so that
comes in from the back and this sits in the front how how how ah i see it goes like
that oh you know i also appreciate the eagle moss people here they haven't just they haven't just like replicated every part
of the cadillac they've also engineered it so it's you're able to put it together
correctly right so like where all these little things go in there are little alignment
pins and it's just uh i i i think i start every build here marveling at the scale of eagle
moss's enterprise in making a kit like this but there you go that's i'm always ending up feeling
like that like wow this is such an undertaking i get tired just thinking about all the moving parts
of such a thing all right on the back we have ip figure c this is should be able to
get through these are the last four uh these are the last four 27 28 29 and 30 are the
last four uh uh bins that i have from eagle moss so hopefully they're sending some more okay
soon see here we've got this little squarey bop got this little squarey bob
and we've got this little brake cylinder yeah it's a brake reservoir
i thought so ap bring this in and yep oh i see there we go and then this goes in
there um you know or maybe you don't but like as i'm a the kind of model maker i am is that i
like to make my models i like to be able to take them apart and put them back together again
and thus i favor mechanical connections for things that i build i prefer to mechanically
connect things rather than glue them and man these subscription kits just satisfy
jones and me for that mechanical connection because it's all mechanical
i did the entire millennium falcon mechanically uh is that is that where that goes
does that go in there it does look like it does oh it's aligned right okay so that's it it goes
to there um yeah just makes me very very happy um can i talk about the next one no i shouldn't
they have another kit coming up soon that's got a big infrastructure like the millennium
falcon and i'm kind of excited about it because what you don't know about three-foot
millennium falcons is that companies that have tried to produce them have a real
issue with the sagging of these big forms thus master replicas when they release theirs it
was like cast in polly stone or something insane uh i recognize why they did that but it just
it's to me it was like it was weird um so the the model that these guys have which is to
build these wide bits of internal infrastructure before cladding it in this plastic it's
brilliant okay uh this guy lives here and it goes up yep oh i see look small hole
big hole there's only one place it can go and an ep will secure it okay gotta magnetize the screwdriver a little
more it sort of lost some of its verve i bought a demagnetizer recently but i have
not yet fired it up i have this need because my lathe tools get magnetized and then when i work
with cast iron they just become hairy nightmares okay that's it it could be just a little tighter all right yeah i mean it's not under any
mechanical load okay now we have uh that guy this is the windshield washer um okay uh ep another
ep it's all eps today um i find myself wondering at the factory or where they're putting this to
get where they were like initially designing this why so many different kinds of screws like there
must be specific mechanical reasons i would assume for each type of screw in each application that
that screw is used in but as to my old eyes these all look so self-similar i mean i know some of
them are machine threads and some of them are plastic cutting threads and stuff and
that's probably the biggest difference but like it's curious to me and i find myself
wondering if they didn't go with more screws rather than less so that people feel like they've
got more to do there's a famous story about um the first uh the first cake mix that came
in a milk carton and you just pour the mix into a cake pen cake pan and put it in your
fridge apparently they sold really poorly because the target market was like well we're not
doing anything and so they changed the cake mix to require the addition of milk and eggs or
you know whatever and then the stuff sold like hot cakes because people like to feel like
they're doing something which i totally get i just find myself wondering sometimes if the
sheer volume of different kinds of screws in this project isn't a product of a similar type
of thinking i could be wrong okay uh moving on uh fitting the bulkhead fit the
power brake reservoir fluid line 27 271 to the lift valve 13c figure
a an air filter control pipe 12 l to the pin on the left engine bulkhead figure b
ensure the steering column goes through the hole down the other router brake regulator bits and
the power brake reservoir distributor 27 figure c okay let's see here let's get our orientation there we are and oh i see right right right that's
what it's about they want me to put this guy into here because it's going
to connect up to the bulkhead oh wow all right here we go let's
flange this out just a little okay and in oh my god my eyes oh beauty come on come on okay so that's in and then that
connects up to that just comes up right yeah and then there's another one that goes from wait
where is that one oh okay it's from over here yep okay there's that one oh
i see that's gonna connect up okay oh my gosh they've switched my orientation from one picture to the next and it just
makes it a little bit let's see here oh yeah yeah i see that oh okay i see that goes
here yeah so it connects up to that good and then oh i see i see no no i have to thread
this through here yeah look at that all right and now i have no yeah i don't know if you've seen some of the
robotics invention technology that's been worked on recently allowing doctors to
perform surgery remotely using haptic uh operating theaters um some pretty amazing stuff
has been going on in this space and um i foresee that at some point they'll also be some kind
of breakthrough in model making for for the same kind of thing i imagine you know because
so where do you live if you yeah you go there and uh you go to here right
yes you do all right so you go come on come on these pipes these little
hoses are hard to grab because they crush but if you if you gingerly yeah they're just
they require a really specific kind of touch ah come on i'm gonna just hit that with a tiny bit of crazy i know i was just talking about how
i don't like glue but i want that to stay okay and you come over here and you get that there you go good okay all
those pieces are in the bulkhead looks gorgeous and the pieces we have are omom oh okay om 2
bottoms are oms that's the brand newest one but anyway i could imagine like if i n basically i was just thinking to myself
boy i wish i had tinier hands no one not even the ring has such small hands um
i wish i had tied your hands and then i thought oh you know what in the future i might be able
to have tinier hands i might be able to like take my model making arms and like set them up in
front of the workbench and then go to my office and use haptic technology to reach inside the tiny
chambers that i need to with tiny little robot fingers i know this is a fantasy but it's kind
of my job uh ip let's see here g i one two three four wait no that's h not i almost got
the wrong ones i one two three four and these guys go on the sides here if you haven't looked into the robot
haptic stuff you totally should there's some mind-blowing things
happening in that field um yeah i was at a uh convention playing around with one
of these couple years ago where i put on a glove and there's a robot arm that grabbed stuff and
i could feel the thing because the glove i was wearing had physical feedback built into it it
was really weird and amazing all right uh figure a fitting the bulkhead struts oh wow look
at that there's actually threaded rods impressive oh that's what these two guys
are for okay so i put these in the brackets oh that's neat oh i can let go of that um for those who haven't already heard me wax on
about how much i love the television show ted lasso what i can tell you is i watched the
entire series for a sixth time this week uh yeah it turns out the particular like zone of
kindness that ted lasso inhabits is exactly what i need from the world right now so my mom just
uh just came to stay with us for a little while and uh she had not seen it so we introduced her
to the sweetness that is ted lasso i also hear that they're in production on the second
season already i'm very very excited okay these struts go in and the it's an
hp screw so g h go wait p yeah not m where does oh yeah okay there's two of them h let's see comes through here and connects
there oh that's really neat and this one oh the crazy glue smells
good just cut a whiff of it up from that here there and soon we'll be on to step 28.
There goes one there goes two and we're moving on
moving on up like george and wheezy um go now let's just pull these guys off you got to look at all these make
sure you haven't missed anything so 28c that's this one and this thing
comes out of there yeah ipip i p ip oh wrong one almost got it wrong that's it and then we got a muffler okay so oh it's this one isn't it yep it is that one okay then on two more ip screws i also have their delorean kit which i
know i have not been building on camera um however given that i'm at the last stage of this
guy right now i think i may pull that out and work on that here in the shop a little bit because it's
another beautiful kit oh my gosh so much wiring so many wiring things to deal with so much
wire so many tiny tiny wires it's like fly tying but it's great all right hp hp screw i
like an eyepiece curl only this slightly smaller um and this guy yep so yeah does that okay my um my son came in here i think two this
week and built something that was fun i mean my kids had built stuff in this space before
but it was fun to have him call me up and say hey i want to make this thing could i use the
shop on xy evening and i said absolutely and i had all the tools he came in with all of his wood
he and some friends built a a a thing a fairly large thing uh and then when i came in i couldn't
see any evidence of it so everyone was happy it's lovely it's lovely to be able to
have the space that my kids could also enjoy and benefit from all right here we go the
muffler is going in ladies and gentlemen it goes where does it go oh i see there's this guy and
that guy goes in and gets an ap screw come on this gets an ap screw oh man that is a tough one it's under
there really oh yeah no that'll do it okay just gotta be able to see here oh there we go that's it good so
then this guy connects to that yeah look at that wow okay so now we
take some brackets and that's a gm not that i need another gm so
i'm just going to pull one more gm yes it's right there well it really is a muffler hanger isn't it it's
exactly like a real thing uh and then another one goes on the other side and i was right it is
another gm screw come on this sits over here wait oh that's not the right one yeah that's it okay there's that now there's
oh okay so there's that guy embm okay so the gm i can put back
this last gm screw g m e m e m e m is on the right bm is on the left he bm um is that it yeah so it is the one inside is
bm that's this one and the one outside is em and i think where does this little guy go i miss a little tiny part maybe not okay well i'm
gonna lay that aside here i'm going to lay this aside and i will put this like this and i think
i can start answering your questions um yeah oh all right there was a um i i have been regularly answering mythbusters
related questions uh and we've been posting them untested and recently um one that i did about lead
balloon got a lot of attention um just telling the story about how we shot lead balloon how we made
it jamie's and my journey through it um but uh in the comments there's this very there's actually a
bunch of people that ended up making the same joke which was we needed this foil to be one thousandth
of an inch thick 0.001 inches thick and like two american factories have tried it broke their
equipment trying to deliver that and then jamie found this german company and they delivered it
30 thinner than that and like the regular joke in the comments was yes total germans right you're
like we needed to be as soon as there's a lead lead foil ever and they're like yeah we can make
it but we're going to make it a little bit thinner i love that that's exactly what they
did it's precisely what they did
