Inside Adam Savage's Cave: The Tool Boxes
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2012
- Adam Savage shows off one of the most important parts of his workshop: his tool boxes. Learn why Adam takes so much pride in how he sorts and stores the screws, nuts, washers, bearings, and other parts he uses for his build projects. Organization is beautiful!
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Want more videos from inside Adam Savage's cave? Check out our playlist: bit.ly/2FpjcBR
So when you want a screw call Adam
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Adam, you may be interested to know the Huot Dispensers you own were the end result of another OCD person...My Grandpa, Gene Huot was a tool & die maker and before he invented the drill index, most folks kept their bits in a cigar box. When he needed a bit he had to hunt through that box which bugged him to no end... One day in a moment of brilliance the drill index was invented and 90 years later we're still making them right here in the USA.
Love your show and keep up the great work,
John Huot
How does this comment not have any upvotes in 10 years??!! So great to hear about the history behind the Huot dispensers, John. Thank you for posting.
Every time Adam or Will picked up and shook one of those boxes my heart skipped a beat.
That bolt box!!! My grandad had a large bucket we called the bolt bucket, after he passed I inherited it and it is something I treasure and use weekly. He would be impressed at your bolt box.
Your organization systems make me so happy. Its like looking at those photos of a large amount of small items sorted by color. I feel relaxed and inspired. I feel like I want to organize my life.
I love how I have to re-watch parts of the video because I have to check out the cool stuff in the background. (Mark 1 Iron man on the floor, completed C3-PO in the background wearing the Indiana Jones fedora, stormtrooper helmet on the shelf in the back. ZF-1 WIP on the table.)
In case anybody wanted to know what the drill bit drawers company was it is "Huot Drill Bit Dispenser Cabinet"
Your Welcome
Yes! thank you!!
Model Number of the sortimo rack and boxes used?
The more information I learn about the characteristics of Adam Savage, the more I learn about myself because I feel that I am awfully similar to Adam Savage.
Oh and by the way, to Mr. Savage, what a phenomenal setup you have for building (nearly) anything. I take this information as learning advice... learning from another individuals' past mistakes into knowing what works and is trouble free for a workshop to function more easily. Thanks for sharing!
my grandpa was also a tool and die maker and when i went through his old tool cart from work all of his bits were in old cigar boxes. I just thought it was interesting to see a case simmilar to mine. Thank you for sharring
always been a fan and cannot believe that I only just found this channel!!
Thank you for letting us in to the cave !
I love looking back at how Adam's shop looked before he filled it with all of his stuff...
I loved seeing him open the case with the bearings and seeing the exact bearings i use in all my skateboards.
Beautiful system and stocked full of awesome stuff
I'm sure I'm not the only one who went shopping for these after seeing Adam's video. It looks like his setup was a van rack that had a mobile base added. I finally got pricing on a similar setup - Sortimo has just started offering rolling racks of their own, the T-Boxx Tower. A 2x12 tower with 24 boxes is a little over $3k. Like Adam said, it's an investment.
I've been using a lot of the smaller Bosch/Sortimo i-Boxx53 trays so I built a couple of 5-tray racks for them out of 3/4" square steel tubing and 1/4" square steel bar for the rails. Each rack cost me about $10 for materials and assembly was pretty easy, even for a novice at MIG welding. I can write up some notes on the build if anyone's interested, but here's the end result: imgur.com/a/muJG8
+n1vg looks good. Looking for a method myself and think you helped me out.
Plywood would work cost effective and quite an easy project
Sortimo's system costs 5-20 times that of their competitors, but only offers marginally better performance. There are times when it's worth it to spring for the high dollar stuff, spending $80 (ea) on plastic sorting trays isn't one of those times.
@@heartlandranchtv4943 I use the Milwaukee Packout, about half the price of sortimo and really sturdy. The little trolley and a few boxes fit in the trunk of my car.
this video just blew my mind... will be investing in one of these!!!
Definitely a serious tool organization for screws, bits, nuts, bolts and the like. Thanks for sharing. :-)
I come back to these every once in a while just to smile
Walking in Home Depot I passed the screw wall and they had a clearance sale with every box on sale for $1. Oh man I bought a lotta screws!!
For anyone wanting to build a stock of nuts and bolts, for larger sizes (1/4" and up) go to a Tractor Supply or Farm Supply place - they sell standard sized nuts, bolts, washers etc by the pound. far far cheaper than any other way of buying them.
+John Ridley agreed thats where i buy mine because usually i don't need just one of something anyway like from lowes or home depot that is over priced.
Thanks for letting me know that. I was about to go to the hardware store tomorrow. Saved me some money!
Like, you can get an assortment of nuts and bolts by the pound? Just pick an assortment and toss them in the bag and pay by the pound?
That's just how it works. Here in germany, that's the standard in most hardware stores.
1 lb bulk of one type. Home Depot does the same with 1lb boxes, but only sells fasteners for woodworking and remodeling. If you wanted an assortment for machine work Ace Hardware lets you pay per piece, but its going to be no where as economical as bulk from the Tractor Supply.
It started with cable management, and evolved ( for me, devolved?) into compartmentalization, and now I work more at organizing than I do at working. Sir Savage, I aspire to create again, anew! Thank you for this inspiration. Yup. Again, to create...
I share it Adams excitement about storage. I don't share the same budget unfortunately. For anyone interested, Harbor Freight sells a similar product (of much more inferior quality I'm sure) for a tenth of the price. Thanks for showing us Adam!! And thanks for all of the awesome videos!
"If i need a screw, I know who to call!" dat Adam booty call!
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Adam, I love you sortimo and of course I had to have one or my version of one so I followed the youtubes sortimo for cheap skates by re-purposing an old cheap steel shelving unit with extra part into my base-line "El-cheap skatemo-sortimo" by adding extra shelf's 4" apart I can put two trays on each still have extra parts. Mine has 10 trays with room for 12 trays and is without wheels most people have built and used small cheap casters I didn't and here is why. I have a heavy rolling aircraft tool chest, with an 18"x 27" roll-away it spent the bulk of its working life at Northrup aircraft. It sits on a base of 1" plywood, about 4" bigger then the foot print of the tool box with 4 large industrial casters. This was done because the facility was on various levels and used ramp of various grades to give access the facility. Sometimes when we rolled a tool box down a ramp, they can tip over because they can be top heavy. this can damage a chest and block a ramp The wheels sit outboard of the chest's foot print giving it a larger foot print and reducing the risk of a tip-over. Consider that the foot print of a single standard Harbor Freight parts tray is about 50% of the size of my rolling tool chest so it is most likely to be 200% more likely to tip-over. So increase the foot print of the casters by moving them 3-4 Inches outside the foot print. Plus the bigger casters roll over small nuts and bolt better than the little hard plastic ones. Also don't under estimate the weight of your Nuts and Bolts, once I filled even part way fill my trays they weight 10-15 Lbs. each on average and it adds up quick I have 10 trays right now and the 100-150 Lbs. total. So when I add another 2 trays that will make my total weight 120-160 Lbs. I wanted to get this out because the plastic trays will not do well in a tip-over.
Love how when Will pulled out the drawer to show how it stayed closed he still made sure to put his finger on the lid "just in case".
I noticed that immediately...
love the set up
this video actually got me curious about this system, got my first sortimo t-boxx in the mall today and found it awesome, so i just ordered 4 more of these to sort my stuff
Adam is one of my Favorite people on earth.. (Jamie as well) its amazing how much knowledge one human being can store in their brain!! They can make anything, anytime, anywhere... its admirable!
+KaBĞRaFfx313- ĐïŘĶ It's amazing how many tools and gadgets Adam has. Three quarters of the battle is knowing what's available and how to use it. I envy that.
+Mandalore06 Indeed, like the uni-bit they use so much, it's a little tool that saves so much time and frustration and many people who could benefit from it don't even know it exists.
This video should also be in the Shop Organization playlist.
Adam, you live my dream! I love you workshop I love your work and everything... Man you are amazing
i love when adam gets excited
LOVE Is not the right word to tell how i LOVE This stuff.
My Dream Boxes, Damn, my Workspace is a mess, but deep inside im a very organized guy so damn, im looking forward for stuff like this,
These are as cool as it gets. There are other brands that have the formed top to parts don't shift. These are the nicest I've seen
WOW........Adam takes OCD sorting to a whole new level.... Seriously impressed here..... That sortimo cabinet was amazing
OCPD is more apt.
This should be a TV show.
Good God...this sort of shop would be heaven for me.
Oh my God how I appreciate and admire Adam!
I am exactly like him in terms of how he thinks. Only difference between me and him is I'm broke and not famous.
In my shop I do the same shit just on a smaller level. The way he thinks it's just so brilliant and that's exactly the way I think.
I think Adam is my favorite person on Earth.
Watching that Sortimo box in action feels strangely satisfying ...
Wow, that's amazing. I don't need one of those, but I most certainly want one.
Thanks! Excellent Vid.
hardware store at home! really needed today when sheltering-in-place
wish i had all those items and that shelf in my work area just imagine what you could create with all that.
now that's cool love the boxes
Wow, I need that sorting system desperately
my gods, I LOVE those sortimo drawers. I'd already pulled up amazon to go find some before the video got halfway through. X3 As a crafter myself those will be incredibly handy.
That.. is... BEAUTIFUL
I love the pile of mark one on the floor
I definitely want a case/shelf/rack like that sortimo!
that's the king of tool boxes
that is just amazing
i really like the storage shelf
Had exactly the same frustration of lifting the box over to the workspace and back each time, ultimately for a much smaller shop with less of a range I found the solution was to switch to a smaller size of case, making them much lighter and more manageable.
That is awesome I want a cave like that
I love that apron
would love these!!
I wish i had that workshop!
If you need a good screw, you know who to call. ADAM SAVAGE BABY
I love learning shit, and Adam has been teaching me random shit since I was a little kid.
One of my life goals is to have a shop like that.
So jealous. My mouth dropped wide open and I gasped with wonder.
Beautiful
This is the best TV-shop ever ;)
I love Sortimo.
They made the organisation system in the cars at my work.
I want one of those Sortino cases.
Zombie apocalypse comes im heading to Adam's workshop. Build anything you need to survive.
Don't expect to get much... Adam will be there defending it in a decked out mech suit, fully armed with frozen chicken cannons, and whatever else you can imagine.
Love them too!
Love that leather apron
all those drill bits!! a jeweler's dream come true, well at least mine.^^
Saw the video, loved it. Saw the pricing on Sortimo.... yeah, nup. I'll sort out something else me thinks!
Look of terror on Adam's face when he took the draw out...lol
sortimo is awesome, after seeing this video i bought myself one of those cases. My first tool box i might add :)
I was going to buy all those screws but I decided to mortgage my house instead.
3:07 IF I need a screw, I know who to call. MYTH BUSTERS!
i am the same way. I am naturally messy, but I feel satisfied when "it's" clean.
Love it !
I love the storage system described in the video, but the trays are pretty expensive. I found a solution I could afford. A large hardware store (guess which one) has similar trays priced at about $11 for two. Although the individual compartments don't come out, they can have some of the dividers removed to create larger spots, and I found small (almost tiny) food containers that fit well inside the smallest compartments, so it's a poor-man's version. I built a rolling rack for them. I used dowels to create shelves of a sort for the storage trays, plywood for the top and bottom, and MDF for the back and sides.
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Rather than cut the bottom, top and back panels to about 16" wide (the width of the trays plus the thickness of the side panels) I left them 24" wide and offset the rack to one side. That gave me extra space on the top of the unit and a sizable about of space off to one side. I attached an old wire shelf vertically to the empty space, held in place with video cable clips that work perfectly as hinges. I can store lightweight tools on the vertical shelf, and it swings out so I can store tall, thin items behind it.
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I did make a couple of mistakes on this. The silliest one is that I painted it after it was all built. That means that in order to paint the back wall inside, I had to reach my hand back there and I got white latex paint all over my arm. Also, I didn't realize until afterwards, but water-based paints will cause MDF to swell just a little. Ordinarily it wouldn't be a problem, but these storage trays come with clips to serve as a second backup locking mechanism for the lids, and these clips also allow you to lock stacked trays together. Before painting, the trays fit in there perfectly, but with the MDF swelling (not enough to even see), the inside was now too narrow to fit the trays with clips attached. I removed the clips and it all worked. The best part of the whole project: I still have all twelve fingers. Here are a couple of photos on Facebook. So Adam, if you're still getting comments after six years, thanks for the inspiration!
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Harbor freight?
I think that, if we can only send one man back in time it has to be Adam
This just made my OCD's OCD very, very happy 😀
This is why we need peace on Earth. So people can be like Adam.
People should all live like the characters of the Big Bang Theory, just enjoying comics and good movies and doing science.
Spinning carousel storage bins are also really good. I think its Racco that make them.
coming back here in 2020 - the shop is empty!!! Also nice to see the cameraman eventually got good, or you got someone else :)
and its not "Jamie & Adam Tested" any longer
Wow...The Cave looked so...empty 7 years ago. Much prefer it now! Also...I’ve been watching Tested for 7 years! Keep it up!
Adam, Now I have met my match, you actually have more stuff than me and that is saying a lot! I think you are my shop soul mate!
i love these videos
Without this knowledge I could not move forward in my life.
The problem is that anyone who is in the same room as Adam is going to drop down to 3 year old status just because he is so intelligent and funny and interesting. AND he LOVES sharing all his information and showing things off and seeing the hosts try things and demonstrate things.
gotta catch dem all!
Sortimo is a beautiful system, but like many I don't want to dedicate the cash to part storage. I use the poor-mans version from Harbor Freight (mentioned a few times in replies here in the comments). The boxes are similar with the modular inserts that contain all but the smallest/flattest parts and they go for something like $4-10 a box depending on size and if on sale. Not the same quality by a long shot I'm sure...but the price difference is huge. I've got probably 30 of the cases and have been using them for the last several years and am very pleased. The smaller rectangular ones fit nicely on their side in the bottom drawers of one of my rolling cabinets with a label on the side for quick access to precision fasteners, switches, LEDs, etc...
Best web show on the intertubes !
Too true I also just like Adam
My first thought was "baker's rack!" We used them all the time when I was making picture frames and architectural moulding.
All I can think of is the line from the first Fast & Furious.... “if you can’t find the right tool in this garage, you don’t belong near cars” ... love the cave. 👍🏼😈👍🏼
For those looking for a cheaper, and smaller scale set up to Adam's sortimo look into the Bosch L boxx. They are actually made by sortimo under the Bosch name and are cheaper and easier to locate in the US.
I love these. :)
bro its 4am learn to focus please...
Never!
I DREAM of having a workshop 1/10th of those two.
Well if u start right now and buy one tool every week ull be in ur 50s when you have a full workshop like his lol
Wish i had all those drill bits
Awesome video, did you build or purchase the Sortimo rack? I was hoping to find something similar to Festool's SYS-PORT-1000 for the Sortimo T-BOXXes.
Like that leather apron
I'd be organized if I had that too