Adam Savage Rebuilds His R2-D2 Astromech Feet!
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2023
- Continuing with his R2-D2 astromech replica rebuild he started last summer, Adam tackles the feet of R2. It's going to take the skills he learned and honed on the mill and lathe over the past few years, which gives him the confidence to remake resin cast parts out of machined aluminum. It's a lot of aesthetic machining--Adam's favorite kind of machining!
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Building my R2-D2 is one of the coolest projects I've ever worked on. I've been at it 9 months and learned so much along the way! He's about 50% done right now.
”I should have plenty of time!” Famous last words!
you beat me to it, Jonas! Yup, that's the death knell phrase in my home shop.
Oh, if you only knew!
Father Time says, "I reject your reality and substitute my own."
😂😂😂😂😂
My father was a machinist, failed math....became a machinist, go figure. And he spoke about things just like you. He found a perfect angle ao satisfying. Made my mothers wedding ring on a lathe at 19 years old. He was so proud of it
I finished my R2 in 2016. Since then I've taken him to a ton of events in the Fresno area. He was starting to show some wear and tear on his foot shells (they're made from styrene) so I've been working on them all week trying to get them finished before the weather gets hot. The horse shoe buttons Adam was talking about change position from one move to the next. In ESB they're in the back, since that's my favorite movie my buttons are on the back.
I can only imagine how satusfying it must be to be able to enjoy the company of a faithul, life size R2-D2 that one has built themselves. Excited to see R2 again in the future!
He should install Alexa in it and have it beep and rotate and such when he asks Alexa a question.
Adam you are a special kind of person and your humor and wit is something I am here for lol! This channel has been great as I work my way through!
Love watching you work on R2. My R2 build took 18 month on and off. Gotta get around to re-4x4ing him. He jumped a drive chain so he is only 2wd at the moment. That extra drive really helps over rougher terrain.
Looking forward to seeing more.
I love these videos. The joy for life Adam feels is contagious.
When it went back together, I swear I got dropped back into hyperspace to 1977 when I was 4 and fell in love with this droid. Thank you for that nostalgia. I really want one of these, I need to build one with my kids.
Awesome video as always!
I've started my own life-size astromech project and this is really inspiring - even though mine will be 3D printed it's still incredible to see what's possible.
Watching the machining of these pieces was great. Satisfying! Thanks for sharing your projects.
A tip for aligning drills on centre punch marks, make yourself long tapered steel centre on the lathe, the longer the taper the better. That will give you a sharp pinpoint tip (like an elongated pencil point) that will be easier to line up with a punch mark than the tip of the drill.
Better yet, skip the center punch entirely as that is likely the source of the errors. Line up a wiggler on the scribe lines, or better still, use an edge finder on the vise jaws or part edge and the DRO to drive right to the spot. No layout required and the parts will be near perfect.
Wife: I bet he is thinking about other women
Adam: 1mm is a 1/5 of a half of a centimeter, lol
3:50 i missed the "half of a cm" part originally and thought he was saying there was 5 mm in a cm, so thank you for helping correct my brain from its error
2:40 No hammer collection is complete without a plastic spatula, for those times you got tappy tap-tap *real* gentle-like lol
Awesome to see someone work on one of these again.
Personally, I'm always moreinclined to design and build a droid for the Old Republic era instead. Certainly one of those bucket list items.
"...because R2-D2 is on my bench, and that is always awesome."
Yes Adam, it absolutely is.
I really admire your enthusiasm and passion for exactitùde, Adam. It's a real pleasure to watch.
i cant stop watching your videos reguardless of hat it is is. Your enthusiasm for the projects keeps me dialed in!
Glad to see you back. Loved the Japan puzzle box video too!!!
This channel has been great for watching while working on my own projects. Lately I'm wanting to do this stuff as a job. Adam will inspire me to go to college for a third time
Thank u ! Printing those was tough!
Adam you can 100% call yourself a machinist , Great Job!
Hearing Adam go, "Augh!" is the highlight of perfection in a build. 😂
“Absolutely the same level, ok a bit off but that’s fine…” self tolerance is the key to not get angry and skip stressing…so to last longer. Always epic, Mr Savage.
As someone with both Irish and Scottish heritage I am here for the accents! Even the Geographically vague ones are fun 😅
I love that Grant Imahara managed to finish his R2 in time
"Drat. That's OK, I can fix that." @9:54
Suddenly flashbacks to mistakes made by Peter Brown.
Thanks for the videos.
Aah this landed at the perfect time. Coffee, feet up. Bliss!
Hi Adam thanks for sharing your video building r 2 d2
I am soo glad that its not just me who mixes up R2's legs when they are sat apart from the body!
53:04 every experience I’ve had drilling something
Also…huuuge fan of the use of ‘Frak’. It’s my go to word
Thanks for the last part.
R2D2 isn't always dirty. And I can't stand the complaints I get from fellow model makers when I make the "award ceremony version" instead of their preferred versions.
Eh, it's less about gatekeeping that R2 has to be dirty, more about not gatekeeping that as a model you must make him pristine.
Pristine is a much higher bar than weathered, dirty, and damaged, especially when canonically he is often a bit banged up.
@@NuclearRobotHamster I wish that were true. But when I show off my built from scratch model, everyone says that I'm "too lazy to weather it," rather than acknowledging my point of making a clean version *as seen in the film.*
Excited for more R2 content.
If you don't think you have the skill, money or space for a full size R2 you can build scale Astromechs. I have 5 finished at 1:6 scale and a couple more in mid-build at various scales.
Currently in the design stage of my own astromech. An R5-D4 model, but he may get a re-colour along the way. So this is perfect timing and is absolutely remotivating me to keep up with it.
You know those R5 models have bad motivators right ;)
@@streetjutter I can relate.
37:35 The way you said "I'm a leg man" sounded like Cosmo Kramer. 😂
"A lot of meat there" (Drilling Sound) "Ooopps" ..... "It's not bad... it's not good" ...."Yeah"
Been watching your R2D2 videos a bunch lately as I'm currently working on a project for my portfolio where I'm putting together my own surveillance droid from completely found, recycled, and thrifted items bearing in mind I know nothing about what I'm doing especially electronics but think it'll be fun to finally put together.
Also I'm considering making castings or making digital models of greeblies to put into the RPF forum.
Absolutely in love with that awesome Thumbnail 😘❤
Any day a full size R2 is in the house is a great day. Even parts!
What an excellent video to watch as I get ready for Disney’s Hollywood Studios!
Hello Mr. SAVAGE....I am 60 and Love your new smaller milling machine...I am of the thought that all Schools should have and make MANDATORY is SHOP CLASSES,,.Wood, and Metal....
At 9:00 that was a very cleverly hidden cut. Nice work editors!
39:24 For a "Leg Man" surely you should be able to tell the left from the right!! LOL!
All hail the Precision Matthews Hypnotoad. 5:08
I bought an old Wells dental drill setup a while back, and while giving it a "welcome home" deep clean I found a perfect and complete porcelain crown inside the foot pedal.
Some poor tech must have dropped it during the final polish, and it managed to drop or bounce into a tiny slot in the housing.
I can only imagine how they tore the lab apart looking for it and never found it. Must have been a rough day!
Love your videos! Very enjoyable to watch.
The R2 blueprints and early R2 construction photos show the two 'dots' on the legs oriented toward the front as well
seeing all the parts i printed for my 3d printed astromech in aluminum makes me want to make an aluminum one.
I'm glad someone else feels that way! I've thoroughly enjoyed printing mine, but definitely can see why folks make aluminum.
This is the way.
@@briandodds this is the way
Machinist Curse: at 10AM I say, " I should have plenty of time". As you look up after finishing you see the sun rising on a brand new day.
This video is the perfect backdrop for me to put together the new UCS X-Wing
Buttons forward FTW!! Always buttons forward!
I 3D printed mine. It took me four years to finish it. Totally worth it, the 12 year old kid in me smiles every time I see it.
Dude you are awesome I love your works
Fractions of ten is perfectly acceptable in metric! That’s the beauty of metric!
It's so easy, you just have to be able to count to ten and move the decimal to the matching prefix. It's strange that people find this to hard to understand and chooses to hang on to an antiquated system.
I love that the new mill is also in R2 colours! Poetry!
Still thinking about Huey, Dewy or Loui droid in Silent Running as a project. Nice work on the resto.. cheers.
I loved the Monty python "holy hand grenade"quote from holy grail..... "And 5 is right out!" 🤣🤣
Thank you for being my childhood I wouldn't choose any other man I truly wish you the best
Can't wait for the video in a few years where R2's legs change left and right again :P
Beautiful, beautiful work. Would adore a full-size Artoo of my own, but seeing as I really wouldn't have room for him, my little Sphero droid buddy will happily suffice.
The legs can be either right or left. What determines the side is which foot you put on. (the shoulders are usually interchangeable too.)
New T-Shirt or merit badge: "Drat, I can fix that..." ;-)
Forgetting to turn the camera back on just means you're focused on the task at hand. Don't ever stop doing that! Focus equals safety. 😊
I've heard people say, "Anything can be a hammer." But a spatula? It probably can be a hammer, and since it is in Adam's hammer storage, yes absolutely. It is a hammer!
I want Tested to hire an editor who's sole job is to make annotations of whatever quote Adam makes.
The man is like a bingo machine of media quotes and just want to know where they're all from.
I would love to know about "R2 Blue" and any other specific colors from ILM. Having heard about some of the different paints in the racing world.
21:31 its like tiny aluminum star trek shuttles!
Those pistons look awesome! Fyi Manley developed steel pistons for high performance diesel engines. Supposedly they weigh same as aluminum and have better thermal stability.
I really like the band saw table and I'm assuming you built it? I need to figure out how you did that. I have been looking at getting a metal cutting band saw for some time and that looks like the best solution without breaking the bank. I would love to see closer images or a diagram on how you did that. Perhaps I'll just keep me eye out as your CZcams videos are my favorite to watch and I'm always learning from them. Thank you Adam for another wonderful video.
Buttons front
Later when they used fiberglass legs they where in front on 1 side and back on the other, because they only molded 1 leg.
There are times where you're reassuring the viewer "This is OK, it'll be fine, no one will notice imperfections," where I wonder - from the mannerisms and the tone of voice - whether you're trying to convince the viewer, or yourself. lol
Also, the guy tearfully telling your friend with great legs "I'm a leg man!" as he break up with them sounds like they knew they're gonna miss those legs. 😂
Also i wonder if we could with current technology make a fully functional(minus the intelligence) R2 and if it would be possible with the where they put the pistons and stuff on the original designs.
Since I don't have a machine shop, I suddenly have this thought to build a miniature R2 in plastic, maybe polystyrene.
How much about it is actually functional when you've got it fully restored? Do the tool arms in the front move too? I think you had a video late last year about the lights and periscope mount, so that should function... but there are so many doodads etc did you try to make as much as possible work?
My dad always siad you could tell the milling machine operators in the pub.... They would ask for 4 pints and hold up 3 fingers and 1 stumpy one!
"Having a problem with your droid?" "No. Not at all."
Adam's R2-D2 is gorgeous. I love it and would like one of my own. But since I am not able to build one or buy one, the Lego minifig R2-D2 do just fine for me.
I just ordered a very large CNC router. I know that it is capable of cutting aluminum. IM mostly going to be cutting wood but I'm hoping to do a little aesthetic machining in aluminum and brass.
Adam: "Artoo is dirty..." 😂 Have any R2D2 builders made a Medal of Bravery Ceremony R2? I don't think we ever see him that clean again for 8 more movies!
Yes, many builders have.
@@briandodds very cool. Any recommends?
Thank you
It's an odd and sad sensation when you feel you are improving, then look in admiration at what you use to be able to do.
Originally read this as 'Astromech Fleet' and hoped for an army of Astromechs.
Still not dissapointed.
The long part of the part looks like the aluminium window struts that we have at my office in London. What’s the bet the original was made for parts like that
"... it's going to be years before I need to worry about power R2, so I'm not going to." It's allways hard for me to see a man give up one of his years old dreams.😥
No one:
Adam Savage: "R2D2 is a *filthy boi."*
Very nice!
R2 is for sure a 'working class droid'!
"¬how these were originally done, with steel blue marking fluid"
Well, now I know why the marking fluid looked so good on the metal parts earlier in the video!
mixing my measurememnts if fun. more than once i have asked for timber to be cut 6'6 long and 300mm wide. if it is a youngsteron the saw you watch their heads explode
but the bawhair as a recognised unit of measurement is it metric or imperial?
I had to laugh around 8:00... "these need to be roughly... 3/4 of an inch" (take out calipers accurate to some STUPID level of accuracy). Yup... that's roughly all right!😄
btw asmr of your milling machine is sweet music.
Chopper is watching this video with homicidal rage. He never got one new leg, let alone two!
Alyoo-mini-um for the win!
I had a machinist co-worker say it “a lume e um” 😅
Around the 40:35 mark, from this angle......are MSE (mouse) droids just astromech feet? Have I gone this long and never noticed that? Or is its just a camera/optical illusion?
No MSE are not astromech feet.
If you review a photo of the assembly of several R2s for The Empire Strikes Back, you can see that these metallic details on his legs are in one way or another in each droid. They have not been very rigorous with that.
I thought Tested was working on tools and techniques so that recording these would be easier so Adam wouldn't have to do his work and man the camera at the same time.
Hmmm, no. There's not much to work on -- either Adam is filming himself, or he's not ...
@@tested That makes sense. I recalled this video from 2 years ago: "Tested: Hollyland Mars 400S Pro Wireless HDMI Kit!"
6:15 "We're thinking about ways we can amp up our production. Bring people back to help facilitate shoots so that everything isn't landing on say Adam. Adam is shooting a lot of his 1 Day Builds on an iPhone on a stand. He's kind of moving that camera around different places. Doing a lot of that leg work while he's trying to focus on a build. Where I've been thinking about this system is that, there may be a scenario where we toss up a couple different cameras. Have those go SDI or even purchase more of these to go to an ATEM Mixer and let him have a couple different stations of pro cameras that we can move around and back up and let him use those cameras as sort of talking points. And then also attach one of these to maybe a GoPro on a stick. And so he'll have complete freedom with this camera weither it's his iPhone or a GoPro on some kind of stick that he can mount to where he needs to, again without being tethered to anything. Just having his signal going out to one of these, tossing it to one of us who are nearby in a live mixing booth who would then mix that video together. So there's tons of cool opprotunities there as we enter the next phase of what Tested production looks like. We'll give you a little bit of an update later of how we're doing that incase you're interested."
I'm interested!
They have Artoo's shoulders swapped in The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones (the new Hot Toys version have them in the original position weirdly enough) and The Revenge of the Sith, then they put them back to the original state for the sequels and then swapped them back for The Mandalorian. The two bolts are to the front and the piston to the back in A New Hope with the exception of a publicity photo where Artoo has no blue on his body. So yeah, the people who make Star Wars (like yourself) aren't too fussed about how he goes together.
Next level
Even if the joke is lost between recordings, i will laugh