Adam’s Favorite Build of Jamie's
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And by "in the street" you mean "in my workshop". You're not fooling anyone Adam! 😶🌫️
It hard to say as so many plans and builds seemed like a hybrid of both hoststhat by the end it was hard to say who's plan it was
But I'd say his stone glider was kinda cool
His mustache Is and always has been his greatest creation.
What I really wonder is if you would have been elated or angry if, in true Teutonic fashion, the German company had sent you a lead balloon that already worked along with your rolls of foil. I could definitely see the engineer at the plant looking at the material request and wanting to do it himself.
I always appreciate how honest you are about your and Jaime's relationship. It's good to know that despite not being friends, you respected the hell out of each other and worked together to make something truly special.
Them and Grant were all very smart and entertain.
Something many people around the world could learn from I think...
It feels very similar to the Penn & Teller relationship. They've worked arm in arm together for decade after decade. But they are very open about the fact that they are not really friends beyond work.
it kind of baffles me how people don't get the concept of colleagues not necessarily being traditional friends. I've had any number of people I worked with, and worked well with, and when the workday was over we went our separate ways.
@@MiuKujo Except you are completely wrong. Penn and Teller are actually very close friends with Penn even going so far as to describe Teller as his best friend during an interview. Penn's children treat Teller as a close relative as well. Penn is very open about this during interviews. What they don't do is discuss magic all the time. Facts, learn them.
I doubt the otter was expecting to see a walrus in the water with him, thus the surprise!
The true apex predator but on land and in the sea.
🤣🤣🤣
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You, Sir, won the Internet for today.
It's a crying shame that they didn't get that on camera, but well... Adam told the story now, and our imagination can do the rest. :-)
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The likely reason that the German lead was 0.0007" is probably because they doubled up the sheets every time they rolled it smaller than their machines could handle. (And why the other companies couldn't get it to work) So, they started with a minimum of 0.003, doubled the sheets and pressed them both to 0.0015 each, then ran again to 4 sheets at 0.00075 each.
This is what they do with aluminum foil. The thickness you get from the store is actually too thin for the machines. They double it and run it through again. This is what gives the aluminum foil it's shiny side (from the rollers) and its matte side (the inner faces).
Huh, I learned a thing...
Thank you! 😊
@@classifiedveteran9879 I too learned something new.
Thanks to sshuggi for the information.
That makes so much sense. Much like Jamie's water pressure hose for the ping-pong balls, it's often the simplest idea that works so elegantly.
Ha Nerd xD
im gonna tell so many people about the matte/shiny side effect
Adam's ability to remember the name of almost everyone he's ever worked with speaks volumes about his character. That's impressive and admirable.
Except Pluto and Goofy
@@ngs2683 And the comic was about Scrooge, Donald and the nephews anyway... =)
just shows he has a good name memory.
@@jone8626that’s what I was thinking lol
My favourite Jamie build was really simple, but great. When testing spy car gadgets, tire spikes were one of said gadgets. And Jamie decided it was doing too little damage, and cut a semicircle out of pipe, before attaching it to the tire. It ripped the other car’s wheel off.
That was a good one.
@@tested Hey Adam who made 2001 suit you wore to comicon?
@@HonkeyKong54 most likely Adam did 🤪
@@halogamerghost97 the suit itself? The helmet yes I could see but I've watched him sew before and as talented as he is with tons of shit sewing a suit that looks that amazing isn't easy and even he himself said that he respects seamstresses like crazy because it's hard. Maybe he did though I don't know that's why Im asking but if he didn't I want to know where it was done at so I can see if I could get one made for display purposes.
@@HonkeyKong54 According to his book, Every Tool's a Hammer, he commissioned the soft parts of the suit from Mike Scott, and I think Scott also made the helmet and backpack.
That's why I always love the "competitions" on mythbusters, not to see who was better, but to see different methodologies and building styles at play.
While those were interesting, I personally liked it when they brainstormed. Gosh I'd love to see unedited brainstorming on any myth busters episode!
@@classifiedveteran9879 Definitely. Seeing the more raw one day builds makes me wish they'd less Tv-ish edits of old episodes to get me that look at the thought processes behind builds.
...and to see what weird and wild stuff they came up with!
Yeah, the fact that Adam tells the pingpong ball story in the way he does, you are right sir. And btw, IF Jamie really did come to that conclusion without any YT vids showing that principle and thus solely on the principle of "put a tube in the water, poor more water into it and water will come out of the bottom" ... then please get this man up to Musks lvl asap and while youre at it ^
Agreed. All the years watching the show I never realized the underlying reasons for the competitions (that is, the two hosts often had fundamentally different approaches to the same problem), I always thought it was mostly just a thing for TV. Never did realize as a kid just how different the two were, and only really appreciate it now as an adult that honestly, that's probably a big part of why the show did so well.
Every time there's a Jamie question, it's obvious the respect Adam holds for him. I had a similar situation where I worked for several years with a colleague and it was obvious that we were just different people and weren't going to be friends. But I respected the hell out of his ability, and later found that he felt the same. We pushed each other to find solutions and justify our beliefs, but honestly there was never a harsh word between us. Looking back many years later, it was actually one of the best working relationships I've ever had. Respect goes a long way.
I find it infinitely easier to work with people that i dont want to be friends with. I dont want to do the fake work relationship stuff, i want a coworker that is capable of doing their job and communicating
Why lie to strangers on the internet ? Is it an attention thing ?
@@ppstorm_ Why be so negative and uncharitable my man? There is no reason to disbelieve them or the first reply, you're just kinda being a douche.
@@ppstorm_ Bro who.... who do you think is lying? Mungtor? What did he say that you could possibly interpret as lying for attention? You think the idea of two people working together and respecting, but not liking each other is SO FAR-FETCHED that it must be a lie? What is wrong with your brain?
Why does this stuff never get old? I’ve seen the episode a dozen times and could listen to this on and on! Thank you Adam.
Adam is just so captivating with his overflowing carismatic and passionate energy thats completely addicting added the extra spice of his absolutely immersive and incredible storytelling is why hes always been on of my favourite personalities !
Love his stuff
I love the image of Jamie's encounter with the otter!
The story about the German company making this ultra thin foil reminds me of a joke German engineers love to tell:
A Swiss company made the thinnest wire in the world, but they cannot measure HOW thin exactly it is.
They send it to France, England, Sweden, the USA, nobody has the equipment to measure how thin this wire is.
So they send it to a company in Germany, and get the reply: "yes, the wire is 0,00000164 millimeters thick, but what do you want us to DO with it? Carve screw threads on it or drill a hole through?
i don't get it.
I've heard a few versions of this story. Competing machine shops would have one shop make the smallest screw they could possibly turn, and hand it over to some shop down the street as friendly competition. The second shop handed it back a few days later, drilled and tapped. Real working class pride, and I'm certain there was a friendly ethnic component to the story as well.
It was a real turn of the century old school sensibility in the joke/story.
@@DWN-079 The joke is the German company already knows how to get wire that thin because they have machines that can drill through them or add threads to the end.
*:D* Gotta love that enthusiasm!
I could hear the German accent on that punchline
I was so glad to hear the otter story again. As soon as the ping pong ball raising a boat myth was mentioned I was hoping Adam would recount that story again. Each time he tells it there seems to be a new detail or two mentioned. I don't think that Otter story will ever get old.
Same. I was hoping to hear the story again too! Such a great visual.
I don't think I've ever heard the otter story, so if he told it before, I'm glad he did again in this video lol. Though I do seem to vaguely remember something about the otters being mentioned in the episode itself, but it was so long ago that I don't know if I'm misremembering or not.
@@Alfonso162008 You're not misremembering.
I seem to recall them mentioning how important it was to not let the balls escape, specifically because of the otters.
They even had a shot where an otter (probably the one in the story) was laying on his back on the surface of the water and happily playing with a ball.
@@The_Keeper yeah, the idea of the ping pong ball thing is actually a viable concept, but good luck actually making it work. The core issue being how to actually get the balls in place. bladders you can inflate on command are so much more practical.
I know it's well documented that Adam and Jamie weren't friends, and it always amazes me that their on-screen chemistry was so good.
Your relationship with jamie is the ideal professional relationship. I had a coworker at a startup that was exactly like this: we would sit and argue and debate what we should do and then someone would say something and it is so immediately obvious that there’s almost no discussion past it. One of the best feelings in the world.
I always enjoy the stories where you speak fondly, i guess, of working with Jamie. I think the internet has turned the "not being friends" into something much more sinister and I admire both of you. I have some co-workers who are only that. We aren't friends, we don't socialize, but we don't feud, we don't dislike each other (I hope, I don't dislike them). The story of Jamie and the otter sounded hilarious and it was always fun when Jamie broke character and was a little silly too. I still think the pairing of you two was one of the best duos, right up there with the likes of Abbot and Costello, Ben and Jerry, or Butch and Sundance.
You do not have to be friends to respect each other and to have a good working relationship. The two of you proved that over and over again. In fact I believe you have said that Jaime is the one that brought you in since he respected your work.
I think if you are so successful together and have great chemistry and interests without being friends there must be a side that doesn’t respect the other fully. Jamie might respect adams abilities but he might think they way he acts is below him. Adam appears like a guy that could be friends with freaking anyone. Jamie must have been consistently avoidant of any friend like activities.
@@latortugapicante719 Jamie is who recruited and hired Adam so he knew Adam's work ethic and personality. That has nothing to do with being friends it has to do with being co-workers and getting the job done.
I remember Adam saying something like Jamie saying he himself wouldn't be very fun to watch on a tv show so they should invite Adam. To be honest I understand his thinking Jamie isn't very flash but he is very smart and funny.. I just rewatched the cold feet episode with the blue poop hitting the fan. That man can crack a joke with a straight face.
I loved Jamie's card chucking machine. His 1st iteration, the rubber wheel broke off and hit Adam. Then came metal wheels. Awesome stuff.
I remember Jamie using his 'stache to take the static out of the tape to make it easier to make it lay flat. And Adam floating in the air over the balloon so they wouldn't tear the lead while working on it. An elegant solution that proved you shouldn't assume something is impossible until you give it proper thought and consideration. Being hide-bound and assuming things doesn't produce such mind blowing results. Excelsior!
Lead balloon was definitely one of the coolest things you guys did...watching that thing slowly unfurl and lift off while knowing what it was made of (and watching you run around trying to patch holes along the way) was simply awesome.
"otters are the apex predators of Monterey Bay" that is the second most adorable thing I've ever heard. The first is the story of ping pong ball otter. I've got a Monterey sweater with an otter on it and I'll think of this every time I wear it now lol
My favorite episodes were rarely the ones with explosions. I just loved seeing them problem solve, and make cool stuff. The nerdier they got, the happier I became.
Adam & Jamie definitely had an odd relationship for two people who not only spent 1.5 decades working together and even went on tour together but were never more than colleagues, not even work friends. But it worked out just fine for the show they were making. Most people would have at the least become work friends. You can see they both very much enjoyed what they were doing so it wasn't obvious that they weren't friends.
Look at Penn and teller
It's very difficult to believe you can work with someone for so long on such a successful project without any friendliness
I believe they were work friends in a way, like it's not an actual friendship where they want to hang out all the time outside of work and stuff like that but they respect each other and did have fun together at times doing the show so while even though they aren't real friends who kept in contact their relationship reminds me of some of my old coworkers where we were never actual friends but we got along and got things done while having fun even though we were vastly different types of people
One important thing the OP missed is that they were not strangers thrust together when they started Mythbusters.
Adam and Jamie had worked together for nearly ten years at M5 and its predecessor and Jamie personally requested for Adam to be his co-host (in no small part because of his personality).
I like the problem solving. If people want to understanding how engineering works, this is how it works. It's 100 ok ideas and 1 right idea. For example, I do product development for an industrial manufacturer. The design process is this kind of problem solving, just repeated throughout the whole design. There's some other elements tied to it like manufacturability, availability of parts, costing, etc. but this is the process. It's brainstorming an array of options that can work but don't seem ideal. Then there's this aha moment where you think about (or remember) the ideal solution. Then you're annoyed you spent a week trying to solve something so obvious and intuitive, lol.
What you guys did on the show is a very public look towards the fundamentals of engineering. You even had costing and deadlines, in the background, that drove some expediency towards novel solutions. You always ended up at something functional and a good fit for the application. In a lot of ways, Myth Busters was a great prototyping show.
Thanks Adam! There's a whole segment of the population out there (myself included) who could've been absolutely thrilled with Mythbusters if it was nothing but being a fly on the wall for Jamie and your planning and design sessions! So much to learn!
I absolutely love listening to Adam reminisce about the incredible passion for problem solving and engineering that he and Jamie shared on Mythbusters despite their extreme polar opposite personalities. Their respect for each other's work and abilities is legendary. It seriously brings me such genuine joy and entertainment. Thanks for the story Adam.
I miss being in highschool and watching Mythbusters on Discovery. We miss the days that have gone by..
"There's no point to fight anymore once you heard the right solution"
That's very powerful quote. If only more people were like that.
But I suppose it only works when you have the same goal.
That's why it works in engineering and not in interpersonal things
I loved the raise the boat episode... Donald's nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, were the characters involved.
It's the 1949 Donald Duck story "The Sunken Yacht" by Carl Barks.
@@galfisk And their method even looks the same as the one from Mythbusters. A funnel with a pipe to the seafloor.
The lead balloon story is such a good analogy for left and right brain halves. Adam with the crazy creative idea and then Jamie being "ffs if we're gonna do your crazy ideas we're gonna do 'em right and get the Germans involved".
Raising the boat with ping pong balls is still one of my favorite episodes of the entire run of the show.
I would love to see you and Jamie get together again. Even if it was just a one-off. I just think it would be awesome to see the original MythBusters duo together one more time. That being said, I always loved the "B" Team. RIP Grant Imahara.
You guys had such great on-screen chemistry it sucks, to me, that you guys couldn't be friends and stuff. But, like many others have said here, the work relationship and the respect was incredible and brought so much to so many people.
And for that, we thank you.
Jamie spooking the otter definitely gets a like. Thanks for the stories and learning experiences, Adam.
The duality of Jamie and Adam I think is something that a lot of people should learn to embrace. _(Looking at you, politicians...)_ While they regularly conflict with each other, that doesn't mean they are not unable to identify a problem, and compose a solution that meets their mutual goals.
Also, when disputes do occur, they are delt with and move on, their is no stagnating grudge.
The Lead Balloon build was one of my favorites for several reasons. It was fun to watch you guys meticulously work and work at stopping the leaks while attempting to get it to accept more volume of gas. It worked well, very well in fact. I was both surprised and glad to hear Jamie actually come out with a completely sincere complement and thank you for your involvement in working out the methodology for the build process. It was so satisfying to hear that gratitude and it made me even more glad to have watched the entire process.
Also, the great Otter story was another one, and it was commented on by Jamie too!
I hope I'm not the only person who laughed out loud at the image in their head of the otter with a ping pong ball in their mouth, holding onto more with their flippers. Amazing.
here's the segment /watch?v=lzFhiYr_nGk
Jamie's Batman Grapple Gun is to this day the coolest contraption I've ever seen on TV, with the purest design.
Loved all the things you guys created though. Good times.
Yeah, I could tell you two weren't actually "friends" but respected eachother as colleagues. Personally speaking I learned a lot from both of you as you both are stark extremes to my personality falling in a broad middle between you two. A co-worker of mine one day at the height of Mythbusters popularity even told me point-blank that at first they thought I was like Jamie, but after getting to know me they saw I was more like you. I can safely say I get along with myself a lot better than you two did~ 😜
3:19 The reason he says that the numbers "don't seem to work" is volumes and areas of spheres have square and cubic relationships instead of linear.
So, for any sphere, the surface area is a square function of the radius r.
And the volume is a cubic function of the radius r.
So if you double the radius, the area goes up but a factor of r² (r × r) and tyre contained volume goes up by a factor of r³ (r × r × r).
This is good for lead balloon, as the amount of helium increases much faster than the amount of lead required.
I would love to see a Looney Toons style animation of Adam's otter story as well as some of his other stories from Mythbusters that didn't get captured on camera. Imagine the whole gang as Looney Toons, Adam & Jamie at the blueprint table and having the others popping up in the background Animaniacs style with Grant or Kari tripping up Tory somehow seeming as he always got into trouble and injured himself with Buster just hanging in the corner all bandaged up and some crutches under each arm
PaulyToon is 110% the man for the job.
In my trade (Journeyman Machinist) we call it "Elegant simplicity."
Holding the workpiece can be easy or maddingly difficult.
Then an idea is presented that is Elegantly simple."
That oscillating Swiss Army Knife up high in the background is super cool.
Mental image of a ball-thieving otter being startled by a walrus in Monterrey Bay is absolutely golden.
As much as we wanted Adam and Jamie to be good friends, it’s still amazing that they were good coworkers
"I was happy to give up everything I had been fighting for because there's no point in fighting once you've heard the right idea" - Ideology of a great engineer :)
Honestly I think the episodes without the big explosions were the most memorable. The only two explosion episodes were stand out to me were the cement truck (because it was the best boom in the history of the show) and waves from underwater explosions.
Of course I now want to seek out the original episode and enjoy watching it all over again!
And, if it were possible, have Adam do commentary on a Mythbusters episode, as he did recently with his favorite ODB.
That otter story was one of the most precious things I've heard come from mythbusters! I laughed so hard XDD
You and Jamie taught me more than years of my science classes. For you two to have had such differences and put them aside to do such a great show that lives on now and forever is amazing. I appreciate and thank you both. I still refer to episodes of Mythbusters to prove someone wrong in an argument. Not because I'm so smart I know the answer. But because I watched an episode that busted whatever myth the person is perpetuating. Thank you.
Story I heard... Years ago an executive of an aluminum foil company was speaking to a "ladies" club and mentioned the difficulty they were having making very thin foil. No matter how much weight was applied the rollers couldn't press it thin enough. One of the women in the audience asked, "what if you put two sheets through at once?"
That solved the problem.
I love your problem solving and the ability to drop your own ideas because their idea is better. I like to think I'm the same. I tell people, " I like being wrong, because next time I won't be."
I think your relationship with Jamie is a perfect example of true professionalism. You don't have to be friends with coworkers and you don't have to choose your friends to work with just because they're friends keep business and personal separate.
all of these videos, especially ones going deep into how certain builds were designed and made, as well as seeing your excitement in sharing that info with the enthusiasm on top of it all... it makes all of these videos a huge kick of serotonin for me
felt like sharing that
The Disney comic you’re talking about featured Donald Duck and his nephews Hughey, Dewey, and Louie.
And for the record, Goofy was anthropomorphic, he was a dog but a guy who wore clothes and talked, etc. Pluto didn’t rate, he was Mickey Mouse’s old hound dog. There were rolls of film that blurred these lines, however. The whole Mickey and Donald and such all being the same size and such was all a little suspect to me, i think probably amounting to some confusion in our memories.
I appreciate how honest Adam is about his relationship with Jamie. There's no use trying to hide the fact they bumped heads. But he's also mature enough to admit they worked well together and there is a mutual respect for each other's craft and work ethic. It's a lesson that so many of us can learn from. You may not always agree with someone but you can be mature and open minded enough to work together or even consider other ideas.
as a child I would watch the Discovery channel every day after school and watch myth busters and all kinds of sciency shows they used to show back then. It amazes me that I still get to watch Adam talk about cool stuff like this casually on CZcams. Thanks Adam!
This is the essence of collaborative science - it doesn't matter *who* had the good idea, the important thing is that you use the best idea.
I love Adam's enthusiasm and love for creative engineering, but also the need to be ego-less in cooperative engineering, so that the best solution is actually the best (and in retrospect, obvious), rather than the one that had the strongest championing. This one episode to me was worth the like, subscribe, and notify! Who knows, after a couple more I may do my first patreoning.
Very kind of you to say, thank you.
I love that you and Jamie didnt get along but you still found a way to work together and make some great things. A great part of history no less!
I very much love these old stories and memories that you share with us. Could listen for hours.
I’ve always enjoyed Mythbusters, and it was one of my best friend’s favorite shows too. He was more like you, and I had more of the Jamie outlook on things. He passed away unexpectedly a couple years ago, but watching you brings back the good memories I had with him. You and Jamie might not have been more than coworkers, but man, the relationship you had impacted me a lot, and I still see my old friend in you.
Polishing a turd was amazing.
It's funny because I just watched that episode and Adam fought it quite a bit after that solution came. And After testing it with the 30ft pipe from the top of the building, Adam wanted to test it with a pipe twice as long and got pissed when Jamie didn't think that was necessary.
And it was funny to me because I didn't think it was necessary either. The further down the ping pall gets, the greater the water pressure. If it goes down 10 feet, then it's not going to go down 20 or 30 feet and then resist and turn around. They found that at 100 feet, the water pressure would break the ball, but that wouldn't stop it from continuing down even further.
Additionally what is also funny is that they spent so much time trying to come up with this solution when the Donald Duck comic book where the myth came from actually showed Donald doing that exact method. That was pointed out by the narrator/editors at the end of the episode.
I'm a network analyst, and I've worked side-by-side with a colleague for over 15 years, and we've never socialized outside of work. We both respect the hell out of each other, but we also know that our personal views on life are on opposite sides of the spectrum. I think that's more common than people realize.
This episode really made me laugh. The childlike love and passion for everything in that show is what set it apart.
I love how you can show your appreciation for someone that we all know you had trouble working with. It's always a very gracious thing to recognize the value and talents of a person you have personal/professional difficulties with.
Whoever put you and Jamie together was the genius behind the show. The perfect clashing of styles and personalities made Mythbusters so special.
It makes sense that you two weren’t friends and that is so understandable looking back.
Adam just worked in Jamies Special Effects Shop before they started to work on this show. So thank Jamie for hiring Adam.
@@jawshi967 Even when Adam quit his company for ILM, Jamie still hired him freelance time to time. Goes to show how Jamie thinks about Adam as a maker.
I love the mechanical Victorinox Knife display in the background .... always loved those
Adam, there is an old saying; If it comes down to either changing ones own mind of proving there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.
Congratulations on being able to get past that.
I always thought his hand made cannon ball from the tree canon episode was a marvel. It looked perfect and it's a shame it wasn't recovered.
Best episode of Mythbusters was the Paper Crossbow and the heist series. I loved watching how they thought and it was interesting to watch two master engineers produce the same result through completely different methodologies. Jamie’s giant magnets to wall crawl vs Adams suction cups were an all timer for me.
I absolutely love that an otter is one of the biggest obstacles in raising a boat with ping pong balls. Never would've expected that!
Lead balloon is one of my all-time favourite episodes. The folding idea was genius, the image of the balloon floating lives vividly in my memory.
The ping ping ball refloating is taught in Intellectual Property classes. The guy who came up with it wanted to patent the method, but the patent clerk (going rather above and beyond) found that it had existing 'prior art' : Donald Duck had a comic book where they did exactly that. He couldn't get the patent.
Thanks, Adam. That episode (coupled with surfing a wave from a dynamite explosion) was my favorite. Couldn't even say why, but I watched and rewatched it the most out of all.
He remembers details about what he'd did at work years ago. I don't recall what I worked on last week. Then again, I often try to forget.
YOUR OPENING LINE WAS CLASSIC.
I've heard you tell the lead balloon story maybe 20 times (and I remember the episode from my teenage years) and I never get tired of it.
Otters are adorable and rambunctious little creatures aren't they.
As the internet has shown, otters have a meme-worthy fascination with ping-pong balls to rival cats obsession with cardboard boxes.
I remember that episode and it was great television. Hopefully no ping pong balls were harmed during the filming of the episode!
I wish you and Jamie were friends. I kind of think you wanted to be, but Jamie, not so much. At least you both had respect, and could work on a professional level. I loved watching the show, and whether the content was entertaining to me, or boring, just the process to find a solution was interesting, and cool, and that even the most boring of sciences has a purpose. I work in a production welding shop. Had no experience going in, no schooling, but, needed a job. We also use welding robots. I've been there 9 years, and managed to learn to weld, program a welding robot, learn a old school CNC mill, and am in the process of learning a newer school mill, a Doosan DNM 5700. The learning curve is a hit in the face, but, I love every minute of it. I love to create. In my life, though, I never thought it would have been with metal. Thanks Adam for all you do, and keep on rockin'!
It's so inspiring to hear how skepticism and critical thinking was part of your working process. Today, so many people just want to be right, instead of wanting something to optimally work.
The ping pong ball episode is like the last straw that pushed me into buying the DVDs 😅 I was already thinking about it, but the fact that Discovery replays the episodes several time that enables me to rewatch albeit on different time slots made me think twice (well, that and I was just on my first job and does not have a lot of money at that time 😂🤣). After watching that, I got on Amazon and purchased the DVDs. Too bad at that time, Mythbusters DVDs were not arranged by seasons - just random episodes thrown together into a "collection".
Also, as someone from a country outside the US, it's madness for me how Adam describes how thin the lead foil was (7/1000ths of an inch?!?!). At least those are simpler to describe with metric 😅
That story about the otter is hilarious! Thanks for sharing :)
that otter didn't expect to come face to face with a big ass walrus lololol
I recently picked up a 1970's vintage 7UP light up wall clock at a garage sale for $50. I brought it home and cleaned it up the best I could, including putting some peroxide on the back side of the diffuser to pull some but not all of the yellow out of the opaque plastic. After replacing the fluorescent tube and starter, it lights up and the clock works perfectly. I decided to look online at some of the same model of clock being sold, how much they were going for and what kind of condition they were in. This is when I learned that the one I have is in the best condition I have seen so far, but also that it is missing two parts and now I'm curious how I might source or make those parts.
The first missing part is the "seconds" hand on the clock. Close examination indicates that the original seconds hand screwed onto a threaded shaft that is a larger diameter than the typical quartz clock assembly that are common today and are powered by a single AA battery. The minutes hand is also attached to a threaded shaft with two flat sides (not a D shaft, what is that called?) and held in place with a knurled brass nut. The hours hand has a punched hole with a slot cut to it. This is the only hand that is pressed into place. Because of the vintage, the clock is driven by a small AC motor and the appropriate gearing. How likely is it that if I were to find another old AC clock at a thrift store, that the seconds hand will have a similar method of attachment? Would I have better luck attempting to modify a more modern second hand of similar geometry to the original?
The second missing piece is a clear plastic cover that goes over the entire front of the clock and press fits into place using two locking tabs at the top and bottom center of the clock chassis. I feel like I might have to purchase a second 7UP clock in poor condition that still has this cover and try to polish it up which may end up being a futile effort. Are there any companies that specialize in re-manufacturing parts like this for people who restore vintage appliances? My guess is that the original part was blow-molded rather than vacuum-formed to ensure that there are no seams or tool marks on the viewable surface. I can't think of a way I might produce such a part in my shop currently.
For me my favorite builds of Jamie's are the homemade flamethrower and the Lil' Pop Gun. I've always admired that you guys can just *make things*. Like, there are no instructions for how to build an air cannon that shoots pop, but he just went and did it
When I think about Jamie in scuba gear, I just imagine him pulling a cord to inflate his mustache when he needs to resurface
I always love hearing you talk about Jamie. You clearly have such respect for him (and I believe he does for you as well, though he isn’t as public anymore), even though you guys didn’t always get along. Granted, I’m sure you bias yourself towards saying good things about him rather than complaining to the internet about your unlikable coworker, but even that intentional bias shows a respect that many lack
The best way I can describe that ethos is that everyone had a lot of pride in their work, but no ego. Pride says, "I can do this job and I can do it well." Ego says, "I am the only person who can do this job well." Adam and Jamie always knew they could do the job, but never believed their way was always the right way.
As a former monterrey bay resident, it was lovely hearing about my old home!
Great stories! I love how respectful you are to Jamie despite not always getting along personally.
A lot of people think the fact that Jamie and Adam didn't really get along ruins the magic of the show.
Personally I find that it adds an interesting facet to that dynamic.
Especially when you see moments, like this one, where Adam reminisces fondly about Jamie, almost becoming misty eyed, and you realize that it might not have always been sunshine and lollipops, but there were legitimate good times, and they worked perfectly together. And you know Adam would do it all over again.
I don't mean like NOW so much (They're kinda old for that sort of consistent high energy schedule), but if you put him back at the beginning, knowing what he knows about how they got along, he absolutely would do it.
Great work ethic and great on-screen chemistry doesn't necessarily have to equate to great personal relationships if you keep it professional and that's what they did, and why it was good TV.
I am humble enough to realize and admit when some one else has a better idea how to do something. And have much respect for anyone who can do the same.
Otters are so cool and so smart! There's a video on YT recently of a pair of them being introduced to a new pool and their joy is palpable.
This is the approach I used with an acquaintance who had ideas for his business.
First I thought abot his idea and what it's flaws were then take the time to come up with a more workable solution.
I am now supremely upset that Ping the Otter Who Loves Ping Pong Balls wasn’t featured on that episode
0.0007" makes no sense in the metric world, but it is aprox 0.02 mm. Anyway I miss Mythbusters. It was a fantastic show, but now we have Adam Savage's Tested and that is definitely no bad replacement :)
I remain fascinated by the Victorinox (better swiss army knife company) motorized display (that every knife shop used to have) running in the background.
Jamie's "soldiers" for the collapsing bridge myth was a magical moment of TV.