Adam Savage's Miniature Vault Door Build! (Part 1)
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- Adam embarks on his next multi-stage build project: a 1/12 scale working recreation of a mechanical vault door! Inspired by his recent acquisition of an automatic hacksaw that can cut the solid cast iron cylinder that will become the vault door, Adam pulls from his extensive research into the operation and gearing of these doors to start making his scaled replica. The first step: machining the central ring and spur gears from which the locking pins will activate the vault lock!
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When I read the title, I thought that Adam was recreating a Fallout vault door given how nicely that show has popped off.
I thought the same
I knew that it would be either a Fallout door, yes, or it would be exactly this, a solid metal mechanical miniature of a seemingly mundane thing haha. Those are the two possible options with Mr Savage.
Indeed. Especially if it was from the real fallouts, fallout 1 and 2. Those doors were epic looking. The Bethesda vault doors are okay, but they lack the charm of the originals.
What would be epic, would be to have the claw from FO1 or 2 come out from the side, engage the center, and roll the door open on the floor track. I would pay a fair amount of money to see one done correctly. Maybe not enough to have someone custom make one, as i imagine the man hours would kill a project like that. I doubt i could get a maker to make a metal fallout vault door for $500 or less. The labor alone would be worth more than $500.
But i guy can dream. Maybe somebody with a decent CNC machine could make one for that price, but even then, a lot of the work would be hand fitting and designing. Unless the maker were going to make a run of, say 100 or so, the design time would kill the project.
i would expect adam to be a fallout nerd too.
but considering the cool things he has done, and will do, nerd in the dictionary should read:
Nerd: (See adam)
going with the algorythm
In my 20s, nothing could stop me from watching Mythbusters on discovery. I often said to my wife that if we had children, I would love to watch that show with them. I now have a 10 year old that can't get enough of Mythbusters and loves science. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your genuine enthusiasm. A saying in our house is that failure is a learning expirence and that you guys never gave up when things didn't go as planned either.We are huge fans!
I worked as a bank teller for a couple years at the start of my career. I always got a thrill when I got to set the clocks on the vault doors at closing in the evenings. This was less than 10 years ago, and it blew my mind that such primitive mechanical technology was still the best way to ensure things were secure even in our modern digital age.
mecanical things seem to be more reliable / resistant to disturbances from outside
theres a saying : to make misstakes is human but to make a great big mess you need a computer
Mechanical devices can't be hacked. You need to physically be there to break in. I come from an IT background, and my favorite professor used to say the only way to prevent a computer from being hacked would be to encase it in concrete.
Sometimes you just can’t beat a good old fashioned chunk of steel
@@controllerpleb6568 Magnets and pokey things can disturb them if poorly designed, but otherwise full agree. I've heard that along the lines of "There is no perfectly secure computer system, the closest you can get is one that is completely disconnected and buried in concrete"
@@watahyahknow As an IT pro, can confirm 🤣
Fun fact. In industrial gear boxes that run at hundreds of RPM for years at a time, we actively seek out gear tooth combinations with no common factors, preferring prime numbers of gear teeth. These sets of gears wear more evenly over time. Definitely not the same design constraints that drove the gear tooth counts for vault doors!
Thanks. New knowledge for me, but if I'd thought about it...
Adam I know a man who is probably the last living installer and technician for Diebold and Mosler round vault doors. He owns a business that deals exclusively with used and antique safes from the late 1880s into the 1980s. I’ve worked with him in the past and was a wealth of information.
My dad worked for Mosler. He left the company and helped Marlin Smith start Smith Banc Equipment, many years later Marlin sold the company and my dad continued to work for the new company. Marlin started up another company Smith Hamilton. Marlin passed away in 2020. My dad Jim Arnett passed away in 2021. My dad was one of the best out there. When a bank needed someone to break open their vault he was the one they called on. He worked for 30 yrs. After he retired many still called him to open up old safes. I have a lot of cool stories about him.
I’ll be honest, I was expecting fallout vault 33 door, but this is way cooler.
Same but vault 13.
Same, but vault 111.
Same. I saw Vault door and thought Adam took his love of gears to a whole new level.
Same. Certainly wasn't the vault door I was expecting, but OK, i'm in for the journey.
You're not alone
watching Adam enjoying playing with his ring piece makes me smile
Oh, now......
@@jmurray886 what?
Comment of the day 👏
You have got to be from the UK hahaha
@@hadawaco me? Yes indeedy, what gave me away?
Machinist Adam: "yeah, I'll get rid of those. It needs to be perfect"
Propmaker Adam: "you know what? If I flip it over, noone will be able to see it".
It's just fun seeing the mindsets interact like that. :D
perfect observation!
I worked as a model and prop maker for about 15 years and a very commonly used phrase in the business is "If you can't see it, it isn't there"
@@AxisBold1 It's the exact same with 3D art and assets for games :D
It might be the difference between profession and hobby. I'm not sure Adam did much machining for props, and when making props I get the impression that being on the clock and getting things done was super important. I only realized this recently with my profession. A lack of perfection and more happy that my work does what it's supposed to do. But stuff for my hobbies has no clock. I'm not charging anyone for my time. I can take all of the time I want and be as big of a perfectionist as I want.
I had a situation like that where the vanity doors of my bathroom cabinet got damaged on the upper edge. I thought I'd have to replace the entire vanity as there would be no way to match the doors. My friend Dave says "take the doors off and put them back upside down". Beautiful out of the box thinking!
"half a tenth of a millimeter" LMFAO god Adam never fails to make me laugh with his relationship of measurements
You can safely eyeball a half.
So a twentieth of a millimeter
@@johnraitt2555 We metric folk just call it 0.05 mm, or 50 micron. 😄
"The idea of 1 half pint of an inch squared" - Metric is the vastly superior measurement system.
Yeah but freedom units has FREEDOM built into it @@spankyjeffro5320
Love this.😊 I literally open up and almost 100 year old round vault door every morning. That still works beautifully and almost no change since the day it was new. I call it the highlight of my day.
That is awesome!
It inspires me that you are 56 years old and still into engineering stuff and learning stuff. You made my childhood with myth busters program. And you still make me a happy person with your interest in this world. I hope you will love the things you are doing for a long time.
This is such a kind and sweet sentiment! I couldn’t agree more :)
Im 25 and have been a Myth Busters fan since i can remember the discovery logo being a D with a semi photo realistic globe in it, and how its made was coming out with new material. I can say in all my years of learning, Mr. Adam, you byfar are my favorite most inspirational teachers ive had the joy of learning from and with. My creative thinking process is very similar to yours in that pictures and hands on, self study, are more impactful than any classroom can be. Thank you
3 careers back, I worked at a radio station which was located in a former bank branch building. Their record vault was the actual vault.
I presume the stations played mostly gold & platinum records? I could under stand why those records were stored in a vault!
/sarc!
@@guytech7310 Nice one! 😂😂
Congratulations! I 100% understand your excitement after cutting the gear 🎉
Happy to see all the coolest people here! :D
Adam Savage starring as Tony Montana
"sayhellotomylilfrend"
Great to see you here Stefan!
The Lock Picking Lawyer 😮 my dorky world's collide
Nice 👍🏻 Yea i was gonna post that Adam should chat to Deev! (Deviant Ollam for those reading who may not know).
These videos are just video journals of mad science and I love every minute of it.
I am a tech at Vault-Tec; The Vault doors we make are in the shape of a spur gear. To open the door the door pulled back onto a gear rack & is rotatated out of the way using the gear rack as track. Quite amazing to see when it opens & closes.
There’s a H&M here in Dublin (Ireland) that is occupying an old bank, and downstairs in the man’s section, there’s a room that used to be the vault, but they kept the door. It’s a huge, square, heavy, thick metal door and it has the pins protruding. It’s really cool
There is a guitar store in Morristown Tennessee called Guitar Vault. It was an old bank and they kept the door.
I think anyone who sets up in an ex bank will choose to do the same. Setting aside it looks cool, as Adam mentioned its a HUGE difficult- and probably very expensive task to get a vault removed. Its so much simpler to just repurpose the room.
I may be mistaken, but I suspect it's built that way because base 12 is one of those numbers that makes for convenient math (being evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6), which is why we divide time in 12's, 24's, and 60's, and circles into 360 degrees. (60 being especially convenient because it adds in divisibility by 5.)
So in other words, having it in base 12 means you can evenly split it in half, 3rds, quarters, or 6ths, and since circles are already measured into 360 degrees, using base 12 means it's easy to design for a circle. So they probably didn't say "we need to design this so it'll work well on a dividing head", but rather dividing heads are built the way they are for "math reasons", and the vault is designed that way for the same math reasons.
That was what I thought too,
Yea, it's a so-called abundant number, the sum of its proper divisors is greater than the number itself (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 6 = 16). Well, it's abundant, highly abundant, superabundant, and highly composite. In short, it's a very versatile number lol
Circle division, cock faces, calendars, etc., it's been around for a long time.
YES! This is why the Sumerians (or possibly the Babylonians) used sexagesimal (related to 60) numbers for all their horrendously complicated astrological calculations. If you do everything in sexagesimal numbers, you never end up with something unsolvable when, for example, you don't have algebra or zero.
I always feel exhausted after watching Adam's videos. 😂
Chef's kiss on the tiny gear cutter 😂
As soon as he said "dollhouse scale" my mind started really going. It's time to build that dollhouse!
I've only walked through two vault doors in my lifetime. One was at our local bank, the other was much cooler. I took a tour, when they still did them, at the Greenbrier Resort in my homestate of West Virginia. In case you didn't know, it was a cold war bunker that would house congress in case of an attack. We did a full tour of the "Oval Office" and everything. The coolest part to me was the vault door and their way of concealing it. We walked through a 20 ton blast door and didn't even know it! It was made by Mosler Safe Company.
The moment at 20:42 really makes you appreciate how beautiful geometry is and how satisfying it is to see your math on paper work out in real life
Just that ring gear in itself is a great fidget toy
And when he adds the locking pins it will also be a great fidget toy.
Love the addition of the drums during the tedious bits!
I'm trying to figure out where i heard the drums before. I first thought it was from the movie Birdman, but could'nt find it on the soundtrack. Going crazy right now
@@spreacejackson6510 Might be from Fargo TV show.
I worked in IT traveling to community banks for over 30 years. I always loved the mech of vault doors. One particular door that I was most amazed by was over 12 feet in diameter and was hauled in by horse teams. All the brass and jewelled parts are beautiful.
I had a friend who did demo work in S Texas. He bid on an old bank demo and got the bid. When it came time to demo the vault walls they didn't even budge with their largest wrecking ball. Using a diamond saw, they cut into the wall to see what the heck was in it - turns out whoever built the vault used old blasting matts instead of rebar. They had to go to the Brownsville Ship Cannel and rent burning bar equipment to take the walls down - he said he would never take another bank demo. Speaking of the Brownsville Ship Chanel - Adam you'll enjoy this. That's where the USS Hope hospital ship was demolished... The USS Hope was the only ship ever built that had a standard 120 / 240 / 480 volt generator. Mr. Smith of EFI Furniture in Austin, Texas bought that generator / boiler and fueled it with the wood scrap they produced in the manufacturing process. He was able to power the entire operation and sell the excess to APS - all with scraps they would have burned anyway...
Adam, I bet for the same reason you love mechanical vaults that you’d also love the latch systems on spacecraft hatches.
Lots of rotary-to-translational systems as well as some spherical coordinate system over center latch mechanisms.
Add in some engineered compliances for effort management.
Lots of cool bits!
He built an Apollo era hatch door!!
I love the sound of gears running on each other.
My high school was in a former bank building and one of the classrooms was in a vault. The vault door was still there and had been anchored open. It was fantastic.
As satisfying as the time lapse was seeing the grooves being cut in, seeing the wide view time lapse Adam working on the mill made me appreciate it even further.
Milling metal is just an art form in itself! I personally don’t have the patience nor the machinery to do even the simplest project, but I love it when a plan comes together! Can’t wait to see the whole door! Such an endeavor! Your excitement runs through all of us I think!
I want to be Adam Savage when I grow up, that gear system is art can't wait to see finished door
You have always been one of my idols from when myth busters first aired when I still wet the bed to even know when I just had my first kid... I will always aspire to be more like you!! Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do!! You inspire the world!! Thank you
Getting a job in machine operation is the first step. It’s entry-level and they’re ALWAYS hiring. It’s a dying art, especially since illegals will do the same jobs for $3-$5 less per hour most times. Don’t wait on it…
God loves us all so much that he gave his perfect son to die for our sins and raised him from the grave to defeat death. Through faith in JESUS we can be saved and reconciled to GOD. please give your lives to him, he loves you, is coming back soon, and really wants to take us all with him🙏♥️
My wedding ring has gears on it. When you dropped the center ring in.. I felt that emotionally. It represents the effort one should put into a relationship for me. Thanks for sharing your joy with us.
Lol what
@@philmcclenaghan7056 use your noggin m8
@@philmcclenaghan7056😂
Most everything that uses compound gears (planetary gears and similar) use a geometrically proportionate relationship, especially when all teeth need to fit together. I'm working on a group of gear boxes to precisely measure out lengths of filament for custom colored filament and multi material 3D printing. Precision gear manufacturing is what separate us from the animals. I love watching Adam work, it's therapeutic in a way.
Seeing you happy Adam, makes me happy too. As a machinist ive always dreamt of having my own shop. One day maybe but your videos along with Inheritance Machining keep my machining vibes turning!!
153 isn't prime, and I determined that almost instantly with a little math trick. If you add up all the digits of a number, and then do that again (if necessary, over and over) until you have a single digit (the "digital root" of the original number), if that remaining digit is divisible by 3 (that is to say a 3, 6 or 9), then the original number is divisible by 3. In this case 1 + 5 + 3 = 9 so it is divisible by 3 and not prime. Another example would be 23643: 2+3+6+4+3 = 18 and 1+8 = 9, so it is also divisible by 3.
Oh That makes my brain happy, thank you for teaching that!
Ooh that's awesome! Thank you. I just pulled out a Calc real quick and hit /9 as a guess and saw nope not prime
Yep! I had the same reaction. "Hold on, I know a trick...nope." After a second I also realized it's 150 (easily divisible by 3) plus 3.
This is awesome!
I just mentally went. “153. 50x3 + 1x3”. Nope. Not prime. I’d forgotten that other trick Hopefully I won’t forget it again!
I simply cannot wrap my head around Adam not owning a horizontal band saw. Inconceivable!
I remember about a month ago there was a video talking about how he thiught the porta-ban was the most dangerous tool in his shop, so i would imagine that danger would scale up a lot for the floor model.
Right!?
@@TheGruntMeisterI own a porta-band also, and also consider it a dangerous tool to be used only when nothing else will do the job. I literally haven't used it in several years now. The horizontal band saw, however, is one of the safest, most versatile, and most used machines I own.
@@edbennett8257 Agreed. I used to cut heavy steel angle iron and box iron on one and I did it so long I learned everything about the machine. It's very easy to get into a routine where your hands are never anywhere near the moving blade. It had a vise mounted in the bed, so you'd clamp your piece and never turn it on until lowering the blade. Very useful tool.
think he has a portaband , think i saw it in the background on the intro video of his mecanica hacksaw
that said trying to cut through a round object on a bandsaw is not eazy as the piece wants to roll along with the direction of the sawblade and that can cause it to bind up or at least jump away from the saw verry unexpentingly , it can be cone if you clamp it intoo sumting with a wide flat base , but that that works in the mecanical hacksaw too
"there's gonna be a fair bit of preamble, so strap in"
*salutes* Yessir! I am ready!
I live in Vegas. I have seen them. Demolish a small bank. And all that was left. Was the VAULT. It sat on the property. For at least a year. No BS
I drove by it 2 times a day. The vault is so heavy duty. Even the DEMO crew . Won't mess with it.
Hold my beer
There were vaults left standing after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki!
Do you know how sentences work?
@@christopherdean1326I think it's Christopher Walken. Or possibly Captain Kirk.
@@robadams1645reading it in walken’s voice makes it infinitely better 😂
The amount of positive endorphins released into the World when Adam put the big cog in is enough to make the sun shine and lift everyone's mood 12 notches. Thank You
As someone with an enthusiasm for clockwork mechanisms and complex mechanical interactions, I was very happy to see this title on my feed
I find so much appreciation in Adam for my love of science. From good old Mythbusters to his more recent shop videos. And watching him very slowly loose his razor sharp edge with age is saddening, however he is still so incredibly smart and creative. We all love you Adam, keep handing out smiles man
Adam, you never cease to amaze. From your selection of a non-copyright version of "Wrench & Numbers" to your honesty about mistakes that happen to ALL of us hobbyist machinists. Keep up the great work.
Ok, so I am 1/3 in, and I love how Adam machines everything. I guess the 3D print person in me would design this in cad, 3D print it, see it work, and then go mill it out of cast iron (if I was a machinist). Love it.
This is super awesome, but you know everyone wants to see you pull off a Fallout vault door next.
Thank you for getting back to building "MAKING"
Adam's enthusiasm is so infectious! I need to get into the workshop...
Hi Adam. Thank you for posting this clip today. Im having a really shitty day. But seeing your enthusiasm and utter glee at machining teeth and making your safe door has been a really nice positive breath of fresh air. Im an ex machinist, so i totally get your excitement of making chips and swarf and setting things up in a mill or lathe.
I so miss taking a blank hunk of steel and turning into a functional thing of beauty.
Keep up the good work. Youd be surprised at the number of us out here who are getting enjoyment through you vicariously.
Thank you.
No.
43 years ago my dad worked in an old historic city building that had a walk in vault and nobody nobody knew the combination, luckily the door was opened (I was 15) and by taking the lock apart was able to figure out the combo. I then bey my dads friend $25 that he can lock me in there and I could get out with the lights out as well. Of course I did. // Always loved locks and safes as well!!
**Great job Adam**
@11:02 After the first few teeth are cut, it starts to make a lovely harmonic. As the cutter first enters the workpiece, it sets up a nice resonance with the nearby tangs - that are now tuning forks - and it's just the most pleasant sound ever.
Adam, you the MAN!!! Awesome to see how to make gears and what goes into it all. The ratios, precision and measurements. I honestly wish I could learn to do these things myself. What a true inspiration to people to learn a new trade and skill. I'll be 40 in a couple weeks and I can't stress it enough to my kids that trade skills are our future. Severely lacking in certain generations in my opinion. Thank you good Sir.
I used to work on a large estate and we had a workshop that was in the former wine cellar vault, complete with a large heavy vault door. We always keep it open but...
One day it shut and was locked and an irate and unstable staff member took a sledge hammer to the combination dial. (Yes, they are designed clearly to prevent getting through that way!}
Luckily only a week before i was curious about how the mechanism worked and took it apart to study it.
When we realized the door was permanently damaged we had the guy from the auto shop bring a torch over and cut a hole at just the right place so i could fit my hand in to access the mechanism and work it backwards and blind and finally get it opened! Great puzzle challenge that was!
Love to see someone geek out over the beauty of math in things like this !!! 😊 I worked in construction of varying types for years and i had one boss that would yell numbers across a jobsite out of the blue I'd yell back the answer he was looking for out of my head. Since I knew what he was doing (usually something entirely different than me) i knew what he was looking for. Division or subtraction or whatever. It was his party trick. It was fun. I of course used it frequently for myself as the boss but it's not as hilarious to see I'd imagine. I'm very jealous of your tattoo and would love to do something similar. Can't just copy you without your permission !!!
Adam is a maker and believes in open source. I am positive he would be fine with you getting the same tat. He sells temporary versions of his tattoo as well. Bring it in to a shop and get er done
Adam, your joy in doing what you do is infectious. I really appreciate you taking the time to share these videos.
Always a pleasure to see you create, even if I thought Vault Door was referring to Fallout Shelter Vault Door, not money vault door!
Gears interlocking together seamlessly is always a treat
You made some of my favourite child hood memories
I don't know if @DeviantOllam counts as a vault historian but if not then he probably knows someone who is.
I love when Adam gets excited about something moderately obscure. :)
You're one of my favorite people, outside of my friends and family. I'm happy to someone like you so happy. Kids at heart, creating and doing good
I came for the Fallout vault door. But I stayed for the shop fun! Adam rocks!
Adam Savage is truly one of god's own muppets when he's excited or happy.
Adam is a national treasure
Congratulations Adam. I love watching stuff like this and to see your enjoyment makes it that much better.
Thank you for having the fantastic idea to let us come along with your process! I feel a loss that I know there were times when you did things like this in private and the world will never get to share your joy in figuring something out.
he did the stuff for starfield i'd love to see him make a Vault door from Fallout. lol.
How can you build a vault door and it not be Fallout themed
What is Fallout?
Because vault doors existed before even the idea of Bethesda as a gaming studio...
It was definitely an opportunity missed.
He's a star wars nerd not a fallout nerd
As a machinist,i completely feel his joy when the whole ensemble fits on first try,to non-machinists;you have to understand there's an incredible degree of perfection that goes into it to get that working right...hence his overjoyment when it worked 😋
I think the obsession is not with the door itself. It's with the mechanism. In the words of Sherlock Holmes. " It is so deliciously complicated" . I am the exact same way
I was really really really hoping this was a fallout vault door build. Still cool, but not quite as cool.153 is divisible by 3 yea?
I expected this to be Fallout with the timing of it
Same
One of the things that fascinates me is the glass relocker
Its videos like this that remind us what a treasure you are Adam. Your enthusiasm is infectious.
Adam's joy is contagious! It makes me think of all of the discoveries and inventions that humans have made throughout time and how those folks must have felt when figuring it out and "getting it right".
I really love ho enthusiastic you are about your work Adam! Never change, you are incredible! God bless you brotha! Also, just wanna say, you're incredibly smart. The stuff you make is really incredible!
You have to love Adam Savage! He is brilliant, and he loves to share that with people in a way that everyone can understand. On top of that, he never stops smiling with laughter mixed in.
a master maker in the zone. what a pleasure and an inspiration!
You’re a braver man than I am building this project without plans.
Watching Adam make, makes me happy
I am really happy to see you got the metal that you purchased from me and are doing a really cool project with that. I have been wanting to make some gears for a while now.
You remind me so much of my best mate, who I doubt I could live without. Even look a bit like him.
You seem quite .. manic today. Love ya Savage!
Genuinely excited for the vault to be finished and for you to send it to LPL.
Love this. Gotta please the youtube algorithm's trending keywords. Not even Adam Savage is exempt.
Oh, this has nothing to do with Fallout. Adam got the idea months ago, and started worked earlier this year. He hasn’t watched the series and hasn’t played the game - it is just coincidence.
I think 90 percent of Adam’s followers believe he’s not clickbaiting. But Adam makes props for sci-fi tv and film projects, so it’s not unexpected that people would assume that connection.
@@tested I agree that it’s a coincidence. But now that the idea is on the table…it would be super awesome if Adam were to mill the design of the Vault door from Fallout, onto the vault door he’s working on now.
I know such a project would take a lot of Adam’s precious time. Considering the time Adam would have to spend just on researching the Fallout Universe, which you have mentioned he is unfamiliar with.
But I think if you did a poll on the community feed and follow up Kickstarter campaign, there would be enough support to pay for Adam’s time working on the project.
I'm unusually excited for this one. Great idea Adam!
Wow, that is just gorgeous I can't put it any other way!
Awesome project! Wish i could binge watch this build. Cant wait to see it completed
I don’t know if you’ll see this comment, but I wanted to say you are a marvel. I grew up watching mythbusters and loved watching all the experiments and just seeing how they all were thought out. Even now, watching videos like this I am fascinated, while watching your mind work. You are an inspiration, and I adore the sheer joy you have in your projects. Thank you for the joy in my youth, and thank you for the inspiration today.
Savage, you the man. Also Huge props for nailing that gear fitting on the first try.
Hopefully Adam will make this a series so we can follow the entire build of a scale replica of that vault door.
i love watching someone do somthing they love to do
Fascinating - and some of the sounds those machines make are amazing!
one tip, Adam, the likely reason for 24 pins, is that only 12 are used 'routinely', aka the 'lock', the others go to a glass plate, ie: insert the new film "the Italian job"- with mark Walberg as the main, and Charlie Theron as the 'locksmith' and the "glass re-locker" principle, if tampered with these weld it shut, thwarting any cracking attempt. The logic is simple, you can only see one gear; I surmise that there are two rings, co-axially mounted on that ring, one for this re-locker, the other for the main set.
Patiently awaiting a part two! can't wait to see this done :)
Gorgeous work! I feel your pleasure about the amount of time and effort into making an item like that, and seeing it fit perfectly into the space it was designed for. Congrats!
Thats a lovely thing to make. Looking forward to seeing the rest. Damn though that's nice Adam👍
I made some sway bar links out of 416 stainless hex rod the other day. Centre-punched, hand-drilled, and tapped beautifully. It was really nice to work with.
This is amazing, and it worked the very first time!
Your enthusiasm as you build is infectious! Also, thank you so much for putting this kind of content into the world. ✌️
Looking forward to the next build.