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I need a way to get my hands on thick bars and plates of copper and brass as i am a up and coming jewelry, artist, creator, and i have been trying to obtain chunks big enough to cut and carve 3d objects from such as Pendants, charms and etc any tips, love Vibrations from a looooong time Mythbusters viewer
i love getting scrape from my local furniture makers / wood workers because i like to make miniatures like doll house stuff. i dont need a giant piece of plywood to make a 3 inch tall chair. lol
Do you get offcuts, or pull from their bins? And do you pay them for it? Or are they just happy to be rid of it? I’ve been meaning to go ask a local furniture company for some scrap pieces of similar size, but I don’t know what would be appropriate to ask/offer
I work on a lot of bikes, especially dirty and grimey ones, so I save scrap paper towel. Whenever I wipe down a surface with paper towel, I let it dry out to be used on a sludge covered bottom bracket later. It just seems so wasteful using a fresh pristine paper towel to move around sludge.
Haha, i try to get multiple usages of those too. Many things i clean in my shop need to be as spotless as possible, and particles that stick to the wipes can cause scratches. But other things just need to get cleaned from nasty to less-nasty, and the reused paper towels are perfect. They're expensive!
I do the same! If all I’ve done is washed my hands I’ll leave the paper towel draped to dry, drives my partner nuts when there are like 5 of them festooning the kitchen. Artist habits.
"When to Discard Scrap Materials?" that's definitely a tough question, i absolutely agree with you on that. I feel the urge to keep everything that might com ein Handy a some time. Since I live (and work) in a rather small place throwing away things is mandatory. I still keep a lot of stuff I never use but you never know. I guess everybody had that moment when we have thrown avay that absolutely useless looking piece and three days later we needed exactly a piece of that material in roughly that shape and then we have to buy buy a new piece or cut it of from a perfectly fine board, sheet of plastic, leather, whatever, but I guess you just have to skip that thought, especially when it come to tiny bits and you have dozens of them. I just threw a large bag full of tiny fur scraps away this morning. I way need some pieces in the future, but not a large bag full of them. The big exception is Worbla. The blessing and the curse of that material is that you can use every tiny bit of that stuff since you can just melt it together again to make larger parts, but My Box of Worbla pieces is huge. I occasionally use them but I admit, I probably create more scraps than I use....
If you haven't seen it, Alexandre Chappel built a shelving system for his own cases of a similar style, and there was a little pullout shelf halfway up so you could set the box down right there and get the trays you need. That could be a happy medium between having to bring them to another table and having every one on its own drawer slide (I feel like there'd also be a pretty narrow height range for that to work well). It might even be a relatively simple addition to the rack you already have? Alexandre Chappel's vid: th-cam.com/video/OthwoWeLb_U/w-d-xo.html
A couple years ago I was given the single most helpful question for sorting out scraps: if I needed this in the future, would I actually look for it and use it? Or would I buy it new or something else? If the answer is, no, I actually wouldn’t use it in the future, then it doesn’t need to be in my life anymore.
Follow up question: Have you ever thrown something out. Then soon after doing that, discovered it would have been the perfect piece for your next project?
Just like when you can't find something and look for it (sometimes for years) and finally buy a new one. The old/lost one will show up very soon afterwards!
Searching through the delirin bin really got me. Going through my own scrap I feel like I can use pieces for some part project that would be a waste of a large piece but perfect for these random scraps. It's so hard to pick between scrap and potential small parts perfection.
It seems like there ought to be a cosplay museum or gallery to put costumes on display. I think it would be a cool concept. There’s a lot of people like Adam who have made many amazing costumes that aren’t worn often. Would be cool if there was a place where people could send costumes on loan for people to come and see and be inspired for their own builds.
Just threw out a skipful of scraps, off-cuts, and "I was going to do something with that" bits the other week. Getting rid of them actually gave me more energy and inclination to be productive with what was left. Funny how that works.
This video speaks to me. The agony of getting rid of scraps cause "I might need it" and the rabbit hole of reorganising something I had organised before.
BEST QUESTION EVER!!!!!! Thanks for your input Adam! I have bought and scavenged buckets of scraps! Covid was great for my scrap cleanout. I day dream about rebuilds on my organization...
"Living with an imperfect situation until I finally get angry enough to solve the problem" is a near-perfect description of how I feel about my job. Thank you for being a cheerful and enthusiastic person who's willing to let us see the downsides and mistakes, too. It really helps me deal with all the crap in the world right now.
Speaking of leather patina… That piece protecting your workbench is ageing like a fine wine. It would look amazing framed and hung on a wall. Might be an option to raise money for a charity one day.
Ok, so how's about an Adam Savage Travelling Cosplay Show where your complete costumes are on display (on mannequins) for us to see? I'd pay to see that. And then the proceeds can go to purchasing a location to permanently display them (on mannequins) in your local area where tourists could see them yet you'd have access to them whenever you'd like. Just throwing out an idea
It could literally be displayed in multiple freight trucks. With different trucks being different exhibits. So they can just park in a parking lot and set up a viewing anywhere.
@@Moshington One truck for comic characters, one for movie/tv, one for space suits and one for miscellaneous. Though the problem would be some comic characters are in movies/tv and some space suits are in movies/tv. Someone needs to get on the sorting now so it can be done. Lol
finally! A youtube maker channel with a shop that resembles mine. Or at least what I wish to develop mine to resemble to a lesser degree. Adam, you amaze me with your manufacturing/creating resources and ability. I watch this segment just to see your thoughts on keeping/discarding scrap. There is nothing quite as validating as taking on a project and not having to purchase anything to complete it because everything needed is in the shop. Makes the decision to keep those "scrap" items seem quite valid. Thanks for all of your content. Very enjoyable viewing.
I always save but rarely end up using my scraps. I keep trying, but rarely find them useful. But my garbage...man, I use that stuff for EVERYTHING. I have significant amounts of furniture made from cardboard boxes, plastic jars and tubs, ripped up and worn out clothes or bed sheets...scraps are scraps but trash is freakin treasure... xD Of course, this means I have multiple closets and cabinets full of "trash"... Just waiting for the days when I need twenty big plastic jars or two dozen empty spice containers or fifteen identical cardboard boxes...
About drawer slides/access for the Sortimos. IMO you don’t want slides on for every storage location. The ones on floor and 5’ (1.5m) up are not good for rummaging through. I built a bread-rack for Stanley 14725R (the poor man’s Sortimo). I made a pull-out shelf at bar height in each column. This works amazingly well. When you need something, you pull out the shelf, grab the organizer, put it on the shelf, rummage around, and be sure to put it right back for the next thing you need.
For the sortimo(sp?) cases, find the row that is at the most comfortable height for rooting through cases and replace once case with a slide out shelf. Then you slide the shelf out, put whatever case you need on it, get what you need, and put the case & shelf away. Minimal expense & building that will give you most of the convenience of them all being on sliders. And because the shelf slides away it won't accumulate junk and be unusable for it's purpose.
The welding shop I work at recently started sending pallets of our drops to the local tech school. the recently got like 3000# of 2" angle iron because we end up with a 50" ish drop off a bulk job we do and we all looked at the scrap bin a little queasy after every run. as makers, seeing one of those big audo dumpers loaded with material so long it hangs out the front is never a good feeling.
One way I started dealing with scraps in my cabinet shop was to begin trading out for better scraps. If I had a good scrap I wanted to save, then an old scrap had to go. But also, I realized that SPACE is also a valuable commodity, and one must question what is more valuable.
I put all my scrap material for throwing away in a box that I keep for a year but never look in. Once I've completely forgotten the contents, it's safe to throw it. If I knowingly throw something out, it's guaranteed that I will need it within the next 24 hours.
Scraps! Oh man, I have an arch of wood I made up years ago, laminated pieces of 1/16 mahog about 1.25" thick and 2" deep in a curve, intended for part of a wooden boat breasthook. I've stood over the shop garbage bin dozens of times with that piece of wood in my hands in a state of painful deliberation and somehow it always ends up back in my storage rack! Most of the old woodworkers I know have a strict shop rule by length... nothing under 12" stays. Period.
you might want to look into data center decommission companies like baytech recovery or the like. id be willing to bet you could get a truck load of server rail kits you could use for your organizers at low or no cost.
and that's how hoarding starts. Not even kidding. my father is the same. "never throw out scraps". meaning we have a ton of stupid, shitty crap taking up a lot of space. And ofcourse he'll feel validated when we need a piece of scrap. never mind the fact that we had to keep it 20 years before being useful. And don't even *think* about throwing stuff out.
Keeping, then finding and using scrap material also has a monetary and time cost: you can easily spend more time rooting through your stash of little bits which aren't quite big enough to hold and make the part, than you would sliding a longer piece into the lathe and 'just' making it. I had this yesterday; I made a complete template for a part while the friend I was helping pulled out lots of random containers and previous projects to 'save time making a new one'. Some of them could have been workable, but would have been no less work, and would always have looked like they were bodged together out of junk. The new part will be made from 2 pieces of sheet steel, folded and plug welded together, instead of spending another 20minutes looking for a glue to bond two unsuitable materials together I gained an entire drawer by getting rid of all the 20mm long stubs of material that weighed it down. That space is far more valuable than the waste that was in it. As Adam said, set a size limit - which will depend on what material you use, what you use it for, and the space you have to keep it - and dispose of it at the end of the job. Trimming the odd corners off bigger pieces makes them easier to store and sort too.
Glad to see the time honored method of dumpster diving for useful materials is alive and well. (Of course ours are not as flashy as Industrial Light & Magic's) It's real hard to see useful stuff thrown away as a maker and not salvage it!
📥 9:20 Adam, what about building onto the cabinet a flip out or fold up/down tray as a temporary base while the case is open? Also, do you truly need full on roller bearing slides, or could you rough it with some shop-made nylon/teflon slide-type support? Asking for a friend.
Art shop at uni was doing a sale to get rid of old stock. Was so tempting to just buy a whole load of random paper stock, but decided against it. Did come away with lovely leather textured paper, which might be useful, but I do tend to hoard random material that aquire "just in case"
Hah! Just did the same thing. I just yesterday tossed the two pieces I had cut out of my Ocean Kayak while installing hatches in 1991(!) but today I thought of something I might need one for.
I sometimes see materials- especially old screws and hardware as almost having a life. I feel sorry for something that ends up in a dump rather than being part of a creation… I hardly ever throw stuff away, unless it is broken, badly corroded or diminished to sawdust. .. there must be something wrong with me.
Need a Savage Museum. Put all your costumes and props on display. And it can be a living museum so you can see Adam running in a taking a prop out of a display to revisit a prop.
Beginning to wonder if we need to start a project fund to give this man the means to do those obscure expensive works we love to watch so much. Outside of patreon that is.
They're not that old and the ones he built just a few years ago at most. I never cared for the design as they are wobbly and squeaky. I cringe every time he uses/moves them. Now the Chinese components are really starting to show themselves.
Hey Adam! Don't throw away your small scraps! Keep some USPS flat rate boxes on hand and fill them up with your "useless" scraps. Then sell them on EBAY! I would love to buy a box of Adam Savage scraps to keep around to try to incorporate into anything I do! Seriously. Write out some postcards that say something like "Thank you for being creative, and good luck with your projects" and sign your name. That will make it extra special and will probably bring in an extra $50 for the box. Seriously!
I recently started working at a drapery and upholstery shop and now I have access to so many scraps and old drapes that I've been able to salvage. And I get to make high end decorations to adorn the walls of mansions. Ill tell ya it ain't a bad gig!
If adam had the space, I bet he would love to find an airport baggage carosel at auction and mount all his manikins on it so his costumes would circle the room
Watching this while looking at a pile of completely unusable pile of tiny pieces of leather from my projects. It feels wrong to throw away anything larger than like 1cm lol
I keep enough scraps for a single job. Having more means you create more scraps than you use them. Scraps are awesome but within reason. My scraps either have a project in mind when I look at them, or they're perfect as a complementary piece to something I may never know if I need. Keeping enough for one job is the healthy amount for me.
I throw something away when it meets most of these conditions: It has no real monetary value I can buy it for a low price if i need it again It's available without looking for it for a long time It has no historical value. So i have some vintage radio parts which are barely or not made anymore. They take up a lot of space, but buying them again is hard and/or expensive, so i keep them. I have a lot of tube sockets too. But those are still being made, have no historical value, and i can buy them if i need some. So i'm gonna get rid of maybe 75 out of 100 sockets i have. I have some quite long ferrite rods. While not expensive nor historically interesting, they can only be imported for china so i keep them to avoid the frustration of waiting weeks to get them.
Adam, If looking for low cost drawer slides, check out Outwater Plastics on the web. In 2020, I ordered 22 pairs of 24 inch 100 lb full extension ball bearing slides for a miter cabinet I was making at $8.21 a pair. They have lots of sizes and types available. I'm also on the Sortimo bandwagon so would love to see the cabinet you would make.
I have the same problem. I find that small pieces of anything can be used for various fixtures. I’ll save odd bits of metal, and go and quickly weld them together for a fixture, or some odd shaped part I don’t want to machine out of solid. It’s really difficult to let materials go. It’s so expensive, particularly these days, to buy materials, that a small piece of bronze might cost $30! Throw that away? Crazy!
When you work on really small stuff, there isn't really such a thing as scrap. I don't think i've ever thrown out scrap in 25 years of making. like really.
Make the rounds at the Habitat for Humanity stores in your area for drawer slides. I can't afford Sortimo but, the Harbor Freight version (Stanley knock-off) is one I have built shelving for. Walmart has reasonably sturdy metal shelving which can be retrofitted with drawer slides on wooden end/divider panels and the whole thing can be put on casters, If you keep the two halves unstacked. It's also a very serviceable mobile worktop. H4H is also a great source for casters (Or was until Adam mentioned their usefulness).
It's hard to throw out any tech stuff in my town. maybe twice a year is a toxic waste collection, usually the day I am away or working. Electronics, maybe in a nearby city rarely. Scopes, test equipment, decades of hobby projects. metal like disk brakes, motors, air compressor tanks. I was saving a pile for a nearby scrapyard, even cat converters from my 20+ year old cars and wood stove, they closed up.
Hey Adam...how about you look into starting a national Cosplay museum...you could display your costumes *and* run workshops and experience days. Also, if there was going to be such a place, I couldn't imagine anywhere more appropriate than the very city you're based.
I built a 500lb locomotive model with two 1000 watt, 24vdc batteries and RC. Made most of it from metal I gleaned from 16ga metal cabinets. I’m a hermit and mist days I’m surprised that it’s dark when I come out of the shop to go in the house..my safe little model world
This was such a great question because we all do this! I save wood scraps all the time and with the price of lumber even a 6” piece of 2x4 can save you $10 if that is all you need. But I also save material and leftover parts. An example is years ago we got a new garage door opener, but because we were replacing the older model a lot of the pieces were already in place so I was left with steel support hangers, etc. Heck, maybe one day I use them and again save some $$. My wife does the safe with her knitting, her Cricut plotting cutter materials, and so on. You just never know!
I have a rubber stamp storage cabinet that I use to store all my supplies and materials. The drawers are clear so it's easy to see what's inside each drawer
I work with clay. I have BINDERS. 3 big 3 inch binders. Full of flatten scrap clay colours. My rule for myself is to look in my binders first before opening any new clay. I try to use my scraps first.
Mr. Savage, If you’re looking for drawer slides, or cabinets in general, come back to Fresno CA to Executive Interiors. We are a stones throw away from your friends at Monster City Studios and would be happy to take care of all your storage and cabinetry dreams.
I built a storage cabinet for a similar sorting system to sortimo, I have glides on the cabinet that the storage containers can slide on/in to and simply have 1 set or drawer guides on a pull out platform on top which can be slid out and provides a space to set a sorting container on, and when not in use slides right back into the cabinet. My bench top drill press sit in top of the cabinet on one side and my bench grinder sits on the other, and I want to say maybe 12-15 organizers fit in each side; it is on 4 inch locking casters so it can be spun around or tucked away as my shop is only 15’x25’. I used the cases from Harbor Freight that are similar to the sortimo though at $5-$10 depending on sales a lot LOT cheaper than Festool. Though a lot of companies make similar systems now like Milwaukee and DeWalt if you prefer them. As a business owner cost and function are king and while I will spend more money on some things that get you demonstrably better life lengths sortimo simply doesn’t justify the cost over something like HF; we use the containers for storing a lot and have built similar slots on the trailers so you can swop out boxes as needed.
I feel this right in my leather scraps bins. Yes plural. I start out by buying scraps at my local hobby store so there is mostly really useless scraps left. I've started to throw away the vast majority but have a tenancy to err on the cautious side.
The biggest problem I have is feeling like something isn't right with my organization, but not being able to pin down exactly what the problem is so I make changes, reorganize, spend money, but still don't feel completely satisfied. Then there's always the 2 other problems you unintentionally create by rejigging something to fix one problem you knew about.
Been suffering with this dilemma for years. So many scraps that have never been used and realistically will never be used. Invariably they're just too small for most jobs. But, I cannot bring myself to chuck them. Maybe this video is finally the motivation I need.
I can fill my pickup bed from a local amish mill with cutoffs and scraps for about 30 bucks. They are kiln dried and most people use it in their wood stoves. As do I, but I filter through it and find all the scraps with amazing figure and rip it into blanks that I glue together to make cutting boards, boxes and other things that end up having amazing figure and glisten depending on what direction the light hits it. A lot of oak and walnut. Most of the peices come from crotch areas. I have even gotten some cut from burls. They dont like these areas because it isnt consistent for the tongue and groove planks they make. I have made lots of money with their scraps that would have been burned.
I am a woodworker who uses a mix of reclaimed wood, store bought dimensional lumber, and wood from limbs and logs thay I mill myself. I do not have a huge shop so I have to be more discerning about what is kept. Typically all small plywood and pressboard goes in the trash. Most small bits with paint or finish also head to the trash. Anything else that is less usefull goes in boxes and a couple times a year they head to friend's houses that have woodburning stoves. So the majority of my extra scrap ends up used for further projects or providing winter heat. As Adam said though, decided which to keep id a difficult process.
do me a favour a help rewrite and perfect this im sending it everywhere so just reply with ideas even space studio/ makerspaces conventions hundreds of projects vs war to mad max when thiers gold in the ocean coral reef incubators, oceanic robtics,, robo chefs and space vendors, housing first systems good stuff we needed space studio/ makerspaces in convention centres hundreds of projects vs war to the stone age for survivors with mad max to look foward to when thiers gold in the ocean but zero facility we could have coral reef incubators, oceanic robtics,, robo chefs and space vendors, housing first system analysis and recycling, ect 5 floors with this list incorporated ... i plan to make a 3d model (rooftop) garden dome, solar water features, plants, irrigation systems, pottery wheels, musical instrument's violin, piano ect., marble machines, telescopes, (Spacestudio) shuttle replica workshop, perspex display units, 3d printers, space projects, rovers, robots, ongoing experiments, concept art,, of space cargo, space hotels, rocket lab locations, asteroid detection screens and observatory links space vendors m.r.e ration crate concepts (Makerspace) (brains of the building) computer building, robotics, r2d2 coffee bots, 3d printers (lazy A.i cafe craft lounge), robo chefs board games project cases, kitbashing hobbie crafts, jewellery making, knitting, cosplay, random art ect (Global innovation platform) (the money maker) fundamental research and collaboration eco projects conservational projects events and tours recycling, waste systems, vertical farming mapping footprint coalition- data base integration, food science analysis global missions, and a list of major input, updates, and breakthroughs
I'm terrible at taking my own advice, but I usually suggest to limit your scraps by volume. Whatever your storage bin, a milk crate, a box, whatever, only keep what fits in that bin, if you have something new, toss it or something less useful to make room for it. Giving yourself the permission to hoard within limits can help.
One time I left the rubber grip from a bicycle handle in the same spot on the floor for like 3 years, because everytime I looked at it I just had a feeling... Eventually it ended up being just what I needed for the handle of a portable shop light that I cobbled together out of other junk that I saved. I'm not saying it was worth it, but it was an interesting experiment. And I still use the light 💡😁
Ok before watching this video I’m gonna comment. I’m making myself a coffee and getting comfortable before pressing play. I’m so looking forward to this solution. I’m literally a material hoarder!
We made a few hundred pounds of Delrin cuts today. Big, 8" diameter, .8" thick rounds. Just tossed in the trash. I grabbed about 30 pounds worth myself .
My answer would be when it starts to encroach on your creative process or eat up your valuable shop space that could house another tool or project. One thing that my father and I used to do with materials at the end of the year that would be left over… Specifically wood (if it was not treated) we would go through and cull out Anything worth keeping and store it but any really small pieces that were just trivial we were always cut them up and put them in to 55 gallon drums that we had over by the wall and at the end of the year merry Christmas we would take a 55 gallon drum full of kindling and give it to people for their fireplace. We also used this scrap wood to heat our shop all through the winter with a wood-burning stove in the corner… So it might seem like waste but not really since we were burning it for heat. I rarely ever throw away metal scraps since you can obviously weld them, but for example in order to create more “useful scrap” when planning projects out in the drawing phase I try really hard to make sure that the scrap that will be left cutting things out will be at least semi-useful knowing that larger pieces are more useful in most cases than smaller pieces and that pieces with a straight side normally have more use. And yes for what you keep storage is key. But I never throw it in the trash per se. Really small pieces of plastic can help make great kids toys…
I am a field carpenter and don’t do a ton of shop work. For me, anything less than 16” dimension is worthless. Plus, not working in the same place all the time, I probably wouldn’t have the scrap on sIte if I needed it. If I worked in the shop more and on smaller projects I’d probably save more. In any case, the hassle of storing scraps and the logistics of it is often not worth the monetary value of a lot materials.
I built a cabinet/rack for bins similar to your sortimoe(sp?) cases. What I did was build one pull out shelf on drawer slides at a comfortable height. I think it would be pointless if you had drawer slides on all of them unless they are all at a reasonable working height.
I think putting all the costumes on mannequins and then having them setup on an airport style baggage claim conveyor where they revolve around on the belt constantly but you can only see a small number of them at a time because the rest are on the conveyor behind the wall would be a perfect way to display them!
As a woodworker, my scraps are mainly wood, when they start building up I make it a challenge to start coming up with scrapwood projects to use it up. They can then be sold off or gifted away, Christmas is a particular good time to try to sell or give away these projects.
I think a HUGE part of the hesitation to throw anything out is not wanting to have to buy it again. That's one of the main factors a person should consider on "should I throw this out". Well, is it worth purchasing/finding it again vs. the aggravation of clutter and accumulating stuff.
Drawerslides? I can understand not wanting to buy and install 50 pairs of them. Maybe you could get by with just a few pairs? In each cabinet or each stack of those cases, build just one flat shelf that pulls out on drawer slides. Then you pull the case out, pull out the shelf, set the case on the shelf... It's an extra step but it gets you a convenient place right where you are to set the case while you look through it. And you can push the shelf back in as easily as you pull it out.
Adam dreams of a gallery of costumes... I dream of a shed or workshop where I can use my tools properly. In a way, it is reassuring to know that even great makers are aspiring to more space to store their stuff. Because I seem to find it's always a great compromise. Tools I cant use: I have a CNC - but nowhere to use it where I can make that much dust or noise. I want a lathe and a drill press (maybe double up for inserting threaded inserts). I'm glad I can have a 3D printer on my desk - it's not messy or noisy so is ok in the home setting.
If you could stand to do it, those costumes you want to see on mannequins, could you hire that out for corporate lobbies? Some places love that kind of decoration, so it'd be displayed instead of in a cupboard somewhere.
Put a hook on the glue cart and LIFT that sucker above your head. Id suggest a 4:1 rope system and a deck cleat mounted on the side wall. Lifting strap with eye can be riveted right to the cart. When you want to get the cart out of the way you connect the hook, pull the rope till its above your head then secure it to the deck cleat on the wall. To get it back down you undo the cleat, lower it, detach the hook and move it where you want.
Is there any proper way to recycle craft materials rather then just throw them all out? I mostly work with EVA foam, apolstry foam, fabric, and Faux fur.
Those of us who remember card files at the library remember the pull-out shelves about waist high. We would pull out the drawer of cards, pull out the shelf, and put the drawer on the shelf to go through the cards at a comfortable height. This also allowed you to look at the cards in the back of the drawer without the drawer falling out. I sometimes carry a small piece of half inch piece of kelron to show the worker how thick I want my stick bologna cut for the grill. I know it is not healthy, but grilled bologna taste so good to this omnivore.
A friend of mine would scrap any bar stock that was under a12" long , I have found as a model builder (steam engines and gas engines )that anything under 3" long goes into the bin otherwise the shop is too cluttered .
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do me a favour a help rewrite and perfect this im sending it everywhere so just reply with ideas even
space studio/ makerspaces conventions hundreds of projects vs war to mad max when thiers gold in the ocean coral reef incubators, oceanic robtics,, robo chefs and space vendors, housing first systems
we needed space studio/ makerspaces in convention centres
hundreds of projects vs war to the stone age for survivors with mad max to look foward to
when thiers gold in the ocean but zero facility we could have coral reef incubators, oceanic robtics,, robo chefs and space vendors, housing first system analysis and recycling, ect
5 floors with this list incorporated ...
i plan to make a 3d model
(rooftop) garden dome,
solar water features, plants, irrigation systems, pottery wheels, musical instrument's violin, piano ect., marble machines, telescopes,
(Spacestudio) shuttle replica workshop, perspex display units, 3d printers, space projects, rovers, robots, ongoing experiments, concept art,, of space cargo, space hotels, rocket lab locations, asteroid detection screens and observatory links space vendors m.r.e ration crate concepts
(Makerspace) (brains of the building) computer building, robotics, r2d2 coffee bots, 3d printers
(lazy A.i cafe craft lounge), robo chefs board games project cases,
kitbashing hobbie crafts, jewellery making, knitting, cosplay, random art ect
(Global innovation platform) (the money maker)
fundamental research and collaboration
eco projects
conservational projects
events and tours
recycling,
waste systems,
vertical farming mapping
footprint coalition- data base integration, food science analysis
global missions, and a list of major input, updates, and breakthroughs
I need a way to get my hands on thick bars and plates of copper and brass as i am a up and coming jewelry, artist, creator, and i have been trying to obtain chunks big enough to cut and carve 3d objects from such as Pendants, charms and etc any tips, love Vibrations from a looooong time Mythbusters viewer
Would love to get silver too but wishful thinking
Cut your scraps into circles... no need to throw anything away 🙌
That sounds like the beginning of a song..
fkn genius
Sounds like kind of a last resort
I particularly love: “sometimes you just wanna see all your suits of armour in one spot”
Everyone knows that feeling. Lol.
"This is where I would put all my suits of armor... if I had any!"
i love getting scrape from my local furniture makers / wood workers because i like to make miniatures like doll house stuff. i dont need a giant piece of plywood to make a 3 inch tall chair. lol
I'm a knife maker so I hoard hardwood scrap 😂
That's a very good point. The value of scrap is directly proportional to the size of stuff you make!
trickle-down making!
Do you get offcuts, or pull from their bins? And do you pay them for it? Or are they just happy to be rid of it? I’ve been meaning to go ask a local furniture company for some scrap pieces of similar size, but I don’t know what would be appropriate to ask/offer
I work on a lot of bikes, especially dirty and grimey ones, so I save scrap paper towel. Whenever I wipe down a surface with paper towel, I let it dry out to be used on a sludge covered bottom bracket later. It just seems so wasteful using a fresh pristine paper towel to move around sludge.
Haha, i try to get multiple usages of those too. Many things i clean in my shop need to be as spotless as possible, and particles that stick to the wipes can cause scratches. But other things just need to get cleaned from nasty to less-nasty, and the reused paper towels are perfect. They're expensive!
I do the same! If all I’ve done is washed my hands I’ll leave the paper towel draped to dry, drives my partner nuts when there are like 5 of them festooning the kitchen. Artist habits.
"When to Discard Scrap Materials?" that's definitely a tough question, i absolutely agree with you on that.
I feel the urge to keep everything that might com ein Handy a some time. Since I live (and work) in a rather small place throwing away things is mandatory. I still keep a lot of stuff I never use but you never know. I guess everybody had that moment when we have thrown avay that absolutely useless looking piece and three days later we needed exactly a piece of that material in roughly that shape and then we have to buy buy a new piece or cut it of from a perfectly fine board, sheet of plastic, leather, whatever, but I guess you just have to skip that thought, especially when it come to tiny bits and you have dozens of them.
I just threw a large bag full of tiny fur scraps away this morning. I way need some pieces in the future, but not a large bag full of them.
The big exception is Worbla. The blessing and the curse of that material is that you can use every tiny bit of that stuff since you can just melt it together again to make larger parts, but My Box of Worbla pieces is huge.
I occasionally use them but I admit, I probably create more scraps than I use....
If you haven't seen it, Alexandre Chappel built a shelving system for his own cases of a similar style, and there was a little pullout shelf halfway up so you could set the box down right there and get the trays you need. That could be a happy medium between having to bring them to another table and having every one on its own drawer slide (I feel like there'd also be a pretty narrow height range for that to work well). It might even be a relatively simple addition to the rack you already have?
Alexandre Chappel's vid: th-cam.com/video/OthwoWeLb_U/w-d-xo.html
This is what I was picturing!
A couple years ago I was given the single most helpful question for sorting out scraps: if I needed this in the future, would I actually look for it and use it? Or would I buy it new or something else? If the answer is, no, I actually wouldn’t use it in the future, then it doesn’t need to be in my life anymore.
Oh, great advice.
Follow up question:
Have you ever thrown something out. Then soon after doing that, discovered it would have been the perfect piece for your next project?
Just like when you can't find something and look for it (sometimes for years) and finally buy a new one. The old/lost one will show up very soon afterwards!
Everyone who hobby builds has gone through that one. aka WTF is this? F'ed I know, toss! Week later @$$%!Q@!!!
That's my life.
Always this! :)
Sometimes eliminating scraps and making room for more assets can be more cathartic than making.
6:00 I think there would be some Museums that would willing to have Adam’s costumes as exhibits.
YES! Rent them a museum pieces!
Searching through the delirin bin really got me. Going through my own scrap I feel like I can use pieces for some part project that would be a waste of a large piece but perfect for these random scraps. It's so hard to pick between scrap and potential small parts perfection.
It seems like there ought to be a cosplay museum or gallery to put costumes on display. I think it would be a cool concept. There’s a lot of people like Adam who have made many amazing costumes that aren’t worn often. Would be cool if there was a place where people could send costumes on loan for people to come and see and be inspired for their own builds.
What you keep also depends on how much space you have.
A lot of space gives you a lot of leeway to keep more.
Just threw out a skipful of scraps, off-cuts, and "I was going to do something with that" bits the other week. Getting rid of them actually gave me more energy and inclination to be productive with what was left. Funny how that works.
Bet you end up keeping the off cuts from the parts you are productivity with.
We all do.
My woodworking consists entirely of making scales for the knives I make, so I basically survive off scraps and off cuts 😂
This video speaks to me. The agony of getting rid of scraps cause "I might need it" and the rabbit hole of reorganising something I had organised before.
Me: Let's finally get rid of this piece that's been there for years...I'll never need this.
One week later...
Me: Gosh I could have used that piece...
This is tough as a scale model maker (as small as 1:285th), because even the smallest piece can find life in a diorama!
BEST QUESTION EVER!!!!!! Thanks for your input Adam! I have bought and scavenged buckets of scraps! Covid was great for my scrap cleanout. I day dream about rebuilds on my organization...
"Living with an imperfect situation until I finally get angry enough to solve the problem" is a near-perfect description of how I feel about my job.
Thank you for being a cheerful and enthusiastic person who's willing to let us see the downsides and mistakes, too. It really helps me deal with all the crap in the world right now.
Speaking of leather patina…
That piece protecting your workbench is ageing like a fine wine. It would look amazing framed and hung on a wall.
Might be an option to raise money for a charity one day.
Ok, so how's about an Adam Savage Travelling Cosplay Show where your complete costumes are on display (on mannequins) for us to see? I'd pay to see that. And then the proceeds can go to purchasing a location to permanently display them (on mannequins) in your local area where tourists could see them yet you'd have access to them whenever you'd like. Just throwing out an idea
It could literally be displayed in multiple freight trucks. With different trucks being different exhibits. So they can just park in a parking lot and set up a viewing anywhere.
@@Moshington One truck for comic characters, one for movie/tv, one for space suits and one for miscellaneous. Though the problem would be some comic characters are in movies/tv and some space suits are in movies/tv. Someone needs to get on the sorting now so it can be done. Lol
finally! A youtube maker channel with a shop that resembles mine. Or at least what I wish to develop mine to resemble to a lesser degree.
Adam, you amaze me with your manufacturing/creating resources and ability.
I watch this segment just to see your thoughts on keeping/discarding scrap. There is nothing quite as validating as taking on a project and not having to purchase anything to complete it because everything needed is in the shop.
Makes the decision to keep those "scrap" items seem quite valid.
Thanks for all of your content. Very enjoyable viewing.
Are you aware of Mythbusters?
Uhhhh, let me know when you want to "get rid of" more delrin scraps! I need more Scraps of my own! 🤣🤣
I always save but rarely end up using my scraps. I keep trying, but rarely find them useful.
But my garbage...man, I use that stuff for EVERYTHING. I have significant amounts of furniture made from cardboard boxes, plastic jars and tubs, ripped up and worn out clothes or bed sheets...scraps are scraps but trash is freakin treasure... xD
Of course, this means I have multiple closets and cabinets full of "trash"... Just waiting for the days when I need twenty big plastic jars or two dozen empty spice containers or fifteen identical cardboard boxes...
About drawer slides/access for the Sortimos. IMO you don’t want slides on for every storage location. The ones on floor and 5’ (1.5m) up are not good for rummaging through. I built a bread-rack for Stanley 14725R (the poor man’s Sortimo). I made a pull-out shelf at bar height in each column. This works amazingly well. When you need something, you pull out the shelf, grab the organizer, put it on the shelf, rummage around, and be sure to put it right back for the next thing you need.
For the sortimo(sp?) cases, find the row that is at the most comfortable height for rooting through cases and replace once case with a slide out shelf. Then you slide the shelf out, put whatever case you need on it, get what you need, and put the case & shelf away. Minimal expense & building that will give you most of the convenience of them all being on sliders. And because the shelf slides away it won't accumulate junk and be unusable for it's purpose.
I keep all my scraps as a living testament to entropy
The welding shop I work at recently started sending pallets of our drops to the local tech school. the recently got like 3000# of 2" angle iron because we end up with a 50" ish drop off a bulk job we do and we all looked at the scrap bin a little queasy after every run. as makers, seeing one of those big audo dumpers loaded with material so long it hangs out the front is never a good feeling.
One way I started dealing with scraps in my cabinet shop was to begin trading out for better scraps. If I had a good scrap I wanted to save, then an old scrap had to go. But also, I realized that SPACE is also a valuable commodity, and one must question what is more valuable.
I put all my scrap material for throwing away in a box that I keep for a year but never look in. Once I've completely forgotten the contents, it's safe to throw it.
If I knowingly throw something out, it's guaranteed that I will need it within the next 24 hours.
"Working with an imperfect solution until I'm angry enough to fix it" speaks to so many things I've dealt with and jobs I've had...
Scraps! Oh man, I have an arch of wood I made up years ago, laminated pieces of 1/16 mahog about 1.25" thick and 2" deep in a curve, intended for part of a wooden boat breasthook. I've stood over the shop garbage bin dozens of times with that piece of wood in my hands in a state of painful deliberation and somehow it always ends up back in my storage rack! Most of the old woodworkers I know have a strict shop rule by length... nothing under 12" stays. Period.
One makers scrap, Is another makers gold,; but as Captain Kirk would say space is the final frontier.
you might want to look into data center decommission companies like baytech recovery or the like. id be willing to bet you could get a truck load of server rail kits you could use for your organizers at low or no cost.
the answer for me is "never" LOL but I have a small shop and live paycheck to paycheck so tossing scraps feels like throwing away money
and that's how hoarding starts. Not even kidding. my father is the same. "never throw out scraps". meaning we have a ton of stupid, shitty crap taking up a lot of space. And ofcourse he'll feel validated when we need a piece of scrap. never mind the fact that we had to keep it 20 years before being useful. And don't even *think* about throwing stuff out.
Keeping, then finding and using scrap material also has a monetary and time cost: you can easily spend more time rooting through your stash of little bits which aren't quite big enough to hold and make the part, than you would sliding a longer piece into the lathe and 'just' making it. I had this yesterday; I made a complete template for a part while the friend I was helping pulled out lots of random containers and previous projects to 'save time making a new one'. Some of them could have been workable, but would have been no less work, and would always have looked like they were bodged together out of junk. The new part will be made from 2 pieces of sheet steel, folded and plug welded together, instead of spending another 20minutes looking for a glue to bond two unsuitable materials together
I gained an entire drawer by getting rid of all the 20mm long stubs of material that weighed it down. That space is far more valuable than the waste that was in it. As Adam said, set a size limit - which will depend on what material you use, what you use it for, and the space you have to keep it - and dispose of it at the end of the job. Trimming the odd corners off bigger pieces makes them easier to store and sort too.
Glad to see the time honored method of dumpster diving for useful materials is alive and well. (Of course ours are not as flashy as Industrial Light & Magic's) It's real hard to see useful stuff thrown away as a maker and not salvage it!
📥 9:20 Adam, what about building onto the cabinet a flip out or fold up/down tray as a temporary base while the case is open?
Also, do you truly need full on roller bearing slides, or could you rough it with some shop-made nylon/teflon slide-type support?
Asking for a friend.
Art shop at uni was doing a sale to get rid of old stock. Was so tempting to just buy a whole load of random paper stock, but decided against it. Did come away with lovely leather textured paper, which might be useful, but I do tend to hoard random material that aquire "just in case"
next episode we fix the lights :) all ways like to see what your building or fixing... keep up the vids!
Hah! Just did the same thing. I just yesterday tossed the two pieces I had cut out of my Ocean Kayak while installing hatches in 1991(!) but today I thought of something I might need one for.
As it always happens. Every! Single! Time!
Two things about keeping scrap 1 finding a organized place to put the scrap and 2 remembering you have it when you need it.
I sometimes see materials- especially old screws and hardware as almost having a life. I feel sorry for something that ends up in a dump rather than being part of a creation… I hardly ever throw stuff away, unless it is broken, badly corroded or diminished to sawdust. .. there must be something wrong with me.
You just have 'optimal use' syndrome.
The Adam Savage Museum. I feel like that could generate a self sustaining amount of income to display and care for all your costumes
Need a Savage Museum. Put all your costumes and props on display. And it can be a living museum so you can see Adam running in a taking a prop out of a display to revisit a prop.
Beginning to wonder if we need to start a project fund to give this man the means to do those obscure expensive works we love to watch so much. Outside of patreon that is.
Awesome video. My dad always says "Never get rid of scrap, you never know when you might need it."
My dad used to say "It'll come in handy even if you never use it!" 😁
You work with leather show us this suitcase in your mind 😁 please
You can tell Adam is legit by the non functional light, every professional needs that light that's worn out from too much use.
They're not that old and the ones he built just a few years ago at most. I never cared for the design as they are wobbly and squeaky. I cringe every time he uses/moves them. Now the Chinese components are really starting to show themselves.
Hey Adam! Don't throw away your small scraps! Keep some USPS flat rate boxes on hand and fill them up with your "useless" scraps. Then sell them on EBAY! I would love to buy a box of Adam Savage scraps to keep around to try to incorporate into anything I do! Seriously. Write out some postcards that say something like "Thank you for being creative, and good luck with your projects" and sign your name. That will make it extra special and will probably bring in an extra $50 for the box. Seriously!
I recently started working at a drapery and upholstery shop and now I have access to so many scraps and old drapes that I've been able to salvage. And I get to make high end decorations to adorn the walls of mansions. Ill tell ya it ain't a bad gig!
hi adam 👋🏽
If adam had the space, I bet he would love to find an airport baggage carosel at auction and mount all his manikins on it so his costumes would circle the room
Who wouldn't 🤣
Watching this while looking at a pile of completely unusable pile of tiny pieces of leather from my projects. It feels wrong to throw away anything larger than like 1cm lol
I keep enough scraps for a single job. Having more means you create more scraps than you use them. Scraps are awesome but within reason. My scraps either have a project in mind when I look at them, or they're perfect as a complementary piece to something I may never know if I need. Keeping enough for one job is the healthy amount for me.
This was very cathartic to hear. Thank you.
Oh man, do I get this. I horde Delrin and metal cutoffs. I have to take your lead here and organize this stuff.
I'll have to watch this later. Just sickness me to think material can become scraps.....
Why don’t you ever throw out any circle scrap?
I throw something away when it meets most of these conditions:
It has no real monetary value
I can buy it for a low price if i need it again
It's available without looking for it for a long time
It has no historical value.
So i have some vintage radio parts which are barely or not made anymore. They take up a lot of space, but buying them again is hard and/or expensive, so i keep them.
I have a lot of tube sockets too. But those are still being made, have no historical value, and i can buy them if i need some. So i'm gonna get rid of maybe 75 out of 100 sockets i have.
I have some quite long ferrite rods. While not expensive nor historically interesting, they can only be imported for china so i keep them to avoid the frustration of waiting weeks to get them.
Adam, Rent a warehouse, buy a hundred mannequins, setup all your costumes, file for a museum permit and charge admission.
Thank you for always sharing your skills. It’s amazing to see what success looks like and a great example to follow after.
What do you use those collets for? I have to use them at work to hold tools in the Haas vertical Mills I run...do you use them in manual machines?
Adam, If looking for low cost drawer slides, check out Outwater Plastics on the web. In 2020, I ordered 22 pairs of 24 inch 100 lb full extension ball bearing slides for a miter cabinet I was making at $8.21 a pair. They have lots of sizes and types available. I'm also on the Sortimo bandwagon so would love to see the cabinet you would make.
I have the same problem. I find that small pieces of anything can be used for various fixtures. I’ll save odd bits of metal, and go and quickly weld them together for a fixture, or some odd shaped part I don’t want to machine out of solid. It’s really difficult to let materials go. It’s so expensive, particularly these days, to buy materials, that a small piece of bronze might cost $30! Throw that away? Crazy!
When you work on really small stuff, there isn't really such a thing as scrap. I don't think i've ever thrown out scrap in 25 years of making. like really.
Make the rounds at the Habitat for Humanity stores in your area for drawer slides. I can't afford Sortimo but, the Harbor Freight version (Stanley knock-off) is one I have built shelving for. Walmart has reasonably sturdy metal shelving which can be retrofitted with drawer slides on wooden end/divider panels and the whole thing can be put on casters, If you keep the two halves unstacked. It's also a very serviceable mobile worktop. H4H is also a great source for casters (Or was until Adam mentioned their usefulness).
It's hard to throw out any tech stuff in my town. maybe twice a year is a toxic waste collection, usually the day I am away or working. Electronics, maybe in a nearby city rarely. Scopes, test equipment, decades of hobby projects. metal like disk brakes, motors, air compressor tanks. I was saving a pile for a nearby scrapyard, even cat converters from my 20+ year old cars and wood stove, they closed up.
Hey Adam...how about you look into starting a national Cosplay museum...you could display your costumes *and* run workshops and experience days.
Also, if there was going to be such a place, I couldn't imagine anywhere more appropriate than the very city you're based.
I built a 500lb locomotive model with two 1000 watt, 24vdc batteries and RC.
Made most of it from metal I gleaned from 16ga metal cabinets.
I’m a hermit and mist days I’m surprised that it’s dark when I come out of the shop to go in the house..my safe little model world
This was such a great question because we all do this! I save wood scraps all the time and with the price of lumber even a 6” piece of 2x4 can save you $10 if that is all you need. But I also save material and leftover parts. An example is years ago we got a new garage door opener, but because we were replacing the older model a lot of the pieces were already in place so I was left with steel support hangers, etc. Heck, maybe one day I use them and again save some $$. My wife does the safe with her knitting, her Cricut plotting cutter materials, and so on. You just never know!
I have a rubber stamp storage cabinet that I use to store all my supplies and materials. The drawers are clear so it's easy to see what's inside each drawer
I work with clay. I have BINDERS. 3 big 3 inch binders. Full of flatten scrap clay colours. My rule for myself is to look in my binders first before opening any new clay. I try to use my scraps first.
Mr. Savage,
If you’re looking for drawer slides, or cabinets in general, come back to Fresno CA to Executive Interiors. We are a stones throw away from your friends at Monster City Studios and would be happy to take care of all your storage and cabinetry dreams.
I built a storage cabinet for a similar sorting system to sortimo, I have glides on the cabinet that the storage containers can slide on/in to and simply have 1 set or drawer guides on a pull out platform on top which can be slid out and provides a space to set a sorting container on, and when not in use slides right back into the cabinet. My bench top drill press sit in top of the cabinet on one side and my bench grinder sits on the other, and I want to say maybe 12-15 organizers fit in each side; it is on 4 inch locking casters so it can be spun around or tucked away as my shop is only 15’x25’. I used the cases from Harbor Freight that are similar to the sortimo though at $5-$10 depending on sales a lot LOT cheaper than Festool. Though a lot of companies make similar systems now like Milwaukee and DeWalt if you prefer them. As a business owner cost and function are king and while I will spend more money on some things that get you demonstrably better life lengths sortimo simply doesn’t justify the cost over something like HF; we use the containers for storing a lot and have built similar slots on the trailers so you can swop out boxes as needed.
I feel this right in my leather scraps bins. Yes plural. I start out by buying scraps at my local hobby store so there is mostly really useless scraps left. I've started to throw away the vast majority but have a tenancy to err on the cautious side.
The biggest problem I have is feeling like something isn't right with my organization, but not being able to pin down exactly what the problem is so I make changes, reorganize, spend money, but still don't feel completely satisfied. Then there's always the 2 other problems you unintentionally create by rejigging something to fix one problem you knew about.
Been suffering with this dilemma for years. So many scraps that have never been used and realistically will never be used. Invariably they're just too small for most jobs. But, I cannot bring myself to chuck them. Maybe this video is finally the motivation I need.
Why do you keep the circles?! You can't just leave us hanging like that. I can hardly think of any use for a piece of circle scraps
I can fill my pickup bed from a local amish mill with cutoffs and scraps for about 30 bucks. They are kiln dried and most people use it in their wood stoves. As do I, but I filter through it and find all the scraps with amazing figure and rip it into blanks that I glue together to make cutting boards, boxes and other things that end up having amazing figure and glisten depending on what direction the light hits it. A lot of oak and walnut. Most of the peices come from crotch areas. I have even gotten some cut from burls. They dont like these areas because it isnt consistent for the tongue and groove planks they make. I have made lots of money with their scraps that would have been burned.
I am a woodworker who uses a mix of reclaimed wood, store bought dimensional lumber, and wood from limbs and logs thay I mill myself. I do not have a huge shop so I have to be more discerning about what is kept. Typically all small plywood and pressboard goes in the trash. Most small bits with paint or finish also head to the trash. Anything else that is less usefull goes in boxes and a couple times a year they head to friend's houses that have woodburning stoves. So the majority of my extra scrap ends up used for further projects or providing winter heat. As Adam said though, decided which to keep id a difficult process.
do me a favour a help rewrite and perfect this im sending it everywhere so just reply with ideas even
space studio/ makerspaces conventions hundreds of projects vs war to mad max when thiers gold in the ocean coral reef incubators, oceanic robtics,, robo chefs and space vendors, housing first systems
good stuff
we needed space studio/ makerspaces in convention centres
hundreds of projects vs war to the stone age for survivors with mad max to look foward to
when thiers gold in the ocean but zero facility we could have coral reef incubators, oceanic robtics,, robo chefs and space vendors, housing first system analysis and recycling, ect
5 floors with this list incorporated ...
i plan to make a 3d model
(rooftop) garden dome,
solar water features, plants, irrigation systems, pottery wheels, musical instrument's violin, piano ect., marble machines, telescopes,
(Spacestudio) shuttle replica workshop, perspex display units, 3d printers, space projects, rovers, robots, ongoing experiments, concept art,, of space cargo, space hotels, rocket lab locations, asteroid detection screens and observatory links space vendors m.r.e ration crate concepts
(Makerspace) (brains of the building) computer building, robotics, r2d2 coffee bots, 3d printers
(lazy A.i cafe craft lounge), robo chefs board games project cases,
kitbashing hobbie crafts, jewellery making, knitting, cosplay, random art ect
(Global innovation platform) (the money maker)
fundamental research and collaboration
eco projects
conservational projects
events and tours
recycling,
waste systems,
vertical farming mapping
footprint coalition- data base integration, food science analysis
global missions, and a list of major input, updates, and breakthroughs
I'm terrible at taking my own advice, but I usually suggest to limit your scraps by volume. Whatever your storage bin, a milk crate, a box, whatever, only keep what fits in that bin, if you have something new, toss it or something less useful to make room for it. Giving yourself the permission to hoard within limits can help.
One time I left the rubber grip from a bicycle handle in the same spot on the floor for like 3 years, because everytime I looked at it I just had a feeling... Eventually it ended up being just what I needed for the handle of a portable shop light that I cobbled together out of other junk that I saved. I'm not saying it was worth it, but it was an interesting experiment. And I still use the light 💡😁
Ok before watching this video I’m gonna comment. I’m making myself a coffee and getting comfortable before pressing play. I’m so looking forward to this solution. I’m literally a material hoarder!
We made a few hundred pounds of Delrin cuts today. Big, 8" diameter, .8" thick rounds. Just tossed in the trash. I grabbed about 30 pounds worth myself .
I build massive costumes and I live in a tiny duplex so I'm forced to go through my scraps and throw some away each year.
My answer would be when it starts to encroach on your creative process or eat up your valuable shop space that could house another tool or project.
One thing that my father and I used to do with materials at the end of the year that would be left over… Specifically wood (if it was not treated) we would go through and cull out Anything worth keeping and store it but any really small pieces that were just trivial we were always cut them up and put them in to 55 gallon drums that we had over by the wall and at the end of the year merry Christmas we would take a 55 gallon drum full of kindling and give it to people for their fireplace.
We also used this scrap wood to heat our shop all through the winter with a wood-burning stove in the corner… So it might seem like waste but not really since we were burning it for heat.
I rarely ever throw away metal scraps since you can obviously weld them, but for example in order to create more “useful scrap” when planning projects out in the drawing phase I try really hard to make sure that the scrap that will be left cutting things out will be at least semi-useful knowing that larger pieces are more useful in most cases than smaller pieces and that pieces with a straight side normally have more use.
And yes for what you keep storage is key. But I never throw it in the trash per se.
Really small pieces of plastic can help make great kids toys…
I am a field carpenter and don’t do a ton of shop work. For me, anything less than 16” dimension is worthless. Plus, not working in the same place all the time, I probably wouldn’t have the scrap on sIte if I needed it. If I worked in the shop more and on smaller projects I’d probably save more. In any case, the hassle of storing scraps and the logistics of it is often not worth the monetary value of a lot materials.
I built a cabinet/rack for bins similar to your sortimoe(sp?) cases. What I did was build one pull out shelf on drawer slides at a comfortable height. I think it would be pointless if you had drawer slides on all of them unless they are all at a reasonable working height.
I think putting all the costumes on mannequins and then having them setup on an airport style baggage claim conveyor where they revolve around on the belt constantly but you can only see a small number of them at a time because the rest are on the conveyor behind the wall would be a perfect way to display them!
As a woodworker, my scraps are mainly wood, when they start building up I make it a challenge to start coming up with scrapwood projects to use it up. They can then be sold off or gifted away, Christmas is a particular good time to try to sell or give away these projects.
I think a HUGE part of the hesitation to throw anything out is not wanting to have to buy it again. That's one of the main factors a person should consider on "should I throw this out". Well, is it worth purchasing/finding it again vs. the aggravation of clutter and accumulating stuff.
Drawerslides? I can understand not wanting to buy and install 50 pairs of them. Maybe you could get by with just a few pairs? In each cabinet or each stack of those cases, build just one flat shelf that pulls out on drawer slides. Then you pull the case out, pull out the shelf, set the case on the shelf... It's an extra step but it gets you a convenient place right where you are to set the case while you look through it. And you can push the shelf back in as easily as you pull it out.
Adam dreams of a gallery of costumes... I dream of a shed or workshop where I can use my tools properly. In a way, it is reassuring to know that even great makers are aspiring to more space to store their stuff. Because I seem to find it's always a great compromise.
Tools I cant use: I have a CNC - but nowhere to use it where I can make that much dust or noise. I want a lathe and a drill press (maybe double up for inserting threaded inserts).
I'm glad I can have a 3D printer on my desk - it's not messy or noisy so is ok in the home setting.
If you could stand to do it, those costumes you want to see on mannequins, could you hire that out for corporate lobbies? Some places love that kind of decoration, so it'd be displayed instead of in a cupboard somewhere.
Put a hook on the glue cart and LIFT that sucker above your head.
Id suggest a 4:1 rope system and a deck cleat mounted on the side wall.
Lifting strap with eye can be riveted right to the cart.
When you want to get the cart out of the way you connect the hook, pull the rope till its above your head then secure it to the deck cleat on the wall.
To get it back down you undo the cleat, lower it, detach the hook and move it where you want.
Is there any proper way to recycle craft materials rather then just throw them all out? I mostly work with EVA foam, apolstry foam, fabric, and Faux fur.
Those of us who remember card files at the library remember the pull-out shelves about waist high. We would pull out the drawer of cards, pull out the shelf, and put the drawer on the shelf to go through the cards at a comfortable height. This also allowed you to look at the cards in the back of the drawer without the drawer falling out.
I sometimes carry a small piece of half inch piece of kelron to show the worker how thick I want my stick bologna cut for the grill. I know it is not healthy, but grilled bologna taste so good to this omnivore.
A friend of mine would scrap any bar stock that was under a12" long , I have found as a model builder (steam engines and gas engines )that anything under 3" long goes into the bin otherwise the shop is too cluttered .