Adam Savage's Spring Collection!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 เม.ย. 2022
- It's spring right now, but that's not the kind of spring that Adam wants to talk about today! Adam opens up his sortimo box of tension springs to talk about the varied assortment of unconventional springs he stores at the ready in the workshop and what he keeps an eye out for when browsing for springs online. Let's take a look of a new lot of springs that just arrived at the cave!
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I dont know about everyone else but i would watch an hour or series of Adam organizing his shop and stopping every once and awhile to explain the tool, and hardware and every memory and purpose
I don't know why I expected Adam's spring collection to be clothing for the Spring, but this is definitely more in line with his series of favorite tools lol
Funny, had the same thought. That should be a t-shirt design!
It's a clever title, especially given Adam's interest in (high) fashion.
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
Same, when I saw the title come across my feed I was like, “Cool, new merch!” Nope…. This should have dropped April 1st checking multiple boxes.
I am nevertheless looking forward to the summer collection
I can't wait tou see this summer collection
Coming up on Adam's One Day Builds: Lip Tray Connector to mount his sorting tray while he scoops things on the workbench into it. 😁
Things I have learned since becoming a member: Adding the word "Lot" into my searches has shown me that I need to either quit adding the word or get a bigger work area. Model Greebles Lot might end up being the death of me.
I thought about commenting about this hypothetical "tray holding solution" the moment it slipped, hahaha!
Totally thinking the same 🤣
The "Lot" suggestion is super useful. If I'm trying to find something esoteric on eBay, more often than not sellers are more interested in selling a "lot" of an item, rather than individual pieces. They'll also often sell a few functional pieces with a few broken ones thrown in too, which is a great way to get spare parts.
a lot of my work is more abstract, but this taps into the joy i get from collecting small metal scraps and garbage and sorting it. The more random stuff I have, the more likely I'll have exactly the piece I need in my next work - or I'll get a unique piece that inspires a whole new project! 😊 The sorting might be my fave part tho
Adam is one of the few people who can make a video about springs interesting.
I was looking for this comment. Found my self enthralled. But I am like crow or a raccoon, and enjoy shiny and odd looking things
I agree but the portion of the video of him randomly sorting is too long.
Adam Savage, master of making mundane things exciting. 😂😂
This Old Tony did an entertaining spring video as well in which he makes some springs also
I'm right there with you. I'm a tinkerer / fixer of things and you just never know when you need that "thinggy" to complete the build or fix. When you mentioned springs from VCR's I had a sigh of relief that I was not the only one who did that. When my grandmother passed a few years ago I was finally able to go through my grandfather's stash of thinggies because I wasn't allowed to touch his things (he died 30 years before my grandmother) after his death. I saved every last nut, bolt, spring, thing and do-dad he had saved because just because he didn't get around to needing them, it doesn't mean I won't need them.
I love springs. I have a few jars full of springs that I adopted from estate sales and yard sales. It makes me so happy to know that these jars of springs got passed from one maker to myself and I can go digging through them just as the original owner did for most likely decades before I had
I'm mostly working with small parts. You know what a magical source of free parts is? Printers / scanners !!! Most of it goes to recycling. The things I keep however are very useful. Screws of all sorts, springs in different sizes, shapes and tensions, the oversupply is usually a separate unit, ready for repurposing. And what often gets overlooked; the roller-rods are from hardened steel, VERY handy to make cutting tools with for a lathe. Also gears. I throw out the very specific ones, but the more universally usable ones I keep. And sheets of glass! Thin, very clear but strong sheets of glass! You can use them for cutting custom pieces, but they also are really handy in photography / PCB making. You can use them to make sure your light sensitive paper is kept perfectly flat during exposing, or for PCB's to keep the film pressed tightly to the PCB for exposing. You do have to test if the sheets you use for PCB exposure filter UV-B, since that's what the photo-resist usually responds to. And the motors! Most printers have a few very powerful DC motors!
If you're on social security and can't afford to buy parts you get creative ;) Old PC power supplies, printer components, CD / DVD drives, old hard-drives. And the best thing is; you get them for free!! And here in the Netherlands you can bring the rest for recycling.
When there were still CRT TV's you could get quite a few good components from them too. The new TV's hardly have anything worth salvaging, unless you need something very specific. The backlight can be useful in prop-making, but you have to have a purpose right away, because it's too large to store "just in case". Well, if you don't have a proper shop that is :p
Solid title.
Having a selection when you need it can be make or break. I helped build a solar race vehicle in college (think big electric go kart). When we got there, we started burning out motors. Turns out our gear ratio was off by enough to strain and overheat the motors, which we hadn't discovered because we didn't do any long-run stress tests (everybody is always finishing at the last minute for these competitions). So I found myself driving around Topeka for _hours_ on Saturday afternoon after having driven 12 hours to get there the night before in search of any sort of drive gear from a bicycle, motorcycle, boat, go kart, etc. at any place we could find, from hardware stores to barns. Never found anything we could use.
Of course, that was the early 2000s. Today, we'd be all over social media with it and probably could source one, even if we had to drive to Kansas City for it. But we wouldn't even have smart phones for a few more years.
(We ended up super-cooling our motors and swapping them between every lap. Because although we couldn't find a gear, I did find dry ice. We burned out all but 1 motor we brought and 2 other teams donated or sold us spares. We came in 2nd to last in our category and tier, only because the last place team had a major failure. Nobody finished all their laps, but overheating motors have horrible efficiency, so we ran out of battery early.)
Thankyou for this share team Tested, even if I don't use any of this knowledge, it gives a warm fuzzy feel which is appreciated during these times, it's exactly the benevolence TH-cam should be used for.
oh wow, I watch your videos and feel like I have found my "tribe" thank you for making these videos. If you ever wonder "would anyone watch this?" The answer is YES!
Look forward to your summer catalog
When you dumped that last bag out, I literally giggled. You have the BEST toys! I'm starting to realize, though, that may just be because you never forgot how to play with a bag of old springs. Never stop playing, and you'll always have toys. I used to think that I was getting old enough to find inspiring stories depressing, but then I found your TH-cam channel. It's like I'm a kid watching MythBusters again, but now I understand more deeply the nature of play.
Thanks.
You were like a kid in the candy store I get such a kick out of watching you sort things such as the springs out. My inventory of Springs will fit in the palm of your hand so apparently I don't collect Springs the way you do but anyway I really enjoy watching you Adam and I will continue watching as long as your channel stays up. Thanks for the thrill today have a great day and stay safe and keep your powder dry!
Never really thought of springs and collecting them but now I need a selection so I can pass them on! 😀 Fun video
Ahh... The Spring.
The perfect time for Spring shopping 😃
Very nice double entendres, dears. I too am doing some spring cleaning, and I am so happy that you are talking about reusing basic parts.
I’d love to hear if Adam knows of Tim Hunkin’s “The Secret Life of Components” series. One of the segments is all about springs, but I highly recommend the entire series.
I've found that the springs inside of pump bottles, like shampoo and conditioner seem to be pretty nice. Rather strong for their size, and they seem to be made out of some stainless type metal, I assume so they don't get your shampoo all rusty.
I haven't used one yet! But I've got a whole bunch for whenever I need one!! :)
Great tip!
Pens and mechanical pencils, another (usually free!) source for springs! Since they're mass produced, you can always find/buy more if you need another.
There's a nice little compression spring hidden within the cap of the Pilot Precise roller ball pen, which holds a tiny rubber cap over the nib.
I've found that old printers have a good selection of springs and stainless steel rods. I also save my old guitar strings for making springs
You'll always be one of my favorite makers, I enjoy hearing of your methodologies and collections. I have a few organizer drawers dedicated to springs and I agree it's hard to have any real method to the madness for sorting them away, I tend to sort them roughly by push strengths and general sizes of them.
I think to know what spring you want before you open the drawer, means you should just go buy the right one ahead of time in that case! But having such an assortment for the creative process often means that you end up with curious in-between types of sizes that end up nearly fitting a design and sometimes makes you go 'huh, maybe would be even better if this was different anyways..' and the design further evolves from the gained insights of a lowly spring that just fit differently.
It's amazing how many times Adam puts a video on, and I think to myself "that's what I do", "that's what I think" and "Wow, I'm not alone in that thought process".
You are not alone!
I have a whole container full of springs that I salvaged from broken/obsolete appliances and components. I also salvage screws, gears, pulleys, cables, fittings, etc, then I go through and organize everything into specific containers.
This past weekend a family member had a dryer with a broken heating element that her son took apart and didn't fix. Well, he lost all the screws and some of the thermostat sensors. We bought a new heating element kit, but it came with the wrong sensors and no screws. I had all of the correct screws and I even had a thermostat taken from an old dryer that I disassembled. If you are the fix it guy in your family/neighborhood then I highly recommend that you salvage and save components. It will save you so much time and money. You have to keep it organized though.
I also work on broken firearms a lot and my bin of springs have saved numerous obsolete/old firearms that are hard to find parts for.
Only Adam can make springs interesting😂I just wanna buy springs now
I love in Hong Kong. In one are of town you’ll find spring heaven. 3 or 4 shops that sell every kind of imaginable spring, just thrown in heaps and piles. When I need a spring, it’s like Xmas going there…..getting exactly what you need and of course coming home with much more.
one of the things I find very useful about this kind of lot shopping is that even if the lot doesn't have exactly what I need, a lot of times it clues me into types of materials that I might not have considered before. maybe there's a certain form factor of spring that's just right for task I have, and while I may not have it on hand, it will at least let me know that it exists. sometimes just that knowledge is enough to open up entire new avenues of problem solving.
thank you. I needed this.
I needed this video. I've been meaning to do something like this with all of my AR rifle springs and detent pins.
I definitely look for hardware assortments. I'll buy a kit to get started, and then I'll add some additional varieties not included in the kit, and then when I discover that I need something I don't have, I'll usually buy 10 times the amount I need for that job. If I need 4 of a particular screw, I'll buy a box of 50. If I run out of something I'll generally do the same. It is delightful knowing that when I need a piece of hardware I can just walk to my rack and fetch it. It's true that I've spent a couple thousand dollars building my hardware store, but the fact that I don't have to make a special trip out, or even wait days for shipping, and the fact that I don't have to pay full retail for individual items as I need them makes the whole thing worth it to me.
Is it just me or is there a certain pleasure in when these lots arrive sorting through them can be great fun regardless of a plan to use them? Seems Adam, like myself enjoys that part of it!
I learned about torsion springs with my racing wheel (for the pedals to return to 0), a cheap beginners one. The spring broke after 3 years use (good value I figure) called asking if they sold replacement parts but they did not, so went to my local hardware store and they helped guide me.
Now when somethings break I look to see if I can fix it locally on my own or another person.
My 9 year old is loving this video, he's obsessed with stuff like this. He recently took apart his sister's old bed so he could collect all of the springs lol. I'm hoping this will motivate him to be more organized with his treasures. Thanks for sharing!
I will now think of you as Adam Springer! Take care my friend.
I dig it. I love an assortment when I have the inkling for a little engineering project.
For both collecting vintage camera hardware and computer stuff, 'lot' was my go-to as well.
You'd get things from estate sales and clearing out failed businesses where the seller doesn't know what they are looking at. If you pixel peep the pictures, you can often identify things you're looking for and buy the whole lot cheaper than you can find the individual item for. Then turn around and sell what you don't want and make back most of your purchase price.
In the old 3.5 floppy disk you have also a beautiful torsion spring.
Nice job on the title and thumbnail. Gave me a little chuckle and managed to get me interested in hearing about your springs. Not something I expected this morning.
Thank you.
Thanks for the comment!
There’s nothing more satisfying than when you need a certain something to make or repair a thing and you know you have just the item and can just get it rather than having to source it and it slow the process down 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks. A Lot.
Really surprised to see thing just kind of spring up, and Adam didn't spring us along. It would be nice to have a demonstration on the various uses of the various springs, as I'm having a hard time picturing them in my head. And yes, Adam, happy spring indeed.
The best thing to take apart are large office photocopiers, the big ones that do A3,A4, collate, staple etc. They have so much useful things in them, contact switches, encoders, steel rollers, bearings and circips , 100's of screws, stepper motors with pulleys, lights. And springs.
I've gathered so many springs that i can actually define them in kilograms. I've been saving every spring (and using a fair bunch of them) i've come across over the years. Fascinating little things. The best solution to storage that i've been able to come up with is to string them unto steel cord "spring" which is used to make belts for old steam toys (and other applications). Spray painted the twist lock and hung them into an open box. For heavier ones i use a peg board (scooter and car stuff). I've made chairs out of the train ones i scored at a junk yard a few years ago.
Just waiting for the summer collection now.
I Found a spring-makers kit 10 years ago and now I make my own springs when I have to.
Love your shirt!
trampoline springs are awesome to keep in your shop. there are so many uses
I enjoy when Adam SPRINGS into ACTION.
We see what you did there!
Thank you for the entertaining Bob Ross spring sorting.
Can't wait for the remaining summer, autumn and winter collections this year!
Had some great old engineers collections from engineering societies. Love a "spares or repair" ebay search. Just going through my collection of compression springs converting all the forces from imperial to metric.
Ay yes, it's spring. And where I live, today, on April 18th, I woke up to snow.
There's a fine line between collecting and hoarding, and that is organization.
AR15 trigger spring, highly recommend, very useful part
As a collector of things, I understand the enthusiasm.
I have junk envy! I've got a drawer with a Hazard Fright assortment in it, along with all the various springs I've pulled out of stuff over the years. There's usually something close enough to my needs in there somewhere, and they're not too hard to modify as needed. But now I'm tempted to go and fill it the rest of the way up. And organize it... this way lies madness.
Ace Hardware is my go-to for springs.
Nano size springs in CD/DVD/floppy drives.
That stack of bins you pulled out early in the vid, the 'no variety' is that they're all the same gauge wire and spring OD, and different lengths. We can make any shorter length from a longer spring, so that's not variety.
I really enjoy these random videos. I have no clue why. :)
We're glad!
"I search for lots of things. *contemplates for a moment* LOTS of lots of things." That made me laugh.
If you use a lot of different sizes of springs, A spring winder kit from McMaster Carr is a very good tool to have. I got one back in the 90s, it was a bit over $200, but the company I was working for at the time had been spending over $1000 per year on various springs, and sometimes a broken spring would shut down half the factory for a day or 2. I could make the replacement spring in a few minutes and have the machine back online very quickly. Bonus was they thought I was a magician ;)
I do a lot of sorting of hardware. I use cafeteria trays or old cookie sheets. Keeps everything contained and easy to set aside if you need to get at something else before I am finished sorting.
Literally the only times I've ever needed to buy springs have been for my tuba, and for my guitar. And when you need that specific size and shape they're not always easy to find
Adam, instead of pouring your bin into a tray, you could use a shop towel. When done just grab the four corners, two in each hand, pick up that which is being returned, place one end of the towel in the vessel if choice and pour. Very controlled and more precise than pouring a tray.
"Watch spring"
That a damn big watch, then! Looks like a mainspring from a wall clock.
I recently learned how to make springs with music wire since what I needed can’t be purchased any longer. It’sa rather large odd looking hairpin thingy. You should try it, I think you’ll love it.
I am glad to see I was not the only one to immediately think of clothing. I guess this is better then a Fall collection. That could have been painful.
I do have a bucket of springs to sort... I was reluctant to do it. Asking myself, who would waste time with that. I'll do that tonight.
Just when we need to know something, Adam ‘springs’ to action.
Since I mostly handle controllers, I have LOADS of arcade parts all over, and yes, I constantly manage them in boxes and somehow, I enjoy having loads of boxes containing all sorts of buttons and wires just to cater as many scenarios as possible
Now I do wanna see how many kinds of boxes/sorters you have for all kinds of parts hahaha
Guitar pedal knobs to bring back to life a 60 years old pedal that needs love !
haha, I have to show this to my partner. We are both makers, I keep a collection of random bits and pieces that I know will be useful eventually. We had a trampoline for a bit and I kept all of the springs for an odd instrument I'm working on, I also kept two garage door springs that I had to kind of convince her to let me keep them. I also kept the bouncy part of the trampoline because there has to be a thing I can do with it. I harvest what I can from things before I recycle them. I need more knobs than anything right now.
"Lot" is indeed a useful addition to ebay searches; I started using it in about 2005 for slot car parts. Springs are one of those things you can have 1000's of but not have the one you need, or worse (much worse!), you find three of a weird type, and need four.... rotational springs are the worse because most are custom.
I take alot of things apart, and thats where i get springs from. There is a ton of variety this way.
As I'm watching Adam dumping bags of springs on his bench, I was thinking, "Don't mix up your compression springs with your extension springs!
I used to be an ATM Technician (please don't say "ATM machine", that's redundant) back in the '80s and '90s and I learned a LOT about springs, tools and all kinds of other hardware.
I can look at a machine screw and tell you the size and thread pitch. Well, anything from a 2-56 to a 1/4-20, since that's mostly what I used to use.
I don't keep a big backlog around, but I like to dig for broken-but-complete, or mostly complete statues, and fix them up. I have a Batman statue from when they first changed his costume and did his origin story, but it was in the black and white series, so since it's already like someone going '$10 and it's yours!' I bought it and painted him up in comic-accurate colors.
I have custom ordered springs in the past from CSC century spring corp they are awesome with great customer service and tech supports. Their catalog teaches you how to order depending on your project.
Hardware Products (Chelsea, Mass., near Boston) is another great supplier, both stock and custom springs, and technical design help.
"I have just recieved a spring's ransom in kings."
[* bewildered small monarch noises from packaging *]
This is why clarifying your search terms is very important.
Those torsion springs are great for holding a heavy wood lid up plus the lid can't drop on your fingers.
It's been probably 10 years since I've visited a maker space, but this seems like a great thing for maker spaces to take advantage of. If they bought lots of lots of lots of things and sorted them into a parts wall that could be a great help for makers making custom builds without having to keep their own awkward supplies of parts.
You are a cool artist. It will always be very hard or very easy to find exactly what you need👍🏻 My material's parameters are somewhat like this: If I can make it( like anything)I don't keep it. If I know where I can buy it, I don't keep it. If I got too many of a thing, I don't keep it. That saves space for all the new weird things I bring in.
Nice Video Sir.
I've been day dreaming ( hoping) Adam would connect with Tim Hunkin and visit his quirky arcades and shop to interview and kibits about the creative ingenuity they have in common.
On a completely different note, I was watching the season premiere of one of my favorite shows this evening, and during a scene where they were cracking a big safe by drilling into it, all I could think of at the time was... "ya need to use more cutting fluid dude".
Thanks Adam!
Compression springs & Expansion springs. You're welcome.
Bench tip: go grab a section of gutter, and attach that to the front and sides of your bench. Then, you can just scoop all the 'STUFF' to the left, right, or you side of the bench, and then scoop from gutter into the bin. No dropsies!!!!
Right now on youtube: a guy getting excited about springs. And of course i'm watching start to finish...
I’ve had occasionally to have to roll my own custom springs……easier than you’d think if you have an engine lathe!
You add a torsion spring to any plier and it opens on its own. Nice for lots of crimps or repetitive cuts.
Makes me wonder if there's some kind of bench scale spring maker. I know the industrial machines will spit out a billion springs a minute, but it be really interesting if there was a simple tool or manual machine that would take a few sizes of wire and turn it into any size spring with the right settings.
This old tony did a pretty good video on making your own springs
I've seen and bought a couple of "lots" for model railroading (Lionel) track/supplies and it was a good choice. However, I do have an excess of some items that will need to get thinned at some point.
Adam riding the waters of the Great Material Continuum.
I love using springs in some of my cosplay and builds. they're perfect for kit bashing where you just put random springs in places to give it an old mechanical look
What a strange coincidence, I was looking for a replacement spring for my VCR and this video was uploaded
I wouldn’t say I search for my building materials on eBay, but I go to the dollar store. I’ll walk around there in the craft section and see if I can’t find something that I couldn’t salvage to make something else. They have a lot of raw wood and plywood crafts that can be used as is or modified or taken apart and used for its raw materials the options are pretty endless and you’ll be amazed sometimes you come acrossThe perfect thing for what you’re working on.
One of the best skip-finds I made last year was a pair of garage door springs from an up-and-over door. They're about 600mm long, diameter about 50mm and the pull force is about 50kg. I use them when I put my hammock up for extra bounce, but I can't help but think they have a better use.
Damn! The dangerous part of garage door springs is the tensioning/untensioning, so your use should be safe, but just a warning to anyone trying to harvest these from a garage door, these springs can slice you in half at the sort of tension they're under when in use on a garage door. Be extremely careful!
The sweet irony of closing this video with "Happy Spring!"
Highly recommend Tim Hunkin’s video about springs.
You need another (de)Merit Badge! The spilled Sortimo Badge. Maybe an overturned storage box with screws everywhere???
perfect title