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@tested It's awesome that Adam is getting into 3D printing, and at 7:30 you mention the idea of optimizing 3D models to be printed, and I would like to share some resources that I found: 1. Digital Modeling by Willian Vaughan. Chapter 14th is exclusively written for 3D printing (although biased for creating toys, the concepts remain the same) which sets good guidelines on how to optimize models themselves for printing. 2. @CNCKitchen videos. The channel goes in depth into which processes can make 3D parts stronger such as layer height, printing speed, annealing, ironing, printing materials, infill patterns, heat.. you name it. 3. 3D simulation software. There's a few softwares on the market that package 3D simulation (static stress/thermal stress/event simulation/etc) which can be extremely useful for testing the shape and properties of your model under simulated load before printing. The only software that I know so far that has these features is Autodesk Fusion 360, but probably there others out there that do the same job. I hope these resources help.
Hehe it's my weapon of choice in Canada as most of us don't have guns lol Also can stop a 9mm round so it is a multi facet pan that makes also the best food.
A suggestion for Adam see if you can do a learning collab project with someone in the 3d printing sphere, we are always happy to welcome new people to the hobby
@tested : not sure if this will ever reach Adam, but just in case : MOI3D is probably the most fitting pick for someone like him, given that he has a experience with laser cutting and graphic design. It's CAD but without any of the features that would slow him down. No tedious constraints to define, no build history to maintain - just raw 2D/3D drawing, with a very intuitive interface that can be figured out over a weekend and is order of magnitudes better designed than the bigger software out there. He'll be up to speed in no time, and with it he'll be able to make files for both laser cutting and 3d printing. Highly recommended.
It never ceases to amuse me when Adam suddenly gets very excited, runs off screen, and after a few seconds of audible rummaging through stuff comes back with something, cartoon-style.
@@callsignapollo_just think all this time he's even had the cast iron pan, that'd be light enough to toss over his shoulder without worrying about it breaking anything. It's like it was made for this!
It's like one of those bits in media where the protagonist is visiting the workshop of a kooky old wizard, or that of a wacky inventor with a bunch of cool/weird mechanisms in their otherwise cottage-core house.
That name sounds like a company that works have a mission statement something like "Creating a holistic culture of synergized thought leadership." (And yes, I did just Google buzzwords.)
Considering the use in the kitchen, very likely a glass reinforced plastic. Possibly 50% by the sound. You should see how a piece of projector shroud plastic sounds. At 85% glass, that thing sounds like it too. I have a few pieces i keep just for the sheer enjoyment of dropping them on the table and hear the "ting" and of course to see how others react, because ultimately, it's a piece of plastic in appearance.
Having worked with SolidWorks 27 years now, I can tell you the easiest way to get into CAD modeling is to think about how you're designing something in relation to how you'll be creating it (machining, 3d printing, etc). If you're milling a part, start with the full block of material and cut things away. If you're 3d printing, your goal is to only add material where it is needed, so the modeling technique will be different -- also the internal "grain" structure will be quite different, so design the part with the "strength" in the correct direction for how it'll be stressed. Also, start simple. Make yourself a cup to hold small parts as you're working on something, or a small tool holder (drill bits, etc). Or CAD model something you've already fabricated by hand. It's very easy to get discouraged by taking on a project that is FAR beyond your skillset when you are starting from zero knowledge.
Yes!! I'd done some modelling work in Blender before, where I approached things additive-style - like adding shapes the way you'd add more clay or something - but the SolidWorks UI makes that really painful and unintuitive to do. Someone gave me this exact device, start with a block like you would with some stock and cut out the shape like you're machining it. Just made it so much easier to intuit
Absolutely true. I've got 10 years under my belt having used every major CAD package in use. It's one of the things that I have to work with new engineers and designers on. Once they have the mechanics of building the CAD model, the next step is designing for the production process. Even when I rough in a concept, 95% of the time I've already selected a production process based on the part geometry, material needed, and production run size. That said, it's far easier to teach this aspect to people who have worked on things themselves.
I've been begging somebody that does 3D printing to make a piece so that you can put any 2 STABILA levels together and no one will do it Whoever figures this out will be able to sell them easily
I have been saying "3D printing is a hobby, not an appliance" for ten years now. I am glad to see someone else make that distinction with those words. And yes, I'd love an appliance printer!
I am sure some designer or architect or w/e creative job is very happy over their CNC-hot-glue-gun. Hot plastic does not help me make holes in aluminium where there are none.
Out if all the stuff that is in Adams shop, this is something I have never ever thought about "why is that there" when it's a cast iron pan...the most un-weird thing in his entire shop
I am with you on this one. Cast iron can be use to well... Cast white metals with. Well melt then cast. I would have just assumed that's what it was for. Or possibly to keep something warm-hot. I can see many uses in a maker shop for one myself.
I, of course, looked up the frying pan as you were talking and the webstore I found it at lists it as "Illogical Black Faux Cast Iron 10" Fry Pan." I love that they lean into the Illogical part of it.
OMG when Adam was doing the book tour for "Every Tool A Hammer" in Toledo I also asked about the cast iron frying pan in the shop. When he told the story he said he was having breakfast with Chris Hadfield, and as someone who also has trouble remembering who was with me when I re-tell stories I love this even more knowing it might have been someone else.
Here is my should-be-more-frequent thanks to Adam. Thank you. I am 40+ and for the past 10 years you have been one of the core people I use to try and be a better human. Thanks for the laughs and the attitude and the information and everything.
I like Adam as much as the next guy, but why model yourself on a flawed (like the rest of us) person? Jesus (whom Adam references in this video) is the only flawless example. You'd do well to model your life on his example instead.
@@clockwood12000 well, first off, Im not religious, so that's that. Also, would rather use real life examples instead of characters from a story. I don't really expect humans who follow corporations that use imaginary friends as banner to understand. Cheers.
@clockwood12000 Jesus angrily flipped tables... I bet Adam would use his commumication skills to resolve conflict, and I would be interested to watch and learn how he would do it. Adam is a much better role model than the guy who cursed a fruit tree for not producing fruit in the off season 😆
3D printing was a game-changer for me for 3D-modelling. I'm not into organic models, but my skills with SolidWorks have come a long way in just a few years, as I could do much more with 3D printing than I would do in my job. The quick way to learn new stuff is simple: copy things. Take a part you want to make or want to make a mount or adapter for and go at it with calipers, measure and draw it and model it. Something like a whiteboard marker or a remote control, something with fairly little organic shapes. It will help you understand the modelling tools better and you will face situations where you go "I wonder how I can make that shape in this program" and that's when you start learning new stuff. And the fact that you can just print out what you modeled to see the result of your work is icing on the cake.
Adam, it is clear you have a love for that hardware store 2:10 Do you think a walk around that store be something you and the store owners would ever consider doing? I'm amazed at the products you guys can put your hands on, all the very best from Scotland
It's said that the current state of 3D printing is like the MS-DOS phase of personal computing. It's powerful but a pain to use with a steep learning curve, though far better than the RepRap days fifteen years ago. Some of the new printers are very well-made and easy to use and troubleshoot, though prohibitively expensive. In a few years time we might be at that Windows 3.1 era.
i once owned a xyz 3d printer it was the size of a mini fridge the thing had a print head error and the printer head somehow had gotten stuck on the supports and became desynced the printer spit out a error code and i couldn't figure it out this was back when they first came out so i was working with the equivalent of the mcdonalds ice cream machine i later bought a ender 3 clone because for 1 it was cheaper 2 it didn't need it's own branded filiment 3 it could use both abs and pla filiment i have been having issues with the prints not wanting to stay on the board as it prints i got one good print i took a thing of duct tape and created a sticky base for it to print on that time it worked flawlessly
8:35 - Your AnyCubic printer can also do “ironing.” It’s a common slicer setting originally introduced into Cura Slicer a while back. It definitely makes those top surfaces nicer. I use it a lot. Another cool trick is to make sure the displayed face of an object, such as a dual-color sign, is on the bottom, and then you get a really nice look from using a textured build surface.
Thank you for pointing that out. It's been a thing for almost a decade now, I know the guy that came up with the idea. (and technically he did it in Simplify3D first IIRC) Sometimes it's a bit frustrating how the new cool kid gets all the cred for something they've just copied.
Adam's advice on pushing through boring stuff is spot on. I have never been able to sit through a learning app and gain anything from it. An end goal has always been my best driver. When I was doing a lot of video editing I would create small projects on the side that would center around learning something. Usually, those projects would fail and become unfinished, but I would learn a lot about how to make it work or how far my abilities could take that new skill. I think this type of learning gives you a foundational experience and helps you from possibly biting off more than you can chew.
I imagine the feeling of expecting a cast-iron pan and finding a plastic imitation of one is similar to the feeling you get when you first pick up a tungsten cube (I have one, so I've experienced this). Even if you know it's tungsten, many people don't have an intuitive understanding of just how heavy tungsten is, so you expect it to be heavy but not *that* heavy.
Yes, perceived mass vs. experienced mass! When I was a yute working in an auto parts store, we had a battery display of various sizes of car batteries, but they were all empty cases. The gag I thought of was to carry one towards a coworker like it was as heavy as an actual battery, then struggle to toss it in their direction for them to catch.
There used to be a local hardware store called Beach Hardware that had everything and the staff was great. My dad had a leaky stop (shut off valve under the sink) and instead of buying a new one we took it to Beach Hardware. One of the employees took it apart and rebuilt it and when my dad asked how much did he owe they said don't worry about it. We bought some stuff we didn't need but wanted. I think that not just online retailers have spelled the doom of locally owned store but big box chains as well. There used to be a local lumber yard that could make custom trim, doors, etc. but they couldn't compete with Lowes and Home Depot for regular lumber prices and went out of business. Now there is no place to go to get custom wood products made.
I’m so glad someone got that question about the pan in front of Adam. I have been asking myself that question since the beginning of Lockdown Adam shows.
I did a quick search, you can get those pans in a variety of sizes! They're called e.g. 'Elite Global Solutions MFP8 Illogical Black Faux Cast Iron 8" Fry Pan' and seem to be available in a range from 5" to 10". PS: For 3D Designs, just use Fusion 360 - and two big tips: 1) Sketches for everything, 2) User Parameters (for those sketch dimensions). There are plenty of guides on here, but i picked those two habits up way to late, and they are truly game changers in regard to my design, and the flexibility i get from them. Quickly adjusting all clearances or 734 separate hole diameters in a single second is just awesome.
Always a thrill to watch Adam in his space (physically and mentally). Every time I watch it leaves me wishing I had someone with his enthusiasm as a mentor. I've had an Ultimaker S5 for seven years now. 97.4% success rate on prints; a little over 1600 jobs in total. That said, you could now break even with 3x Bamboo X1 and filament if you have the space, so it no longer has the commercial viability it once did. For the S5 (my experience) if the job will fail, it will do so in the first hour unless you have a filament quality problem (which are rare). Even still, a failed job is exasperating. It's a machine that makes things. Just make the thing, dammit!
Adam, I used videos by the "3D Printing Professor" on YT to learn hard surface modeling in Blender. He breaks it down logically and honestly you could listen to his voice all day. It was slow and basic at first but what, that is worth doing, isn't? Best of luck!
Adam, thank you for what you do. Between you and Smarter Every Day on youtube I've learned so much. I started making custom knives (Primarily Kitchen knives) and between the two channels I've started thinking like a machinest and an engineer. There are many tools that I've made myself instead of spending money on buying one, I've got custom jigs and specaltity tools that make my little side hustle that much easier. I just wanted to say thank you because it's episodes like this that made my journey possible. Keep doing what you do my friend.
Finding that local shop run by the people you know, know what they're about, beats shopping online any day of the week. I needed some styrene sheets for a project, and could have easily ordered some online, but I discovered a local tiny, hole-in-the-wall hobby shop run by a pair of gentlemen that have clearly been doing this for longer than I've been alive. Every time I need something in a pinch, I go there first, knowing they'll point me at exactly what I'm searching for. And if they don't have something I'm looking for, one of them will know where to source it.
For the small pin part for what you made consider removing it and replacing it with a hole so you can insert a metal pin instead. Small parts like the pin are often much weaker than expected, often people think about cast plastic parts that have held up but due to the layering nature of 3D printing it does not have the same bonding strength as a cast piece.
I still have a promotional Die Hard car battery. Other old-timers may remember these in the showroom of Sears Automotive. It's a genuine battery housing into which none of the internal components were installed. Weighs about a pound. So fun!
The next big step in Commercial 3-D printing is actually in development @ Berkley right now where they print the entire object in Resin all at one time. They did a Benchy in 20 Seconds. Saw a video on this the other day.
4:54 I immediately remembered this video as my wife and I were discussing Rapunzel and Flynn rider costumes for a Halloween party. I then went down a rabbit hole of restaurant supply wholesalers which helped me discover that melamine is the material used to make these faux cast iron pans. With that information, I found another brand - Acopa - with a slightly longer handle and better suited for cosplay. Even with shipping costs, buying one of these from the wholesaler still cost less than the 3D printed options and it looks infinitely better than the cheap costume options from big box retail. Thank you! You saved Halloween!
For me a project needs two things. As a programmer I'm primarily making tools so my projects need to have some benefit to me in the end. But that's not usually enough, I also want doing the thing to teach me something. Either about how to do something or how something works. So the learning pushes me to start and the the useful tool pushes me to finish.
I remember when Center was near 4th & Townsend, and if they didn't have something, they would take an Addressograph dogtag and print you an index card to show who DID have it. "Here, you need to go to Degen Belting!" And now most of those local suppliers are gone.
I used to build a lot of models for our architecture firm with a 3D printer. One of the ways that I interfaced with the 3D printer (instead of praying while waiting 80 hours for a single print) is to start printing while in the process of digital modeling. I would model parts of the building like the foundation first. While that is printing, I would model the walls and windows. After sending the walls/windows to the printer, I would be modeling the roof and other parts of the print. The prints would take only a couple of hours due to their smaller sizes and I wouldn't be too mad if it failed. At the end of all of this, I would piece everything together. I would plan for seams around turns and corners and also hide them with a primer and/or paint. I can even start connecting pieces while the last few pieces are still printing. This process helped me quality control the printed pieces and layered my labor with the labor of the machine. This helped with lead times and created a better "trail and error" relationship with the printer. I also like to work with my hands so it gave me something to do and more control of the final product.
Watching Adam for years and being in awe of his knowledge and skill and then seeing him learning about Bambu Labs printers and the quality etc is such a shock. As a 3D printing enthusiast for nearly a decade now to have more knowledge about a subject than him and to see his initial "baby steps" into a subject, from the other side is an amazing experience. I will enjoy his progress greatly. *(noted that they have been doing 3D printing on Tested forever but I feel that Norm maybe was more involved and Adam would probably just ask him to make him a part).
I could actually listen to Adam talk all day. Engaged and enthusiastic about everything he does! It shines through and inspires and engages his audience without any effort at all. Thanks!
As a model railroad hobbyist, I would love to do 3D printing. It would be great for creating a lot of detail items that are difficult to make by hand. Unfortunately the software has a really steep learning curve. Back in the '90s I used to work with Strata StudioPro to create 3D rendered images, so I thought it would be easy to go from that to doing CAD. Sadly, that was very much not the case.
If you want to design function oriented prints that fit exactly, give Fusion 360 a go. Even with some of the simple tools (draw a 2d sketch, extrude, rinse repeat - Or revolve) you'll pick it up quick. Or otherwise try Siemens Solid Edge if it's closer to what you've used in the past, it's free for makers now Or if you're after curved panels and awkward geometry, Blender has a pretty steep learning curve but once you've got your head around the controls it's a good software. I mainly use it for modifying existing meshes these days but it's an insanely powerful tool Course, TH-cam, Udemy and Skillshare are your friend for F360 and Blender. Plenty of content out there for both
Yeah... the printing time is the hard thing. I was providing a shell for a prototype that needed to be camera-ready in about 1.5 days. The print failed after maybe a dozen hours. The next morning I had to drop back and punt, printing again but at lower quality (for speed) and then spend way more time and energy than planned filling, sanding, priming in order to make it look good. Needless to say I wasn't proud of the final product, but... time was up. Also, when you talked about learning to model... yeah. It's a slog to get there on your own. I built a complex thing in a not-so-complex tool (123DDesign) and making changes to accurize it was a nightmare. That pushed me to learn the 'real' tools. I am, oddly enough currently looking at re-modeling that thing (which is, as it happens, the Sky Captain ray gun I gave you when you were in Boston years back).
i also am blown away by the vibration cancelling out. i think we can thank CNC kitchen for being one of the first to point out that vibration dampening was a frequency-based thing.
Whenever I can’t read small text I just whip out my mobile phone and zoom in on that or take a picture and zoom again, always with you and very handy. Love ya stuff man!
i remember visiting a craft and bead store in downtown san francisco.. and i found sheets of plastic that can be mad soft and moldable in hot water.. And one sheet i bought had glow in the dark pigments
for 3d printing. that line between hobby toy and practical appliance is what I was waiting for in order to get into it. once I felt I could use the device more than work on it, is when I stepped in. its SO easy compared to where it was.
For simple things I've seen you whip out during builds with a hunk of delrin for little brackets or spacers and such, the (free) OpenSCAD tool is wonderful (at least my brain likes it). Since that's pretty much all I do, I use it exclusively, and have designed countless useful things around the house.
Adam... Thank you, sincerely, for continuing to be infront of the camera! ❤ I know you hear it all the time, but your excitement for things, *_anything,_* is so infectious, and it always brightens my day.
What helped me get through the laborious stuff besides thinking about the end goal was thinking of all the skills I maybe learning or refining. When I was about 18 I apprenticed for someone who was an absolute craftsman with steel. His fabrication skills were out of this world and I never seen anything quite like it, guy could make anything out of steel with perfect quality. What I found fascinating about him was despite being clearly amazing at what he did he was always changing up techniques and trying other things. Didn't realize it right until years after I worked for him, but if someone that good is trying to get better, then there's probably always a way to improve a method. When I finally got a weird niche I was really good at I find myself doing the same thing. it helps the repetitive task a lot, like sanding is the worst one for me but even improving my sanding is always a positive
I love a good Old, home town hardware store. With crap on the top shelf, covered in dust from 1972! They have the best selection of stuff, you never knew you wanted!
I printed an oversized skull dice roller on my Artillery X1 printer that took 8.5 days, three spools of PLA and one power outage. For an old school printer (3 1/2 years) it recovered wonderfully from the interruptions.
On the topic of local stores staffed by people who know their inventory and want to help, that used to be me and some of my coworkers at my favorite arts and crafts store. I sadly had to quit a few years ago because the pay wasn't enough to live on (~$9.50/hr), and I knew corporate would never approve the sort of raise it'd take to keep me. I'd just done the math on how much it would take to move out of my parents' house into my own apartment, and that was maybe half what I needed to be making. And I didn't want to go up into management, because it'd mean much longer hours and doing way less of my favorite part of the job: bringing joy to customers by helping them find the perfect whatever for their project(s). Whether they knew what they needed or not. That store closed less than a year after I left, so I guess I escaped just in time.
There used to be a wonderful little hardware shop called Martin & Newby, in Ipswich, UK. You could probably get the highest-quality hardware things available in the UK, albeit at a cost. Staff aged from mid-teens to near-retirement, they all knew where everything was, either in the shop or in the hallowed basement downstairs. As an example, a tired looking mariner wandered in from the docks and asked the tiny teenaged girl behind the counter "I don't suppose you've got any lamp wick?". She said "Hang on", wandered out the back, and promptly came back with 2 large cardboard boxes and said "I've got flat and round, what size do you want?". The man's face broke into a huge grin, and he promptly bought dozens of shapes and sizes in several-yard lengths! Sadly that shop's business was wiped out by the arrival of several DIY superstores around the time and they couldn't compete. So now we have big stores selling second-rate products, and they're not a lot cheaper.
I've gotten into the 3d printing venture recently, and really what I've learned is I can have a not so amazing printer with some modifications (I have an Ender 3 Pro with extruder mod, hot-end mod, bed mods- some other stuff), which is great but compared to the Carbon it's a whole different world, but I can still produce some pretty high quality prints (and pretty quickly). Overall I've learned that making sure you fine tune everything in your splicing software is key, the printer is just a bit of the adventure. If you want quality consistent prints, you constantly test and make sure you have the best settings for each print, each filament, everything- it all matters greatly in your final result as well as the speed of your print- the printer again, just handles some of that. I know you see the Carbon as an appliance but I find the hobby-ness is in all the pre-work and research you have to do to make sure it has no issues printing over the next quantity of hours, not only that but you know you'll have a high quality print waiting because you got it locked in.
6:45 I started building my R2-D2 exactly 1 year ago and had no clue how to do any of it. Someone wise suggested build the dome 100% and if you're still having fun, you'll finish the rest. I have learned so much from the project it's ridiculous.
I learned Unigraphics (A CAD system, now Siemens NX) some 25 years ago. I also had previous experience with other cad systems. The drudgery, for me, was reading (it was paper manuals then) the definitions of all the operators. I found knowing where the operator was in the menus / tool bars, then skipping straight to the exercises far more fulfilling, and I learned more. One of the great advancements in the CAD world is the 'Spaceball' , now called a 3D mouse. If you don't have one get one, they are much cheaper these days than back when they were first introduced.
Without an application I can be certain what I've learned won't stick. Through our whole car project, new skills have come and with an application at hand, they've remained part of my skill set.
I just got my Carbon X1 with AMS and am watching this as I set it up. It is so exciting! I was recommended to buy it by an Oceanographer friend who has one on a ship. He has nothing but praise for the X1 and has had great success with it as it prints flawlessly, even in rough seas.
I came across a potter artist doing 3D printed ceramic, most especially porcelain. In their spiel they mention that they had to alter a commercial 3D printer to cope with the clay, and also get the clay mixture just right. Each piece took days to produce and were impossible designs to do by hand. Very interesting, even if the actual designs didn't speak to me.
Loo the way Adam handled that cast iron pan made me think that he was actually way stronger than I thought. Just, no effort at all. Then the reveal lol good stuff.
I've worked in restaurants for over two decades, and I've never seen one of those. I just googled it, and there are several varieties available from a number of companies. Reminds me of the faux-stone plastic mortars they use to serve salsa at many Mexican restaurants.
Listening you talk about hardware stores, I got two of my favorite songs stuck on my head again, the aptly name "Hardware Store by Weird Al" and "Iron Monger by Nanowar of Steel. Weird taste in music, but topical :P
XD Tell you, watching you just waving it around willy nilly with one hand really got me. I have a couple cast iron pans I occasionally use and they ain't light. One is like a 14 inch one so that would be classified as a two handed weapon. I use it for baking pizza!
We have a great store in my town “Hardware city” that looks like a dump truck just dumped everything into an empty building. It’s family owned and the kids start working when they are about 12. You can wander around forever looking for something or ask a 12 year old and they come back with that whitworth spanner you’ve been looking for for years (still in its original packaging from 1954).
I am looking forward to a stream or video of some sort of someone teaching Adam the software/answer his questions while he draws the object he wants. I am sure there are guides out there but having someone answer questions on how to do the thing you are trying to do is probably very helpful for getting past the learning curve.
Get a couple of smaller, cheaper printers for pieces that you want multiple of, that don't need the larger build volume, like a couple of ender 3's. If you get the E3 neo, they come with the bed probe and a glass plate for the print surface. Flip the glass over and print on the shiny side. Wash it with hot water and dish soap and never touch it with your hands. Once the print is finished and the glass surface cools, you'll hear the part pop off. The best part is, if you actually read the manual, it'll just be the two of us that actually have lol
I am actually more fascinated now than when I thought it was an actual frying pan. Had it been an ACTUAL cast-iron pan, with that smooth finish inside it would have been a collectors item, because you just don’t get the old fashioned sand-blasted ones anymore.
Did a project in a retailer many years ago where they were implementing a stock control system, based on sales per item plus how much space they took up on the shelf, with the premise they always wanted one of everything in stock. Rapidly found out the ideal amount to keep in stock of anything is zero, and only buy in what you need. Some things you always need in . Others you have to ask yourself why do I have this
Before you gave the backstory I thought "Movie Prop" but the story was very entertaining anyway! Back in the day early comedy like the three Stooges used hardly any props meaning they used the real things. You never fail to bring us content that's intriguing!👍👍
You need a crash course on hard surface modeling, optimizing the ways to achieve certain shapes in which polygon loops work better and provide a better end result. Like everything, that takes time and patience and practice. Keep at it!
i work in a wal mart supercenter, an over 20 year employee. honestly people come up to me all the time and ask about something, they then proceed to say a word i do not recognize and get really irritated that i do not know what they are talking about. there has got to be hundreds of thousands of different items in that store in all sorts of different categories i am sorry if i am not familiar with the weird thing you are seeking. and often they are asking about something completely on the other side of the store, if you ask somebody in that area they are far more likely to know. you dont go up to someone in the electronics department asking about your favorite brand of beans that you cannot find. i have had so many people through the years come up and ask what belt their vacuum needs and they dont even know the brand or model, and i dont know anything about vacuums, im not a vacuum specialist. people do it all the time with light bulbs, if you do not know what kind of light bulb you need for your appliance how am i supposed to know. i have NO idea what kind of bulb is inside of YOUR oven. people ask all sorts of plumbing and carpentry and automotive questions, if i knew about any of those things i wouldnt work at walmart. i am not stupid and i am not rude, but i have no idea what this word you are saying is. it would help if you told me it is some sort of a vitamin, i can show you where vitamins are and try to help you find it or ask the actual pharmacy people. but if you just walk up and say where is your green meadow tetrohyloglidrate 25% 5 oz bottle im like "Duhhh what?"
When you talked about the Hardware store employee's knowing their store, versus other establishments' personnel lacking some basic stock knowledge, I was reminded of my Hometown Hardware Store, Johnson's Hardware, Groton, CT. Its an average sized store, been there since the 50's, family owned, and the men and woman of that store have so much knowledge of their stock, their supplier, and experience,. They will help you find what you need, tell you why you don't need that for what you're doing, tell you why you shouldn't use x for y, and have no qualms sending you somewhere else if they don't have it. Super place, better than amazon when you need 2 bolts and 5 nuts with 3 washer..
My experience with many online stores is that they have a massive selection, you can get ten different variants of the same thing, but half of it isn't in stock. The other half that is on file as in stock, the moment you order it, they somehow find out that they actually don't have squat, and you still end up waiting for the thing for 3 weeks anyway. It's also often painful to find the thing you want because they inventory is so huge, they can't provide you with effective filtering of options because there's no way in hell they can maintain the product data. Half of it is missing or wrong. I miss the good old days when a shop would have a cheap, a middling and a high-quality option of a thing and that's it. Guess what, they could actually deliver on time.
"The end goal being cool" enables us to "push yourself through the drudgery"! Brilliant! I once hand entered over 40,000 8-10 digit numbers into my computer because I knew once I plotted things out it would tell me something. The end goal? I kept some pilot from getting killed...
I'd watched a great many episodes of Myth Busters, seen all the different shenanigans you and the crew got up to, and in general all the fun you guys had while filming. All the laughs, all the expected and unexpected, but also the genuine interest in the science behind pretty much all of them. Saying that, after going through that journey on the other side of the screen, hearing you say at 4:47 "my eyes are old", that hurt my heart. Adam, I wish you the fullness of health, and as long a life as you wish. Keep being you.
When I was younger I tried so many times and failed with 3d graphic design (things like truespace, maya, blender, etc), to the point I just assumed I couldn't do it. Then I found parametric 3d modeling and it just made perfect sense to me. Wish I had known about it sooner!
4:50 I find pounding it with bright light really helps, too. And yes, I utterly agree, there must be a compelling goal at hand, or your brain won't care enough to learn a new skill. - fellow geezer
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@tested It's awesome that Adam is getting into 3D printing, and at 7:30 you mention the idea of optimizing 3D models to be printed, and I would like to share some resources that I found:
1. Digital Modeling by Willian Vaughan. Chapter 14th is exclusively written for 3D printing (although biased for creating toys, the concepts remain the same) which sets good guidelines on how to optimize models themselves for printing.
2. @CNCKitchen videos. The channel goes in depth into which processes can make 3D parts stronger such as layer height, printing speed, annealing, ironing, printing materials, infill patterns, heat.. you name it.
3. 3D simulation software. There's a few softwares on the market that package 3D simulation (static stress/thermal stress/event simulation/etc) which can be extremely useful for testing the shape and properties of your model under simulated load before printing. The only software that I know so far that has these features is Autodesk Fusion 360, but probably there others out there that do the same job.
I hope these resources help.
Hehe it's my weapon of choice in Canada as most of us don't have guns lol Also can stop a 9mm round so it is a multi facet pan that makes also the best food.
A suggestion for Adam see if you can do a learning collab project with someone in the 3d printing sphere, we are always happy to welcome new people to the hobby
@tested : not sure if this will ever reach Adam, but just in case : MOI3D is probably the most fitting pick for someone like him, given that he has a experience with laser cutting and graphic design. It's CAD but without any of the features that would slow him down. No tedious constraints to define, no build history to maintain - just raw 2D/3D drawing, with a very intuitive interface that can be figured out over a weekend and is order of magnitudes better designed than the bigger software out there. He'll be up to speed in no time, and with it he'll be able to make files for both laser cutting and 3d printing. Highly recommended.
It never ceases to amuse me when Adam suddenly gets very excited, runs off screen, and after a few seconds of audible rummaging through stuff comes back with something, cartoon-style.
All that's missing are the increasingly random and comedic objects flying across frame!
@@callsignapollo_just think all this time he's even had the cast iron pan, that'd be light enough to toss over his shoulder without worrying about it breaking anything. It's like it was made for this!
It's like one of those bits in media where the protagonist is visiting the workshop of a kooky old wizard, or that of a wacky inventor with a bunch of cool/weird mechanisms in their otherwise cottage-core house.
If someone asked me what a company called "Elite Global Solutions" made, plastic cast iron skillets wouldn't have been in my first 100 guesses 🤣
EGS sounds more like a PMC
That name sounds like a company that works have a mission statement something like "Creating a holistic culture of synergized thought leadership."
(And yes, I did just Google buzzwords.)
Right?
The best bit is that the product name is called "Illogical faux cast iron pan" It is Totally Illogical!
My first guess is that they wouldn't actually make anything.
I’m more amazed at the fact that your cast plastic pan SOUNDS like a real cast iron pan. This pleases me.. 🙂
Considering the use in the kitchen, very likely a glass reinforced plastic. Possibly 50% by the sound. You should see how a piece of projector shroud plastic sounds. At 85% glass, that thing sounds like it too. I have a few pieces i keep just for the sheer enjoyment of dropping them on the table and hear the "ting" and of course to see how others react, because ultimately, it's a piece of plastic in appearance.
The higher note than iron, and the way he was handling it, I thought it was seasoned aluminum.
Being not microwaveable, but presumably food safe makes me think it’s melamine.
Edit: yes, it’s melamine.
@@asertathat's pretty awesome
@@aserta 100% melamine.
Every single item in Adam's collection, weird or ordinary, big or small, has a story and I adore that about him.
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@@nurgle-j5n ok
Having worked with SolidWorks 27 years now, I can tell you the easiest way to get into CAD modeling is to think about how you're designing something in relation to how you'll be creating it (machining, 3d printing, etc). If you're milling a part, start with the full block of material and cut things away. If you're 3d printing, your goal is to only add material where it is needed, so the modeling technique will be different -- also the internal "grain" structure will be quite different, so design the part with the "strength" in the correct direction for how it'll be stressed.
Also, start simple. Make yourself a cup to hold small parts as you're working on something, or a small tool holder (drill bits, etc). Or CAD model something you've already fabricated by hand. It's very easy to get discouraged by taking on a project that is FAR beyond your skillset when you are starting from zero knowledge.
Yes!! I'd done some modelling work in Blender before, where I approached things additive-style - like adding shapes the way you'd add more clay or something - but the SolidWorks UI makes that really painful and unintuitive to do. Someone gave me this exact device, start with a block like you would with some stock and cut out the shape like you're machining it. Just made it so much easier to intuit
Absolutely true. I've got 10 years under my belt having used every major CAD package in use. It's one of the things that I have to work with new engineers and designers on. Once they have the mechanics of building the CAD model, the next step is designing for the production process. Even when I rough in a concept, 95% of the time I've already selected a production process based on the part geometry, material needed, and production run size. That said, it's far easier to teach this aspect to people who have worked on things themselves.
I've been begging somebody that does 3D printing to make a piece so that you can put any 2 STABILA levels together and no one will do it
Whoever figures this out will be able to sell them easily
I have been saying "3D printing is a hobby, not an appliance" for ten years now. I am glad to see someone else make that distinction with those words. And yes, I'd love an appliance printer!
and preferably one that's not in the eight digits x)
I am sure some designer or architect or w/e creative job is very happy over their CNC-hot-glue-gun.
Hot plastic does not help me make holes in aluminium where there are none.
That prints real cast iron frying pans, now that would be a real appliance printer.
The bambu isn't always an appliance though. You are still expected to repair it yourself.
Out if all the stuff that is in Adams shop, this is something I have never ever thought about "why is that there" when it's a cast iron pan...the most un-weird thing in his entire shop
Ha!
That's probably what makes it stand out the most.
I am with you on this one. Cast iron can be use to well... Cast white metals with. Well melt then cast. I would have just assumed that's what it was for. Or possibly to keep something warm-hot. I can see many uses in a maker shop for one myself.
It's mundanity is what made it stand out in Adams shop :)
I love the almost whimsical level of excitement you have in general, never change Adam!
I, of course, looked up the frying pan as you were talking and the webstore I found it at lists it as "Illogical Black Faux Cast Iron 10" Fry Pan." I love that they lean into the Illogical part of it.
OMG when Adam was doing the book tour for "Every Tool A Hammer" in Toledo I also asked about the cast iron frying pan in the shop. When he told the story he said he was having breakfast with Chris Hadfield, and as someone who also has trouble remembering who was with me when I re-tell stories I love this even more knowing it might have been someone else.
Here is my should-be-more-frequent thanks to Adam. Thank you. I am 40+ and for the past 10 years you have been one of the core people I use to try and be a better human. Thanks for the laughs and the attitude and the information and everything.
I like Adam as much as the next guy, but why model yourself on a flawed (like the rest of us) person? Jesus (whom Adam references in this video) is the only flawless example. You'd do well to model your life on his example instead.
@@clockwood12000 Keep your religious nonsense to yourself
@@clockwood12000 well, first off, Im not religious, so that's that. Also, would rather use real life examples instead of characters from a story. I don't really expect humans who follow corporations that use imaginary friends as banner to understand. Cheers.
@@clockwood12000but Adam isn't fictional
@clockwood12000 Jesus angrily flipped tables... I bet Adam would use his commumication skills to resolve conflict, and I would be interested to watch and learn how he would do it.
Adam is a much better role model than the guy who cursed a fruit tree for not producing fruit in the off season 😆
When bored with CAD, shrink what you have then 3D print it. Being able to hold a miniature of the final version is inspiring.
I thought there might be some secret shop hack with that pan but knowing how Adam thinks, his explanation makes more sense.
3D printing was a game-changer for me for 3D-modelling. I'm not into organic models, but my skills with SolidWorks have come a long way in just a few years, as I could do much more with 3D printing than I would do in my job. The quick way to learn new stuff is simple: copy things. Take a part you want to make or want to make a mount or adapter for and go at it with calipers, measure and draw it and model it. Something like a whiteboard marker or a remote control, something with fairly little organic shapes. It will help you understand the modelling tools better and you will face situations where you go "I wonder how I can make that shape in this program" and that's when you start learning new stuff. And the fact that you can just print out what you modeled to see the result of your work is icing on the cake.
I love that the plastic frying pan is in the "Illogicals" catagory!
It's melamine; MFP10 is the SKU.
Your the real MVP here! thanks for the tip
Adam, it is clear you have a love for that hardware store 2:10 Do you think a walk around that store be something you and the store owners would ever consider doing? I'm amazed at the products you guys can put your hands on, all the very best from Scotland
When Adam zips offscreen and the banging and crashing starts? OMG, it's hysterical!!! All it needed was the panicked-cat meow!
It's said that the current state of 3D printing is like the MS-DOS phase of personal computing. It's powerful but a pain to use with a steep learning curve, though far better than the RepRap days fifteen years ago. Some of the new printers are very well-made and easy to use and troubleshoot, though prohibitively expensive. In a few years time we might be at that Windows 3.1 era.
i once owned a xyz 3d printer
it was the size of a mini fridge
the thing had a print head error and the printer head somehow had gotten stuck on the supports and became desynced
the printer spit out a error code and i couldn't figure it out
this was back when they first came out so i was working with the equivalent of the mcdonalds ice cream machine
i later bought a ender 3 clone because for 1 it was cheaper
2 it didn't need it's own branded filiment 3 it could use both abs and pla filiment
i have been having issues with the prints not wanting to stay on the board as it prints
i got one good print
i took a thing of duct tape and created a sticky base for it to print on
that time it worked flawlessly
I would honestly think Adam would have a real cast iron skillet in his cave for emergency lunch purposes 😂
There's some poor IT person at egsfoodservice who is panicking right now trying to figure out why their website is down
8:35 - Your AnyCubic printer can also do “ironing.” It’s a common slicer setting originally introduced into Cura Slicer a while back. It definitely makes those top surfaces nicer. I use it a lot. Another cool trick is to make sure the displayed face of an object, such as a dual-color sign, is on the bottom, and then you get a really nice look from using a textured build surface.
...and on a PEI build plate, the bottom of a PLA print can be used as a decent mirror.
Yeah, almost any printer has been able to do ironing for years now.
Thank you for pointing that out. It's been a thing for almost a decade now, I know the guy that came up with the idea. (and technically he did it in Simplify3D first IIRC) Sometimes it's a bit frustrating how the new cool kid gets all the cred for something they've just copied.
"jack of all trades, and a master of none." is the full meaning of this episode to me which I embody and love
The excitement when he jumps up and runs off to get something from the shop is everything
Adam's advice on pushing through boring stuff is spot on. I have never been able to sit through a learning app and gain anything from it. An end goal has always been my best driver.
When I was doing a lot of video editing I would create small projects on the side that would center around learning something. Usually, those projects would fail and become unfinished, but I would learn a lot about how to make it work or how far my abilities could take that new skill.
I think this type of learning gives you a foundational experience and helps you from possibly biting off more than you can chew.
I imagine the feeling of expecting a cast-iron pan and finding a plastic imitation of one is similar to the feeling you get when you first pick up a tungsten cube (I have one, so I've experienced this). Even if you know it's tungsten, many people don't have an intuitive understanding of just how heavy tungsten is, so you expect it to be heavy but not *that* heavy.
Yes, perceived mass vs. experienced mass! When I was a yute working in an auto parts store, we had a battery display of various sizes of car batteries, but they were all empty cases. The gag I thought of was to carry one towards a coworker like it was as heavy as an actual battery, then struggle to toss it in their direction for them to catch.
There used to be a local hardware store called Beach Hardware that had everything and the staff was great. My dad had a leaky stop (shut off valve under the sink) and instead of buying a new one we took it to Beach Hardware. One of the employees took it apart and rebuilt it and when my dad asked how much did he owe they said don't worry about it. We bought some stuff we didn't need but wanted. I think that not just online retailers have spelled the doom of locally owned store but big box chains as well. There used to be a local lumber yard that could make custom trim, doors, etc. but they couldn't compete with Lowes and Home Depot for regular lumber prices and went out of business. Now there is no place to go to get custom wood products made.
I’m so glad someone got that question about the pan in front of Adam. I have been asking myself that question since the beginning of Lockdown Adam shows.
I did a quick search, you can get those pans in a variety of sizes! They're called e.g. 'Elite Global Solutions MFP8 Illogical Black Faux Cast Iron 8" Fry Pan' and seem to be available in a range from 5" to 10".
PS: For 3D Designs, just use Fusion 360 - and two big tips: 1) Sketches for everything, 2) User Parameters (for those sketch dimensions). There are plenty of guides on here, but i picked those two habits up way to late, and they are truly game changers in regard to my design, and the flexibility i get from them. Quickly adjusting all clearances or 734 separate hole diameters in a single second is just awesome.
Adam Savage is a Jedi Knight of creativity, wisdom, and motivation - he should be doing TED talks!
Our guide to restock was, if you used one, buy two. This way you dont overfill on what you dont use. And it multiplies, if you used two buy four.
Always a thrill to watch Adam in his space (physically and mentally). Every time I watch it leaves me wishing I had someone with his enthusiasm as a mentor.
I've had an Ultimaker S5 for seven years now. 97.4% success rate on prints; a little over 1600 jobs in total. That said, you could now break even with 3x Bamboo X1 and filament if you have the space, so it no longer has the commercial viability it once did. For the S5 (my experience) if the job will fail, it will do so in the first hour unless you have a filament quality problem (which are rare). Even still, a failed job is exasperating. It's a machine that makes things. Just make the thing, dammit!
Adam, I used videos by the "3D Printing Professor" on YT to learn hard surface modeling in Blender. He breaks it down logically and honestly you could listen to his voice all day. It was slow and basic at first but what, that is worth doing, isn't? Best of luck!
5:38 The best advise I've heard on handling tedious stuff. Will think of this the rest of my life. Thank you Adam!!
I love how excited Adam gets anytime someone notices a weird thing in the cave.
You will get your 3D on in no time because you are a fearless explorer of stuff that you have to learn along the way. Cheers sir
So the guy who owns the Cast Iron Cookware channel is wondering why he is suddenly getting all these hits.
I could watch Adam answer questions and chill in his cave for hours.
Adam, thank you for what you do. Between you and Smarter Every Day on youtube I've learned so much. I started making custom knives (Primarily Kitchen knives) and between the two channels I've started thinking like a machinest and an engineer. There are many tools that I've made myself instead of spending money on buying one, I've got custom jigs and specaltity tools that make my little side hustle that much easier. I just wanted to say thank you because it's episodes like this that made my journey possible. Keep doing what you do my friend.
Finding that local shop run by the people you know, know what they're about, beats shopping online any day of the week. I needed some styrene sheets for a project, and could have easily ordered some online, but I discovered a local tiny, hole-in-the-wall hobby shop run by a pair of gentlemen that have clearly been doing this for longer than I've been alive. Every time I need something in a pinch, I go there first, knowing they'll point me at exactly what I'm searching for. And if they don't have something I'm looking for, one of them will know where to source it.
For the small pin part for what you made consider removing it and replacing it with a hole so you can insert a metal pin instead. Small parts like the pin are often much weaker than expected, often people think about cast plastic parts that have held up but due to the layering nature of 3D printing it does not have the same bonding strength as a cast piece.
I still have a promotional Die Hard car battery. Other old-timers may remember these in the showroom of Sears Automotive. It's a genuine battery housing into which none of the internal components were installed. Weighs about a pound. So fun!
I just had a moment of complete confusion thinking, "I don't remember a car battery being important in that movie."
Right. Duh. Lol
@@utility63 They missed a great opportunity for product placement!
Your passion and energy compels me to watch these even if it’s about something that I have little interest in. Thank you for who you are.
The next big step in Commercial 3-D printing is actually in development @ Berkley right now where they print the entire object in Resin all at one time. They did a Benchy in 20 Seconds. Saw a video on this the other day.
4:54 I immediately remembered this video as my wife and I were discussing Rapunzel and Flynn rider costumes for a Halloween party. I then went down a rabbit hole of restaurant supply wholesalers which helped me discover that melamine is the material used to make these faux cast iron pans. With that information, I found another brand - Acopa - with a slightly longer handle and better suited for cosplay. Even with shipping costs, buying one of these from the wholesaler still cost less than the 3D printed options and it looks infinitely better than the cheap costume options from big box retail. Thank you! You saved Halloween!
For me a project needs two things. As a programmer I'm primarily making tools so my projects need to have some benefit to me in the end. But that's not usually enough, I also want doing the thing to teach me something. Either about how to do something or how something works. So the learning pushes me to start and the the useful tool pushes me to finish.
I remember when Center was near 4th & Townsend, and if they didn't have something, they would take an Addressograph dogtag and print you an index card to show who DID have it.
"Here, you need to go to Degen Belting!" And now most of those local suppliers are gone.
I used to build a lot of models for our architecture firm with a 3D printer. One of the ways that I interfaced with the 3D printer (instead of praying while waiting 80 hours for a single print) is to start printing while in the process of digital modeling. I would model parts of the building like the foundation first. While that is printing, I would model the walls and windows. After sending the walls/windows to the printer, I would be modeling the roof and other parts of the print. The prints would take only a couple of hours due to their smaller sizes and I wouldn't be too mad if it failed. At the end of all of this, I would piece everything together. I would plan for seams around turns and corners and also hide them with a primer and/or paint. I can even start connecting pieces while the last few pieces are still printing. This process helped me quality control the printed pieces and layered my labor with the labor of the machine. This helped with lead times and created a better "trail and error" relationship with the printer. I also like to work with my hands so it gave me something to do and more control of the final product.
Watching Adam for years and being in awe of his knowledge and skill and then seeing him learning about Bambu Labs printers and the quality etc is such a shock. As a 3D printing enthusiast for nearly a decade now to have more knowledge about a subject than him and to see his initial "baby steps" into a subject, from the other side is an amazing experience. I will enjoy his progress greatly. *(noted that they have been doing 3D printing on Tested forever but I feel that Norm maybe was more involved and Adam would probably just ask him to make him a part).
I could actually listen to Adam talk all day. Engaged and enthusiastic about everything he does! It shines through and inspires and engages his audience without any effort at all.
Thanks!
Love your comments about retail. I MISS our local ACE hardware where I could go in and get legit help on say, a plumbing problem.
As a model railroad hobbyist, I would love to do 3D printing. It would be great for creating a lot of detail items that are difficult to make by hand. Unfortunately the software has a really steep learning curve. Back in the '90s I used to work with Strata StudioPro to create 3D rendered images, so I thought it would be easy to go from that to doing CAD. Sadly, that was very much not the case.
If you want to design function oriented prints that fit exactly, give Fusion 360 a go. Even with some of the simple tools (draw a 2d sketch, extrude, rinse repeat - Or revolve) you'll pick it up quick. Or otherwise try Siemens Solid Edge if it's closer to what you've used in the past, it's free for makers now
Or if you're after curved panels and awkward geometry, Blender has a pretty steep learning curve but once you've got your head around the controls it's a good software. I mainly use it for modifying existing meshes these days but it's an insanely powerful tool
Course, TH-cam, Udemy and Skillshare are your friend for F360 and Blender. Plenty of content out there for both
Yeah... the printing time is the hard thing. I was providing a shell for a prototype that needed to be camera-ready in about 1.5 days. The print failed after maybe a dozen hours. The next morning I had to drop back and punt, printing again but at lower quality (for speed) and then spend way more time and energy than planned filling, sanding, priming in order to make it look good. Needless to say I wasn't proud of the final product, but... time was up.
Also, when you talked about learning to model... yeah. It's a slog to get there on your own. I built a complex thing in a not-so-complex tool (123DDesign) and making changes to accurize it was a nightmare. That pushed me to learn the 'real' tools. I am, oddly enough currently looking at re-modeling that thing (which is, as it happens, the Sky Captain ray gun I gave you when you were in Boston years back).
5:21 Best answer! Getting excited about the end goal to help push you through the drudgery.
i also am blown away by the vibration cancelling out. i think we can thank CNC kitchen for being one of the first to point out that vibration dampening was a frequency-based thing.
Whenever I can’t read small text I just whip out my mobile phone and zoom in on that or take a picture and zoom again, always with you and very handy. Love ya stuff man!
i remember visiting a craft and bead store in downtown san francisco.. and i found sheets of plastic that can be mad soft and moldable in hot water.. And one sheet i bought had glow in the dark pigments
for 3d printing. that line between hobby toy and practical appliance is what I was waiting for in order to get into it. once I felt I could use the device more than work on it, is when I stepped in. its SO easy compared to where it was.
For simple things I've seen you whip out during builds with a hunk of delrin for little brackets or spacers and such, the (free) OpenSCAD tool is wonderful (at least my brain likes it). Since that's pretty much all I do, I use it exclusively, and have designed countless useful things around the house.
Adam... Thank you, sincerely, for continuing to be infront of the camera! ❤
I know you hear it all the time, but your excitement for things, *_anything,_* is so infectious, and it always brightens my day.
What helped me get through the laborious stuff besides thinking about the end goal was thinking of all the skills I maybe learning or refining. When I was about 18 I apprenticed for someone who was an absolute craftsman with steel. His fabrication skills were out of this world and I never seen anything quite like it, guy could make anything out of steel with perfect quality. What I found fascinating about him was despite being clearly amazing at what he did he was always changing up techniques and trying other things.
Didn't realize it right until years after I worked for him, but if someone that good is trying to get better, then there's probably always a way to improve a method. When I finally got a weird niche I was really good at I find myself doing the same thing. it helps the repetitive task a lot, like sanding is the worst one for me but even improving my sanding is always a positive
I love a good Old, home town hardware store. With crap on the top shelf, covered in dust from 1972! They have the best selection of stuff, you never knew you wanted!
This is the best cable access show of all time
I printed an oversized skull dice roller on my Artillery X1 printer that took 8.5 days, three spools of PLA and one power outage. For an old school printer (3 1/2 years) it recovered wonderfully from the interruptions.
I immediately went to their website, and the pan is under the 'Illogical' collection lol
On the topic of local stores staffed by people who know their inventory and want to help, that used to be me and some of my coworkers at my favorite arts and crafts store. I sadly had to quit a few years ago because the pay wasn't enough to live on (~$9.50/hr), and I knew corporate would never approve the sort of raise it'd take to keep me. I'd just done the math on how much it would take to move out of my parents' house into my own apartment, and that was maybe half what I needed to be making.
And I didn't want to go up into management, because it'd mean much longer hours and doing way less of my favorite part of the job: bringing joy to customers by helping them find the perfect whatever for their project(s). Whether they knew what they needed or not.
That store closed less than a year after I left, so I guess I escaped just in time.
There used to be a wonderful little hardware shop called Martin & Newby, in Ipswich, UK. You could probably get the highest-quality hardware things available in the UK, albeit at a cost. Staff aged from mid-teens to near-retirement, they all knew where everything was, either in the shop or in the hallowed basement downstairs. As an example, a tired looking mariner wandered in from the docks and asked the tiny teenaged girl behind the counter "I don't suppose you've got any lamp wick?". She said "Hang on", wandered out the back, and promptly came back with 2 large cardboard boxes and said "I've got flat and round, what size do you want?". The man's face broke into a huge grin, and he promptly bought dozens of shapes and sizes in several-yard lengths!
Sadly that shop's business was wiped out by the arrival of several DIY superstores around the time and they couldn't compete. So now we have big stores selling second-rate products, and they're not a lot cheaper.
I've gotten into the 3d printing venture recently, and really what I've learned is I can have a not so amazing printer with some modifications (I have an Ender 3 Pro with extruder mod, hot-end mod, bed mods- some other stuff), which is great but compared to the Carbon it's a whole different world, but I can still produce some pretty high quality prints (and pretty quickly). Overall I've learned that making sure you fine tune everything in your splicing software is key, the printer is just a bit of the adventure. If you want quality consistent prints, you constantly test and make sure you have the best settings for each print, each filament, everything- it all matters greatly in your final result as well as the speed of your print- the printer again, just handles some of that. I know you see the Carbon as an appliance but I find the hobby-ness is in all the pre-work and research you have to do to make sure it has no issues printing over the next quantity of hours, not only that but you know you'll have a high quality print waiting because you got it locked in.
4:24 The creek and sqeek of that light grab killed me 💀🤣
6:45 I started building my R2-D2 exactly 1 year ago and had no clue how to do any of it. Someone wise suggested build the dome 100% and if you're still having fun, you'll finish the rest. I have learned so much from the project it's ridiculous.
I learned Unigraphics (A CAD system, now Siemens NX) some 25 years ago. I also had previous experience with other cad systems. The drudgery, for me, was reading (it was paper manuals then) the definitions of all the operators. I found knowing where the operator was in the menus / tool bars, then skipping straight to the exercises far more fulfilling, and I learned more. One of the great advancements in the CAD world is the 'Spaceball' , now called a 3D mouse. If you don't have one get one, they are much cheaper these days than back when they were first introduced.
For a plastic skillet, it sounds remarkably like cast iron when you knock on it with your knuckles. I wonder if that's intentional?
Without an application I can be certain what I've learned won't stick. Through our whole car project, new skills have come and with an application at hand, they've remained part of my skill set.
I just got my Carbon X1 with AMS and am watching this as I set it up. It is so exciting! I was recommended to buy it by an Oceanographer friend who has one on a ship. He has nothing but praise for the X1 and has had great success with it as it prints flawlessly, even in rough seas.
I've been begging people that do 3D printing to make a piece so that I can put any two Stabila levels together and no one will do it for me
I came across a potter artist doing 3D printed ceramic, most especially porcelain. In their spiel they mention that they had to alter a commercial 3D printer to cope with the clay, and also get the clay mixture just right. Each piece took days to produce and were impossible designs to do by hand. Very interesting, even if the actual designs didn't speak to me.
Loo the way Adam handled that cast iron pan made me think that he was actually way stronger than I thought. Just, no effort at all. Then the reveal lol good stuff.
Adam should compile a list of the his favorite/best/most useful online vendors for stuff.
I've worked in restaurants for over two decades, and I've never seen one of those. I just googled it, and there are several varieties available from a number of companies. Reminds me of the faux-stone plastic mortars they use to serve salsa at many Mexican restaurants.
I'm coming over just to visit Center Hardware. London UK is now a desert for bits and pieces. Try and buy a spring online!
Listening you talk about hardware stores, I got two of my favorite songs stuck on my head again, the aptly name "Hardware Store by Weird Al" and "Iron Monger by Nanowar of Steel. Weird taste in music, but topical :P
Cura's ironing feature is a game changer for those of us who think the print lines make the part look cheap!
XD Tell you, watching you just waving it around willy nilly with one hand really got me. I have a couple cast iron pans I occasionally use and they ain't light. One is like a 14 inch one so that would be classified as a two handed weapon. I use it for baking pizza!
"Cast iron pan as weaponry." Ah, a man of culture...
We have a great store in my town “Hardware city” that looks like a dump truck just dumped everything into an empty building. It’s family owned and the kids start working when they are about 12. You can wander around forever looking for something or ask a 12 year old and they come back with that whitworth spanner you’ve been looking for for years (still in its original packaging from 1954).
"Cuz it's plastic, and that makes me happy." That's good enough for me!
I am looking forward to a stream or video of some sort of someone teaching Adam the software/answer his questions while he draws the object he wants. I am sure there are guides out there but having someone answer questions on how to do the thing you are trying to do is probably very helpful for getting past the learning curve.
Get a couple of smaller, cheaper printers for pieces that you want multiple of, that don't need the larger build volume, like a couple of ender 3's. If you get the E3 neo, they come with the bed probe and a glass plate for the print surface. Flip the glass over and print on the shiny side. Wash it with hot water and dish soap and never touch it with your hands. Once the print is finished and the glass surface cools, you'll hear the part pop off. The best part is, if you actually read the manual, it'll just be the two of us that actually have lol
I am actually more fascinated now than when I thought it was an actual frying pan.
Had it been an ACTUAL cast-iron pan, with that smooth finish inside it would have been a collectors item, because you just don’t get the old fashioned sand-blasted ones anymore.
Did a project in a retailer many years ago where they were implementing a stock control system, based on sales per item plus how much space they took up on the shelf, with the premise they always wanted one of everything in stock. Rapidly found out the ideal amount to keep in stock of anything is zero, and only buy in what you need. Some things you always need in . Others you have to ask yourself why do I have this
Before you gave the backstory I thought "Movie Prop" but the story was very entertaining anyway! Back in the day early comedy like the three Stooges used hardly any props meaning they used the real things. You never fail to bring us content that's intriguing!👍👍
You need a crash course on hard surface modeling, optimizing the ways to achieve certain shapes in which polygon loops work better and provide a better end result.
Like everything, that takes time and patience and practice.
Keep at it!
Props to the Center Hardware callout!!
i work in a wal mart supercenter, an over 20 year employee. honestly people come up to me all the time and ask about something, they then proceed to say a word i do not recognize and get really irritated that i do not know what they are talking about. there has got to be hundreds of thousands of different items in that store in all sorts of different categories i am sorry if i am not familiar with the weird thing you are seeking. and often they are asking about something completely on the other side of the store, if you ask somebody in that area they are far more likely to know. you dont go up to someone in the electronics department asking about your favorite brand of beans that you cannot find. i have had so many people through the years come up and ask what belt their vacuum needs and they dont even know the brand or model, and i dont know anything about vacuums, im not a vacuum specialist. people do it all the time with light bulbs, if you do not know what kind of light bulb you need for your appliance how am i supposed to know. i have NO idea what kind of bulb is inside of YOUR oven. people ask all sorts of plumbing and carpentry and automotive questions, if i knew about any of those things i wouldnt work at walmart. i am not stupid and i am not rude, but i have no idea what this word you are saying is. it would help if you told me it is some sort of a vitamin, i can show you where vitamins are and try to help you find it or ask the actual pharmacy people. but if you just walk up and say where is your green meadow tetrohyloglidrate 25% 5 oz bottle im like "Duhhh what?"
When you talked about the Hardware store employee's knowing their store, versus other establishments' personnel lacking some basic stock knowledge, I was reminded of my Hometown Hardware Store, Johnson's Hardware, Groton, CT.
Its an average sized store, been there since the 50's, family owned, and the men and woman of that store have so much knowledge of their stock, their supplier, and experience,.
They will help you find what you need, tell you why you don't need that for what you're doing, tell you why you shouldn't use x for y, and have no qualms sending you somewhere else if they don't have it.
Super place, better than amazon when you need 2 bolts and 5 nuts with 3 washer..
My experience with many online stores is that they have a massive selection, you can get ten different variants of the same thing, but half of it isn't in stock. The other half that is on file as in stock, the moment you order it, they somehow find out that they actually don't have squat, and you still end up waiting for the thing for 3 weeks anyway. It's also often painful to find the thing you want because they inventory is so huge, they can't provide you with effective filtering of options because there's no way in hell they can maintain the product data. Half of it is missing or wrong. I miss the good old days when a shop would have a cheap, a middling and a high-quality option of a thing and that's it. Guess what, they could actually deliver on time.
"The end goal being cool" enables us to "push yourself through the drudgery"! Brilliant! I once hand entered over 40,000 8-10 digit numbers into my computer because I knew once I plotted things out it would tell me something. The end goal? I kept some pilot from getting killed...
I'd watched a great many episodes of Myth Busters, seen all the different shenanigans you and the crew got up to, and in general all the fun you guys had while filming. All the laughs, all the expected and unexpected, but also the genuine interest in the science behind pretty much all of them.
Saying that, after going through that journey on the other side of the screen, hearing you say at 4:47 "my eyes are old", that hurt my heart.
Adam, I wish you the fullness of health, and as long a life as you wish. Keep being you.
You have a real life Team Fortress 2 Frying Pan??? That's so dope!
When I was younger I tried so many times and failed with 3d graphic design (things like truespace, maya, blender, etc), to the point I just assumed I couldn't do it. Then I found parametric 3d modeling and it just made perfect sense to me. Wish I had known about it sooner!
4:50 I find pounding it with bright light really helps, too. And yes, I utterly agree, there must be a compelling goal at hand, or your brain won't care enough to learn a new skill.
- fellow geezer