Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Giant Flywheel Toy Car!
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After machining his first gear late last year, Adam incorporates it into a build he's been wanting to make for a long time: a supersized flywheel powered toy car that can move with tremendous energy. He's assembled a series of large gears that make up the scaled-up gearing arrangement of this car, and pressing those gears together with the flywheel is going to be the a big challenge.
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As a tremendous fan of myth busters, Adam, Tested, I even went to brain candy live… I want to say thank you for continuing to create and share your creations with us! I’ve been a fan of Adam Savage for about 2 decades now!
a little physics and a full mechanical advantage from the ground to flywheel and back ... would be a god start .... dont forget to test with a set weight to get the same force used to push it every time
The weight of the gearing is almost equal to the weight of the flywheel LOL :) 🙃😊🤣😂🙃😊That's your problem :)
(I'm writing this @ 49:30) This is a very well thought out, & nicely executed, thingy (If John Lennon were with us today, I believe he'd agree). Unfortunately the results are pretty crap-tacular Brother.
I think the reason the larger one doesn't work is a issue with scale.
The main problem is that Adam has scaled up the device without scaling up it's power source, because Adam is the power source.
Take the tiny toy car, which we know works fine. Imagine how hard a 6 inch tall Adam would struggle to get it up to speed.
Better handles would help you push the car faster, and multiple times the length of the car. But imagine a giant Adam pressing the car multiple feet across the floor, multiple times in rapid succession. Replicating that is going the be very hard for a regular sized Adam.
Perhaps a long pole that slots in at an angle. Run behind the car until it's up to speed and pull the pole out and let the car go. Or hold the drive wheels off the ground and use a drill to get the flywheel up to speed before letting go?
The more I think about it, the more I think that the solution is to Imagine what a six-inch tall Adam would do to get a 1 inch car up to speed, then scale up mini-Adam's solution to one foot car size.
Several other problems were suggested, and some might help to some degree.
Increase tire size. Since each rotation of the wheel moves the vehicle forward by the circumference of the wheel or 2pi times the radius of the wheel, so doubling the radius of the wheel would double the speed. (This is why putting oversized tires on a vehicle makes the speedometer read low, your car doesn't actually have a way to measure its speed, it measures wheel rotations and calculates speed.) That may help some.
The sound does indicate some friction loss in the gears. That may be the best problem to tackle.
I disagree with those who've said to remove weight from the gears. Each gear is essentially just another flywheel, albeit a flywheel with less mechanical advantage than the largest one. Every part of that machine that spins is subject to the conservation of angular momentum, so removing mass from the gears is removing mass from secondary or tertiary flywheels.
But all of these are just going to help at the margins. What we need is a 70 foot tall Agam to get it up to speed.
I've said it before on other maker's channels but it's worth repeating. I appreciate the videos showing projects that don't work out quite like you wanted, or are even outright failures. If someone as experienced and accomplished as Adam can mess up a project, I guess it's ok if mine don't always work out like they do on TH-cam. It's really easy for us watching at home to set the bar too high when it's always perfect on the screen.
dang shouldnt have read comments. just spoiled the video for myself oh well
49:40 is an absolutely beautiful shot.
Not only aesthetically, but it embodies the feeling you are experiencing at the time. Incredible.
I am glad, I was not the only one.
He is just sitting there, like an actual kid with his toy car, questions pouring out of his mind.
Yes that is how body language works
I would like to commission someone to do a painting of it and put up on a wall. Its amazing.
Accidental Renaissance
@@mcarter9498 r/AccidentalRenaissance :)
watching Adam sit on the floor looking dejectedly at his new toy is quite the mood.
dejection
That look embodied my day yesterday perfectly. I finished glassing up a fender that took me the better part of the day. Turned around very satisfied with my job, just to see the cap full of catalyst hardener that was supposed to be in the resin…
The shot of Adam at 49:41, hit home for me on such a high level. Its that feeling of coming up with a brilliant idea, mocking it up, building it and finally seeing the final product of all your work, that hits you in the face like a brick because you are so disappointed that it didn't turn out how you envisioned it.
sad ;-;
Yeah, not moving on from gas or electric just yet.
Heating the female and freezing the male makes press fitting SOOO much easier. Take a look at how mechanics put bearings into engine cases for reference. Just a tip, since I didn't hear it mentioned in the episode!
Was thinking this the whole time
Didn't want to comment on that press fit, because I am not an ME expert.
However, once upon a time, I had a 67 MGB, with a bad ring gear. Was told to buy a new ring gear. "Whadda I do then?", I ask.
"Stick the ring gear in the oven on max heat and the flywheel in the freezer....and wait".
I waited, (patiently for once), and took the flywheel out of the freezer and smoking ring gear out of the oven.
Threw the ring gear on the flywheel.....
AND the ring gear literally FELL onto the flywheel.........with probably 1 mm of clearance!
But, When everything cooled, it would have taken a sawzall to get that ring gear off (like the bad one that I sawed off, originally)!
No real need for a small press fit of a couple of thousands.
@@charles401 - ice water and a casserole of hot oil for the other would be more than enough to make the components fit, I think.
After all, there would be a temperature difference of 60-80 degrees Centigrade at least, and that should ease the pass and make it easier.
While absolutely, yes, that'd help, the surface area of the fit here is not nearly large enough to warrant the extra effort. Sure, it makes it easier, but you'll manage anyway even without needing a dedicated press, considering the small diameters, the relatively small difference between the two components and the overall length. I'm a trained CNC mechanic and during my apprenticeship I did all sorts of things, even lathed two pressfit components once. These had a difference of 0.04mm (so relatively large) on a 120mm diameter with a depth of 40mm. There was no way you could've pressed these two together without the temperature difference. Took half a day to cool the male down though, doubt that's extra time Adam has in these one day builds.
the wheel diameter is too small, So you are not getting as much distance out of every turn of the flywheel. If you look at the original the flywheel to drive wheel ratio is almost 1:1 and your enlarged model the drive wheel is much smaller compared to the flywheel. I think that will get you a better result.
I was thinking this too once it was put together. The wheels respectively are too small.
Yup, I'd say that's exactly the problem he has. Furthermore, it looks like he has quite some friction torque slowing down the whole system way too quickly.
@@schizophrenicenthusiast Also the weight in his design vs the size is significant. If he skeletonized the from with thinner stock, and skeletonized the gears, would reduce weight significantly.
This!
Give this man some more likes so this becomes top comment!
I would love to see a part 2 where you track down some inefficiencies and get it running better!
Writing down what change improves efficiency most would be radical.
Making a test harness for it would be good step in that direction… if the flywheel won’t stay in motion very long when it is mounted “in the air” then it definitely won’t go very on the ground
@@Garganzuul The writing it down is what makes it Science!
Yeah a part 2 would be amazing. I think where Adams thinking didn't take a corner is the wheel size. On the original car the wheels seem much bigger in ratio to the gears. That's another ratio that largely determines the speed. Try that maybe...great build though..
Bigger wheels and lighter weight transmission gears, wheel diameter is as (or more) important than internal gear ratios - looks awesome as always keep them coming!
I wondered the same things about the wheels. The ratio of the wheel size to gear size in the toy car seem much bigger than the wheel size on the finished car.
@@jeffmarden9502 also the flywheel to wheel ratio seemed a bit bigger on the small one...but different gearing ratio and relative flywheel weight so that ratio might not mean much
I disagree with removing weight from the gears. Each gear is essentially just another flywheel, albeit a flywheel with less mechanical advantage than the largest one. Every part of that machine that spins is subject to the conservation of angular momentum, so removing mass from the gears is removing mass from secondary or tertiary flywheels.
The problem is the power source.
Imagine a giant Adam pressing the car multiple feet across the floor, multiple times in rapid succession. Replicating that is going the be very hard for a regular sized Adam.
The main problem is that Adam has scaled up the device without scaling up it's power source, because Adam is the power source.
Take the tiny toy car, which we know works fine. Imagine how hard a 6 inch tall Adam would struggle to get it up to speed.
Perhaps a six foot long pole that slots in at an angle. Run behind the car until it's up to speed and pull the pole out and let the car go.
The more I think about it, the more I think that solution is to Imagine what a six-inch tall Adam would do to get a 1 inch car up to speed, then regular Adam can scale up mini-Adam's solution.
I agree
That flywheel is not optimized. It's not meant to be, it's a hand wheel. The space between the spokes robs the wheel of mass and therefore momentum. A thick solid flywheel has more mass density than a spoked wheel.
Gotta say, kudos to the editor. they've edited this in such a natural way that we don't even notice that there's any edits, but they've made the flow feel so natural, but also not so heavily edited that it doesn't feel like you're not spending a day building it.
49:44 that feeling
Recently I had a complete project failure and I'm glad to see the same look on Adam's face I had. Adam is my HERO. Even HEROES aren't perfect but they are still HEROES to me. KEEP BEING YOU!
I hope you get this a lot, but thank you for showing projects that don't really work out, as well as mistakes. I found it so hard to make things until I watched the flamethrower build and it taught me that even experts mess up. Immediately removed that thought of "No one's perfect... except for me, I have to be perfect."
From Mythbusters to Tested, thank you for helping me build!!!
Thank you for the kind comment --- we'll pass it along to Adam!
We all make mistakes, the key is to take the time and understand what went wrong and why it happened, then take that knowledge and be equipped with it for future projects. The greatest people in any field have messed up a lot and from learning from their mistakes have grown. Something about being humbled by the loses and mistakes makes you an even better person.
gotta work backwards from what wheel speed you want and then do some calculations to see what flywheel speed and gear ratios you would need. i thing with a few tweaks it could be great.
got a link for that build? cant seem to find it
@@alanwelch9216 th-cam.com/video/QGR0_oLSRKQ/w-d-xo.html probably
I'd love to see another video analyzing why it didn't work as expected. If I had to hazard a guess, it has to do with a scaling problem. Some things go up linearly with size, some things go up as the cube of size. A physics toy like the original flywheel car depends on all sorts of ratios to work, and it woud be interesting ot figure out how you'd have to scale each of the different pieces to maintain the ratios so that the car woud work supersized.
i'd think for one it's the ration of wheel to flywheel: the wheels on the toy car are way too small. second thing is the distance traveled to load up the fly wheel. imagine you'd only push the toy car a carlength forward, then it would also not run far. upscaling he would probably need to push the car around 5-10m within maybe 1-2 seconds (imagine moving the smaller toy car with your hand around 50-100cm to build up momentum). the flywheel needs to run at crazy speeds for this concept to work.
@@moos5221 I agree, too much torque, too little speed. Also, the flywheel is skeletonized so it does not carry as much momentum as it could have. The gears also seem too heavy and they make a weird clicking sound while moving so they probably consume unnecessary amounts of energy.
@@moos5221 The wheels are okay. Larger wheels just give you slightly less rolling resistance but those wheels should be fine. The most glaring issues I see are that the flywheel not only doesn't have bearings, the shaft is just sitting directly on the side panels and is clamped down, and the gears are obviously not meshing correctly. Gear spacing probably needs to be changed, all moving parts need bearings, and the bearings should be solvent cleaned of lubricant and not sealed like his are. Shielded would be better but no seals or shields would be best. You can tell when he puts the first two gears on that it has a lot of resistance already.
@@nigeypants5500 You don't seem to understand my point. WIth the regular sized toy you spin the wheels around 50-100x the full wheelturn distance to charge it and with the oversized toy you spin it around 5-10x the wheelturn distance. that's the main issue here imo.
@@moos5221 That's why he scoots along on his knees and gives it many pushes. He's clearly putting a lot of energy into it. The issue is that energy is being wasted. We all know it doesn't take much energy for those wheels to roll on that very flat surface. The energy is being wasted extremely fast. That's the issue. However it is geared, he's still putting a lot of energy into it and that energy should ideally only be wasted by the rolling friction of the wheels, and the air resistance of the fly wheel, but there's a ton more friction in the drive chain that is wasting it.
Really rad little contraption you made. Being a machinist and fabricator myself i think the gearing is spot on if not pretty close. Most of the issue I'd imagine is with the flywheel having so much more mass and taking alot more to get it spinning and keeping the centrifugal motion.
I love that you show that every once in a while things may not work out exactly the way we want it. And that’s ok.
Love to see a version 2
Hi Adam, Loving the project! couple of tips for you that may help in the future. When you were reaming the small gear you reamed then chamfered the gear, if you chamfer first before reaming it will help the reamer centralise nicely and also means you ream out any burr where the chamfer meets the ream. Also when parting off something with a hole in like that its MUCH safer to hold a screwdriver/bit of bar stock etc in the part rather than try and catch the outside as it comes off, its very easy to catch your thumb into the tool post, as my old colegue 9 finger dave can attest lol.
Also, dont get too disheartened at the end result, maybe it isnt what your expecting but I bet even by now you have multiple ideas in your head as to what went 'wrong' or could be improved. Thats even before mentioning the skills that youve learned over this project! Making gears from scratch is no simple task so props to you dude!
man I love the self filmed viedos! I like the vibe much more than the "professionally filmed"
We started to film this way when the COVID lockdowns started, but we find we prefer this style as well!
pro tip: if you turn these videos down to 75% speed, Adam seems like a normal man working in his shop.
Love that you do for fun basically what a lot of folks do for work.
You called your micrometer a caliper and your calipers a micrometer but your usage of each for its intended purpose was spot on.
Oh my god the ending, Adam, that ending! Hilarious!
a common trick for setting gear spacing is to put a piece of paper between them. That and bigger wheels will really change it. You may want to consider a ratchetting gear that you can drive with some hex stock mounted in a drill to charge the flywheel instead of pushing it
Adam you're a mentor to a lot of your fans on this channel. Thanks for what you do.
Oscillates between postmodern Infotainment and ASMR. I didn’t know I needed it until I found your videos.
its just mesmerizing watching you slide around in your own workshop like a little mad genius as comfortable as can be. Can relate so much to the feelings you show and express and just the aura of happiness and joy you have around you when you "Work" if you can call it work when you do something you are so passionate about. My workshop is my sanctuary when I'm mad, tired, happy, or just crestfallen. And no matter what I do in my workshop, I always feel good excited, and happy while there. I wish and hope everybody can have the luxury of having such a place where people can be who they are, and not be judged by the outside world.
Thank you for sharing you, and your just amazing and inspiring personality. Always made great shows, but this when you can fully be you doing what you love is Top Notch. ❤❤❤
So thanks again.
//Love from the deep forests of sweden.
Seems like some sort of handle or grip on the backside would also be helpful to run it up to speed before letting it go, being that you can't hold it like the smaller one. Looking forward to the next version!
Watching Adam create things is just so Zen... Seriously relaxing yet at the same time entertaining and educational.. Thank you, ohh master of Myths and machines for making yet another creation of wonderment.
Passion, excitement, craftsmanship, tremendous amounts of time and then, the anticlimax. But you know what, I loved it. Failure is the only way towards succes.
I recently got a job at a machine shop and sometime struggle because I'm always moving around to different machine stations, and hard for me to build up one skill, but seeing you use the mill, Lathe, reaming, and tapping makes me more confident observing you do all of this. Even at the end when you doubt yourself, but keep your head up knowing you'll learn more and not give up, this is very important mind set. Thanks for the inspiration.
Lathe work is always so satisfying to watch, it makes me want one for myself so bad.
I too see a hydraulic press in Adam's near future!
Watching your videos Adam, Is my therapy. Thank you for being you.
I love that Wilton Vise Adam. Nothing beats a Wilton
If you're going to do a bunch of this, you need an arbor press. You'll be surprised how useful it is in the shop. And now that I've gotten to the end, thanks for showing off such a delightful fail. Savage on his knees in the hall watching the underwhelming performance... We have all been there.
I too see a a hydraulic press in Adam's near future, hopefully not just after he has shattered a fine bench vice!
Arbor presses can be spendy it’s why skateboarders just hand press their bearings
Love the editing :)
I am sure it has too much internal mechanical loss, the noise is a perfect indicator. Any noise a mechanical device makes is a loss of energy.
But surely, a different gear ratio would help. Also, you could build a quick contact for a drill, with you can spin up the flywheel super fast, then release and let it drive :)
Yeah, the rhythmic sound it was making is not a good sign… something is not turning exactly on center, perhaps? I expected him to put a gauge on the gears before boring them out… slapping them into the chuck and drilling felt rushed. WWCSD… what would click spring do?
I wonder if a pulleys and a pair of v-belts wouldn’t yield better efficiency... but perhaps that would ruin the design aesthetic.
The finale of the project is hilarious. Adam we love you! Keep giving us this wonderful insight in your tinkering :)
I have been watching your work for a long time and I can say with confidence that you are a real enthusiast who is changing the world for the better! Thank you so much Adam Savage.
There is something so beautiful about precisely worked metal
This was an astounding success! Congratulations on another successful project! Actually taking action to start something is hard, and persevering to finish something you've started is even harder. But the true test is not how the results turned out, but how you handled the outcome regardless if it ends up working or not. If you've made something that works then it's a bonus, but if it didn't work and you accept that it was a failed attempt, then you'll have even more insight on what and why it failed so you'll have to continue improving it. That is a big success on any project at any scale. This wasn't even a failure, the damn thing actually works!
I love how Adam has what looks to be 3-foot size Channel locks easily accessible, but not a 24-inch cheater bar somewhere. 😂
Or even an open ended wrench to piggy back off the vice handle
Or a big pipe wrench to side load on the handle…..refinery worker here, a pipe wrench is every tool you need it to be, even a stethescope!
Or metric pin gauges 😂
Or ... you know ... a small press.
Yeah, was major cringe but it worked I guess. I totally thought he was going looking for a length of pipe.
Figuring out a clutch and spinning up the flywheel to immense speeds with an electric motor would be cool to see. Or just go all out and use the flywheels from the panjantrum or whatever that beach clearing thing from ww2 you built was called
Loved that L.P.L. impression!
Adam the issue actually is the fact that when you scale up the wheels the friction becomes much larger. Also flywheels are inefficient when they are of a small diameter since the reason they have spokes in the first place is to place a lighter ring of metal far away from the center storing more energy in a lighter object (compared to a smaller more solid wheel which would be too high fricition due to the weight. Ball bearings should solve the problem since friction forces of ball bearings is constant therefor they are more suitable to heavier wheels since the win is larger than on small wheels.
Reason why clock gears that are small dont need a ball bearing is because they are so light that the static force of the bearing rubbing against the retainers would be larger than the wheel just spinning by itself.
Solution is larger flywheel and ballbearings on all gears including flywheel and a lower gear ratio and bigger rubberwheels.
I love the LPL. He's so amazing. This is a great build. Keep up the amazing work Adam.
Well that is an unfortunate result to see but would love to see a V2 with all the kinks worked out.
I think even just adding a handle so you can push it along the floor without touching either flywheel or wheel directly would allow you to spin it up to a much higher rate, and then let it go. Of course, assuming whatever that rattle is (not-quite-meshed-well gears?? I don't know either, but that's my hypothesis) can take the higher RPMs...
Adam pulling out those huge pilers really has "I wasn't asking" energy
You know Adam is sattisfied of his work when he grunts in approval!
I think taking weight out of the gears and maybe more in the flywheel. I would love to see you use some sort of high rpm tool against the flywheel to get it spinning before letting it go.
yeah i was thinking more weight in the flywheel or a larger flywheel diameter would help with the inertia
Sure miss excellent builds like this!
Episodes like this allow my "inner Nerd" to resurface and "SHINE PROUDLY".
Thank you Adam!!!
P.S. Why don't you have a 2 Ton Arbor Press in your Shop?
The last scene where you sit on the floor is EPIC! Recall that feeling after building something and the result didn't land as expected.... Thank you for charing!
Adam is a national treasure.
LOVE the ending! So bittersweet!! I thought the gear ratios of the two big gears cancelled each other out, but that is just some unskilled hunch, and I immediately discarded that idea knowing to whom I was watching...
Maybe the weight of the flywheel? I assume there must be some sort of calculator available on internet somewhere which can off the bet calculate the combo for power and momentum...
_People are amazing, thank you for trying and failing Adam! Can't think of something more important than showing the iterative process, which is simply fail often and fail fast (ish) to ultimately succeed!_
I can't wait til Flogging Molly goes on tour around here again. Love you Adam :)
Yet Adam is the only one every mythbuster fan care about now long after the team split up and there is only youngsters on that show, I love these series he making it’s a bit nostalgic as mythbusters was my favorite show when I was younger,
I really love the super long unedited shots of Adam working with a machine, like the lathe work at 35:50.
This is where a hydraulic shop press would come in real handy. Also heating the undersized part, and cooling the oversized part does wonders. When it's done right, you can drop a cold interference fit pin into a heated bore without any pressing tool needed. Liquid nitrogen does a great job cooling parts.
I think 49:40 should be on a T-Shirt on the front, with ‘Failure is always on option’ on the back. Loved this because it wasn’t a resounding success on the first try. Can’t wait to see how you solve the issues, Mr. Savage!!
Can we have a moment of appreciation for that band saw!! Also, it seems like there's a lot of noise being made from the gears, noise is just wasted energy and if eliminated, I think you will see some difference.
As a fairly knowledgeable rc channel I have to say you did an amazing job.
Tasty build, crude mechanics and tamed unleashed force
I can only imagine your disappointment with the function of the car. I was so invested after 1 hr of watching, I could only imagine if I had spent countless hours machining it for it to not live up to expectations.
Wow Adam, those Wilton's are not cheap, nice tools :)
Also my mentor taught me a little trick :) When machining, people always place thier Mic's and Calipers on the lathe or the mill and chips eventually find thier way into them!!
He showed me that all you need to do is put a shop rag folded in half down first and always stick your precision measuring tools in the fold to pretect it from flying chips!
Reminds me of an old TMNT drag race car i had as a kid. It had a long pull cord, Something like a flexible rack to pull along a pinion to get the flywheel up to speed.
I think this really just comes down to how you have the gear ratios set up. You basically have a high torque setup when high speed is what would be more satisfying. Mess with your gear setup a bit and you'll have that satisfaction you crave sooner than you might expect
It's funny i just started thinking about flywheel car comebacks.. i search it on TH-cam and you just made a video about it a month ago... My hero😂
The outcome was crap..
The last 3 minutes of this video is something else. A good video all around, but the ending is priceless. Not due to schadenfreude, just very human.
Watching you machine this thing is totally amazing thank you for the video
This man taught me so much my whole life!
Press fitting stuff is so satisfying 🤓🖤
Car looks great, needs a heavier flywheel. Fill the voids in the current flywheel with cast-in lead. Also use lapping compound on the gear-teeth to help bed them in.
This is so much fun! Looking forward to when you make one big enough to add seating. I also like the magnet idea for stashing the hammer securely, close by, and out of the way. Saw your mind working on that obstacle. Good luck! Velcro industrial strength hook and loop tape has served me well on multiple occasions. There are times when a magnet creates a stumbling block. Have fun! You rule!
A spring is the thing! So close to a pull back and go toy!
Adam - can I call you Adam? I can, I will - this is, weirdly, exactly a project that's been on my mind since Mouse Trap Cars in 7th grade science a couple decades ago. Coincidentally, that was also around the time I started watching Mythbusters, which was a big influence on my engineering path and still brings me a lot of joy today. So while this project is empirically cool, it's also very cool TO ME to see you getting into it. Thanks for doing your thing, thanks for sharing this kind of "what the heck, why not" project with us. I always appreciate your videos; but this one, I appreciate into the past like a whole franchise of Terminators.
My dad is an industrial electrician and his big chan-o-loks like those are a gd send when u need them
Maybe try spin the wheels up with a drill? For that ratio to work and travel any kind of distance, that flywheel will have to be FLYING! Balanced also.
Adam you completely nailed the Lock Picking Lawyer...love it
Building muscles with Adam. Great video sir
Sometimes you have to laugh so you don't cry. Still dig your show dude!
Reducing mechanical loss and experimenting with the wheel diameter are the first things I would investigate
We need a version 2! remember that everything but the flywheel should have weight. Loved all of the video!
Adam Savage, he is not afraid to put bearings in wheels
A thing of great beauty! Have you ever considered getting a small hydraulic press in your workshop to assist in pressing things together or apart for that matter?
That Wilton is the real hero of this show, I've broken a vice pressing things together.
Looks like the Fireball Tool Hard Tail vise would be an excellent addition to your shop. Especially after watching you put a Channel Lock on the handle of your Wilton vise lol.
I Give you big 👍 for the effort... was highly anticipating this baby scooting along.. Hope you continue on with this one . A lot of people can relate to this project..💯✔️
Seeing you struggle with your vise makes me want to see a Fireball Tools vise in your shop! I have a feeling you’d love using that.
Love it, great idea and fun project. It probably just needs a heavier flywheel and less friction. Adam please get a hydraulic press for version 2.
Improve it! I'd love to see a part 2! Tighter tolerances, lighter gears, maybe some better bearings, perhaps some mechanism to spin it up really fast. So many possibilities.
I love the little bandaid graphic at 26:19 XD
Great video to watch from the construction of it to the end not thinking it was gonna be as expected. And still look at it as something have learned.
49:37 should spool that bad lad up with the air gun in a vice, remotely release it and 💨 😅 Thank you Adam, you’ve gotten me through some hard times and continue to do so, in a 1000% more transparent way too, this is amazing to see you in your own best light :)
Your workshop is like a physical embodiment of your mind. I guess that is a universal truth. No disrespect, but I could never work like that. Then again... With my OCD-ness I guess that explains why I spend more time cleaning and organizing than I do actually working lmao
Adam, beautiful work! I'm seeing a lot of recommendations with respect to the wheel size and the gear depth tolerances... My vote is for a 15000rpm spin-up on the flywheel with an electric motor. That should make it take right off! Thanks for everything and keep it up!
Nice car. Sounds like the gears are not meshing quite right. An old clockmaker's trick is to put polishing compound in the gears and then run them for several hours to wear them in. It might not solve all issues but it would make the gear train a whole lot smoother.
Seems to be working just fine. it is moving with the same speed you started it with. but since it is bigger it needs more energy to get it going. just looks like it needs some more speed so try to start it with a screwdriver or something by the wheel. Love the video!
Please revisit this project and make it faster ! Love watching this process sir
I carry similar sized channel locks for changing water filters, the housings can be quite tight and steamers need scale sticks and filters changed regularly
Try rolling it down a step incline. This will have a interesting effect since the gears will slow the travel so it takes a long time for the toy to reach the bottom.
Awesome video! Congratulations on launching the new bits!
It is aesthetically gorgeous! I was wondeirng if a heavier flywheel would help... it would need more effort to get it spinning but it would take a lot more resitstance to stop
This is pretty awesome!
Thank You!