Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Making a Die Filer Machine!

Dude, mechanical pencil reference... If you take your ordinary no. 2 pencil and draw it across the paper, eraser first, rotating it in your fingers, you'll always have a sharp point.

"I'd totally tap that!", the Adam Savage Story...

Adam sees a piece of metal...."I'd tap that"

Lovely piece of equipment and i want one too😅however maybe you forgot 1 part of the build. To stain or varnish the wood base you made for it. Will tone it very well.

Blondihacks has been doing a great multipart series on building one of these. She's been doing a wonderful job on it. Makes me want to get into home machining.

Look at this crazy guy! Doing a glue up on his table saw top. Lmao I know, it's not that big of a deal.

Best work, ever.

I didnt adam could do such an amazing chipmunk impression 🤣

I ordered the kit from Andy a few weeks ago, he was very helpful and a knowledgeable gentleman to talk to. He had mentioned your video has drummed up quite a bit of business for the filing machine kits and seemed to be happy that there’s quite a bit of interest in the filing machine kits

seems if you really machined it all yourself, you would know it's an oil pump not bath. While the literature calls it an oil bath, the main vertical shaft is hollow on the bottom half with a oil spit hole midway up and a sump bottom that forces oil out and into the bronze bearings. So, did you really? Do tell..... <.< just kiddin... I'm sure you did...

Thanks.

Tapping guide, apart from the good reasons you gave, one of the main reasons for keeping taps (especially fine threads) perpendicular is to avoid cross threading! Only a part of a degree increases the bending moment of the tap and so the likelihood of breaking dramatically increases. Naturally a shallow hole of 4 threads or less is not so bad but there is nothing like keeping things plumb. Murphy will insist that the tap breaks toward the end of a job?

I think this is a great machine and when I saw the cut screen of how it worked the first thing I thought was 'you could totally make it manual using a singer sewing machine'.. Would love to see that build 😀

My bet! He has a wind cut on his Finger!
Better keep it bandaged up. Skippy poof!

Doesn't it need a bigger pulley so that you can get nice and slow for accurate work?

Adam, please make a mental note not to stand directly in back of pieces you are ripping on a table saw, (he said in a high pitched voice) don't ask why I know this.

The amount of times I've done or not done something upside down is astounding, lol.

i love clickspring, i went to a rabbit hole with the antikythera mechanism videos😂

What is the make and motor of that motor?

I have been wanting to build one of those for my shop for years. I might just do it now. Great job

Hahaha, you thru me for a loop when you said nice round numbers. Then said 2.1 and my first thought was 2.125 which is 2 and an 1/8. To me that’s a round number. 👍

I think Relton makes a better cutting fluid for aluminum, rather than their standard "Rapid-Tap". Yes, looked it up, it's called "A-9"

Congrats on the 100% self built tool!

Welp, now I have a set of transfer punches on the way...

You have to have mad respect for this guy.....

If things work out the way they should for me, this machine gives me a really good idea. Your mind is so preoccupied with fire legs u think everyone has that same interest, your just a greedy,ugly,hateful pos man, mind ya @#$$### business ho...

Hating washers or not there is a very good reason for them. And they should be used

What would be nice lathe to learn on?

Nice!!!

Why wouldn't Jamie be watching ?

Transfer punches rule! So useful.

Gosh I wish I could afford plywood like that, the good stuff

I was cooking a double batch of brownies once and I was doubling the recipe, I accidentally doubled a number twice and ended up with a quad batch and barely had enough to do a quad batch. That was a nightmare

Beautiful. Try a larger pulley on the drive side? You don't need the speed and it would help your drivetrain. Just a thought...

When I set up a motor pulley combination I just use a straight edge on the pulley

I used a commercial die filer in one of my early jobs as a machinist and found it to be an indispensable tool. The addition of a magnifier , perhaps one with a built in light will make this tool even better. It just occurred to me that a variable speed jig saw turned upside down on a base and adapted to hold files would pretty much do the same thing and for lots cheaper than the casting kit and other items needed to finish your build.

Hi Adam. Do a DIY on making a tig cooler.

Need some kind of hold down for the parts you are filling so they don't vibrate

Never seen anything like that before my life I’ve been around machine shops for 50 years wish I had one

Here's a concept I'm thinking about, a die filer attachment for a drill press. I'm actually wanting to make one using a drill press base and table I have laying around but there's no reason you couldn't make the drive portion and stick it on the base of a working press whenever you need the machine.

That’s cool thanks for sharing this awesome fun!

You silly twit......when you sanded that wood on the band sander you weren't wearing a respirator..........did you know that all wood is carcenogenic as it's part of the tree's defense mechanism against borers etc.......enphysema is a bad illness to have with no return once you show symptoms.

Thanks again for sharing this with us Adam.
FYI, if you need to align Two Pulleys, Gears etc, use the side edge of a Steel Rule, on short distances and a String Line, if the parts are further apart. Hope that helps JB

Gee, I bet you are the only one of us who has cut a piece upside down........

That toot Adam made when blowing his nose in high speed