Adam Savage Machines a Brass Bottle Cap!
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- What does it take a make a bottle cap completely from scratch? When Adam finds a glass bottle he really likes, he chucks a piece of brass stock into the lathe and makes a custom bottle cap for it. Shaping this simple piece takes a strict sequence of steps--as straightforward a machining job as a speed build can get!
Shot by Adam Savage and edited by Norman Chan
Music by Jinglepunks
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Why didn't you make it solid from the beginning w/o any cuts and pressing 2 parts together in the vise? you could just cut the bottom part of the cap to match the length...
You're supposed to tighten all 3 jaws on the chuck! Otherwise the holding force is one sided and unequal. And you should laser engrave the cap.
Nothing Wrong With Camera Fails Adam, The Main Thing Is Your Trying The Best You Can:3
Hey Adam, I know you probably don't read this but... Threads on a bottle neck are called the neck finish, and are standardized under ASTM D2911 if you google that, you will learn something. Also, the sheer trauma that I go through from camera spills on this channel is unfathomable. Let's machine a better camera bracket eh?
Question… is that a seiko watch?
Making a bottle cap could only be entertaining coming from Adam Savage! His next video is watching paint dry. I can't wait!
He showed us how to make paint dry back when he built The Shining maze 😂
@@wayneswonderarium #Truth
Wait. This Old Tony would be perfect for the job 😂
Or Clickspring in another style now that I think about it.
I replayed the slight of hand trick at the end on half speed and still am amazed with the misdirection. Bravo, Adam!
The little "clink" of his ring hitting the bottle cap as he fakes palming it in that hand is soooo good.
I single stepped through the trick frame by frame and only on one frame is there even a sliver of a hint of the bottle cap in the lower hand.
As soon as Adam showed the bottle, i imagined him finishing this bottle cap and immediatly dropping and shattering the bottle.
It would have been on brand for him
@@chrthiel #Truth
NGL the thought did cross my mind too...
I was expecting an errant elbow while it was next to him at the lathe.
Adam: "Long story short: now I have to learn glassblowing...and find room in the cave for the equipment."
I would have never thought to turn a bottle cap. This is oddly fascinating.
That little magic trick was so clean that even slowing the video down to .5 speed during the slo-mo I couldn't really see the cap switch hands. Well done!!
And the cap looks great too! Much better than the original.
So, three things I noticed, two from watching other shows about machining and one from just being a bit fly with chemistry. The first two are; that looks like it could use chamfers, and some knurling would look great and help grip. The second is that you want to get some kind of plastic liner, because acid and that brass are gonna play together like water and paper, and are gonna make whatever you store in that taste like metal and have copper salts, so lining the threads and inside with some ptfe would do wonders for both the taste of what you store and the safety of your beverages.
If you look at 25:43, you can see that he added a plastic insert that seals against the rim of the glass bottle so that no brass is exposed to whatever is stored inside
I wish we got to see the part where he sourced and applied the plastic liner inside the cap.
@@pbbbt7893 Probably just stole it from the old bottle cap.
@@Stalport That is a insert at the very top of the cap, I am also concerned about the threads themselves. Really, just a coating of beeswax over the whole thing would be my go to thought, but that might be a little over kill and a ptfe liner for the threads and the inside would be the compromise.
@@rambysophistry1220 True, but the plastic cap should keep any liquid from leaking past to the threads .... assUme-ing that it seals tightly and nothing spills onto the threads when pouring.
Going to make an Apple Shrub tomorrow
Thanks Adam! Had no idea this was a thing - Glad that it is so super easy to make
"This cap, it offends me" Is the best way to start a project.
I take a fine diamond hone to the two cutting edges of twists drill and put a tiny zero rake flat on them for brass drilling, then there is none of those screechy grab issues. I have a twist drill set modified just for brass and bronze.
BRASS BOTTLE CAP, BABY!
LET'S GO!!!
That chuck was bouncing all over the place. Then he says (paraphrase}, 'oops, i forgot to lock the tail stock.' Adams ability to be a normal person without trying is underrated
Bespoke Bottle Cap! Love it!
An idea to help with camera issues when machining. Get a double ball joint Manfrotto style and mount a 92# magnet on each end. Put a metal adhesive disc on your phone or camera. Now, your phone/camera can be mounted on any metal surface; mill lathe, cabinet, rack, etc. Adjustment is pretty unlimited with one knob that locks both ball joints. The magnet holds very well. #Tested
To turn such a simple object into this... Beautiful!
I love watching you make mistakes. Thank you for sharing that with us, it means a lot.
I’ll always remember what my machining professor told me when he saw me trying to drill a one-inch hole on some steel. Everything starts small, a tree starts as a seed, a tall engineering student starts as a baby, a big hole starts as a 1/4 inch one.
Very nice! The very first lathe project I did on a full sized lathe was a series of broom-thread adaptors. (I hate the way most brooms have a plastic head to handle interface that doesn't stand up to normal usage!)
How many machinists cried in unison, "Don't remove a cutoff into your hand ffs!!!" Use a pencil for something that small...
I've never even touched a lathe and I know better than to put my hand that close to such a dangerous machine while it's running lol
@@knightofastora1324 actually no i was more concerned with him going straight for a 1 inch center hole with no pilot hole, which can be done on a nice sturdy setup but I knew he was heading for trouble pretty much right away
if god had intended me to use a pencil he wouldn’t have given me so many spare fingers
"I don't care, it's my metal lathe, I'll do what I liYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOWWWWWWW!!!!!"
Hey Adam, cool to watch. Why didn’t you leave a few mm of solid brass in your cutoff and machine the entire thing from one piece and avoid soldering two pieces together? Is it because the internal threading tool cant get close enough to the internal surface to work? I would have though for a bottle cap you wouldn’t need to thread all the way and you could use a piece of rubber to fill the gap and also create a watertight seal?
I didn't quite understand why it wasn't made from a single piece? Couldn't the cut from the billet have been made outside of the threaded hole?
Heh, remember coming home from work one day (when I was still an apprentice) and my Dad asked me if I had been polishing that day - was amazed (how did he know?); then I looked in a mirror, there was a black stripe down one half of my whole body (and I stank of brasso)
I always enjoy seeing Adam recover from his missteps.
I have inherited a very nice wood lathe. My father was a master. I am a beginner. I hate it when I forget to lock the end stop and the bit does the exact same thing. I haven't used the wood shop all summer, because I live in Reno, Nevada, and while my shop is heated, it is not air conditioned. It is just too hot to work outside.
THIS IS THE VIEDO FOR ME! i've been self describing my style as simple but complex for years. lol
It would probably be too big of a project for adam / adam's attention span for a project. but i would LOVE to see him follow one of those backyard foundry books and make a metal lathe from scratch.
Don’t you dare apologize for anything you do man. It’s nice just to watch you do your thing. I understand it’s just you being humble. But man I’ve been watching you for years and even your mistakes have a Bob Ross vibe. Just happy little accidents. Carry on good sir! 6:22
I have to admit the only thin cleaner that the build was that sleight of hand at the end. I watched it at .25 speed, and still couldn't catch a fault. Bravo to both, caps on and off to you.
Watching him pat the bottle while it was screwed into the brass in the lathe I was cringing waiting for it to break. I was thinking just the slightest wrong pat on that bottle and you lose the reason for the build. Watching these videos makes me wish I still had my workshop and lathe. I miss making stuff on a lathe whether it’s metal or wood it was always fun creating something.
Adam you ROCK
Would've loved to see a small wood disc with Ms. Don't Try This' initials burnt into it put into that recess.
A hexagonal bottle cap would have looked cool!
Only just starting out would love to have a workshop at 10% of what he has. Just keep creating great content you always have me taken in.
Lately I've really been mulling over pulling the trigger on getting a metal lathe. I'm primarily a wood worker, but I don't have a wood lathe. I'm thinking if I get a metal lathe, I can machine all kinds of stuff for projects, including parts for a homemade wood lathe.
The misstakes is what makes this so good. And a great bottle cap.
9:10 in the running for the world's cutest boring bar with Clickspring :)
Adam you should be using a rod in your tail stock to catch the cut off parts. rather than letting them fall or risking getting your hand shredded up or worse.
Great video Adam. But why did you make it with two parts instead of just one piece?
I don't think Adam directly mentioned it, unless by saying something about shattering at the time, but did he shear the cutting tips off the bit at 5:35? It definitely looks... reduced once withdrawn.
With a magic trick bonus!
Perfect place to do some knurling.
Can I say that I like the French drop at 25:33
I’m guessing you are going to knurl this thing, I would advise in the future that external features are turned first - you reduce the risk of collapsing the bore out of true
Shrubs? You mean a shrubbery! I am so jealous of your lathe! Do you have an unstable floor or was that an earthquake?
Hmm, I have a bunch of bottles with corks for home-aged and -infused spirits, I should make nice toppers to attach the corks...
Why did the top have to be a separate piece welded on instead of making the cap one solid piece?
watched the slight of hand at 0.25 speed and still couldnt see it. impressive
Nice magic there, sir!
A stupid question here: why was the soldering step necessary? Why not make it from one solid piece?
You, sir, are quite the unique individual. Dare I say, "Renaissance man"?? At the very least the precise definition of 'unique individual' does, indeed, apply! Enjoy your videos a LOT! Would love to buy you a drink sometime: ah, if only. Git'er done!
The camera angle from behind the lathe was interesting. If you can keep the camera and mount out of your way, it would be interesting to see you work from that angle again sometime.
me: "time to be productive"
also me: *watches Adam Savage make a bottle cap*
As a machinist, good job figuring it out. Could have been done as a single piece and definitely should have gotten a knurl imo.
You need the new Langmuir cnc mill. Been running mine down in SJ..Dave
I'm still learning but I do not understand why you parted the main cap so when it fell off it didn't have a top (just a ring with threads), why not just part it part it further up the brass and leave yourself with enough to work with versus having to make a separate top for it?
The smaller projects don't take as long? Who would have guessed?! lol
I present to you, the $300 bottle cap! It IS glorious!!!
Thought you would emboss/stamp something on it too
Is it just the original cap liner in the new cap or did you make something new not shown on the video?
My first thought was double start threads
iv'e found a little less caffeine makes my scrap Pile a little smaller at the end of the day saves on bandaids too
I love the idea of the offensive bottle cap.
Would have loved to have seen some knurling on the bottle cap.
Adam talking about shrubs immediately made me go "Ni!". I demand a shrubbery!
Adam your special my friend , brilliant video , fantastic bottle top .
the lathe tool holders on the shadow board... who makes the mounts to store them like that?
OMG, it's f$%^&ng scary watching Adam use that lathe
Internal threading is, in my experience, the easiest way to crash a lathe
Hey Adam for Polishing i have a secret Tipp a German Product named Autosol Metal Polish its works like magic
I always wondered if Adam had a machinist handbook for his lathe ?
Adam, a chuck like that doesn’t have a break in period to become smooth and operable. Maybe the jaws need to be stoned or you blew in too many chips with the air hose or something like that. It’s way too hard to turn with that key.
well you arent' This old Tony, but still fun to watch.
A coin as the top cap would have been a cool idea, maybe the next one.
Did anyone else get immensely distracted by the wrench wobbling in the timelapse at 6:54
Also, ( commenting as watching), plan ahead and set your tools in advance, you do not want to break set part way through - always try to leave your bar in the Chuck throughout
Is it weird that I was completely transfixed by the adjustable wrench pendulum swinging back and forth in the background at 6:53 or so?
Next Project. Make an improved phone/camera stand for the shop.
"this cap offends me." Yup, there's Adam for you....
Is that a vintage craftsman work light??
that bottle needs a ship in it
Check out Jamie Hyneman at 20:56
Not sure why you went with a two piece design instead of a making it out a single piece without the need for soldering and I think this was a missed opportunity for some knurling but to each his own I guess. 👍
We want.....a shrubbery (cap)!
Any machinists around here? What would you have to charge for a job like this if you'd properly bill a customer?
I admire your strength of spirit not to turn on the lathe for just a second after screwing the bottle into your threaded workpiece. Just... you know... to see it spin a little.
You should really check out some of the work of coin gaff makers in the magic community. You want to talk about precision machining. Look at the work of Jamie Schoolcraft, Roy Kueppers and Joe Porper..rest in peace. I think you’d find yourself falling into a new rabbit hole especially knowing you’ve had previous interest in magic yourself. I’ve been practicing magic for 37 years. 😅
This is exactly the kind of weird and oddly specific thing that only Adam could provide. You love to see it.
Stuff like the camera falling behind the lathe and the unlocked tailstock is why I love these builds: they're so far from polished and Adam leaves in his mistakes!
Yeah, but - and I say this with no ill will - if he didn’t leave his mistakes in, the videos would be super short.
So what exactly happened with that first piece? Something wasn't tightened, so it moved around during the drilling process?
@@jonathanpuccetti9258yeah, the tail stock that’s meant to stabilize the stationary drill bit came loose and bound up
adam is ready to crash post nuclear wasteland's economy
Can't wait to challenge him to a game of Caravan
Not really if it takes half an hour for one
@smashyrashy is a joke my guy
@@smashyrashythat’s cut and edited down. More like 2-3 hours I’d say.
@@smashyrashy he was getting the crafting recipe, should be easier now
nice, but why 2 pieces instead of just 1? and you soldered it but didnt show that part!
I was wondering that too.
25:32 I'll say it again as an amateur magician, Adam does a pretty good French drop sleight. Well done sir.
he slowed it down and I STILL didn't see the hand off!
I replayed that probably 20 times.
Adam, why didn't you machine the bottle cap out of one piece rather than two?
I came to the comments specifically to ask this.
I believe the issue is that the thread cutter has to run a bit beyond the end of the thread, so the internal cavity is deeper than it would need to be for the final bottle cap. Basically, if it were left like it was and cut as one piece, the bottle cap would be unnecessarily tall.
@@ReverendTed ...but after cutting the ring, he **removed** the threads on the ID and quite deep actually. So he hadn't intended to have the threads go all the way to the back anyway. I think, in hinesight, he probably could have made it in one piece by undercutting the back with a chisel-cut boring bar, prior to cutting the threads.
@@scottsweet13 You were not alone! Adam's making a bottle cap. No, a threaded tube. Now capping the cap! So never having made my own bottle cap, or done much machining, was curious why? But it's also why I enjoy watching projects like this because I learn stuff. It's also why I want my own machine shop. Should I ever replicate Adam's feat and then get bored, I could make a different cap. Or learn to engrave and make one for each fruit concoction. Or make a 7-sided cap.
I really want my own shop now!
For these types of caps, you want a seal of a sort at the very back of the cap so it is air-tight in general or does't leak when flipped over. I'm not too sure exactly what his specs were or how he decided to add in the layer for the seal, but I imagine it was slipped in when he put the two halves of the cap together so it fit in snugly. Otherwise, you would need some tinkering around with shoving material in there, which is straight up awkward and liable to end up coming out easily since you've had to get it in there the first place -- or use another material such as a paint-on type of silicone or whatnot to serve as a seal
Beautiful bottle cap. I was hoping when we saw the knurling tools in the one shot that he was going to add knurling. Came out great though.
I was thinking it would be nice to see but honestly, as much as I love the look of knurling, it would not look good on this perticuar piece.
I had thoughts of "what kind of knurling is he going to do" even before I saw the box of knurling tools in the background.
Mightn’t knurling encourage over-tightening of the bottle cap?
@@lermanct4486 It would look like a bad men's aftershave bottle top.
@@Szlater It might, but when the sweet liquid in the bottle dead sticks the cap, Adam will regret not knurling it.
Funny thing about lathes is sometimes you only get one mistake.
Sometimes it's that you get one mistake per work piece.
Sometimes one per tool.
Sometimes one per hand.
They really scare the shit out of me
@@DerekHubbard and to add a morbid angle: Sometimes just one, full stop.
@@PikkaBird Truth. I knew someone who unfortunately made a "last" mistake.
@@DerekHubbard Clearly you haven't seen the old training films where a person's entire body has been turned into a turkey ywizzler because they had long shirt sleeves, or were wearing a tie.
edit. actually in those old films, they were all wearing ties of course (and smoking a pipe), but they were well tucked in
I did see you added a the plastic seal to the cap, but I would be very hesitant to make a cap that would come into contact with acidic liquid (like shrub) out of brass, as many brass alloys contain lead (eg 360 free machining brass is 3% lead) that could leach out. Unless you specifically chose a low lead brass (which can still potentially contain lead), I would've gone with aluminium (which is what the original cap is made from haha). Probably isn't as big a deal as using a lead crystal (24% lead or more!) decanter for long term storage with constant contact, but still. The bare brass could also just get corroded and go green and nasty anyway, from direct contact and from fumes, completely seperately from any concern about lead.
I doubt the liquid will be in the bottle long enough for lead leach to be a concern. Lead in small amounts is only really dangerous to children's developing brains. In an adult you would have to ingest enormous amounts of lead for it to be harmful. Even moderate amounts of lead will possibly lead to erectile dysfunction in men. The amount that may come from that bottle cap will be so infinitesimally small that it will not harm adults, who would be the only ones drinking anything stored in it.
Fun fact - Lead free brass can contain up to 0.25% of lead
I was very disappointed by the lack of discussion of how he made that cap food-safe. He used solder and brass, both of which contain toxic metals and neither of which react well to acidic liquids (the shrubs he talks about in the beginning contain not only fruit juice but vinegar too).
I see at the end that he has placed a piece of plastic in the top of the top, presumably to prevent liquid leakage, but not mention of this was made.
I hope that anyone thinking of copying him does a little research of their own.
@@Szlater Early on in the video he does say he's going to solder the top piece on, but later on in the video it looks like he actually does a pressure fit with the vice. The actual clip is only a second or so long of him doing the pressure fit. Not sure about the plastic insert though... seems like that doesn't get covered at all.
Wonder if he'd considered the lead content of the brass at all... that'd be interesting. I'm always kindof interested in stuff like this, 'cause I see a lot of makers on youtube do food-related stuff, but then almost never say where they got their materials or anything about food safety... except for maybe when they are talking about food safety with resins (like peter brown/shoptime)
@@garthor He does indeed seem to press it on, but also keep an eye on the interior afterwards, and you can see the solder. Also the tell tale discoloration of the brass, indicating it was heated to a high temperature.
I honestly don't understand why he didn't just make it a solid piece though. It shouldn't be that big of a deal to make an undercut at the end of the thread for the plastic seal piece to sit, and it's not like he took advantage of the two piece design, and put the seal in before pressing them together either.
@2testtest2 it is much more work, accurately drilling, setting precise stops for the threading, and then needing to be at an exact depth to fit the bottle. I would have preferred to see him tackle the challenges but I fully understand why he went this way instead
@@kylemilford8758 I get your point, but think you might be overestimating the difficulty in doing it as a solid piece. He could have drilled and bored it to a very approximate, but exessive depth, just like he did, then come in with the grooving tool and made the undercut before threading. This is the standard way of turning internal threads, because it grants some leeway in when to stop the tool. He might not have the right tool for this, but if he cut the thread in reverse (starting inside the hole, and cutting outward) it would be even easier than what he actually did. Then after cutting the thread, he could face the piece to lentg, to suit the threads on the bottle. Finally part it off long, turn it around and cuck it back up for the rounded shape on top. No need for soldering or press fits.
Thinking about it now, maybe he doesn't have an ID-grooving tool. Then this method would not be possible.
2:55 Adam, even if it's new, you should still check it for swarf. Remember, in the factory, they do check them to see if they run free, so in theory, it should be free-er than that. That's quite a bit of force there, even for a new one. Admittedly, the last new new check i got was 8 years ago, but i still don't remember having to haul on the handle quite like that. As they say, better to be safe than sorry. If you've never cut hardened metals, in theory, if it's a piece of swarf, it will be spat out at some point, but if you remember cutting something harder than brass, there's a chance and they can mess the scroll. All you have to do is take out the jaw bases, if it's in the scroll, you'll know it. I had a piece of brass wedged in one a three jaw and the whole scroll was golden by the time i got to it.
He does like using the air around his chuck, and Mr. Pete222 will always tell you, never to do that because it blows junk into the chuck.
Lol have you seen some of the Ebay import tooling that This Old Tony takes apart? They don't do diddly in the factory once the parts are made, just slap them together and put them in a cargo container. Even some high-end brands like Starrett need clean-up these days.
surely keeping it one piece would have been more desireable?
I think we have a new demerit badge! "Forgot to lock the tail stock"
I love learning new things! Thanks, Adam!
Yes! Make it happen!
he did it more than once, he does it when drilling too
Good to know adam also cannot deny the allure of random glass bottles. They really are commodity works of art.
Why do the cap in two parts?
Why not just make it all one piece?
There could be an obvious answer here, but I don't understand the reason for creating two parts and soldering them together versus creating one part.
Regardless of my question, another enjoyable video. I find it funny that my morning routine is relaxing and drinking a cup of coffee while watching Adam make a bottle cap for 26 minutes.
My guess would be that he didn't feel comfortable that he could successfully cut a blind internal thread close enough to the top of the cap.
@@wbfaulk Threads can be cut inside-out too.
All the experience Adam has, he is still a rookie on a lathe.
@@XtreeM_FaiL Yes, one could also cut a thread relief before doing the thread itself.
@@XtreeM_FaiL yes you turn the tool upside down and run it backwards
OMG I was worried that I was the only one bothered by this. Really more bothered that I couldn’t understand why.