The first thing I noticed was the box labeled NASA and after that I could not pay any attention to the video as I was distracted wondering "WHAT's IN THAT BOX?!"
I don't know who is more awesome: Nate for sending the stuff to Adam or Adam for appreciating this so much he dedicates a whole video to this. I actually wonder if it is a good thing I found this video so … … touching!
A number of years ago I heard a related story about tiny screws. A US company had been buying small screws for their product from Switcherland. When their production needs increased they decided to invest into capabilities of making those small screws themselves. When they had the machine and developed some skills, they sent a sample of their new smallest screw (something like a 00 size) to the source of their previous screws. After a week or two they got their screw back from Switcherland -- drilled and tapped ACROSS the threaded part. Talk about a slap to their pride! The guy who told this story had been a toolmaker before joining our company.
Adam, I absolutely adore seeing the inner child in you come out when you are looking at these screws and the gear. Your passion shines through and its inspiring. Thank you for sharing your heart with the world.
There is something most don't ever see. Thanks Nate for supplying and Adam for showing us. Can't even imagine how any of those parts are manufactured. And the price of those items must be out of whack with what we think of something usually compared to size. No wonder mechanical watches cost so much.
I just had thoughts of the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage ! the Ultra tiny experience from Nate was a great experience !! Thank you so much to Nate and Adam for sharing !!
Adam has enough hand injuries without adding another sharp object while his eyes are looking down the scope (unless he owns the special zip tie snipping tool which cuts below the surface). 🤔
Impressive! I had no idea they even made anything that small... so now I wonder what else I'm missing out on... Nate, Adam: Thank you for sharing these very tiny things
"Ah... I can dill sideways through that thing!" I laughed out loud because I know people in my industry that are so good at what they do, they make the rest of us look like amatures.
Fantastic tiny pieces, I'll not dispute, but ARGH tiny boxes in tiny boxes!!! Containers are one of my absolute favourite things, and I can swear I have something very similar _somewhere_ - like a bunch of other things... Thanks for sharing these glimpses into the rarely visited corners of your world. I, and I'm sure many, many others are eternally grateful.
Adam....you're a legend. Love your enthusiasm, knowledge and keenness to explore new ideas. Irish mech engineer here. Also...I hope you're coping with Grants untimely passing as best you possibly can. RIP Grant
I used to use an refrigerator egg holder to keep the screws and parts while repairing camcorders. Or other units a whole lot of tiny parts. Each egg compartment would label where on the unit the part was taken. The curved bottom made it easy to pull one tiny screw out. Everything went back where it came from. Every time.
The sheer amount and breadth of video coming from Adam has been one of the best things to come out of lockdown. Thank you, Adam, your videos are hugely enjoyable and I appreciate them immensely.
I keep and use my old round bite sinker dispensers with tape over the opening that we all use for fishing. I also use round clear screw cap jewelry cases too but I glued them all together lids to bottoms making 4 -12 inch long rod cases.
Thanks. 20+ years ago I saw a magazine cover showing a tiny gear slipped over a human hair. And I have trouble using a 1/16 drill bit just wows me. So awesome how technology advances.
Absolutely one of the most fascinating things I've ever seen. If you didn't share this on your channel I would never have really seen the crazy reality of engineering. Amazing
Hey, Adam, been watching Tested along time and I have to say you are an inspiration to people! I watched you a time ago, when you were on Mythbusters and I loved you on that show as well! You make me feel like I can build things and I've always wanted to be an inventor of some sort! Have my own business and create things, you create things marvelously! Thank you for always putting a smile on my face and creating builds that put forth effort yes, but always make the blueprints for people to follow! Stay safe, Adam!
I do like the large containers with smaller containers in them. For small parts I also really like different sized baggies so that you just grab a baggie slightly larger than you need for any given component(s). Tons of baggies will fit in a contaner and you can flip through them really quickly as long as you write clearly on them with permanent market/attach a label. I love that microscope!
Great video as always. The anti-backlash gear featured in most vintage tube radios. It ensured that as you changed the tuning condenser knob from one direction to the other, the dial pointer moved immediately.
I can't wait to see the birch ply box you make for this pair of wonders. More than that, the hinge and screw hardware. Kidding aside, it's great to see viewer's gifts and their generosity to show you stuff most of us would likely never see. It's good to be King, eh ?😃👍
When I was working in smartphone/tablet repair, one of the first things I did was get a bunch of polypropylene test tubes. They were pretty reasonable at the time and the briefcase that contained my kit had all these handy little sleeves that could hold each test tube. The first batch of tubes were apparently single-use sample tubes made from cheap acrylic and with stoppers, not screw caps. After a rough journey in my car, some of them split right open. Not good. I made darn sure the next pile of tubes I got had actual screw caps. Nice and secure, easy to label. iPhone screws probably aren't as small as watch hardware, but I can easily lose them, and these saved my bacon plenty of times. Even now I have a bag of test tubes in my office drawer so I can hold onto things like the spare M3/M4 hardware that came with the 3D printer, or bootlace ferrules for when I'm building a circuit and I do not want wires to slip out of screw terminals.
Hi Adam, just want to give a shout out to how much I appreciate your videos. I love these little tidbits that might be a little light for some huge full production, but together convey a lifetime of neat little snippets of knowledge.
Adam needs to make a display case for that gear and screws!!! It should have a bunch of magnified glass pieces that incrementally zoom in / get closer and closer. It would so cool cause you could put the display on the side and really get a grasp of how small the gear truly is, with the number of magnified glasses required to zoom in that small. Plus those gear teeth are a master piece and need to be shown off.
I find it interesting that some people take the time to give a thumbs down on a delightful and enlightening Adam Savage video, for no other reason than to spread their infectious negativity. It's sad that they can only feel gratified by raise themselves up on the act of pulling another down.
@@crashoverride93637 well that would be premature and unjust to form an opinion with no facts to base them on. Social media tends to follow a mob mentality pulling out pitchforks and torches with only self righteous indignation and ignorance as its catalyst. If nothing else Johnny Depp should serve as a reason to excercise caution when judging others.
The watch gear was amazing! Such beautiful engineering and a space age manufacturing technique. On par with anything seen at Baselworld. Thanks so much for sharing!
that engineering is beautiful, and I do mean that literally, there is something about precisely engineered machines that beyond being functional, I find very beautiful.
I know Adam isnt the fondest of drawers and tbh im not either, but a few months back i was lucky enough to get one of those revolving wooden cabinets with multiple sides of drawers like a hardware store would have had back in the 1920s and its absolutely changed my life as its a table but neatly stores all my common bolts and washers. If i ever delve into attempting cabinet making id like to make a mini version of that same structure for small screws, dremel bits etc
Microscope objectives are sometimes shipped in such 'shock-absorbing' boxes, suspended between two sheets of bouncy plastic sheeting in a plastic case. It's very effective. I keep mine as curiosities.
Adam. Please do a show and tell on what notebook you use and how you organise and catalog your notes! I want to get more organised and start using my notebook/journal!
So just as a nice Fyi, the sorters/containers that Adam got if anyone is interested, is from a company in Germany. The GMBH at the end of the business name that Adam mentioned stands for "Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung,” or the translation of that which means - "Company with limited liability." It's a suffix used after a private limited company's name in Germany. The equivalent to that in the United States would be a company that has "LLC" after their name. LLC stands for "Limited Liability Company" I was stationed in Germany and used to hear the GMBH thing all the time on TV and on ads when it was referring to certain companies.
For those wondering about the case that has the membranes for protection: www.esslinger.com/square-plastic-boxes-with-elastic-membrane-bergeon-6799-06/
Hey Adam, there's a tool that's common in the amateur astro-photography crowd that you might find very useful: a universal smartphone adapter mount. It allows you to perfectly position your smartphone camera over the eyepiece in order to get the clearest picture and keep it stable, and most should work with your microscope. I don't own one (I have adapters for mounting my DSLR to my telescopes), but I've seen the results people have gotten with them (even homemade plywood ones), and they're well worth the investment in time or money. A search for "telescope smartphone mount" should produce a number of useful results.
This type of tiny is why the watchmaker tweezers need to be super precise, sharpened constantly, and why they are so expensive, and why stuff like Rodico™ is so useful
Find the sorting boxes with plastic cases here: watches.renfer.ch/boxes-with-cases/boxes-with-cases-categories/boxes-with-cases-products/index.html
Does Adam know about Matthias Wandel's Gear Generator program? It's on his website.
The first thing I noticed was the box labeled NASA and after that I could not pay any attention to the video as I was distracted wondering "WHAT's IN THAT BOX?!"
@@johncox9868 ruclips.net/video/YXzxEqdvuIE/видео.html
Here's the box explanation. He made the box himself to storage his microscope.
@@Rodyen1404 Great vid that one
@@Rodyen1404 Thanks!
First I was like "That just looks like any cogwheel", then the closeup came with the springs, omg, that was fantastic!
I first saw the spokes & thought of a bicycle wheel. Then I saw the close up of the teeth, & WOW!
I was thinking it looked very sharp and thought the backlash would be terrible. But....
I'm even amazed at it all
What a cool guy to send these neat things
I know Nate, can confirm; He's a great guy!
I don't know who is more awesome: Nate for sending the stuff to Adam or Adam for appreciating this so much he dedicates a whole video to this. I actually wonder if it is a good thing I found this video so … … touching!
A number of years ago I heard a related story about tiny screws. A US company had been buying small screws for their product from Switcherland. When their production needs increased they decided to invest into capabilities of making those small screws themselves. When they had the machine and developed some skills, they sent a sample of their new smallest screw (something like a 00 size) to the source of their previous screws. After a week or two they got their screw back from Switcherland -- drilled and tapped ACROSS the threaded part. Talk about a slap to their pride! The guy who told this story had been a toolmaker before joining our company.
Nate should have just sent him an empty case.
“They’re in there somewhere Adam, I swear!”
Omg yes
@NP CHE allegedly... big difference
www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12344658
HAHA yes that's exactly what I was thinking when he said "I can't see anything", that would have been so funny to be trolled by a fan.
6:11 - that 2019 penny gives a good cents of scale.
I don't know whether to cheer that or jeer that!
you've really coined a good pun there
@@incrediblefrown1288 Thanks. Thought I'd change it up a bit.
Haha, I always appreciate a good pun. Good one and have a nice day :)
That's amazing, and that gear was genuinely beautiful
Adam, I absolutely adore seeing the inner child in you come out when you are looking at these screws and the gear. Your passion shines through and its inspiring. Thank you for sharing your heart with the world.
Adam got so excited about the micro parts that he forgot to get close-ups of the sorters
By "micro parts" do you mean those he had when he was masquerading as "The Raping Blob"?
There is something most don't ever see. Thanks Nate for supplying and Adam for showing us. Can't even imagine how any of those parts are manufactured. And the price of those items must be out of whack with what we think of something usually compared to size. No wonder mechanical watches cost so much.
I just had thoughts of the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage ! the Ultra tiny experience from Nate was a great experience !! Thank you so much to Nate and Adam for sharing !!
✂️ Anyone still feel like clipping the end of that zip tie on the microscope ??? 🔬
Thank You! Yes! that bothered me way too much.
Mind you, I wouldn't put it past Adam to do it on purpose to troll us as well.
Adam has enough hand injuries without adding another sharp object while his eyes are looking down the scope (unless he owns the special zip tie snipping tool which cuts below the surface). 🤔
I'm more worried if he ever put that gasket back in. I need closure dammit!
@@philscott7949 I would bet that he has a zip tie gun, considering all the other stuff that he has.
or route the god dam optics cable through the friggin Pipe, would be much cleaner and no ziptie needed
Impressive! I had no idea they even made anything that small... so now I wonder what else I'm missing out on... Nate, Adam: Thank you for sharing these very tiny things
Check out nano gears or "MEMS"
I love these shorter videos alongside the longer builds. Great snippets and tidbits of the shop. The little gear was so interesting!
"Ah... I can dill sideways through that thing!"
I laughed out loud because I know people in my industry that are so good at what they do, they make the rest of us look like amatures.
Like.... armatures. **Buh dun tssss**
Fantastic tiny pieces, I'll not dispute, but ARGH tiny boxes in tiny boxes!!! Containers are one of my absolute favourite things, and I can swear I have something very similar _somewhere_ - like a bunch of other things...
Thanks for sharing these glimpses into the rarely visited corners of your world. I, and I'm sure many, many others are eternally grateful.
Adam....you're a legend. Love your enthusiasm, knowledge and keenness to explore new ideas. Irish mech engineer here.
Also...I hope you're coping with Grants untimely passing as best you possibly can. RIP Grant
Seeing Adam's joy was a delight.
I used to use an refrigerator egg holder to keep the screws and parts while repairing camcorders. Or other units a whole lot of tiny parts. Each egg compartment would label where on the unit the part was taken. The curved bottom made it easy to pull one tiny screw out. Everything went back where it came from. Every time.
Adam your enthusiasm for learning new things and exploring new worlds is magnetic and makes every video a joy to watch. Thank you.
I'm guessing the "search party" method for finding one of those screws if dropped won't work...
Gotta call Ant-man for those.
given how small those screws are I'm sure they'd just stick the ground and get lodged
Magnets, my son, magnets.
Paul Lockton if you dropped one of these then just say screw it (pun intended) and grab another.
@@jeric_synergy8581 but how would you even know if your magnet grabbed anything?
The sheer amount and breadth of video coming from Adam has been one of the best things to come out of lockdown. Thank you, Adam, your videos are hugely enjoyable and I appreciate them immensely.
I keep and use my old round bite sinker dispensers with tape over the opening that we all use for fishing. I also use round clear screw cap jewelry cases too but I glued them all together lids to bottoms making 4 -12 inch long rod cases.
Thanks. 20+ years ago I saw a magazine cover showing a tiny gear slipped over a human hair. And I have trouble using a 1/16 drill bit just wows me. So awesome how technology advances.
Yes! The small square sorting case is pretty much what piercers use to store their jewelry too!
I,ve seen videos on watches been put together , but i had no idea the parts were THAT tiny. Simply mind blowing !!
Imagine trying to sell those screws on Amazon. "0 stars. Seller sent me an empty plastic bag!"
And Amazon puts it in a box the size of your body
@@tim.e.l SERIOUSLY sent me a ring once in a box fit for a microwave oven. TF?
Absolutely one of the most fascinating things I've ever seen. If you didn't share this on your channel I would never have really seen the crazy reality of engineering. Amazing
that was awesome. the education was as much of a wonderful gift as the box sorters. amazing
I nearly got emotional when I realized how tiny and intricate that gear was. Just incredible.
Hey, Adam, been watching Tested along time and I have to say you are an inspiration to people! I watched you a time ago, when you were on Mythbusters and I loved you on that show as well! You make me feel like I can build things and I've always wanted to be an inventor of some sort! Have my own business and create things, you create things marvelously! Thank you for always putting a smile on my face and creating builds that put forth effort yes, but always make the blueprints for people to follow! Stay safe, Adam!
That gear made my jaw drop and get a little teary eyed. That is amazing.
I like how Adam holds burp like 30% of the video!
I found that kind of fascinating, too. So, thanks, Nate!
I do like the large containers with smaller containers in them. For small parts I also really like different sized baggies so that you just grab a baggie slightly larger than you need for any given component(s). Tons of baggies will fit in a contaner and you can flip through them really quickly as long as you write clearly on them with permanent market/attach a label. I love that microscope!
What's fun are the machines that make and deburr those tiny screws.
Great video as always. The anti-backlash gear featured in most vintage tube radios. It ensured that as you changed the tuning condenser knob from one direction to the other, the dial pointer moved immediately.
Nate..... thank you for sharing that with Adam, who in turn shared with us! Awesome stuff
Fabulous examples of amazing technology. Thank you and your generous viewer.
I can't wait to see the birch ply box you make for this pair of wonders. More than that, the hinge and screw hardware. Kidding aside, it's great to see viewer's gifts and their generosity to show you stuff most of us would likely never see.
It's good to be King, eh ?😃👍
When I was working in smartphone/tablet repair, one of the first things I did was get a bunch of polypropylene test tubes. They were pretty reasonable at the time and the briefcase that contained my kit had all these handy little sleeves that could hold each test tube.
The first batch of tubes were apparently single-use sample tubes made from cheap acrylic and with stoppers, not screw caps. After a rough journey in my car, some of them split right open. Not good.
I made darn sure the next pile of tubes I got had actual screw caps. Nice and secure, easy to label. iPhone screws probably aren't as small as watch hardware, but I can easily lose them, and these saved my bacon plenty of times.
Even now I have a bag of test tubes in my office drawer so I can hold onto things like the spare M3/M4 hardware that came with the 3D printer, or bootlace ferrules for when I'm building a circuit and I do not want wires to slip out of screw terminals.
just ftr: "gmbh" is roughly the german language equivalent to "limited" in a company name
It's literally the german version of Limited Liability Company or "Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung".
So, gmbh - in Germany is the same as ltd - in England? (interesting)
Seeing the tiny screws is fascinating and then you think about the machines that produce the screws.
How does it get even more complex the tinier it gets? Beautiful craftsmanship 🙌🏽👏🏽
Hi Adam, just want to give a shout out to how much I appreciate your videos. I love these little tidbits that might be a little light for some huge full production, but together convey a lifetime of neat little snippets of knowledge.
Adam is so cool... he notices every thing.... and appreciates it. I am watching this with so much interest.
Adam needs to make a display case for that gear and screws!!! It should have a bunch of magnified glass pieces that incrementally zoom in / get closer and closer. It would so cool cause you could put the display on the side and really get a grasp of how small the gear truly is, with the number of magnified glasses required to zoom in that small. Plus those gear teeth are a master piece and need to be shown off.
You are definitely not alone. Thank you for entertaining and educating through all of this. Your live sessions have so helpful.
Wow! Thanks to Nate! What a fascinating segment!
Literally the most eye opening show and tell. Very very cool and educational.
I find it interesting that some people take the time to give a thumbs down on a delightful and enlightening Adam Savage video, for no other reason than to spread their infectious negativity. It's sad that they can only feel gratified by raise themselves up on the act of pulling another down.
It might be from the new allegations he raped his sister
@@crashoverride93637 well that would be premature and unjust to form an opinion with no facts to base them on. Social media tends to follow a mob mentality pulling out pitchforks and torches with only self righteous indignation and ignorance as its catalyst. If nothing else Johnny Depp should serve as a reason to excercise caution when judging others.
@@sophie5582 too bad adam doesn't do that.
Yay! We finally get to see the 'tiny screws'....
Adam, every time I watch you I am never let down.
The tiny screws that make things so much better!!!; )
The watch gear was amazing! Such beautiful engineering and a space age manufacturing technique. On par with anything seen at Baselworld. Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you Nate! And thank you Adam.
I’ve got big frumpy paws, and avoid micro parts, but omg that’s beautiful and TINY work. Amazing
It's not often you see Adam truly humbled. And he does it well.
Wow you just never stop learning. Thank you
that engineering is beautiful, and I do mean that literally, there is something about precisely engineered machines that beyond being functional, I find very beautiful.
That was fun! Thank you Nate and Adam
Thanks, Nate! The screws are cool, but the gear is awesome.
Oh man, those containers look amazing for storing SMD components in!
For storage of tiny screws and parts I used my old contact lens clean/disinfect wash containers. And the little bottle new lenses come in.
There are fibres in paper that are the same length... that's... Amazing! I'm now trying to imagine the production process that makes these screws.
I know Adam isnt the fondest of drawers and tbh im not either, but a few months back i was lucky enough to get one of those revolving wooden cabinets with multiple sides of drawers like a hardware store would have had back in the 1920s and its absolutely changed my life as its a table but neatly stores all my common bolts and washers. If i ever delve into attempting cabinet making id like to make a mini version of that same structure for small screws, dremel bits etc
How is that even possible? Mind blowing engineering.
How cool would it be to send something to Adam and have him be flabbergasted in joy at what was sent.
Microscope objectives are sometimes shipped in such 'shock-absorbing' boxes, suspended between two sheets of bouncy plastic sheeting in a plastic case. It's very effective. I keep mine as curiosities.
THAT is impressive and WAY cool! The possibilities and processes boggles the mind.
Adam. Please do a show and tell on what notebook you use and how you organise and catalog your notes! I want to get more organised and start using my notebook/journal!
Preloaded gears exist on motorcycles as well. I have one on my primary drive gear. It helps with constant mesh
I like attention to detail, those gears got my attention! Very cool of the fan to do.
That is so facinating! Would love to see the process that goes into making these!
So just as a nice Fyi, the sorters/containers that Adam got if anyone is interested, is from a company in Germany. The GMBH at the end of the business name that Adam mentioned stands for "Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung,” or the translation of that which means - "Company with limited liability." It's a suffix used after a private limited company's name in Germany. The equivalent to that in the United States would be a company that has "LLC" after their name. LLC stands for "Limited Liability Company" I was stationed in Germany and used to hear the GMBH thing all the time on TV and on ads when it was referring to certain companies.
Awesome! Another step towards Adams inevitable clockmaking project!
For those wondering about the case that has the membranes for protection: www.esslinger.com/square-plastic-boxes-with-elastic-membrane-bergeon-6799-06/
Whoa! mind blown away by that 0 backlash gear's method!!
That is the cleanest mill I've seen in my life
The fact screws this small exist is crazy but whats even more crazy is that we have machines that are able to create screws this small...mental!
Pure Adam bliss.
I just love when I learn something new that I had literally no idea about 12 minutes ago. Thanks Adam!
That wheel is incredible! Also nice to see your handy work pay off so quickly with the ring light on the microscope.
That's incredible! Thank you Nate
Truly fascinating. Thanks Nate and thanks Adam.
That gear - beyond awesome!
Hey Adam, there's a tool that's common in the amateur astro-photography crowd that you might find very useful: a universal smartphone adapter mount. It allows you to perfectly position your smartphone camera over the eyepiece in order to get the clearest picture and keep it stable, and most should work with your microscope. I don't own one (I have adapters for mounting my DSLR to my telescopes), but I've seen the results people have gotten with them (even homemade plywood ones), and they're well worth the investment in time or money. A search for "telescope smartphone mount" should produce a number of useful results.
Amazing little gear. It looks like a bicycle wheel. This is approaching MEMS technology.
Thank you Nate.
This type of tiny is why the watchmaker tweezers need to be super precise, sharpened constantly, and why they are so expensive, and why stuff like Rodico™ is so useful
It's the little things that makes us happy.
Bloody remarkable. The last word is .... Adam don't you dare loose those! Those are like collector peices.
The event greater thing about people sending you stuff is that you then show it to us!
The cutting out on that gear is amazing (and beautiful).
The Wonderful thing about this is that it was 🚧 construsted by nate and the human nature of our brains .... OORAH!!
Wow. That gear is amazing. Those screws can probably fit inside the slot of the screw that holds a common Stanley utility knife together.
Love seeing these videos all the time with Adam! Keep em going!!
looking forward to the screw sorter one day build
Very intriguing. That gear was quite impressive.