Adam Savage's Favorite Tools: Blow Dryer Oven!
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One of the most useful tools from Adam's modelmaking days at ILM was the trusty blow dryer. Adam's preferred one is the iconic Conair Yellow Bird, which is one of the few things he wants at arms reach by the workbench. And when paired with a simple cardboard box, it makes for an effective oven for quickly drying primer and paint on his models and props! What are some of your favorite household tools that end up being used in the workshop?
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My high school Roboics team had a heat gun we pulled out constantly (mostly for heat shrink wire covers and actually partially melting 3d prints), but Idk if it's the same, because the end of ours would actually start to glow if we had it on for long. We would also use it to melt away scratches and defects on acrylic.
Needs an "am i missing an eyebrow" Demerit badge
Gotta get that affiliate cash
Aww man, I went to go buy those demerit badges and the shop’s code is brittle as hell. You have to basically disable *all* your cross-site/adware blockers in order to make it work.
@adam - have you realised you're an influencer ? Stocks go low immediately when you recommend a product, and your recs made me buy a proxxon tool.
I'm fairly certain Adam has used hundreds of such ovens by the fact that he free-handed a perfect sized hole for his blowdryer :D
I couldn’t draw a circle that perfect
I was thinking the exact same thing!
He just said he's done this countless times.
There was definitely a circle drawn on there
@@stephanie.stanton I thought the same thing but after rewatching the clip I didn’t see anything drawn on the box.
"What the heck is this?? I told you to bring only what you need to survive!"
"Its my industrial strength hair dryer...AND I CANT LIVE WITHOUT IT!"
That must have been the actual hair dryer used to dry the paint on the giant model for Spaceball One
@@joermnyc That thing was big enough for Mega Maid!
I always have coffee when I upvote comments. You know that.
This is the hairdryer I think of when I think of a hairdryer.
SPACEBALLS the upvote!
I love how excited Adam is about a hair dryer and a cardboard box, he's a national treasure
International *
Universal ;-)
Demerit badge idea: Unintentional welding. When you are welding and something you didn't want to weld together is now firmly attached
And fingers superglued together
Small tip if that happens. Cool it off then take a angle grinder or hacksaw to it. Only know because I used to be a welder and I've done that alot.
Now if you weld what your welding to your table your sorta SOL unless it's a aluminum (or some over metal that doesnt easily mix with steel) table.
@@kyleb707 lmao
Trying to catch a falling blade. (Picture of hand with knife through it)
Yeah, like the bench. Done that......
Demerit Badge - an Electric Eel, for when you forget to unplug or turn the power off when working on wiring.
My favorite household item tool tip is the humble #2 pencil. Specifically, for use as a lubricant. Using a regular pencil to lubricate small parts and surfaces just by coloring in the problem areas has been a game changer for me. No grease, no mess, and no need to worry about dust buildup. Just clean, dry lubrication exactly where it is needed.
Need a 5th trip to the hardware store demerit badge for those of us that couldn't get all the right parts in the correct sizes on return trips #2 and #3.
Three trips are required. One to get what you need. Two to get what your forgot. Three to get what you broke.
@@groermaik nah, you need one to see what they have, then do research so that you can go back
Two to buy what you think that you need
Three to buy what you couldn't get at one store, and you have to go to a different one
Four to buy what you forgot
Five to replace what you broke
Six to get what you thought you might need but decided that you didn't
Seven to return the items that ended up unnecessary and you couldn't use.
I once carried an entire drill press into the hardware store after the second or third time I brought home the wrong chuck key. I got the right one that time.
@@Darwinpasta now if you could have only pulled the chuck to carry with you.
@@RNMSC I wish! Unfortunately the guy I got it from left a bit in it, cinched up good and tight.
DUDE. A "hot hovercraft" would be ideal to assist with removal of old vinyl floor tile. You mad genius!
Clearing snow from your driveway
@@MrBrian43119 Tends to leave a pool of melted snow/ice that becomes a nice glassy ice surface to break your coccyx upon.
@@RNMSC Backyard hockey rink Zamboni
I did a Heat gun oven using cardboard to heat my food when I was on location. Thankfully I had access to electricity!
An old electric tea kettle: steam out dents in wood, steam off stickers, etc. Warm or hot water in general can be very useful.
I have one for testing temperature sensing probes for accuracy
Your enthusiasm for a hair dryer and it uses is contagious.
"Don't measure cut once." Someone has done this soooo many times
Or as AvE said: "Measure twice, cut once and still too short"... who hasn't done that...
@@Dravde a million times
Measure once, cuss twice
@@Dravde the usual mistery. already cut that twice and it's still too short...
"Measure once, cut twice"
Demerit badge. Hammer, nail, bandaged thump= nailed it!
Connected to this: Bandaid on finger for getting bitten by a pin nail or brad nail.
I tried your hair dryer oven on some wood veneering in my shop and it cut the time considerably. Using it on a realistic looking rocking horse that has several layers of hardwood plywood glued together. Took several blow dryers and thankfully I was blesses with daughters away at college. It worked so well I sent the video to some woodworking friends.
6:30
" so much for the rhetorical flourish"
I learned a lot about language and clearly expressing myself from Savage too. Not just building and engineering.
This man is good with words.
I found one of those yellow beauties for my middle school shop at a thrift store for a buck 99. A nice find before we had a decent budget.
The thrift store gods! Magic, thanks
Yep, thrift stores and yard sales are where I get a lot of things that I'm not in a hurry for, although I sometimes repeat the bad habit of getting another one that I don't need "just in case" the one I've already got fails someday in the future.
Yus! THIS is why I have held onto my blowdryer, even though I haven't used for hair in about a decade.
I just tried the hair dryer box for drying Primer Filler! HOLY MOLY ADAM!! Do you even KNOW how much time you just injected back into my life!? You're beautiful! THANK YOU!!!
Discovered the usefulness in my early airplane model building days. Making tissue paper or plastic film shrink as tight as a drum is very satisfying!
Adam, ive used this idea soo much since you made this video, thanks alot! I live in a colder climate and i used to need days to finish a project because of drying times (i paint in my shed). Now i can finish projects in a single evening, paint, dry in the box for 1 song length and paint the next layer :)
Quick tip for people without much space: i cut a hole in a plastic container wich contains my painting supplies. When i need to paint i unpack the stuff inside (blowdryer primer and masking tape and other stuff) move the blowdryer to the outside and the storage container is now the oven :)
When Adam said he has an image in his head that quintessentially says blow drier I think of the giant one from Space Balls the movie.
Tried this to speed up drying of my kit car components. Love it. Quite unnerving for the first few times worrying if it might catch fire 😂 but results are great. Super simple solution. Can’t recommend enough, saved me so much time. Thanks Adam!
Been using that setup for 30 years. Works a treat. 👍
Adam, I cant thank u enough for ur videos. Every single video I learn some concept of being a maker that I can add to my skills and ideas for better ways in projects.
WOOOOOOOOWWW. Do you know how many projects the blow dryer oven could have helped me on!?!? Where was this video 2 years ago!? But thank you Adam to your dedication to US with all the tips and suggestions. You are the best.
Nice! Removing anything sticky is my favorite use. Labels, stickers, paint.. anything! Better than any chemical.
The joy you exude for simple things like a blow dryer is palpable. You always make me feel better when I'm having an off day. Thank you for all you do!
That giddy happy smile while talking about shop tools is contagious. I can’t help smiling back. :)
Glad to see I'm not the only one knocking things over when I get over stimulated about a "quick do" task!
Demerit Badge: "Soldering Iron Mishap" or "The Burning Oops"
Demerit badge: Cyano-I'm-alight, when you crazy glue your finger and thumb into an OK sign.
Or you glue the model to your finger.
I made my first after seeing Adam use one in the Shining Maze build. Love them. I've used one to help cure Fiberglass during cold weather. Thanks again Adam and Tested!
I was gonna say, “why not just get a heat gun?” But you pretty much answered it. The blow dryer gets hot enough to do the job. So you can walk away from it for a reasonable amount of time without it being a dangerous fire hazard. The quick diy drying oven is a great idea! I’ll have to tuck it into the recesses of my brain for the future.
Household object repurposed: repaired a 3/8 inch water line leak using a rubber earbud cover as a washer last night--worked great! Inspired by your outside the box 📦 use of things
You solved this month's shop problem, you beautiful man
I have a drone that we dropped in a lake and I did exactly that and dried it out and works fine now. That is a method I have showed many people and works really well with any use
As an illustrator that started off using acrylic years ago, the blowdryer is a key tool if you're painting with acrylic paint. That hair dryer box is also a cheap and dirty trick we've used when curing Sculpey and don't want the fumes in the oven/house.
This reminds me of Jaymes Mansfield and her wig oven! Love when tips like this are cross-disciplinary.
It's so fun to watch you and your brain get excited and happy over tools.
I had an ugly Christmas sweater that I was making for my wife to wear to her work party (they are having a contest) and the glitter glue was just not drying even after a couple of days. I then remembered your hair dryer oven trick and got it dry in a couple of hours! Thanks sooooo very much!!!
WOW thank you so much! I just used the cardboard box oven today to dry anti-rust oil paint on a rusty replacement part for my car and even at 0 C (32 F) ambiant, that oven got the paint completely dry within an hour or two! Insane! That normally takes days to dry! So simple and yet a life changer! I'll be using this very often!
That blow-dryer has the same spot in my mental dictionary! Probably because it's like the one my Mom used when I was little.
I watched some of the older "one day builds" this morning, and I genuinely love the newer videos of you doing the camera work yourself so much more. They feel so much more personal and genuine. It ads so much complexity to the videos, and gives us a much more in depth insight to your amazing workshop.
Take it apart and clean the filter every once in a while.
Also, technically, you _still are a professional model maker._
And an electric hovercraft maker.
You can clean the intakes with an old toothbrush.
I never go anywhere without my Spaceballs the oven, I can't live without it.
With woodworking I have used and still use a hotplate with an old little pot filled with sand to heat up small wooden parts to create shading. Works great. Plus I have used a blow dryer for my first coal forge.
Demerit badge - looking for your glasses that are on top of your head
I'm so going to use this! So simple but never thought about it, love all the tips I learn and put to use watching Adam!
I'm just impressed at how offhand Adam nailed the size of that hole.
ADAM you're the man, I literally* just finished a leather wallet and doused all the pockets with way too much Mink oil.
As I was watching this I was planning on letting it dry for two days. Well I set up a box and blow-dryer and 15 minutes later even the pockets were dry on the inside! Thank you!!!!!!!!!
I love the idea of demerit badges! Here's a few ideas: An "Assembled it wrong" badge, "Stripped Screw" badge, "Dropped it" badge, and the " Its in my eye!" Badge. Cant wait to see a full sash of demerit badges!
I have a blow drier hanging by my airbrush station but...in a certain Australian Army tank regiment far far and 38 years away - we bought a pantry cupboard, drilled a hole near the bottom and added a filtered vent near the top. Then we used it with a blow drier to dry 35mm strip negatives from a deep tank developer, so we could rush out film imagery and prints. The overflow from the vent assisted the print drying.
Tony in Brisbane
I am so happy you taught me this. It's cold and dark at this time of year and my latest model paint "attempt" was ruined due to cold temps affecting paint. And, yes, that is the essential blow dryer design. My mother had that same exact one when I was growing up. Kind of nostalgic for that design myself.
I like to cut a small hole at on the other side of the box to help circulation and also if the air is moist or has fumes, it gives them a place to escape from. I typically put my dryer on an angle at the top of the box to help the swirling of the air inside and then a hole at the bottom to let out the coolest air on the far side opposite your blow dryer. You can also flip this configuration around and have the vent at the top if you may have lots of humid or gassy air to be expelled. I also like lifting my project off the ground just a little bit so the circulation of air can surround and hug the workpiece without pockets of dead fumes and or air. Sometimes it's nice to throw a cut in the box with a "hinge" ( just a flap you can pull or push open when needed) so you can lift it up to check your progress while drying without taking the whole dang box and dryer off and messing with its perfect placement. I also use this "check flap" to take temperature readings with my I.R. (infrared) thermometer thingy in addition to or in place of having a thermocouple taped to either the actual workpiece itself or just to the inside of the vent hole. If you are drying for an extended amount of time or have very thin walled cardboard you can get a pretty accurate reading just by shooting the Infrared thermometer at the box itself as long as it has come up to temp. You can also find the correlation between the box temp and internal "actual" temp so in the future you can streamline the process. no muss no fuss. Fun fact, as an insult I love the word "vent hole" usually referring to someone's overly used mouth (for excessive words and speaking garbage not that other thing you sicko), although you can sprinkle it on fart jokes if you are so bold. Enjoy :)
Yellow Bird Execs: Why the sudden influx of sales?? Lmao
That blow drier oven is brilliant!
I'm definitely going to be more productive when the red lights are on with that trick in my back pocket. I've been just switching my blow drier off when the buzzer goes.
The 'oven' is a good idea. For a slower and gentler method, you can also use a couple of big, cheap Lasko box fans (usually $20-$30 for the 20x20" ones, and they last years).. point one at the object from one side and give it a little 20 to 30 degree offset turn to the left or right, then set another one up on the opposite side, and mirror the turn with this one. Makes an awesome invisible vortex of air that dries things quick.
It's a little slower than a blow dryer, but waaaay faster than being out in the open air, and gentle on things that might be sensitive to heat. Some finishes will peel, crack, or get sort of a rough matte look if you blast'em with heat, and it works on very large objects easily, since there's no container needed.
I love you and your help and guidance and tricks and everything you do here to help amateur Makers like myself. Thanks man.
I love the blowdryer oven, I've made probably 4 or 5 of them for warming up sculpting wax over the years and used them until they just fell apart. I used to attend a figure sculpture class in a bronze foundry and there was the best iteration of a blowdryer oven I've ever seen there. Essentially someone had picked up their neighbors broken deep freeze, taken an old thrift store blowdryer (one old enough to not have an automatic heat activated shut-off to protect from overheating) and they'd made wooden shelves spaced in such a way as to allow for air convection. We would literally just drop the blowdryer in there for a few minutes, and it would warm up stiff plasticine clay and sculpting wax for the class and kept it at a great workable temperature for the entire 3 hour session. And if people weren't strategic about retrieving their sculpting materials and ended up letting all the heat out, it just took another couple of minutes to come back up to temperature. It's still my favorite use of a broken deep freeze and a 50 cent blowdryer.
I wish I could share this to all of the maker, miniature painting, and 3d printing Facebook pages at the same time. I have an old blow dryer in my shop for exactly this purpose and it is an awesome tool.
Gotta appreciate the simple things just a box and blow dryer 👍🏽
When I lived in a basement room in Ontario Canada, I used a hair dryer shoved in a small box with a old shop vac hose also shoved in the box. Used it as a small directional heater. Kept me warm while I worked at the computer
I build model tanks and have been using a hairdryer for years, it just works. clothes pegs are another must have item.
So simple...so awesome! Thanks!
I had to do SMT part rework for work for the first time ever this May, so my work lab got a hot air rework gun. I have used that thing consistently for everything but its intended use practically weekly since. Blow dryer in the lab makes perfect sense to me, now.
I'm sure most of us children of the 70's/80's are familiar with the iconic Conair blow dryer. My mother had one for years.
I pretty much exclusively make stuff via 3D printer, and I second the comment on filling primer. Works extremely well for smoothing out the layer ridges. I usually sand in between coats and go to a smoother sanding paper as i add on the coats.
Absolutely epic idea.. will defiantly use this in the future.
Demerit badge idea: When you forget which "final2_the_real_one.stl" is the actual final version of the file - because version control, what even is that?
Date stamps. In the title. If that isn't fine-grain enough, time stamps.
sort by modification date.
Adam I love this Tip, I've been doing this for years. For Kids and pets - it also works great if you have to dry a wet spot on a bed or couch
This worked perfectly for warming up a new urethane band saw tire for installation. Cheers!
Badge idea: Didn't properly mirror the left and right sides of a build. Image could be 2 left shoes.
I have a dedicated heavy wall cardboard box that I have a shop vac and filter hooked up to for downdraft suction, which I then switch out the vacuum hose for a blow dryer. Close the flaps and turn on the blow dryer. Dual purpose and after 16yrs of use still going strong!
Dad just bought me one of these because this and for all my painting needs, thank you
Great tip ! Thxs Adam !
4:57 I lke Elmer's Probond Wood Filler for my models. It doesn't shrink, you can sand it, doesn't need mixing, and no nasty fumes like Bondo.
I do the same thing with the space heater I keep in my garage. Bigger fan = quieter! I also have a smoker I use for paint and ceramic coating. Pretty cheap used if you want to have something dedicated.
I fell into doing maintenance work 4 years ago. I added a blow dryer to my tools. They are handy for frozen refrigerators.
YES! Thats BRILLIANT!
I use a fan heater blowing into the open side of a cardboard box for drying stuff in the workshop. Not so much paint for me, but things like steel parts after rinsing rust remover off them with water. It works incredibly well, drying them before they have a chance to rust.
I created a large oven using a bread pan rack and insulating foam board for $120 including the rack. It gets up to the 180F we need to cure our pad printing inks. It covers 12 slots on the rack. The heating element is a $20 blow dryer. Been working like a charm for 7 years.
My wife gave me her old blow dryer 6 or 8 years ago, an old Conair 1800, when she got a new one. After a couple of weeks she came back and said "My new one sucks, can I get my old one back?". I showed it to her and she took one look at it and said "Never mind". It still works fine, but now I want a Yellow Bird.
had a refinishing shop years ago took my mothers old hair dryer to use in my shop and yes i got her a new and better one
Absolutely brilliant!
When I was in PC and Printer repair we use to use a hairdryer to move labels and stickers when replacing the plastic shells. Heat it up to make the glue sticky and carefully peel it off.
This is a great method to dry PC heat sinks after washing them :) I've been doing this for a few years and it's amazing!
I use the same setup for curing resin casts. Same dryer too. I also stab a meat thermometer in the box. And use a vent flap on the far side to regulate the temp.
I used this exact technique to kill off bed bugs in a suitcase that was infected when travelling to Japan of all places. I was able to get a big cardboard box (about 2m^3) up to 70°C with just a humble heat gun. The perfect disinfection chamber with just 10 minutes of work.
Yes! I used the blow dryer oven to dry out a laptop that got dripped on. Works great!
Great Tip.
On a trip out of town, my wife and i got caught in the rain and our shoes were soaked from all the puddles... Well, using the hotel blow dryer as an oven totally worked to dry out our shoes!! THANKS FOR THE TIP ADAM!!!!
Don’t forget that 12V drill and impact driver combo!
The 12V Makita or Milwaukee Art is perfect for creators. They can drill holes, use the impact drive for bolts, nuts and screws.
Get a pair of Knipex Pliers Wrench and Cobras. Best pliers ever.
Instead of primer get a can of Bondo from the auto store. It dries hard quickly. Lol you mentioned Bondo as I was typing it!!
Bondo also offers their filler in a spray can, Adam!
I am going to buy one myself because it is the blow dryer my Grandfather used with his charcoal grill.
Dude! What a great idea!
We use silicone baking mats in the kitchen. When one finally wore out and we didn't want to use it for food any longer, it was retired to the shop where I use it for glueups.
I have a box that i varnished drying in a cardboard oven right now!
Very neat idea would've never thought to do that. I will do this in the future. Awesome video Adam really stepping up the content.
Cardboard box oven 🤯 , thanks Adam for another awesome tip!
Hand held egg whisk for mixing paint! Works great! Net curtain elasticated steel wire (you know, the pvc covered stretchy kind) as a cable puller - lays much straighter than a fish tape and handily drops down from its own weight when trying to get it into a ceiling hole from above but some distance away horizontally. Same thing used as a holdback for boards stacked against a wall. A steel screw-eye loop for use in a drill chuck to drive hanging hooks (a hook itself isn't bad but an eye is even better). An old car door mirror with or without surround for use as a large inspection mirror under floors or in ceiling voids!
Steel wire coat hangers ... For all sorts of uses from retrieval probes with taped on magnets to use as a draw wire for cables or rope through narrow or awkward holes etc.
Where there's a will there's a way and where there is a way but no tool, SOMETHING domestic can often be press ganged! 🤔🙄😆😆😆
A hair dryer and box works perfectly when paired with a digital temperature controller if you need to cure something at a specific temperature like a resin. I used to work for a manufacturer of fiberglass aircraft and we had them all over the factory and in the service center. For fiberglass repairs, we made a "tent" of plastic over the area using butyl putty tape to seal it around the repair then put the hair dryer in one side and the temp probe somewhere near the repair. Leave a small hole on the other side so that air can exhaust. Set a temp and away it goes. You can also use a hair dryer & controller to make a permanent curing oven using 1 inch thick foam insulation sheets in practically any size or shape you wish though if you go big you might need to use a second hair dryer to get the desired temperature. I see a cheap controller on Amazon for $35 or you can go for a higher quality Johnson's Controller for around $80 and up that gives you more configuration options.