Ask Adam Savage: "Is There Anything Too Dangerous to Repair Yourself?"
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- Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2020
- This question for Adam comes from Tested Patron Chris Scott, who asks, "My father always said, 'Son, never try to repair a television or a garage door yourself.' LOL. So here's my question to you: "Is there anything you personally consider too complex or dangerous to attempt a repair? (even with a do not try this at home disclaimer)." Thank you, Chris, for your question and support! Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks, such as asking Adam a question:
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As someone who has been electrocuted by a capacitor bank, yes more than one capacitor, I can say without a doubt, it hurts like a mother freakin sonofagun!! I got 450 volts right through my torso because of it
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Haha your intro caught me off guard
The question was too dangerous to repair? Right? I'd say anything that can potentially harm me, or someone else without adequate knowledge.
@@pacificcoastpiper3949 I crossed the streams of a 220, and that was interesting. I bet 400 was like 10 cups of coffee, and a kick to the groin.
Adam: "I don't like pressurized systems"
Me: *remembering the hot water heater episode of Mythbusters*
Amen and that's probably why he doesn't like pressurized systems. Even though he said it was one of his favorite explosions, I doubt exploding his own house is on the list.
@@Vickie-Bligh "Explosions are lovely... at the bomb range, under supervision."
@@ElectromagNick from a safe distance
The garage door thing is about the same thing with the "pressure" being in the spring.
@@IRMacGuyver ^this, also the electricity in a capacitive system is 'under pressure'
"....never try to fix a garage door" is probably referring to the garage door torsion spring. That thing can potentially really hurt you.
My dad has a mark on his face Frome when he tried to fix a torsion spring garage door as a teen.
When ours broke dad wanted to replaced them himself because it was cheaper. But every company he talked to refused to sell the springs by themselves. Thank the Universe because dad just isn't as handy as he thinks and there's some things you just shouldn't do yourself.
@@darkvixen28 Garage Door Supplier: I'm sorry, I can't in good conscience sell you this dangerous thing. If you turned up dead with a spring sticking half outta your torso your widow could fault no living man but me.
Gun Auctioneer: Buy five at a time in 60 seconds or get the hell out.
I’ve seen those things crack entire garage foundations, I’ll never touch those things man
Nearly tore my arm and face off attempting to fix because my mom wouldn't"call a guy". Please don't attempt to fool with garage doors!!
I think the takeaway here is,
"I believe I am _capable_ of repairing my espresso machine, but I judge the risks inherent in doing so to be high enough that unless it was somehow a life-critical thing, I will not _attempt_ to do so."
Which is honestly a fine example of _wisdom._
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so what you are saying is that Adam took seven minutes to say, what you wrote in in less than forty words! I can totally see why he and Jamie no longer worki together!
Hi Adam, I worked as a customer engineer in South Africa for a number of years, and my blood runs cold when I think about the DIY repairs that people used to do on their hot water systems... The average person has no applicable knowledge of the units or what safety devices are included. So a leaking valve on your hot water system is; a : Normal or b : Quite likely saving your life! DO NOT CAP IT OFF TO SAVE WATER!!!!
Please people... Never fix anything that has heated, pressurised fluids. Regardless of how simple it appears.
Love your work, Adam
They blew up A LOT of hot water heaters over the years on MB….
"Hey, Adam, we have a broken nuclear warhead here, wanna give it a try?".
"Sure".
"Oh, our expresso machine is also broken".
"I WILL NOT TOUCH THAT!"
Lol
Honestly, a nuclear warhead is probably less dangerous to work on than a pressurized system as it is, from my understanding, required to only explode under exact conditions. Now the explosives that activate those exact conditions might be more dangerous, but then again they might not.
This of course assumes that the nuclear material is safe to handle for someone with PPE that could be acquire by a do it yourselfer. I don't know enough about how much radiation a warhead would have to say much about this.
I would welcome counterarguments from people who know more though, I just know the basics as to how they work. :)
@@zlcoolboy You are correct with that nuclear warheads will only explode under exact conditions. Even to the extent of them being lit on fire, bombed, or shot. There are so many fail safes that it would be impossible to detonate without full well knowing what you are doing and that you're doing it purposely. With the safety aspect, it really just depends how deep you're needing to go. Of course with the basic handling of the weapon, you must use the generic radiation PPE. Those who work on the weapons of course always have a Geiger counter on them and the levels have been said to never exceed anything normal on a closed weapon.
TBH, been working on espresso for about 25 years. It is an extremely niche skill set. Often _very_ messy, rarely truly dangerous.
@@jefranke It's also a difficult thing to get right for most folks. My mother had a coffee shop while I was in high school. My Dad had to repair the espresso machine about every 6 weeks. I might be exaggerating a little, but I'm sure my Dad would tell you that he was never 100% satisfied with the repairs he did. I'm sure of lot of that had to do with not having the correct parts on hand and the very short window he typically had to do any repair.
He’s still mad about the time that Kari and Tori electrically shocked him with the “Baghdad battery”
He just stared at them like Bro did you guys really just do that to me...
Literally my first thought when he was saying never ever shock someone. Definitely still just a tiny bit salty about that one. 😂
@@alexg1778 I can fully sympathize, I too have been shocked by both a CRT TV and cow fence. It is............... unpleasant(no I didn't pee on the fence, I was told it was off when it wasn't).
@@ewoodley82 yeah I got shocked by a 10,000 volt electric fence a few weeks ago. It did suck but it was funny too.
One of the best examples I've seen of a groupthink failure. It went from "We can't do that to Adam" to "Oh I guess we're doing that to Adam."
As a teacher used to say, "Getting shocked by a CRT will hurt worse than heartbreak"
Can confirm.
My brother said he never saw someone "jump"across the room like I did after accidentally touching the HT in a TV.
I had a burn hole in a finger for weeks.
@@PaulMansfield My prof said his repair company put a mattress behind the CRT work area, because someone always forgot to discharge them and they were tired of repairing drywall.
Having experienced this personally, I agree...
Try a microwave 😂
Having touched a small capacitor from a disposable camera, I don’t even wanna know what a CRT feels like lol. My spine felt like it was burning for a while after that one. Not pleasant. That was also the day I learned what a capacitor is.
His dad should have specified. “Son don’t try to repair a garage door spring yourself”. I’ve done it in my 20’s now in my mid 40’s hard pass.
I love that after all these years, he is still this humble, real human, giant dork, and enjoyable person.
Ikr! He's so charming
Actually he's all the opposite of what you are seeing, you can see some interviews where he even says so.
What you are watching is his "persona" not the real guy.
Him (Adam) has said that his real personality is more like Jamie in real life, grumpy, kinda serious and so on.
But because he looks like the "cool guy" he was told to do exactly that, even if he is the opposite.
He does a great job at acting but don't get confused, that's his persona not the real him
He is an actor. He admits that this isn’t his real personality in many interviews. You’re just easy to manipulate.
Also a racist, but hey
Now I want to know what *Harmless* fun tricks Adam might suggest for April Fools :)
Systems of any kind that store large amounts of energy - whether that's steam, or springs, or suspended weights, or actual electric batteries or capacitors. When they get above toy size, they start to get scary very quickly.
Don't be fooled that if it's low voltage it is save to work on, drop a wrench on a big 12V battery to see some fireworks.
@@sparqqling exactly, it's the amps that count, the voltage only indicates the spark range.
A couple of decent rules of thumb for the average untrained commoner for high power electrical systems are:
1) does it usually have a clearly audible electrical hum if turned on? If yes, it has enough power to instantly crisp your insides. Stay the fuck away.
2) estimate the length of insulators between cable and grounded support fixtures, keep every part of your body at least twice that distance away from the cable and anything it is in direct contact with.
@@SonsOfLorgar voltage * current = power (energy) and is what that counts.
High voltage with next to nothing on current is fine, like the spark from lighter. But with a little bit of current it becomes deadly fast.
I'll add "That cable's dead" should have the same weight as "This gun isn't loaded"
My first day working at (well, next to, I was doing boring intern stuff) a linear accelerator I got to attend a team meeting of "X happened last week, if we hadn't been following the safety rules at least one of us would be dead right now" about a power supply. Things were supposed to discharge safely when it was turned off, something slipped so it didn't (this shouldn't have been possible) leaving a capacitor charged, and when they were disconnecting the cables it arced to the ground wire instead of the person pulling the plug.
Had more of an effect than a full day of "if you don't know for sure you're supposed to touch it, don't touch it" training. I never thought to ask if they'd delayed that meeting until the new guys arrived.
I agree with you Adam. As a young sailor one of my jobs as a watchkeeping electrician was to visit all the spaces on board with running electrical equipment to ensure it was not overheating or otherwise misbehaving. One of the machines we had to visit was the fwd forced lube pump which necesitated crawling between the boilers which were producing superheated steam at some extreme pressure and temperature. I hated it and everyone knew I did and took childish delight in finding a reason for me to 'have' to crawl through there! Conversely, the stokers who managed the boilers had no problem being there but hated the thought of going anywhere near live electrics which of course presented no terrors to me.
It's a strange old world. :-)
"This is a terrible idea and I don't think it's funny at all."
*smiles the whole time he's describing it
You KNOW he’s lowkey done something similar to Jamie 100 times.
"Is There Anything Too Dangerous to Repair Yourself?"
Me, thinking back to earlier this year: "A lathe"
Glad I'm not the only one who thought that LOL
2020, man.
Whilst it's running!
@@TC-th1ey And you're wearing baggy clothing
Been there, done that :-) I repair everything from rebuilding a V8 upto a 40kV powersupply (but I repair electronics for a living ;-) )
When the word "high" is involved, it's usually a good idea for amatures to stay away. High pressure, high voltage, high tension and so on...
Err.....shouldn’t that be a ‘good’ idea for amateurs to stay away?!! Just asking for an amateur......
High anxiety, mile high club, high hide from The lost world Jurassic park, high stakes, high electric bill, high.
@@cameronpritchett7512 yup the difference between having the confidence to handle the highs and the requisite ability as well ... or the mystified fear of not being able to handle it and being excessively concerned about being safe ....
. learn how to handle high pressure or high voltage and its no problem .. dont and be afraid of it ... is fine too ... it is like buying a gun ... until you train on how to handle it and use it ... it is a danger ... ONCE you have been trained and are familiar with how to deal with one .. they are not a danger ... a loaded gun that just sits there doesnt go off .. a loaded gun that gets played with .. tends to go off ... HOW one handles something is the measure of how deadly it can be.
@@cameronpritchett7512 also velociraptors, don't give weed to the velociraptors
James Trotman no weed to velociraptors , but yes meth to the T. rex
Never mess with pressure vessels - that's as good a piece of advice as I've ever seen. Boiler technicians are worth their weight in gold
As someone who works on commercial steam applications. I understand the fear of it. It’s something that even after years I’m still scared out of respect but I love every bit of it. Stay great Adam.
As a pipefitter, I can respect his caution towards steam/pressure based systems.
Probably has flashbacks of blowing up water heater tanks.
@Adam Cosper heck, pipes/fitting popping during simple pressurized air test sound like a small bomb went off. Boilers and steam are their own sorts of monsters. Heck the main journeyman I worked with on the last few jobs lost his dad due to a cap busting off a steam system.
Scary stuff.
See my comment above about my compressor. It lasted 50 years, still had the original manual.
@@badryukun I have seen a photograph of a steam locomotive with all the pipes sticking out the front like some monstrous type of pasta . I believe the crew all died . See "What happened to the crew of this train " You Tube video
As an ex- navy boiler technician, those high steam pressure and hot systems, pipes and valves and steam turbines and main engines, etc., sure get hot and can be deadly, so I get it, too.
I absolutely love how Adam doesn’t want to spend $275 on the coffee machine because he doesn’t need it. He has tens of thousands of dollars in tools and equipment, but he doesn’t want to spend $275 because he doesn’t need to. This is the attitude I need in life.
"I really don't need to spend $275” ... because then I'll only have $14 million, 875 thousand left.
@@senseisecurityschool9337 You Don have that much by spending like nobody's business.
@@alalalala57 if you are bill gates you could casually buy 250 Ferraris
Lol...yeah but he still does
@@alalalala57 You are absolutely, 100% right. I have a lot, and 80% of the reason I have a lot is because I don't waste what I get.
I had a temporary job working at a TV repair shop and the safety training before sending me out to work on customers sets was basically, "Don't touch this part".
I love that, "I'll work on my own car but not my espresso machine" truly a man after my own heart! Thanks for sharing, J.
"Is there anything too dangerous to repair yourself?" No pressurized systems, but an iron man suit seems to be okay! Good to know!
that was my first thought too...
I think he's probably seen the damage a pressurized container can cause.
@@JonR_1138 I'm a mechanic/technician and I occasionally work with pressurised systems, either pneumatics, hydraulics or steam systems. I've had my experience with energetic failures on all three - and let me tell you, steam is the scariest of them all. But pressurised systems in general, they have so much stored energy that wants to get out and takes any chance it gets to do so. If you're not an expert stay a good measure away from pressurised systems.
@@JonR_1138 he has actually. They did a few myths about compressed gas tanks. (Like a hospital oxygen tank or helium tank)
But it's not so much that side i feel he meant, it's pressurized steam. So if he messed up he would get blasted with high pressure steam. (Depends on the repair needed, might not need a system purge. And that depends on the setup as he said it was installed, so it likely has a water pipe and power supply connected into it)
Anyone who has ever seen a bleve first hand, will tell you that pressurized systems are terrifying.
Re: pranks, a good rule to follow is "confuse, don't abuse."
Unless both have a mutual understanding of eachothers limits. See underground extreme wrastlin'. I'm never going to have a buddy slam me into a razor board, but some folks are ok with it. Go figure.
That's a fine line
@@JazzyFizzleDrummers this dances the line of extreme fetish territory
@@adriansaidan1736 I would argue that it has firmly crossed that razor-thin edge of separation and fully went into extreme fetish territory.
The way I see it a good prank should be enjoyed by the pranker and the prankee
I think the issue with a garage door is the ginormous springs associated with them.
As for the capacitor prank, my highschool physics teacher got me with a similar trick involving a Leyden jar, which I did not know anything about at the time, needless to say my arms went from completely in front of me to completely behind me and we both had a good laugh. Nothing like 60 kilovolts through your body
You do know that each shock from a Leyden Jar raises your IQ ten points for a month, then you have to do it again to keep from feeling like a dull hoe in a field of weeds.
A lesson from my undergrad engineering degree: when a sparky tosses something to you with no warning, step aside and let it hit the ground.
Yeah the garage door spring, if it comes loose not under control is so powerful it can practically cut people in half. Absolutely gruesome.
@@danlorett2184 and so actually all stuff you (I, and probably Adam) don’t want to repair are devices with a lot of stored energy. And in particular, stored energy that is not that easy to release safely.
We love to listen to you ramble, Adam! The fact that there’s no producer to reign you in is what makes this channel so great
I feel like adam gave himself some burnt eyebrows flashbacks when discussing capacitors.
Or petroleum filled plastic boxes...
Or ptsd from when his cohosts shocked him with the ark of the covenant
that was a pressurized system that led to him losing his eyebrow wasn't?
@@himynameisjeff And then Scottie "quit".
@@world4saker No, they were doing the gas station car explosion myth when the small scale blast blew apart the plexiglas box he was using.
*Temporarily misunderstands "from Tested patrons"*
"How did you test them?"
Oh wow someone with my exact name lmao what are the odds
@@WednesdayTheClove Probably higher than you might think
@@Bubbly_Dragon yeah it's a weird world
Adam, I could listen to you talk all day. The way you ramble is so intriguing, and I usually end up learning a thing or two. You're an amazing story teller. Some of your other videos don't have the most interesting title, but I know that you will make it interesting and I'll learn something from it. I watched you as a kid, but I never really grasped how smart you actually are, you're a genius!
Love this! I grew up repairing television sets, and I was taught to ground the high voltage, before messing with anything, but still learned the hard way-once.
Lol one damn time was enough right? My "friend" did that very prank Adam described. I got him back in Chem class with a highly fluorescent dye that's invisible until reacted with water. I bet his parents bath still glows pink...
"I can't change reality" but you could reject it and substitute your own!
Yeah... really now... EXCUSE ME???
I noticed he said that too . The wisdom of age perhaps lol
Porject Tsuki no me
Came to the comments to find and like this reply.
You know that quote is not original to him, right?
“But now I’m rambling”
This isn’t a bad thing 😂
Yeah, I like the rambling about Conan O'Brian, old tvs, pranks, coffee, and hacking Teslas 😂
actually funny EE prank: bang snaps sound like a capacitor shorting out, sprinkle a few on a coworker's bench, when they put a tool down on one they'll think they broke something.
This gives me anxiety
3:38 I had the same expression recalling that experience.
I just realized, after all these years, Adam looks like a blond Gordon Freeman
stembofication
Look, Gordon, Ropes! We can use these to-
Hello, Gordon!
WE NEED TO GET HIM AN H.E.V. SUIT
He really does. I was just thinking about what a Half-Life centered Mythbusters episode would be like.
My brother said an interesting thing to test would be if it’s possible to efficiently shoot a barnacle while you’re in its grasp. I personally was thinking of seeing whether or not it’s possible to have a mine/bomb similar to the Hoppers in Half-Life 2.
Adam Savage would definitely crowbar 😎❤
Adam: "Electrocution is a terrible thing to do to a human being."
Michael Reeves: "I'll ignore that."
Holy crap we need a colab
A man of culture I see. :)
Especially because electrocution means to die from electricity. There's a difference between getting shocked and electrocuted.
@@darianbell9614 it does not mean to die from electricity. It can mean that, but it can also just mean to be hurt by electricity.
@@prismglider5922 Sure but very severely like almost dying. Means a lot more than just casually getting shocked by say a 120v circuit.
Knowing how to fix your car or at least what specifically is wrong/needs to be done even if you decide take it in to a shop (for reasons like he says) is a good way to get a real estimate and save time/money and the car sitting in the shop for months because they had to take everything apart instead of just enough to get what you needed.
100% agree, don't want to deal with pressurized anything if I don't have too.
3:30 “pranking is mostly cruel”
I see the ark of the covenant prank is still a very touchy subject....
Oh man .... I can still remember that scene. You could see the genuine hatred on his face hahaha. I wonder if he can look back and laugh at it now ...
That's a brilliant reference, thank you.
"a electric cow fence that I have also been shocked by..." looks directly at camera*
@@MTGeomancer I get the sense he's still sore about it happening, and rightly so, but doesn't hold it over the heads of his co-workers.
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Yeah, especially after he asked about them using the fence and they lied about it. That got serious really fast. Wonder how close Adam was to firing one or more of them at that moment. Kari's immediate "do you feel god" was a total misreading the room as well.
Adam - Pranking is mostly cruel
In Adam's mind - That damned Ark...
Was thinking exactly the same haha. He was not happy with that at all
"I don't like working on pressurized systems"
*Me, glancing over nervously at my disassembled Rancilio Silvia that I'm putting a number of mods and upgrades on*
Thought the exact same thing, except mine’s a disassembled 2 group Carimali
I am SO glad youtube recommended this again. It has nothing to do with danger, but I have been procrastinating for a month to ask about the PIN card not staying inside my WiFi thingy.
The moment I saw the thumbnail I realized I can just tape over it!!
Got me laughing. My dad learned to blow glass to make his own vacuum tubes in Cuba, to build his own isotopic scanner for nuclear medicine research. The commercial vacuum tubes allegedly had a crimp in the wire that made them fail early, and with 1000 vacuum tubes in the design, he needed them to last longer. I miss Dad's basement workshop, your man cave reminds me of it a bit.
It’s fun to see how different things “scare” different people. I’d happily fix an espresso machine, but I’d never touch a torsion spring garage door.
i have re-tensioned both of mine before, they aren't too bad, just need to go slow and careful
@@gtb81. I also have a ethereal hatred for all things spring shaped, so that might have something to do with it. I’ve seen professionals do it as well, and it doesn’t look to horrible until you’ve seen one snap.
@@sstorholm yeah, i have seen some serious incidents with springs, they hold lots and lots of energy
mind is getting a broken tap out of a engine block, break the near diamond hard drill bit i wish you luck.
if anyone does attempt it, i've fixed a few... safest place while winding is directly in the middle of the spring. the springs are contained on the bar even under failure they will stay put. The nose cones are very cheaply made cast aluminum and can fly off and outward. stay clear of them as best you can.
"There it is. I can't change reality."
We believe in you, Adam!
you could ramble for hours and I'd be happy to listen. Definitely some wisdom to be learned with Adam here.
Hearing the capacitor story, I remember Adam getting so pissed off at Baghdad Battery Mythbusters episode.
Yeah, that was a real low point on the show purely for some "on screen drama".
I almost thought someone, quite possibly Tory, was going to be fired for that one... Just looking at Adams reaction.
@@walthansen6333 I think at the time, Adam and Jamie were just on screen talent hired by Beyond Productions. Like everyone else, they took "orders" from the producers. That ended when they got more creative control. I know the hosts of Top Chef got to have a say in things and that's why you don't see them eating so many testicles in later seasons.
@@tiacho2893 I heard a similar rumor that Tory was asked/told by one of the reality-show-style producers to do the prank and that's why there was no bad blood between Adam and Tory. I wonder if the personal details are left out, Adam can answer directly about the event in this Tested Q&A series.
@@Gruncival Tory was one of Adam's coworkers at ILM (along with Grant). They knew each other a lot longer than a producer that worked on the show for a few seasons. I think it was because of those producers and selective editing that Jamie came across as humourless and mean for a few seasons.
Adam is having some war flashbacks from the cattle prod Ark. 😬😂
Yes he is, and for good reason. The shock you can get from even a small electric fence unit, when you're touching something well grounded (or in Adam's case, the actual ground lead) and the live wire, is incredibly painful...and usually you're just not expecting it, so it's like some has snuck up behind you and whack, they just hit you with a bat.
@@Pete856 yeah we get how electric shock works were just laughing at his face because of the myth busters build crew shocked him.
Did you feel God?
@@bmo14lax it wasn't the crew... they were told, by a producer (that was later fired) to set it up and trick adam to touch it.
@@tekvax01 You could tell Tory was uncomfortable. And when Tory is visibly uncomfortable pranking someone you know it has gone too far.
I could listen to Adam ramble all day. Great video.
You should probably specify Farnsworth's was the first all-electronic television. John Logie Baird demonstrated the first functional television system a bit earlier, but it was partly mechanical.
Adam remembering the shock he got from the Ark of the Covenant during the Baghdad Battery episode of MythBusters.
IIRC, that was during the "dark" time when the producers were kinda "reality show" people (see the shooting each other with paintball guns episode). Once Adam and Jamie got more creative control, I think they immediately put an end to that crap.
😢
...and urinating on the electric fence
Definitely right at 3:43 lol
I think when he talks about getting shocked by a cow fence he's talking about the episode of Mythbusters where he confirms you can get shocked through your urine stream when you pee on a cow fence. I don't think that would be something you would forget!
Adam: "I can't change reality"
Also Adam: "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"
Came here to post this hahaha
Very down to earth answer. Makes it very enjoyable.
It has been years since I fixed a CRT. When I was learning from my mentor how to work on them, I inadvertently discharged the flyback onto myself. I did have it on isolation, probably the only thing that saved my life, so isolation folks.... it is important. Enjoyed the "rant" as you call it. Just sounds like good irl storytelling to me.
Anything relating to natural gas lines or gas appliances in a house would be a no for me.
Long as you vent the lines it's fine. The danger comes when you cant do so for one reason or another
Gas lines aren't too bad just make sure you don't cross thread anything, keep everything tight and bubble test every fitting
Agreed. The possible cost of even a fairly minor error is just too much, especially as gas appliances are usually pretty reliable and don't need fixing that regularly.
100%. Mains AC all day. Gas appliances, no way.
@@DavidLeeKersey still wouldn't fully trust myself to not cause a CO leak or something.
“Am I missing an eyebrow?” - Adam fixing his espresso machine
A shocked smoking cartoon Adam with that caption on a T-shirt, make it happen Tested!
Hahahahahahaha true!
Classic
I am an adult Hu-man, and also a professional mechanic. And on the flip side, I would rather work on a car out on the road, than in a garage.. any day of the week. :). Thanks for sharing Adam. I’ve been binge watching this channel for weeks
I really enjoy your ramblings
My headphones said "Battery low" when they got low, and he paused and just looked at the screen around 3:49 or so, like he was annoyed that the voice interrupted him, lol
....what?
Speaking of CRT, why’s this video interlaced?
Right? It's a little disorienting.
I don’t know how it’s possible to accidentally post an interlaced video in 2020 lol
Adam has said previously that he has real video equipment but prefers filming with a potato, lower friction apparently.
@@brocktechnology but none of his other videos are interlaced like this. plus, you can film on a phone and not deal with interlacing.
I assumed it was the editors having a bit of fun.
I could watch Adam ramble all day. Imagine in a few years when he’s actually grown into an old man like he was meant to be from the beginning! 😆
Imagine sitting on and endless chairlift or waiting on a flight for hours with adam chatting along. That would be my dream.
I am 73 and As I get older, everything seems to be more complicated than when I was young, then I would dive right into any job like it was a challenge that I just had to win. Once, I took my transmission apart to fix a noise when I would shift gears. I finally found out that there was nothing wrong with the transmission I had 2 different size tires on the back and the rear differential made the noise. I would never work on a transmission again.
Listening to Adam talk about "old" TV's takes me back to simpler days.
When children were remote controls. "Son, get up and change it to Channel 7."
It's crazy I'm 22 and our current TV's seem simpler to me. Those old cathode tubes seem like black magic and require a lot more fine tuning!!
@@samconroyy that’s funny I’m only a few years older than you, 26, and I have a very different perception of that stuff. I mean even if we were the same age, our demographics could be different enough to have had vastly different tech/appliance experiences growing up, being wealthy vs being poor could put people in different universes, but it’s funny how just a few years can make such a difference. Like the first tv I remember was when I was 4, and it was the kind where it was like a dresser with a screen, heavy, hard wood structure, big and sturdy enough for me to climb on top of it and jump off every day without damaging it. So then when I was 8 and you were 4, it was probably a different world already.
@@young-stove Yeah it's certainly interesting, I was never rich but I wouldn't say we were poor either. It also helped my dad was into technology and got the old plasma TV's early in their life.
I remember back in the early to mid 80’s remote control TVs came onto the market. However they were NOT wireless and the remote was connected to the front of the TV by a 2 foot long wire. I remember I was the designated TV station turner so I had to sit 2 feet away from the TV and every time a commercial came on it was my job to switch to the other 6 stations while we wait for the commercial to be over. Good times, good times.
I loved the look on Adams face when he realized he wasn't answering the question. Priceless
The coffee machine repair segment was hilarious. Absolutely great.
On older cars, points and condensers were common to replace in tune-ups, and one could charge up the condenser, toss it to your buddy and holler, "hey, catch" - it's a great way to influence people and make friends...
7:30 "I can't change reality."
Also Adam: "I reject your reality and substitute my own."
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@@jpm2681 I'm glad I wasn't the only one who caught that.
He already changed reality once! He can't change his subsituted reality for another, it was his own to begin with!
Another thing Adam won't repair - reality. You have to replace it.
The tl;dr version: Adam remembers water heaters make good rockets.
Thai was one of your best q and a’s yet!
I hear you. I feel you. I agree.
Adam talking about most pranks being cruel instantly reminded me of that Mythbusters episode where they pranked Adam with giving him a shock. I remember the disdain on his face. xD
John Logie Baird was working on television before Farnsworth, but Farnsworth's great innovation was translating the mechanical process into an electronic one
Yep, Baird invented the first TV, its just Farnsworths version was the one that got adopted for mass production over Bairds even though Baird had demonstrated his almost 2 years earlier, Baird also invented and demonstrated the First electronic colour TV picture tube, so to me he's more of a "Pioneer" of television than farnsworth
But you CANNOT beat a name like Philo Farnsworth!
@@firstmkb True, he does have a name advantage unlike Baird who's name sounds like someone trying to say "come on yogi bear" after having drank a full bottle of Whisky in an hour with their Kilt over their head.
First time I'd ever heard of Farnsworth. I was taught at school that John Logie Baird invented television!
“Working in the street like I’ve done my whole life.”
Wow Adam, I didn’t know times were that hard. 😂
I’ve repaired my garage door twice. And I was a bench tech for a local casino. The biggest part of the job was repairing CRT and LCD displays for the slot machines. It was interesting work!
Adam Savage circa 2005: "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"
Adam Savage today: "I can't change reality."
What happened?
A corporate criminal in the oval office running on substituting reality doctrine...
Experience keeps accumulating, while optimism wears out.
2020 happened
One is a hypothetical rebuttal of findings and the other is a confirmation of findings
Reality
If you regard a "TV's definition" as a live transmission of images with continual variations in tone then the first "TV" was invented and demonstrated was by John Logie Baird on January 26 1926 which was mechanically based, Philo Farnsworth made the first "electronic" TV that we are more familiar with today in September 1927, Baird also invented and demonstrated the first colour tv and electronic colour picture tube iirc.
A major slip-up from Adam.
Farnsworth was a pioneer of early TV technology but not the inventor.
I’m assuming and we all know what that means. But I’m sure the person asking was referring to vacuum tube TVs so.. he was warned against the B+ voltage in the tube circuit. B+ is what we now call high voltage or 600 volts and above. As far as the garage door it’s the springs in the tensioner at the top. As a carpenter I worked for a commercial over head door company for years. Some of those springs are under so much tension that if it breaks or if your winding bar slips you could find yourself in a dire situation! Life threatening in some cases and some men ad women have been killed simply adjusting an overhead door. At any rate I love that you’re back!
Simple honest thought to myself: "I like listening to him." =)
pranking is always cruel...he still remembers the ''angel's touch'' :DDDDD
🤔 my guess is he has some more bad prank memories too.
I was a little surprised someone didn't abruptly "decide to leave the show " after that prank!!!
@@Nickvec they f*cked him up really bad that time, i would've been pissed too.
They all knew and trusted each other well enough that Adam knew a producer made them do it, so that producer was the one who left.
@@snbeast9545 Yeah, I remember the episode was shot/edited to make it seem like the prank was the build team's idea, but in interviews with both Adam and the members of the build team, they said it was a producer's idea, and he was fired. In Adam's defense, he wasn't pissed they pranked him, he was pissed because that particular prank could have killed him.
3:42 Adam has PTSD flashback to 'Baghdad Battery'
Man he was legit pissed off at Tory for that.
@@Muscleduck I think he was even more pissed off at the producer who 'encouraged' the build team to increase the shock. As far as I know, that producer was soon looking for a new job.
"pranking is mostly cruel"
I will never forget Kari saying, "Did you see God?". XD
But yeah, I was also surprised that he was talking specifically about pranks involving electricity and didn't mention the Arc of the Covenant
@@master_moose He did. He says getting shocked by the capacitor feels like getting hit by a cow fence which he was shocked with. That's the thing they used in Mythbusters to "prank" him.
I did a TV once, big projection TV... unplugged it and let it sit for a few days before going in there and grounding shit out, then approached with gloves. There was a piece on the main board that we'd figured out (don't ask me how) that if we poked it with a plastic spoon that the picture would come on. SO, I unsoldered it, tinned the leads, then re-soldered it MUCH more securely. Spent another half hour re-assembling the TV with hand-tools, fired it up, and had a picture! That TV lasted another 6-7 years at least, and was still working when my brother's then-girlfriend threw it out.
I'm still rather impressed by that, given that I did it with no pictures, no backup plans, no notes - just knew I wanted to try re-soldering that one piece and had to disassemble half the TV to do it.
Apparently I was here 2 years ago, and I still love this line of thought. I wish he would have kept going.
Hearing about the "Shocking" prank, i'm reminded of a certain episode about Baghdad batteries and an Ark of some kind with an electric fence capacitor
We all love listening to you ramble
Immagine being a repairman, and you walk into a house to fix something, and you see you are repairing something for Adam Savage...
That would feel so awesome.
I would be gloating about it for MONTHS
3:17
Adam getting flashbacks to when Kari, Grant and Tory shocked him with the fake ark of the covenant statue
Grant wasn't there yet, Scottie was still on but departed shortly after
@@frosty_kamoshika I’m 99% sure Scottie was a stand in only when Kari was pregnant.
@@davidnotonstinnett in that episode it was scottie, kari, and tori. Also it was the producers who forced them to prank adam for entertainment's sake. That producer got fired soon after when Adam learned of this.
@@davidnotonstinnett Jesse was the stand-in when Kari was pregnant. Scottie was in the first season or two before Kari joined.
Your love for knowledge is infectious and you're really good at making explaining things interesting. You've probably heard that your entire life, but I REALLY wanted to tell you that. You seem like a great friend.
We used to put small capacitors under electrical plugs on the workbenches in college. That way, when the next student turned the strip on to power up their oscilloscope or whatever it was, they got a loud "BANG." Good times.
I get his hesitance to work with pressurized systems... but I would have figured that's similar to why the question specifically mentioned garage doors. Same thing with those, you have a large amount of stored energy (the torsion spring) that will release a LOT of energy if broken.
Having seen a rupture plate do its thing, I'm with you on heated pressure systems.
Can literally see Adam replaying the events of the Baghdad battery episode in his mind.
I find it hilarious that it's an espresso machine that Adam chooses not to work himself. I love it. Thank you Adam for just being you.
You Rock Adam. Cheers to you man.
* flash back music * "So this is my lathe..."
Oh there's definitely dangerous stuff, but he still did it any. 😅
7:16 "now I'm just rambling..."
No... Please do go on ☺️
I work around pressure vessels. It's easy to get complacent around them and forget that they have major explosive potential if not properly maintained and operated.
The coating around the picture tube is called the aquadag. My dad repaired CRT televisions
DUDE THAT SUIT!!! DID I MISS THIS BUILD SOMEHOW!?
It was part of the Savage Builds mini-series Discovery aired a couple years ago. He tried to get as close to a real-life Iron Man suit as possible. Great series if you can find it.
It's from his Savage Builds series!
I had EXACTLY the same reaction :p
Looks like a shitty power armor you would just steal the fusion core from.
They did actually get the suit to fly. Myth confirmed, you can build a working iron man suit
Back in the long ago, I was a PC service manager. I also took some certifications for some of the repair. When discussing CRT Monitors, the instructor said that "This is basically a big capacitor. The risk is that, while the electricity probably wont kill you; your impact with the far wall might well do the job. So. Leave them alone"
Little comment about the CRT particle accelerator connection, I visited one and they literally used a CRT tube in a mini accelerator to start the main one. Pretty neat.
“It’s failure mode is to be awful” lol