Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Iron Man Mark I Armor!

hello everybody adam savage here in my cave with  a one day build um that is not a complete build   today's one day build is a piece of a project  and it is a deep deep cut one of the very first   show and tells i ever did uh on tested.com  which is now like almost a decade ago was   of an ironman suit that i had purchased on ebay  and then done some modifications on and it was   specifically an ironman mark one suit this  is still a suit that i'm working on uh   after that show and tell that suit went into  storage and it has sat in storage for a long time and i pulled it out recently i was in storage  organizing stuff and i pulled it out and i thought   this is a good looking suit this this should be a  thing this i want to get this puppy up and running   it's a lovely suit i would like to wear  it to a con that's still a while away   because i've never actually put this suit on um  but here is the main chess piece of this suit   and i okay how do i walk you through this i found  it in storage about three months ago i mean found   it i always knew it was there but like in storage  moving stuff around it came upon the stack of   boxes that held this guy and i started thinking  i could start to work on that that would be fun   uh it's cast slushcast and i think onyx or  some similarly resilient uh urethane resin   um it's really nicely done it's not very canon  um there's a lot of aspects to it in which the   maker made efficiencies for casting but it  a very very very few humans would be able to   discern just where it's not that canon it's  it's a great looking costume um and i i will   wear it to a gun at some point but before i  do well it needs it needs an arc reactor and   when i first bought this like 10 years ago  art reactors were an expensive bit of kit   there weren't many people making uh replicas of  them but now well you can buy one like this here   on uh on amazon for about 30 39 bucks we'll  include a link in the uh in the comments uh   and this one even has some lighting effects it  actually changes its lighting over time it goes   through some dimming stuff there's there's a  whole board and a performance in that which i   dig i dig that about you jerry um so i am going  to be doing the arc reactor in the center of the   mark one's chest along with the uh uh all of the  commensurate dressing uh etc and then i am also   gonna be working on the back and back here   and again this isn't canon technically this  should be farther over here there's a bunch   of other stuff that's going on but it is close  enough for summer stock um so what i'm going   to do there's a magneto in here in the costume  and it turns and i have a um a beautiful little   60 rpm motor here which is just about perfect for  me it's super quiet gearhead motor i'm going to   build in a fake magneto um and a little power  system into this so that when you flip a couple of   switches the magneto goes on and the arc reactor  goes on and that will be uh that will be today's   one day build kitting out the electronics and  mechanical work for my iron man mark one chest   let's get started i've already done a little  work on here i replaced cylinder here i redid   a bunch of wiring i cut some stuff out i put some  stuff back in i added this whole bottom section uh   i've actually permanently attached the shoulders  which is more accurate to the original costume   there's some stenciling on here to do and i will  get to that at some point maybe today we'll see   um but it's mostly about the magneto and  the arc reactor yeah it's gonna be nice looking the reason i want to make it a plug and  play unit is because cosplay is cosplay with   mechanics and electronics is difficult you're  often working under tight time constraints and   there is a a proclivity to glue and to make  quick decisions to get stuff done but those   can have compounding effects when your electronics  break down and everything's glued together so i'm   trying i try with my cosplays to have as much  modularity as possible i'll tell you something   i'm still looking for tiny little two connector  actually i found those recently sorry i realized   that was a desire and i recently found it um but  so i am going to try and make this magneto unit   a completely self-contained press fit  plug-and-play and we'll go in here yeah and uh i'm just gonna cut this out on my bandsaw so what  scraps should you say always save square scraps   i mean i don't think anyone in their right  mind would throw out a scrap like this but   this is exactly what one should save and when  you're done with the project take some of the   weird off cuts you have and square them off you'll  you'll thank your future self will thank you okay i let's see oh yeah that's great um a note about press fits  if you can get a press fit take the time to do it   it'll make your gluing so much  better on the on balance so   yeah i am going to i'm going to glue this in  just like this and again this um this is plastrox   styrene uh tubing and this is acrylic those  should mate nicely with some weld on number three   just brush a little bit along the inside border  just to get a little bit of the glue in there this gray stuff it's um it's not cheap uh but  plastruct makes it i believe and it is it is   one of the go-to materials at industrial light  magic it's like we had so this that comes in like   a million diameters super useful there's some of  this in many of the star wars ships over the years   so now i have this it's a press fit inside  the magneto housing and i want to mount this   motor dead center so i'm going to chuck this  into the lathe and drill a hole that matches   well that diameter which is 0.47 0.47 i think  everybody intuitively understands that a drill bit   peels away material there at its tip and carries  away that material along the spiral flutes it's   wonderful at doing that but when you feed this  into something like plastic which can shatter that   front chisel point end can pick up material and  it can if it's drilling through grippy material   like acrylic or sometimes brass or other stuff  nylon um it can grab and pull itself through like   a corkscrew right through the that spiral flute  and if you've ever tried to drill thin acrylic   with a big twist drill you'll know what i mean  everything goes to hell it's a nightmare enter the step drill this drill cuts also by  scraping away material but instead of   ridding itself of that material by using spiral  flutes it scrapes away that material with each   see this yeah the leading edge of it which  is that top edge it scrapes away the material   very different than pulling  itself into the material so   step drill with a maximum of half inch perfect  for mounting my motor relatively close to center and we feed it in and already it's made a nice little hole  now we're just going to widen that out and i think if you look up there nice and  close you will see come on there you go   it's a really nice looking hole way better  than you could get with a twist roll   now that sits there nice and center yeah see that   that's great now what i want to do is mark  out these holes i want to mark out there's   six of them i don't need all six of those  holes really i only need three of them now i marked all six holes it's i might be  more exacting about this if the mechanical   operation was super mission critical but i  think i have some adjustability here so i'm   wasn't being super precious about it  i'll hand drill these with a step drill   and uh i again i'm looking for some moveability  here so i didn't worry too much about it all   i need is three of these so if all six don't  light up no problem i just need three to work the reason i'm moving around  here like this moving around this   circular pattern is so that  the acrylic doesn't get too hot that's the other thing that can help it crack i'm  just methodically moving my way ah there we go if you want to use a cooling fluid  for this operation you totally can   in fact a great cooling fluid for  acrylic is water of all things all right let's see how we did here five are pretty good i can see that i've got three four are dead  on the money one is okay and one is a total   disaster that's fine i didn't need  them all i didn't need them all   let's do some countersinking  for acrylic i really like   this uh sorry this countersink bit with the three  flutes on it because it's sort of self-balancing   with them with the one this is the other  common kind of countersigment with a single   scraping edge as opposed to three and this tends  not to find its own center as well in plastic   that's my experience your results may  vary ah right now yep i am doing that here we go hey that worked great i drilled six holes only  two lined up enough to get screws into them   but for this application totally fine again i like  i said i would have taken more care if uh if the   results were more mission critical but given how  much adjustability i have in this and how light   the load on this motor will be i'm not worried  i'm not worried no um this chunk of cast urethane   which i poured into a piece of pvc pipe will serve  as the center spindle on this magneto magneto uh wow look at that 1.5 freaking  exactly to the to within fourth house   i want this to take this down to 1.125 so that  is i want to take it in one point would be 0.375 this little nubbin on here is simply so that i can  hold on to it you will see what i'm talking about to the bandsaw here is what i meant when i said  i was going to hold on to this with these collets   this is a 5c called sorry i just forgot what kind  it was for a second um and i have this which is a   lovely thing if you have a mill you should get  one of these this is a 5c collet holder and i   can take any of my 5c collets which are made for  holding on to sensitive material in the lathe and   i can put it into this block put a tightening nut  on the back and then i can hold on to this guy tighten it down and because i've got a hexagonal  block here i can use this instead of a rotary   table to cut six perfect sides on this circle yeah  it's a way faster if you need to do a hexagon and i also make a square one i have yet to find an  octagonal one but uh these five c collet blocks   are fantastic addition to milling setup because  they allow for a quick uh a quick thing like this   to to work quite quite nicely uh so i'm going  to chuck this in the lathe and i'm going to cut   six surfaces uh at that line and that should give  me the uh uh the magneto center frame that i'm   looking for yeah that's it yeah yeah there we  go that ain't going nowhere now and i'm not in   danger of running into the collar block i've got  a nice stop on that side of the middle vise so do and there you have it a beautiful hexagon   cut now a note um this i think you can i think  careful eyes could see that my resin is a little   bit swiss cheesy um that's because this is old  instacast and if you don't buy one of those um   casting material savers that sprays  nitrogen in before you close up the   how do i say this okay the reason this looks  like swiss cheese is because it's old instacast   instacast is a type of one-to-one urethane  two-part casting material that makes a plastic   everything in the movie industry is  cast out of and uh it is hydroscopic   uh it wants to absorb water and when it is  old it tends to abso it absorbs water every   time you open it you crack open instacast and it  wants to draw moisture out of the atmosphere so   you want to crack it pour it mix it and reseal  it and they actually make a product which is a   nitrogen spray you can spray inside to replace  the oxygen that's sitting in that bottle   uh so you spray a little nitrogen and then you  cap it and now you know that there's no moisture   or regular breathable air in that container that's  how you extend the life of your casting materials   sometimes though when you're working with  instacast like quick and dirty you're just   burning through it you're burning  through it and i have this old kit   and so i was using the last of it and sure  enough it's got some water already in it and   it's got that little swiss cheesy aspect to  it but it doesn't bother me because this is   iron man this is mark one this is like parts  pulled out of the desert floor from crashed stuff   so uh i'll be able to manage that aesthetically  without any difficulty okay so now what i want to   do is i want to add a tightening screw that will  allow me to uh that will allow me to tighten this   against the motors the motor has a flat milled  on its shaft so i'm going to do probably a 10 24 you want coarse threads with soft material  uh so 24 threads per inch is better than 32   threads per inch i also am going to be putting  a hole in the center of each of these faces   to receive the magneto uh wound part that  will that we'll make in a few minutes all right that is my center here is the  10 24 tap drill number 26 i am going to   actually use a drill check for this there we go that's my tap drill for um  that's my tap drill for the tightening   against the shaft of my motor there now i'm  going to drill a center hole for the magneto   pieces and since i'm going to screw those  in using quarter 20 bolts i am going to use   a number seven drill a number seven drill  being the tap drill for a quarter twenty tap all right now i'm gonna do a little bit of um face  detailing on this and uh we're gonna then tap it the last bit of detailing i'm going to do  is i'm going to be adding a small tap screw   on all six sides on the face because i can see  that in one of the reference photos if this was   a mechanical mission critical thing i would uh i  would be more exacting about the placement of this   but uh i can just line up this corner with the  edge of the vise and i'm within ten thou and   that's plenty for the aesthetics of this thing  so now i'm just going to put a 632 hole in there all right there we go six holes in the face six  holes in the perimeter and one for tightening   this down that's a 10 24 these are quarter  20s that's 6 32. let's do some tapping oh   i've got here a 6 32 tap and i'm gonna  do these six holes in the top and yeah oh great i'm gonna use a little bit of oil on  these um yeah i might be concerned about the oil   from my tapping uh affecting the paint job  of this later but because it's all rusted   and it's iron man mark one i really don't  have to worry about paint job inconsistencies   in fact there to be welcomed there we go i'm just going to bury some shorty  632s in there and just put an oil every couple   holes just to keep it from overheating okay  so uh all the all the holes should be tapped i think now uh i can start to work out  what size these magnetos are inside here   i have these nice quarter  20 round heads button heads and yeah i think those will do fine on  this one inch and this would be three   quarters of an inch and there'd be a countersunk  hole in the top and this distance would be one   half inch and this distance the total thing  0.3 so if i and i think that's about right   okay so i need to make six things  here and then i'll wrap that size   uh let's see what i got all right i've got  this piece of cast urethane which is also   uh was poured into a pvc pipe and i'm  going to turn this into the six wound coils   on each of the sides of my hexagon live center in  the back there now i want to carve all this down   one inch outside diameter it's 1.57  so it's 570 thousandths over one inch so so so now i've got six spools just like that and uh they  look great i'm gonna put them on my hacks let's   get that going and uh i'll get two opposites going  and then we'll make sure that they actually meet yeah oh this is looking great and now the question  is does it clear oh just barely does not clear   all right so i need to soften the edges of  all of those i'm going to chamfer them all   okay uh i'm sorry i did this off camera but i was  kind of annoyed that i was so close and yet so far   so i uh actually i needed a little extra space and  rather than shorten these i actually stepped in   here so that i'll still have the same size face  but i get this little extra edge detail there   uh so i milled down those six sides and no that's  basically what oh and i chamfered the edges of   all these spools so we're just gonna do a final  fit check and if this works which i hope it does   then we move on to the next step okay there  we go and hey it's vince freely in there okay   oh right i want to put those guys in it wasn't  necessarily a super trivial decision for me to   make to not go cannon on this i considered  tearing apart the whole backside of this guy   and reworking it but the fact is it's not  what you're expecting as the viewer uh you   know it it sells the overall effect really well  this jumble of mechanics and the fact that you   know the magneto's maybe not exactly on the right  side or the belt path isn't identical that's fine back in there this is a lovely piece uh so we're  going to uh i'm going to remove it from this   and then i'm going to start to uh i'm going to  give it a basic coat of some black textured paint   and then i'm going to wind these with some  copper wire and glue them in place and then   do some final weathering all right operational  test let's see how we do here 12 volts which is   the voltage of this motor that is great it's  great looking so let's get it going on the i'm excited about this hey look at that that is the perfect speed i am so happy with  this um it's not too fast you can't see it   but it's fast enough that it looks  like it's actually doing something   and it's all press fit i mean obviously  i did a bunch of gluing and screwing   but it's just press fit right in there which  makes it very easy to service and take care of   awesome let's um i think  it's time to paint it yeah i have painted the little spools and i'm now  going to wire some magneto wire around them for   the awesome look uh i'm gonna  assembly line this just a little bit   for each one i'm going to tighten a uh is that too long that is too  long yeah that helps actually   okay so i got that and i'm  going to drill a little hole for the wire and then i'm going to check it into the drill this is not quite as   super fast as i was hoping but it will do and  you know what i need a second drill because yeah i'm going to want to hold that to right  there indeed but i think that looks pretty   that looks pretty canon i'm happy  with how that looks let's uh snip it excellent i've got it sunk into two holes top  and bottom and now i'm going to glue this and   this is going to be the off-camera side  so i don't have to worry about being   nice about the gluing even i  didn't just make it what it is there you go the first of the magnetos is in all right i listened to a little bit  of billy eilish there thank you while   i finished numbers four five and six  and we're making great guns of progress there's all sorts of shortcuts i'm taking  here i am um i am not letting my paint dry   fully because again it's going to get beaten up  i am not worrying too much about that because aesthetically i don't have to but now   i think i can uh oh right i want to  do a little bit of rubbing rub there that's great that's nice and uh nice  and dirty right off the bat uh so we can   start to do some actual assembly here great one last one and this part of the magneto is almost finished there we go oh yeah uh  right i've got where is that   rubbing buff i was just using is that it yeah  okay so i just want to get those guys there i'm super happy with that for a couple of  hours of work that i mean you know i've got   some nice tools but yeah that was quick uh so  now it's time to install and dress around it   oh right let me add uh some wire leads off of this right wonderful now i can connect those in through here yeah it's looking great beauty okay so now i need to make a cage that  goes over this and i'm gonna do that out of sintra all right uh magneto is spinning beautifully  i'm really happy with how it looks   it's just great yeah that's  awesome and i've got the little   housing for it which is just a piece  of styrene bent on three corners   a little bit of pipe that i cut down and glued in  there with crazy glue and some detailing with a   little bit of uh what do you call it come on i  can know the word um oh right i forgot a thing at any rate we got this going and i'm  very pleased with how it's going and   here is a nice center bearing to look all  official like and i am going to put this   on here it's gonna actually i wish i had  given myself a little more meat to grab great that worked let's go with this one uh i don't know how to do the last one  because i can't get up under oh wait no i can   look at that nope i can't uh so i'm gonna glue  that one because just it just doesn't matter   yeah look at that oh let's get  a tiny bit of detailing on there a little more rubbing buff and yeah look at that nice all of a sudden  it's like we got an actual thing good okay that is the back time to move  on to the okay so the front that's great but the front   is more complicated hi the front is more  complicated so let's start working on the front what's going on with you okay i clearly i think  i need to take this thing apart and inspect why   it's not powering up and that's just gonna be  a little bit of a little bit of back and forth all right i think i've worked it out um it's  a peculiar thing but it seems that it's got a   a motion sensor in it and um i don't like not being able to rely on this  but i'll make it removable so i can fix it   um i've got a nice rendering of the mark  one that i found um and it's pretty good   uh i think this is what i'm gonna use  as the framework for the light and   i'm actually probably going to yeah you know  what i may end up putting a backing behind it   yeah i never thought i'm going to do this i'm  going to make a plate back here and then i'm going   to uh dress that plate and bring it up to this  right so here is the open space and to be clear   uh no that's not that one to be clear um the  original maker had had this piece sitting in   here as part of they had this in here for the or  the thing and it's okay but i don't think it's as   accurate as i want it to be so i'm gonna i'm gon  i may end up cutting this up come on i may end   up cutting this up and utilizing part of it uh  but i'm gonna make a new ring out of this thing   so i think the first step is a piece of aluminum  and a way of attaching it in here yeah okay   the iron man mark one uh is actually the arc  reactor is protected behind a big thick piece of   glass in the mark one so i am gonna utilize this  uh piece of what looks like 3 8 inch plex acrylic   uh as my window i think that'll help make it look awesome and i'm heating up a piece of  foam pv i'm gonna the back here the backing plate   is gonna be a piece of foam pvc otherwise known  as sintra and some countries it's known as synax a very workable material   and as a youtuber can build almost anything out  of it uh yeah uh very very versatile wonderful   model making material very lightweight um easy to  heat form so i've got it in my lab oven heating up   to 200 and 200 degrees uh and i'm just going to  put it on a slight curve back here and then i'm   going to start attaching all of this detailing to  it and that's kind of roughly what i'm following   it's going to be some blocks of wrench  shape then we're going to get it all   painted and dirtied up and uh yeah it's only 3  30. i got like two and a half more hours for this   all right yeah i don't have any secrets about how  to get the paper off of old acrylic i wish i did that's all it requires uh okay so   that is i know i cut this out on off camera  i apologize um here's what i did i put this   down on the acrylic and drew a pencil line using  my mechanical sharp writer number two here and i   drew a very fine line around the perimeter then i  on the bandsaw i cut it out about a sixteenth inch   outside that line and i sanded it into that line  using my disk sander um hell's bells you could   probably just use a um laser cutter and i've got  one but this seems to me faster let's see here that's what i like home sanded interference  fits yeah man this is i don't have to worry   about glue or anything all right i've taken  my sentra out of my oven and i'm just trying   to give it a gentle curve here again i'm  not trying to be too extreme about it just so having a snack while i continue to heat up more  of my sintra to attempt to get to this business um i really am curious if anybody out there  has another one of these because the guys   that put this together i feel like it was  more than one dude um cause i paid like   1200 bucks i think for this full  costume i don't think it was much   more than that and it was a while back  it was like 2007 or something like that   yeah it was a while ago um but the way whoever  put this together i'm really fascinated by   what they did because making molds this big is  non-trivial it's a big deal uh making them work   you know they they did certain efficiencies like  both shoulders are the same except one side of   one shoulder looks like the right shoulder and  the other side of the same shoulder looks like   the left shoulder so when you swap them out  you get shoulders that kind of approximate   and the forearms work like that and the legs  as well they're bilaterally symmetrical but   there are some differences and i've been slowly  kind of adjusting little bits of this costume   ever since uh i got it but just a little bit  at a time um and it's a really nicely done kit   i mean it's not that it's a kid it came mostly  painted i repainted all of it but like the guys   that put it together they like they put in a lot  of effort i'm curious if they made some dough i   hope they did i hope they made uh some money with  their venture all right all right bending again okay yeah i feel like that's better so um  now what i want to do is i want to   first i'm just gonna try and bias some give it  a little bit more bend easier to take bend out   than it is to put it in wow my hair looks so  floccus seagulls and i read i ran so far away   i know it's copyrighted i just rant but i don't  think they would complain ran both night and day so it it does seem to be tap activated  and it goes through three different   three d i know i probably  should have read the manual i actually think i got that in the garbage okay um so how do you want to work so let's  trace this and then i can do some cutting   oh yeah okay so i want a bunch down there  so i don't think i'm going to cut anything   from there but from right about like there  yeah i think that's what i'm going to do there's plenty of room for me still in there make those two cuts on the bandsaw while you  listen go ahead gunther put up your subtitles all right so now i have the position and that's great now all i need to do yeah so  it's time to do some hole cutting out of here   how to cut out that one here's a scary way to  do it i wonder if i really want to try that   i actually might hold on i'm going to go with  the light drill so i don't have too much torque i'm taking a very light touch on this and this this gigantic steel bit with the carbide  inserts this is like i wasn't meant to cut   phone pvc you were wasting my talents yeah my  machines yell at me and that's what they say   right uh that should be yeah yep yep  yep wow it's also sound activated i   i guess maybe plays to music weird um  this is great because come on come on don't you want to go home that's your home yes i am  quoting happy gilmore okay like that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yo wow i uh  it's gonna it's gonna all right so um that's   awesome that's fabulous i'll figure out how to  attach that in there later but now it's time now now it's time to do some of the  detail it's one two three four so   it's one two three four so this  is this big chunk that goes actually i think it's even a  little bit closer than that and then there's this yeah so it's about  a half an inch wide and that's one piece okay and then there's the secondary  piece that comes off of that it's so hard to see in the photos but  yeah there's got this business to see   right so there's wiring up in there and some  other stuff and i've got some great okay   so now i need some wrenching i'm actually going  to use mdf yes um a very very versatile modeling   material this is a type of mdf called  trupan i believe it's spelled thusly trupan and uh from what i remember being told this  is made of sustainable uh sustainable young growth   wood it is a fiber like an mdf but it's like an  ldf it's a light density fiberboard rather than   a medium density fiberboard so as you can see  it's not nearly that like kryptonite density of   real mdf which i can't stand and it's really  noxious stuff it's got a formaldehyde binder   people get allergic to it it's awful but this this  is actually could be great this could be awesome   so let's see here come on that yeah there we  go that's a reasonable one i need a compass is   what i need and i need to find center of this  circle how am i going to find center of this   circle well i'm going to use a little compass  trick here which is i'm going to choose a choose a random a random length for my compass and i draw  two semicircles both times with the point   on the perimeter of the circle and when i  do that it creates two points that one and   that one and those two points go through the  center so i only need to do that like twice and it really doesn't matter how  far apart you space these if you're   if you're if the point of your  compass is on the perimeter   the line that it draws goes through  center so grab a straight edge here and that's through center and so is that now i can draw some more circles  no more of my john don uh compass quoting oh i'm not quite perfectly in the center but  i'll follow my pencil lines instead of the so if that's going to be a half  inch wide i'm going to go for okay i'm going to cut that out then there's  the secondary piece which starts there i think and that one is thinner okay so then i want to do this bit of drawing here  um i'm going to cut out that's one of the cutouts   and then the other cut out is this one there's that and then i'm going to just make these  little bumps and i'm hand drawing them because i   can um all right i'm gonna do some bandsaw cutting  of this and uh i'll include you in that process so uh we are left over with a round piece of  mdf save this save this this is a sacred scrap   this is an important chunk you will be  happy about this chunk later on in your life   all right uh i've got the little piece up  top i like that it's nice i've got the under   piece right here and i've got i've got that piece  there i'm going to do some shaping on these guys   but that'll be enough for me to actually start  to glue those down and start to add more details all right i have my chess piece i know it  doesn't look like much i get that i get that   it doesn't look like much but this should be  exactly the kind of aestheticizing that i want   for the interior of this yeah oh hold on let me  get it closer so you can see it there we go so   i am going to paint this whole thing black then  i'm going to hit it with some uh some rub and buff   and then i'm gonna add some wiring and i have  some extra pieces of wiring and tubing here and   we're almost done um i'm just gonna  hit this with some black spray paint   so i'll be back and it'll be in color sorry  it'll be a color the color will be black now um now i'm gonna look  through some parts to see about   adding a couple little doohickeys  to kind of make it look a little interesting the rubbing and the buffing so this  i don't know if i should use this i feel like this is a piece of star  wars stuff but maybe i should use it   yeah i do take that that's  good so let's get that in uh i can also take off some of that the benefits of using aluminum is that nothing age is better than  aluminum you hit it with some black paint see that yeah yeah okay so  apparently when i yell it also changed i'm gonna make a couple of cuts on the  bandsaw you'll see what i'm thinking oh hey everything everything failed uh again not a  huge deal because it's all just weathering   this stuff is just light enough it's there that goes there this is removable but i'm not planning  on removing it anytime soon i am merely holding on to it for a period  of time yeah there we go there we go i thought she blows yeah yeah that  is an arc reactor i dig it um i may do some uh   light fogging out at the edges of this uh that's  definitely for sure um but now it's incumbent on   me to rub and to buff so here we go we have  our basic form factor we're gonna get some some color on this equation great yeah instantly it looks  a lot better i have some of   this which is this really nice flexible hose and  i really dig it so i'm going to use some of them that looks good yeah okay so now i need some wire so now i want to fit my newly created fascia piece  and i want to fit it in right here just like that   yeah i'm gonna end up socking this in with glue  but first i need to do a little hot glue just to   hold it in place i know it's really messy in  here and i will take care of that in a minute i like hot glue for operations like this it's  not permanent but it holds it in orientation so   i can understand it all right i'm gonna let that  set and we'll take a look at in a few minutes   okay now i have installed a a little voltage step  down transformer so that i can feed 12 volts into   this uh into this suit and the the arc reactor  gets the 5 volts it needs so this is a 12 volt   to 5 volt step down and i'm about to i'm about to  actually connect it up come on great okay so now ah now i have two leads coming from this and they  both want 12 volts so i'm going to trim them here   and strip them i cut my thumb cut my thumb  and it's not bad cut but it's bleeding a   lot it won't stop i know i could stop but i  don't want to so i'm not uh so there's that there i'm actually going to make that longer   okay i guess i could just put this on  right i mean that's really what we're yeah it's time for me to put it on i keep  doing these one day builds where i forget   to do the thing that's the purpose of the build  in the first place at the end example i made the   bullets for my samaritan gun without putting  the bullets in the gun at the end of the video   which everyone wanted to see i'm really sorry  about that so i recognize i'm making an iron   man costume i should be putting it on so we can  see it and that's what i'm gonna do so here we go right yeah you gotta have this this  is like this is part of the look   and this is one of my actual welding  jackets so i consider it muay authentico okay uh yeah oh oh yeah okay so where's the other  lead there it is okay here's my two leads   i'm gonna twist them together and eleven  twelve so now i should have the there we go   oh hey i gotta stop the sound activation it's  like a cons gonna make it go crazy all right no   but you want to see the other side too wait  how do you get to see that all right wait i can't spin around okay i am really hang on i am  really happy with how this part of my ironman mark   one looks i like the the feel of this stuff the  wiring the uh the arc reactor it's got depth to   it oh okay so let's um here's what we're gonna  do i wanna show you the back so i am gonna   show you the back and that's doing this thing  right yeah let's spin this around yeah right just a little bit of extra cosplay goodness for  my iron man mark one i think there'll be more   builds on this mark one as we proceed  with uh with what as we proceed with time   i do believe i love this suit uh i  have not yet worn it at a con and it is   it will be time soon i have to add in these  little connectors here i've got some forearm   stuff to do with some flamethrower effects  and uh yeah i'm having a pretty good time   my ironman suit is coming along thank you guys  for joining me for this quickie one day build yeah i think that's everything  i will see you next time cheers i i thought i was done but i'm not done uh i  had so much fun working on my uh iron man mark   1 chest piece and i broke out all the other pieces  and here's the thing this suit is bulky as heck   uh it takes up like four containers and  it is always sat in a kind of a mound   in storage or here at the cave and in order it's like if i'm going to progress  with this piece i'm going to need to see how the   pieces relate to each other and i can't just  keep putting them on because i have to look   in a mirror etc i need to build a stand for it  that's the next thing that's going to happen   but i'm going to build this stand using  a technology that just happens to be here but this is effectively an armor stand the same  kind of stand i built for the suit of armor   i built with terry english in which he showed me   he instructed me in many of the ways of  armor making i'm going to be building   a kind of a an adjustable armor stand for  my iron man mark one and i'm going to use those of you out there who have kids you know  that you know when your kid expresses an interest   in something you want to put it in front of them  you want to you want to create the intersections   that will yield passion and interest and thus  knowledge and facility and a point of view   that's that's your job as a parent and you know i  my kids are both accomplished musicians and thing   one specifically started out as a drummer and  a bassist he's now a guitarist mainly but still   could play the drums anyway this right here is  pieces of his old yamaha electronic drum set which   is long gone but the stand itself those are all  a bunch of adjustable angles for a fairly beefy   set of aluminum rods and i've got some of the  aluminum and i've got some of the pieces so i'm   going to build an armor stand using my kid's old  drum set boom um first things first is to make a   rolling platform so i've got some three-quarter  inch cdx ply i'm going to build a platform out   of that i'm going to build an upright coming off  of that and the upright will support the armor and   then we're going to start we're off to the races  with the drum kit the rolling part of the rolling   platform is going to be super straightforward i've  got a bunch of these little red two-inch wheels um wheels are something you should have in  your shop you should have a lot of them and   there's no excuse not to because i think i  think i bought these on ebay i think about 24   of them for a couple bucks a piece yeah um you  don't have to buy in the bulk that i do that's   my neuroses but uh just suffice to say if you do  a search on ebay for casters c-a-s-t-o-r-s casters   am i right about that or is it ers my spelling is  gone at any rate if you do a search for casters   lot l-o-t um you'll often find as i have um giant  tranches of awesome casters that have been used   and decommissioned and they're plenty fine for you  and me uh so i'm going to figure out the size of   my pair of boots standing on the ground and  the center of gravity that i want them to have   and i'm going to put four wheels in the corners  and figure out how to mount one of these pipes it's the light touch the thing that i  keep having to learn about this stuff   can i watch the videos of the japanese  woodworkers doing everything with that   saw and big pieces of lumber it's less is more  take less use less strength use the force yeah this is my best saw it's the best saw  in this building that's why it says   only adam uses this saw and that it's  a really nice cut i'm very pleased   with how straight that cut is a little bit of  waviness but not much more than like 20 thou   why did why did i cut out this block yeah  that's a really good question um i cut this   block out because it's gonna glue and screw  to the stand and hold on to the main pipe yeah it's not pretty it doesn't have to be all right uh   let's get to the growing and gluing  and screwing part of the equation so so so i'm already inspired i'm already like man   he just needs to live back there  and be awesome all the time hey yes alrighty he's coming along and he's  gonna make more progress now   that he's living upright he's living  uh he's living the dream living the   life you should be living iron man mark one  okay thanks guys i will see you next time thanks for watching that video if there's a video  equivalent of the clean plate club you're a member   if you want to support us one of the best ways  you can do it is going to our merch store and   purchasing one of our beautiful new posters  this is my hand-drawn sketch of my two tool   boxes that i used when i was an active model  maker at industrial light and magic in the   late 90s and the early aughts there's also on  the far left side of the poster a list of all   of the tools i had in these toolboxes and  i used them daily for almost a decade again   you can get your own version of this printed on a  beautiful card stock by following the links below

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Length: 76min 23sec (4583 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 16 2020