Adam Savage's Weekend Builds: Material Storage Improvements

Hey it is shop infrastructure time. This is a one-day build about shop infrastructure, the first time actually I think at least two I'm gonna do today. So I've been going through a renaissance with my lathe I've picked up a backing plate for my four jaw Chuck and got it dialed in was so good my three jaw Chuck I adjusted its backing plate and brought it within Oh mm so nice and I picked up one of these super cheapo collet Chuck's like a hundred and fifty bucks and was able to dial it in to about a thousandth in terms of run out so that's all a long way of saying my lathe is now like super dialed in and so is my milling machine and I'm starting to use them on a super daily basis at a much higher precision than I am normally attuned to and all that means that it's time to adjust and modify my material storage okay so here is my tasty chunks storage shelf and you see I've got lumina mugs plastic trunks acrylic chunks I got Ren shape and nothing here quite works it is all sort of it's all it needs help everything here needs help so I think the first thing we're gonna do is maybe a time lapse so I'll clear this workbench and start to pull everything out of here I'm going to make some custom drawers so that I can see everything and hopefully within a couple of hours we'll will have tamed this lion to some degree here we go okay so I've cleared the top of this I'm just I'm moving from the top down I haven't even dealt with this yet because I have a whole bunch of these handheld metal brakes which are great but getting to them getting to the how do I say this every time I reach for one of the metal brakes it was a bit of a shit fight to pull it out of the holder that it was in the holder was sufficient to keep it localized but to be honest when I went when I reached for a tool and I got away move something out of the way to get it in the tiniest way it inhibits my ability to reach for that tool the next time I need it so that's what I work around my shop ascent a set of attempting that's what I walk around my shop attempting to do is to find those places in which the littlest bit of difficulty provides friction between me and the action I want to perform and eliminating that friction as much as possible so we're about to make a quick and dirty rack it's gonna be glued and stapled together but it's I mean we're gonna get it done about 15 minutes for the metal brakes and also for my various tubing numbers of different sizes the other thing that was inhibiting me from doing some shop infrastructure is that my arctic birch ply is expensive stuff and I've got a reasonable stash of it but I don't necessarily want to use that stuff for shelving I mean granted it's nice but there's some ACX ply that I picked up from the local lumberyard and I picked up some half-inch three-quarter and one inch and it's all devoted to making this place easier to use okay so here comes a metal brake rack I shot a time-lapse thinking I was shooting footage that was weird so I have finished my rack it's been about 20 minutes I'm about to put it in behind the pen rack over here and fill it full of the tools that belong in it there we go excellent okay now we have this cubby hole here which is all full my collection of chucks and hand wheels and hand machine handles and I is true by the reason as shown in the recent table saw mod I did collecting these and holding on to them is great for me I'm able to accentuate and improve my machines with this cubbyhole but it doesn't need to be here I only go to these about once a years so I am going to make a crate that holds them and then gonna be control for this coming yeah all right so if I do a 17 inches by 10 inches so I'm in this state where I'm not sure if I'm not sure what shape things are gonna take I'm just proceeding with each step as I see it in turn okay I have finished the crate I haven't this has been so quick and dirty I have finished it I'm going to load it full of my hand wheel stuff and we will put it away on the shelf over here I have a place where oh oh wait first I need to label it yeah that's always this is hand wheels and machine hands oh I love a good label that is useful somewhere all right yeah here goes cutter Forstner bits hang on I've got another fortune of it box there's a two and a quarter inch Forstner I'm so happy right now that is great there oh right I had another buyer Center it's good to know that I had them is this an empty floor no this is like an empty - yeah three free I don't need an mp3 I'm gonna put it in a giveaway pile okay ah there's still some real estate up here that I'd like to utilize and part of that utilization is I'd like to have yeah you know what there's got to be a rack right here that holds the hammer and the wrench yeah nice rack maybe even yeah a little shuffle on top of it that's one thing so that is going to be yeah got that in my head that's yourself this about let's say 20 inches tall by 14 inches okay all right Oh Jake we are conceding the place I am taking care of each thing that I can see I need to do as I need to do it and I'm about to I'm about to pop this new rack in temporarily and see how it goes I'm just gonna there and there great and here's what lives there yup yup and yummy yummy all right so this is part of I was talking to Tom Lipton last week and he was talking about machines set up as fighter pilot analogy right like people like me set our stuff up so that everything's at the ready and this is more of the same I'm pretty psyched about this because I reached with a hammer all the time and I reached for the wrench all the time and that's great too Chucky it's better than than anywhere else it's got a nice little holder oh oh one more Chuck hold on I have this guy and he lives there like that yeah I'm super psyched that's great all right I think it's time to stop avoiding God you know what I really want to do is I really want to devote this here just sheet storage that's what I really want to do and that's what I'm gonna do but yeah because I gotta get rid of this cubby hole okay so I'm gonna make a backed rack for smaller sheet brass rubber aluminum steel everything oh yeah yeah yeah all right and it's gonna go yeah okay this is great because I have been needing this for a long time there's a lot of aluminum that sheet here that's just a nightmare vision to store so this we'll be twelve nice round number and then I'm going to yeah I'm going to machine some sluts in there every every inch I don't do some triangular yeah that way I have access to everything let's try that alright here it is this is my flat sheet metal doors and it's going to live right there yeah I like that I'm going to suck it in with a couple of screws yeah alright let's start filling that's the exciting part right I wasn't even a whale oh yeah small stuff here this will I'll do some general I find I need a storage for big scraps and small I made this show for the other side of this rack years ago tasty round chunks and it's a great it's a great need you do need tasty round chunks however I don't think I need it there I think I need it here oh right these are so I think tasty round chunks might just live right there and I'll make a second drawer that lives here forward yeah I need more aluminum chunks I mean actually you know what I need yeah it's a good question I need round chunks acrylic chunks and I need more storage for plastic chunks that's definitely the case but we're making significant progress this already feels like a radical improvement this is actually great I needed more room at the top because I'm going to be stressing them grabbing stuff out of them yeah okay so you know what that's what lives up here my indicators yes that makes total sense I will make a little slotted thing for my magnetic indicator standards and that will be super useful right there that's exactly where I need them and eat them close but not too close okay I don't want the dog first okay so now that we are bearing down on achieving some tasty chunk storage that is new and better it's time to talk about the philosophy of storing the chunks first off I was saying as I was making this if you can't see it you don't own it it doesn't exist so being able to properly retrieve it in an intuitive fashion is pretty important and it's worth really considering and thinking about your flow and how you get to the stuff that you need but then there's also the question of what do you store what do you hold on to like for stuff like this do I really need to store this or or this okay this definitely not there I have enough aluminum actually that's a really nice chunk see it's perfectly square and that makes it useful like right off the bat because I could potentially drill two holes and make a little bend in it and make it a thing for holding a thing I can conceive of something for that so I keep it something like this this I mean if I need a little tiny tab I can take the five cents of aluminum worth a while to do it this I covered in layout fluid so I can actually lay something out and cut it out and that actually makes it useful but every now and then you have to take all your chunks dump them out look at them and put them back so right now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make the drawers one probably two three four new drawers and I'm gonna dump all the scraps out and figure that out that's get me I should be done with all that in about an hour okay hold on I gotta turn this this way there there we go that's the that's the subject that's what's happening okay so I built one two three drawers and I think that might be enough this is all acrylic sheet chunk which I may move down here because some of this is bulletproof glass I am separating out my aluminum into two types of aluminum chunks machining chunks and sheet chunks then I'm gonna go through the plastic and save the good stuff and Sophie's Choice the rest and the kulluk Trunks sheet stuff is gonna go across the bottom for deep storage I don't use small chunks of acrylic a lot but they do come in handy from time to time so I think it's time to like dump everything out of here oh this yeah this is some you don't want to sit here watch this it's the time-lapse I'm gonna do a high high time-lapse yeah so good alright dudes and dudettes we are I hope this was a head of fiying it certainly was for me right there is actually pretty aligned all right see here look at that understand indicator oh now they have a place to live oh hi Maggie come on in alright so um I am very very pleased with my new chunk storage and Maggie's please - yeah we have now got a single location for flatstock where it was previously in three different locations in the shop I'm sure you can identify we have - I don't know why the black tapes in there we have two drawers for Delrin and Teflon and nylon chunks we have some acrylic chunks cast acrylic and then flat sheet all down there oh man and then over here we've got some fighter pilot lathe stuff and I that was a really really good four hours yeah I don't mind you but I feel like catharsis that I guess that's the end of this one day bill from it feels like there's something more well you know what's else is we got to do a cleaning time-lapse because this place is a total Horror Show mess it's one of the things about a small shop as it gets messy instantaneously so I'm gonna clean it and then we'll wrap thank you guys for joining me for this one day build I will see you next time hey Adam Savage here thank you so much for watching the videos that we put out we are having so much fun putting them out and I'm glad that you guys are enjoying them I'm here with a little announcement tested is offering up some more merchandise to show your tested solidarity like this t-shirt from teespring with my savage Carriageworks logo on the back now this logo was built by me and Jen Schecter as part of the rickshaw built for spot the robot and what I love about savage carriage works is there are fictional company I mean Savage Works is my company that's real but we would we didn't exist 100 years ago making carriages but now we did in a fictional frame and that pairs really nicely with the fact that the expanse has used my savage industries company and turned it into a salvage company in the expanse universe 250 years into the future so now Savage works extends over three hundred and fifty years I mean and most of those years are fictional but I'll take what I can get thank you guys for watching get your t-shirts at teespring by following the links below and I will see you in the world reopens

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Length: 29min 41sec (1781 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 04 2020