Adam Savage’s One Day Builds: A Better Tape Dispenser!
Adam welcomes the amazing Laura Kampf to his shop for a special collaboration build! Laura has an idea for a custom tape dispenser design, and works with Adam to prototype, problem solve, and put together a set for their respective shops. (Find more of Laura’s awesome build videos here!)
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I know he’s mentioned it before, but it still feels crazy at how long it takes for that gigantor disc sander to naturally slow down.
Laura Kampf has a fantastic channel, and the chemistry in this video was great. I loved seeing the concept and problem solving process, and just the quiet parts where they’re both working away. It’s not all talk.
I liked how the editing copped on some other maker videos. The Jimmy Diresta at 24:38. And the “fabricating with heavy metal soundtrack” subgenre when Adam was welding.
Ha awesome, I just took apart my mount for astronomy and replaced all bearings in it, I came across all varieties I see there. 🙂 First time I ever learnt about them.
Awesowm video I think it is the first time that I noticed the moving swiss knife in the background 😀 The only thing that irritated me was the shaking and wobbeling of the camera.
Her hat is so AWESOME! I love that pencil holder
Great design and execution! Totally opened my world up to the magic of a reamer. Although I have to admit, after I saw sparks flying with a rug and costumes was to see if I could find a fire extinguisher in the background during the welding segment.
I love how clearly happy they both are to be doing this one day build.
OMG this build was so awesome, you sen see two excellent brains at work here.
And at the risk of seeming somewhat unctuous, kudos for featuring female builders.
Been looking forward to this video! And what a superb video and one day build it was! Definitely adding this to my ever growing project list. I sincerely hope Adam does visit Laura and they do a build in Laura’s shop.
(and yeah,heavy metal is the ideal welding with arc music)
Guther, were you having fun turning the disk grinder on and off so you could have the clicking noise wind down late in the vid. Fun idea, though it kinda plinked on my OCD.
Talk about a powerhouse build team.
this was enjoyable. watching to like minded people problem solve and build together was interesting. SO glad they limited the fast forward time lapse to just a few important uses.
We have the same grinder in our local Maker Space, and yes, it takes a loooong time for that wheel to stop spinning.
You should 3D-Model and then 3D-Print that packing tape dispenser spinning insert. Heck, I bet there’s something similar on Thingiverse right now.
Nice! I guess the clear glaze on the handles is to prevent rusting?
Fun build ! I made a similar tape dispenser only much simpler for use in aircraft manufacture. Of course it’s all aluminum 🙂 I like those heavy duty felt tip markers. Where do you get those? I didn’t see anything on google ….
I just love this
Metric is usually expressed in millimetres, not centimetres, even in large sizes. A 6ft sheet would be described as 1800mm. 1ft is “300 mil”.
This is what I envision Adam’s new TV venture to be. Laura, Simone, Norm, Will, Jeremy, Kishore, Frank (who am I forgetting??) Oh yeah, the two girls that sent the picture of their cat to space. Adam gets to blow something up at end of show like Spinal Tap ??
Oh was that some of the Martian suit at 34:08?!
I love that we got to see so much of the design and problem solving in a natural feeling way as conversations between the builders.
More Laura! More guest builders!
Is it just me or is something wrong with Adam’s mic for most of the video, he’s really quiet.
The Germans would love it — wildly over-engineered. 🙂
Hi
I could not resist and build my own simple version fo the better tape dispenser
here is the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0oS6EW4Tco&html5=1
This is very cheap to make and has the same features, you can take a piece single handed and you can eject the whole role with just one hand in about a second. cheap enough to make a compartement for every single role of tape. hope you like it.
Well. . .yes and no, really. Metrics yields the option of expressing measurements according to the build. I’m a precision engineer, and for me it’s all millimetres, regardless. But rough carpentry builds, like the “skeleton” of a house or similar, would usually be expressed in a mix of centimetres and inches. Even in a county such as Denmark that has been using metric standard for a long time, laths are referred to as 2by4 or 1by4 or whatnot in inches. And for the layman, centimetres is the golden standard. But yeah. Most professionals would use millimetres.
Honestly probably well over the top there, but I like nuance. 😛
Now that I already opened up the can of worms that is nuance and caveats: Where was the heavy metal? Hard Rock, sure, but metal? 🙂
Oh, and totally even forgot to mention how much I enjoyed the build. I’m an asshat sometimes.
This type of videos is the reason why I love Tested.com
Watching smart, skilled people problem solving is a treat.
I got really excited at the prospect of seeing some progress on the Martian suit then. However it was not to be. I am instead now excited by the fact that Adam is building a spacesuit from the new Alien. Hope we get to see a video on this build.
it used to totally drive me insane. Sometimes I’ll get a piece of scrap wood and stop it but that wears down the sander so I try not to do it all the time.
The sound is kinda growing on me though. I wish I got a shot of the sander rotating by itself in the back of the shop and cut that in (keep an eye out for next time). Just like the swiss army knife or the ventilation system, it’s an element of Adams shop and the work he does, it’s a part of the experience. The noise is almost sort of calming now, like a babling brooke in the Cave haha!
I’m sorry it triggered your OCD though, I totally understand!
I mean, Led Zeppelin is considered Heavy Metal… the line is definitely blurry! Haha glad you enjoyed it though.
here in germany, there is absolutely no mixing in of imperial units. carpentry is strictly a m/cm affair: my desk is two metre thirty by eighty. my dovetails have a zero-point-three pitch.
only plumbing is imperial, and that’s kinda appropriate. 😉
Adam, I hate being a safety Nazi, but when you are working with little bits of sheet metal, please use clamps to tie them to the fixture and put the whole thing in a press vice, preferably clamped to the table. Drill bits have that nasty habit of grabbing at the worst possible time and a drill press has an amazing amount of torque. A couple of kwik grips and a press vise can save you from a nasty finger injury.
Adam I love this. It’s like the tape dispencer that the A-Team would build.
P.S. Dude! Every time you or Laura went to the machines with out eye protection I would squint waiting for something to fly up. Shop safety is the first thing I’ve taught my kids. Hell I wear ear plugs when I vacuum the house. Still an awesome build. 👍 Totally gave me ideas for my own now.
You might give cross-sections of lumber in inches, but I’m fairly certain that no matter the application you’d use exclusively cm or mm for the actual build-dimensions. That is certainly the case here in Norway at least. The only thing we spec in imperial units are 2x4s and boats. And for the former it is a legacy shorthand, even rough building materials are milled to mm these days.
Chulísimo! Can’t get enough of these videos
😉
Most of the builders and carpenters working here* today would’ve learned from the 80s onwards, long into the metric changeover, and don’t have any need to cling to the legacy of Imperial, even colloquially. The days of two-by-fours and square-footage are long gone in their minds. It’s mm, metres, and kilometres, grams, kilograms, tonnes, millilitres, and litres for us now. And Celsius too, of course.
*Australia
As it should be, all I’m saying is that even with a metric standard, colloquialisms and what refers to as legacy shorthand seems to be impossible to get rid of. And yes, when you go buy a 2by3, it’s milled to 50X75 or rough just a couple of mm larger.
As it should be. We’re just a culture with a more pronounced resistance to change. Which is not a good thing.
To summarize: You are all right, and I wish I was wrong, but there you have it. And it’s not as bad as I might make it sound. It’s just there.
Yes, those lines are blurry indeed, and there’s no accounting for taste, either. Besides, as I mentioned, probably just me being an idiot.
Don’t be too hard on us – if a culture wasn’t resistant to change, it would cease to be a culture.
Absolutely true, however, when that resistance to change hampers the capacity to adapt. .. I mean, stagnation is a bad thing.
It’s just that I seem to encounter a lot of stubbornness in the craft. And I know full well it’s not everybody. It just saddens me. It really does.
I guess that sentence should have read “Which is not necessarily a good thing by default.” 🙂
This is why I watch Tested , Fantastic build and Laura was an Awesome Guest .
That was a great build, and a great video as well! When I saw it on the site my first thought was “Hmm – kind of a long one. Maybe I’ll save it for later”, but I was too curious about the build so I started watching.
I thought the editing was really well done, and it was a pleasure to watch. Good choices for the music as well (and not just during the welding).
The time flew by, and when I thought I was about halfway through, there was actually only two minutes left. I was disappointed it wasn’t longer. Nice job!
Adam, Laura – You guys are inspiring, ingenious, high energy and just plain incredible. Wow. I got lots of stuff I gotta build now from the ideas I got. Steve
There´s something deeply satisfying, hypnotic and meditative about the one day build videos and I could literally watch it all day long.
So Adam, thanks for making the world a more interesting place.
Anybody know who did the welding music? Loved it as much as the build.