Adam Savage Builds His Dream Automatic Hacksaw!
Adam repairs and retrofits a tool he’s always wanted in the cave: a powered electric hacksaw for cutting through large pieces of …
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March 30, 2025
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Adam repairs and retrofits a tool he’s always wanted in the cave: a powered electric hacksaw for cutting through large pieces of …
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So… I found one… should I invest in it? Thanks @SavageBuilds!
Hi what kind of heat gun is that when u fixed the wiring in the motor thanks
i repair Coffee machines for work and tinker at home, the most refreshing thing, is even the most seasoned tinkerer and engineer and maker of things, still drops all his stuff. i Salute.
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Just hanging / bout to…/
I l;ove how adam has a problem where he needs a set it and forget it tool to chop steel stock and his first thought isn't "cut-off saw"/hydraulic-drop, auto-shutoff horizontal bandsaw. It's "neat vintage auto-hacksaw". 😀
That's a dream?….I've spent long nights dreaming about many things……a hacksaw was never one of them!….lol
Hello, We had a Dunlap hack saw sold by Montgomery Wards, similar to you Craftsman. It looks like your blade is in backwards. The think the blade is supposed to cut on the in stroke towards the stationary jaw of the vice. It is much more solid this way and takes out some of the deflection. Try it and see what you think! Ed Hicks
This man is painful to watch.
Oh man, the angle grinder is your friend! trying to cut that c beam with a saw hurt me lol.
When he moves and there's just 4 freaking clamps on the round stock.
That round stock bar is 12L leaded cold roll steel so you're right about a mild steel.
you know you can put a switch on those so it turns off when it finishes the cut.
probably worth doing if you're going to be leaving it.
"never take anything apart unless you know what you're going to do with it"
then you end up with a pile of stuff you intend to take apart at some point lmao
He just had me Lol. Oh for Christ sake!
Hey Adam, love all your videos.. this one especially takes me back to the old farm workshop where we had a similar powered hacksaw. Could I just ask, when you stick your tongue out, is it a concentration measure, or some form of counter balance? 😂
I feel the hacksaw would benefit from being on a sturdier base.. and would some form of auto lube help it cut easier?
Also, the little oil cups you fitted, surely those holes would take a grease nipple?
Keep up the awesome content, from this avid fan in Co.Durham, England.. Land of hope of glory!
I’ve just recently gotten an atlas model no 5010 (belt/disk sander) from my grandfather who recently passed and it’s my first bench mounted tool. Everything’s cast iron on it and it’s just been amazing learning everything to either convert a 36 inch belt on it or redo the decades old wiring even learning the machines past like how it was the tool in the old highschools shop class that the teacher bought himself (and later traded to my grandfather for work I think it was redoing a floor he helped with)
Tac weld a bar on the backside of the steal stock to hold it with a vice
you could just add a second L shaped bracket that bolts in from the middle so it can move to adjustand it just covers the left half of machine, would still be fully stable and wouldnt get in way
Adam, you might have better luck if you have a vice with An adjustable height arrangement, so the blade isnt starting the cut at such a high angle. If the angle is too high then the mechanism is pushing the blade against the work instead of cutting across the work. Having a range of weights that hook over the top of the saw frame like a saddle on a horse can also help determine downward pressure on to the work which will make each cut deeper instead of just gliding over the top.
In my experience, the saws cut on the pull stroke.
What brand is the combo ratchet adjustable wrench?
I love how health and safety can go out the window in your own shop
now we need a shirt that says hacksaw noises
Always wanted one of those.
58:00 "help me! help me! help me!"
I know you may just be testing but 40 years ago after working in a factory as a die setter, a very old fixture in that factory give me the advice of always using a cutting fluid of some sort, regardless of the metal. 40 years later I can happily report that advice was scripture and probably responsible for doubling or mxaybe even tripling the life of all of my blades.
density changing of material from manufacturing through rollers..
Dude, now you HAVE to cut a super long bar and a little short bar and compare the wave-distances! I'm so curious if your theory is correct! : ) Cheers from Michigan
We already have them, it's called a "Reciprocating Saw"
add a drip oiler and a new blade and it'll be GREAT!
Perforated metal strap band is what you need. You can tie almost anything using it. Of course vise is much better but you trying to cut a huge piece you know. So your vise should be even bigger and I can't say if it will fit your saw.
24:10 that's true, but only because we were shoved in the face with automobile cars back then, in the 20th century. There are much better ways to learn mechanics, aerodynamics, fluid-dynamics.
Hmmm? A guy made a leaf spring for a 58 Mack. Drilled a hole with an ancient drill press. Used dish soap bottle with plain water as lube. Cools better, cuts better than any oil. I keep a spray bottle at drill press and band saw. Fixing old things gives you a window on life. Zen in a power hack saw. I get it.
Hmmm? Man that can buy any tool he wants and “ foolishly” wastes a day restoring a hundred dollar tool for less than a good reason. Cool! My hero! By the way, I have a lifetime memory of my brother teaching me to adjust a bearing.
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Why use a power hacksaw instead of a horizontal bandsaw?
I don't know why, but the opening just cracked me up. "Today on Tested" then cuts to Adam just sawing away with the machine in the background 😂
It's great to see he's just as human as the rest of us 😊
The old craftsman power hacksaws are neat mechanical contraptions, but the cheap Chinese band saws that have many different labels on them are much more efficient and flexible with some basic tweaking!! I used one at work which was branded Rong Fu and it was a surprisingly tough machine for occasional use!!