Why Adam Savage Didn’t Do THIS in His Vault Build
During a recent live stream, Tested members asked Adam Savage several questions about his vault build, including why Adam …
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March 31, 2025
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During a recent live stream, Tested members asked Adam Savage several questions about his vault build, including why Adam …
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What do you think of Adam's answers, and questions do YOU have? (And with thanks to @amellish, @robertedlund6357, @glennac, @randelbrooks, @darrinswanson and @durangodave for their support and questions!
Adam Savage's Miniature Vault Door Build, Part 1: https://youtu.be/SiL8IzJSnyU
Adam Savage's Miniature Vault Door Build, Part 2: https://youtu.be/OoMgiXfHbj0
Adam Savage's Miniature Vault Door Build, Part 3: https://youtu.be/O8phpSl_oos
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Engine Turning
It’s a PROCESS O.K. !
Craytex is wonderful stuff
Do a fallout vault please Adam
Does the door need to hindge in the middle of the door
Anyone else got anxiety watching his arms swinging around near that drink bottle with the lid left off? 😂
Alcohol is a good cutting liquid for aluminium. Helps keep aluminium cool and not stick so fast to your cutting tool. But be aware of flamability of the alcohol.
Would you be willing to try it to test your mettle?
You could have cut the hole smaller than 6in on the lathe then finished like you did. (It would already be in the chuck). Slower lathe apeeds will keep galling down, as you know.
no updates on the vault door. project scrapped?
where is the new safe video 🙁
7:45 – could be orbital I guess. 🤷🏻♂️
Okay Adam said he watches loads of youtube channels. I would love to hear what those are!
The project is looking great. I understand that for cutting the big hole out, you went with what you know and are comfortable with. However, if you had done it on the lathe, you would have gained two more skills: trepanning and using a boring bar to finish the hole to your exact spec. Or, as was pointed out farther down below, using your rotary table on your mill would also have been a good choice. Probably the easiest and fastest plus you are already comfortable with those tools. I'd also like you to comment about how you made a perfectly round, smooth, finished hole in the "wall" piece. Gotta be more than just a jig saw… (BTW – I am an amateur/hobby machinist. I know that there are many ways to skin a cat and like the commenter below said we can all build X but won't agree on how to do it. And I still need to use boring bars on my mini-lathe. Too chicken so far…) Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing!!
is adding a band of metal on the interior to add dimensionality to the visual of the pins going in?
stop saying alumunum
You need a water jet cutter in that playroom.
7:32 Not quite! Charles Lindberg was the 92nd person to fly across the Atlantic, the first ever flight was done in 1919 by John Alcock and Arthur Brown in a Vicker's Vimy bomber
Needs some gold bars
I would SOOOOO mount this on a metal box and inset it into a wall to make it a real safe. 🙂 And yes – absolutely behind a hinged picture. 😀
👍🏻👊🏻
I might be looking at this wrong, but is he missing the actual lock and lever portion of the safe? Like the dial with all the numbers. Idk if he was planning on doing it for this build. I have no idea how to make a safe. Can he install that at the end? It seems pretty integral to the working of a safe to not have done it already. But again, I have no idea how to make a safe.
You could have used the rotary table on the mill and cut the hole in the aluminum plate with a endmill
Super cool to see the thought process, I was a bit confused by the drill and jigsaw move also.
Why not just use a hole saw and than finish the hole on the lathe.
Yep love the bouncing ideas off the viewers, dialog.
This highlights one of the internet's constants: If you wish to be corrected, do something (anything), and put it on the Internet. You will immediately find thousands of people who will tell you that whatever you did was wrong (and how you did it was wrong too). Many people lose all motivation from such comments.. Those that continue, realize, that the comment writers themselves haven't ever even attempted anything like the original idea… In short: Everyone is an expert as soon as there is something to bitxx about.. Just concentrate in you being you… You're still alive, and that's 100% success in the world of carbon based life forms.. The rest is only drama and stupidity…
Trans-atlantic flight could be suborbital, which wouldn't really be aerial for the most part.