Adam Savage's Miniature Vault Door Build! (Part 1)

When I read the title, I thought that Adam was recreating a Fallout vault door given how nicely that show has popped off.

I’ll be honest, I was expecting fallout vault 33 door, but this is way cooler.

In my 20s, nothing could stop me from watching Mythbusters on discovery. I often said to my wife that if we had children, I would love to watch that show with them. I now have a 10 year old that can't get enough of Mythbusters and loves science. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your genuine enthusiasm. A saying in our house is that failure is a learning expirence and that you guys never gave up when things didn't go as planned either.We are huge fans!

Adam I know a man who is probably the last living installer and technician for Diebold and Mosler round vault doors. He owns a business that deals exclusively with used and antique safes from the late 1880s into the 1980s. I’ve worked with him in the past and was a wealth of information.

I worked as a bank teller for a couple years at the start of my career. I always got a thrill when I got to set the clocks on the vault doors at closing in the evenings. This was less than 10 years ago, and it blew my mind that such primitive mechanical technology was still the best way to ensure things were secure even in our modern digital age.

Fun fact. In industrial gear boxes that run at hundreds of RPM for years at a time, we actively seek out gear tooth combinations with no common factors, preferring prime numbers of gear teeth. These sets of gears wear more evenly over time. Definitely not the same design constraints that drove the gear tooth counts for vault doors!

Love this.😊 I literally open up and almost 100 year old round vault door every morning. That still works beautifully and almost no change since the day it was new. I call it the highlight of my day.

It inspires me that you are 56 years old and still into engineering stuff and learning stuff. You made my childhood with myth busters program. And you still make me a happy person with your interest in this world. I hope you will love the things you are doing for a long time.

"half a tenth of a millimeter" LMFAO god Adam never fails to make me laugh with his relationship of measurements

watching Adam enjoying playing with his ring piece makes me smile

Machinist Adam: "yeah, I'll get rid of those. It needs to be perfect" Propmaker Adam: "you know what? If I flip it over, noone will be able to see it". It's just fun seeing the mindsets interact like that. :D

I used to work on a large estate and we had a workshop that was in the former wine cellar vault, complete with a large heavy vault door. We always keep it open but... One day it shut and was locked and an irate and unstable staff member took a sledge hammer to the combination dial. (Yes, they are designed clearly to prevent getting through that way!} Luckily only a week before i was curious about how the mechanism worked and took it apart to study it. When we realized the door was permanently damaged we had the guy from the auto shop bring a torch over and cut a hole at just the right place so i could fit my hand in to access the mechanism and work it backwards and blind and finally get it opened! Great puzzle challenge that was!

Love the addition of the drums during the tedious bits!

I am a tech at Vault-Tec; The Vault doors we make are in the shape of a spur gear. To open the door the door pulled back onto a gear rack & is rotatated out of the way using the gear rack as track. Quite amazing to see when it opens & closes.

There’s a H&M here in Dublin (Ireland) that is occupying an old bank, and downstairs in the man’s section, there’s a room that used to be the vault, but they kept the door. It’s a huge, square, heavy, thick metal door and it has the pins protruding. It’s really cool

Most everything that uses compound gears (planetary gears and similar) use a geometrically proportionate relationship, especially when all teeth need to fit together. I'm working on a group of gear boxes to precisely measure out lengths of filament for custom colored filament and multi material 3D printing. Precision gear manufacturing is what separate us from the animals. I love watching Adam work, it's therapeutic in a way.

I may be mistaken, but I suspect it's built that way because base 12 is one of those numbers that makes for convenient math (being evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6), which is why we divide time in 12's, 24's, and 60's, and circles into 360 degrees. (60 being especially convenient because it adds in divisibility by 5.) So in other words, having it in base 12 means you can evenly split it in half, 3rds, quarters, or 6ths, and since circles are already measured into 360 degrees, using base 12 means it's easy to design for a circle. So they probably didn't say "we need to design this so it'll work well on a dividing head", but rather dividing heads are built the way they are for "math reasons", and the vault is designed that way for the same math reasons.

3 careers back, I worked at a radio station which was located in a former bank branch building. Their record vault was the actual vault.

Adam, I bet for the same reason you love mechanical vaults that you’d also love the latch systems on spacecraft hatches. Lots of rotary-to-translational systems as well as some spherical coordinate system over center latch mechanisms. Add in some engineered compliances for effort management. Lots of cool bits!

The Lock Picking Lawyer 😮 my dorky world's collide