hey guys oh i think i could be closer
better better all right um adam savage uh in my cave with a tool tip today and it's
an interesting one there are a lot of tools we have in the shop that do the same thing as
other tools but with slight differences so they are useful under different circumstances
a saw blade could be considered a tool in the shop and all the ways you can hold on to that saw blade
a hacksaw a handheld wood saw a reciprocating jigsaw a scroll saw bandsaw right every single
one of those is a method for holding on to a piece of metal with teeth cut in it
um and i was late to knowing about this tool which is a reciprocating air saw uh it has a piston
inside that drives this back and forth so it just and it these are amazing i called this a bone saw
in a recent video but it's not a bone saw that's a different kind of saw i was just i got excited um
this is one of my favorite tools i discovered this tool i discovered i was
introduced to this tool while working on topoka city um for episode two uh with tori belachi
sorry that's something in my ml anyway um i worked on episode two on topoka city the water city uh
and there was a bunch of us dave fogler john goodson john duncan troy belahey
tony priscilla we were all working on the topoka city and it was these big fiberglass castings
you had to cut them out really exactly uh and somebody broke out one of these and i
immediately fell in love and immediately bought myself one um i have three different versions
here oh so uh let's see let's turn it on i think that's worth doing here let's see
okay so uh this is without a doubt the cheapest one this is chicago pneumatics i believe this
is the product sold by harbor freight and um here's what it sounds like okay here i think
is the most expensive version here and this is made by um ingersoll rand it's functionally
identical i don't even feel much of a difference between the vibration between these hang on
well that's different um
this is also an ingersoll rand a much older model why do i have three
that's a great question uh i have three because i've had more than one television show that's
the simplest way to put it um when jamie and i made uh dangerous toys we ended up with some
tools and i ended up with one of these after that shoot and then again when savage builds went into
production we bought one of these uh and it ended up in my collection um the blades i i
haven't found like amazing blades they're all just fine they're basically like small hacksaw blades
um and they're totally reasonable they're phenomenal for getting into tight places
it gives a sensitivity of cut that very few other things do and i want to show you
so here is a piece of my uh iron man mark 1 armor you can see it drying in
the background because i've been working on that um so let us say
that what i wanted to do was to remove this border
from this piece of plastic that this is all that i want
the first thing i would do is i would draw a line where my cut is supposed to go that is just always
good practice because as you're looking really close at your piece and you're making the cut
just always good to have a guideline to follow so there's my guideline
let's get some light on this situation there's my guideline now here comes the oh that's not the one
this is the one with the freshest blade i just put a blade in this week
and that's wonderful i just i love it it also this is not one of those tools that tires out your hand
because it's so vibratory this is actually a very mild thing watch this oh oh oh one other thing
there's often a a depth setter for this which is actually incredibly useful and oh crap the
screw fell out okay i'll have to put another screw in there i'm sure i have it but uh okay
here's how this tool works watch this
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there you go i
there are other ways of doing that but i'm not sure there are any that are faster
that's that every time i need to use one of these and to be frank using the reciprocating saw on
urethane resin castings is like what it was made for but every time i use this song
i'm amazed by the fact that like i wouldn't want to make look i could make that cut on my bandsaw
but i don't like making those big tall movie cuts things can grab and jam i don't want to
use a jigsaw to do that what a little dremel saw uh i think proxon makes a little handheld
reciprocating saw but this is my this is my jam i love these things there's often a question that
new makers have what's the difference between a pneumatic and an electric version uh and i don't
know i'm actually not sure if someone makes a an electric version of this but pneumatic
this is the perfect pneumatic tool to me it is the one i go to more than almost any other except the
rivet the pneumatic rivet guns oh i just put it away um there's another feature of these
there's another feature of these that i really appreciate which is i haven't noticed any variance
real significant variance in quality between the ingersoll rand and the harbor freight version
and that happens sometimes sometimes you pick up a inexpensive version of a tool and
you compare it to an expensive version and you're like damn there's a huge difference
between these two things and sometimes not much at all uh abe his channel often shows
how very reasonable the interiors of some inexpensive tools are actually uh so uh
i have basically uh i'm a person who's never met a reciprocating saw they didn't like
every single one of these is absolutely fantastic the ball that this one which is
a little uh got that sort of throaty deeper voice and i don't even know what i have a shorty blade
i mean
this is the other thing is it's not a blade that's going to
cut your finger i'm not recommending that you do what i just did but seriously this is um
safe tools are hard to come by tools that you can do complex things that are very dangerous
with other tools this is an example of a really safe way to make some complicated and nifty cuts
um this will cut through foam it'll cut through plastic it'll cut through wood i was just using
it to do some trimming of wood inside the mark one costume all around an awesome tool
the reason i brought up that the dichotomy between pneumatic and non-dramatic is i remember working
for jamie in the early 90s and he went on this kick of like oh i'm going all pneumatic all
pneumatically bought all these pneumatic drills and we tried them we tried we really gave it the
best effort to use those things but honestly after about six months we were back to using
the electric drills just some kinds of tools work within the right flow of a shop under
new circumstances and some don't um so in my head there was there's always been this debate between
an air version and an electric version but it's not in many people's that's just the history to
that's just letting you know about a little bit of the history of me and pneumatic tools super cheap
more expensive about the same i mean maybe this one's a little bit faster
who knows 50 hertz faster it's hard to ah god maybe it's even less than that um i think i
have rambled on long enough reciprocating air saws add one to your collection uh the blades
are inexpensive and they all seem to work for me and hopefully for you thank you guys for joining
me for this tool tip i hope it was informative and uh as per always i will see you next time bye