hey it's John Schechter with tested calm I also work with Adam over at the cave
and my favorite things this year are all tools for attaching things together that
I learned about while working with Adam this year the first tool that I want to
talk about is something that we use on the set of savage builds earlier this
year so we built a titanium Ironman suit a full suit of armor made out of 3d
printed titanium and in order to attach all of the pieces together we used
rivets through these holes and one of the tools that I learned about is this
really nifty little set of pliers called Cliquot pliers really unassuming little
tool I never heard of them before but they're used for sort of painting
together riveting assemblies before you actually rivet them so if you can
imagine this whole curled you know metal suit of armor there's lots of different
joints and sort of overlaps and ways that the thing can not be in perfect
orientation so what the Cliquot pliers allow you to do is sort of kin together
your rivet joints and the clecos themselves are these little I don't know
these little nodes and basically when you apply pressure with the clay
co-players they pull and a little section comes out
that punctures through your hole and expands on the other side the same way
that a rivet would so I've actually set up this little assembly here so that I
can demonstrate and we attached Iron Men together using some aluminum tabs on the
back and if I have have my rivet it'll fit right through that hole so I'm gonna
attach one Cliquot in place so the rivet goes through here like this so nice and
that's so much easier to do with the Cliquot holding it in place there's also
some really nifty little roll clamps so the Cliquot player actuates this little
pincer and I can hold assemblies in place
temporarily it's kind of like using pins if you're sewing so I can hold sections
together and make my assembly much easier it's used a lot for aircraft
building huge sheet metal assemblies also the hash tag Cliquot on instagram
oddly satisfying if you're interested in checking that out super intense lines of
clecos setup on an aircraft in cars very very nifty little tool so the second
tool is this little finish nailer this is a 23 gauge pin nailer made by Senco
and we sometimes call it a mosquito nailer in the shop because the nails are
almost invisible once you fire it into your piece the head of the nail
basically is non-existent so it buries into the wood and you almost can't see
it at all so I'll do a lot of assemblies that don't require a lot of structural
support just sort of finishing and lay up a piece like this apply some glue and
then pewpewpew so that's a super convenient tool this is sort of my
secret weapon for assemblies as long as it doesn't need any major structure with
screws I pretty much glue up and nail with this 23 gauge nailer for all of the
builds the last of my favorite things is a very simple tool I've definitely used
two-part epoxy before but I'd never encountered this until I saw it in the
shop at Adams this is a 3m epoxy gun and it basically just loads your two-part
epoxy into the top here you clamp that down and then there's a little
applicator tip that you can attach to the front and what's awesome about this
is it has a pre mixing system basically there's a coil that goes through here
and when you pull the trigger both parts of the epoxy mix in the tip of the
applicator so once I pull the trigger you'll see that both Part A and Part B
are mixing inside of the applicator tip and a perfect ratio and they come out of
this really fine needle tip here so I can get a nice small dab of epoxy
exactly where I want it and when I'm all finished cleanup is
people as unloading the tip and putting maybe you clean off the nozzle and put
the cap back on but it does all of the mixing work for you and it's really easy
to apply in a very precise area so those are three things that I've learned about
just working for Adam in the shop this year and they all happen to be ways to
attach things together so ya stick together happy new year thanks again