hey everybody adam savage from the warehouse and prop store down in los angeles and i am
taking a walk down memory lane for an incredibly good cause uh if you were lucky enough to live in
one of the cities over the last 10 years at the mythbusters explosive exhibition visited then uh
you are very lucky because it is no longer and all of the original props from mythbusters that
traveled around the country as part of that exhibit are now being auctioned off
here by prop store to benefit the grant yamaha steam foundation and right now i'm looking at
blueprints and i don't know if anyone's opened some of these in the better part of two decades
i'm looking at steel cap amputation here testing about the steel toes of boots and
this is my drawing from start to finish i remember drawing this on the day uh so there
were three main people that drew the blueprints in the very beginning the first few seasons
it's mostly me with a few blueprints or a few drawings having been drawn by jamie
and then in most of the later seasons it is eric haven one of mythbusters primary producers for a
long time and also an accomplished published and award-winning comic book artist and so i am going
through and actually for the first time letting people know who drew what because i'm kind of
one of the only people that knows anymore i mean i think eric could do this and jamie could do this
but that's it so uh i am chronicling who drew which so that you guys may potentially be able
to add one of these to your collection oh oh oh this is great okay here's this took me a minute
here's the thing we would draw this part first so that we had it on the on the desk and the camera
would sit above that and get that then jamie and i would shoot the blueprints and we would
talk about the key aspects and we always shoot the blueprint at the end of the episode so that
we had some idea about what happened if you shoot it at the beginning you have to reshoot it because
you're we're always going to be wrong about how the experiment progresses
but once we had shot the discussion part of the blueprint then it was time to shoot the
drawings that would be overlay over the discussion part of the edit so i jamie would say oh look we
could build a drop rig and then we could put a weight on it and meanwhile they'd be showing
footage of jamie's drawing that so here what we have is a kind of an unbelievable classic example
steel cap amputation on the left these are all of my drawings and my lists and on the
right here are jamie's and you can see the stylistic difference splitting up the middle
and yeah the editors use these as b-roll uh during our discussions this is a classic that is
that is really neat to see okay i got a lot to go through oh my god these rolls are quite thick
these have been wrapped up for so long okay i think i'm gonna have to that's an adam drawn
paper crossbow recently covered untested as one of my favorite objects i've ever built
for mythbusters it's a very um a humble starting frame you can tell it's me by the super amateurish
text of the title that's the difference between me and jamie's drawings and eric's drawings eric's
drawings the titles all look just just fantastic this is an episode in which our producers
showed their incredible metal and contribution to mythbusters in order to film salvaging a boat
from the bottom of uh some body of water using only ping pong balls we needed clear water and
in northern california there's not a lot of it uh the san francisco bay area is all very silty
so we had to go to the monterey peninsula and the problem with monterey is that it
is a protected wildlife sanctuary one of the most protected wildlife sanctuaries in the country and
they gave us permission to actually sink a boat and then raise it with ping pong balls
and they had many restrictions for us about otter interactions and ping pong balls left over and we
met and exceeded all of those the thing couldn't have gone more swimmingly yeah and we were able
to sink a boat and raise it with ping pong balls there was one otter that kept on stealing ping
pong balls we were able to eventually get all the ping pong balls back but he would go down
to the boat underwater and like grab ping pong balls and like swim away with them crazy cute
here that right there is what eric haven is so good at hammer jump oh season one
it's absolutely one of the yeah this is early season one drawing by me
wow in one of the other videos for this auction uh we are auctioning off one of buster's original
feet and i talk about the fact that in this which was the very first season one experiment
we did with buster we dropped him from 185 feet thinking in the crash system we would
be able to take anything we would throw at it and we shattered his cast aluminum hip and his
leg fell off and jamie had to go back with like a custom heinemann clamming rig to go find buster's
leg a few weeks later um jamie also spent most of the day at the top of this crane out over a
dry dock on mayor island 185 feet in the air and towards the end of the day he radioed in and said
oh if you guys are almost done i'd like to get down which is one of the
very rare times he expressed discomfort over the course of doing the show oh yeah
101 uses for cola look it's even stained by cola
this is totally season one i drew this these are all jamie's over here
jamie's experiment listing jamie
i love this i think we might have put a slab of meat right here who knows
levitation machine look at that i built a hovercraft i even tried a ducted fan on it
i was thinking ducted fans were interesting it's the first time i was looking into them jame
so here we have this is another classic adam drawings on the right jamie drawings on the on
the left this is such an important episode for me personally as an engineer uh the legend is that
a scuba diver is found in a tree burnt to a crisp and the question is how did he get there and what
happened and the myth is that he was scuba diving in a lake while a forest fire was happening nearby
and a firefighting helicopter which has these ways of drawing water up from bodies of water scooped
the scuba diver up and when it was dubbing its water to put out the fire it dumped a scuba diver
as well the helicopters that they use on forest fires do have these giant pumps at the ends of
these huge tubes that they can lower in water and suck up hundreds of even a few thousand gallons of
water in a very short period of time but no one would let us use one of those and so my producer
was like well you're gonna have to build one and jamie and i did the specs on it and then jamie got
the flu jamie who i can't remember ever taking a sick day actually had to take two weeks out with
this flu it it absolutely decimated him and so i ended up building this thing pretty much by myself
from scratch and it was a 250 horsepower outboard motor that i extended the shaft by six feet riding
in a couple of dampened pillow blocks on the inside of this long tube so that it could draw
water up here and spray it out here now the pumps that they use on the firefighting helicopters can
pump 2000 gallons per minute and that was our goal 2 000 gallons per minute i want to tell you that
the machine i built pumped 3 000 gallons a minute and frankly before we built it i didn't know that
i could build such a machine i didn't know that i could make something that large and that effective
this episode is like one of those inflection points in my history on mythbusters
this one of my all-time favorite shots on the show the myth is that a water heater when it fails will
explode and go straight up in the air through the ceiling of wherever room it's in through the roof
of whatever house it's in and it is totally true water heaters are the most spectacular
and terrifying thing i have ever ignited uh they have a a bottom that is a concave heavy like 3 16
inch thick steel bowl that is the under stock underside of a water heater so
the water heater heats up past about 350 degrees when it's about 400 psi i think
i can't remember the psi exactly don't quote me on that that concave bottom
it prolapses it goes all the way inside out and that water heater i mean i think it shot
700 feet in the air and we built this little red schoolhouse out on alameda tarmac and we put a
water heater in it and the water heater just went right through the roof it was one of them again
it's one of my all-time favorite high-speed shots absolutely gorgeous so much history in
these blueprints so many stories so many days spent covering these incredible episodes we got
to make and now you can put one of these in your house again the url is propstore.com mythbusters
all of the proceeds from the sale of these go to benefit the grant yamahara steam foundation get
yours today all right i'm gonna keep on going through this but i think we have to stop filming
you