Hey everybody, Adam Savage here with a show and tell from my cave and as you've
probably already gathered it is space related,
This is of course my beautiful a7l replica
built by Ryan Nagata on which i did some of my own custom machining on these
front couplers but over the past few months ryan
has delivered a few augmentations to this suit that
truly take it into a whole nother realm of replica and we're going to walk
through those modifications today because they are
so beautiful all right let's get started first up we should take some nice video
shots of how beautiful this suit is made of a coated nylon
that ryan chose for the way in which it weathers
you can see some of the close-up seam detailing here the different stitching
this is ryan's incredible fidelity
it is a truly amazing replica um
even went so far ryan discovered that nasa uses a very specific kind of velcro
that's laid out all in rows instead of randomly like normal
velcro i guess that's nasa uh and in fact
um there are these this is a detail i love
there are uh the buttons are sewn in uh i guess they're mounted to like
ptfe or i don't know some type of plastic and then sewn in
um not having done that ryan actually can you see this
he screen printed the stitches on to the little nubbin that goes around
the button yeah and then airbrush the edge
like from here you cannot tell that that's what's happening
that is amazing here are the couplers that i machined
this is the project on which i discovered that
if you're using uh 6061 and then perhaps another type of aluminum that when you
anodize them you will get i don't know if it's visible on camera you will get
two totally different colors as i have here these this color is
different than this color um this is another thing ryan did which
i particularly love is he uh to do the the the
internal plug of the electrics um this is just as
a laser print of the front of one of those connectors yeah i know
totally awesome all right uh let's talk about some of
these modifications the first one is in the hands and i know when i did
the one day build of my new space gloves i did a bit of a
show and tell about the space gloves these are
absolutely amazing this is the brand newest uh
uh pattern that ryan has built for the apollo era gloves
this pattern was patterned off a real glove so it is as close as
humanly possible to the real thing and just to show you the fidelity
that ryan goes to the internal labels are all there uh and including
there's an internal label inside there but the thing i wanted you to pay
attention to is this this is no longer a cast piece
of plastic this is a machine an anodized piece of aluminum for the glove
wrist ring and ryan made a set of
receivers for this for my suit so now the gloves it's aluminum
on aluminum and they're still magnets that
hold it together uh it's a very positive fit oh
and i gotta tell you like having aluminum
just honestly right i i said this when i machine these
just like having actual aluminum parts on this thing
make it feel so much more real and the weight feels great i mean
this is yeah these things are beautiful but that is still not what i wanted to
show you today that is still just we are traveling
along the way the very thing i want to talk about
today is ryan's new neck ring now
let me take you on a tour through the old neck ring this
is ryan's original neck ring that my suit shipped with
and it's beautiful uh it's got velcro around the bottom to attach to the suit
uh the the pieces and the markings are great he's got decals for
the engage and disengage use with helmet ring only
uh also just to show you this up close yeah i mean
it's beautiful modeling it looks great and mine is beat up because i'm hard on
my equipment but i i do want to point out that ryan
actually paints metallic paint into the silicone mold
to get a really robust coating and still i was able to beat the hell out of it
but for me all that weathering makes it look kind of kind of good
but ryan's new neck ring is a wholly different beast here it is
and it's not just completely machined out of aluminum but
it has if you can see here and i'll shoot a close-up of this
little pins and those little pins actually retract oh yep check
that out it is a functioning
functioning neck ring okay let's talk about functioning
this isn't going to help you survive in space that's not what i mean by
functioning i mean that it locks it locks what does it lock to i'm so
glad you asked because one of the other things that
ryan has improved upon is the bubble helmet oh my gosh okay
wait i'll be right back here is ryan's old
bubble helmet and it looks great it is a beaut again this
is the one that shipped with my suit when i first got it
the selva device here again the decals and everything
and it fits in this neck ring actually doesn't quite fit in this neck ring but
that's okay it doesn't have to it fits in the old
neck ring this one yes but a couple of things about the
shape of this um ryan was able to have access to
a real bubble helmet and i think you can see
the slightly different shape between these two this one is
way way way more accurate and if you look at certain close-up details
like the little spacers here around here they're just uh blank little uh
wrecked uh sorry little oblong pills but here they
have little holes on either side of them just a little bit
more detail and again the newest thing about this
bubble helmet is not only is it pulled in thicker this one's pulled in
very very thin petg and i actually left it in
my car on a mythbusters shoot and it got a little dented because of
the heat um ryan pulled this out of a much thicker piece of petg it's
still quite thin compared to the real thing
but again this doesn't have to help you survive the vacuum of space um
but its shape is 100 just gorgeous and it has a anodized aluminum ring
now here's the thing about this ring this
will fit in an original apollo neck ring it will actually
lock into an original piece of apollo hardware
that's the kind of fidelity look i have never i pretty much guarantee you i am
never attaching this to a real apollo neck ring i don't think anyone's going
to allow me to but i could oh yeah
so of course now the thing you're wondering is
this locks to this yes it does watch this and dude
that they i can barely contain my excitement
a locking neck ring oh listen to that
obviously i'm gonna have to put this on but
i uh in order to put it on i'm gonna actually
uh it's not quite a build but it is an elaboration of today's uh
uh show-and-tell so on the lower left red coupler this one here i've actually
machined a air distribution system on the
backside of this for the helmet yes because the helmet is
meant to disperse air it starts here you push
air in through here uh and it wraps around the inside of the
suit i'll shoot a b-roll of that in a second
and it comes up this little air conditioning line see this i've
glued this in and then safety printed into the suit and it comes up here
and this is an accurate part right here and this feeds in
to the back of the helmet where it feeds in
here and then this whole system is a distribution system for
air check that out right so the air comes in here and spins
around here and the whole point is to bring air up
and around the inside of the helmet to keep it from fogging over yeah so the
air comes in here gets pushed around here and spread out
all the way around the inside of the helmet oh
so beautiful hey uh so at this moment in the video you
should be watching me put on a space suit and try it out
uh with the neck ring so i can get the whole experience
and you know what happened um i was pushing the record button when i
thought i was pushing the stop button and vice versa
i'm sure you've done that i know we have all done that ed
in the past and i did it for the finale of this video which is like a 10 minute
cut that somehow didn't happen and i just
didn't notice and uh
norm called me up and he was like hey we're missing the outro for the neck
ring detail so that's what's about to happen enjoy
the neck ring finale
all right now that we've established all of
now that we've established all of that it's time for the moment of truth
i'm going to put this on try the neck ring out
in situ i'm also going to be showcasing uh one other cool mod to this suit that
ryan sent me recently you're gonna love it
oh all right let's see here
oh okay so uh
hold on
oh
okay
you need out
now this is ryan's beautiful communications
communications assembly otherwise known as the snoopy cap
uh and the snoopy cap here is super super cool and i'm about to show you why
because it's got this it's got this plug here and it actually
goes to this accurate plug
let's see and uh we get a quindar beep after every after everything we say
yeah so much but wait that that's not all mission control
yeah there's still a few bugs to work out but there's one more thing
how do i breathe in here with this now because i have attached this i've
got this inflator oh my god this is driving crazy nope
nope nope hold on
okay great all right i'm already heating up
so it's time to attach the fan this is in pool toy inflator i purchased
on amazon for about 25 bucks it connects up into here and
when i turn it on
when i turn it on it blows air up back there which is
awesome
and now let's put on this helmet shall we
there we go this is what i need to wear outdoors during the coronavirus outbreak
and as you can see it's not fogging up my visor
it goes away
so
i can't tell you how satisfying it is to be able to open this latch and pull
off a helmet that is just feels like
such an awesome experience thank you guys for joining me for this show and
tell uh truth be told
i think i've had more fun with it than you have
ah i continue to be amazed by ryan nagata's
incredible work and our long-term and long-time collaboration is super
fulfilling part of our friendship uh thank you guys for
joining me for this show and tell see you next time
you