hi everybody adam savage in my cave with a tool tip this morning
and it's a nostalgic tool tip now i have hold on let me get up visual aid here
now i've done lots of videos about using taps to create internal threads inside
of things and i this is an operation i do on almost a daily basis here in the cave
um and i have also uh extensively talked in the past about uh if i could go back in time
and tell my young self any specific thing it would be to use more cooling fluid as such
i keep a roster of cooling fluids and oils here at the base of my at the base of my uh workbench
uh and the one that i think gets the most amount of um of of my attention is my tapping oil um then
i actually have a couple different kinds rapid tap tap magic uh i have never noticed the difference
between these two things i think in a pinch uh some three in one oil would work just fine
um and look i love both of these i the rapid tap i've been using for 30 years the tap magic
i recently found it from another job sitting back where in a bin so it's come out again um
but neither of these is the tool tip today today's tool tip is about a nostalgic
type of tapping fluid and here it is tapping fluid molly d molly d this this i just want to take you
on a tour through some mollie d because i just love this this this uh i picked this up on ebay
for about 10 or 12 bucks recently uh and i picked it up because it has some of my favorite ad copy
of any of any kind of product i have ever used okay so just as you know
look all of these things all all of these products that we use they have labels on them
they say things like effective for drilling milling threading broaching boring turning tapping
engraving reaming sawing like somebody worked on that copy right i appreciate that there's a team
of people choosing the right color yellow and red and green and making it all work together
and a lot of times these things will say uh you know they'll be set they work hard to sell you
ad copy on products works hard to sell you that product even after you've bought it so
it says things like it's a true professional quality so tap magic here's what tapmagic says
tapmagic protep is a true professional quality cutting fluid that is completely biodegradable
saves time tools and money that sounds like you're talking to the entire company i mean
ad copy right that's just what it is well get ready for molly d's ad copy
first of all i love this friction's greatest enemy yeah friction's greatest enemy so
somewhere in the late 50s early 60s a group of well probably men got together and were like
what are we going to call this new product molly d and they've got this they've got this molecule
here i believe that is a molecule i believe they are attempting to represent that this is like been
designed at a molecular level um a okay so this is made by withrow uh and it says here
on the side another with withrow product of distinction product of again just terms of
art they're just coming up with them friction's greatest enemy a withrow product of distinction
and on the other side it says uh oh yeah of 33 and molly d are registered trademarks of the arthur c
withrow company but here on the back i'll get some gloss ups of this here's what this says
a combination of chemicals scientifically formulated to provide industry with quote the
finest machining assistant yet devised by nature and the skill of man specifically designed for
tapping drilling threading reaming fortified with of33 a wear resisting life-prolonging fluid film
rich in oilness i didn't know that was a word an ever-present cushion of lubricity
dude a wear resisting life prolonging fluid film rich in oilness and ever-present cushion
of lubricity lubricity dude molybdenum disulfide specially selected and processed
retains lubricity from 100 to 750 degrees fahrenheit experts agree
this resists extreme pressure beyond the yield point of any metal truly the answer to the space
age machining challenge okay so space age i'm going to say this is the mid 60s
is great it's just it's beautiful i the reason i know about this is because jamie has had a
can about this size of molly d in his shop since i started working for him in the early 90s and
i've always loved it and yeah i probably could have called him up and said could i borrow it
but then i'd have to talk to him and we'd have to pretend we're catching up and you know we'd have
to be civil and not that we'd be uncivil but he he doesn't you know he's doing his own thing i'm not
gonna bother him so i went on ebay and i thought hmm maybe they'll have a can and i found it
an ever-present cushion of lubricity and this is just there's no better quote than
this the finest machining assistant yet devised by nature and the skill of man
in the comments i'm going to link you
am i going to link to that no i'm going to hold that back up you know okay in the comments i will
link you to this amazing weird video called the turbo encapsulator do you know about the turbo
encapsulator if you don't know about the turbo encapsulator it's truly an epic and beautiful
thing and this copy reminds me of it i'm not going to say anything about the turbo
and capulet i'm just gonna include a link and you can go check it out because it's awesome
um yeah i'm not advocating for a specific tool and i i have i think
i think there's still some mollie d in this and i plan to try and use it with a tap what the hell
how bad could it have gotten over the intervening 60 some odd years yeah uh 40 40 50 50 50 some odd
years okay um i know i'm not advocating for a specific product today it is just a specific ad
ad copy that made me super happy the first time i read it 25 years ago makes me just smile just
as much today uh thank you guys for joining me get the somali d and i'll see you next time bye
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