hey everybody adam savage from tested here in my cave with a one day build
that will be an ocd paradise yeah that's what this is about to be um
i've talked a lot about my sword emo sorters full of all the nuts
and bolts that i could ever need button head allen switches uh allen
uh nuts and bolts galore button heads cap heads flat heads rivets
springs rc servos electronics and
one question that everybody asks is have they ever fallen
and now i think you're starting to see the narrative i've laid out before you
what what what happened here in this blank space
it was not pretty my friends i was slamming here about a week and a half
ago working really hard trying to get stuff
done it was a whole thing and i took out
my pan head phillips screw sorter and i grabbed out
the screw that i needed out of it and i put it on top of my workbench here
uh this workbench here and then i went over here and i was working
and i heard a tick tick and then i heard a crash
and i knew what the crash meant
it meant this oh
oh
so yes this is the first time one of the sorters has crashed
and burned and now i'm left with about 25 pounds
of machine bolts
and i can't throw this out i don't want to go spend
like to fulfill the compartments in there how many of them were there
it's like over 30 or so to re-fulfill them all with boxes
of 100 of each of these things that's my doorbell that's my assistant
today but we're going to get to that in a
second first up you have to know we're going to sort these yeah it'll
take a while but it's going to happen we're going to get to the assistance i
have for this job uh in a little bit but um right now
i have a empty sorta mo full of compartments that were scattered to the
winds and back and i need to reorganize them so that's
what we're going to see on time lapse right now
okay those of you who know me know that i have a saw of ocd in my soul which is
why i love knolling and sorting and actually
cleaning at the end of the day and you don't have to look too far to
wonder where i got that because my assistant on this will be my mom
who also has am i right of ocd totally in your soul okay so i haven't revealed
to mom what we are doing you know but she
doesn't so mom what happened is is one of my
bins full of screws fell and crashed on the floor my
goodness and we have to sort that
i love it let's bring this over here and show you yeah
okay so how do we sort screws um okay let me get
this shot a little better length negative length is secondary
oh width is first yes uh okay so um okay so here's how we're gonna do
this we're gonna do it in two stages first we're sorting by the thread type
which you describe as width okay okay so there are seven
different thread types so we have these guys here
one two three four five six seven and uh let's see they have to be
straight you know that of course okay so i'm just gonna put
here uh two and
two this is
three
three that jingling you sound is maggie wandering around
four four
this is 10
10 course
10.
there we go okay so uh here is a thread checker for you
i made this uh as part of this so uh i think that
what you want to do
so here's a thread checker here's a secondary thread checker
you can take this and if you can one thing you can do is you can clearly
see sometimes that like this is only that one right okay that's
a 10 fine that's a 10f right
so that goes there okay um here's another one that's another 10
fight you'll start to actually be able to recognize them fairly quickly
okay so this might be your best bet for the big ones i think your eyes are a
little less refined than mine um so perhaps that is your best way ten
fine is that length no oh it's not it's it's only that it
matches the thread type and the thickness
i see and if you want to make sure this is fine
and that what will happen is that just screws right in there but it won't screw
into the course it will start but it won't move go ahead
and try that
okay
okay that goes
oh no yeah see so each one is like that you won't be able to get it in
all right now i've got a thread checker over here
as well so um
i think the best thing for us to do is to each take
like actually i think i can recognize you go ahead
take a handful and start to just sort into here
yeah right this is this is a thing uh okay i think i can see these long
ones are 10 32's
some of those
that's 10 32 those are 24
now it's hard to tell whether it's this or this
it's that it's this one so but it kind of matches this one too yeah
i know but your cup it is the same thickness it is a
different thread okay so this is of course
that's correct all right well done that's ten course
ten course meal
okay
we're going to get the heavy ones just because of the way
particulates sort themselves the heavy ones will all be at the top
so we're likely to sort down as we go so we're not
really interested in anything but these two these top two at the moment
um you can keep on moving down through but if those are the easiest ones to
determine then keep on using this yeah
do
i'm in the tested cave and while there's only been a brief jump cut for you
for me several weeks have passed during which
my mom wave mom has been studiously dutifully
sorting all of these screws uh and we are almost at the end hold on i'm
gonna give you a little tour so first we separated each of the screws
into a bin of just its thread size the tens the eights the sixes
the fo the threes and the twos the fours that's reason and twos
and then once we had those filled we started separating them by size
separating them by sizes much easier and for sorting
well we are using the original sword and case which fell over on its face
so you can see that we only have today four five
six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve bins to fill
this has been one of the most useful uses of the lockdown that i can think of
this kind of tedious work you're just amazing mom
and there you have it what's one what once was lost now
is found again there they go panhead phillips screws back
in business and most valuable player this month
my mom 86 years old maker extraordinaire she sorted all of those thanks mom
you're so welcome thanks for joining me for this one day build
it lasted way longer for us than it did for you
peace