Could These Micro Tools Actually Work?

[@tested]

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[@JeffBilkins]

make sure not(!) to use Honey for the affiliate link :)

[@ryandowney9383]

Unfortunately it says Currently Unavailable. Although that could be if they got a rush of orders after this video, ha ha.

[@Yossarian921]

Do the locks in the briefcase work?

[@edwincolon3270]

I'm a Donnie Darko nerd so I lost it when I heard the reference

[@ZeekHunt]

Is there an alternative shop? Amazon is out of stock.

[@maldar82]

I'm glad you enjoyed the mini tools. I had ordered them and shipped them over through eBay. I didn't have a way to include a note, but it didn't matter. I was going through an eBay rabbit hole of tools and stumbled across them. Thought they'd bring some inspiration . They seemed like the type of thing you'd enjoy.

[@ilovedragons123]

Good gift!

[@d.d.d.a.a.a.n.n.n]

They are the coolest micro tools!

[@FirstnameLastname-db5pp]

What a nonsense

[@pellear]

do you have a link?

[@gbresaleking]

Lies

[@g3heathen209]

The tools are dehydrated, you have to add oil to get them back to full size.

[@AlbertaGeek]

Ain't science wunnerful?

[@KapteinFruit]

I like that joke ;)

[@AristophMarloque]

Why do I get the feeling you follow This Old Tony? I could 100000% see that gag in a TOT video! 😂😂

[@RochelleLang]

😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@mickleman52]

nah you're confusing dehydrated tools with tool seeds (can be heard to tell without a proper microscope). Plant these bad boy 3 inches deep in metal chips from either your lathe or mill, obviously lathe for cutting instruments and mill for drivers and wrenches. Water with 3 in 1 oil once a week and in a few months you'll have a beautiful tool tree. Worth noting, it probably wont produce tools for the first few years, and it's first few tool season's might only produce off name amazon tools... but you'' eventually get some name brands.

[@SomeoneBloodyRandom]

Now I picture Adam turning up to do a talk somewhere, pulling out this tiny brief case and pulling his notes for the talk out of it! All while acting like its a full size case and acting like its completely normal to have such a tiny brief case!

[@Craftlngo]

I have a briefcase in a similar scale for business cards. Also with working clasps.

[@zyourzgrandzmaz]

And pulling out a comically large magnifying glass to read the notes

[@ObviousSchism]

Adam Booth?

[@ronwingrove683]

My wife had a similar scale briefcase (also with working clasps) that she had a manicure set in. I wanted to keep it, but the case fell apart before the tools got lost.

[@JackGladstoneHolroyde]

And pulling out a tiny firearm and announcing ’this is a wobbery’

[@obscuremix8198]

Please build anything using these tools.

[@WastrelWay]

As as person who's worked on computers and not usually smaller electronics, I think they would be very useful. Big fingers and big tools make it hard.

[@derpyderp6719]

​@@WastrelWay The tiny C-clamp and vise look especially useful. Easy to underestimate how useful it is to hold tiny things together, or in one place very tightly.

[@npary]

When he picked up the tiny hack saw I really wanted him to cut through a little dowel rod with it

[@oldcowbb]

build *tiny* things

[@ThatGeezer]

@@oldcowbb ...like an even smaller set of tools?

[@Merennulli]

I really love miniature scale things that actually work. I know there are probably practical reasons they wouldn't all be usable the way they do at full scale with square-cube law, but it's very lovely to see them actually do the appropriate motions.

[@christinesoule9505]

As a hobby sewist I love scissors, my large black Guttenhein one that can cut through anything, my pinking shears (big and little), my embroidery snips that look like a bird, but my prized and favorite one is the tiny one I got out of a Cracker Jack box when I was a child. It’s 1 1/8th inches long, 1/2” wide at the handles and 1/4” wide at the blade. And it cuts!

[@yoyopg123]

Me when the family breaks out Monopoly for games at Christmas time... "I wanna be the machinist vise!!!!"

[@imprxvize9671]

Dibs on calipers!!

[@tested]

😂

[@travisjohnson6358]

Haha

[@archivist17]

I'm the AJ!

[@Grain979]

I call C clamp

[@paradox...]

1:10 "I love nothing more than a little briefcase!" 😆😆 this is why we love you, Adam

[@MadSpacePig]

6:18 So it's a micro micrometer, does that make it a picometer?

[@-danR]

Before he even opened it I was thinking... there _can't_ be a micrometer in there... can't be...

[@asyoz]

Absolutely underrated reply here... :D

[@lawrencecarlstrom3465]

Adam going into convulsions of joy at the sight of old blank graph paper most people would have thrown out. Things you only see here.

[@bobcoombs7924]

I have various engineering packs of graph paper. decimal, logarithmic, it's fun stuff to see the tools of engineering of 70-80 years ago.

[@lawrencecarlstrom3465]

@@bobcoombs7924 Cool. Thank you for that insight.

[@atomikladdie]

My mind is blown. Those micro tools are beautiful! I can't believe the detail and that they actually work!!!!

[@lazerathhome]

Seeing the dirt under Adam's finger nails on a big TV, priceless. The hands of a guy who obviously works with his hands. Awesome! The micro tools are cool. Reminds me of the toys Micromachines from when I was a child decades ago. Thanks for sharing Adam.

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

Aww Micromachines... Not just the tips, but the video games!

[@ZIG_inc]

The case is a mini briefcase for businesses cards if any one is wondering. They are about $5 without the tools

[@benm3574]

It's hard not to admire a man who loves good stationary

[@bdtodd50todd38]

I was a machinist and fabricator for 50 years before retiring, and I am impressed as you seem to be.

[@JaySay]

2:48 I was waiting for you to say "Operation," and even when you picked up a pair of tweezers to move the tools, I was like "THE JOKE'S RIGHT THERE!😂"

[@manny3655]

Wow, great stuff Adam. As if the micro-tools were not enough for me to geek out on, the Bell Lab books really hit home. My late Father worked for Bell from 1953 to 1988. Many a "Bell System" hand tool managed to find its way in my boyhood home, as well as Western Electric "stuff." He would take me to work now and again in the 1970's. Now, if I listen closely, I can still hear the infamous Bell Tel Crossbars clicking across the entire floor of the building. Brass bars with magnets attached, making connections old Gertrude did seated at her switchboard, not too many years prior. Hundreds of books and notepads not unlike the one you have and many other types lining the sea of desks and shelves of the stone building. Everything, proudly branded with that familiar Bell logo. You got me on this one my friend. This vid brought a tear to my aging eyes. Thank you kind Sir. Enjoy...

[@AppliedCryogenics]

This episode reminds me of Richard Feynman's talk called "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom"' where one uses tools to make miniature tools which are in-turn used to make even smaller tools and so on, until we're making cutting edge nano machines.

[@hushingsilence]

Ahhh any mention of Richard Feynman is a friend of mine. 😄

[@Crow.Author]

Now you have everything you’ll need to make a growth ray, after you have an accident while developing your shrink ray. I can’t wait for “Honey I shrunk a mythbuster.”

[@oyabin9072]

Thank you for introducing the Micro Tool. I designed this product.

[@sinkinpat]

The smallest open end wrench I own is 1.6 mm. That and a 2.0. They were laser cut. Box end and open end. I had to order them to replace head gaskets on a 1/20 steam engine. There was no space to use a nut driver without taking apart the complete engine. I will say using tools that small is a fun challenge. But fingers are so big and the bolts are so small. My vision is not what it used to be either.

[@d4slaimless]

Such small tools are easy to break. What a challenge. But it is great they can still have some use.

[@glennbrown1961]

I used to build scale model workshops. Boys, dolls, houses if you will. Half built clinker built dinghy in them. The scale was 1 1/2 inch to the foot which equates to 1/8th scale I think. The model was equipped with all the tools used in real life, like Handsaws, drills and bits, hammers and dolly's, which is a weight used to back up your nails when riveting the roves. These tools would have fit right in. I have to get back in to the hobby. Need a small milling machine though. My reasoning was you can't build model boats without a model boat workshop! The building was weatherboard with a glass front. A led light fitted within made it into an awesome lamp! Beautiful tools you have there. Very Christmas everyone. Hope Santa brings your wishes.

[@ssl3546]

Every company that did patentable work used notebooks like that through the 1990s, I used them at Rockwell. Fun fact: Oscilloscope traces would be polaroid-photoed and then stapled in.

[@j.r.millstone]

Damn. The Borrowers have started their industrial revolution.

[@ShamWerks]

😂😂😂😂

[@tzisorey]

Now i'm wondering if a program can be made that generates support scafolding for 3D printing, where the scafolding can be reused as packing. Idea up for grabs!

[@VelvetGlove327]

Your childlike delight with the microtools set is absolutely infectious - I grinned the whole way through watching you explore it! 😀

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

What I love about these rare PO Box episodes of Tested, is just how much gratitude Adam shows. In the same way he makes me interested about stuff I'm not at all interested in (😅), his elation over things he's given makes me feel like *_I'M_* receiving the gift! No one else, anywhere on KZbin (or even the internet), instills me with those good vibes like Adam does. And I'm totally fine if that makes me weird _(but I know it doesn't lol)_ Happy Holidays Tested, and Tested viewers!

[@seanrh4294]

The parts were cast. You can still see the slightly rough surface. Its nice, but not perfect.(I used to be a goldsmith) I would have loved it as a kid and I am sure the gnomes in my Backyard would love them too. :)

[@battlecoder]

What a lovely set. If there's one thing I love more than miniatures, is functional miniatures ❤

[@austin6ish]

I was not expecting to hear “Little vice” being sung like Edelweiss 😂

[@jexarbor9344]

Those would look really awesome in a mini cave diorama!

[@lauramaeda7214]

Love miniatures. If everything i owned was miniature, i could collect exceptionally more crap in my 895 square foot space.

[@zyourzgrandzmaz]

That's why I collect miniatures and work on miniatures. Right now in the midst of making a modern Midwestern town for a modular train set. And things like Gundam are great. Go for 1:6 scale its the most common as Adam mentioned

[@randomations11]

Miniatures are just the best!! I don't know what it is, but it just delights my brain. Maybe it was growing up with N scale trains. Either way, my love for miniatures is exactly why I love modeling, and I wouldn't trade this hobby for anything. :)

[@char_cole4680]

I work for ups, and I deliver to a lady who makes miniatures of anything. "Jamie's miniatures" is the name of her company

[@misslayer999]

I collect miniatures and I love tools so I was literally screaming from excitement. These were so made for me

[@LostButMakingGoodTime]

“Little vise, little vise…” I was dying. 🤣

[@MrMartinSchou]

Honestly, that toolset seems like a perfect way to advertise the accuracy and precision of their manufacturing capabilities. Everybody knows how those tools should work, and your initial thought is going to be "I want to try to use them!" And once you use them and find out they work like they're supposed to, you realise that the company can probably make whatever you need them to make.

[@cuzuman]

Oh well, now you have to build a miniature replica of your workbench area!

[@edwincolon3270]

5:16 the reference to Donnie Darko was amazing!!! Sparkle motion lol😂😂😂

[@freescape08]

The first unboxing I enjoyed watching this year! In fact I think this is my favorite unboxing ever! I just spent the better part of 3 weeks' evenings printing a scale version of some equipment I work on with my dad for Christmas, and now I know I've been beaten. These are beautiful 🥹

[@uncleweirdbeard86]

I want nothing more than to see a video of someone using tools like these to work on a tiny RC V8 motor. Bonus points if its in a scale car

[@josephquartuch2753]

Adam, i will never doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion... thats why your channel and content are high on my must-watch list.

[@Heizenberg32]

We used notebooks like that in a lab I used to work at. Every piece of data I recorded would go through that notebook. Most of it would end up in a spreadsheet somewhere for easier reference and calculations, but the canonical values were the ones handwritten in that book.

[@luckythegerman]

Friends and Family: This is a gift for me. I wouldnt spend my own ~150 bucks on this, but i would love to have this. These tool miniatires are awesome, especially for someone like me who simply likes small tools.

[@TheOriginalJadolph]

These would be great for anything tiny! RC, watches, mini mech etc

[@McFlyOrPie]

The tiny micrometer and calipers are my favorite. They even have actual mm markings.🤯

[@Trashed20659]

Those would go great with the doll house I am planning to shrink myself to fit into. It's a great way to lower the cost of living!

[@mikebergman1817]

The unsettled look you give the camera after saying Hiroshima, Japan has me rolling🤣

[@mtnvalley9298]

My dentist used the coolest torque wrench ever just the other day, while seating a crown over an implanted post. I could hear the greatest ratchet noise while she used it, and yes, my tooth is now torqued down to proper spec.

[@ReetinEntertainment]

1. You stole what I was going to say. 2. I thought the same thing. I had a dental implant... implanted last year and my dentist used the little Torque Wrench while I was numbed up and I thought it was really cool. My girlfriend thinks I am crazy for being excited by that. 3. I actually work for a dental company and spoke to one of our dentists about that experience. They told me that those little wrenches cost like $500 or so because of how specialized they are.

[@mtnvalley9298]

@@ReetinEntertainment I love automatic watches, so when I saw it on the tray, I immediately perked up and asked her all about it, and it's fine quality look.

[@AristophMarloque]

@@ReetinEntertainment I had a dental implant to replace a broken tooth earlier this year as well. I'm a 40 year old man and I'm not ashamed to admit I literally asked my dentist if I could play with it for a few minutes like a kid getting a lollipop for going to the doctor! 😂😂

[@rickh3714]

I went to a dentist in an impoverished part of NZ 30yrs ago & it felt like he was a blacksmith operating on an anvil in a rather run down Soviet bloc Railway factory... 😢🦷💥🤓🔧🛠

[@EricTheCat]

Those micro tools are awesome. There is something about small sized working mechanical items that always fascinates me.

[@gbresaleking]

Those are so cool, and the fact that you need precision tweezers to pick them up is incredible

[@ronitsingh85]

Love miniature do-hickys, anything mechanical and they have to be fully functioning and what they are made of matter as much! These are cool, the material is stainless and or alloy steel. Just happy its not zinc alloy that so many use and they chrome those or powder coat them. A little pricy but I have not seen anywhere tools at this small scale and so well made. I have a craftsman key chain adjustable wrench thats 2.5" long that is really made of iron and actually works and is usable, they can be found on ebay, they are vintage so around $15-$20. Glad Adam really zoomed into the tools, just nice for diorama, displayed in a garage, machine shop or on a figure setup! I know scale RC lovers like me will get a kick out of it as well.

[@danamccarthy5514]

I have no clue how those micro tools would be useful, but the crafting on that scale is impressive.

[@JonMurray]

Ok, I need this in my life. For reference, the miniature briefcase of tools isn’t open yet.

[@JonMurray]

Wuuuuuuuuuut…

[@JolynBowler]

Such fun. I found the Castem Minature Tool set on Amazon and then found your link here. Such a beautiful kit. The notebooks are very special and I know you'll put them to good use. Hugh andd Merry Christmahanukwanzakamas and Festivus for the Restovus. 💙🌻🌲🌟🌲🌻💙

[@caiolinnertel8777]

Thank you, your joy and happiness makes me happy in this otherwise horrible world. I was recently assaulted (broken hand, bruises is all thankfully) and am struggling but your channel is one of the few places I can find some refuge. I have no interest in building, but being an engineer thoroughly enjoy watching your process. Good bloody stuff mate!

[@Sergio8191994]

I didn't know I'd appreciate a grown man be so enthusiastic about stationery but it made me realize when operating a company someone may be so thrilled to be a part of it that even notebooks become memorable and cherishable. Nothing is insignificant and every member of the teamakes a difference. Adam is incredible at highlighting and appreciating small details I would overlook in any setting. It makes me sad that I miss so much but gives me hope that I'll notice so much more.

[@kludgedredd]

What a wonderful Monday morning treat - I'm glad it landed!

[@kludgedredd]

... and is indeed my own design. I couldn't bring myself to rely on waddings of paper to keep those well positioned and protected during travel.

[@pratajeff]

Those notebooks look like they're straight out of the TVA. Beautiful piece of history. I can picture them on the desk of an analyst wearing a white button-down short sleeve shirt, tie, and sporting perfectly combed brill cream hair.

[@Calamity-Spice]

In the UK, those C clamps are G cramps & the channel locks are water pump pliers.

[@michman2]

My grandfather worked at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. He filled notebooks just like these. He was experimenting with drawing (growing) semi-conductors crystal in his basement 1/2 mile from the facility. After the war, he was hired and worked under Shockley on the first transistor. I have a working copy (we all know what that looks like) Look up one of his patents, J. Andrus #3,122,817. His patent for semi-conductor fabrication.

[@aserta]

This squarely falls into the category of "sneeze and wheeze", because if you sneeze while pla... working, with these micro tools, they're gone. Reduced to atoms. I have a similar set, made in the 1970's by an Ukrainian craftsman. They were given to my grandfather as a gift. When someone with an idea and patience gets on the level, they sure can make miracles. There's a pair of scissors in the set (which is in a leather tool wrap) and it can actually cut fabric. Nuff said.

[@d1gardner]

I'm a 73 year old guy who has loved miniature just-about anything stuff my entire life!

[@alemholas]

Please try the Veritas miniture lineup! Some woodworkers use them for maquete work. You will love them!

[@Mike80528]

I love seeing Adam geek out over little things like this. Literally!

[@thaisstone5192]

My big brother (he is now 79) started work for "Ma Bell" in the late 70's. And they were VERY fussy with their staff training. He was a "new connections" specialist; the poor buggers who have to climb up the telephone poles and make sure ALL the connections were viable. I asked him what was the worst thing that happened to him and he said he was working on a new pole and a squirrel was sitting at the top of it. He was about half-way through when the little bugger copped a piss and it went all over his head. AND it was in the dead of a freezing cold winter's day.

[@erickg3508]

I bought these back in Japan maybe 5 years ago. I have them displayed and love them

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

You can't make them smaller than that because the smallest drill bit size is 0.2mm, which is usually sold in packs of 6 because even a strong wind blowing the wrong way can break them.

[@CinnibarNet]

See, these are the pliers I'd need for the fifth edition of The World's Tiniest Chainmaille Dice Pouch.

[@unwired1281]

Love it. Happy Holidays ‼️

[@chuckbooth2874]

That’s freaking awesome! Glad I’m not the only person who geeks out over tools… 😃

[@leemarsh3569]

Walt Disney loved these kind of miniatures. Love it

[@kazukied2]

This company is from my hometown. They made all those tools by a process called Metal Injection Molding. It's a pretty interesting method and they are in stainless steel and tool steel. You should try cutting paper with those scissors.

[@tested]

Wow, thanks for the comment!

[@oneup12]

Honestly, you never know when your gunna need a mini needle nose pliers

[@Carbon-DD]

I have a small set of three craftsman micro wrenches. I love them.

[@schweincraftletsplay3392]

Adam playing 'operation' with these Micro Tools. Love them!! ❤

[@FioreCiliegia]

But in this case it would be @car engine disassembly”. Just dont set off the airbags!

[@cefcephatus]

I've been designing tiny actuators for years and I still amaze by these tools.

[@tslim250]

hands down one of the crazier things i've seen manufacturing wise in a while, hats off to the creator of these

[@kcrang]

That toolset looks like a tinkerer's dream. I NEED IT

[@scottramos7949]

Two minutes into watching the video and I have already ordered!

[@royrice8021]

Adam, I need a little smaller pipe wrench for my watch. Any clues? 🔧👍

[@invisibleshuffle]

I don't think the lab tech who had been assigned these would ever think that in the far flung future there'd be a man cooing in loving appreciation at it's existence. Adam's joy at these obscure items is awesome to see and helps when one has a similar infatuation with the seemingly mundane.

[@katherinejacoby5915]

My grampa worked for Bell Labs in Chester, NJ FOREVER!!! He had similar journals in his office. He was a draftsman for the company & drew up plans for all sorts of cool stuff, like the giant cable laying machine for the ocean that lives in front of the main building for as long as I can remember ❤

[@TheStockwell]

They look like props from "Downsized," that film where Matt Damon got itty-bitty. 😸

[@azteclady]

Speechless Adam is a most joyous Adam.

[@wyattboothby5285]

There's approximately a 92.8% chance that I would immediately spend several times the purchase value of that set on something I could actually use them for. Like one of those teeny little V8 engines or something similar.

[@mrkitewine7700]

Hi Adam, have you seen the work of Willard Wigan? The sculptor who works in the smallest level and uses his pulse as a jackhammer. He has put camels in the eye of a needle and a motorbike inside a human hair

[@TaylorLeger-q3i]

Adam literally tripping over them tiny tools...and I'm here for it ❤

[@xlr8436]

While not the same scale, Veritas make some amazing micro versions of their wood working tools and they all work excellently

[@cduncan3713]

Enthusiasm is infectious and delightful to share. Adam is an enthusiastic person and this is what makes him a pleasure to watch regardless of the subject.

[@Makdaddy-q4y]

The briefcase is the best part

[@KittyDwyer]

I freakin love this video. I’m such a fan of miniatures and Japanese engineering. So cool!

[@kotteman8]

That rattling suitcase SCREAMS for a foam inlay! What kind of foam? That's for Adam to figure out

[@thejason189]

2:26 It would be amazing if the locked worked.

[@TheBenji800]

Hey Adam, what's your favourite fixing? I love rivet bolts. To drill a hole in any metal sheet and then be able to bolt anything to it is amazing. Used this on trailers and gates and never been disappointed how easy they make it to have a solid fix for any use.

[@Mister_Matthew]

Might have to order that mini tool set for my step dad

[@richgodschalk1695]

Those are absolutely gorgeous! Love em

[@TheRealestBubby]

My mother is into building miniature things and miniatures scenes and stuff, do you think she would actually be able to use any of these? Might just be worth it for the novelty to be honest, the clamps I know she would use.

[@bertbert2725]

my workshop started with electronic parts and some tools from my grandfathers career at Bell. and i still use them 20 years in!

[@TyrantsRuin]

I absolutely love that mini briefcase

[@micheskillz]

Awesome tools, but you didnt even take out the adjustable wrench to try it!