I'm Now A 1980s Cartoon Villain (Geodesic Radome Part 5)

[@Peter_S_]

That ladder looked really unsafe. You should stack some telephone books or old Sears catalogs on top to get a better reach.

[@Cameronsutubes]

Safety sandals round the look

[@archloy]

put the catalogs under the feet of the ladder, it helps with stability :D

[@robertswartzwelder8810]

I maintained a satellite earth station in an Esco Radom like yours. We had a loop on top the dome with a rope through it. The rope was to knock the snow off the dome. Pro tip, don't stand too close to the dome when whipping the rope or you get covered, and be sure you hold both ends of the rope or you pull the end through the loop!

[@PCMcGee1]

The wasps know good design principles when they see it.

[@CPPRODUCTIONS1001]

You are my spirit animal. Rescuing stuff from the bin, a property of old play equipment and random shacks is basically my life

[@ns219000]

I peed on an electric fence, when I was a kid. Since that, i never let electricity anywhere near any of my caulk.

[@Peter_S_]

"When nature's calling, don't be stalling-- Use Your Common Sense! All you need to know before you let it flow is-- Don't Whiz On The Electric Fence." 🎶

[@BerndDasBrot-ew9oc]

In Germany there is a motto: Nach fest kommt ganz leicht! The sentence is difficult to translate, it means something like: after the screw is tight, it turns easily. 😂

[@markjarrodhughes]

That cat would make a tremendous side-kick for your super-villain. Chairman Meow, Dr. Claw, etc.

[@comentedonakeyboard]

Bloofeld had a cat to

[@JeffGeerling]

3:15 - I assure you, I will not be climbing up into an 18' radome in my backyard.

[@patchvonbraun]

When CSS Group does maint on a radome, it's usually a handful of workers, and several days, so, you're doing really well, Gabe!

[@patchvonbraun]

Also, the Michigan radar base folks might want to contact Allan, who might be able to find a used radome for them...

[@sawinsquatch5241]

SDR-Wolverine is awesome i am too happy i found this channel

[@ncot_tech]

I'm upgrading you to Austin Powers villain now that you've got a badger.

[@Sloshy_garage]

I love this man’s junk

[@edwardfletcher7790]

First time I've liked that phrase... LoL

[@michaellichter4091]

That's just the nature of silicone - it sticks everywhere, and you always end up with it all over your hands. I have high-temperature silicone, which is a nice red color and behaves quite differently when you're working with it. Now, contact with the aliens can soon begin, and I'm really excited about it. The idea of the all-seeing eye on the dome gives the whole thing that certain special touch.

[@DadofScience]

That is a mammoth project, Gabe. Great work, mate.

[@kirbincap8307]

“You’ll get an idea of why I might be crazy” 😂😅❤

[@kaboom4679]

All you need is minions and The Diabolical Laugh® .

[@BrickTamlandOfficial]

i like that you upgraded from the regular caulk gun to the MEGA CAULK GUN

[@McRocket]

5:55 - 'That sounds like a lot of work. So I'm not going to bother with it.' 👍👍 ☮

[@kevinstewart8]

So jealous of y'alls setup in Sandland! Always a treat to get off work, and a new saveitforparts video dropped!

[@Vtarngpb]

“Mono- D’oh!”

[@daviniusb6798]

I knew you had it in you!

[@allieandevanfriesen]

This episode was really fun! Thanks 👍

[@Valhaddicted-mp1gu]

Watching a geodesic dome give birth to a baby @saveitforparts is always so beautiful.

[@kennethevoy]

It would be kind of cool to plumb a diesel heater into the dome and do a winter satellite mapping and camping video.

[@qi_kayon]

tough dirty work but well worth it! super cool project ^-^

[@YuNherd]

i dont mind Gabe casting the next villain for the movie Despicable Me

[@willpropst1267]

this is so sick. love your channel!

[@truejp_tv]

@saveitforparts I used to assemble air cargo containers, also a lot of work with silicone... Try using very soapy water (40 liquid soap - 60 water) and put it on the hand you will be working the silicone with. Wont stick to your hands any more and you can really get it into all of the gaps.

[@laurensa.1803]

This channel is the perfect combination of nerdy prepping diy. 😅

[@foxdata]

Hooray for Wisconsin!!!! I thought you were in Minnesota!!!

[@foxdata]

BTW, how do you have green grass and T-shirt in Wisconsin? Isn’t it cold and snowing?! It is up here in the Northwoods!

[@Peter_S_]

He's in MInnesota, but SandLand is over the border next door in the land of cheese and awesome Polish sausage.

[@saveitforparts]

I live in Minnesota, Sandland is in Wisconsin, and I filmed this over the summer /fall!

[@foxdata]

@ I see! Gotcha! Thought I was losing my mind lol

[@chrislaplante5040]

I went over my van roof with some paint called Tropicool. If it would mange to stick to the material it would probably seal up the dome pretty good. It goes on like paint but is really thick and rubbery when it cures. Looking good!

[@kurtelliott1987]

Tropicool is used to coat rubber (sic) RV roofs. Also works to coat tool handles!

[@AnthonyChopra]

it looks super. it being winter i wonder how warm it will be in the Spring and summer.

[@user-nu2pj2ch7t]

love these updates, no matter how long between uploads, I know when you do post it'll always be a good one. Thanks for keeping us updated and merry Christmas!

[@migalito1955]

When I see the sausage tube the first thing I think of is epoxy tubes inserted in pre-drilled holes in masonry that anchor rod is inserted into and spun to mix the two components in the tube. I wonder if your tubes are actually silicone.

[@saveitforparts]

They are, they're labeled as such.

[@TheOriginalCollectorA1303]

The projects might be never ending, but at least they are awesome! Very cool to see the dome in development, definitely a lot of work but the end result will be great for even more projects. You could potentially make an airlock with the extra components.

[@HectorRoldan]

O_o So glad I watch these all the way through~ Always epic content!!!! TECHNODROME!!!!!!

[@moomoolaka]

Youre almost done . Dont give up on the dome .

[@josaonline09]

So awesome, Krang!!

[@trulyinfamous]

You were already a cartoon villian well before you had the dome. Now you just have another part to complete the look. Also, picaridin is my go-to mosquito repellent. Minimally unpleasant and very effective. I don't go outside during the spring/summer without some and as a result I haven't had ticks on me in a very long time and get far less mosquito bites than otherwise.

[@rayslinky]

i bet you are supposed to cut the end of the sausage and sandwich the wrapper into the screw on lid

[@mdamaged]

11:58 Remember folks, forbidden to make balloon skin touch with thingswith. Words to live by.

[@stephano6793]

7:04 "The bigger the glob, the better the job." - Louis Rossman

[@johnmf6096]

*AvE

[@stephano6793]

@@johnmf6096 wrong

[@johnmf6096]

@@stephano6793 no u

[@Stevie762]

Fun video!! cute stray cat! You made your own technodrome.

[@DirtyPlumbus]

*PRO TIP* : Never tell raccoons they can't. 😂

[@tylerhunt891]

So true, they will push through that door like a cowboy at a saloon

[@spunkmire2664]

Oh I’m loving this!

[@Checkmate1954]

Silicone is body neutral and neither positve or negativity charged.

[@HankScorpio64]

Badger , Badger ,Badger, Badger , MUSHROOM, MUSHROOM

[@gizmothewytchdoktor1049]

the eyeball....very residents! ;-)

[@seananderson5850]

There are different grades of bolts. It's a trade off between strength, brittleness, and cost.

[@lunarology9158]

That’s so badass holy hell

[@silverXnoise]

Crazy like a fox.

[@cteckerman]

It's the technodrome!

[@kennethevoy]

This is exactly my experience caulking my tub the other day.

[@mr.schwartz2090]

So Minnesotan, so Wisconsin, so good.

[@joltaikv2340]

I'm from Wisconsin, can confirm I have all of this stuff and so does everybody else.

[@markboyle9941]

So... You have your own BMEWS system now. That's pretty cool.

[@mrw1160]

Now thats a man cave! On a side note bolts made of billet aluminum can hold a higher torque spec if you ever want to upgrade some.

[@Sir......]

Keep us updated with your villain name and laugh

[@jsnotlout3312]

I am now fully absorbed into this channel. And i never had any interest in any of these topics usually. So geat learning all this info though.

[@sykoteddy]

I've been wanting to build a Geodesic dome for forever! Where i live over in Sweden it looks pretty much the same. I live at friends house and he is a hoarder, but sadly he have no intelligence to why he collects all he does take home, he just leaves it outside so when it has been trashed by the weather I get the shit, which sometimes is ok, but most of the time it's just to throw it away. Regarding the silicone, put your finger in your mouse and make it wet with your saliva and then run it over the silicone to form it like a half pipe, or quarter pipe. So it becomes a ridge the water wants to run off of. Note! Do not suck on the same finger again after you have been in contact with the silicone.Better yet, use nitrile or latex gloves.

[@charlesurrea1451]

Well congratulations on the new title . I guess I'm not surprised that the mice got to the instructions that you insist on never reading. Would a spray on elastomeric be a viable option for one of these things?

[@lambo_drives]

8:44 fantastic shirt, Gabe ✌️

[@falafell]

WOW, it is super sunny there! Dark and dingy here in Oregon, at least it has been recently.

[@saveitforparts]

This was all filmed over the summer and fall so it's not quite on time!

[@falafell]

@saveitforparts Ah, alright. That makes sense, Looking at some of your other latest videos it looks like it is getting more wintery there, I also don't know how I thought it would have been such a vast difference LOL

[@patchvonbraun]

The badger was cool. I've also never seen one in real life!

[@andyburns]

That wasn't roadkill

[@Sir......]

ive seen similar large Eye looking things like you put on top of your dome, but used on a farm to keep away birds

[@Wingspan_5]

Look up 5min tutorial on how to use caulk gun? ❌ Mess around for an hour trying to figure it out? ✅

[@HowShouldIKnow6543]

Badger Badger Badger Badger

[@saveitforparts]

Mushroom mushroom

[@HowShouldIKnow6543]

@@saveitforparts Snake! It's a Snake! Awoooooo

[@coryengel]

I congratulations on surviving the badger attack.

[@betterdreadful]

I know the caulk was free, but man that looks like a job for the cans of spray flex-seal!

[@tursilion]

I see that and I immediately realize what I would use that silver chrome spray paint on... ;)

[@antoineroquentin2297]

So much space for antennas

[@Jango1989]

Very cool!

[@bunchy7s494]

Now you just need 3 things, a (More) strange and eccentric evil scientist hair cut. a lab coat/bad and tight costume (ideally lab coat for your style, comfort, and utility) a animal sidekick whos insane and evil like you.

[@kuukeli]

another good one

[@tulsatrash]

I haven't heard dome this many times outside a Blue video on OSP.

[@nellePoint]

ah, the sudden realization you forgot something, yeah, been there

[@brslade]

Why are radomes built asymmetrically?

[@Peter_S_]

It's so that the artifacts created by local reflection paths and the ever so slight attenuation at the seams is effectively randomized in the returns. Think about watching rows of crops in a field as you drive by and see the moiré patterns as the rows line up at various angles. The same family of effects will affect RADAR returns. The skewed alignments allow a small number of standard panel designs to be used and results in an effectively random dispersion where it happens.

[@brslade]

@@Peter_S_ Rad response thank you.

[@Peter_S_]

@@brslade You're welcome. 👍

[@BrAiNeeBug]

On a quiet evening in a dimly lit attic, two mice-Max and Milo-scurried through a pile of discarded papers and books. They were on the hunt for their next snack. Max, a curious little mouse with a knack for asking too many questions, paused in front of a glossy booklet with bold letters that read: “User Manual.” “What’s this, Milo?” Max asked, his whiskers twitching. Milo, the older and more confident of the two, glanced over with a smirk. “Ah, that’s a user manual. Useless stuff. I already read it.” Max tilted his head. “You read it? Can we eat it? I mean, is it safe?” Milo chuckled, his tiny teeth flashing in the dim light. “Of course, it’s safe! It’s just paper, Max. And besides, I checked. The whole thing was full of nonsense-no mention of it being inedible.” Max wasn’t convinced. “But… what if it says we shouldn’t eat it in one of those tiny words at the bottom?” “Max,” Milo said with exaggerated patience, “I told you, I read the whole thing. It’s all rubbish about buttons and settings and how to plug things in. Nothing about mice or eating. If it’s not useful, it’s edible.” Max hesitated a moment longer before his stomach growled, convincing him otherwise. He took a nibble. “Hmm… it tastes like…” “Instructions?” Milo quipped, taking a bite himself. “No,” Max replied with a grin. “It tastes like victory. Humans waste so much paper on silly things!” The two mice gnawed their way through the manual, laughing at the absurdities written on the pages. For them, it wasn’t just a meal-it was proof that sometimes, knowing too much wasn’t necessary when you had instinct and an empty stomach.

[@ShortBusRejectz]

How many projects are you working on at once

[@saveitforparts]

Far too many!

[@stephano6793]

7:22 Nice catch. They are very elusive.

[@benbravis1908]

Cleaning out the old silicone IS important, old doesn’t bond to new, so you’ll make a nice new seal over top of a bad existing seal. Bandaid solution.

[@quadmods]

Pool Noodles, what can’t they do?

[@bevillmen23]

enjoying these videos. you're funny

[@comentedonakeyboard]

Overgrown grass stoped more villains then James Bond.

[@crazyivan315]

"Yeah, I don't think a racoon's gonna get in there, so that is definitely a plus." Part 6: opens door "I've never seen so many racoons in one place in my life, how did they all get in here?"

[@saveitforparts]

That's been my experience with the monorail, I keep adding fencing to all the holes underneath and they keep getting in.

[@solidstate90]

I always have a pale of water on hand when caulking seams, much less messy

[@al3k]

thank you for doing up my future retirement groundskeeper residence at your compound. :)

[@bierbarrel]

looked like hornets

[@kevinpoore5626]

You're not crazy But I've been called that before 2 so

[@mrleeal]

guessing there stainless steel bolts?

[@Daniel-jk7pe]

I dont know why but "my regular caulk gun wont work with sausage" made me laugh pretty hard 😂

[@kevinpoore5626]

I have one oz opinion about a battery powered loader caulk gun which is what you have there I myself prefer a mechanical power squeeze or a pneumatic 😊

[@dustinswatsons9150]

He likes the gun

[@jonnojamwood]

Cheers mate👍🇦🇺

[@RijuBiswas127]

7:18 😂😂😂😂 the poor animal see you and think what he doing

[@a.g8517]

best video of 2024

[@alaskansummertime]

Don't you need like a gun with a freeze ray and a side kick with questionably tight clothing?

[@mikepict9011]

Vevor is maybe the best value brand on the market. Id by stock tools and bumper stickers .

[@electronash]

Ohhh, so THAT is how the sausage gets made... I mean, used...

[@orangekayak78]

For a person with so many cats you sure have a mice problem.