Is the Nearest Tool the RIGHT Tool?

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[@DonariaRegia]

For complicated teardowns with a variety of fasteners, especially if the project might take longer than a few hours, A piece of cardboard with a small sketch of the main assembly with holes around the outside of the drawing to hold the fasteners in place can make reassembly much less stressful. The next best solution is to bag and label sub-sets, very common in auto/motorcycle overhauls. Photos are great but fastener specifics can get lost in translation.

[@joansparky4439]

On ur CAD problem - get a Connexion 3D Mouse and set ur CAD tool to visualize the object in PERSPECTIVE instead of ORTHOGRAPHIC. It's exactly what u where describing.. scaling, rotating, moving, tilting.. all just with the one single 'knob' while the other hand is free to use the mouse to modify stuff. I've been working like that for at least 10 years (self-taught CAD user, started with 3D modelling 25 years ago as a hobby).

[@delphic464]

I dropped a valve cover bolt DEEP into my engine compartment. I spent 30 minutes reaching, groping, and wiggling. I was sweaty, annoyed, and my forearms looked like I crawled through 100 feet of greasy barbed wire. I walked 4 blocks to the auto parts store, bought a telescoping magnet, and got the bolt in less than 10 seconds. I still have that cheap magnet and it reminds me of that lesson every time I see it.

[@DosHemperor]

Hast thou pondered the deepest parts of thy Kawntchessness on thouist journey to thy thouist auto part store!? Hi Yaw!

[@SyntheticFuture]

I have a similar experience with a different scenario. That in the moment stubbornness can come at a high price. But even knowing that it still happens from time to time 😅

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

I spent 4 hours trying to remove a threadlocked miniature screw that you could see from the side but access to head of the screw via screwdriver through a line of holes in 4 plates separated a few inches from each other in front of the screw. I went out and bought a precision screwdriver with a 1 foot long blade and took it out in 30 seconds.

[@lukewilsonhere]

As someone with inattentative adult ADHD and all the executive functioning/working memory issues that go along with it, if I’m in the zone, I will consciously choose to use the wrong tool because I know if I walk away to get the correct one, I may never come back. 😂

[@hunterwyeth]

I feel this

[@hanslain9729]

Case in point... this video speaks to me on a per... oh look, my trash is full... brb. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mp7FpadpnqyLsMk - Modern Family 1x18 - Phil's ADHD

[@bytex2]

This…

[@amyjones7962]

Some raw bone deep truths right there friend. Every. Single. Day. 24/7/365. Yup. 😮😊😢😂😅😐😳🤓🥸

[@kipp14]

Yea pre planning can only do so much. There's a limit to how many tools I can fit in my roll for example

[@bubblesculptor]

May hardest 'scrap' material to deal with is the rare once-in-a-lifetime valuable materials i come across. Too valuable to use for anything menial. But every idea i have also doesn't seem to justify consuming it either.

[@Zscach]

Oh boy all of these comments speak to my SOUL.

[@trulyinfamous]

My parents have some very old and large black cherry boards in the rafters of their barn and while I'd love to do something like make a table with it, I'm not anywhere near a good enough woodworker to do it justice. It will continue taunting me from its tall perch but one day I will come back and teach it a lesson when I have much more skill and better tools.

[@thegalli]

Adam, I taught myself how to rebuild automatic transmissions over the last few years. Today's topic is yet another that I relate to. Recently, I completely threw out my "spare parts pile" for exactly the reason you discuss. When I first started, using those good little bits and bobs from other broken units helped me build a lot of units for not a lot of money. Now that I'm moving into a more regular business doing it, it's more worth it to convince customers to purchase new parts for those items that would have come from the spares pile, both for being able to put a warranty on it, and getting a little bit of markup on the sale. I still have a small spares pile, but I only keep the cleanest components. Related to method for organization of disassembly of complicated machine, there are few more complicated than an automatic transmission. The first 10 or 15 units I built, I did exactly as the book suggests, as you suggest, and as every training video suggests, and laid everything out very organized. Now, I've done so many of the same unit that all the nuts and bolts and loose bits go in a bin, all the big subassemblies go in a couple piles. I recently disassembled one while a friend was watching and he said he couldn't believe I knew where all that stuff would go on the way back together. Thanks so much for your wisdom and advice, as always

[@mudpuddle8805]

I'm a believer in using the right tool for the job. Sometimes it hangs me up looking for the correct tool. That's what makes me very organized, which is really beneficial in many ways.

[@SnakeMan1989]

My shop is organized simply for this reason. I got tired of a ten minute job taking all day because I couldn't find the tool I needed and knew I had.

[@starhawke380]

Being almost retired, and just playing around in the shop, sometimes I find it more fun to find a way to do the job using nothing but the wrong tools. But yes, every tool has a place, and my tools live in their place...

[@brianwilloughby9199]

Right tool for the job. Saves time and money. Using what you have closest leads to injuries and damaged tools/ parts and fingers.

[@bobwallace5257]

As a retired tinkerer in northern Ontario I have a wood stove in my shop which takes care of the small wood scraps. The colder it gets the bigger the pieces get! lol!!!

[@joansparky4439]

hm.. too bad I live in the tropics. I knew there had to be a hook to that life-choice.. 😂

[@tristanbowman7098]

Adam going all the way to the coffee shop, but adding the sugar when he gets home, is very on brand.

[@coreysuffield]

most likely he would use something like stevia(sugar alternative), he consumes a lot of zero sugar snapple tea on screen

[@tristanbowman7098]

@@coreysuffield he said "sugaring" also, that isn't the point. Any coffee shop in The Mission district of SF, is going to have every sugar alternative possible.

[@bbarnhouse9022]

Morning routine - place small table or shelf at the entry way, then you can set the coffee down for a moment while you take off your shoes and hang the one wheel on its rack. Just remember, it won't be long before that beautiful empty flat surface becomes a permanent storage space for something that doesn't belong there.

[@javadkhusro]

You could also keep sugar on that table.

[@classiccycleconnection9334]

Sweet !

[@toomanynissans]

Yep, a "drop zone/launch pad" moves the point of performance for entering/leaving to where it actually happens, near the main door. And that flat surface becomes even more beautiful by being a useful, if messy, storage space of things that actually do belong there because they get used there every day.

[@jimdreger4626]

Instead of a shelf, put a cup holder there. That way it's only usable as a cup holder.

[@jankington216]

I have a table at work, I have to keep it cluttered so nobody ELSE uses it for their stuff. What a raw deal

[@juhanaleiwo]

13:00 I asked that question from a gastroenterologist surgeon once, at a party. Like, "When taking apart machines, I often get the feeling, am I going to be able to put this back together. Do you ever get that feeling with people?" He DID detail a situation where there was a moment's uncertainty, what with there appearing to be three open cut intestine ends instead of an even number, but which then did resolve logically in the end, just like his planning had required. I was quite relieved to hear it.

[@thom17043]

I understand that there are times when what you have at hand is the best solution. I've been out in the world and needed to fix something without proper tools at hand. At that point you make do with a rock, a pair of scissors used as pliers, and a stick for leverage. I've whittled boards and branches into makeshift wrenches. That is the time to buckle down and do your best MacGyver to get the task as hand accomplished. Yet I'm glad you mentioned the "future you" (or future someone else) part of the equation. As someone who often works on things worked on by others, the wrong tool is an all too common frustration. Most often it is the rounded heads of bolts and nuts from someone using an adjustable wrench or pair of pliers or even rotating them off by knocking on them with a chisel. Or the screw heads damaged by using the wrong size/style of driver on them. Then there is the tool damage part of the equation. The screwdrivers mangled from using them as chisels, punches, or prybars. Or the non-hammer used as a hammer. I've watched people destroy expensive tools because they were impatient and "had to get the job done." Just ask any fabric worker about someone using their shears to cut paper, cardboard, or (elder gods forbid!) wire to understand the level of wrath such actions truly deserve! If the proper tool is within your local arsenal, much better to put things down and go get it rather than frustrate the future you (or future someone else)! And one should even consider putting things on hold to obtain the proper tool if at all possible if the risks of damage to the object being worked on, the makeshift tool, or your person are considerable. And if you must use the improper tool to get the job accomplished, consider replacing the damaged fasteners or parts and/or damaged tools sooner than later when you have a chance rather than let the next person (or you again) find them at an even more inconvenient time!

[@spasticmuse4262]

To Adam and all Makers - RE: small machine disassembly. Guess this dates me, but my first "real" job as a supposed 'adult' was in a small consumer electronics repair shop where I started mostly with these things called "VCR's". They involve complicated mechanisms held together with many screws and fasteners. The first trick my boss taught me which was a standard in the shop was to use simple plastic ice cube trays to separate the "stages" of disassembly. Example: The first 4-8 screws holding the top cover on go into "bin 1". Bottom cover screws into "bin 2". Front panels usually just snapped on, but if there were fasteners - next bin. Loading mechanism - next bin, etc. And generally if there was an odd one or two in the bunch, you could remember, "Oh yeah, that extra long one went in THIS spot. These two short ones went here." etc. It was the breaking it down into the stages and groups that would help navigate the way. Trying to reassemble from a cup of 2-3 dozen random screws would be tempting the fastener Devil. The next "old-school???" version would be to remove the part, then immediately return the screws to their respective homes to await the return of the part they once held. Good technique for the cautious and unsure(and long term storage!), but a bit laborious & not necessarily suited to a professional setting - and sometimes you just can't depending on what you're working on and what needs to be done. Lastly the more "modern" way - take a ton of pictures. Fasteners in place. Fasteners removed but shown near there positions, etc. I've had great success with all of these methods, and still some failures as well. Good luck to all! And when all else fails; knolling is your friend.

[@68CHUCKLES]

Exactly ! esp. restaurant 10x10 egg trays !!! ...and reinserting screws into their respective homes temporarily !

[@Liljmonster]

I’m an icu nurse. At work we have a white board with labels for room numbers where we get our assignments for the day. I decided to redo it with a label maker. The closest thing I had for spacing was a blank patient wristband 🤷🏻‍♀️ whole board turned out great

[@Space_Pope]

This is a moment in my life that brings me joy. Adam, you have been a real inspiration to me in what you do and your courage to share your nuro diversities that help us navigate our own. You give freely and only ask of us in return to be kind to yourself and others. Sincerely, Thy Space Pope.

[@broadstken]

The worst thing about taking something apart that I'm unfamiliar with will always be when I see a tiny bit suddenly vanish and hear a little "clink" across the room somewhere.....

[@Rubrickety]

I have exactly the same issue with trying to do a task while holding something from a different task. My usual methodology is to put down Object A, perform Task B, then spend 15 minutes looking for Object A, which is my toothbrush and is perched on a bookshelf in the living room.

[@nickwiesneski]

Suggestion on wood (and/or metal) scraps - determine what is a reasonable amount for you to keep using cost to replace, likely aging time, and value-of-space basis (say some combination of cost less than $5 to replace, will likely just sit there for years, and/or takes too much space, consider finding a way to give it away or just toss it) I have vertical dividers for 8'-14' materials, 4 bays, metal and wood - only keep as much of these as will fit in this space (or any of these designated spaces) without overcrowding. Horizontal wall racks for materials 4'-7'ish, like 6 or 8 bays up the wall. Small (1'x1' cradle) rolling floor racks for metal and wood 1'-3'ish long, rolls under workbench. 1 metal bucket for metal pieces under 1' (and separate little bucket to keep aluminum scraps separate from steel). Wood scraps under 1' just sit in the catch box behind the miter saw until it's time to dump in the garbage (I use little scraps from here all the time but never spend energy actively keeping them around).

[@sombojoe]

My office is on the second floor, and the drawing plotter is downstairs. I don’t plan my trip carefully because I am efficient, I plan it carefully because I am lazy!

[@ericthompson3982]

Ever read Heinlein's story about The Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail? It's out of Time Enough for Love.

[@MrPAULONEAL]

That happens after anyone works at a job long enough.

[@mccaine1]

I love @wristwatchrevival, Marshall's admission in many videos that he has gone back to his disassembly footage to verify part locations is something I took on for my own disassembly projects when they are particularly complex.

[@MegaCombobreaker]

Shouting out Marshall for wristwatch revival, who I know from his videos as a Magic the Gathering personality and expert, was a real surprise and is the kind of thing that always makes the world feel a little smaller and more interconnected, a real soul warmer.

[@towermoss]

I swear Adam is narrating the internal discussions I have with myself.

[@zjeepgozweeln]

Very often I will spend more time figuring out how to engineer my way out of a problem than it would have probably taken to just go get the right tool or do the annoying process that I already know will work. But, at the end, that is sometimes how we find new and innovative ways to solve the problem at hand (or at least that's what I tell myself).

[@JaxTellerRC]

I am a firm believer that the correct tool for the job just makes the job so much easier and faster so long as it’s close and easily available. My boss on the other hand thinks a huge lack of tools and the wrong tools is cheaper and so it saves him money somehow. So frustrating

[@Warshipmodelsunderway]

A couple of years ago I decided to limit my scrap wood storage area to 8 square feet. I built a little cart with horizontal and vertical storage to accommodate strips of various shapes. Once it was full, if something needed to go in there, something else had to go. It imposed a discipline that I appreciate. I feel your pain on Baltic Birch scraps, but long narrow strips make wonderful sanding boards once you glue sandpaper to them. Lastly, are you familiar with Butterboard? It's is like Renshape, made right here in Grass Valley, California by Goldenwest Manufacturing. I haven't been over there for a while, but they would sell they overpours by the pound, which was a great way to get that material for dirt cheap. They also sell by the sheet, up to 4 X 8'. Something to keep in mind if you need material for a project quickly.

[@sombojoe]

Made me think about my storage. Popped into my head that I paint so infrequently, and I save so much money doing it myself, that I would likely have no problem buying ALL my painting tools EVERY TIME I paint ! Haha

[@NoadiArt]

I've been learning CAD lately, and hearing you say CAD sucks is so validating. I'm managing to learn it but the learning curve is worse than regular 3d modeling.

[@tehanua4383]

I've worked with cad for years and it still takes me hours to do simple things. I have to constantly google or go back to my own notes

[@agg42]

Parametric CAD? Learn the about proper workflow and follow it. Professional suites like SW/NX/CERO all have a flowchart how things should be constructed. Once you have that down, then it's a matter of knowing what does what and where the buttons are. Following a book lesson is better than watching yt videos.

[@NoadiArt]

@@agg42 Yep. Though books don't work for me for stuff like this, I need to see it being done

[@agg42]

@@NoadiArt Could you clarify on what you mean by "see it being done"? Because I find trying to focus on a 60x60 pixel fly across a video to be more troublesome than a well cropped image of the button I need to press... Maybe you meant "guided"? I'm learning Siemens NX right now and its guided tutorial (the one included within NX) is good.

[@Zscach]

Once you get the hang of the hotkeys it can become suuuper fast. I still get pissed off watching my brother use it though. Dude can do 3 hours of work in 3 mins.

[@aaronbono4688]

I agree 100% with everything you said about wood and what you keep. Additionally what I do is keep as much as I have space for and then regularly downsize the wood scraps that I just haven't been using so I can make space for other things. I still keep more wood than I need but I'm getting better and better at keeping only the wood that I will likely use.

[@MorningDusk7734]

14:37 That's the practice Engineering Drawings create exploded views from! We also add connecting lines sometimes to make it clearer what goes to what.

[@verdigris_and_rust]

Omg. I find myself doing this all the time and now it makes sense

[@JohnnieBravo1]

As an old Intergrapher, my life revolves around CAD. Yes, the learning curve is steep, but once you scale it, a whole new world of design is wide open. VR is THE MOSTEST AWESOMEST thing, ever. Especially paired with CAD, or remote robotic control (a surgeon in Philadelphia can perform surgery on someone in Houston) with it. Having been in "mining engineering", in one of my careers, I wanted to utilize VR and CAD to dynamically model a mining machine, in a dangerous environment, controlling a machine remotely (in an air conditioned space, and NOT underground), and integrating 3-dimensional digital imagery (photogrammetry, as I'm a Photogrammetric engineer) in the VR realm.. AT 74, this stuff STILL excites me. (BTW, I've been an enormous fan of your for a long long time).

[@Creative-Geekery]

This approach to managing work, tools, and getting things done relates soooooo much!!!! 😂 thanks Adam!

[@TheRealAngryOwl]

To use a gamer term, I "min-max" my time in every situation. It's about efficient use of time in any situation even if there are no time constraints.

[@SeekingBeautifulDesign]

It's always a tension between the benefits of min-maxing and the time and energy required to do the min-maxing.

[@hanslain9729]

Same... but then there are times I remember... "Perfection is the enemy of good enough." It's a balance and a struggle. Then I wake up to get a glass of water at 1am and remember how to make good enough be perfect. (see Zeigarnik Effect) :)

[@Zscach]

I min/max to the point of struggling when something is not min/maxed. Having to slow down to other peoples speed is torture.

[@hanslain9729]

@@Zscach analysis paralysis is a pain. Watching Adam build stuff and how he plows through the process taught me to do the same. Get unstuck.

[@toomanynissans]

@@SeekingBeautifulDesign that's why the 80/20 rule is so beautiful, With some minor effort at optimizing stuff, you can get most of the way there, repeatedly. If we can get 80% of the results with 20% of the effort, we can also get 400% of the results with 100% of the effort, right?

[@Plexdet]

Him talking about that lost bolt. The trick to finding it is making another one.

[@jaypatterson9847]

I'm a person who has used engineering CAD programs for his entire career, both 2D and 3D systems. I've been a user, an instructor, and even worked for a major CAD company developing the user experience. I've seen many different companies try to create VR based CAD tools, even before the current slate of VR/AR headsets came to market and, none of them have really broken thru to be a really usable product. The problem hasn't been the VR displays' themselves, but the pointer and select tools and their haptics. Nothing has really been able to be as natural to use as a mouse on a flat desktop. Even with the newest headsets out there, the hand tracking interfaces are fine for playing a video game or doing simple desktop icon selections but nowhere near fine and steady enough to actually draw in 3D space.

[@matthewlaberge]

I am a mechanical designer using Creo Parametric for the last 24 years and what you stated is 100% correct. We tried out the HoloLens a few years ago I and it was pretty apparent that the traditional CAD interface was under zero threat of being replaced. It’s great to dream that theres a quicker way to get to but you just can’t shortcut experience getting used to the software. You’ve gotta put the work in.

[@derweibhai]

10 inch Knipex Pliers wrench........good for almost everything!

[@secretivesquirrelstudios]

I've wound up repairing complex things like cameras without any guides quite a few times over the years, I now have a routine of setting out a large sheet of paper and a bunch of small containers (more than I think I need is never enough). As I'm working on something I'll draw it in plan view and use a marker to label the containers to correspond to the areas on the plans as I go and make small notes for long screws etc on the drawing. It doesn't have to be a good drawing, just enough to jog my memory when I'm going backwards. I'll also use masking tape to label parts so I can make notes on the part itself. If I'm repairing something complex that I don't know (at the moment super-8 cameras with idiosyncratic faults) I'll usually tear it down to a point where it's getting complicated to keep a track of, and then I'll re-build it so that the part assembly memory gets locked in before going again. This way I'll often tear something down a few times over the course of a repair - this also helps me a lot in understanding how the parts interact in their totality. Keeping each part to it's own container means that I have a series of small puzzles rather than a large puzzle as I re-assemble things, which helps me deal with frustration. Filming or time-lapsing it on an overhead camera can also help a great deal.

[@jerrybobteasdale]

It's easier for me to toss scraps of wood. My problem is being nearly unable to toss out leftover metal. For taking things apart, putting small parts into the compartments of an ice cube tray or cupcake tray often helps. Also, lay out a pretty big flat of cardboard or foamboard. Stick oblong parts like screws and pins into the board arranged in patterns that make sense for reassembly. It hold many of the small parts still and oriented.

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

Leftover metal is generally more valuable than leftover wood, but in the instances the wood is more valuable than the metal, it's so much more valuable that it's virtually irreplaceable.

[@ZTTINGS]

Re Best tool vs nearest tool, watch Adam’s first order retrieval video. I’m much the same and realised that my way of helping on the issue is organising my space so that the right tool IS the nearest tool. Obviously it’s not always possible but I’m absolutely convinced that the more disorganised you are, the more useful and stress free it becomes to organise your stuff around you. thanks for the content!

[@TheFracticality]

Re: VR. You have stumbled across my idea for architectural design that I came up with twenty years ago. The ability to go out on the project site and being able to see the project as you've designed it, and being able to actually design within the limitations that the physical location presents on you within the CAD document itself just by reaching and grabbing and adding and subtracting pieces in the file itself. I can't believe this hasn't materialized yet, quite frankly.

[@omg-vert]

When I used to do Apple Compute repair I would use Ice Cube trays to keep groups of screws together. Put them in the cube slots in order and just reverse when you put it back together. Works great.

[@BassFever4Ever]

I tend to take pictures of whatever I take apart, then lay out those parts in order as I take them off. That's one of my fears of breaking down anything....either not remembering the correct sequence or having one screw or bolt left over lol

[@Zscach]

haha, the old 3 screws left trick.

[@kurtkuechenberg1684]

Yeah...I feel ya. The stress caused by worrying about the correct process makes me tense. I always think, just get it done well, but then get bogged down in doing the best process, grrr.

[@RealSaltygrease]

Regarding the "minimum sized usable scrap", I used to work in a small production shop using mainly different cuts of aluminum from sticks, 12/24ft long. Anything shorter than 4 Inches of square length became basically useless. Could we get some 1 Inch pieces out of it? Yes. Do we actually use 1 Inch pieces? Sometimes, but getting them cut from lengths that small became exceptionally dangerous.

[@Merennulli]

When I have that kind of consistent frustration, that's when I start looking for a tool to fix it. In my case, I'm constantly wanting to unburden myself when I get home, so I made a space specifically for that near the entrance I always use. And, yes, any horizontal surface will get filled, so I have a basket on it that makes a critical amount of that space non-horizontal so I can put specific things there and not let it get too cluttered to use.

[@peterkallend5012]

When I was a field service tech, I repurposed a tactical vest to hold my tools, so the right tool for the job was always the closest tool. As long as your work flow is intuitive for you, just go with it and take the time you need to in order to get the job done right. A wise man once said there's only two ways to do a job, right and again. Doing it right is the ultimate time saver.

[@HunterThinker]

There's always amazing unlocks lurking around the corner of our mind. For example, I just realized, after 40ish years that you fill an empty soap bottle with water first then add soap to make a dilution, rather than adding soap first and then trying to add water. In the latter, you'll only get a bottle 1/3 full unless the water is at a trickle so slow it would take a few minutes. In summary, water first, then soap = huge life hack 🤣😉

[@theiguana2077]

VR CAD would be very cool. Loved the VR Tested content too. Ir was oddly satisfying to feel like I was standing in you workspace.

[@jimdreger4626]

Right tool or nearest tool for the job; think along the lines of the Hippocratic Oath "... I will take care that they suffer no hurt or damage." . If the nearest tool will do no harm but get the job done, then fine go ahead and use it. If, on the other hand you're going to strip the nut or damage the tool (or yourself) then stop and get the proper tool.

[@learnaudiobasics]

You nailed down exactly how my ADHD operates within the first 3 minutes 🤘🏼 My appreciation goes out to you good sir!!

[@slimdog72]

Oh dear, looking forward to the next rand on CAD. I agree it's difficult to enter, but nothing in life is easy. Just like machining, not easy but the time is worth it.

[@BadRobotBrain]

OMG, efficiency hacking and doing as many small tasks as possible while moving between larger tasks (to varying degrees of success/failure) is so relatable. :D

[@donwilliams3626]

I also share the challenge of keeping scraps. My solution is to keep two 5 gallon buckets under my miter saw stand. One for off fall scraps with potential to be used on a future project. The other is for trash. When I empty the trash, I empty the other bucket on the floor and pick up a dozen select pieces with potential. Then toss the rest. This way I always have a managleable stash of material for blocking or shims at the ready without saving every scrap just in case!

[@4Dm8ion]

Hole saw cutouts from any material or size are always useful [eg 2" vinyl washers]. Al & vinyl scraps any shape/size make great mending plates - quick prototype fixes - save time/trip to the hardware store...

[@Postaldude2003]

This is my absolute favorite series

[@MorningDusk7734]

As a practicing mechanical engineer, I will tell you that there are 3 things that need to happen for VR to be useful to my CAD experience. First, the software needs to allow for multiple users to view the same model in an editable state, which is very taxing if they're all trying to render the same model, but necessary to showcase to clients or other engineers your design. Second, there needs to be a more efficient way to type in VR than the point and shoot method, and businesses aren't going to spring for the priciest headsets if they don't have to, so it needs to work with something like the Quest 2 now. Third, the workflow of using VR needs to somehow justify the added expense of having space for engineers to work in VR, the hardware and software to do so, and the cost of setting up everything you would need to make this happen at an office scale, and overcome the inertia of existing practices. Reminder that even though Google lets multiple people collaborate on a single document, most offices still use Microsoft Office, because they're not willing to enact a transition of their documents and change established practices.

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

Or they're don't trust the cloud, which I fully understand and support.

[@kanderson-oo7us]

Also Google docs makes it hard to version docs, and locks in changes without requiring a "save". So many docs have been made worse by people fiddling.

[@wendymontie5660]

Even as a kid (and still now as I’m facing my 57th birthday tomorrow) I like to minimize actions if possible, despite no time crunch. Almost like a game. Some years ago I saw the William Powell/Irene Dunne movie “Life With Father” on tv and while I’m not ‘that’ exacting about efficiency, it still struck me. Many things in the last several years have seen me looking at recent and past experiences and pretty sure I’m one of those lost gen x gals who were never diagnosed w/ADHD. Now? Well, I’m just rolling along, at least I’m aware now. And looking at my late father: yep, him too.

[@airsoftbuddy83]

I used to work as a stage carpenter. We did a similar thing for our scrap pile: except for 2x4, if It was below 24” then it was useless. Never had an issue with managing scrap after that and I never felt like we were producing excessive waste

[@vbikcl]

This is why I like to have a few different, but slightly redundant/overlapping tools available to me. Even if I don't have exactly the right tool in my hand, I might have something that can fill in, in a pinch, or provide several functions and do less tool juggling. But there are other times when it's clear I'm trying to use the wrong tool for the job and need to go get a proper one. When you know your tools and the tasks in front of you well enough, you develop a 6th sense for when you know you're going to need a better tool vs using what you have near you. You also develop a kind of framework for how long you will spend trying to do something with the nearest but less optimal tool before you put it down and go get a proper tool.

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

This mentality is what leads to ten thousand clamps.

[@robo5013]

As soon as the scrap wood question was read I immediately looked over to my pile of scrap wood and then the rack I just built two weeks ago hanging from the garage ceiling just to store larger scraps (to me than means anything 6" x 6" or larger) out of mostly scrap wood. Then I look up and see the shelves above my desk that are made out of old 3/4" plywood that sat outside and got slightly warped. It doesn't bother me that they are not 100% straight as it cost me nothing to make them, all scrap wood including the bracing. I also have a wood stove out here and ANY hardwood scraps get saved for it, can never have enough kindling. I guess it depends on how much room you have for storage, but still about twice a year some stuff does get thrown out.

[@gogmorgoaway]

I get a bit frustrated with the incorrect tool usage. I work in a shop with shared tools, and we don't have any nice screwdrivers because one of my coworkers uses them all as chisels, prybars, and punches, and just destroys them. Like I get the efficiency of not walking across the shop to get the correct tool, and you don't necessarily need to always need to use the best tool if the one you have works, but if you're being abusive to your tool and then have to walk across the shop to get the correct one after you've destroyed two or three or four incorrect tools that were closer to hand, you're not saving yourself anything.

[@nextleveltorgie]

Multiple times through this video I blew at my phone screen thinking a hair was on the screen. The charging cord behind Adam to the right, lol #priceless

[@KevinBrown-lv2fk]

id love to see adam or someone on this channel tear down a faulty flatscreen tv or monitor and see whats salvagable and usable for kitbashing. im guessing the different plastics can be used for things as its mostly sheets but im also curious about reusing the electronics for lighting projects too.

[@davidhasbrouck7948]

I have been managing shop scrap, origional boxes for things under warranty, and broken electronics for fixing or parts all the same way. I set aside a limited storage space and when it is full I get rid of the least useful stuff, usually freeing up 1/3 to 1/2 of the space. This winds up happening about once a year. Junk is usually easier to asses the value of dicisivlely after it has spent a year in purgatory and is using up limited space.

[@jeromethiel4323]

If you are lazy, like me, the closest tool is always the best tool! If i have to walk out to my vehicle for a tool from my toolbox, and i have something at hand that might sorta work, the might sorta work gets tried. And it works out at least often enough that i haven't broken that bad habit yet. Case in point, at a recent job i only had small screwdrivers in my bag. And i needed a big one. The first door i needed to open, the small screwdrivers worked just fine. The second door, OTOH, would not budge, and i was afraid i was going to break my very expensive, and very nice small screwdrivers trying to get that second door open. But i looked around and found a sheet metal conduit box cover (a 4x4 cover) that was about the right size to break those screws loose. And it worked. Once i had them broken free, the small screwdrivers could take over and finish the job. The alternative was a 10 minute walk to my car, then a 10 minute walk back, and aint nobody got time for that! ^-^

[@tomb4045]

Many moons ago when I was a Dell certified systems specialist working for a Dell service provider, I was repairing a laptop in a customer's home and he sat at the table and watched. I had a single screw left over and ended up taking the laptop back apart to find where the screw goes. I developed a system then that laid out the parts in order in a semi-circle with the associated screws and never had screws left over after that. I now use the foam 18 count egg crate to organize my screws and if necessary, a small notepad numbered to match the numbers in the egg crate so I know where exactly those screws go back and in what order they go if the disassembly process is complicated enough. I still have plenty of times worrying if what I just repaired has gone back together correctly and will work until I test the repair.

[@Todicus2914]

Somewhere, I heard a recommendation that you write the date you add something to the scrape pile and if it hasn't been used after a certain time or your pile gets too big you can throw the oldest pieces out first

[@Scot-p1v]

The right tool? Pathology is the correct word for my sickness. I have a multitude of wrenches because I always worked on my rusty $200 cars. I referred to adjustable wrenches as ‘nut rounders’. Plus, they slip off and bloody your knuckles WAY easier than the correct 6-point wrench or socket. Now an HVAC tech who literally walks miles each day with my tool bag, I carry 4 wrenches up to 9/16, both a 3” & 8” Raptor wrench, and a small pair of Knipex slip-joint pliers. This handles 95% of my needs without the extra 6-8lbs of wrenches. YMMV--but! You’ve only got one pair of hands: buy the best you can reasonably afford, and treat them well. You’re worth it 😁

[@jdrakehoffman]

Regarding the nearest tool thing, I think proximity does play a factor for me, but only to a point. For me it's kind of like considering time and distance as both resources to be expended while retrieving the tool. For example, if I need to trim a hangnail or something, I can go up 2 floors to my bathroom and use the fingernail trimmers (using the correct), or I can use the knife within arms reach (nearest tool). But at the same time, if there was another pair of clippers in a drawer a few steps away, I'd still use the extra clippers over the knife.

[@dudeman8323]

The "not correct tool" can sometimes do the job in the time it takes to get the "correct tool"

[@SeekingBeautifulDesign]

On saving wood... We save because we conceive that the scrap might be useful in a fuzzy future project. i.e. save based on potential. One thing that can help with the organization is to take the 5 least potentially valuable pieces of (non-treated) wood scrap every time you make biochar. You balance the potentially future valuable additions to scrap with the culling of the least useful for an actual current use. We are better at comparing relative value than assigning absolute value. Your scrap collection has thus been filtered to hold the best then filtered to remove the worst.

[@baddoodle6876]

We need so many more creativity app for VR. Bringing CAD to VR would be incredible! VR needs some big wins to capture the hearts of mainstream. Let the DEVs play!!

[@banditrests]

First bit reminds me of the time when I was in SF for a wedding last year and my friends were getting coffee in the mission and were really excited that they saw someone riding a one wheel at the coffee shop and it totally blew their minds when I noticed that it was Adam lol

[@IsaacJDean]

Never thought I’d have so much in common with you Adam 🤯

[@Trash-Castle]

I love these videos, makes me not feel crazy in my shop

[@jimysk8er]

A trick for sorting fasteners I learned from motortrend is to jam them into cardboard or foam and then just sharpy where they go next to it. you end up with a story board that keeps all your stuff together

[@shutterbug8860]

In relation to keeping scraps, yes that method is completely accurate. I do art journaling and other paper crafting as a hobby and have learned to let go of the smaller scraps of paper. I will often hold onto it because I like the design but have to remind myself that there's usually a second page or I can buy more in the future so I don't end up with a massive box of tiny pieces of paper.

[@4Dm8ion]

Pictures can be taken before disassembly[if you have time] but yes - proximity orientation of parts disassembly is useful. I try my best. When the lawn tractor breaks down in the field - not as easy. If you don't have a telescoping magnet pen - get one. I've retrieved hardware out of the grass[w a magnet pen] with some success. My shop is always a mess - my dad would kill me if he was still alive. Being a polymath sucks sometimes - but there's lots of carry-over between skillsets since there's only one brain governing.

[@grahamstretch6863]

Great to hear a shoutout for Wrist Watch Revival, such a great channel!

[@alexeyvolin4263]

"Believer... believer sounds like a carefully thought out philosophy" - Adam Savage, the author of "Every Tool is a Hammer"

[@abisz007007]

if there's one thing i can count on then it's for adam to say something is linked in the description only for it not to be. Like an old friend you know you can count on. like clockwork

[@kanderson-oo7us]

It's pinned, though.

[@SyntheticFuture]

The tech I'm most interested in to improve and become affordable is 3D scanning. CAD isn't great I agree... But much worse is trying to design something around something else that already exists. Getting precise real world measurements is pretty much impossible or at best time consuming. Being able to bring the real world into your software and then building on it would save so much time and so much frustration 😄

[@sombojoe]

I am okay with using the pliers as long as they are NOT serrated.

[@thomasmuir5653]

Serrated? You mean pipe fitters channel locks can’t tighten a bolt. Gasp

[@junkerzn7312]

I don't have ADHD (I don't think anyway), but I definitely prioritize the nearest tools over having to take even a short walk. All the time. And sometimes if I need to set something aside temporarily to free up a hand, I'll put whatever it is (like nuts, bolts, nails, etc) in my back pocket and they'll still be there the next day because I forgot I had them in my back pocket an hour later and just got new nuts, bolts, nails, etc instead. Yowza!

[@4Dm8ion]

On the other hand one could become so pragmatic as to extinguish the flame of inspiration permanently. I'm often on fire working like a madman[using unorderly tools for convenience] even if there is no time limit. It's more of an energy thing - utilize your creative muse while it's ignited!

[@brianedwards7142]

I need so many high price tools for so many things. That's why I love whittling. I still have too many knives now though.

[@jeromethiel4323]

I wanted to be a draftsman when i was in high school. I loved drafting, the precision of it, the elegance. But CAD was the future, and i just didn't have the ability to pay for college to be a CAD engineer. That being said, CAD is the reason so many things are easy to make now. You can dump a CAD/CAM design into a CNC machine, and out pops a part, built to spec, and quickly to boot. While hand drawing was a thing i liked a lot, CAD is the future, and will continue to BE the future until something better comes along. And i don't see anything better on the horizon.

[@barrychiarello8493]

Loving this!

[@Gaelmart]

For non vr like intuitive cad.. Shaper3d is a flowing pleasure with a pen and screen.

[@FrankFurther]

That Mark 1 armour is magnificent

[@downrazor11]

Re: taking apart objects and keeping their screws in order... ...I find the plastic "weekly" or "multi-week" pill organizers one finds at pharmacies to be very handy for keeping straight all of the small electronics screws (typically less than 1.5" long) from a 'thing dis-assembly' process. With those 7- or 14-slot easy open compartments it takes a lot of stress off my mind concerning build order (reverse dis-assembly order) after the thing is apart..

[@PedalBox]

I spent years trying to get used to CAD and it clicked last year, and I have no idea what changed, but I sat down opened freeCAD and it felt natural. Still took months to get used to the process, but just getting the interface to feel natural was a multi year, multi attempt chore.

[@jasondoughty865]

I tried (briefly) to do some basic 3d drawing in my Quest 2... I doubt I was using the correct software but either way it didn't work well for me (it was more sketching than CAD and I can't freehand for a damn, plus I am a big fan of really regular shapes). I think when you can use something like Sketchup in VR, where you can HOLD THE MODEL with one hand and do the normal functions of a mouse with the other (including having things snap to each other in logical ways), such that I can always see/check the angles without having to swap between different tools... That will be the day that the bar is finally low enough that I can start making things in 3d with the amount of effort I am willing to expend to learn how to do it.

[@princereynart]

Don't have ADHD that I'm aware of, but very much hear you about the fixation on looking for efficiencies when I've got multiple things to do walking in the door or chores around the house. I also agree on VR headset. The most frequent thing I've been using my PSVR1 for over the years has been watching IMAX and 3D movies cinematically (second has been experiencing VR daylight in games on the shorter days of the year, to try and combat SAD). I'll be devastated when it wears out and I have to move on - the SD quality is worth it to enjoy my 3D collection.

[@linusmedailleu3063]

Always use the close one but also always regrett not taking the time to get tje right since the job get much more difficult take more time and often somthing breaks ot get hurt...

[@camarosteve312]

Every tool is a hammer!

[@jn3559]

As someone who went to school for 5 years, and have my degree in Architecture, it's maddening how much of the work flow is dominated by cad. As someone who specializes on the hand-made side of the degree, I.e. Hand drawing/drafting/watercolor rendering, I find that my kills are almost useless professionally. How do I get over this roadblock and how do I learn how to make my skills more useful?

[@4Dm8ion]

Have you ever noticed over the decades[of CAD use] that your free-hand drawing tends to peer into the z-axis(depth) more intuitively? Also depends on if you use a lot of orthogonal view verses perspective view.

[@zach....]

I've done some 3d models in VR environment... and it was amazing.

[@Interstate66]

I'm so absolute with you about the efficiency and often the thougt how I can optimize... Needing more time trying and thinking whats the fastest - and need more time for this as I would if I just do it unefficient :)) Also catch the thought about "who cares?" :'D Slash, 42, from Munich - also with ADHD ... There seems to be something related ...?!?

[@JohnBare747]

My grandfather who raised me was a machinist and it was drilled into me at a young age to use the right tool for the job and he had a lot of tool rules just for bolts as an example. He said never use any kind of pliers, ever, on a bolt or nut. never use a crescent wrench if you have the proper open end wrench but use a box wrench if it will fit. Never use a box wrench when you can use a socket. and so on. To this day it is hard for me to not comply with his shop rules as the old codger would be disappointed in me. Shortcuts would get me tossed out of the shop for a week.