The Joy of Deconstructing and Rebuilding: A Samaritan's Tale

I must say that I'm thrilled to have finally completed this project, and the sense of satisfaction I feel is quite endorphin-rush-inducing. Every time I take apart and put back together, it's like a little bit of an excitement rush. The thrill of figuring out how something works, even when it seems daunting at first, never gets old. And let me tell you, this piece was no exception. It was like a puzzle waiting to be solved, and I couldn't get enough of it.

As I began to disassemble the piece, I realized that everything about it was made from scratch. The ring, the plug - even the handle - was all carefully crafted by hand. And what's not to love about that? It's like holding a little piece of art in your hands. I have to admit, I was a bit nervous when I started, but as I worked on it, my confidence grew. The more I took apart and reassembled, the more I felt a sense of control and mastery over the project.

One of the things that I love about this process is the tactile sensation of working with different materials. The smooth feel of the metal, the rough texture of the wood - it's all so satisfying to work with. And let me tell you, there's nothing quite like the sound of a well-oiled machine coming together. It's music to my ears, I kid you not.

Of course, no project is perfect, and this one was no exception. As I worked on it, I realized that there were a few... let's call them "minor issues" that needed attention. But that just added to the challenge, and before I knew it, I was in the zone. The hours flew by as I tinkered with the piece, making adjustments and tweaks until it was just right.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "How did he do all this?" Well, let me tell you, it wasn't easy. But that's what makes it so rewarding. Every screw had to be tightened just so, every alignment carefully considered. It was a process of trial and error, but one that ultimately paid off in the end.

As I finished up the final touches - including a little JB Weld fix for a dent in the barrel - I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride. This piece was more than just a project; it was a labor of love. And when I finally got to fire it up and see it come to life, well... let's just say it was pure bliss.

The Mechanism: A Marvel of Engineering

Now that the fun part is over, I want to take a closer look at how this piece actually works. It's a marvel of engineering, if I do say so myself. The mechanism is cleverly designed, with several key parts working together in harmony.

First, there's the lever arm - a simple but elegant design that pivots off a slotted screw. As it moves, it pulls out a pin, which then allows the frame to move. But how does it catch? Ah, that's where the aluminum machined part comes in. It slides over the pin and is held in place by two spring-loaded catch plates. These plates are oriented by a little spring steel, and when they engage with the notches on either side of the frame, it all clicks into place.

It's a beautiful thing to watch (and listen to), especially when you see how much persuasion is required to get it moving. But that's what makes it so satisfying - knowing that every little detail is critical to its functioning. And let me tell you, I had to try out this mechanism several times before I got it just right.

Blackening and Rifling: The Final Touches

Now that the hard work is done, it's time for the finishing touches. First up, blackening - a process that involves applying a layer of oil to protect the metal from corrosion. It's a simple but effective way to keep this piece looking like new for years to come.

Next comes rifling - the process of cutting grooves into the barrel to improve its aerodynamics. It's a delicate process, requiring just the right amount of pressure and technique. But when it's done correctly, it makes all the difference in the world.

And with that, my little Samaritan project is complete. I hope you enjoyed joining me on this journey, from disassembly to reassembly and beyond. Until next time, stay tuned for more adventures with this little guy...

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everybody adam savage here in my cave with an addition to the samaritan build that i felt was lacking when i went back over the videos that we have shot thus far about this project um to be clear there's still work to do on this i need to blacken it which i want to do chemically i hope that works uh i need to add uh some through mechanics to attach the trigger to the uh the hammer that's maybe the most difficult part of this and i need to rifle the barrel that requires a custom machine i found a youtube channel of some pretty awesome diy gunsmithing to do that but one of the things that i love is good tear down video so i'm gonna clear my bench and i'm gonna pull out all the specialized tools and equipment i have for taking the samaritan completely apart and then putting it back together this is the thing i have learned that is so key to building a mechanical device is you got to be ready to take it apart and put it back together again just uh dozens and dozens and dozens of times and in this way all of the pieces of it become more apparent as you go you start to really understand the ma i personally have started to really understand the mechanism on a much deeper level and so when i run into little inconsistencies like all of a sudden that part's not doing the same thing it used to do i'm able to figure out why so this is a very simple and quick one day build it is going to be a complete teardown of the samaritan thus far and a putting it back together and i'm gonna shoot this as a uh as a big overhead i think i may actually shoot this with two cameras what well i mean i i have this can't i have this someone is at the front door i don't know what alexa's talking about because there's no one at the front door and she doesn't even have front door access there's no there's no ring doorbell over there i don't know what the hell she's thinking it's not your problem though um so yeah i'm gonna cover this with a couple of cameras so that uh i can actually do some commentary while i'm doing it but one of them is gonna be directly above looking down so you really get the whole pleasure of the tear down the knolling of the uh completely disassembled object and the reassembly of said object let's get started first things first is that uh i made some custom tool holders and equipment for the dismantling that is one is uh this which is my sorting cabinet with labeled holes for every screw because every single screw in this thing is unique to its location and then i also made a tool kit that houses all the common tools that i need for this it's got all the weha screwdrivers plus some uh gunsmithing gunsmithing screwdrivers yeah which i didn't even know about they are really really cool um a note about gunsmithing screwdrivers it turns out and i'd never considered this that your standard flathead screwdriver with its wedge shape point when it goes into the slot of a slotted screw that wedge puts torque on the on the top corner of that slotted screw and a gunsmithing screwdriver is what you call hollow ground it's got a a concavity from the tip uh and that means that this puts torque at the bottom of the slot of a screw and that means that the gunsmith is able to apply torque to the screw without damaging it um i am now very intimate with this issue uh i gotta get out a yep tweezers and i've got a small punch and a very specific allen and i also have some lithium grease and some basic grease so let's get all the tools over here this is very satisfying to me to have it all lined up uh that's some extra parts that i don't necessarily think i need um so yeah i guess um here we go ah okay the base of the handle comes off i'm gonna also be cleaning a lot of these as i go that's the butt plate and that's the handle these screws don't come out they just live in there of the grip frame also come apart and yep i've got a slot for those these are the grip frame screws they are absolutely tiny a sandblaster is something i would love to get in here at some point in the next few months i have an idea for building one hammer pivot there we go another hammer pivot i have a lot of work to do on this hammer trigger arrangement very happy with the hammer but getting the mechanics to actually function is it is dude it's it's a real thing come on there we go it's in two parts right good okay ah separate hold these pivot screws right these have been these have been machined down to be a super specific length and they also ha they meet in the middle uh literally to a very very tiny degree so that i can torque them without over-torquing the main hinge of the pivot okay so now we have the gun in two parts uh i'm gonna start pulling apart okay so the hammer goes there that there got to give myself enough room uh ah i forgot to record on that camera my apologies okay so i pulled out yeah i haven't pulled this thing apart in a month in a month no in three weeks i left town three weeks ago right after uh no it may have been actually a month blasphemy a phillips screwdriver well that's not canon i don't really there we go there's the trigger pin and there's the trigger and i'm gonna leave that arm attached to the trigger and there is the back frame and it's totally stripped excellent on to the cylinder at al so yeah i'm going to have to put some loctite back in this pivot screw i kind of made my own shoulder screw for the cylinder so i've got the cylinder i've got the cylinder washer and i've got the cylinder pivot there are a lot of parts on this thing man this is a uh okay so the right side is always the longer screw on this barrel cradle put that there so i know where they are and here is the laser sight awesome i can pull these two screwdrivers because they are simply cosmetic yes actually before i put this back together i think i have a couple more screws to add that are part of the aesthetics that i have not yet put in ah right right right then i have these two tiny little set screws in here for holding in these aesthetic pieces there's one of those and i'm going to actually include the set screws because taking this thing all the way to every little nut and bolt by the way i've become addicted and loved taking this thing apart as many times as is necessary it is a deeply satisfying practice and every time it goes back together i get the same kind of endorphin rush and i apologize for telling you folks i was going to uh let you know how the release mechanism works and then i'm aware that i never did so i will show you in some nice close-ups uh exactly how the release mechanism works because it's a nice little it's a neat little thing right these back two are actually hidden by the top site because you don't see them in the final gun i really made sure that there is not a single bolt that i use that's not extant on the rail one but it has meant that i've had to hide some of the bolts there's a lot of cleanup to do on this it's gotten real dirty over the past month that i've been handing it around i made some castings of some of the parts that'll come up later if there is a practice more satisfying than this taking your stuff apart putting it back together knowing all the tools and the toys that it takes to put it together and then putting it back together i don't know i don't know what it is i love doing this so freaking much there we go there's that and there's this and uh yeah there we go here is the samaritan in all of its disassembled glory uh it is let's see here 86 86 separate parts that's what i count off the top of my head it's a lot of like every one of these pieces every piece here i spent some time with it uh so i'm gonna get some close-ups of this and some flyovers and stuff for you to enjoy and then i am going to uh clean up the parts and start putting them back together okay both cameras are rolling let's start getting this guy back together a lot of these parts are really dirty so i'm going to be kind of moving through and wire brushing them and getting all the little bits of dirt out of there and then reassembling a lot of the final polishes being done by a triple zero steel wool one of my favorite materials oh right i want a little bit of acetone on some of these things just to get them a little extra clean when i chemically blacken this thing i'm definitely going to need to do a kind of an acid etch clean on a bunch of these parts and pieces because yeah there's a there's going to be a lot to clean and i want to make sure i'm starting with a pristine surface for the acid edge if i have hand oils all over it it's just going to transfer and make the all the color blotchy i don't want that you don't want that it's nice to have my hands on this thing all in parts again you know i just did a one a tool tip about punches and man i'll bet gunsmiths i'm sure you'll nod your head when i say this i'm i'm i'm wagering the gunsmiths the world over have like no end of little punches to work with because i'm constantly needing to oh the mechanics of this are so gonna kick my ass oh my god kind of debating do i do the mechanics first or the blackening and frankly i think i do the blackening i think i gotta get it aesthetically all the way there and then i can start to worry about how to do all these linkages and um the difference between my gun and the hero guns is that the back half of the hero guns this piece is two halves and i suppose i could separate these but i don't want to use any kerf to do that i'm going to lose some material separating them so them doing it in two halves allowed them to solve some problems that i can't solve um yeah it's just you know stuff to pay attention to uh if i was using any more acetone than just a little bit on a few of these parts i'd totally be wearing gloves i just for this small amount of exposure i'm not that concerned hey that's what i was looking for see that that came out of the end of this i didn't need that sitting up there now that part is clean okay i think i think i am clean and it's time to get this guy back together am i right about that yeah yeah that's good that's good i think it's time to assemble so that's not those that's those isn't it yes it is okay you are clean are you clean oh no you're not clean this is the most complicated part actually both the barrel part and the oh when did you get scratched both the barrel part and the back part of the gun are crazy complex in all sorts of different ways that i have not had to deal with before i uh this is a little access panel that's not in the original gun um well actually there is definitely space here in the original gun i decided to make a little a little panel that i cover over that can help hide some of the wiring access that i need for the laser pointer that comes through here and comes out through this little port on the uh on the pivot uh we can put in the front sight yes we can and like a lot of the hidden screws the front sight gets uh some phillips on the underside i didn't see any reason to make my job that much harder by having to do all slotted screws across the whole thing um the visual weight of them all being look every screw i can see is slotted no it's fine with me if some of the ones i can't see are not um when you have three when you have more than one screw going into a thing my recommendation is always get everything loosely fit and then tighten it all the way down don't tighten one down and then the other two you're you're gonna go nuts that way i like to say that way lies madness when you're putting together mechanical things it's really important that they're always as clean as the first time you put it together because that cleanliness uh bears on how uh how they all fit together okay so this is the part that catches the back of the frame this is the part that lands here in the back of the frame and the real trick here is uh-huh yeah real trick here is these two little these two little plates actually catch the pin that catches i'll shoot a better close-up of it later so you can see it oh okay wait wait wait wait wait wait did i screw up i did um i boned it there's so many little details that you have to get in order and i always forget this i can't put in the top site until i put in these aesthetic pieces here so i'm going to pull this back out i really like the feel of these gunsmith screwdrivers they um they have a positivity to the way they grab and the way they seat screws that feels great the washer that that sits between the cylinder and the body has been machined to a very very close bit i think i may actually end up building a um a samaritan clamp okay i'm going to use the biggest gunsmith screwdriver here that's it that is nice i love this tolerance here it's very like maybe a fingernails width between the barrel and the body and it spins really nicely i still have these plates to put in the sides i think i'm gonna have to get a little bit of a file i've got this little pin in there that helps hold everything in orientation on these side catch plates and it sits a little proud when i first assemble the gun and needs to be told let's place it this part that i'm putting in here i'm actually screwed up by machined past a point i shouldn't have and i had to make an extra little part that sat in here and that's the thing is like when you're doing these big pieces that have to perform all these different functions it becomes quite a thing to make sure that everything's in the orientation that you intended right okay so here is my clicker mechanism so that's the only this is how i get my click the magnet goes in here yep this hammer placement's all temporary these aren't the final resting places these aren't the final parts for the hammer but this does keep it close to where i want it so i've got the main hammer pin split into two separate pieces that's the issue i'm having here is it's in two pieces and it needs to be in order for me to get the hammer in because come on because i can't split the back frame there we go that's what i was looking for what i think i may have to do is actually build the mechanics outside the gun with the understanding that i installed them in the gun when i'm ready it's amazing to me how much one can install a pin into a hole and remove the pin into that hole from the hole and still not widen the hole i know gunsmith you guys deal with this all you folks deal with this all the time but i do not and so you know when i get a super nice close tolerance fit with a pressure to pin and it's whole i uh i feel like i'm destroying something every time i dismantle it but i'm not it turns out oh right and now i can do the final titan on this guy i can't believe how thin i had to make it and how much i had to hog out around it to accommodate the triggers trigger pin because in order for the trigger to have the proper mechanical advantage to activate the gun mechanics the trigger pin has to sit real high on this back frame higher than they put it on the replicas by the way okay so now i can put this back plate in and now it's going to sit nice and tight yes you are yes you are did i just do that upside down i did it goes like this that's the way it goes yes everything's all flush now that's great once again every time i take this apart and put it back together i'm like it's like a little bit of an endorphin rush it's a little bit of i can't believe it worked i can't believe it still works i can't believe it continues to work holy hell it's still working i also have to tell you i am now oh i am now regularly enjoying the pleasure of handing this piece even in its mid-construction to friends who come by and uh get to see that expression on everyone's face it's that same expression when i hand them a little blade runner blaster they're just like oh oh yeah that's really neat and this is still way cleaner than the finished result is gonna be i'm gonna beat the hell out of this thing i'm gonna hit it with small hammers and all sorts of stuff to get it to to get it to weather correctly see there that little lever moves the two angled slots on this pin and they in turn receive that guy you'll get to see it in a second because i think i only have a few more screws to put on let's put the handle on and i'll do the the main joint as the last bit oh right i painted the handle a little bit i just that sound right that sound those go one goes into the grip frame the other goes into the wood and then the main holder is this piece which by the way everything about this piece was made from scratch the ring and the plug and yeah i love this little piece so this goes into the base and gets screwed in and then it gets screwed down nice and tight so i've got a helicoil in the grip frame so i can really tortion it nicely and then um how did i lose my there it is that guy and again every screw it's like i'm not over torquing it's just enough i'm just going to get a little bit of grease here and a little bit of grease here not too much just enough just enough to let it move around a bit the sounds this thing makes when it's operating correctly are just the best oh maybe i need okay i'm just gonna get the tiniest bit of three in one oil just down between the cylinder and its shaft yeah there we go that that took care of that rat nice now i only have the rattle that i want there you have it deeply deeply i just thought you would want to watch a full teardown and rebuild a full teardown cleaning and rebuild of the samaritan uh i had fun i hope you did too thank you guys for joining me for this quickie one day build quickie ish i will see you next time there's plenty more samaritan content to come do i promised you that i would show you how the mechanism works for closing it and i'm sorry that i neglected to do that last time i am doing it now here we go i want to oh right in order to do this i have two so here is the mechanism it has several parts one part is the lever arm which pivots here off this this slotted screw and it's got a little spring there that holds it in so when this lever pin moves it pulls this pin out and that allows the frame to move so how does it catch well there's this aluminum machined part this part that slides over the pin here and then there are these two catch plates one on either side you see it's being held by the slotted screw and it's being oriented by a little bit of spring steel here a little spring pin um those two catch plates feed into these two notches see these two notches see how they're yeah so those two notches are how this thing closes and the reason i didn't film this was because man it just took me so many tries to get that that nice and i have to tell you that was non-trivial but the fact that it does that with very little persuasion makes me so happy all of these orientations were necessary having a little bit of extra clearance below yeah um i just got into this flow state with adjusting it where i really kind of finally understood it and that's why you didn't end up getting to see the finished result but you can see how it goes in here and when it does it's okay it's just it's simply weathering yeah i am uh very happy with how this is going i still have to fix this little dent here that is a artifact of um some machining that i did and the mills quill actually got a little farther than i thought it could and it ground into the edge of the barrel so i have to fill that with a little jb weld uh my plate looks great uh so next thing is blackening it and then the mechanics oh yeah and i still have to rifle the barrel youhey everybody adam savage here in my cave with an addition to the samaritan build that i felt was lacking when i went back over the videos that we have shot thus far about this project um to be clear there's still work to do on this i need to blacken it which i want to do chemically i hope that works uh i need to add uh some through mechanics to attach the trigger to the uh the hammer that's maybe the most difficult part of this and i need to rifle the barrel that requires a custom machine i found a youtube channel of some pretty awesome diy gunsmithing to do that but one of the things that i love is good tear down video so i'm gonna clear my bench and i'm gonna pull out all the specialized tools and equipment i have for taking the samaritan completely apart and then putting it back together this is the thing i have learned that is so key to building a mechanical device is you got to be ready to take it apart and put it back together again just uh dozens and dozens and dozens of times and in this way all of the pieces of it become more apparent as you go you start to really understand the ma i personally have started to really understand the mechanism on a much deeper level and so when i run into little inconsistencies like all of a sudden that part's not doing the same thing it used to do i'm able to figure out why so this is a very simple and quick one day build it is going to be a complete teardown of the samaritan thus far and a putting it back together and i'm gonna shoot this as a uh as a big overhead i think i may actually shoot this with two cameras what well i mean i i have this can't i have this someone is at the front door i don't know what alexa's talking about because there's no one at the front door and she doesn't even have front door access there's no there's no ring doorbell over there i don't know what the hell she's thinking it's not your problem though um so yeah i'm gonna cover this with a couple of cameras so that uh i can actually do some commentary while i'm doing it but one of them is gonna be directly above looking down so you really get the whole pleasure of the tear down the knolling of the uh completely disassembled object and the reassembly of said object let's get started first things first is that uh i made some custom tool holders and equipment for the dismantling that is one is uh this which is my sorting cabinet with labeled holes for every screw because every single screw in this thing is unique to its location and then i also made a tool kit that houses all the common tools that i need for this it's got all the weha screwdrivers plus some uh gunsmithing gunsmithing screwdrivers yeah which i didn't even know about they are really really cool um a note about gunsmithing screwdrivers it turns out and i'd never considered this that your standard flathead screwdriver with its wedge shape point when it goes into the slot of a slotted screw that wedge puts torque on the on the top corner of that slotted screw and a gunsmithing screwdriver is what you call hollow ground it's got a a concavity from the tip uh and that means that this puts torque at the bottom of the slot of a screw and that means that the gunsmith is able to apply torque to the screw without damaging it um i am now very intimate with this issue uh i gotta get out a yep tweezers and i've got a small punch and a very specific allen and i also have some lithium grease and some basic grease so let's get all the tools over here this is very satisfying to me to have it all lined up uh that's some extra parts that i don't necessarily think i need um so yeah i guess um here we go ah okay the base of the handle comes off i'm gonna also be cleaning a lot of these as i go that's the butt plate and that's the handle these screws don't come out they just live in there of the grip frame also come apart and yep i've got a slot for those these are the grip frame screws they are absolutely tiny a sandblaster is something i would love to get in here at some point in the next few months i have an idea for building one hammer pivot there we go another hammer pivot i have a lot of work to do on this hammer trigger arrangement very happy with the hammer but getting the mechanics to actually function is it is dude it's it's a real thing come on there we go it's in two parts right good okay ah separate hold these pivot screws right these have been these have been machined down to be a super specific length and they also ha they meet in the middle uh literally to a very very tiny degree so that i can torque them without over-torquing the main hinge of the pivot okay so now we have the gun in two parts uh i'm gonna start pulling apart okay so the hammer goes there that there got to give myself enough room uh ah i forgot to record on that camera my apologies okay so i pulled out yeah i haven't pulled this thing apart in a month in a month no in three weeks i left town three weeks ago right after uh no it may have been actually a month blasphemy a phillips screwdriver well that's not canon i don't really there we go there's the trigger pin and there's the trigger and i'm gonna leave that arm attached to the trigger and there is the back frame and it's totally stripped excellent on to the cylinder at al so yeah i'm going to have to put some loctite back in this pivot screw i kind of made my own shoulder screw for the cylinder so i've got the cylinder i've got the cylinder washer and i've got the cylinder pivot there are a lot of parts on this thing man this is a uh okay so the right side is always the longer screw on this barrel cradle put that there so i know where they are and here is the laser sight awesome i can pull these two screwdrivers because they are simply cosmetic yes actually before i put this back together i think i have a couple more screws to add that are part of the aesthetics that i have not yet put in ah right right right then i have these two tiny little set screws in here for holding in these aesthetic pieces there's one of those and i'm going to actually include the set screws because taking this thing all the way to every little nut and bolt by the way i've become addicted and loved taking this thing apart as many times as is necessary it is a deeply satisfying practice and every time it goes back together i get the same kind of endorphin rush and i apologize for telling you folks i was going to uh let you know how the release mechanism works and then i'm aware that i never did so i will show you in some nice close-ups uh exactly how the release mechanism works because it's a nice little it's a neat little thing right these back two are actually hidden by the top site because you don't see them in the final gun i really made sure that there is not a single bolt that i use that's not extant on the rail one but it has meant that i've had to hide some of the bolts there's a lot of cleanup to do on this it's gotten real dirty over the past month that i've been handing it around i made some castings of some of the parts that'll come up later if there is a practice more satisfying than this taking your stuff apart putting it back together knowing all the tools and the toys that it takes to put it together and then putting it back together i don't know i don't know what it is i love doing this so freaking much there we go there's that and there's this and uh yeah there we go here is the samaritan in all of its disassembled glory uh it is let's see here 86 86 separate parts that's what i count off the top of my head it's a lot of like every one of these pieces every piece here i spent some time with it uh so i'm gonna get some close-ups of this and some flyovers and stuff for you to enjoy and then i am going to uh clean up the parts and start putting them back together okay both cameras are rolling let's start getting this guy back together a lot of these parts are really dirty so i'm going to be kind of moving through and wire brushing them and getting all the little bits of dirt out of there and then reassembling a lot of the final polishes being done by a triple zero steel wool one of my favorite materials oh right i want a little bit of acetone on some of these things just to get them a little extra clean when i chemically blacken this thing i'm definitely going to need to do a kind of an acid etch clean on a bunch of these parts and pieces because yeah there's a there's going to be a lot to clean and i want to make sure i'm starting with a pristine surface for the acid edge if i have hand oils all over it it's just going to transfer and make the all the color blotchy i don't want that you don't want that it's nice to have my hands on this thing all in parts again you know i just did a one a tool tip about punches and man i'll bet gunsmiths i'm sure you'll nod your head when i say this i'm i'm i'm wagering the gunsmiths the world over have like no end of little punches to work with because i'm constantly needing to oh the mechanics of this are so gonna kick my ass oh my god kind of debating do i do the mechanics first or the blackening and frankly i think i do the blackening i think i gotta get it aesthetically all the way there and then i can start to worry about how to do all these linkages and um the difference between my gun and the hero guns is that the back half of the hero guns this piece is two halves and i suppose i could separate these but i don't want to use any kerf to do that i'm going to lose some material separating them so them doing it in two halves allowed them to solve some problems that i can't solve um yeah it's just you know stuff to pay attention to uh if i was using any more acetone than just a little bit on a few of these parts i'd totally be wearing gloves i just for this small amount of exposure i'm not that concerned hey that's what i was looking for see that that came out of the end of this i didn't need that sitting up there now that part is clean okay i think i think i am clean and it's time to get this guy back together am i right about that yeah yeah that's good that's good i think it's time to assemble so that's not those that's those isn't it yes it is okay you are clean are you clean oh no you're not clean this is the most complicated part actually both the barrel part and the oh when did you get scratched both the barrel part and the back part of the gun are crazy complex in all sorts of different ways that i have not had to deal with before i uh this is a little access panel that's not in the original gun um well actually there is definitely space here in the original gun i decided to make a little a little panel that i cover over that can help hide some of the wiring access that i need for the laser pointer that comes through here and comes out through this little port on the uh on the pivot uh we can put in the front sight yes we can and like a lot of the hidden screws the front sight gets uh some phillips on the underside i didn't see any reason to make my job that much harder by having to do all slotted screws across the whole thing um the visual weight of them all being look every screw i can see is slotted no it's fine with me if some of the ones i can't see are not um when you have three when you have more than one screw going into a thing my recommendation is always get everything loosely fit and then tighten it all the way down don't tighten one down and then the other two you're you're gonna go nuts that way i like to say that way lies madness when you're putting together mechanical things it's really important that they're always as clean as the first time you put it together because that cleanliness uh bears on how uh how they all fit together okay so this is the part that catches the back of the frame this is the part that lands here in the back of the frame and the real trick here is uh-huh yeah real trick here is these two little these two little plates actually catch the pin that catches i'll shoot a better close-up of it later so you can see it oh okay wait wait wait wait wait wait did i screw up i did um i boned it there's so many little details that you have to get in order and i always forget this i can't put in the top site until i put in these aesthetic pieces here so i'm going to pull this back out i really like the feel of these gunsmith screwdrivers they um they have a positivity to the way they grab and the way they seat screws that feels great the washer that that sits between the cylinder and the body has been machined to a very very close bit i think i may actually end up building a um a samaritan clamp okay i'm going to use the biggest gunsmith screwdriver here that's it that is nice i love this tolerance here it's very like maybe a fingernails width between the barrel and the body and it spins really nicely i still have these plates to put in the sides i think i'm gonna have to get a little bit of a file i've got this little pin in there that helps hold everything in orientation on these side catch plates and it sits a little proud when i first assemble the gun and needs to be told let's place it this part that i'm putting in here i'm actually screwed up by machined past a point i shouldn't have and i had to make an extra little part that sat in here and that's the thing is like when you're doing these big pieces that have to perform all these different functions it becomes quite a thing to make sure that everything's in the orientation that you intended right okay so here is my clicker mechanism so that's the only this is how i get my click the magnet goes in here yep this hammer placement's all temporary these aren't the final resting places these aren't the final parts for the hammer but this does keep it close to where i want it so i've got the main hammer pin split into two separate pieces that's the issue i'm having here is it's in two pieces and it needs to be in order for me to get the hammer in because come on because i can't split the back frame there we go that's what i was looking for what i think i may have to do is actually build the mechanics outside the gun with the understanding that i installed them in the gun when i'm ready it's amazing to me how much one can install a pin into a hole and remove the pin into that hole from the hole and still not widen the hole i know gunsmith you guys deal with this all you folks deal with this all the time but i do not and so you know when i get a super nice close tolerance fit with a pressure to pin and it's whole i uh i feel like i'm destroying something every time i dismantle it but i'm not it turns out oh right and now i can do the final titan on this guy i can't believe how thin i had to make it and how much i had to hog out around it to accommodate the triggers trigger pin because in order for the trigger to have the proper mechanical advantage to activate the gun mechanics the trigger pin has to sit real high on this back frame higher than they put it on the replicas by the way okay so now i can put this back plate in and now it's going to sit nice and tight yes you are yes you are did i just do that upside down i did it goes like this that's the way it goes yes everything's all flush now that's great once again every time i take this apart and put it back together i'm like it's like a little bit of an endorphin rush it's a little bit of i can't believe it worked i can't believe it still works i can't believe it continues to work holy hell it's still working i also have to tell you i am now oh i am now regularly enjoying the pleasure of handing this piece even in its mid-construction to friends who come by and uh get to see that expression on everyone's face it's that same expression when i hand them a little blade runner blaster they're just like oh oh yeah that's really neat and this is still way cleaner than the finished result is gonna be i'm gonna beat the hell out of this thing i'm gonna hit it with small hammers and all sorts of stuff to get it to to get it to weather correctly see there that little lever moves the two angled slots on this pin and they in turn receive that guy you'll get to see it in a second because i think i only have a few more screws to put on let's put the handle on and i'll do the the main joint as the last bit oh right i painted the handle a little bit i just that sound right that sound those go one goes into the grip frame the other goes into the wood and then the main holder is this piece which by the way everything about this piece was made from scratch the ring and the plug and yeah i love this little piece so this goes into the base and gets screwed in and then it gets screwed down nice and tight so i've got a helicoil in the grip frame so i can really tortion it nicely and then um how did i lose my there it is that guy and again every screw it's like i'm not over torquing it's just enough i'm just going to get a little bit of grease here and a little bit of grease here not too much just enough just enough to let it move around a bit the sounds this thing makes when it's operating correctly are just the best oh maybe i need okay i'm just gonna get the tiniest bit of three in one oil just down between the cylinder and its shaft yeah there we go that that took care of that rat nice now i only have the rattle that i want there you have it deeply deeply i just thought you would want to watch a full teardown and rebuild a full teardown cleaning and rebuild of the samaritan uh i had fun i hope you did too thank you guys for joining me for this quickie one day build quickie ish i will see you next time there's plenty more samaritan content to come do i promised you that i would show you how the mechanism works for closing it and i'm sorry that i neglected to do that last time i am doing it now here we go i want to oh right in order to do this i have two so here is the mechanism it has several parts one part is the lever arm which pivots here off this this slotted screw and it's got a little spring there that holds it in so when this lever pin moves it pulls this pin out and that allows the frame to move so how does it catch well there's this aluminum machined part this part that slides over the pin here and then there are these two catch plates one on either side you see it's being held by the slotted screw and it's being oriented by a little bit of spring steel here a little spring pin um those two catch plates feed into these two notches see these two notches see how they're yeah so those two notches are how this thing closes and the reason i didn't film this was because man it just took me so many tries to get that that nice and i have to tell you that was non-trivial but the fact that it does that with very little persuasion makes me so happy all of these orientations were necessary having a little bit of extra clearance below yeah um i just got into this flow state with adjusting it where i really kind of finally understood it and that's why you didn't end up getting to see the finished result but you can see how it goes in here and when it does it's okay it's just it's simply weathering yeah i am uh very happy with how this is going i still have to fix this little dent here that is a artifact of um some machining that i did and the mills quill actually got a little farther than i thought it could and it ground into the edge of the barrel so i have to fill that with a little jb weld uh my plate looks great uh so next thing is blackening it and then the mechanics oh yeah and i still have to rifle the barrel youhey everybody adam savage here in my cave with an addition to the samaritan build that i felt was lacking when i went back over the videos that we have shot thus far about this project um to be clear there's still work to do on this i need to blacken it which i want to do chemically i hope that works uh i need to add uh some through mechanics to attach the trigger to the uh the hammer that's maybe the most difficult part of this and i need to rifle the barrel that requires a custom machine i found a youtube channel of some pretty awesome diy gunsmithing to do that but one of the things that i love is good tear down video so i'm gonna clear my bench and i'm gonna pull out all the specialized tools and equipment i have for taking the samaritan completely apart and then putting it back together this is the thing i have learned that is so key to building a mechanical device is you got to be ready to take it apart and put it back together again just uh dozens and dozens and dozens of times and in this way all of the pieces of it become more apparent as you go you start to really understand the ma i personally have started to really understand the mechanism on a much deeper level and so when i run into little inconsistencies like all of a sudden that part's not doing the same thing it used to do i'm able to figure out why so this is a very simple and quick one day build it is going to be a complete teardown of the samaritan thus far and a putting it back together and i'm gonna shoot this as a uh as a big overhead i think i may actually shoot this with two cameras what well i mean i i have this can't i have this someone is at the front door i don't know what alexa's talking about because there's no one at the front door and she doesn't even have front door access there's no there's no ring doorbell over there i don't know what the hell she's thinking it's not your problem though um so yeah i'm gonna cover this with a couple of cameras so that uh i can actually do some commentary while i'm doing it but one of them is gonna be directly above looking down so you really get the whole pleasure of the tear down the knolling of the uh completely disassembled object and the reassembly of said object let's get started first things first is that uh i made some custom tool holders and equipment for the dismantling that is one is uh this which is my sorting cabinet with labeled holes for every screw because every single screw in this thing is unique to its location and then i also made a tool kit that houses all the common tools that i need for this it's got all the weha screwdrivers plus some uh gunsmithing gunsmithing screwdrivers yeah which i didn't even know about they are really really cool um a note about gunsmithing screwdrivers it turns out and i'd never considered this that your standard flathead screwdriver with its wedge shape point when it goes into the slot of a slotted screw that wedge puts torque on the on the top corner of that slotted screw and a gunsmithing screwdriver is what you call hollow ground it's got a a concavity from the tip uh and that means that this puts torque at the bottom of the slot of a screw and that means that the gunsmith is able to apply torque to the screw without damaging it um i am now very intimate with this issue uh i gotta get out a yep tweezers and i've got a small punch and a very specific allen and i also have some lithium grease and some basic grease so let's get all the tools over here this is very satisfying to me to have it all lined up uh that's some extra parts that i don't necessarily think i need um so yeah i guess um here we go ah okay the base of the handle comes off i'm gonna also be cleaning a lot of these as i go that's the butt plate and that's the handle these screws don't come out they just live in there of the grip frame also come apart and yep i've got a slot for those these are the grip frame screws they are absolutely tiny a sandblaster is something i would love to get in here at some point in the next few months i have an idea for building one hammer pivot there we go another hammer pivot i have a lot of work to do on this hammer trigger arrangement very happy with the hammer but getting the mechanics to actually function is it is dude it's it's a real thing come on there we go it's in two parts right good okay ah separate hold these pivot screws right these have been these have been machined down to be a super specific length and they also ha they meet in the middle uh literally to a very very tiny degree so that i can torque them without over-torquing the main hinge of the pivot okay so now we have the gun in two parts uh i'm gonna start pulling apart okay so the hammer goes there that there got to give myself enough room uh ah i forgot to record on that camera my apologies okay so i pulled out yeah i haven't pulled this thing apart in a month in a month no in three weeks i left town three weeks ago right after uh no it may have been actually a month blasphemy a phillips screwdriver well that's not canon i don't really there we go there's the trigger pin and there's the trigger and i'm gonna leave that arm attached to the trigger and there is the back frame and it's totally stripped excellent on to the cylinder at al so yeah i'm going to have to put some loctite back in this pivot screw i kind of made my own shoulder screw for the cylinder so i've got the cylinder i've got the cylinder washer and i've got the cylinder pivot there are a lot of parts on this thing man this is a uh okay so the right side is always the longer screw on this barrel cradle put that there so i know where they are and here is the laser sight awesome i can pull these two screwdrivers because they are simply cosmetic yes actually before i put this back together i think i have a couple more screws to add that are part of the aesthetics that i have not yet put in ah right right right then i have these two tiny little set screws in here for holding in these aesthetic pieces there's one of those and i'm going to actually include the set screws because taking this thing all the way to every little nut and bolt by the way i've become addicted and loved taking this thing apart as many times as is necessary it is a deeply satisfying practice and every time it goes back together i get the same kind of endorphin rush and i apologize for telling you folks i was going to uh let you know how the release mechanism works and then i'm aware that i never did so i will show you in some nice close-ups uh exactly how the release mechanism works because it's a nice little it's a neat little thing right these back two are actually hidden by the top site because you don't see them in the final gun i really made sure that there is not a single bolt that i use that's not extant on the rail one but it has meant that i've had to hide some of the bolts there's a lot of cleanup to do on this it's gotten real dirty over the past month that i've been handing it around i made some castings of some of the parts that'll come up later if there is a practice more satisfying than this taking your stuff apart putting it back together knowing all the tools and the toys that it takes to put it together and then putting it back together i don't know i don't know what it is i love doing this so freaking much there we go there's that and there's this and uh yeah there we go here is the samaritan in all of its disassembled glory uh it is let's see here 86 86 separate parts that's what i count off the top of my head it's a lot of like every one of these pieces every piece here i spent some time with it uh so i'm gonna get some close-ups of this and some flyovers and stuff for you to enjoy and then i am going to uh clean up the parts and start putting them back together okay both cameras are rolling let's start getting this guy back together a lot of these parts are really dirty so i'm going to be kind of moving through and wire brushing them and getting all the little bits of dirt out of there and then reassembling a lot of the final polishes being done by a triple zero steel wool one of my favorite materials oh right i want a little bit of acetone on some of these things just to get them a little extra clean when i chemically blacken this thing i'm definitely going to need to do a kind of an acid etch clean on a bunch of these parts and pieces because yeah there's a there's going to be a lot to clean and i want to make sure i'm starting with a pristine surface for the acid edge if i have hand oils all over it it's just going to transfer and make the all the color blotchy i don't want that you don't want that it's nice to have my hands on this thing all in parts again you know i just did a one a tool tip about punches and man i'll bet gunsmiths i'm sure you'll nod your head when i say this i'm i'm i'm wagering the gunsmiths the world over have like no end of little punches to work with because i'm constantly needing to oh the mechanics of this are so gonna kick my ass oh my god kind of debating do i do the mechanics first or the blackening and frankly i think i do the blackening i think i gotta get it aesthetically all the way there and then i can start to worry about how to do all these linkages and um the difference between my gun and the hero guns is that the back half of the hero guns this piece is two halves and i suppose i could separate these but i don't want to use any kerf to do that i'm going to lose some material separating them so them doing it in two halves allowed them to solve some problems that i can't solve um yeah it's just you know stuff to pay attention to uh if i was using any more acetone than just a little bit on a few of these parts i'd totally be wearing gloves i just for this small amount of exposure i'm not that concerned hey that's what i was looking for see that that came out of the end of this i didn't need that sitting up there now that part is clean okay i think i think i am clean and it's time to get this guy back together am i right about that yeah yeah that's good that's good i think it's time to assemble so that's not those that's those isn't it yes it is okay you are clean are you clean oh no you're not clean this is the most complicated part actually both the barrel part and the oh when did you get scratched both the barrel part and the back part of the gun are crazy complex in all sorts of different ways that i have not had to deal with before i uh this is a little access panel that's not in the original gun um well actually there is definitely space here in the original gun i decided to make a little a little panel that i cover over that can help hide some of the wiring access that i need for the laser pointer that comes through here and comes out through this little port on the uh on the pivot uh we can put in the front sight yes we can and like a lot of the hidden screws the front sight gets uh some phillips on the underside i didn't see any reason to make my job that much harder by having to do all slotted screws across the whole thing um the visual weight of them all being look every screw i can see is slotted no it's fine with me if some of the ones i can't see are not um when you have three when you have more than one screw going into a thing my recommendation is always get everything loosely fit and then tighten it all the way down don't tighten one down and then the other two you're you're gonna go nuts that way i like to say that way lies madness when you're putting together mechanical things it's really important that they're always as clean as the first time you put it together because that cleanliness uh bears on how uh how they all fit together okay so this is the part that catches the back of the frame this is the part that lands here in the back of the frame and the real trick here is uh-huh yeah real trick here is these two little these two little plates actually catch the pin that catches i'll shoot a better close-up of it later so you can see it oh okay wait wait wait wait wait wait did i screw up i did um i boned it there's so many little details that you have to get in order and i always forget this i can't put in the top site until i put in these aesthetic pieces here so i'm going to pull this back out i really like the feel of these gunsmith screwdrivers they um they have a positivity to the way they grab and the way they seat screws that feels great the washer that that sits between the cylinder and the body has been machined to a very very close bit i think i may actually end up building a um a samaritan clamp okay i'm going to use the biggest gunsmith screwdriver here that's it that is nice i love this tolerance here it's very like maybe a fingernails width between the barrel and the body and it spins really nicely i still have these plates to put in the sides i think i'm gonna have to get a little bit of a file i've got this little pin in there that helps hold everything in orientation on these side catch plates and it sits a little proud when i first assemble the gun and needs to be told let's place it this part that i'm putting in here i'm actually screwed up by machined past a point i shouldn't have and i had to make an extra little part that sat in here and that's the thing is like when you're doing these big pieces that have to perform all these different functions it becomes quite a thing to make sure that everything's in the orientation that you intended right okay so here is my clicker mechanism so that's the only this is how i get my click the magnet goes in here yep this hammer placement's all temporary these aren't the final resting places these aren't the final parts for the hammer but this does keep it close to where i want it so i've got the main hammer pin split into two separate pieces that's the issue i'm having here is it's in two pieces and it needs to be in order for me to get the hammer in because come on because i can't split the back frame there we go that's what i was looking for what i think i may have to do is actually build the mechanics outside the gun with the understanding that i installed them in the gun when i'm ready it's amazing to me how much one can install a pin into a hole and remove the pin into that hole from the hole and still not widen the hole i know gunsmith you guys deal with this all you folks deal with this all the time but i do not and so you know when i get a super nice close tolerance fit with a pressure to pin and it's whole i uh i feel like i'm destroying something every time i dismantle it but i'm not it turns out oh right and now i can do the final titan on this guy i can't believe how thin i had to make it and how much i had to hog out around it to accommodate the triggers trigger pin because in order for the trigger to have the proper mechanical advantage to activate the gun mechanics the trigger pin has to sit real high on this back frame higher than they put it on the replicas by the way okay so now i can put this back plate in and now it's going to sit nice and tight yes you are yes you are did i just do that upside down i did it goes like this that's the way it goes yes everything's all flush now that's great once again every time i take this apart and put it back together i'm like it's like a little bit of an endorphin rush it's a little bit of i can't believe it worked i can't believe it still works i can't believe it continues to work holy hell it's still working i also have to tell you i am now oh i am now regularly enjoying the pleasure of handing this piece even in its mid-construction to friends who come by and uh get to see that expression on everyone's face it's that same expression when i hand them a little blade runner blaster they're just like oh oh yeah that's really neat and this is still way cleaner than the finished result is gonna be i'm gonna beat the hell out of this thing i'm gonna hit it with small hammers and all sorts of stuff to get it to to get it to weather correctly see there that little lever moves the two angled slots on this pin and they in turn receive that guy you'll get to see it in a second because i think i only have a few more screws to put on let's put the handle on and i'll do the the main joint as the last bit oh right i painted the handle a little bit i just that sound right that sound those go one goes into the grip frame the other goes into the wood and then the main holder is this piece which by the way everything about this piece was made from scratch the ring and the plug and yeah i love this little piece so this goes into the base and gets screwed in and then it gets screwed down nice and tight so i've got a helicoil in the grip frame so i can really tortion it nicely and then um how did i lose my there it is that guy and again every screw it's like i'm not over torquing it's just enough i'm just going to get a little bit of grease here and a little bit of grease here not too much just enough just enough to let it move around a bit the sounds this thing makes when it's operating correctly are just the best oh maybe i need okay i'm just gonna get the tiniest bit of three in one oil just down between the cylinder and its shaft yeah there we go that that took care of that rat nice now i only have the rattle that i want there you have it deeply deeply i just thought you would want to watch a full teardown and rebuild a full teardown cleaning and rebuild of the samaritan uh i had fun i hope you did too thank you guys for joining me for this quickie one day build quickie ish i will see you next time there's plenty more samaritan content to come do i promised you that i would show you how the mechanism works for closing it and i'm sorry that i neglected to do that last time i am doing it now here we go i want to oh right in order to do this i have two so here is the mechanism it has several parts one part is the lever arm which pivots here off this this slotted screw and it's got a little spring there that holds it in so when this lever pin moves it pulls this pin out and that allows the frame to move so how does it catch well there's this aluminum machined part this part that slides over the pin here and then there are these two catch plates one on either side you see it's being held by the slotted screw and it's being oriented by a little bit of spring steel here a little spring pin um those two catch plates feed into these two notches see these two notches see how they're yeah so those two notches are how this thing closes and the reason i didn't film this was because man it just took me so many tries to get that that nice and i have to tell you that was non-trivial but the fact that it does that with very little persuasion makes me so happy all of these orientations were necessary having a little bit of extra clearance below yeah um i just got into this flow state with adjusting it where i really kind of finally understood it and that's why you didn't end up getting to see the finished result but you can see how it goes in here and when it does it's okay it's just it's simply weathering yeah i am uh very happy with how this is going i still have to fix this little dent here that is a artifact of um some machining that i did and the mills quill actually got a little farther than i thought it could and it ground into the edge of the barrel so i have to fill that with a little jb weld uh my plate looks great uh so next thing is blackening it and then the mechanics oh yeah and i still have to rifle the barrel you\n"