first of all the fact we were doing this all the time second of all like this was i think the second this is the middle size of the test rigs we started out really small then i turned these handles on a lathe and glued them to these spheres jamie built this frame and tuned this and there's actually a bit of wonderful jamie brilliance to the tuning of this um from a mechanical standpoint it is actually quite non-trivial to take five spheres of a perfectly equal weight and hang them so they're perfectly next to each other in orientation that is not easy to do jamie's brilliant solution was to use one string for all five of them so while these are five separate v's they they're all actually threaded and a single string which makes tuning them far easier because you move one and the others move and you kind of sit here and guide it in i i totally remember jamie spending like hours like like getting these perfect so we could do our camera tests and figure out how this is going to work but making this all one string that's exactly the kind of problem solving that jamie would bring to something like this that was really that was really awesome ah and i'm remembering this episode really quite quite fondly this is a rarity in mythbusters history um an interim experiment that is in and of itself a perfectly beautiful object i think if i remember correctly that jamie is the one that even painted this blue so uh he didn't often lend an aesthetic to things like this that he built so i think this makes this piece really quite lovely and you can bid on it at URL_TOKEN mythbusters again this auction is to benefit the grant and omaha steam foundation there could not be a better cause and you could teach science with genuine mythbusters hardware thank you guys i will see you next
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