By Dad, How Do I
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Introducing Tool Tuesday!
Today I cover 4 basic “pliers”.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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okay so today I’m gonna start a new
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series called tool Tuesday and it’s
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Tuesday and I’m covering tools so I just
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want to kind of build your tool kit for
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you because there’s been lots of
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requests for yeah I have some have some
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of my dad’s tools left over and don’t
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even really know what they’re for or how
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do I build a tool kit so we’ll just kind
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of walk through some basic tools for you
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and this week I’m going to cover pliers
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but first I got a bad joke for you so
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what are the pliers was complaining
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about the screwdriver and the drill
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stepped in and said I don’t mind him
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he’s just a tool so anyway we’re just
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gonna walk through these and start with
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the most basic one which is just the
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basic pliers
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I’d recommend pretty much everybody how
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the basic pliers especially before one
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you know eventually you’re gonna want to
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get all your wrenches and that sort of
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thing but to start off with if you’re
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ever gonna try to loosen a nut and you
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don’t have anything this is just a good
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place to start because it has you know
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you can grab pretty much any you know
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most basic nuts or bolts with it it has
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two different adjustments here so you
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just open it up and it gets a little
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wider you close it in right and then it
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then and you can get smaller nuts with
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that too and you can grab the nut here
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and that hole right there or on the tip
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too right so it’s a good tool to have
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around okay start there
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next we have what’s called a needle nose
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because sometimes you need to get into
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tight spaces with this and actually in
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my upcoming video on Thursday you’ll see
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that I have to use one of one of these
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because you got to use what you got to
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use and I didn’t have a wrench with me
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at the time so I ended up using this and
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it’s just handy because for tight spaces
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it also usually comes with a little
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cutter here too
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so you can cut wire with it too so
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that’s nice to have around okay next is
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a channel locks not pliers that we
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showed you it’s it only got those two
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settings this actually has multiple
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settings and I had
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my my video on the bathroom sink to show
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you know in case you had metal pipes you
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probably could get it off with this
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there’s a pipe wrench that’s meant for
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real heavy duty stuff but this will
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usually take care of most jobs okay and
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the nice thing about it is it has
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channels on it so all you do is just
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slip them into the channels right right
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there and then there’s another channel
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you just bring it back get a little
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bigger right and you just work your way
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down to you fit the size that you need
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for maybe the piper whatever you’re
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trying to get a hold of I’d recommend
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you get a good pair of these because if
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you don’t these channels get worn and
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then you’re fighting the thing and it’s
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frustrating I’ve got it and then this
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gets a little wobbly and then it won’t
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stay on and anyway you get what you pay
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for and a lot of things so I’d recommend
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you get a good pair of those lastly we
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have what’s called a vise grips and when
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we were kids we use this all the time
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for like loosening the nuts on our on
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our bike but the problem is is if you’re
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not careful and you use it too much you
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can you can round the the nut or the
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bolt and then if you go to use a an
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actual wrench
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it doesn’t fit on it anymore could you
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you’ve rounded it off right so just be
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careful with overusing it but it is
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handy to have around especially if you
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can’t get if you can’t get a nut off
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right maybe a little wd-40 and then you
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use this and it’s got it’s got a little
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screw on the back right so you tighten
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it and that those jaws get a little
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tighter or you loosen it and get a
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little bigger and you can use this and
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if you clamp it down and then and as you
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type you tighten it as you go okay
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so then you’ve got your your bolt here
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and you can go a little bit smaller than
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the bolt and then you clamp it down and
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it actually snaps on there and it’s it’s
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held on so you can loosen just about
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anything okay so that’s it for this week
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I hope this is helpful and we’ll just
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continue to build your build your tool
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kit and we’ll see you next time on tool
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Tuesday thank you
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