By Dad, How Do I
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Tool Tuesday – Socket wrench – also known as a ratchet set
The Kobalt wrench set in the video is under $50.
Remember to put the sockets away when you’re done or that
10mm will not be there when you need it. :0)
SAE – American sockets sized in fractions
Metric – sockets based on millimetres.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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hey kids so here we are again on tool
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Tuesday I’m gonna include the rent of
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the wrenches because that’s what I did
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last time and wrenches and sockets kind
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of work together so I’ll show you kind
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of what’s in a basic socket set and
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you’ll show you why they’re so so handy
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because you can the job goes a lot
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quicker if you have a ratchet and in a
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socket but but first I have a dad joke
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for you uh have you heard the joke about
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construction I’m still working on it
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so anyway I’m gonna go ahead and move
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the camera and get close a little bit
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closer and we’ll get started okay so I
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got my trusty piece of wood here again
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I’m just gonna show you what’s cool
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about a ratchet set okay so before we
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use the pliers and a wrench right the
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open end so what I’m gonna do this time
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is I’m just going to go ahead and put
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this wrench on this side and then we’re
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gonna use our ratchet this time and so
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here’s a ratchet okay and then I’m gonna
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use I think that’s a half inch yeah yeah
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half inch and I’m just gonna put it on
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here and then so a ratchet works like
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this see this lever here on the side it
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makes it go forward or backwards and
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remember righty tighty lefty loosey so
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right now it’s ratcheting when I’m going
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left so it’s actually this would be to
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loosen okay and then if I flip that
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lever it goes just the opposite now I’m
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tightening okay so you want to make sure
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to flip that lever there’s a lever on
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most ratchets this one has a little dial
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on the back same thing okay so now we’re
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gonna be tightening it okay so put this
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one on here
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I figured tighten this because if you go
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to ratchet and it’s and it’s it’s not a
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little snug you just kind of spin your
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wheel so we want to be able to wrapped
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it so we’re getting it close okay and
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then I’m putting it on here okay I just
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go like this I push it forward iraq into
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the back push it forward to the back
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right just like that see what you trying
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to spin a wrench around it see so
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everything’s nice and tight
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no if I want to loosen it I just flip
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that lever back I do just the opposite
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so I’ll put it back on there okay so
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that’s all there is to it and here I’m
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gonna show you a couple things about the
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cobalt brand that’s kind of cool
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is they actually so for the the
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Americans wrench which goes by fractions
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like we talked about last night it has a
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red ribbon around it right and so also
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on their on their sockets they have a
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red ribbon
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– okay and but if it’s the metric then
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they actually have blue see that kind of
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a cool little quick reference for it and
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that’s the same on the wrenches as well
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as the as well as the sockets so um and
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here’s another cool thing I thought I’d
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show you so here’s a normal ratchet okay
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and that’s a 3/8 inch ratchet is what
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that is because that’s the measurement
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of that knob that’s sticking out there
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okay and so you sometimes you’ll have to
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use you know depending on what you’re
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using this one has a has a 3/8 inch hole
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in it and you just put that in there
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right that works fine but then when you
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get into the smaller sizes they have a
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smaller hole okay and so that won’t fit
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in there so you have to use this adapter
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okay so you put that on there and then
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that fits in and you’re good to go so
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that’s kind of a standard type of
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ratchet this cobalt ratchet I
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was kind of cool because it actually has
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this design okay so it actually has
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three different sizes it has that 3/8
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inch size on the back and then it has
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the quarter inch here and then it has
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the half inch so it’s all built together
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I haven’t had this rack ratchet set for
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very long so I don’t know how strong it
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is
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but cobalt makes a pretty good brand for
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a mid grade tool so you know if you’re
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really reefing on this on sometimes
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these gears that are inside here can can
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giveaway if you get something that’s
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cheap so these gears like right in here
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if you’re if you like added a pipe to
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the end of this to really refund it you
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could actually destroy the ends inside
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if you get too cheap of a tool so I
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think Cobalts pretty good from what if
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what I’ve have experienced so that’s
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that piece and then you have lots of
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different accessories in here too so
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here’s just an extender it just fits on
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the end of that and if you needed to
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reach a little bit further you had to
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get around something that’s all that is
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just an extender okay okay and then I
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got the extenders for the other two same
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basically the same thing right so and
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that fits on this side okay and then you
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also have with this particular set it
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comes with a little screw driver adapter
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okay so you can use this just for to put
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inside let’s see it’s for the smaller
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sizes that’s meant for that so you can
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use it for smaller nuts and bolts okay
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and then another cool thing that
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actually came in this set to is it has
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an adapter so you can actually use this
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as a screwdriver so it has all these
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tips right here so it has all these tips
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and I could use it as a screwdriver too
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so it has a fill
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and flathead and you just put that in
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the end and then you could use that as a
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screwdriver to I would recommend you get
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your own screwdriver but this is in a
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pinch if you needed it it’s here so it’s
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kind of cool I’m trying to think of
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there’s anything else in here I think
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that’s about it okay that’s pretty much
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all there is to a ratchet socket set but
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I think that hopefully that this is
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gives you some familiarity with it and
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remember you could when you use your
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tools to put them back okay because
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there’s been a lot of jokes about a 10
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millimeter wrench or a 10 millimeter
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socket because it is true it’s the most
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common one and they tend to walk off so
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make sure you put put your tools back so
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that when you need them and you come
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back to them they’re there right so
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seems pretty simple enough but you’d be
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surprised how you know you finish a job
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and you’re like oh ok I’m done and then
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you move on and then you forget to put
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it away and then it just walks off so
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that 10 millimeter is absolutely like
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that it’s a running joke so anyway I
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hope this was helpful to you and we’re
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slowly building things I got the pliers
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we got the wrenches we got the the
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sockets and next week will be the drill
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which everyone’s excited about but I
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wanted to kind of build this up because
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we’ll use sockets with the drill right
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so that you have some familiarity with
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that I’m trying to stay as basically as
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I can and work my way up so ok thanks
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for watching and we’ll see you next time
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on tool Tuesday god bless you
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