10 Tools That Solve 90% of Your Problems (Part 1) | Episode 602

0:00Hey, ChancesRevivalPunk.com. Good morning. It is 64 degrees and we are recording this time. There was a slight snafu, what we're good to go now. And today we're talking about the tin tools that solve 90% of the problems. If you could only own tin tools, these are the tin tools. I'm going to change out one of these on here. I'm going to move it to possibly a bonus number 11. Also, I'm going to redo the order. But before we get into all of that, though, let's take a listen to our morning theme music.

1:10And it's another day of running late. Yesterday, I almost had it down pat this morning. There were snafu's. I'm getting there. Tools, the tin tools you need to solve 90% of your problems, especially around the house, if you are a homeowner, even if you're a renter. When I was a renter, I did a lot of stuff. Maybe I recocked my shower one time. It was old and the cock was starting to it's cock was moldy. So I tore that out and then I cleaned the grout. I got a grout thing. It was gross. It was an apartment for a really long time. But the rent was great. When I moved out, my rent had recently gone up to 600 a month for a one bedroom apartment. It was a pretty dang big apartment. Not like a great apartment by any means. But when you hear what people are paying

2:16for rent now, they would kill for a $600 apartment. Anyway, number one on the list to me is always going to be a cordless drill. Later on, we'll talk about just having screwdrivers, but there are so many times where just having a cordless drill makes your life better and easier. I've thought about like as an as an upgrade as an additional not on this list, I've thought about getting one of those power screwdrivers. They're not strong. You're not going to like drill holes with them. But there's a lot of times where just not having to do the screwdriving motion to unscrew or screw things would just be a dream. You're taking out like 20 screws just having a power screwdriver is great. I usually just use my drill. Like that, I just use my drill. I'm going to make a real good attempt to edit that out.

3:25Anyway, if I have to take in or out a whole lot of screws, I usually just grab my screwdriver and just go easy on it. Starting holes, drilling holes. I don't have a pocket hole jig, but sometimes I'll just kind of DIY a pocket hole. You take your screwdriver, I mean, you take your drill, and you drill at an angle in a piece of wood, a small pilot hole, and then you go back in with a slightly larger drill bit that will accommodate your entire screw, and you make a little hole that doesn't go all the way through, like halfway or so, so that the wood has some kind of structural stability, right? You need some wood for it to hold on to so it doesn't just snap off. And then you put your screw in and you have a concealed hole and a strong, strong-ish joint.

4:28So, I definitely would like to get a pocket hole jig that's well outside this top tin list, but having a pocket hole jig is one of those things you should think about. If you're all woodworking, repair, and mechanically inclined, I've put new legs on my couch because I just not going to buy a couch for this house, right? This couch is going to last us until we move, and then I don't give a shield what happens to it. Go in the dump, burn, burn, I don't care, I'm just not replacing it, I'm just going to have it limp along until we move, which leads us straight into a multi-bit screwdriver. I just said there's a lot of times where I used my drill instead of a screwdriver, but it's not always applicable, right? You can't always use it. It's too big and too heavy and too indelicate, right? You're taking tiny screws off of the back of a laptop, not really the best tool for

5:36the job. I have a couple multi-bit screwdrivers. I have one kind of very specific electronic or pair ones. It has all of the safety and the specialty bits that you don't need for most things, right? Only kind of small, delicate electronics have the weird security ones, the weird little triangle ones, all of the weird bits that they don't want, they don't want to use a Phillips head screw, just because everyone has it, and they kind of want to discourage you from opening your laptop or your iPhone, whatever. I bought just a generic fix it toolkit and it works great. I've lost a couple pieces of the year. It's maintained pretty well, but having been dropped multiple times,

6:38I should at some point replace it, but at this point, it's still good. It works for everything. Having a bigger actual, because this thing is it's small, it's made for delicate things, right? Which is the opposite of the screwdriver. I also make a point for just having multiple screwdrivers, right? I have a bunch of the like cheap, take a bit screwdriver that makes your screwdriver handle, basically be able to to screw anything, right? Like you can put any of the the bits, which are universal, into the screwdriver and do whatever you want, right? It won't take the bits, there's probably an adapter, but it won't standard. It won't take the bits for my delicate one, because they're tiny, right? Those are tiny screws, and they fit in a tiny screwdriver. The normal the normal bits, I think there is a standard for it, because I've

7:45interchanged them tons. Unless there's a crazy oddball out there, they seem to be pretty standard, and that'll be between the both of those, right? I think you should own back to screwdrivers, right? I think there is a sod case, especially as I get older, to just having a good set of screwdrivers, and I kind of want wood ones, right? I've I have had my wife for like Christmas fears to go bought me a set of screwdrivers, because I really wanted them, and they came in all different sizes and shapes, a little folding like roll-up pouch thing, a tool roll-up is a pretty good, I like that a lot. Anyway, it came in this roll-up case, and you know, they're okay, but they weren't, this is a terrible design flaw, because I bet they

8:46came from Teemo, which is fine for most things, there tends to be a lot of jank though. The screwdrivers weren't full-tang, so the screwdriver metal only went into the handle, the plastic handle like, an inch or so out of like five inches, so on multiple ones of them, I had the handle snap off, basically making it useless at that point, unless I want to re-handle like a Teemo screwdriver, and I can tell you that I don't. So that's, there's really, there's really a place for good, solid made screwdrivers. Granted, you're not gonna, I've never broke a handle off one of those multi-screwdrivers, I just haven't, but I myself am really considering getting like a set of

9:47wooden screwdrivers and just have those, right? You don't need like every, you just need like a couple of the stand, like the most used sizes. Let's move on. Adjustable wrench. I feel like this isn't really one item as much as it is a few items. You need a few different kinds of adjustable wrench, right? Sometimes you need a crescent wrench for a lot of things, right? Like once again, would be nice to have a day case set of wrenches for a lot of things, they will work better. A crescent wrench isn't always the best tool, there's a little bit of give and play in it, they can get locked up over the years if you don't maintain them well. I've had to throw away mini wrenches because they'll get rusted and seize up or the mechanism is cheap and it'll

10:51bind to get stuck. There tends to be on the cheap ones, there tends to be a bit too much play in it, right? You adjust it to the right size and it'll strip off bolts because it's loose and it'll go around the corner and it'll start stripping off the bolt. Not always, but also a lot of times an adjustable crescent wrench will save the day. There's a time and place for a crescent wrench and there's a time and place for a dedicated set of wrenches that are not going to have any play and are going to be a solid fit. Once again, quality comes into things a lot. If you could buy a vintage craftman set, you'd probably be solid. The other one, I feel like you absolutely definitely, what is this guy? Why do you have lights? What are you? There's flashing orange lights

11:57on a car. There's so bizarre and there's so many cars behind me. Anyway, wow, go around me, dude. Absolutely go around me. Go the fuck around me. Yeah, go fuck you bitches. Yeah, you guys are probably doing drugs and shit. Anyway, monkey wrench. Everyone's absolutely own a monkey wrench. There's a lot of times where a monkey wrench is the only thing that will do the damn job and if you don't have it, you really are kicking yourself. Mine either lost or it seized up and I had to get a new one and I really needed it at that time. Fucking plumbing issues. So if you do not have a monkey wrench, love God. Go add a monkey wrench to your toolset.

12:59And I'm surprised you haven't needed it. If you're a younger person, listen into this because you discovered things to go wrong and you probably need to be prepared and your dad was a piece of shit and never taught you about tools and you don't own a monkey wrench. Go buy a monkey wrench. Trust me, one day you'll be like, oh man, that monkey wrench saved the day. Yeah, it happens a lot. Anyway, let's move on. I think the next one is pliers. I'm gonna probably have to do a two-part episode guys. Pliers. Yep, I was right. Channel lock or slip joint. So many of the things on this list are more categories of tools that you should own and not this specific tool. When I said, when I said drill, having an impact drill probably also is a good idea. And there's a chance at some point in your life you may need hammer drill. And when you need one,

14:06you need one. Some of these things though, some of these things though are better rented or borrowed. Right, there's a lot of things where it's like, I'm divine on this. There's a lot of times where I hate to buy a tool to only use once for a specific job. But the part of me that loves tools doesn't care. I got to buy another tool. So however you want to go with that, suppliers. There's a channel locks I use quite a lot, especially in conjunction with either the monkey wrench or the crescent wrench. I tend to use those often together. Like having the crescent wrench or the monkey wrench lock on to something and using the channel locks to tighten. Yes, I've also used like two crescent wrenches or monkey wrench and a crescent wrench.

15:11But sometimes the channel locks are either more readily available or depending on size, right? Sometimes the channel locks get really big and you can really just grab something and crank on it. So channel locks are a fantastic tool to have. Those guys that sped around me just barely ended up ahead of me because of the red light. And they're telling each other going off to probably have butt sex. Anyway, vice grips are a little good one to have. Like I said, if they category and you need a bunch of pliers, and you don't know, suppliers will absolutely save the day when that's what you need. However, there are step-ins. The other day, my step-son for his, maybe it was Christmas. He's like 20 now. He really wanted an eyebrow

16:17piercing. So we gave him a gift card to a piercing place for Christmas. And he got it in, anyway, the ball fell off recently and he was having trouble getting it on. And small and slippery right makes sense. So he was like, God, can you help me? It was like, it was like five in the morning or something, right? Because, love God, he doesn't sleep and I get up early. I'm trying to put it on and it's just hard and it's slippery. I get my leatherman multi-tool and I grab it with that and absolutely does the trick. So in the future, I know that's the way to go. Use, use pliers to start it and then then you can type, well, honestly, I just use the pliers. That's, hey, there's those douchebags. It's fed past me. Enjoy getting your gas, douche's next one. Last one for this particular episode

17:18and then we'll pick up tomorrow. Good, I have a show topic for tomorrow. Utility knife. I highly believe everybody, especially if you're a man, should have a pocket knife. Women too should have a pocket knife. Every man absolutely must have a pocket knife. It's something for me to get a new one, I think. I need to sharpen this one, but also, I've carried this same EDC knife for forever, for so long. I think it's time to try a new design. I think it's the Spider-Code tenacious or Endura. I don't remember. I will link it in the show notes. Probably. Anyway, having something like a box cutter is great for, especially for things that

18:19are going to just pointlessly dull your pocket knife. You should have your pocket knife good and sharpen all times. I need to get a new sharpening system probably today. But things like opening boxes, cutting open plastic clamshells, cutting, cutting, LVP flooring, cutting insulation, cutting carpet. There are a million things that you need a utility knife for and you have to have one and blades. There's nothing like, there's nothing like just slapping in a new blade and being done with it, right? They're cheap and you can do it a lot. Absolutely have a utility knife. Opening boxes, cutting rope trimming materials, emergency cutting. They make, they make skinning utility knives so that you don't have to have a skinning knife and keep it sharp. You just

19:23slap in a new kind of like scalpel blade and skin. Those things are really awesome. They're a little pricey, but I think they're pretty neat. So with that, let's wrap up this particular episode and we'll pick back up with five more on the morrow. This was James from www.tronopunk.com.de. I want to survive you guys. Here. Fixing the world one nail one tear. Sweat drips down like molten steel. No surrender. No time to kneel. Give me tools. Yeah, yeah, give me tools. Build it up. Break it down. No. Give me tools. Yeah,

20:28give me tools. My hands, my will. My burning fuel. Thought dust clouds like storm inside. Blue print dreams of wolves upside. Drill in my hand tearing through time. DIY sold in his filthy prime. Brick by brick. I carved my name with every cut. I stake my claim. Give me tools. Yeah, yeah, give me tools. Build it up. Break it down. No. Give me tools. Yeah, yeah, give me tools. My hands, my will. My burning fuel. Brick by brick. I carved my name with every cut. I stake my claim. Give me tools. Yeah, yeah, give me tools.

21:47Build it up. Break it down. No. Give me tools. Yeah, yeah, give me tools. My hands, my will. My burning fuel. Break it down. No rules. Yeah, yeah, give me tools. My hands, my will. My burning fuel. Break by brick. It down. No rules.