By Dad, how do I?
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Cordless Drill
This video is a little longer because I show a lot of the attachments you can get for the drill.
If you just want the basics, you probably only need to watch the first 6 or 7 minutes.
The DeWalt drill is $99.00, it was double that a couple years ago.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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hey kids so it’s tool Tuesday we’re
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finally getting to the drill I know that
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it’s been a while in a while everybody’s
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kind of been waiting for it but I wanted
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to kind of build up to it because you
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needed to know about sockets because you
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also use sockets with with your drill
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and the different pieces we haven’t got
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to the screwdrivers but I think you know
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I can kind of introduce screwdrivers a
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little bit or at least the tips and what
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they are called and I’m gonna put it put
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together a series of smaller videos and
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I’ll string them all together showing
00:33
how each piece works so I’ll clear my
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table and show each individual piece but
00:38
before we do that you know the drill I
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got a bad joke for you bonus bad joke
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right well it’s going to tell you a joke
00:45
about a drill but I thought it was too
00:47
boring yeah so anyway let’s get into it
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okay so before we even get into the
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cordless drill I wanted to show you what
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I’ve had this for probably 25 years I
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think and this is what we used to do
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this you can tell it’s kind of it’s been
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used but um and so this is kind of the
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concept here right you’re gonna deal
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with this these jaws here that are gonna
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hold your whatever bit you’re gonna put
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in there okay and so kind of how this
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works is you can hold hold it hold it
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down and see how those those are opening
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up inside there and then if I flip
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there’s a it’s a reversible variable
01:33
speed okay and that’s what most cordless
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ones are – so you can if I put it on
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reverse and I hold this Chuck right here
01:42
I can go like that and you can see that
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it’s actually tightening okay so it’s
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all the way tightened now if I flip the
01:49
switch and I do the same thing the
01:50
opposite way I can open those back up
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okay so we’re gonna do that with with
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the cordless drill so back in my day
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this is kind of all we had and then you
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would put your bit in here okay so a
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little bit put that in there
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hand tighten it and then you’d have on
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your
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or you always had a Chuck key okay sorry
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I’m fighting it here um you have a Chuck
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key and then you’d have to tighten it
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down so you go like that and tighten it
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down okay and then you’d want to go I
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was always taught to go around it I
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don’t know that that matters but now now
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you’re good to go okay so I just wanted
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to show you something for comparison and
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like I said this is a variable speed
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which means if you hold down the trigger
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lightly I can go a certain speed or if I
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put it okay all right so that’s that
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okay so here’s here’s the drill that I
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would recommend for most homeowners
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because it’s around $100 and it’s served
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me well I’ve had it for I think a year
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and a half and the battery you know the
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big part of the quality and a cordless
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drill is the battery if you get if you
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go to cheap the battery won’t hold a
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charge after a while and you’ll be
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frustrated so I would highly recommend
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you spend you know again it’s $100 so
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yeah so I think you’ll be happy with
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this drill it has two speeds a 1 and a 2
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right here the one is for speed and then
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the 2 is for torque don’t worry about
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that too much
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I just basically leave it on one for
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most most jobs if you’re just drilling a
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hole in sheetrock or whatever you can
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get by just leaving it on one I hardly
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ever take it off of one okay and then if
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we’re gonna add a bit to it okay
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actually let me show you this first so
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there’s there’s this collar right here
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this inside collar and it has a series
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of numbers on it one all the way up to
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where it’s got a drill bit on it okay
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and when you’re going to change your bit
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remember how I showed you that cordon
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drill how you have to change the bit
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kind of similar but we’re gonna you
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won’t need to actually use that Chuck
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key to tighten it down and I’ll show you
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what you need to do so you’re gonna hold
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this and then you’re gonna I got to get
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it tight enough to where it’ll actually
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open okay so you have to keep turning
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that then you see that I kept turning
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this inside collar
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so that this thing would actually open
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so now if I hold this color here and I’m
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running it at 13 right now the further
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down you go it’s easier to hold it yeah
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so let’s just put it at like 11 so now
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I’m gonna hold it I’m just holding that
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lightly
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and see how the jaws are opening okay
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and again it’s a very good speed to okay
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so now we’re gonna put this this is the
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bit I almost always use I just leave
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this bit in there because it’s a
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phillips head and it’s and it’s got a
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good point on it so it fits most of the
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screws that I usually use okay so now
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I’m just gonna put that in there and
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then I’m gonna put it I’m gonna push
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this button okay the forward button and
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then I’m just going to hold it hold this
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right here right I’m gonna hold it and
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see I don’t you can see that let’s see
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anyway the jaws are closing around it
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okay see that and then I just hold this
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and if I put this on a on a lower one
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it’s really easy to hold this the
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further I go up though it gets harder
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and harder to hold that if you go all
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the way up to the the drill part it’s
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really hard and I think you can even
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flip down yeah you can actually hold it
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at the at the drill unless you’re
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stronger than me maybe you maybe you can
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okay so and I’ll show you with all those
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dials are for for other things but if
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you’re trying to put put a bit in you’re
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gonna want to put dial this down a
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little bit so that you can hold this and
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then now I just put it on reverse and
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I’m holding it not quite enough I need
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to dial it up just a little bit a little
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bit more yeah so that I can actually get
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that thing to come apart okay okay so
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that’s the basics of it now we’ll walk
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through all the other pieces I realized
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I should have showed you the battery –
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you’re so right so the battery pack is
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right here
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and all you do to change the battery is
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you just push down on this button here
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and slide it out okay and this one here
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it’s been charging so the lights
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actually read when the battery needs
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charging actually that’s going to pop
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this out I’ll pop in this one let’s see
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that the light actually flashes because
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it’s being charged this one was fully
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charged that’s why it had the red light
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so then now all we do is we just take
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that and we stick it here and slide it
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right in okay so I’m gonna show you how
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to put in drill bits kind of the same
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thing that once you understand how how
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to add your different bits it’s fairly
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easy and there’s so many different
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attachments that you can put that you
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can use for different jobs
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so first we’ll just start with a mic so
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you have wood drill bits and then you
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have metal drill bits okay and the case
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is all the cases are tough to open at
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least for me maybe not for you over
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there for me uh anyway so and you can
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see that I’ve actually lost or broken a
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lot of the smaller bits get broken if
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you’re not careful so I’ve managed to
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hang on to most of the other bits but it
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just happens right
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I managed to hang on to all my metal
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bits these are metal and then these are
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for wood they’re just designed a little
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bit different so when you pick them out
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so I actually put I put wood drill bit
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so I just ended up right not right on
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the side okay so basically the same
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thing again this is a quarter-inch I’m
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gonna put it inside let’s see so I want
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to put it on a lower speed so I can hold
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this and then all I do is I just stick
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it inside there and I just kind of hold
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on to it while it tightens it around it
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and then I hold on to it no it’s in
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there and then now if I want to drill
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for drilling you put it on that drill
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setting okay and then they need to be
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good if you needed more torque for some
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reason where you’re going through metal
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with a metal bit then you put it on too
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and just kind of take it slow
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roll through whenever you’re going
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through metal you want to take that slow
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okay so all right so that’s that okay so
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we got our piece of wood my trusty piece
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of wood that I keep using I’m gonna show
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you how to put a screw in okay so this
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is just a Philips head um tip like I
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showed you and then this I showed these
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screws before I use these all the time
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they’re just sheetrock screws so if you
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go in looking for sheetrock screws at
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the hardware store you should be able to
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find them the nice thing about them is
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they got a nice coarse thread on them
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and they tend to hold pretty well okay
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so I’m gonna go ahead and put my my bit
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back in and just kind of hold it like
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that it’s set on 15 so it might be a
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little hard to hold all right so now I’m
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good and let me show you this so this is
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one of the cool things about how it
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ratchets out and that’s what this is one
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of the things you’d use this setting for
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okay so I’m gonna make sure I’m gonna go
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into my table let’s go from the top then
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so I’m just gonna go here and I’m gonna
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drive down in okay and all you have to
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do is just kind of hold it okay
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ratchet ratchet it out there okay so if
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I put it here and if I if I ratchet this
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thing out watch let me just show you
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this I’m gonna go to it like a a smaller
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setting so I just messed with the
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setting a little bit I’m gonna put it
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like at a five okay and let’s see what
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happens once once it starts trying to
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drive it it’ll ratchet out its
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ratcheting out because if you need to
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tighten this up in order to get it to go
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so we’re gonna go up to let’s go to nine
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[Music]
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still not quite strong enough of doing
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11 okay it’s still not quite sunk so we
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might need to and what I would normally
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do on this is I’d actually take it so
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that’s pretty flush right there so
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that’s what we do for that so let’s take
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that back out okay so that’s for the
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basic screw like that okay
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okay I’m gonna show you a different kind
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of screw this I’ve showed you this
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before when I built my bench it’s a
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coded screw and it’s meant for to go
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outside you’ll see this four decks and
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that sort of thing but the nice thing
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about it being coated they drive in a
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lot easier than those other sheetrock
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screws and it comes with see how it’s
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got a star on it it actually comes with
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the star bit when you buy the when you
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buy the box of these it actually comes
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with a new bit every time so that’s so I
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have lots of these bits um they’re kind
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of nice for that so let me just show you
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real quick so you can just pick that in
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here just by itself
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that’s one way to do it and then you can
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stick it in here you kind of just hold
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the top because the top doesn’t have any
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threads on okay so that you don’t hurt
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yourself and we’re gonna drive it down
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it’s on like setting number 12 right now
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let’s see if it goes through not quite
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pretty close okay let’s do it on 13 and
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so the nice thing about that setting is
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it keeps you from over over sinking sea
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so kind of ratchets out where you’re at
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so okay so that’s one way to do that
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another way to do it is like this but
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it’s a little wobbly so I’m going to
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drive the thing all the way in you can
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actually use a bit holder like this this
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one’s actually meant for driving
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sheetrock screws because the nice thing
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about it is it’s got a sleeve on it so
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it can actually yeah I don’t have my bit
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here but you can so you put the screw in
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it’s not gonna cover this one up
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completely but you’ll see will actually
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go there and cover it up so that it’ll
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hold it for you when you’re driving in
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the screw okay okay so this is the bit
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holder and it’s kind of nice it’s got a
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sleeve on it okay
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and then the next thing about this is
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that you could if you were gonna put up
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a bunch of sheetrock I don’t have a
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sheetrock so sheetrock’s 1/2 inch and
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you’d probably want to go into the stud
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about an inch so you’d probably use like
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an inch and a half screw I don’t have
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one on me unfortunately this one’s about
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3/4 I think so
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so watch this that’s kind of cool so
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it’s got a sleeve that actually comes
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out on it okay see that it’s got a
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sleeve that’s actually coming out right
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there to help hold that screw right and
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then you just put that in
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sometimes you have to play with that a
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little bit to make sure it’s seated in
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there good okay so we’re gonna do that
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so that guy’s there watch this now so
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you just put that here
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you got that sleeve holding it for me
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right pretty cool
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so and then see how it went down a
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little bit it kind of sunk down a little
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bit I might want to adjust that so you
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might play around with that if you’re
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doing sheet rock you don’t want it to
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sink through because then it’ll go
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through the paper and then it’s not
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really holding good so that’s another
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nice thing about that setting you would
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adjust that maybe play with that a
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little bit right back it off a little
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bit so it’s not sinking through and then
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you’re then you’re going to town just
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kind of going around and setting those
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screws in okay and you can also stick I
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just put a different bit in there right
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I put a screwdriver bit put that star
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back in so that’s another way to drive
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this too
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I’m not going to go all the way in
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because I don’t want to go into my table
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but I am and I’ve just kind of Holtz
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yeah I’m holding the party with no
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threads and just kind of help it’s
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helping get helping to get started I
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could slide this down too
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it’s not going to cover the hole drilled
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I could show you on the side of this but
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everything gets kind of wobbly since
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ever since this screw is kind of long
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okay so I think that’s that and then the
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nice thing about this bit holder too if
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you were gonna you can do all kind of
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all kinds of these tips right and this
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is so you take this this tip out stick
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in you know if you’re putting together
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something from Ikea if you’ve ever done
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that and it’s an Allen wrench and it’s
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six hours later you’re still cranking on
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that allen wrench you can stick one of
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these in you know find the right Allen
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wrench that goes in here you put it in
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here your tip and you’re you’re in
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business right there look be a lot
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quicker that’ll speed things up so and
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then this has it has Phillips head and
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that’s what all these are they’re just
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variations here let me turn around
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different variations of a Philips head a
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Philips head is just the one with the
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plus right if you don’t know what that
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is right so those are just different
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thicknesses that will work with
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different screws and then these are just
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considered flat heads okay
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and I always when I pick a screw I avoid
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flat heads at all possible I think if at
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all possible because if you go to stick
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this guy in here and you put it here and
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you have a flat head that you’re trying
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to pull out this thing you’re fighting
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it all the time trying to get that out
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of it okay it’ll slide off and
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everything with that extra cross piece
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on a Philips head it stays in a lot
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better let me show you another trick to
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really quick I was just going to use
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this tip a mistake a lot of people make
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is this when you’re trying to unscrew
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and you want to get it out okay the
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tendency is to one that you put the
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drill in reverse and just and kind of
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help it out but you actually want to
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push down and let the screw do the work
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okay so you’re pushing down to make sure
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that stays inside there and then just
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letting the drill do the work
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okay I think that I know I used to do
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that when I first learned how to use it
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intended to want to help the drill but
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you actually want to push down and let
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the screw do the work and work itself
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out okay okay so remember when we did
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the we put that just bolt through we
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stick the bolt in we have the other
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pieces here and we put that on here and
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we put our locking washer on and then we
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put our nut on right so let’s go ahead
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and do that again and then this time
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we’re gonna use our our drill okay so
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with your drill you can get these
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different adapters that will hold a
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socket okay so we’re gonna go ahead and
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put that in I got it on thirteen so that
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I can hold it again if I tried to do it
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I thought the drill part I couldn’t hold
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it if it was I could go with lower two
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but yeah
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okay so let’s so I got my half-inch
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socket
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I’m just gonna put that on there and
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then I’m gonna I can go ahead and
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probably even hold this hand tight for
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now
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and so there’s what’s called deep
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sockets this one isn’t a deep socket so
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it’s probably not going to quite make it
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but they’ll get me close can’t quite get
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there now all I need to do is I’m just
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gonna go hold this side go from this
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side
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you know okay which is good because
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everything is tight you see that my lock
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washer is actually flat its down so so
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we’re good okay so no we go to remove it
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come to the same thing pretty easy you
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just put it in reverse and now it’s just
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working this way off you can see how
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that would speed up putting together
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furniture like if you’re ever putting
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together a dining table or anything a
20:05
lot of times you’re using sockets and/or
20:09
wrenches and a drill will help a lot
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with that so okay yeah let’s show you
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the show you the lighting bolt mount to
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kind of the same thing that lag screw
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you know technically it’s a lag screw a
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lot of people call this a lag bolt but
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it has a point on it so it’s actually a
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like screw okay and that was here this
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one let’s go ahead and put a washer on
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so it doesn’t go into four I’m gonna go
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here just kind of hand tighten it
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started okay put this on here and I’m
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gonna drive it in actually let me turn
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this down so you can see it again if I
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turned down that rap shit’ not gonna
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quite get it okay and so I keep
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tightening it up a little bit more there
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you go yeah set it just just where we
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wanted it I wanted to show you this real
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quick – I forgot all about this so
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somebody had asked what my thoughts were
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on this is some new product that
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supposedly is you know you can use it
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for a lot of different applications it
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seems okay it seems a little bit hokey
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in my opinion so basically I’ll show you
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what it does is you can use it for
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multiple side sizes on there it was
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about $15 I think and you could buy a
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rock ratchet set a socket set for about
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30 or 40 dollars so I would say just get
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a ratchet set but anyway so the
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principle is that
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these little beads are these little
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holders adjust to whatever size you’re
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gonna put it on right so it’ll adjust
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it’ll go it says it goes from 1/4 inch
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to 3/4 or 7 millimeter to 19 millimeter
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and basically all it does is when you
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push it in it just holds it so um you
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know it might work for some things I
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think long term it’s not something I
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would use because again it’s around $15
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anyway and I’m ratchet set for ratchet
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so would give me to be double that but
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that’s not a whole lot of money so
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basically I’m just gonna do so it does
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work again just not something I would
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recommend okay so I’m gonna show you how
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to use some of these bits here so let’s
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start off with just a wood bit okay a
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little wood drill bit we’re gonna stick
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that in here and again we’re gonna move
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that up to the actual drill part okay
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and you just stick it here okay nice and
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clean I have a piece down below that I’m
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using just to protect things right okay
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so that’s that one okay so this is
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called a hole saw I have this one too
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with less teeth and I feel like this
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one’s does a better job okay I think
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those we’re a little cheap anyway so
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let’s go ahead and take it off the grill
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size I’ll put it back on the drill okay
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so now here’s a trick so when you’re
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drilling this
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okay you want to see how it’s got a nice
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clean edge there you want to flip it
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over and come from the other side if I
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don’t I mean there’s two things that
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will happen here so I thought I’m care
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about this wood and I hold this tight
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and they go through it’ll be a clean
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edge on the other side but if I don’t
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hold it tight it’s gonna tear that out
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so you want to flip it over and come
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back from the other side okay okay but
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it would it tore out here if I wouldn’t
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have done that okay if I wouldn’t flip
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it over like that it would have tore out
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so anyway that’s how you use that and
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then you can sometimes it can be a bit
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of a fight to get that piece back out of
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there so there’s a couple ways you can
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pop this out the way I normally do is I
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just loosen this okay and then you can
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just work that up and it’ll come out
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okay or if you’re good then you just
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kind of do it lightly and work your way
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back with your way back the other way
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and then this won’t get stuck in there
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but that’s one way okay okay so this is
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what’s called a speed bit kind of
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similar to the whole I don’t know that
25:02
they come out quite as clean as the
25:03
whole saw but I’m just going to show you
25:05
what those do is I want to pick out a
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one inch and then put it on on the drill
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again drill setting and then the best
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way I’ve found is just to go ahead and
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hold this tight right put another piece
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under that I don’t care about and I’m
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gonna put that on
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okay and then I drilled drilled through
25:35
here’s another tip I wanted to show you
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it’s called a countersink and the nice
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thing about it is when it goes in it’ll
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put a little it puts a little groove
25:44
right there so that your your screw
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screw head will kind of just sink down
25:49
inside so let’s go ahead and show what
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that looks like okay see that it’s got a
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little hole for the head to sit in okay
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here’s one other kind of cool this is
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kind of a luxury but it’s a it’s a L
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adapter that if you need to reach around
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a corner kind of cool you can put that
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guy on there and then now you can
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actually drill with around the corner so
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I thought I’d show you that I you know I
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only had this for one applications I
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just couldn’t reach and so I ended up
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getting it and it was kind of cool to be
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able to reach around the corner and use
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that so anyway I’ve had to try that as
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well okay so I’ve showed you a lot of
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different ways you can use a drill so
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hopefully that gives you the confidence
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to go ahead and pick one up um you’ll
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they’ll come in so handy you’ll be
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surprised how many different ways you
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can use them besides what I showed you
27:01
there’s probably other things that I’ve
27:02
left out but at least this gives you
27:03
should give you the confidence to
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detract for yourself
27:07
and then if you get one then you know
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you just get better and better at it
27:10
because you learn the settings there
27:11
pretty soon you’re not even thinking
27:12
while you’re just in those callers to
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change bits it just happens naturally so
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anyway thanks for watching and we’ll see
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you next week on tool tuesday and god
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bless you
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