In this episode of Fix It Radio, we dive deep into the world of DIY with a focus on tools, skills, and smart shopping tips. As the holiday season approaches, many of us are pondering over the perfect gifts for our loved ones with a knack for fixing. Whether they’re just starting their journey in the DIY realm or are seasoned veterans, finding the right tools can be a challenge. Listen in as we explore practical advice on selecting tools based on skill level, share personal anecdotes from our DIY experiences, and discuss the evolution of self-repair in the
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Walter? Upstairs! Are you alright?
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In the floor behind the chair.
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This is America.
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Does everybody know what time it is? Fix It Radio!
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And it’s that time, Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. Good morning on this Saturday before Thanksgiving, the 22nd of November. Larry Unger with me today. Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer. And good morning, Larry. Good morning, John. Good morning, by the way, for all of you out there, if you haven’t been out and about yet, it’s actually not too bad outside temperature as we speak, about 43 degrees, although with the sun, it feels a little warmer than that. So if you’re finishing up some of your last-minute decorations, things like that, as we head into the Thanksgiving weekend. Some will do that over Thanksgiving weekend, of course. We talked a lot about Christmas lights and all of that last weekend, which we will play next weekend again because we just figured we’d time that correctly where people can hear that again because a lot of folks will be listening to that on the weekend. Now, today, because I said this last week, we’re going to talk about gift ideas. tools specifically, things along those lines. So for those of you that are wondering, okay, what do I buy that person that is really hard to buy for? And, you know, we’ll give you some ideas. So I’ve got some things off the top of my head and some things we’ve even talked about. in the past, but I grabbed a list. This is from 2023, but a lot of these don’t change over time, and we’ll go through some of these. This is coming out of Esquire.com, and I was looking for mainly tools, not gadgets, because, you know, there’s all sorts of, I mean, the sky’s the limit anymore of the things, the crap, sorry, I don’t know what else to call it, that you can buy for someone. But at the end of the day, you need to know, I guess first things first, for those of you listening where you’ve got somebody that you want to try to buy something for, and this is hard, and I don’t know, Larry, exactly, maybe you can chime in here, but you probably need to rate the person that you’re buying things for mechanically speaking. In other words, are they a 1, which is kind of inept and don’t really know which end of the screwdriver to use, all the way to a 10 where they could fix the screwdriver they’re using?
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Exactly.
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I mean, there’s one, there’s all the way from one to 10. And, you know, a lot of folks probably fall in that, you know, four to six range where they’ve got some skills. I mean, and I’m not trying to be critical here or rude, please. Nobody take this this way. But it’s amazing. There’s times I’ll watch somebody work with something, a ratchet, a wrench, a screwdriver. And I cringe sometimes. It’s like, you know, that’s not how you do that, right?
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You’re going to hurt yourself.
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Yeah, this is not the proper way to actually… Use that particular tool. And for some of you listening, you’re like, there’s more than one way to use a screwdriver. Believe it or not, even how you grip it, how you use it, the proper way of actually getting a fastener screwed in and so on. Yeah, there is actually.
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And you have to maintain it. I mean, a screwdriver is a screwdriver, but you still have to maintain it.
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And again, I look at some of these sometimes and I’ll watch somebody use something and it’s almost like, would you just give me that thing? I’ll be done by now. I’ll have it done and worn out by the time you get the thing fixed. It’s like, just give it to me. Now, I say that because I’m very lucky, and I mean lucky on purpose, and you guys all know my father passed recently, but my dad was one of those guys where we never raised the, I call it the white flag of surrender when it came to fixing things around the house. I mean, if we could fix it ourselves, we did i mean there were a few things that you know you had to call in you know somebody like you know pumping the septic tank and things like that that we just not did not have the ability to do but even you know putting a roof on the house painting the house fixing things around the house the furnace the water heater you know things like that i mean there wasn’t too many things that we didn’t figure out a way and this by the way keep this in mind This was before the Internet, YouTube, and so on. I learned from somebody that just had to learn from other people even at times, how do you do such and such, because there wasn’t any other resources to go to. You got a book, maybe, and that was about it, Larry.
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Well, believe it or not, one of these days I’ll bring my library down because I’ve got books on top of books on home repairs, how to do things. Just because we didn’t have internet.
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Well, yeah, for you older people, like, yes, I’m older. I don’t know how else to say it. Yeah, I’m an old guy. I knew what it was like to work on things, vehicles included, before the internet existed. You didn’t have the ability to have a really tough repair, for example. And then go run out into, you know, go run over to the computer or your phone even and, you know, type in, you know, how to blah, blah, blah. That didn’t exist when I was younger and even up into my, well, I’m 61 and the Internet really didn’t get prolific as far as what we’re talking about until postmodern. Probably the mid 2000s. I mean, Internet was around way before that. But as far as people putting videos out and YouTube and all the different things that we have today, that stuff really didn’t get popular until really probably the mid 2000s is when it really kind of started to ramp up. and even you know i sold my stores in 2012 and even then larry it wasn’t as popular to have that exactly then as it even is today some 13 years later so in these last 13 years it has gotten you know prolifically larger in regards to that so we’ll we’ll talk today about some of the tools and by the way if you’ve got any suggestions on what somebody should own kind of that standard everybody should have on their tool bench their toolbox whatever you decide you know depending upon how you do it give us what your ideas are because there’s folks out there listening trying to figure out you know what do i buy that special someone in their life 303 477 5600 you can text us an idea as well 307 282 22 307 282 22 john and cheyenne you’re first today good morning good morning
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Before the call ends, have a great vacation. Enjoy yourself.
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I will. Thank you very much. I appreciate that.
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So I was just in Home Depot. Yeah, early bird gets the worm. Yeah, there you go. That scaffold that I was talking about last week, on sale, $100 off, $199. Oh, nice. And it’s a six-foot scaffold, you know, so you can get up to 12 feet if you’re tall. But thing works great. I was using them yesterday all day working in my barn. But I just wanted to let people know it comes apart easily, and you can carry it.
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Nice. That’s a great idea, by the way.
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And for safety reasons, it’s nice to stand on something rather than leaning on a ladder or something.
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So what’s the total price right now?
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$199.
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$199, okay. Plus that. And they’re normally $2.99, so they’re on special at Home Depot. I don’t know, probably why supplies last or something.
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Probably. That’s not a bad idea. I’m going to have to go look at one of those. That’s great. I’ve got plenty of things around my place that would come in handy for.
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The other thing, everyone should have a small battery-powered shop vac, like a three-gallon.
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Oh, best things ever. Yes, thank you. Yes.
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That one. And the other thing, I tell anybody young that’s going to start a house… Um, Buy one branded tool so all the batteries go together.
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Yeah, and that’s for us old guys where tools have made progressions through the years, John, as you know. I am even to this day trying to, I guess you could say, clean up how many different devices I have so that I can start consolidating into just one brand because otherwise you end up with, in my case, and I’ve consolidated because I had a lot more than this at one time, but in my case, I have… of course milwaukee snap-on so there’s two different chargers as we speak i have not too many dewalt tools but that one cordless screwdriver i’ve talked to you guys about i still have it’s the best screwdriver made so i have that and then believe it or not because of being in the shop for so many years and makita was a big tool for us in the shops and i still have a makita impact and some drills and so on so i have makita so i i still have four different types and i’d like to get down to just one or two but it’s hard you know like for example with me the snap-on stuff will never go away because it’s some of the best stuff made as well right and i got rid of everything
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I had some old Black & Decker electric battery stuff that died, and somebody had given me a Ryobi set, and I just kept expanding on that.
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There you go. Good way to do it.
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Everything I have is them. But I did read an article, and I know if you’re looking to save money like a homeowner, I have heard that the Harbor Freight, I think the brand is Bauer.
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The Bauer brand, yeah.
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And, you know, they’re cheaper than most other brands.
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No, for a homeowner, whether you’re doing that, whether you’re doing the Ryobi stuff, I will say one thing about Ryobi that I’ll give them kudos for. They have a plethora. of homeowner-type tools and even some things that some of the other big manufacturers, well, they’re a big manufacturer themselves, but some of the other competitors, let me say it that way, John, just don’t have. So for those of you that are looking for a brand that is on more of the less expensive side but still has good quality, yeah, there’s not a thing wrong with the Ryobi stuff.
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No, and they used to have an outlet that sold Ryobi at the Denver Premium Malls, but it closed up. I guess it wasn’t making any money, and that was a shame. Cause I went in there and they had like remanufactured drill for $25. Wow.
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That’s cheap.
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And, and if you already, already had the real B1 batteries. Yeah. That’s fine.
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Great way to do it.
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You know, Hey, John, have a great rest of your day.
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You do the same, John. I appreciate you very much, as always. And again, yeah, you guys have suggestions, just like we talked to John a moment ago. Anything that you can think of that you might want to add to the conversation, by all means, let us know. And I’m with John on this one. As you get started, especially some of you younger guys that may be just getting into the field or doing whatever, yeah, pick your poison. Which brand of tool? And do some research on the front side. And here’s the other thing. It’s a lot like Ford, Chevy, Ram. A lot of people have opinions. It doesn’t necessarily mean one brand is better than another. So be careful when you read forums and things like that because some of these guys are so hardcore that if they’re a Milwaukee guy, they’re a Milwaukee guy. If they’re a DeWalt guy, they’re a DeWalt guy. If they’re a Makita guy, they’re a Makita guy. You get the drift. If they’re into Ryobi, it’s only – I mean, you’ll hear a plethora of – And RIDGID, and there’s others, by the way. There’s other brands out there. There’s probably, I don’t know, 10, 12 total brands when it’s all said and done, when you throw in even some of the Walmart and Lowe’s and the Harbor Freight house brand, as John was just saying. At any rate, sit down and kind of decide. And the best way to do that is go online, look at each one of their sites and determine, okay, for the things that I do and use – Who has some of the better tools review-wise and so on for what I’m looking to do? Don’t look at the entire lineup. Look at what you’re going to be pretty much doing for you and then decide which one of those brands best fits me because I agree with John. Try to consolidate down to where you don’t have 15 different stinking battery chargers. I hate that. I still have far too many. And, again, I’m doing my best to try to consolidate some of those down. What’s hard is when you have, like in my case, I’ve got some Makita tools that – For all intents and purposes, they work fabulous. I have no issues with them whatsoever. It’s like, why would I swap these out other than to just not have another charger kicking around on the bench, which I get, but there’s nothing wrong, Larry, with the tools themselves.
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No, that’s the sad part. But the other thing that I was going to talk about is I’ve been noticing lately that there are several tools that their batteries will interchange with other tool brands. That would be nice. So that would be something you want to look at.
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And there are adapters and things, even for some of those that don’t have interchangeable – it’s not an interchangeable battery for what Larry’s talking about. There are those that have – And there’s adapters, I should say, made where, for example, you can use a Milwaukee battery on DeWalt tool or DeWalt battery on a, you know, you can look at some of that as well. So there’s some that are out there that way as well. So, again, first things first, make the decision on. What you’re actually going to use, what platform is the best way to say that, what brand, what brand platform are you going to use? Every one of them has some of their own little idiosyncrasies. John’s advice on, and I talked about last year, the tire inflators. We sold a bunch of those, by the way. John’s right. The cordless vacuums.
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Oh, yes.
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Unless it’s a really major quote-unquote job, you know, sweeping job, whatever, I don’t roll my corded shop vac out anymore. I’ve got one of the little Milwaukee vacuums. It’s like the size of a lunchbox, basically. It’s 18-volt, very small. And if you’re going to vacuum the car or do anything with it at all, you literally can do just about everything you want with that little vacuum. And if there’s even small cleanup in the house or whatever, you’re going to vacuum out the tracks of the door or the window jams or whatever the case may be. You just carry it around like a lunchbox. It’s got the hose that comes out, flip it on, and off you go.
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It carries all its government accessories.
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It’s got everything with it. Yeah, John, thank you. That is a great tip. And again, the majority of the brands have something similar. Just look and see which one of those really kind of fits. And along with all of the other tools that they have, see exactly what fits best. Now, some of the guys, some of them have gotten really smart. Milwaukee, for example, they have two different lineup of tools voltage wise, 12 and 18. But yet they have one charger that will do both battery types.
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Yes.
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So whether you’re whether you have an 18 volt battery or 12 volt battery, you can you can charge them simultaneously, by the way, because there are two different types of of battery size wise. And because the 12 volt tools are smaller to get into more compact areas and so on than what the 18s are. So, like, if you’re going to get one of the favorite tools I have from them, by the way, is one of their cordless ratchets, which works fabulous. You use that thing on so many things. It’s like a regular ratchet, only it’s, of course, power and it’s cordless. And you used to have air ones of those. Still do, by the way. Probably the next thing I need to figure out what I’m going to do with because once I got this cordless one, I haven’t used an air one in years. ages and they make them in quarter and three eights both and they are super handy and because of the size of the small 12 volt battery it’s a small platform ratchet when it’s all said and done where you can still get into a lot of tight spots and if i was turning a wrench again as a technician would i have that as one of my top tools in the toolbox i absolutely would because they work fabulous so All right, let’s do this. We’ll take a quick break. I’ve got text messages coming that I’ll read. We’ll come back. We’ll start in kind of a list here for what you can do over Christmas. And the reason why I wanted to do this today is Black Friday coming up on, of course, Friday, which is a day before even when our next show would play. Give you guys plenty of time where if you want to participate in either Black Friday or Cyber Monday, it gives you the ability to do that. We’ll be right back, though. FixItRadio.com is our website. FixIt Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us. Got a couple of comments from folks texting in, by the way, certain tools to own. Again, 307-282-22 is our text line. You can also call us directly, 303-477-5600. So John from Cheyenne mentioned the battery-powered shop vac. Somebody else texted in a bulb. So some of you that have higher fixtures, places where it’s hard to, you know, you don’t want to get up on a ladder and so on. They actually make these ends whereby you can affix it to the end of an extended pole, which you can buy different lengths of. Of course, you guys, you know, they sell those all different, you know, fashions at, again, all the big box stores have those. And then you put this device, which they sent a picture of, and I’ve never used, by the way, but it basically, depending upon the type of bulb that you’re using, there’s various ends that you can put on the pole that then go up and around the light bulb and allow you to basically affix the tool to the bulb, unscrew it, bring it down, put a new bulb in, put it back up. reattach it, and off you go. Great idea, by the way. I have some of those, and I’m always dragging the ladder out to change some of those, and it’s a pain in the neck. So great idea, and that’s what we’re looking for. So some of you that have things along those lines, and that particular example or that particular tool that somebody texted in, I went and looked up. They’re not that expensive. You can buy that assortment for under $20. Now, you’ve got to have the pole, of course, but a lot of you might already have that for something else that you do. Interesting. For long-reach painting, things like that. So some of you might have extended sticks, poles, whatever you want to call them, whereby all you need to do is screw this particular device to the end and then use that to do those high-end bulbs, depending upon how tall your ceilings are and things like that. So good advice. Thank you, by the way, very much. I appreciate that. Jerry and Greeley, you’re next.
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I was thinking about getting a snowblower and I’m looking online and I see that there’s some battery-powered units. I was wondering if you had any opinions about those.
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I’ve never used a battery-powered snowblower. In fact, I’ve gotten to the point anymore, Jerry, where I don’t use much of a snowblower, period. Occasionally, even in our snow removal business, we’ll use a snowblower. But honestly, if you stay up with the storm, I have found that that scoop-type shovel I talk about a lot, or it’s a shovel that looks like a snowplow, not the scoop shovels, but the actual snowplow shovels. If you use that and stay up with the storm, reality is you never really need a snowblower. That’s why we don’t use them.
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Right. Well, and that’s the way I’ve done it for many years, but I’m getting older. I hear you. I’ve got some health problems.
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So I get the question on the battery-powered ones, and I haven’t looked, but are they single-stage or two-stage?
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Single. I’m looking at a two-stage one right now.
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Oh, they do make a two-stage?
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Yeah, they do make a bigger one. In fact, I saw one at Ace Hardware the other day. It was a two-stage.
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Because, as you know, they’re just two different approaches where the single stage is more of a paddle type arrangement where the The paddle, the wheel, I guess you could say, is moving faster, and it becomes the apparatus that’s throwing the snow out the chute, where a two-stage has an auger that throws into another set of blades that then throws everything out. Truthfully, for the majority of the snow that we have in Colorado, unless it’s a really deep two-footer, a single stage actually works better than a two-stage. That I can tell you from experience.
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Right, right.
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The son uses a – he bought a battery-powered single stage, but it’s only about a 12-inch wide.
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Yeah, they’re not very wide. That’s exactly right on the singles.
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That’s correct. His sidewalk is very small. It lives in a cul-de-sac type of thing. So he doesn’t have a lot of snow to show, but he swears by it.
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I was just going to say, Jerry, some of the battery-powered stuff today – I would not hesitate to buy one, to be honest with you. That is one of the areas where they’ve got the battery end of things really dialed in on the majority of these smaller devices. We’re not quite there yet with riding lawnmowers, although there are some commercial mowers even that are battery-operated, although I will tell you that in my world, very, very few providers use them because they’re just not quite there yet as far as they’re concerned. daily power longevity and so on but homeowner use and so on i would have no problem using an electric snowblower okay well i appreciate the advice and it’s a lot less hassle when it’s all said and done yes it is as you know from having to worry about starting it and i mean i think for us that’s the biggest reason we’ve never used snowblowers is that we can get the place shoveled sometimes faster than it takes to start the dang snowblower yeah
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Right.
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I mean, when it’s really cold out and that thing’s in the back of a truck and then you unload it and go to fire it up and so on, I’m not exaggerating, Jerry. There are times where you could literally shovel it faster than you can start the snowblower.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes. But to Jerry’s point, as we get older, it’s a lot more stringent to use a shovel.
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I understand. I understand fully.
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That battery-powered would not be a bad deal.
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Hey, guys, I’m right there with you. I’m not knocking that at all. And again, I’m unique. I usually, because of my… patterns of life and what i’ve always done and so on i’m always up anyways so i watch the storm and if i feel like i need to do something i go out and push some snow and shovel and do whatever so i try to stay up with the storm so that it never gets to be that you know that foot or more of snow jerry but i get it some people want to sleep in and get up in the morning and just go handle things and nothing wrong with that either nobody not everybody’s me right well my my
SPEAKER 16 :
My schedule is I’m still working. I’m gone 10 hours a day.
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And that’s a problem. Yeah, you come home to that, and that’s a big issue. Absolutely. Fully understand. Well, thank you, gentlemen. No, good question, by the way. Jerry, thank you for that. We’re in that season where that was a great question, by the way. Steve, go ahead, sir.
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Good morning. What a stupendous Saturday. Yes, it is.
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Absolutely.
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Anyway, I thought you had a good idea. I think, for Christmas gift, and that is the travel CO detector. You just stick in your backpack.
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Oh, good idea. Yes, yes, yes.
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It’s a great idea. We were at Airbnb at a pretty pricey place back southwest of Syracuse. There were no CO detectors, and I thought Airbnb required that. I guess I’m wrong about that. And then also, you know, we talked a couple weeks ago about how the bad actors have been able to come up with a relatively cheap device and basically defeat all of your Wi-Fi, cameras, security, et cetera.
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I was watching a guy last night that has a custom-built device that goes on a flipper. If anybody knows what a flipper is, it goes on a flipper, and it can go in and do several things all at one time, hacking into your system literally simultaneously and doing that in a matter of seconds.
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Well, this is going to be the next big thing. What can you do to get around now? Well, there’s a company that just announced an opening in Colorado Springs. They’re called Terra Firma. And instead of using RF, which propagates everywhere, they use light. And the cool thing about light when you’re connecting security systems is it’s very directional and it can’t be hacked. So they hired 150 people already for the Springs operation, and they’re still getting a breadboard model. But in terms of creative, innovative tech, looks like a good thing. Okay. Terra Firma.
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Good to know.
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And then, yeah, I’m going to follow them closely. I can’t, I haven’t figured they’re publicly traded yet, and I probably suspect they are not. And then for the man who has everything, have you seen on Amazon the personal portable modular nuclear reactor for $49.95? I have not seen that, no. Well, that’s $49,950.
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$49,000.
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There we go. Okay. I’m just teasing, but it’s coming to that. You know what? You’re not far off on that one, Steve. You’re probably, I know we’re exaggerating a little bit, but I would venture to guess we’ll get to a point in time down the road. Whether it’s our lifetime or not, I don’t know, but you know that’s coming.
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Yeah, I can’t figure out what happened to fuel cell technology. It’s been around for 50 years. It’s been really pricey. But I saw a documentary. They’ve been doing fuel cell cars now for 10 years. Right. And they have yet to make it to market. And that’s infrastructure.
SPEAKER 14 :
Infrastructure is the biggest reason. That’s my that’s my opinion. I could be wrong. And I know there’s some listeners out there that work in that space. But I believe, Steve, all in all, in that one, it literally comes down to just infrastructure and infrastructure. And probably on top of that, knowledge, you know, people knowing how to actually use it, what to do to actually refuel and so on, it’s not as easy as either sticking a nozzle in and pumping gas and or plugging a cord in.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, no, you’ve got to keep liquid hydrogen at, what, minus 320 or something like that?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I don’t know. That’s out of my league. But it’s a lot like, you know, for example, natural gas. People always wonder, why didn’t natural gas catch on more? Because it’s really clean and it’s clean inside the engine, no carbon buildup and so on. Honestly? Between the lack of BTUs, meaning it doesn’t make as much power as what gasoline would, and the other issue with natural gas is the filling up of is not as convenient and easy as filling up gas is. We all forget. I think even sometimes the industry forgets, and this is not to be rude to anybody. But drivers are dumb, Steve. I’m sorry to say that. I watch some of these drivers at times. They’re lucky to pull up to the pump, nonetheless put in natural gas. I mean, at the end of the day, these people are doing good to get from A to B. There’s no way they’re going to stick a natural gas nozzle in and fill their car up. It’s not happening.
SPEAKER 03 :
Funny you should mention that. The other day, I was at the King Soopers gas pump, and I’m pumping away. And a guy rolls up in the pump right across from me. He’s smoking a cigar, talking on the cell phone. I go, whoa.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
So I shut down. Precisely. My side of the pump. And I go over, and I’m standing by the emergency shutout. And, you know, instead of playing advertisements on these little video screens they have on the pumps, they ought to be playing these YouTubes. The gas station is blowing up with people doing that. Oh, I know. It’s crazy. One quick last question. Yes. You know, not to color me too skeptical. But these filters they have in the refrigerator for water coming into the ice maker, do they really do anything? I don’t think they’re reverse osmosis. They can’t be the way they’re done.
SPEAKER 14 :
In fact, that’s a great question. Paul, the water guy who’s now a great sponsor of ours, that’s a direct question for him. He can explain. I’m going to get him on air here in the next couple of weeks, by the way. He’s the guy that can explain all of that and really tell you that that fridge filter is probably more of a feel-good measure than it is anything else.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s what I’m thinking. It also seems to be they’re hooked up to a timer if you go out and buy a $150 ruler all the time.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s exactly what it is. You’re 100% correct. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, listen, have a great Thanksgiving. Yeah, I appreciate it, Steve.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Somebody texted in also as far as gift ideas go. And some of you have seen these. You can either make them in a high bay or they make them low that they just screw in. So high bay where they actually have to be kind of installed or you can screw these into a current outlet. And that’s those lights, the LED lights that have like the paddles on them that you can – Flip down, turn, move, really get light where you want it directed. And they, whoever sent that in, I’ve got a couple of those. And, yes, they work absolutely fabulous. You can use them inside the home, outside the home, garage, shop, whatever. They are fabulous. And what’s nice about them is you can direct the light up, down, sideways, kind of wherever you want to so that you end up with the direction of the light going exactly where you need it. And, man, live, that’s one thing. Larry and I can appreciate it was back in the day when you had a shop and all they made were eight foot fluorescent bulbs and you were doing good to even get some brightness out of those man alive the new shops today with the LED technology and so on there is so much more light in a shop now than we used to have I was talking about that last week with drop lights and so on because you never had the ability to really you know get up underneath and look at anything and now we’ve got you know shops or these new technicians those of you that are in the you know working your way into that field it is so much better now than what it used to be there is no comparison
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, it’s tons. In fact, I’ve got two of those pedal lights in my garage.
SPEAKER 14 :
They work great.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, fantastic.
SPEAKER 14 :
Great gift idea. That’s another one of those where if you know somebody that does some work in their shop and so on, and maybe you’ve been there and you’ve kind of noticed that it’s a little dingy and dark and so on. And these are not that expensive. You can typically buy those for $10 to $20 somewhere in that neighborhood. They’re just not that expensive.
SPEAKER 06 :
I bought a two-pack for $19. There you go.
SPEAKER 14 :
So $10 a pop, and that makes it pretty easy.
SPEAKER 06 :
And they’re just screwing.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, they just grew right into the existing light. And there are some. Somebody sent me a picture of one where it’s more of like a high bay type fixture where you may have to actually go into a box or where there would be an existing light or whatever. But some of you that are handy can figure some of that out. But, yeah, they work really, really well. Now, I’ll also tell you, and I have a couple of these out in my barn, the high bay round LED lights, oh, man, those things work fabulous. I’ve got those and some regular like eight-foot LEDs. I wish I’d just done those high bay LEDs all across because they’re so much brighter even than the LED strip lights that you can shoot, you can see anything. You don’t need to use a flashlight for anything as long as you’ve got that direct light going into it. It is super bright. So all sorts of things on the lighting end of things. It’s another great gift idea. Let’s go through a few of these things on the list, though. Somebody else did say, before I get going, though, Power plunger. I’ve never used one of these. Somebody sent me a picture of this thing. So it’s actually a plunger whereby you pump it up with air, and it’s the air that’s going to shoot down and actually move whatever debris is inside of the toilet or the sink or whatever. I’ve never used one, but it looks like a fantastic idea. So power plunger is another gift idea that somebody sent. All right, we’ll roll through a few of these now. This one is, I don’t know, I have a difference of opinion on this one. So this is the WorkPro 12-in-1 Ratcheting Multi-Bit Screwdriver. Now, here’s why I’m not a big fan of the ratcheting screwdriver I am a fan of. Those are great. But I’m not a fan of the ones that have all the bits inside the handle, and here’s why. Because it makes the screwdriver, for me personally, going back to if you’re using it correctly, it makes it uncomfortable for me to use. Now, if you’re just doing some little work, some light work, and you just want to throw that in a kitchen drawer and you’ve always got whatever screwdriver with all the bits you need and it’s just for that kind of use, more power to you. They would work fine for that. But if you’re going to do any type of serious work with a screwdriver, I don’t like the way the handle feels because the bits are in the handle kind of where your thumb and forefinger would be. And if you know what I mean by how you use a screwdriver properly, that’s where your thumb and forefinger go. And that’s what you use to actually guide the screwdriver properly and keep everything straight. And there’s a form for using a screwdriver, which I talked about earlier. And this one doesn’t necessarily allow you to do that. Now, not against having the multi-tool screwdrivers, not by any stretch of imagination, but I don’t like the real, I’ve got small hands, so I don’t like really thick grips on any kind of tool, especially the screwdriver, because my hands don’t work very well for that.
SPEAKER 06 :
I’ve got two types of those screwdrivers, one where the bits fit where the shank goes into the handle, and the other one where the bits go into the handle itself.
SPEAKER 14 :
Which I like those. Those are the old-fashioned ones.
SPEAKER 06 :
I like the one with the handle.
SPEAKER 14 :
You just pull out what you want, change it, and off you go, and it’s just got the little screw on the top.
SPEAKER 06 :
The one with the bits where the shank goes in, that’s what you’re talking about, where the…
SPEAKER 14 :
it’s right interferes with your fingers and how you grip the screwdriver now i like a ratcheting screwdriver because they’re super fast although i’m just going to tell you after buying or gift somebody gifted me my son gifted me years ago or not years ago about a year ago he gifted me one of the dewalt electric gyro screwdrivers and after having that I barely pull out a regular straight or Phillips screwdriver anymore because that thing works so well. And the gyro, which makes it so nice, is it’s hard to explain, but you hold the button down and then you turn the screwdriver clockwise, counterclockwise, depending upon what you’re screwing in or out. And depending upon how far and quickly you turn the handle of the screwdriver in your wrist, basically, your wrist action depends on how fast the bit moves. So it literally speeds up or slows down according to your movement of your wrist, meaning if you want to drive that screwdriver or that screw in very slowly, you can. I mean, you can get it down to just a snail’s pace, or you can put it in at the high speed, all depending upon the flick of your wrist and what you’re actually – it is the slickest screwdriver i’m not exaggerating no one else i’ve not seen anybody else make this dewalt screwdriver like this it’s a one of a kind and i will tell you that it is my go-to for almost everything that involves doing something with a screw especially doing any kind of electrical work you’re pulling a screw out of a face plate or you’re putting in an outlet or whatever way better than even a screw gun because you’ve got a little more control over what you’re doing because the way the wrist action is and you can control the speed so much easier anyways long story short that dewalt cordless screwdriver and yes it takes its own battery charger so it’s an additional thing you have but in this case worth it worth it and here’s the other thing about it i think i only ever charge the battery maybe twice a year it’s it lasts that long i’m not exaggerating it’s got that good of a battery life to it and how they do the gyro thing inside of it i have no idea because this thing doesn’t matter whether you’re upside down whether you’re using it you know perpendicular to the surface or parallel to the surface or whatever, how in the world that thing works internally in all the different positions, I have no idea, but you can literally turn this thing any way you want and the gyro still works that way. I’ve never seen that it’s the coolest I’ll show Larry a picture it break it is the coolest screwdriver to bring it in next time I’m on just to show it works fabulous. So I’ll tell you that I would much rather have that and granted it’s a little more money than just a regular ratcheting screwdriver but as far as overall use goes, it’s one of the best tools I think I’ve owned in a long time. All right, we’ll continue this conversation on tools to buy, things to look at for Black Friday and so on. And I think I’ll close with this as far as this segment goes. Know the person you’re buying stuff for. What are they, you know, Take a peek. Some of you that have significant others, you know, when they’re not around, go look in the garage and kind of look at the tools they have and the brands and so on. It’ll kind of give you an idea of what flair they have for certain items and will kind of lead you in the right direction. We’ll be right back, though. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 14 :
All right, somebody was asking also, what’s the part number for that screwdriver I was just mentioning? It’s a DeWalt DCF682N1. So DCF682N1. That’s the DeWalt screwdriver I was just mentioning a moment ago. Jeff in Montana, go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hey, happy Turkey Day.
SPEAKER 14 :
Hey, happy Turkey Day to you as well.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yep. You guys were talking about fuel cells as one of the topics that came up.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I think we have Jimmy Carter to blame for that because back in the 80s or late 70s, fuel cells were coming along, natural gas and everything. They worked very, very cleanly on hydrogen. But as you said, hydrogen is difficult to store, transport. It leaks out. I mean, hydrogen isn’t going to work. So they had made some progress on using natural gas, methane. But then Carter came along because we had a natural gas shortage due to the energy crisis and mandated the move to coal for power plants and such. So natural gas kind of, pardon the pun, went on the back burner. Yeah, yeah. And because of that, we delayed the development of natural gas fuel cells until the big fracking effort made natural gas affordable again. Right. I think it’s going to make a resurgence. I’ve looked for them for like home generators because I would love to have a home generator that runs directly, a fuel cell that runs directly off of propane. Because I can just put that up to my tank here and it would just become part of the house.
SPEAKER 13 :
That’d be awesome.
SPEAKER 08 :
Unfortunately, yeah. But they’re not there yet. I think they’re going to be.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I mean, a lot of this stuff, as you know, and this is where, again, Jeff, not to get political on Fix It Radio, but if government would get out of the way and quit incentivizing or de-incentivizing certain things and just let the market do what the market does, I believe you’d already have some of these things.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think you’re absolutely right. And what I said about fuel cells and natural gas applies to cars as well. Because, you know, there are idiots out there. But think of it that with folks with electric cars, we’re trusting them to hook up high voltage to their cars and not kill themselves. And so far, I haven’t heard of anybody electrocuting themselves. I mean, it’s probably not beyond the pale, but… I think they’ve made the chargers pretty foolproof.
SPEAKER 13 :
They have. They have. Rarely is there any issues.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, so if you’re going to do compressed natural gas or that sort of thing, I mean, I have a thousand-gallon propane tank, you know, just outside my house, and I don’t think anything about it. You know, that would basically, that’s the same technology as you used for the mother of all bombs back in the Gulf War. Right, right. They would lay natural gas out and then ignite it, and it would just suck all the oxygen out. But, you know, I don’t know anybody up here who’s had a – you have some natural – or some propane leaks and stuff. But that – it’s few and far between the accidents involving even propane or natural gas. And regarding screwdrivers – The one I found, I found it at Ace, I think they make them everywhere, but they’re 13-in-1, and I don’t know, you may have been talking about this, where all of the different bits lie in the shaft, and you just pull the ends out, and then the bits out of the end, and… And that’s my go-to because not only do you have a bunch of different screws, screwdrivers and nut drivers and torques and everything in there, but you also have, I think if I counted right, you have four different sizes of nut drivers.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s right. Yeah, I like the Klein version of that particular tool. Personally, that’s the one I like. You end up with, let me think through this, depending upon which one you buy, because they make it either in Phillips or straight, or there’s a Torx version with Allen screws, Allen bits as well. So it depends on which version you want. But if you buy both of those, you end up with one tool. Let me think about this for a minute, Jeff, because the way they do the sleeves and everything, you get one, two, three, four, five, six screws. What is it? Is it eight total that you end up with, or is it 12?
SPEAKER 07 :
Eight different bits. Yep. Okay. Eight different bits. And then the shanks are also tools.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, they’re nut drivers in and of themselves.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. They’re all different sizes. Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Great idea.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. And I started out with the ones with the bits in the handle, and it was just – it was more of a nuisance because you just, you’d have to go in there and then you’d have to look and figure out which is the bit and you’d have to dig it out with your hand. And if you couldn’t do that, you have to tip it. Then they all spill out. Then you got to select the one you want and put it back in.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Um, with, with the ones we’re talking about, you just figure out which one you want, you flip it and you’re done. Yep. And, uh, I put one in each of my cars just in case I need to change a bulb out or something. You can do that with just that one tool. I don’t take out like a taillight.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, of course, I’m a tool junkie and have far more than what, you know. If I laid them all out at one time, it would probably be scary, Jeff. Luckily, I don’t because they’re not all in one place at one time, and that’s a good thing. Otherwise, it would scare me.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. And I had a, uh, a, um, a, well, what’s it called? You were talking about the cheap end, uh, power tools. Um, the, uh, the battery operated one. Right. Right. I had my, my first set was, there was, it was a markdown set. It had been a demo set at home Depot and it was marked down. I got like a screwdriver, a flashlight, a saw, a, uh, all sorts of different tools for like 99 bucks. And I just loved that kit. Um, but then the battery started going on it and, uh, and, and then I acquired some other ones and it was low voltage. I think it was 12 volts and, uh, you know, a 12 volt power shot just doesn’t really cut it. No pun intended.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. And, and so I, uh, I started moving up to other tools and it was with great reluctance that I took that big case cause I had used it to build an addition, but I took it down to, uh, the restore, and donated it there so somebody, some up-and-comer could get it and continue using it. Good job. It is hard to let go of tools.
SPEAKER 14 :
It is, and I had to do the same thing with an old, old DeWalt set I had that had gotten to the point where you couldn’t hardly buy the NiCad, I should say, batteries for it any longer, and I’d even tried some of the adapters to use the lithiums with it, and it just wasn’t worth dinking with, and I did the same thing, just donated it away.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, so I’m down to, I think, Two different kinds. No, actually, it’s all DeWalt except for the Dremel tools, and they have their own batteries, so that’s never going to go away anyway.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Very cool.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good stuff. Thanks, sir. No, Jeff, thank you very much. Happy Thanksgiving to you. Somebody also messaged in on tool to buy someone is the, and this is on Amazon, $20. It’s the Joris Connectable Contour Gauge. So if you’re trying to figure out you know, how to set tile in a particular area, and you need a template for that or whatever. These contour gauges, which have come so far from what they used to be, oh, yeah, game changer as far as how that goes. So, yeah, thank you, by the way. That’s something that I don’t own. Don’t do enough stuff probably contour-wise where – I’m not a tile setter or anything along those lines, but if you’re into some of that or you do different things along those lines or for $20 you just want a contour gauge, pretty inexpensive when it’s all said and done.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and for us woodworkers, that comes in very handy.
SPEAKER 14 :
Very much so. Now, back to what Jeff was saying a moment ago, and this is something to think about. For some of you guys that do more things on the road, and maybe you’ve already thought through this, but some of the power tools, like somebody was talking earlier with Harbor Freight and Bauer, for example, for some of you guys that are out and about and you think, you know, You change a tire periodically or you might even change one for somebody else periodically. Buying that tool and a set of impacts and keeping the most common ones that folks would need for tires and just have that with you in a soft case all the time you’d never break out the quote-unquote breaker bar after having that. And it’s cheap enough anymore where if you’re somebody that does that on a fairly routine basis, you could darn near carry what you need at all times and never have to worry about doing anything else. So Joe’s up next. Joe, go ahead.
SPEAKER 04 :
John, the handiest thing I’ve got, I don’t know if the other manufacturers make them, but I’ve got the Ryobi, you know, with the one, the battery that fits everything.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
They sell these little battery-operated shop backs, John. They come in one, three, five. I’ve got a one-gallon shop back that’s the size of a makeup case. I mean, literally, you want to clean out your car, you know, you can climb in the car, you know, you carry with you. It also acts as a blower. You can put the hose on backwards. And I think the actual, if you already have the battery… I think it was like $69 for the shop vac. It was just… Oh, yeah. They’re great. Yeah. And, John, one more thing. Last week I mentioned the magnetic collars, you know, if you want to put a screw. They won’t fit on a standard… The collar itself, you need a two-inch bit because the collar slides over the shank of the bit. So when you order them, I got a set of three, and it came with three different… two-inch shank driver bits. I think two Phillips and a flathead. But it’s the slickest thing. You slide the magnetic collar over that long screwdriver bill, and it just holds the screw like iron. Upside down, sideways. You know, and I think, John, I got a set of three of them for like eight bucks. You know, three collars, three bits for eight bucks. You know, it’s kind of like a stocking stuffer. And then, of course, the 90-degree… 90 degree uh uh attachment for your drill if you want to drill in a tight space and you don’t get you don’t have like that 12 inches worth of clearance to get your drill you know right tight you know like yeah the 90 the 90 inch uh the 90 inch adapter for the end of your drill or the other thing which is i like to you can get a 10 inch uh flexible flexible uh wand which is great for getting into, you know what I’m talking about, it’s like a snake. Yes. It’s got a magnetic chuck on one end, and it’s a 10-inch long flexible neck on it, snake. So, you know, you can just twist it around and get it in wherever you need to get, which is another neat thing. I think that’s another $10 or $12 item.
SPEAKER 14 :
They work great. Those are my suggestions. Awesome. Appreciate you, Joe, very much. And, okay, let’s see what’s next on this list because we haven’t gotten too far because we’ve been talking about screwdrivers. And so the next on the list is a cordless drill driver kit. And, again, we’ve already been talking about that. Pick your poison. So many different brands out there. You decide what you want. And then the next one, which this is a specific brand, Makita metric drill and screw bit set. Everybody now, all the manufacturers, I should say, make a – kit whereby it’ll have nut drivers it’ll have drill bits it’ll have all the different bits for you know torques and phillips and straight bit and so on and allen and the square bits even for certain types of fasteners and so on and it all comes in a nice little handy carrying case and i probably here’s the stupid thing for me I probably have three or four different ones of these from different brands that I’ve either bought, gotten as gifts, bought on sale, whatever. And yet, I don’t know why, I still find myself digging through the screwdriver drawer to find the right bit. And it’s like, why don’t I just grab that case and go carry it to wherever I’m going and go do my thing? I need to do better at that. I think my old habits of what I used to do back, you know, turning a wrench, because we didn’t have these fancy kits and so on. You just had your drawer with your bits and stuff in it, which I still have. So I just naturally… go there and then grab it but i’m learning to use some of these kits that they make because then you just carry that to your job site and you everything you have or everything you need is all in one place yep so that’s another great handy tool and by the way not very expensive uh laser level and stud finder is the next one yeah i mean stud finders have come so far in the laser level end of things if you’re hanging a picture even or doing anything along those lines so much nicer than what it used to be takes all of the the guesswork out of it the next one on this list is a really nice hammer now that one is again hammers are like screwdrivers everybody has their preference and they’re not all created equal in other words when you’re in the automotive world if you ever see a mechanic using a claw hammer you know you’re in trouble
SPEAKER 06 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 14 :
Because claw hammers don’t belong in a repair shop, because unless you’re pounding a nail somewhere, they’re not for working on vehicles. Same thing with a ball-peen hammer. It is not meant to drive nails. Right. So if you see a guy using a ball-peen hammer to drive nails, now, unless it’s an emergency or something… Yeah, those don’t go together. So it’s one of those things where hammers are very specific for the job that you’re doing. And you can always tell somebody experienced or a novice based upon the hammer they’re actually using to do the job. And I’m not exaggerating at all when I say that. You can learn more from somebody in their technical skills as to the screwdriver and hammer they pull out to go do the job. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, you’re absolutely right.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right, that’s it for today, you guys. We’ll be back after Thanksgiving, but hopefully through the Good Friday end of things, you’ll find some things to get that significant other. We’ll talk more about this as we head down the stretch to Christmas as well. Another episode of Fix It Radio right here on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 09 :
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