34:20 “after you’ve had any good pair of pliers long enough… you’ll make them into a [wire] stripper the first time you cut a hot wire with them” 😂 facts 😅

As an HVAC guy, I've only seen a couple of HVAC guys that have *any* non-specialized Lennox tools. Granted, I've only been in the field ~5 years, but in my experience, a good number of us tend to use Klein and Milwaukee for our basic tools. And the Klein refrigeration 11-in-1 is basically universal. *Occasionally*, you get a guy that has a Lennox or generic multi-bit driver, but it's usually a Klein.

@EpyonRules

2 жыл бұрын

Also, the Malco bits are really great, especially since they come in multiple lengths, all the way up to 10" iirc.

@MrCheezeus

8 ай бұрын

lennox 4 roller pipe cutter is really nice on soft copper , but yeah klein milwaukee knipex and wera are staples in the hvac shop I work at

I keep one of those magnetic parts bowl in every bag... always have someplace to keep track of screws and such. That's also where I keep the Klein screwdriver bits when I take it out of the 10 in 1.

Fucking. Love. WAGO! Whoever did the install for my building at work used all the backstab/push-in style connectors. I've come across five so far that have lost connection and started to melt the connector.

I work on aircraft carriers. A standard tool bag for me if I’m not 100% sure on what I’m gonna need is a 2lb maul, a standard wrench roll up to 1 1/8” with a 1/2” drive ratchet and matching socket set, an E-110 or as we call it a hex wrench, a folding stick ruler and 6” scale, a set of feeler gauges, a big long beater flat head, a 12” adjustable and an 8” adjustable, a flashlight, an Allen pack, a pair of linesman pliers and needle nose pliers, a scribe and finally an inspection mirror.

@ChaoticGoodChris

2 жыл бұрын

What is an E-110? :)

@daltontroy26

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChaoticGoodChris it’s an offset hex wrench comes in handy when the fastener is a little bigger than what I have on me at the time. And it can take a beating with a maul

Controls Engineer here. Knippex (largest pliers down to the finest yellow set for PCBs). Swisstools screwdriverd (all insulated, we aren’t mechanics ☺️), Fluke detector and DMM for >=230VAC, Agilent for signals (doesn’t have the rating for working in a cabinet with high currents). I don’t use Wago at work but at home ofc. Electrical tape in all current colours. A small hex wrench set. Weller portable propane soldering iron. I use similar heat shrink like you do, mine is the one with the glue inside. Edding brilliant markers. Bosch laser measure. Grounding set for working on electronics out in the field. I used to do a lot of hot work. No manager wants his machine that‘s needed for a batch with xx million USD value shut off. Doesn’t matter what it is, if you shut it off you‘ll have a batch record with hundreds of warnings and alarms and notifications. That’s why my iPhone became one of the most important tools too as working on live circuits can‘t be done alone but only one guy was on call.. So then I usually got the manager of the line out of bed, told him what hat happened and asked to hold the line and send rescue services to room x in building y floor z. I am no friend of screwdrivers without 6kV rating, even my bloody cutter is rated for that. I have had to cut live circuits with it an here I am today. Non-insulated tools can easily fall into a cabinet and all hell will be released in case of a short (no more shaking hands after such an arc). Thanks to the clean rooms I have all my tools in at least three zones and our allowance is pretty good too. We get the tools we need, not the tools we want.

While I don't EDC a toolbag, the most useful tool I've found while working in laptop/handheld electronics repair is the spudger. It's just a simple plastic stick with a flat end and a pointy end used to pry apart cases and manipulate components without damaging them. Turns out there are a tone of situations where I want to do that. I also use them as a scraper when cleaning (I even keep one in the kitchen for washing dishes), and I've even used them as stir sticks. They do tend to wear out relatively quickly, but since they're cheap and come in bulk packs I treat them as disposables. I bought a 50 pack off Amazon for under $15, and I can't recommend them enough. I'll post a link to them in a comment below this one.

this is a great bag if you can keep your packout under 40lbs, otherwise it's going to cause some issues about 2 weeks after you start rocking this as a daily. Had it, used it, sold it, now im looking at the roller version of this for my next travel bag. alternatively, the husky roller case is perfect and the exact right price point.

Some very small Mayhew pry bars come in very handy. Maybe not daily, but enough to justify their place in the bag.

15:30 yeah i'm sure it's the same or similar to what phone techs use when locating a phone line in the ground. i've seen them with one of those detectors but on a long pole waving it by the ground and it beeps when they are over the buried wire. they used that when our phone line got broken, they could trace it with that

A trailer wiring tester... Gotta have one.

If they think that toner is amazing wait till they see an old dude like me show up with a couple of old phone headsets with a 9v battery and some alligator clips. Then they watch me and a buddy phone out a few hundred wires in an hour or so.

@ChaoticGoodChris

6 ай бұрын

Skills like that are why you guys get Old School Cool points.

Mr Boden, your vidjeos are fkn soothing.

@ChaoticGoodChris

2 жыл бұрын

Awwww, thank you sir. I actually have a whole channel of soothing videos I make. It's super zen and designed to help people chill out. Have a look at this. kzread.info/dron/QjtnQbukuDUnsf0UkBbiFA.html

I should tell Chris about the Wera Tool-Check Plus, I bet he'd find it useful. Ha!

I always carry at least one clean dry bamboo disposable chopstick (they do tend to travel in pairs like other things..) , good dielectric, snappable pokey bit thingy.

@ChaoticGoodChris

2 жыл бұрын

That's clever, I use them in the shop all the time but never put one in my electrical bag. Thank you! :)

@captainmidnite93

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChaoticGoodChris For around my shop (and 2kw Tesla coil..) my chicken stick is an old drumstick from Ben Harper's drummer..

@ChaoticGoodChris

2 жыл бұрын

LMFAO. I use a Nylon tip 5A on a regular basis so I can appreciate that. Also, you get bonus points for having good taste in music. :)

@captainmidnite93

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChaoticGoodChris Another little trick I learned out on oil rigs, the 4½ inch inner quartz discharge tube out of a high pressure sodium lamp is perfect for honing all your blades. Gives a surprisingly sharp edge.

You should check out Veto pro pac tech pac.

I've got Knipex 12 40 200 strippers. But I'm usually working with 30 gauge up to at most 22 gauge. Though they supposedly work up to 7 gauge, and I have verified that they work with 12. My main multimeter is a Siglent SDM3065X-SC. 6.5-digit meter, with scan card (so it can scan 12 voltage channels & 4 current channels, reading them in sequence and logging the readings). Of course it's hardly EDC, since it's a bench meter, but I use it most days since I'm an embedded developer. I've got a basic Fluke 323 clamp meter, and a couple of random other handheld meters. I've also got a handheld LCR meter, handy for measuring inductors. Logic analyzer: Saleae LogicPro 8. Very nice little device. 8 channel PC-based logic analyzer. Other than the multimeter it's the most helpful troubleshooting tool for embedded development. Wrenches: I've got a set of Knipex Pliers-Wrenches. WAAAY nicer than the Crescent-style adjustable wrenches. Soldering: got a Hakko FX888, and a chinese but good enough Aoyue Int 866 hot air station with IR pre-heater. All good enough, but there's better these days. Senspeek PCBite: The best workholding for soldering or testing I've ever had. Little magnetic standoff clamps and a steel plate. Holds the board rock solid. They've also got some pretty decent pogo-pinned probes for use with a logic analyzer and/or multimeter. I haven't used their oscilloscope probes, because I got a bunch of knockoffs of Noga NF10433 magnetic-base indicator holders and 3D-printed some clamps that can hold oscilloscope probes. Cheaper, and they don't have anything other than 100MHz and 200MHz probes, which would be limiting. The coolest tool I get to work with (though I don't own it of course, it's something like half a million dollars with the options we've got) is a Rode & Schwarz CMW-500 Wideband Radio Communication Tester. It's a cellular site in a box. LTE, GSM, WLAN, Bluetooth, etc. We have a walk-in Faraday cage for using it, since it can output plenty of power on the licensed bands.

@ChaoticGoodChris

2 жыл бұрын

YOU have a hell of a fun job. :)

@PeregrineBF

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChaoticGoodChris Yeah, embedded development has the fun bits of EE and CS all in one.

Are you using Raychem SCL shrink tube?

Let me know when you start talking about the backpack

Nice tool bag, is it rugged?

@proghosterone

Ай бұрын

Both the exterior and interior are made of 1680D ballistic nylon. I carried one of these for 5yrs outdoors as a cable tech in rural Georgia and abused the hell out of it; it got left out in a tornado, run over at least once, dropped off ladders, and sliced away at for years by improperly-stored tools because of my fucking stupid-ass trainees. The bottom bumper area is a plasticky boot sole material that will immediately get scuffed and ugly as hell, so don't expect it to look nice, but it's a work bag, it isn't supposed to look nice. The nylon fabric, on the other hand, can hold up to some serious wear & tear, assuming they still make 'em like they used to. If you want to get a feel for the material, go to any big box hardware store and fondle the higher-end Husky bags. Husky has always made really nice 1680D bags too. I've carried their field physician's-style bags for years. As much of a Milwaukee fangirl as I may be, the one suggestion I will always give from my own anecdotal experience is this: never buy anything fabric from Milwaukee. They're overpriced and won't last.

Get yourself a set of Probe Master probes and your gag reflex will kick in anytime you look at a set of Fluke probes. And the Probe Master probes, while pricey, are nowhere near the cost of Fluke.

Wagos>wirenuts

you asked what our most used tools are, snake hooks, I move a lot of venomous and nonvenomous reptiles out of harms way and my most used tool is just a snake hook.

@ChaoticGoodChris

2 жыл бұрын

ok there's a tool I didn't know I needed to own. Just added one to my Amazon list, lol. Thank you!

Saw a bunch of tools, didn’t see much of the tool bag which is why I came.

Are you a contractor or smth?

@ChaoticGoodChris

2 жыл бұрын

I do a lot of Engineering work for a few different places, mostly in Hydropower around Ottawa county, Michigan.

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