rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk about how you can work on your car
without losing any screws, and after that opening I know some people are gonna say
Scotty, you've got a dirty mind, well hey I'm a man that's how all men think
they're only thinking about one thing most of the time, well two things, we eat
food too, now sometimes these Phillip head screws can be a pain to work on, so
here's a little history lesson about the Phillips head screws, in the early 1930s
a guy by the name of Henry Phillips, invented the Phillips head screw, they
wanted a screw that could take more torque more power and that could hold
things together tighter to fasten parts of cars, that were used on an automobile
assembly line, so that it could be used with the automated screwdrivers that
they used to put things together, hence it's called the Phillips head screw
after Henry Phillips, now the thing about Phillips head screws is they come in
many different sizes, so if you're working on them, you need a kit that has
many different sizes, so it'll fit right and won't slip, I admit when I was a
young mechanic I was cheap, I just had you know a couple of Phillips head
screwdrivers and it isn't one size fits all, so many times I would strip the
heads off from using the wrong size bit, but this cute little kit, it's got all
the different sizes so you can have the perfect size for the screw your working on
but before I go any further, let me tell you I'm not some Billy Mays selling
stuff, company send me all kinds of things and I try them out, look inside the
side of my garage here, check it out, it's chock full of stuff the people have sent
me that I'm trying out, so nobody's sponsoring these videos and paying me
money to tell you how great their products are, I'm actually trying these things out
and when they're good, I'll tell you about them and sometimes when they're
bad I'll tell you about that too when they're really bad, and I found this
magnetic screwdriver kit to be pretty good for two main reasons, like I said
it's got a bunch of assortments of different philip heads that will fit the
screw right as I'll show you right here, you always want to use the right
Phillips head screwdriver in this case the small one is
too small it would strip out, this bigger one is too big and it doesn't sit
deep enough, but this one is just right it sits in perfectly and it will unscrew
it or screw it in without damaging stuff, but here's the coolest part, they have
these little magnetic sheaths they slide over it and are nice and tight, so they
won't fall off, then the Philips head screw fits right over and guess what, the
magnet holds in place look it's not gonna fall off, the kit itself comes with
this handle that's a quick-connect, you put it on, it snaps in place and won't fall off
but when you want to take it off, you just snap it off, it's a pretty strong
magnet, there's nothing worse than you're working on a car trying to get a screw
in a small spot and the stupid screw falls off, you either lose it or in a
really worst-case scenario, you got the engine open and it falls inside the
engine, now while I was in high school, there's a kid who was working on a
distributor of his car and he dropped a screw inside and he just thought, oh it's
not gonna hurt anything, so he tried to start it up, well the screw got
inside and broke his distributor and cost him a whole bunch of money, so you
don't want to be losing parts and with this, they're not gonna fall off, plus
it's got this nice hex head, you can put it in a drill bit, then you can use the
drill to screw them in, really handy if you're gonna be doing some drywall, I know
that's not car stuff but hey, I fix all kinds of things too, and talked about
fixing other things, hey this old garage doesn't fix itself and it's so old
stuffs always breaking so, they got this cute little nail holder, got the magnetic
end so it'll hold the nail, then you stick it in a little handle, and then
when you're putting nails in, you won't smash your fingers, and I found even more
used, say you got a little sockets with little nuts and bolts you're putting in
and they're in a weird place that keep falling off
hey you just stick it and on one of the adapters and then you can put the nuts
or bolts in here and guess what, they're not gonna come falling out and flying
all over the place, this magnet stuff is a great idea, and really for 16 bucks
it's a pretty good deal, and since this is mechanic Monday I'm giving away a set
of these magnetic Phillips screwdriver kits, to have a chance to win just
place a clean non-defensive comments on the YouTube comments below, and a winner
will be chosen randomly by computer to have easy free screwing on their car, so
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