welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today is going to be an interesting review as I think
I found the best do-it-yourselfer ratcheting screwdriver for the money I would say in the
world so this is it right here and I'll give you a closer uh look at the uh at the screwdriver and
its features in a second but I just like to first start and just talk a little bit about
do any of you actually use screwdrivers anymore because I don't use an actual screwdriver anymore
in most situations except if I'm doing some electrical work or I'm doing something where
you need the the really fine touch of using your hands to tighten something down so you
don't break the screw like in woodworking or over torque it and strip it out them kind of
situations but the majority of the time what am I using I'm using power tools and I'm using bits
and I'm also going to show you today the bits that I use and I've pretty much well I've cast
aside all the other bits I used in the past just for backup and I stuck with a certain brand I'll
show you that brand in a minute and I've gone with impact bits only so let's first just take a look
at the I think is the world's best ratcheting screwdriver for the money and I paid just over
ten dollars for this and I bought it off Amazon I don't sell anything on Amazon but I will put
the link to this down below uh if you're interested now of course this is a an Amazon
Link in Canada I don't know what it's going to be like in your country it could be like uh well I
paid over 10 bucks in America this is like uh 1.99 maybe two dollars right so uh let's go over to the
bench let's take a look okay so we're over at the bench and uh this is the unit here I've got one
that I take up to my Camp I haven't taken out of the package yet and that's it right there and this
is the unit right here now I will show you I've got other ones like this which is a short stubby
and I got along but I don't have any ratcheting and that's what I want was the ratcheting because
you know what in reality this is all I have for a screwdriver assortment and I rarely use these
so I mean I used to have my my uh workbench here covered and a whole bunch of screwdrivers nah I
don't use them anymore I go with the impact driver or just put them in my drill itself
and if we take a look up here you can see this is what I use I just use all of these
and this is the only way to go as far as I'm concerned because uh well even a real tall
one right so that's what I used and I think most people are actually going to use their
power tools with bits I'll go over the bits in a second here and which bits that I found for
the money now for a do-it-yourselfer because I'm a do-it-yourselfer I am no professional on anything
but uh I'll show you the bits that I go with but let's take a look at this right here and see
exactly why I think this is so good and I'll tell you something you got to zoom in real close here
to see but you can see the arrows on the left and the right this has got like a nice grip it's
got the hole in it so you can hang it up and it's just you know what it fits in your hands so nice
and it's got this little bit of a Gear Drive on the outside here for the ratcheting motion
now it comes with a real I would say non-impact bit in it and I always go
with the impact bit and of course the bit comes in and out and we just take a look here
it's magnetic so it holds a bit in there somewhat not perfectly but it holds it in enough for what
you're doing right so let's go over to the bench here and I'll show it how it actually works
well here we've got three different uh deck screws and you know this is so much easier
just using the ratcheting action like this than actually pulling it out putting it in
and turning a little bit more so the ratcheting action is ideal and there's three detents one on
the far right one in the far left and one in the middle so if we just go click to the middle part
and it goes the opposite direction to take it out and if I go to the opposite end there
okay so we got turning right
and in the middle it's just like a regular screwdriver it's locked in the middle to
go back and forth so we just take this one here and you can just see how you can just
use it like a regular screwdriver and this is where the ratcheting action comes in handy many
times because you know you don't have to keep on moving your hand you can go to the other detent
tighten it on one side reverse it to the complete opposite and take it out now that may seem simple
to a lot of people and most people know about this but that's the great thing about YouTube
is not everybody knows about everything and I like to share you know some of the simplest
things because you know what not everybody is an expert on everything and there's a lot of
do-it-yourselfers out there that really don't know that you can get a ratcheting screwdriver
that's a lot easier on your hands especially if you have hands like mine full of arthritis
well let's go on to the bits now so what kind of bits should you get when you're when you're
thinking about getting any type of uh quarter inch hex bit to fit inside of you know any of
your uh screwdrivers that accept the bits like this one here or this one here or if we go
like I said before up to these type of bits that you just snap in your drill or your impact driver
so what kind should you get well I've bought many kinds over the years and these ones here are just
your regular cheapy you know low cost and these are actually quite well for using in just a hand
uh screwdriving purpose itself I mean these are very low cost there's all
kinds of different configurations and I have plenty of different configurations
and for impact well you get all kinds of different sizes and the only one that I go with anymore
is Bosch I've now these are all impact the black ones are all Impact here and uh I go
with the Bosch and I like the Bosch the best and there's a reason behind it and I'm going to pull
out two different styles here and show you the difference but if we take a look up close you see
how this is a square cut all the way around like really like it's been punched exactly Square
and on many units that take for instance on that square drive on many units
if I can just find one here 's another brand that I use that is is quite good and you can see
how that's Square and uh if we go down to let me find one here we go down to is this the style here
no that's not it but uh maybe I threw them all out because I did have a style
where the end was not Square it was kind of tapered if you can just imagine that
where the ends are kind of tapered and then ones there while they're garbage now these ones here
this is a number three and this is a Makita now Makita is quite good too but I'll tell
you something the price is not as good as Bosch and I find that the Bosch is uh
is really good and yet like these here if you use them in your impact driver well they last and you
pay a little bit more like I'm paying like a dollar a piece for these right and you can
get like a whole box for twenty dollars for like probably 500 of this uh this stuff like this and
you know you use one of these once in an impact driver and you just spin the whole tip right
off the end so I mean yeah a lot of times these ones here are only designed to actually work in a
a screwdriver format and not as an impact driver on your impact tools or your drills
so I would say if you're shopping around for you know bits take a look at the uh
at the Bosch this is a number one square drive and take a look at the Bosch and you can see
they're all labeled in every one R1 there's R2 R3 and by far these are the best choice that I
found for the money for a do-it-yourselfer or a professional I would say that's looking for
a really good hard impact hex bit while this is the choice that I think is out
there at a great price that performs well well thanks for joining me here today and
comment down below let me let me just have uh a little bit of feedback from the prices that
you've seen for a ratcheting screwdriver for ten dollars and that's what it was you know
like Amazon's a strange place right one day is 10 bucks the next day it's more next day it's
less but for me just over ten dollars I couldn't find anything that come close to this I mean with
the quality and the feel and it's it's not like just a plastic cheesy type of uh deal
for just over 10 bucks I think this is the best ratcheting screwdriver in the world for
a do-it-yourselfer and yeah there's lots more you know screwdrivers out there ratcheting
screwdrivers for fifty dollars sixty dollars more it's all what you want right but I mean I looked
and I found that this was the best so thanks for joining me here today thanks for uh following
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