welcome back to steve rob reviews for you that have never seen this channel before this is a
real review channel where i buy everything myself i review it and i give you an honest
review and an honest opinion so today i'm gonna reviewing this now the first thing
i'd like to say is i bought this about two weeks ago and i've used it quite extensively
on a project that i'm doing in my basement and i put down some uh
you know the click flooring you know like the the fake hardwood flooring
more or less that kind of stuff right so i put this laminate flooring all the way down and uh
i bought this tool because well i thought it was kind of neat and i i could use it myself right but
part of this review is i'm going to be brutally honest with you i've been doing this kind of
stuff for many many many years and i got away with not using a tool like this so i'm saying
not trying to sell this tool that's for sure because i i got away with not using a tool like
this for over say 40 years so do i really need this tool that much well absolutely not and for
the vast majority of you watching this video you don't need this tool either why did i buy it well
because it's just a neat tool cost me 150 bucks i've got the batteries already now this particular
model comes in various forms you know you can get it where it's cordless or you have a cord it
comes in various uh styles and kits so the model number for my particular one is in the description
but i'm gonna just i'm gonna display how this actually works and the great features and why i
bought this dewalt multi-tool well compared to the other ones out there and i'm saying
all the other ones out there seem to work fine as well you can get some for like 50 bucks up to 200
it depends what you want right but i'm saying you don't need this tool i think it's slick i'll get
use out of it and uh so many trades persons will get use out of a tool like this as well
whether you're doing say renovations on your house that kind of stuff but i'm gonna i'm just gonna
make a little bit of fun out of some of the videos that i've seen when i did my
research on buying this tool and uh you know take a little bit of tongue and cheek there
like don't get so offended about you watching youtube videos when somebody says something
when they share their opinion because my channel oh yeah i share my opinion
so let's get to it here i'll show you some of the great features of this tool
and why i like it and really when it comes down to it that's it right and i'm going to show you
how neat this tool is and you decide whether you think this is a tool that would be something that
you would consider buying if you would get the use out of it so let's take a look well let's
start off with the features that i really liked on this multi-tool and this multi-tool came with two
cutters one was strictly for wood and the other one is bi-metal if you happen to get into like
a small little uh nail you know like a brad nail or that kind of stuff that you could cut it and uh
i'm going to show you a couple of the different uh attachments that go on something like this
and you know they come with so many attachments from sanding attachment to cutter attachments to
uh you know there's even blade attachments so i mean it is a multi-tool and the best thing i liked
about this if i could just demonstrate is the way that this actually loads and unloads the bit
now if you take a look here and i call it a bit or a cutter so here's the cutter right here and you
can see all the different splines going all the way around and you can rotate and i'll demonstrate
this and here's the cutting edge here so that's just a strictly off for using it for wood
but this is a just an engineering marble this here so they've got this spring loaded
and you can just load your if i put it in the right way load it like this and that's
completely straight or you can pick a different angle like multi every one of them holes are
universal to go in all different ways depending on you know if you're in a particular spot where you
have to actually you know turn it 90 degrees and what i do is when i'm storing the tool
i just store it upside down like this now another good feature is the trigger itself
it's got a light so the light goes on and the trigger works in this
direction here at the bottom or at the top and also at the bottom here you've got three speeds
one two and three and there are three more or less power levels or torque levels
for the uh cutting attachments or scraper attachment or whatever you have on the front
that's what i've noticed i've never really noticed much difference in speed so there's on three
you hear the difference in the sound well the rpm goes down and also the torque level
goes down as well so depending on what you're doing right so
that is the unit right there and another feature is you can
lock it on and another feature that i like as well is you can lock it so that
the trigger doesn't go on when it's in say like a bag or a tool box or anything just sits there
and vibrates because the trigger accidentally got pressed on something so that's another good
feature right there now of course i've got a small battery on here for mine which is 1.5 amp
and i've got four amp batteries but you know what just the smallest battery like this
i'm gonna say i used it constantly for about uh maybe 45 minutes and you can do
a lot of work in 45 minutes right and this is still the original battery on it so you know
it doesn't uh you know draw your battery down all that much but that's the tool right there
and i don't find it heavy at all i do find it on the third power setting very very well torquey
and powerful now i'm going to show you some things here about what i've seen on other youtube videos
that i didn't know why i couldn't figure out why they were trying to make this tool
look like you can do some stuff that just seemed logical to me so let's let's let's take a look at
uh at some of the youtube videos that uh well not the youtube videos themselves but just the
the youtube videos that are out there showing this and tell me if you've seen
one of these videos demonstrating this so let's get to that next
well there you go right there hope you can see that but i've got three nails here on the back
side and i got three deck screws now nails are not as hard as a deck screw these are hardened
material and they are super hard to cut through so i've seen so many videos where they take
a bi-metal tool and i guess they're trying to demonstrate how great this is for cutting metal
that they will cut through you know some nails and then they'll come to the screws and it just
most of the time just tears up the bit something fierce by the time they get through one
well you know some of these bits they're ten dollars fifteen dollars some are twenty dollars
and they sell a lot of bits with carbide tips and all kinds of stuff
twenty five dollars thirty dollars to cut metal i tell you what there's like a million and one
tools out there you know that i have between a cut off tool uh you know a uh hacksaw or a uh
you know reciprocating saw that i can cut stuff like this if i need to last thing i'm gonna do
is come out with one of these and another thing that they do that i find is just incredible
now this is a two by six but they will put a two by four in their vise and cut the whole 2x4 down
using this tool you know and going back and forth and i'm thinking okay so what
is the reason behind that i am never going to use this to cut a 2x4 i guarantee you
no way i mean i can't see that but i guess they're trying to demonstrate that it will cut a 2x4
you know and it's always suggested that well you never know what kind of situation you're going to
run into where you're going to need this and i'm thinking well maybe if you're a house renovator i
could see somebody who does uh house restorations and that kind of stuff you know i could see that
but how many times can you cannot put you know like a reciprocating saw in there
and uh do it in you know a much easier fashion than trying to do something with this
but i am going to show you cutting me a piece of a piece of wood here
and i'll show you to demonstrate how it is but first let's just take a look at the difference in
the bits and or the blades or whatever attachment you're putting on here but let's do that next
so let's just take a look here and you can i'll just try to zoom down here as close as i can and
you can see this is just a regular one here and this is the one that came with the kit you know
and this is a bi-metal blade and really it's just the teeth that are a lot you know closer together
and a different pitch and more likely this is hardened a lot better than this one and this
is one that i bought the kit just off of amazon and they have different blades and i got like
20 blades for 30 bucks lasts me a lifetime and you know they're wood cutting and bi-metal
different sizes you know in widths and this is it here i mean come on
this is going to last me a lifetime for the amount of use i'd get out of it for 30 bucks
now this one i really wanted now this is from dewalt themselves and this one here
is sharp all the way around i mean this is not flimsy and flexible like well these ones
here like these are pretty flexible you can see the thickness of it but this one here
is for taking grout out old grout around windows uh maybe if you wanted to take like a
maybe a piece of flooring up or tile that was glued down or yeah but mainly this was designed
for grout around windows and you could see how you know old hard grout you could cut this out
you could cut it down on the sides and then take the center out yeah this for replacing grout and
man this thing is like pretty tough it's not flimsy right and this tool here was actually
12 bucks and i thought that was very reasonable and uh so if you want to just go online
and just you know look at all these different ones and you can see the different prices
look at the reviews and that kind of stuff but they're all universal and you know like for most
brands you'll see this labeled as universal and you could see how the pattern is here
and take a look and see how the pattern is here so i mean you can tell that you know they tried to
standardize this as much as they can but there are models out there that don't take this universal
you have a separate ring that comes along and but one thing i like about this kit is it it came with
some extra spare parts on the bottom and these spare parts are actually for replacing this here
and that is the uh the mechanism that goes up and down to put your particular blades in and
i guess over time this wears but i really can't see it myself i mean it looks pretty good to me
so they give you this in the kit and they give you two blades now you can get this in various
other kits out there that come with the batteries come with other tools so it's up to you if you're
gonna you know decide to buy something like this so overall what do i think about this tool
so overall you know what i think i would have loved to have this tool 40 years ago
i don't think it was ever like invented you know like i could say 40 years ago i don't
think these existed i'm not too sure but i think this is pretty slick now how much use am i going
to get out of it well i'm going to demonstrate something that i did at my place when i was using
this tool and i thought how am i going to get around this because i went and bought you know
one of them entrance way pieces of strips that goes between one transition of the flooring say
the carpet or in this particular situation it was a transition that goes in between
the flooring and a cupboard or a closet and usually you put down a metal strip first
you sink it into the ground and then you take this piece of material and you snap it in on
top well i couldn't use that transition material and i'm going to show you the reason why and how
this resolved it and i'm going to demonstrate this for you and you might find this very interesting
because this just doesn't just cut wood or metal it cuts plastic it cuts all kinds of stuff
and i'm doing all kinds of interesting projects and this will come in handy for me so let's
let's just show a little bit of a demonstration on what i use this for for a transition from one
room to another okay so here's a little scrap piece of transition material here and you can
see the profile there and you can see where it's got a track in there and it's got two ribs and
this just snaps into the metal piece that goes on your floor for a transition
well i looked at mine and i could figure out okay so if i were to cut one of these ribs
off here then it would work perfectly and all i did was just set it down and put some silicone
underneath let it drop down let it dry and it's it's perfect just perfect so how would you cut
one of these and i'll tell you something if you take a look at that profile there trying to get
a dremel tool in there you're not cutting this with a knife not unless you want to just like kill
yourself i mean there's no way you're going to cut that out it's way too thick and way too hard
let's show you what i did with this uh multi-tool and uh it is slick i'm just gonna do a section of
it now i had to do four feet because this comes in a uh i believe a six foot length and i did
four feet and uh i'll show you how easy it is and how fast it was just to do something like
this that is one of them unique situations where you could use a multi-tool like this
and that's all i had to do was take off a strip like this okay now i promise i'm going to show
you cut me a piece of wood okay i'm going to show you this thing will cut a piece of wood because
you have to actually if you're going to make a video about this multi-tool you have to show cut
the piece of wood so let's get cutting a piece of wood right now okay so let's cut a piece of wood
there wasn't that slicker
yeah this thing here it goes through wood like i mean come on i mean that is if you don't think
that's slick well i'm telling you this thing is slick well thanks for joining me here today
and thanks for uh let me show you this well i'm saying it's a pretty slick tool right you know
at first i was saying you really don't need it but for me yeah i i love this thing i think it's just
super slick i wish i had this 40 years ago and uh thanks for joining me on another a review
a real review of tools that i buy i review them with my own opinions my own views and uh come
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i've been upgrading my tools over time and i have some tools that are so old and wore out
that i just couldn't use them in my renovation in my basement so i'm upgrading and i'm going to
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