welcome back to steve rob reviews today well i'm gonna revisit this tool right here i reviewed this
a little while ago and you know i said in that video i really couldn't ever imagine me trying to
cut through any type of nail or screw or that kind of thing and uh boy was i wrong because last week
well i had to do this job up on my shed the whole shed a certain spot down by my door frame was
completely rotted out and there was two screws in there that held the bottom of the jamb in and uh
i tried this tool total fail guys total fail but i'm going to show you this tool exactly what the
tip looks like but i'm going to take you out to the shed show you what i did and uh i'll show you
the patch job that i did and you know this tool had come in so handy but uh for cutting off screws
not a chance wait do you see this thing let's go let's take a look at the shed well you can
see that it was good that i was working on this shed last week and not this week with all the snow
and i just want to show you this spot and you could see where this has been patched in here
so i just marked a line across and you know i buzzed that right across
and then i went all the way down here and cut it in now when i get to the bottom here
you can see how i overlapped that there but there's a screws two screws one went
into the bottom of the uh door plate and on the other side so i figure okay that'd be an ideal
time to try this bi-metal bit this dewalt bi-metal bit so i put the tool right down
and it took a while but it did cut through one of the screws and by the time i got to the second
screw not a chance the thing was just foo barred big time so that is one of the examples of how
handy that multi-tool is can you think of a way that you would have cut through that like there
and then if we take a look down this side you can see where i also cut it right down in here
and i got that tool to fit all the way down into here until i cut it right off completely
and if you're wondering what that piece is right there well it's not wood so let's go
in the shop i'll show you that dewalt bi-metal uh blade and how it's just completely destroyed
okay so let's take a close-up of this this dual bi-metal tool and uh you could see on the raid
you can see all the teeth there while they're they're completely shot so i mean that's the
best i could do is just to cut one and that's what the teeth should look like on a new one
this is not a dual though and here is the dewalt blade that i use to cut all the material and
you can see how this is completely destroyed here so i'm going to show you the material that i used
and then i'm going to show you the screw that i pulled out because the one i could cut off but
the other one i had to pull out with a pair of needle nose pliers so let's take a look at the
material and the screw next so there's the screw there now it's not that big but i mean this blade
would not go through a second time so i'm saying these bi-metal blades are just like they're maybe
they'll go through a nail okay like a small nail but for a screw screws are pretty hard and right
so no not a chance so what was the material well this actually was a uh
a three-quarter inch piece so what i did is i ripped it to exactly fit and it was about maybe
5 8 that i cut it to and instead of putting this texture on this side i use this side and this is
just that pvc you know so that's that's the side that you've seen of course you didn't have the
saw marks on this side i kind of sanded it in the belt sander a bit to make it look smooth
but that was the fix right there and i was surprised how rotten it was
and it was just a tiny little hole in the bottom and then as i worked at it more and more and
more well that would well i'm not even saying it was real wood to tell you the truth it was like
some kind of a compressed imitation wood cardboard i'm not too sure what it was
one of them fast fit doors with the frames so i'm going to have to redo that whole frame over again
in some well i'll paint it first and then i'll put some aluminum over top and trim it out nice so
it'll never be affected by the weather again but yeah if you're thinking about using one of these
on a screw forget it they probably do make some nice blades that will cut through like this but
you know am i going to spend like big money just to cut through the odd time i'm going to
come to one of these i'll just burn one of these things up right or one of these cheapies that i
picked off amazon so what am i going to do with this well i'm going to show you what i'm going
to do with this because i'm not throwing this in the garbage i mean if you go buy just one of these
you'll see how expensive they are but i'm going to repurpose this into a nice little tool and
it's going to start right now okay so let's take a look at the setup here first thing is i'm going to
use my uh electric cut off tool and of course i always mark the direction of travel of the
of the blade itself you know how many times you got the sparks going the wrong way well just mark
it yeah you you'll never forget again so here is the set up here just two pieces of angle iron
and got this thing squished between two pieces and i just put the tape there just so i'll know if i'm
going into the tape or if i'm just cutting the teeth off because that's the whole idea here is
just to cut them teeth off and reuse this tool i'm going to show you what i'm going to use it for and
it's just clamped in there nice and tight and so let's get to cutting and show you exactly what i'm
going to do with this thing so let's see now this is really hard hard it's almost like spring steel
so ideally i just want to just zip this off with as least heat as possible you know so i don't ruin
the temper so let's get cutting right now okay so here's the setup right here i'm gonna use my
die grinder with an 80 grit uh sandpaper on it and that is just about positioned perfectly at
the right angle you know you couldn't ask for a better fitment than that right there so let's get
uh grinding and uh by now mostly figured out what i'm gonna use this for so uh let's start grinding
let's go
and that's it right there well if you guessed a scraper blade
you got that right and there it is right there i mean that was so easy to do and uh well of course
i got to try something right like i mean i got some paint over here and you know i got a hunk
of paint right here let's see how that does because you know what using a scraper blade
or going with one of these while i'm saying i think this is the the obvious choice
right here especially if you got to do a lot of scraping let's see how this thing actually works
okay so let's try and scrape some maybe a little bit of paint off of this
okay that does a good job let's just take a little bit of a close-up maybe
something a little bit harder there's like a big run on this piece of steel and this
is some gray trim clad and that stuff is hard as anything so let's get a good
close-up and see if it does anything to scrape in some of this run off this piece of steel
okay so i hope you can see this uh this run
that goes all the way along here in this piece of steel let's just see what it does to it
you know i think it does a terrific job what do you think
well what do you think i realize that's only just a little spot of paint on my metal workbench but
you know what you go to the store and buy a uh a blade for one of these multi-tools
and they're like 15 bucks 20 bucks depends you know what brand you buy how long did it take me
to do this like maybe two minutes out in the shop you know without filming and you know what that's
going to come in so handy not just for stuff like this but a lot of times i'm working with uh
construction adhesive like pl premium or glues and that kind of thing and i made sure that i
kept this flat on the back side so it's not going to dig in and of course this does have rounded
shoulders on it so i mean i could use this in so many situations where you just got some leftover
construction adhesive or caulking or any of these things and for a little bit of time it took me
well you know i just saved myself 15 bucks so i won't be throwing any of these uh
these blades out in the future and i'll be uh well i'll be inventing some new ideas so stay tuned for
that so thanks for joining me here today i hope you enjoyed this little bit of a presentation on
how good one of these multi-tools can come in so handy and think about saving the blades and
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