rev up your engines, today I'm going to show you how you can make your tools
last forever, I've been working on cars the last 51 years I got a garage
full of tools and more in the house, and I've learned something over those 51
years and that is, you spend your hard-earned money on tools, you don't
want them to break down prematurely, and if you notice with my tools, you'll see a
lot of them are hanging up in the air or they're sitting on boxes stacked up in
the air, there's a reason for that, because the number one destroyer of
tools is rust and corrosion, take a look at this ratchet this is a Sears ratchet
most of the Sears around here are long gone, they went out of business and they
disappeared, but this tool is still going strong and you know why, because it lives
here in one of these dishwashing containers that I got at the hardware
store, but here in hot and humid Texas, even if you keep your tools out of
direct contact with water, hey it's humid as can be here, you need
to stop the tools from corroding, because just sitting in the air they go bad, now I
use all kinds of different lubricants, but
there's a new one called any way, by this company and I've
been trying it out, and it seems to work pretty good, it lubricates parts so it
prevents friction, especially in a ratchet head, it also displaces moisture,
you know there's a million of these things out here, I'm trying this
particular one out just to see how it works, and so far it seems to do pretty good
job, so on this 30 year old ratchet, you want to spray it ahead, look at all the
dirt and corrosion that's coming out, you spray the other side, the hinge here and
all the parts that move, look at all the dirt and corrosion that comes out, now I had
been using wd-40, but you can see all this corrosion that's coming off of it, I
think I'll stick to this anyway thing for a while and see how it holds up over
the years, I mean I can't complain about the wd-40 because, hey this thing's 30
years old and that's what I was using on it before, but when I see all the crud
that's coming off now, maybe this stuff is better
I'll give it a try, they both claim to do the same exact thing, and if
you look closely you can see some of the coating has come off and this is the
bare metal buy look it's not rusting and that's because I take care of it, if I loft them
alone where the plate has come off this would be coated with rust and it
isn't, now if you have air tools, there's a different type of lubrication that
they need, they need to be lubricated internally, before you use the tool,
disconnect the air and put some of this lube right inside, and make it go
backwards, then reverse it make it go forward, then when you're done for the
day put a little bit more inside and just leave it, and store them upside down
so the oil stays inside, and I know some guys are gonna say, oh Scotty you're
going overboard doing that every day twice, but I have air tools that are over
35 years old and they still work, now most modern air tools like this
earthquake, they don't have any lubrication points in the gears on the
top here, but some of the uber expensive or really old ones do, in that case this
is number 105 grease that they make, you pack that grease inside there
every once in a while, but most modern ones they don't have that, you just
oil them from the air line, a little bit of maintenance on air tools can go a
long way, now my next tip has to do with electronic tools like the scan tool,
these things aren't cheap this was originally a 250 dollar scan tool, and
this particular one was around twelve hundred dollars, electronics I'm not that
happy living in a humid environment, so I don't store such fancy electronic stuff
in my un heated, un air-conditioned old-fashioned garage, and yes Scotty
learned that the hard way I used to leave them in the garage because
the wife doesn't want anything in the house right, what happened the
electronics all started to get corroded inside over the years it took a while,
but they wouldn't work, I take them apart there's all kinds of corrosion inside
them, especially if they were battery operated ones, the batteries would get
corroded, then they'd eat up the electronics and I had to throw numerous
electronic tools away just because of that, so here's two tips for that, one if
you don't use an electronic tool much when you're not using it, take the
batteries out, so you're not going to have any kind of battery corrosion going on
there's always some kind of electricity in those things, and if they just sit there
in a humid hot environment, a lot of times they start to corrode and they can
make a mess of electronic tools, hey you want your tools to last forever, but you
want them to last forever for you, not for someone else who might steal them
and use them themselves, that's where security lights come in
handy, I've been trying out this San C to see if it works well, I tried out stuff
nobody's paying me this isn't been advertisement by the company, I've had this
particular one hooked up on my front porch for about a month now, it's real
easy to hook up it's only got three wires, and as you can see it puts out
tons of light when anybody walks near it, so a good security light at night can
save your tools, as you can see it puts out a lot of light, it's an easy thing to
set up, you can adjust the sensor anywhere you want, so as I said I've been
using this for about a month, so in a little more in a year I like testing stuff over
time, so if in a year this thing is still working fine I'd definitely recommend it
if you wonder what this is next to it, this is a bug catcher, now that
thing's been there for three years it runs continuously, I never turn it off
and you might wonder, what the heck is Scotty talking about a bug catcher for
well here's why, a couple decades ago I got West Nile virus it knocked me out
because mosquitos here have it, there's so many
less bugs on the front porch, I haven't gotten west nile virus again, I probably
have an immunity of that but every time I open up and cleaning out there's tons
of bugs inside, okay you want your tools to last forever, you don't want somebody
stealing them and having them use them, and also you don't want your tools to last
forever, but you get conked out because you get some kind of disease from an
insect biting you, and I do have to say three years of continuous use and the
bulb still works, now since its mechanic Monday I'm gonna be giving away some of
this penetrating spray, to have a chance to win place a clean non-offensive comment
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