- It's hard to believe that all of this
was in that little bin,
and that it's all going to be organized
into a nice case.
Okay so now our goal is to get
this whole mess to fit into this bag.
All right so first things first,
I'm going to have all of my
more important tools right up
front and center here where I can see them.
So the first on here is going to be my Klein tools.
This is my squarehead lineman's pliers,
and this is the J2000-9NE,
I'll put links down in the description
to all of these tools so you can
check them out for yourself.
But he'll fit there nicely.
Next up on the bill here is my Klein tools also,
my angled cutter, and I like these because
these allow you to come in at something
and angle cut it.
So these will go up front here too.
All right I already know what my
tools are just by kind of
looking at the color of the handles.
But you know you can also put them this way too,
if you really want to see what you're tools are.
If you're not quite accustomed to them
yet that way you have a real good
idea of what you need.
But it's more convenient to pull
them out from the handle.
Okay, next up are my two wire strippers.
The first one here is the Klein,
and the other one here is from Milwaukee.
Now they both do pretty much similar,
but as you can see here
the Klein does a few more things.
Like this will go down to 22.
This you can also bend wires with,
you can cut more bolt sizes with this one.
I think the Milwaukee will only cut two different sizes.
And this will cut the insulation here.
This is the single most important
piece of equipment in my whole bag
right here, this is what keeps me alive.
This is my Fluke VoltAlert.
Now this is a newer model than what most people have.
Most people have the 1AC, this is the 2AC.
And the way that this works is you just
flip it on like that, you touch it
into any outlet or anywhere where there's
wires and if there's electricity flowing
it'll let you know.
Great thing to have.
I always check every single outlet and switch
with this even after I shut off the power
just to make sure.
So this has to be front and center, always.
Probably the most important piece
of equipment in anybody's bag
is this digital multi-meter.
This is my Fluke 87, I call it the 87-5,
some people call it the 87-V.
But that's a true RMS multi-meter.
Fits right in the middle there perfectly.
Electrical tape.
I also have this handy little tool.
This cuts, and shreds, and strips Romex.
Put that right there.
These are my three insulated Milwaukee screwdrivers.
I'll put them right here, front and center.
This screwdriver here I use for doing the face plates,
it helps you screw them on faster.
Put that in there.
And we round off the drivers with a flathead
and a Phillips head.
And I have an older, smaller style of wire cutter,
just your basic wire cutter here.
And that will take up this last spot here.
This is my favorite stud finder of all time.
And the way this works is you just put it on the wall,
and see those LEDs?
They light up three at a time red when it finds a stud.
Can't get any easier than that.
This is my go-to thing, for sure.
This is another important set to have,
these are the seven piece nut driver set,
the other two are floating around here somewhere.
But I use these especially when working on
refrigerators, putting a new ice-maker in,
or sometimes on the dishwashers, when you have to unscrew
the, to, uh, unscrew the
the little hex nuts on the
electrical box that you have to do the work on.
Next I have my DeWalt DW065E.
What I like about this thing, this is a digital
tape measure, basically.
So you shine it across the room there,
see where the LED, the laser dot is hitting over there,
and then you look down and it'll tell you the distance.
So that will fit nicely here on the other side.
I love this tool.
This I got from RadioShack back in the day,
and this is an automatic stripper,
so you put the wire in there, and it just...
(clicks tongue)
It, like, cuts and strips it at the same time,
without having to use any yanking or force on your end.
I got my little Craftsman LED flashlight,
and this puppy is bright.
Don't let that fool you, don't let it's little
size fool you.
This is great for those dark spots.
So this actually has three settings.
(flashlight clicking)
Now, I like to keep three outlet testers in my bag, too,
and one of them has to be a GFCI tester so you plug these
into your GFCI outlets in the kitchen and in the bathroom,
and you push the red button and that will test it.
This is what home inspectors use when they come around
to test all of your outlets.
Okay, so, I'm probably eventually gonna upgrade these
two to be all three of them GFCIs.
These are all going in the bag.
This is a nifty little tool.
This is just a little, tiny, slow moving screwdriver.
This is great for doing your outlets and stuff like that,
and what I like about this is, see, it charges by USB.
So if you have a phone charger lying around,
it will charge this.
What I like about this tool, also, is it comes
with this other little head that I can snap on here.
And hot dang folks, you got us a nice, little
cardboard slicer.
So I use this to break down all of the cardboard
boxes that we get, just slice them up and put them
in the recycle bin.
This really, really makes light work
out of cutting up the cardboard.
(slicer motor running)
Here another one of my all time favorites.
This is my little kit of the Wago wiring lever nuts.
If you've never seen these before,
this is a great alternative to using the
twisting wire nuts that we normally use.
You just put your stripped wire in there,
this one will connect three different wires together.
You just put them in there, and then you shut down
the lever.
So the way this works is you put the wires in the
holes there, and then you clamp down the lever there,
and that locks them in place.
It's a great way to wire them together,
and enables you to wire up your outlet
without these taking up a lot of space.
So, we use these when we're short on space,
but the kit comes with little five bangers,
three bangers, and two bangers.
Anyway, I'll put a link to these down in the description,
along with all of the other tools
that you see here in the bag.
(slow, soothing music)
And I just gotta tell you, I absolutely love
these tools, I highly recommend you guys get this,
this is called the VoltClaw.
And so, what I do with this is, this helps you
grab and poke the wires into the outlet,
and helps you accordion them and shape them
and push them back without killing your fingers.
And then this right here helps you tighten the wiring
nuts, when you splice the wires together
and you use this to tighten it.
This'll also help cajole the wires a little bit,
and this end over here, you can make your loops.
See, on your wires, when you're peeling up your
Romex, and you wanna connect up to outlets
and switches, you use this to make your loops.
So, really great tool.
Sometimes when you're operating in small areas,
it's more convenient to have this tiny, little
Milwaukee tape measure, love this thing.
So now I have two electrician's screw kits
and you gotta make sure what you're getting,
because we bought this one thinking it had everything
we needed and it didn't.
If you look on the back, it's mostly 8-32s.
So the 8-32s are not meant to be used in outlets
and switches, these are meant to be used on the
cans that go on the ceiling.
Your ceiling cans and stuff like that,
so these are the bigger bolts that you use for
you know, putting the bracket across diagonally
across your housing there.
And this is the kit that you really wanna get,
this Electrician's screw, this is the
machine screw kit.
So this has all the 6-32 screws.
You look on the back, see, it's got the listing.
That's what you wanna look for, is 6-32s
of various lengths, some that are even
ridiculously long because you never know what
stupid thing somebody did before you that you now
have to try to attach an outlet to,
and you just don't have enough depth to get to it.
Also as an emergency, I like to keep one GFCI outlet
and one regular outlet in my bag, and this is an
upgraded outlet too, because see this one here
has USB, you can see it has USB chargers on there
and it's got tamper-proof as well so I always make sure
everything I install now is tamper-proof,
as required by code.
Even if I'm putting new ones on an existing house.
Don't forget your writing instruments
because you have to often measure and mark things
before you cut them.
So I have my Milwaukee MarkZall, the InkZall,
and a Sharpie, and a pencil, and pen.
These here, these ground pigtails are indispensable
if you're doing any kind of work on outlets.
What's really great about these, half the work's
already done for you because they come with,
let's see, get you a better angle here,
these come with a ground screw on there already.
And so these are already pigtailed and ready to go.
I normally buy these in a box of 50,
but I'll keep a few of these in my bag
for when I need them.
If I ever need the big box, I'll just go to
my big electrical bin with all the parts
and get it out of there.
I also like to keep my adjustable wrench in here, too,
because you never know when you're gonna need one.
I also keep some concrete drill bits in here
because there's going to be times when you'll
have to screw an outlet onto a cement block wall,
and the only way to do that is to tapcon through it.
This is another clever little tool, also, this is
a telescopic magnetic pickup tool that also happens
to have on the end of it, a little LED.
So if you ever drop anything down the wall,
this is a great thing to have.
Here it is all collapsed up, but watch how strong
this thing is.
Boom!
This is great for picking up stuff from inside the wall,
screws, it'll pick up anything.
These are useful to have, too.
Sometimes you have to have to really scrape some
stuff out of the way, so I got this nice
painter's, I don't know if it's a 5 and a 10 or what,
but it's really thick so you make sure you get one
that's got a good, thick scraping edge on it.
And then I have one that's thinner, so this is
more flexible.
So both of these come in handy.
There we go.
Sometimes I have to do microsurgery, and so having
these little, teeny tiny pliers and tweezers,
and the little wire cutter right here like this;
these can be great to have sometimes.
So they'll fit right there on this
last little pocket in there.
By the way, I just noticed we have two little
straps over here, too.
Okay, so now we have this Milwaukee 10 inch torpedo
level and what's cool about this one, this one
is designed for use for electricals, because you see
right there?
You can put these two here over your switches and it
will tell you if the outlet is level, and it works
over the outlets as well, too, see there's your
outlets, here's your switches.
So this is a very multi-talented tool, plus it's got
magnets on the side so you can just clip this to a
metal stud in front of you or onto anything metal that
you're working on.
You gotta have a good pair of scissors.
So get a good pair of sharp ones, I might even
upgrade these to these really expensive Cutco scissors.
I bought a set of Cutco knives at Costco, and the
salesman was showing me with their shears how he
cut a penny, he just sliced right through the penny
with a pair of scissors, I'm like, that's what I need.
Okay, I also use my Lenox Gold utility knife
and their Lenox Gold blades are the best, man.
What I like about this tool is it has the blade
stored inside of it also.
Okay, I've got the room for it, so I'm going to
go ahead and add in my DeWalt Allen wrench set.
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Well, you can see the garage needs to be pretty
well organized next, huh?
Hey, by the way, if you're a professional
electrician, what tools do you have in your bag
that you think should be in this bag here?
Let us know down in the comments below, we love
to hear from you.
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Also you can use this little flashlight,
I got this at Home Depot during one of those
Black Friday deals,
but what's cool about this is it'll stand on it's own
and you could put it inside of a vanity,
and when you flip it on, well this thing is
super, super, super bright.
I mean, just look, I mean it lights up the whole
interior of the garage there.
But anyway, we'll set this down inside a vanity when
we're working and it just lights up the whole inside
of the vanity.
This is all you need in that vanity to make it look
like you're at the beach.
Okay, so here's the final look at our assembled bag
and you can see it took everything.
25 pounds later, it's still pretty heavy though,
but all of our tools that were in that bin did
indeed fit, and there's probably even room for a few more.
And here we have a good carabiner clip here, seems like
it will hold a lot of weight.
Here's the strap here,
and you can see it's nice and padded.
Okay, so you can see here, the strap works pretty good,
it feels reasonably comfortable.
It does feel pretty heavy and I personally don't like
heavy straps on my shoulder, so I'll probably just
be carrying this bag though, see?
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