TETZ HAND TOOLS SEMA INTERVIEW
Matt: Everybody.
It’s Matt from Eastwood Company.
We are at SEMA 2012.
It is starting to become a tradition here.
We are meeting with Kevin and talking about some of our newest products that we have out
each year.
Get his first expression of what he thinks being an industry professional.
So this year, we are coming out with a new line of hand tools, air tools, basically everything
to get the job done right from start to finish.
Kevin: The right tool for the right job makes you money if you’re professional technician
and it saves you lot of frustration if you’re a hobby guy.
Now the pneumatic tools, I have got a lot of these tools in my toolbox.
This is great.
I have got that DA.
I am stoked that you guys are coming out with hand tools because it stops me from going
to 19 different outlets or stores to get my stuff.
Now, I would come to Eastwood for everything and there is a lifetime warranty on this stuff
too, right?
Matt: Yeah.
We have a lifetime warranty on all of our hand tools.
Kevin: Show me what else you have got.
Matt: Do you find yourself using torques and hex a lot with cars you are building now a
days?
Kevin: It’s so funny you said that because a lot of the fasteners un-jaded are button
head fasteners with a hexhead.
They look great, and I’ve a got a lot of tight recess as there is a lot of custom stuff
on that car, for instance the front nose piece is fastened in with button heads and they
are recessed into the panel.
The lower face is right there.
The headlights, where I don’t have room or the space, I am going to scratch my paint
with the socket with a conventional Allen head, so the hex keys especially with this
ball end, I can get in there at a weird angle, not scratch my paint if I go to service that
panel.
So, absolutely these are a must.
Matt: So, I have some of the core stuff here now.
We got ratcheting wrenches.
People are just now realizing how important it is….
Kevin: Yeah.
Matt: …and how great it is to have in your toolbox.
Kevin: Yeah.
I will never forget, I will never forget the first time I saw ratcheting wrenches.
One of the guys, there is big burly guy in the body shop, he went, put in on a lug nut
on a heavy-duty diesel truck, jumped on it.
When it didn’t fail, he went back and he said, I’ll take two sets, I will take one
of everything you got.
That’s how good this stuff is.
I am stoked that you guys now have ratcheting wrenches.
I have them in my toolbox and I am going to have more.
Matt: So lot of guys when they are doing metal fab, they would like to just use a cut-off
grinder and just go crazy, shooting sparks everywhere.
We got these aviation tin snips here, metal cutting snips.
How much do you end up using these in your shop instead of like a cut-off grinder or
something like that?
Kevin: I have got bench top shears, I have got grinders, I have got pneumatic equipment
with cut-off wheels.
This is a burrless cutter, and to have the set of three is really important, you got
a straight cut, a right cut, and a left-hand cut.
It is the right tool for the right job.
Matt: Right.
Kevin: So to have these guys where you can do a nice tight radius without distorting
your metal because you have got the right directional tool.
To have this set is really important.
Metal fab is not just welding and cutting and banging.
It is a precision.
There is a lot of finesse involved and this allows…you know it is more freedom.
You got more freedom to ask the metal to do what you wanted to do.
This is perfect.
Matt: Now the opposite.
Prying banging, you know unfortunately there is times especially with us messing with old
cars and trucks and things like that.
Kevin: Now, okay.
I am going to keep going back to jaded because it’s the thing that is in my brain, it is
a body on frame car.
It used to be Unibody car.
Matt: Right.
Kevin: There are 16 mounting points between the body and the chassis.
When we put this thing down for the last time, everything is painted.
It was painted on a rotisserie.
The frame is base clear, it is tunnel rammed ray with hard rod flatz clear.
It’s all Eastwood stuff, right!
Matt: Yeah.
Kevin: So, you have got a line between your body and your tool boards and the chassis.
I use these with some tape and stuff to align to allow my whole, so yeah… absolutely a
pry bar is not just a _________ head tool.
It is a precision instrument when you make it that, but you got to have it.
You got to have it in the toolbox to be able to reach for it.
Matt: Yeah, so definitely that is another way to think about using this type of tool.
It is me to take the abuse obviously with the end here, so …
Kevin: I was going to ask about that.
Yeah, so I can literally use this as a chisel to get like a frozen head off and hammer on
this.
Matt: Yeah.
Yeah.
So, we have it set through with the other metal going down through the handle, but like
you said with a little bit of care, you can put some tape and things on the end and you
can precisely get things back in place with these.
Kevin: Hey Matt.
Thanks for showing me this stuff.
This is great and my morning coffee.
I am on eastwood.com checking out new tools.
So, this is a great way to learn about and…how should these guys find out about new stuff?
Matt: Yeah.
Like we mentioned this is, you know brand new, you are some of the first people to touch
these tools here.
So we are digging through our toolboxes every day to try and find those necessary tools
that everybody is going to need to get the job done right.
So, check out eastwood.com in our tools section.
We are going to be adding new tools throughout the year.
Anything that you are going to need, we are going to have it on this site.
Thanks Kevin.
I appreciate it.
Kevin: Yeah Matt.
Can I take this home?