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- [Jobe] Give me a break, baby.
Give me a break, break for me, break!
- [Both] Hey!
- We're testing screwdriver sets today, Jobie.
- That's right, We have six sets here,
ranging from $8 all the way up to $200.
- Do you really need to spend 200 bucks
on a set of screwdrivers?
- I don't know, but I think we're going to find out.
- Let's go.
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- So you may have walked into a Harbor Freight one day
and saw next to, let's say,
a Pittsburgh set of screwdrivers as comparable to Husky.
- Yep, so we went to Harbor Freight,
picked some screwdrivers and then went out
and bought the screwdrivers they told us
to compare them to.
Oh, let's take a look at our actual contestants
and get into this stuff.
(hiphop music)
- [Jeremiah] All right.
So let's start with the cheapest option.
- [Jobe] The cheapos.
- [Jeremiah] $8, 12-piece set of Pittsburgh.
- [Jobe] Now that's pretty cheap.
Now let's look at what they are intended to be compared to.
Harbor Freight says, compared to this Husky set.
They don't really look very similar.
- [Jeremiah] But they say, that's what
you can get equivalence at.
This is what we got to compare it to.
They said it not us.
- [Jobe] Now let's go with a mid-range Harbor freight set.
These are $25 at Harbor Freight,
but Harbor Freight's whole comparison thing
is about how much money they're saving you.
We're comparing those to these Klein Tools.
Pretty, pretty well known brand.
- [Jeremiah] Yep.
- [Jobe] This set costs $50.
- [Jeremiah] For our most expensive comparison bracket here
we've got the Harbor Freight Icon.
This is pretty much a direct copy of the Snap-on.
These were $50 and the Snap-on's $200.
- We're going to be running all six sets
through a series of tests to determine
which one of these are the best
and which ones are worth your money.
(funky music)
- [Jeremiah] Start at the bottom of the bureau.
- [Jobe] Yeah. $8.
- $7.99. Not going to lie to you, I mean, it feels cheap.
- It looks very cheap.
It almost looks like this one is sideways.
Already off with that much better grip.
- That's just a nice beefy grip.
I like this one better.
- Yeah, Harbor freight is claiming this is comparable.
I guess from a quantity standpoint.
This set's eight, this set's 22.
- [Jobe] So almost three times the price,
but still $22 for a set of 10 decent screwdrivers.
- [Jeremiah] Right?
- [Jobe] Not a bad price.
We've got the Doyles.
- [Jeremiah] Doyles,
- [Jobe] Doyle rules.
- [Jeremiah] Doyle rules.
- [Jobe] We'll find out.
- Oh, that's pretty nice.
- We're comparing those to these Klein tools.
(crinkling)
- Our packaging isn't great.
But you know, we can't judge a book by its packaging.
- [Jeremiah] That's literally this test though.
- [Jobe] First of all, they copied them.
- [Jeremiah] Oh yeah. Twice as much money for those?
- [Jobe] Yeah, I see it.
- [Jeremiah] I'm not with it.
- [Jobe] Let's move on to our most expensive grouping.
So a while back Harbor freight released their Icon line
and it's pretty much like a Snap-on copy job.
This is sort of like the quintessential nice screwdriver.
- [Jeremiah] I gotta tell you,
I feel a little bit bad about
what we're gonna do to these things.
- [Jobe] Alright Jer,
well now that we've opened all the boxes
and touched all the drivers,
before we move on to, you know,
trying to drive any screws with these,
I wanna see, you know,
these all have their different coatings.
- [Jeremiah] Yeah.
- [Jobe] Let's hit them with a file real quick,
and see if we can tell any differences.
- [Jobe] All right. For the first test,
we're just going to hit each of these things with a file
and see if we can tell any difference
in the durability
or the hardness of the coating on each driver.
- Nice.
- We'll start at the top of the range.
See what happens with a Snap-on.
Just one good-
- [Jeremiah] Well, you filed it that's for sure.
- [Jobe] Sure did.
- [Jeremiah] Little scuff, mark.
- [Jobe] Little scuff mark, gives a little character.
- [Jeremiah] But nothing crazy.
- Doesn't seem to have gone through the coating or anything.
- No.
- Now let's see how the Icon holds up.
This might be doing better.
- [Jeremiah] Right.
- [Jobe] I don't know.
It looks like a little more damage going on in the Snap-on.
Honestly, I think the the Icon takes the cake there.
- Okay.
- Now let's moved down the range a little bit,
see how the Klein versus Doyle fair.
- [Jobe] Um, similar results to, I'd say,
both the Snap-on and the Icon.
Now, let's see about the Klein.
Ooh, this feels a little different,
sounds a little worse.
- Ooh. Ooh. Okay. Okay.
- [Jobe] You really don't like that that much?
- [Jeremiah] No, when you do it, it hurts.
Okay. Alright, you've done it.
You've done it.
- [Jobe] And it feels softer,
but it's really not doing much more damage.
- [Jeremiah] No, I think it's probably-
- [Jobe] It looks about the same about the same.
- [Jeremiah] About the same.
But that one gets an F minus for-
Stop!
- We've got the Huskies $22 set of screwdrivers.
It feels softer.
It seems to be damaging pretty easily.
I'd say so far that's been the worst.
Now let's see, this is coated, I would say.
- You can really see the chunks of metal coming off that.
- Yeah. And I mean, it feels soft.
Honestly, I think I might still put the Husky in last place.
I would put these in the same category.
These probably as a three pack did the best.
I mean, it's a little bit subjective.
- [Jeremiah] Yeah.
- [Jobe] But I'd say I feel pretty good
about the coating on these.
- [Jeremiah] Right.
- [Jobe] Now, let's get a little bit more
into what these things are meant for.
Let's drive a bunch of screws with these things
and see how they hold up after doing a bunch of screws.
To drive a bunch of screws with these,
it's either going to be a workout for us,
or we should cut them and put them in a drill.
- Let's cut them and show some sparky footage.
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- All right, so a big way that screwdrivers can fail
is by rounding off.
So to figure out which one of these is the best
and the worst and everything in between,
we're going to drive a bunch of screws into this wood,
then we're going to try to take them out.
- I will start with the old Harbor Freight.
- The Pittsburgh.
Now Jerry, it's time to do one of my favorite things.
Fricking screw it, dude.
- Drilling some screws.
Here we go.
Oops.
(drilling)
- You're not getting them all the way in anymore.
There's no more tip.
We look closely,
we can see there ain't much left.
Well now let's put it up against that Husky
and see who wins.
Let's see if it can do more than 13.
(drilling)
- It's got a little bit of twist in there.
(drilling)
- [Jobe] Pretty dang good.
- [Jeremiah] Still driving screws.
This handily beats the Pittsburgh.
- But you know, this is only a $22 set.
So as we keep going,
they should get even better, you'd think.
Alright, we got the Doyle
out of a $25 set from Harbor Freight.
(drilling)
- It's got some wear for sure.
The flutes have twisted a tiny bit.
Let's see if we can pull them out.
- Do you guys do this?
Do you wet it?
- You do that?
- Yeah.
- Like for real.
- Yeah.
(drilling)
- [Jeremiah] That's still a totally usable screwdriver.
So far as we move up with price, we move up with quality.
- But now we have the Klein.
Oh that thing looks good.
(drilling)
It's definitely feeling worse.
- That seemed honestly kinda like the least fun one yet.
It's still a total usable screwdriver.
- [Jeremiah] The Doyle looks pretty good
compared to it.
- They're yeah, they're really close.
- They're really close, right.
- I'd probably go with the Doyle.
Doyle does rule.
- [Jobe] Now let's move on to the expensivest category.
How are they going to look after 50 screws in 50 screws out?
(drilling)
- Not a problem.
- Not bad. That's a usable bit.
- Right, you ready?
- Yeah, let's test this Snap-on.
- You gave the Snap-on such a tiny tip.
Oh you (beep).
What the (beep)
- I mean, holy (beep)
- Second probably are twisted,
and that ain't gonna get any better.
- [Jeremiah] I think that one looks pretty bad.
- It does.
It looks beat up.
I mean, I don't know, man,
I think Snap-on might be resting on their laurels.
- [Jobe] Two outta three have compared very well,
if not better, to what they tell you to compare it to.
- [Jeremiah] Honestly,
Harbor Freight's doing pretty well in my book.
- [Jobe] Thus far for me, Icon's in the lead.
- [Jobe] Okay. For our next test,
Jerry's gonna throw a weight on the handle
and turn the screw with a torque wrench
and see how much torque it takes
before either the screw driver breaks,
the screw breaks,
or it just skips over to the next one.
- [Jeremiah] All right, ready?
- [Jobe] Yeah. I'm ready.
Let's see how this Pittsburgh grips the tip.
Oh, very, very poorly.
Yeah, she's fully twisted.
- [Jeremiah] Seven foot pounds twisted that tip?
Really just sad.
Holy crap.
- Well, it can only get better from here.
- [Jeremiah] Let's see if the Husky can
fair a little bit better.
- [Jobe] Sure, and there she goes.
Starting to jump.
All right. What'd you get to.
- Eight point three.
- [Jobe] You got a little twist on the tip there,
but it didn't break, still a usable screwdriver.
- [Jeremiah] Better than Harbor Freight?
- [Jobe] Yeah, much better.
Husky wins again.
- Now we loaded up the old Doyle.
- [Jobe] See how she does?
- Six, seven, eight, eight point five.
Okay, well that means that
had a little bit better grip in there.
- This looks great.
- [Jobe] That is a usable screwdriver, for sure.
- [Jeremiah] Right.
- Let's see if the Klein does any better.
- [Jeremiah] Eight point eight, eight point eight.
Kicking up.
- [Jobe] Kicking up?
Eight point eight? What did the last one get,
eight point five?
- [Jeremiah] Yeah.
- [Jobe] Tiny bit of twist.
I mean tiny.
- Now remember the Kleins are twice as much as the Doyles.
Because of that, I'm just going to factor in the price,
and I gotta say Doyle wins.
- Yeah, I'm with you.
- Yep.
- [Jobe] Okay. Now we've got the Icon.
- [Jeremiah] Seven, eight point five
- [Jobe] Oh, same as the last one a minute.
Did that twist?
- [Jeremiah] Yeah, that's a twisted driver bit.
Oh wow.
Now I'm really interested to see how the Snap-on works.
- [Jobe] I cannot wait for the Snap-on.
- [Jeremiah] Two, three, four, five, six,
seven, seven point seven.
- [Jobe] No way. Whoa.
No way what the.
- It broke off.
- [Jobe] It broke immediately.
Are you kidding me?
- [Jeremiah] The only other one that broke,
it was a Pittsburgh.
- So then between our winners, what would you take?
You got the twist on the Icon.
You got a little bit of twist and wear on the Husky
and just a slight twist on the Doyle.
- I think the Doyle takes it.
- A hundred percent, 25 bucks.
Right? Even more durable than the Icon in the test,
which, for half the price?
- [Jeremiah] I know it's pretty good.
- So oftentimes you use screw drivers
in ways that they're not supposed to be used,
like as a pry bar,
especially when you're working on cars.
- Yeah, we have our hydraulic press here.
We have a nice little setup to where this Ram will push down
on the handle screwdriver,
and we're going to measure how much pressure it takes
to get that tip to snap.
- Up first, we of course have our cheapest screwdrivers,
the Pittsburgh.
Give me a break baby.
Give me a break.
Just break.
Broken at the handle.
Because she don't got no full fricking tang.
Kind of figured that the tip would break,
sort of impressed that it didn't.
All right, Husky.
What do you got for me?
Ooh. We're at a hundred PSI right there.
Well, that definitely beats the Pittsburgh.
- 100 percent. Intact.
- Still intact.
You can still use this.
- Okay, up next is the Doyle.
- [Jeremiah] I feel like you should have this face mask on.
- Yeah, I mean, that would make sense.
- Before I do.
- [Jobe] And I think it just bent enough to pop out.
- [Jeremiah] It's Klein time, baby.
- [Jobe] We better break a fricking tip.
- [Both] (cheering)
- [Jobe] We got double break, double break.
- And south of a hundred.
- Whoa.
- Klein, you fools.
You've been bested by Harbor Freight.
- And now for the Icon.
Push her down.
Bend for me baby, bend.
- [Jobe] Clean break at a pretty thick part.
- Now we gotta see-
- [Camera Man] Will the Snap-on snap off?
- Can I hold the camera, and you say it?
- Will the snap on snap off?
- If the last test is an indicator,
I think this thing's gonna break.
- Seven five.
- Oh boy. Coming up on a hundred.
That's a bendy, that's a pass.
- [Jeremiah] That's a pass.
- Eh, so it beat the Icon for the first time, I guess.
- [Jeremiah] I guess it has.
Okay, so here are three champions.
- Yep.
I'm going Doyle. They're red.
You get to say Doyle rules every time you use 'em.
- [Jeremiah] All right, you know what Doyle, Doyle is.
- [Jobe] I hate to keep saying it,
but maybe Doyle does rule.
- [Jobe] The other thing that you're not supposed to do
that you'll often do is hammer 'em from the backside.
None of these are meant to be hammered.
- [Jeremiah] That's right.
- [Jobe] But we're gonna hammer 'em anyway
and see what happens.
- [Jobe] And we're ready to pump, pump that screwdriver.
- Holy crap.
Yeah so now we have a little hook,
we're way calmer than we should be.
Okay, well that was exciting.
- [Jobe] Yeah, we've added a slight safety modification.
She just bended at the middle.
Okay. That got shorter.
So this failed kind of two ways.
It broke at the handle,
and the shaft of the driver drove into the handle,
which isn't really what you want,
but not a spectacular failure.
You know, everybody's safe.
Let's throw that Doyle in there.
Ready?
- Ready.
- [Jobe] That didn't take too long.
Well, easy break.
Let's see if the Kleins can best the Doyle.
- [Jeremiah] I don't like
where it's already starting to bend toward.
- Yeah I think we can kind of call that a failure.
Who would you rather have?
- [Jeremiah] Well, you could still use this.
This, you can't do jack diddly with.
- Yeah.
- We'll say Klein, it deserves one win.
- Honestly, I've been feeling bad for it.
All right.
- Icon.
- Icon, let's see how she breaks.
- Oh my goodness. What is with you?
- What do you think is the Snap-on gonna do better?
- [Jeremiah] I mean, I don't know it did better last time.
There she go.
Broke through the handle.
- Broke the handle.
Between the Icon and the Snap-on,
I'm going to give this one to the icon.
- [Jeremiah] Really?
- [Jobe] They broke similarly,
but at a fraction of the price.
- [Jeremiah] Man oh man, what a bummer.
- [Jobe] I feel like they all did pretty terrible.
- [Jeremiah] We got two that just broke completely.
And we just got the angle guys, angle crew.
- [Jobe] So now it's down to these two guys.
You got your Klein and your Husky.
For me, it's the Klein.
Because it didn't actually break,
the handle just bent.
Didn't absorb the shaft at all.
It's really not ever gonna break the handle like that,
just by hammering the back of it.
But you can send the shaft in
and this thing sucked right in.
- [Jeremiah] You know what?
I'll agree with you.
- Klein tools, man.
Klein tools, not bad.
And honestly, really the only win that I had today.
Now let's talk about it with all the knowledge
that we've gained today,
and let's rank them up.
- Take all that data.
- Yeah. You distill it within your brain thoughts.
- Distill it down.
And what tool would you spend your hard earned money on
that goes in your toolbox.
- [Both] You've got the Doyle. I'm going Doyle, Doyle rules,
- Doyle rules, dude.
I honestly hadn't even heard of this brand
from Harbor Freight,
and these throughout the testing today, honestly,
I would say did the best.
So I think we're pretty much in agreement here.
- [Jeremiah] Yeah.
- The overall winner, Doyle.
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- [Jobe] So, Jer, is expensive more better?
- [Jeremiah] No way, Jose.
Nope, not even close.
- [Jobe] I'm happy that we did this.
I think it's a fun little thing.
Checking what Harbor freight tells us to compare to.
- [Jeremiah] Right?
- [Jobe] Maybe we'll do this again
in the future with some other stuff.
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- It's been a lot of fun.
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