hey guys Adam Savage here from my cave with a
tool tip now I'm gonna show you something lovely here I'm gonna show you
my socket drawer yeah I'm really happy with my socket roll it makes me very
relaxed to see this and still it's been years that I've been working on this and
I still have some spots I haven't filled and some things that go missing and
that's just the nature of having some sockets but that's what I wanted to talk
about today because every maker who has ever had to deal with sockets knows the
pain of having a socket set because having a socket set means having an
incomplete set let's just be totally honest with each other and say that like
that's just gonna happen also there are some other things that suck about socket
sets and specifically I'm referring to the cases they come in i am i despise
blow molded tool cases i recognize they're really an inexpensive way for a
manufacturer to get you those parts and i don't fit like if i was working for a
tool company i was designing a tool and they told me how much a wooden box would
cost versus a blow molded thing I'm quite sure that I'd say yeah let's go
blow molded but blow molded cases they're never small enough they always
hold onto the tools either too tightly or not tightly enough they take up too
much space that I started and ended with the same thing they've just they're too
big for what they do and they they don't easily engender putting the tool back
that may be my biggest pet peeve how many times have you struggled with a
corded tool in its blow molded case try to get that cord in I hate it and I've
been thinking about doing this tool tip for a while
Milwaukee the wonderful makers of all sorts of different tools was one of the
sponsors for my discovery show savage builds and I was really lucky to do a
tool tip specifically because they were one of the sponsors and I
you know I wanted to really think about it and I thought about it and I want to
promote this lucky makes a pair of socket sets that I should probably make
more than just these two but I have these two small and large and let me
talk to you about how much I love these socket sets dude okay
shall we start with the fact that the sockets are faceted so they are less
inclined well okay and get a little momentum going they're less inclined to
roll off a table that right there is amazing
secondly look at these low profile cases look it's like echo the myth it's gone
you look at it from the side it doesn't leave any dismiss that is completely
amazing to me also easy to get your stuff out of here I don't know what this
was doing in there I think that belongs somewhere else but pulling your thing
out it's not in a blow molded case there's usually a little bit of over
molding to hold on to each side see gonna pop it out again life is too short
to waste it fighting with polypropylene or polyethylene or whatever the hell
those cases are made out of they just they drive me nuts I have to say this
might be my favorite example of a manufacturer making a tool and a case
for it that is meats no correction oh also there's one other thing about
this these lifts out and go right into your drawers if you want to yeah this is
this is a tool designed by people who use tools not to say that other tool
manufacturers aren't just that the craftspeople who got this across the
line or I hope proud of themselves because they nailed it and while we're
on the subject of blow molded cases that I hate I'm gonna sing one more praise
for my walk that is this router this is the
Milwaukee router and again this was came about on savage builds but they somehow
designed a blow molded case that I don't hate look at that
so first of all it's easy access to the tool and the tool just this pops right
out there we go
you still have a kind of nice forage for the tool that is kind of great and
getting it back in totally easy plus there is a space for a collet it's got a
half inch and a quarter and to call it the tools okay here's a classic blow
molded thing the tools are wedge fit in there but honestly almost every router
comes with stamped metal pieces of crap I hate them I need them but I hate them
Milwaukee went with a drop what looks like a drop for you drop forged pair of
pair of wrenches and here's the other thing they did makes me so happy both
nuts on their router are the same size right like it's not hard to get this
stuff right and yet so few companies really do you don't have to think about
which one you're using for which nut and the fact that it's got this wide face
and it's drop-forged means that the action is really privileged you can feel
it you know what force you're putting on you're not trying to grab a hold of some
flat piece of metal like a post-apocalyptic landscape yeah I know I
am being quite a few severe but it's specifically because I've spent my life
buying tools and being disappointed in the packages they came in and the ways
in which they were supposed to be store I really like this we're gonna put it
back in its case doesn't matter which side you put it in first this thing
makes me so happy awesome as a router it's damn good it is
simple as the day is long I tend to feel like routers have mission
creep as tools like they show up with too many bells and whistles this one is
just it works exactly as you expect it to when I first had kids and my den wife
and I went to buy a stroller my metric for buying a stroller was can I figure
out how to use it in the store because if I can't figure out how to use it in
the store I'm never gonna quite figure out everything about it right like there
are intuitive and non intuitive things that you could buy I am here to sing the
praises of Milwaukee as a veteran wonderful Tool Company who has made
things that are intuitive to use that take into account what it is to have a
tool and to use it also this is the other reason that you should get these
sets they don't look like all the other sockets that's great that means when
your sockets missing and someone else like oh no that one was mine you know
you'd I mean of course like if you and somebody else have Milwaukee it's gonna
be a problem but for the most part these are like these are different that's yeah
all right I appreciate you guys joining me on this tool tip and if you know of
other blow-molded cases that don't suck I'm happy to know about them and again I
don't think it's the tool manufacturers fault and I don't want to cast blame
because I know that hard-working people are always trying to meet the market at
various price points to get their products across and I respect that
process it's really it's a fine process you know there's always compromises life
life is compromised but every now and then you come across something in which
somebody has really taken the grace to make something easy to use and lightful
and that makes me happy thank you guys for joining me I will see you next time