Nick's traveled with Adam hour and 50 minutes up the road to come and see us and he's bought his
first master class he's going to be in he's going to be looking at some tools what's the thinking
behind the toolkit in front of us before i spin myself around to the other side of the camera
it's a technical toolkit that you will do a wide variety of from three-phase to single-phase
domestic agricultural you can take this toolkit and it's literally just got everything
you need for any job except for what we found is you know you you first fix stuff so obviously you
got your big hammers your chisels and whatnot this is sort of your pristine i sort of call
this my fuse board bag okay so anything to do with the fuse board that comes in and uh and
it has everything with it that there's nothing else that needs to get out of the van so what i
like about it gives that professional element you have i'm not saying sales person but back in the
day where they used to bring maybe books around and things like that or the insurance man came to
your house they'd always have something like this a very impressive looking bag yeah sort of levels
up and from Adam's point of view you have handles they're good to carry around a building site you
find those easy to do yeah you've got a couple of different straps so carry them so the thought of
everyone are they not just the electrician from a professional point of view actually Adam there's
a few straps there for you to carry can you carry two at once bonus actually is it comes with that
they actually velcro it together oh right on one eye oh right okay that's good that's yeah
fantastic so what we're going to do now is we're going to go through this this toolkit you're going
to explain you know a little bit about each of the tools maybe or where you use it or where you don't
use it yep and i'm going to stand the other side of the camera so Adam at this point you're going
to stay in the shot or you're going to come out shop good shot so we'll pass the microphone over
and Adam's going to chip in as well so let's do that next so basic tool kit these are the
to-go bags i think um first impressions obviously it's hard case it's waterproof it's zip up this
is the problem i have with my Stanley open toe ones this is the one that you've got one of as
well is the amount of moisture generated in the van overnight your most tradesmen will have it
you just literally just drips constantly from the ceiling and even like my brand new tools and we
bought some new CK cutters they were week old they were rusty to hell because they're not moisture in
the van so i didn't want to get someone with a bit of cover up at the same time i didn't want
a massive tool bag because i've been there done that and it's so heavy to carry around so that's
why i did want one of these um so they close up velcro absolute bloody everywhere on them
um the kit that it comes with so there's a few things that are mine in there which
are the Stanley ones that's your hammer sorry sorry that slow camera or is it a quick camera
it doesn't really do a lot to be honest isn't it no um so you got your little little carriers
with your bits so i don't really take camera out there to be honest it's uh
it's like your you you three little man bags that are on the side Adam likes putting it there it's
nice um but they've sent me a few different varieties so side cutters which we never use i
despise cycles um so so explain what you use instead of a cycle cycle is uh oh they're in
this pocket here so these are the i can't even tell you what they're called right now
um they are the cutters slash strippers slash crimpers slash pliers and so far they've replaced
everything so i'll keep them in pocket this is what we had before was the ck cutters which
years yeah this is but obviously these aren't technically insulated compared to these these are
you know rated up to 1000 volts these aren't um and i've had it before where not that would
ever be kind of the cables live but when the bottom of the installation comes off if you ever
do accidentally cut through something live your handle's catching on the end so
sort of upgraded to these ones so the cycles haven't had any use yet
you've got obviously normal needle nose pliers and then on top of that you've got the big cutters for
your tails which is sort of replaced rck colours um it's all Knipex stuff that comes with uh
they're my old are they they're your strippers sorry um a couple of pliers so i'm pretty sure
these are plumbing pliers i'm sure someone would tell me if i'm wrong but they just sort of square
open rather than angled for gripping um so that's sort of handle wise what you get as basic um which
come in very handy and only that they've got the velcro on the outside so if you wanted
your accessible screwdrivers all the time you can just velcro instead of sticking them in
there and you can end up sticking spirit levels or bigger hammers or chisels that sort of stuff so
i want to sort of keep this bag as clean as possible so away from him
the other thing they sent me this is to my knowledge what people go as a quoting screwdriver
so it will sit in your pocket and it extends out with most stuff so if you go around a quote
you want to take a light switch off a socket see there's an earth that'll sit there and you park
it nicely and it comes in its own little bag as well that's very gentle it's very nice next thing
i go on the back so we've got the joker screw up spanner set so i got sent the all of them um but
realistically for electricians especially domestic you're only ever going to use 10 or 13 because
that's the 19 is never going to be used for anything other than beating Adam when he's not
swept up properly um they're a great piece of kit i've only ever used the 10 mil once so far
yesterday off that you have their from my knowledge painted um ratchet
uh spanner set so you've got every bit here from six to fourteen and these these are
really nice actually because i dropped them yesterday expecting them to go everywhere
and they've all got their own little holsters so they all twist on so you can drop it twist it
you've got the angle bit as well so angle bend on corners screwdriver bits in there as well
so not that i'd want to put screwdriver a bit in the end of a one of these but
but then on top of that it's got the bit where it turns so you can actually use it as a driver all
right or twist it on the angle so looking forward to using it i'm just not found a new use for it
yet but that's the problem with domestic stuff is you sort of use the same tools in and out daily
until you can get a different type of job which allows you to use this sort of stuff uh next one
this was my mom brought me this for Cristmas it was the vera advent calendar and if you
have seen it's about this big so each day the first day you open that and then throughout
the month you then pick up new tools to fill it up so i got bored on day six and opened it all
um just because the kids were pestering me they kept trying to open it up and i
ended up losing a few bits to start with so that's just the basic but that will probably
sit on this one as it's duplicated duplicated already this one is the very small like position
precision screwdriver set so you've got everything from hex bits to flat heads to
what would you do with that removing enamel picking your nose i don't know
so right there you go um so yeah that's more refined i think this probably more for
you know if you're doing thermostats or bits and bobs very tech like um
central heating systems that sort of stuff so i think that will come in a bit handy there i've not
found a use for it yet i'm just sort of keeping it all together as for now until i can work out
a system where how much stuff i'd actually use normal job wise and then i can start just putting
some bits on here or just leaving it in the van uh Knipex the world's sharpest most robust
scissors um anything i've cut with that so far is my nails which does actually work really well um
but i'm sure everyone's thinking scissors but you know can you think of an application for a person
these are these scissors actually are for they can cut singles as well
i've not tried twin and earth yet to be honest actually the point but um i'll bring it in a
bit it's the brother label print i've got um so it's normally with the one that i have
it will print off you can do fusible stickers anything but occasionally they don't have the
correct software on it for them to have a fuse board so hey good ones you can print the label
off perfectly fuse box ones you need to alter a little bit or you end up cutting a bit off so
it's always good to have a pair of scissors on the van for various things uh and then
on the left it's just a long non-insulated screwdriver set and i think the bendy one
do you want to demonstrate that for me mate yeah candy there you go i got it ben's yeah perfect so
i think i could sort of think of is is where we're under sinks and whatnot where it's a bit difficult
with pipes have been put in the way but it's got a good bend on it for what it's worth or does it
ratchet yeah okay so yeah and obviously quick release bit at the end so it all come in handy
at some point it's just finding the right type of jobs to use this on and then get a system in place
so that's that back oh i've not done the front so obviously with this bag as well like you can see
everything velcro's in the knot so if i turn around and i've got i want i'm doing a cooker and
i want my ratchet set and so different screwdriver bits i can either take that bit of that bit
which will velcro to each other there's a few little cool things in here so this is another
this is the tool check plus one so this little dinky ratchet set which is really nice i
actually use that quite a few times recently screwdriver a couple of more different sizes
and then you've got different screwdrivers in there as well so hex bits flat heads posies
a magnetizer some magnet tries to underscood a bit screwdrivers um you were amazed with
this the other day weren't you absolutely amazed magic black magic it was um just keep sticking to
everything as you can imagine the their version of the allen key set so the big one of the little one
that's normally for hubs a lot hubs now are our hex so that sits in the van we've got
another one of them some weren't we yeah um and then the bigger ones which was fuseboard stuff
then they're crimps which you've never crimped anything yet have you yeah i have a college no
not uh is that because we're maintenance-free style connectors most the time yeah
um the video i did the other day with just the tiny tiny earth coming through in that
ad box i didn't feel there's enough cable on that to put a uh you know a wig or an
ideal clip on it so crimp it it's just the same thing isn't it not non-maintained one of the uh
i'll get into it flex stripper so coax any size flex really it literally goes around there just
spin it around it takes the top layer off and then you can put it onto this side which then
has all different sides for stripping as well not used it yet because i'm so used to using the old
ck ones which where i've sort of perfected it to how much pressure to put on the pull that a lot
of people were using i've seen that online don't maybe i wouldn't have thought this was big enough
but i know the other cutters would but i'll have to give it a go next thing is their version of
these strips so these are the ck ones that i've had for years obviously these are adam's ones
but use them for stripping the outside mechanical projection of pvc 20 cbc cables yes what size does
it go up to pull away from two five really too far you can try four mil but i've rarely ever ever
used four i'd have never even bought it from a four mil it's only when i found in people's houses
but the old formula the grey insulation is a lot thicker than new styles so it wouldn't fit in
it might fit it might not it might be a bit of a push but it's you know just it's for ease of jobs
really not you can use it in sockets to a degree if you can push a bit of the teeny back down into
the socket through the capping it worked fine but the size of these when you're just doing it in a
normal back box by the time you've got it in there stripped it you're still leaving an inch of gray
in there which sometimes especially if it's usb socket or double depending if it's a flat plate
you need as much space in the back as possible um i've not even used these ones yet these are
exactly the same version and i presume these will go up to two five by the looks of them and the
length we perhaps have a practice layer what's the length of two five so once you've split the outer
mechanical protection you have to then physically yank it off how long can you yank off the end uh
i would say depending on cable really and i've done this obviously throughout the years Doncaster
cable obviously you've got the powder in there which helps it a lot sometimes you'll either
have none where you can't really tell and it's very difficult we found this when you we've been
stripping the old black and black and red cable there is non-existent so you can pretty much get
three or four inches off it before you have to then either run the knife down and pull it off
uh newer cable i'd slip to a foot but i even that sometimes i end up doing that about four or five
times throughout the cable and just pulling three or four inch lengths off it until i get you know
the length i want so you look a lot younger than i'm presuming now because obviously with
metric measurements now we've used millimeters and centimeters it seems like you know i was thinking
you were probably you know mid to mid to late 20s but obviously you must be in your 60s well
being taught by either my dad or older sparks and just my granddad was in the carpenter as well so
i was taught inches and feet and then school centimeters and millimeters so most of the
time which probably everyone here will do at some point when you're measuring something out of wall
you'll just go to the nearest number so if it's near 60 inches it's rather easy to read
60 inches than it is you know centimeters or millimeters so yeah i i just jump back and
forth really constantly you're millimeters aren't you yeah well you just start going to closest now
don't you as well yeah it's easiest easiest next thing uh is a key to fit everything so this is
any meter box key gas electric i've used one so far which is this one so that's your normal size
which is what i actually have on my set keys plastic one which i can actually take off now
but you do get some funny ones with the keys have to be two inches long
to feed all the way through so beneficial to have on you you know if you're quoting as well
if you need to go and check the bonding you want to check the main fuse tables anything like that
that's perfect to have and then it's just what you've seen in my Christmas gift really just
screwdriver attachments or we want a bit bit of fun yeah on your hand uh that one's done now so
i would like to say it just it looks smart it looks professional you walk to a job um
it costs more than an open toe toolbar from Stanley let's be honest but
the problem with the open toe stuff is if it's there and it's open either fills full of dust
which we found several times from chase in or you get him chucking
ends of cable around which end up and piled up in the bag or we oh i'll just say that
for later we took a glam pack in there or this or that and it just soon fills over Christmas
we entered it all out don't we and there was that much stuff in there that many way goes or
eclipse or whatnot you end up just filling up but with this if it's a sealed unit i can just
sort of keep this separate and clean away from everything else fingers crossed it's early days