Matco Tools: Essentials For Eletrical And Electrical Diag Work. Lots Of Tool Talk And Life Lessons

I live in northern Illinois and I order that socket tray in the end of November 2020 and just got it last Monday the 16th.

Great video.

Best video
Don’t edit all the conversations. We love it all thx

You and Michael could start a tool podcast! Lol great video clay! And awesome points Michael

Clay could you make a list or a video on your “worth their weight in gold” tools? I’ve bought so many of them hearing you say that and have been a huge help.

On the subject of southern people being taught how to basically work with your hands. I don't believe it's just people from the south. I believe its more on our parents wanting us to be able to do things for ourselves and not rely on someone to do it. My dad taught me alot about how to work on car and doing things around the house. Now I'm doing the same with my daughter.
On the subject of this generation of not knowing how to work on cars its nothing new. There are people in their 30s, 40s even 50s that don't know anything about working on cars.
Side note I hate working on electrical. I will juat pay a person that knows what he/she is doing to diagnose and fix electrical problems on my cars.
Supper to hear mama matco is doing better.

The brake is a 100 and the blade is a 100 and that 200 is well worth it, I always keep a spare of each on hand so production can keep going, only had the brake go off on the saw once so it does work I barely got a scratch

Can you do a video on how to use a de pining kit?

Can I order stuff from him or does it have to be online or local deal ?

Really like those picks but they are pricey. Cornwell picks are just as strong for half price, just the handle takes time getting use to

I love the power probe piercers. I'm a marine mechanic, so sometimes I have to test a circuit with a momentary switch and just being able to listen for the beep has saved me so much time. We don't really have the luxury of Deutsch connectors or anything. Just 2 wires butt connected and heat shrunk. But always silicone or liquid electrical tape.

Wish we had a Matco dealer that came to our shop but the last guy that we had got caught embezzling

I'm gonna come up there and ask you to show how to do an inframe overhaul on my mx13 epa10! I will watch everything and take notes!

Amen to Votech !

The saw stop works exactly the same way a touch lamp like grandma had works. The way your skin turns on the lamp from touch, activates the detonator (just like an airbag in a car) to jam the sawblade in milliseconds. The newer saw stops dont ruin the saw, they just have a replaceable module and blade if activated.

No matter what it costs, what are your fingers worth?

I wish that id had a matco dealer like Michael. Id have bought more stuff from them over the years. EVERY shop I was at, the matco guy would show up once every 10 weeks and randomly skip that visit when you needed him most.

Thanks for the electrical tool tips and suggestions. Just getting back into the automotive repair side. I been working with underwater robotics the past 6 years. So trying to catch up with automotive electrical. What do ya suggest for lab scopes. I used table top oscilloscopes before , but been looking for an automotive style. Any suggestions or advice? Leaning towards a picoscope. Thanks!

We have a votec down hear in Philadelphia ms I just graduated and went for 3 years for welding some of the things you see people do in that shop just makes you wonder how there still alive😂😂

It’s not a screwdriver it’s a pry bar 😂

Speaking of grass cutters I’ve got to put a new p t o cable on a Troy built 🤮

Patience as long as I keep my patience I’m good I loose my patience forget it 😂

I have a snap on test light like that and love it 😎👍

Wife window wasn’t working she said I think it’s broken test found driver main switch toast 45 gm part vs 300 dollar window reg 😷

Great video. You guys need to open a school for mechanics. Teach them right so customers stop getting screwed. Everyone should go through a basic handyman class when buying a house.

I saw a guy get his glove caught in a chain driven roller and it was a cheap brown jersey glove but it drove his 4 fingers around the sprocket and cut his fingers off his hand but didn't cut the glove he took the glove off blood going everywhere his fingers still in the glove I took my shirt off wrapped his hand called 911 and just sit with him until the ambulance got there his first day on the job

I can't stand trying to help someone but they act like they know everything and I tell anyone I know alot but not everything and I can still learn a new way to do something I've done a thousand times because I'll listen when someone is talking

Trying to fix something and the person is right in the way trying to do it I tell them now if you want me to fix it then go somewhere and let me fix it if you want to fix it I'll let you

Like you always say, a tool is only as good as the salesman. Knowledgeable salesman are essential for techs to grow.

Great info from the tool man, keep em coming, and thank you!

I need gearwrench 80966 set if you can get me a link or something possibly I need this set ASAP .

Do we know the part number of that test light

The green handle ratchet

A lot of Carlyle products are the same as matco I have noticed lately.

I love electric work . great job to be in .👍🇨🇦

Matco Mike and I are the the same age ‘91. And we probably feel the same way ab our generation. We’ve got a lot of dummies that know everything already but there’s some of us that were raised to be able to do it ourselves but our kids generation... these kids don’t care anything ab knowing how to work on stuff. A lot of them and I know not all but a lot believe that tradesmen are low on the economy and intellectual spectrum but as an industrial electrical tech I’m making more than 90% of these kids that are 100k in the hole after a 2 4 and 6 year degree. And y’all are right a lot of us have failed as parents to prepare our kids for the real world.

Great video, it made me think about my childhood - keep up the good work boys

I can tell you about wire wheels... I wear protective glasses every time I'm around tools like that. I had a piece of that wire 1" long go right in my eye..The eye doctor had to suck it out.. As even a magnet would not pull it out...

Society and technology have advanced so much that one person cant do it all anymore. People used to build their own homes, grow their own food, fix their own cars, and everything else that goes with homesteading. Yeah they may not be able to change your battery or change oil, But they can write code or build computers, engineer things etc. Things that they consider basic tasks we may be as clueless as they are with cars.

Mr Clay, I just finished watching. You and Michael on u tube, talking about electrical. I have a question and I hope u can help me out. I have taken my trailer to different shops to get my lights fixed. It seems that when I turn. My left blinker inside the truck. ,the rear left trailer lights won't. Blink same goes. To emergency blinkers on left side. When I have lights on all lights on truck and trailer air working.. y right side blinker and emergency light work. When I took it to. A shop, the me hands put on a batter to the trailer and worked the lights that way. He replaced lights that weren't out or damaged and said. ,the problem was due ro. A short should or wire. I explained to him that on tractor relay box infrastructure of. Truck a relay got hot . He replaced it and the lights worked for approx 2 min. Then it went back to doing the same. He gave up and said it was underneath the trailer. But I have used other tractors with this trailer and it all works just fine. My question to u ,is won't it be. The wiring from the relay box to the connector where the pig tail connect to tractor.. my next solution is to. Replace the connector on tractor. Pig tail is new. And I need to know what kind of tester I need to purchase, to better check my relay. I did u a deluxe automotive meterESC585M from a cornwell truck, while I was. On a 30 min break. But I am baffled by this. I did take 12months of electronics for the improved hawk .issue system. But this is different . Ca. U help or have u had this sit come to ur shop. I have an old Kentucky trailer. Furniture van,with belly boxes. So I hope that between Micheal and u can help me.velieve me if I were in the vicinity of ur shop. My headache would be gone. I'd pay uro fixit. Eighter way can u please advice. I am alway looking for a good mechanic shop on the road. Thanks

I didn't have votech at my school I have made hand over fist doing brake jobs for people I went to hs with. Also when I went to tradecschool we had a week this is a hammer this is a wrench bc people didn't know it

As a level 2 high voltage electrical tech for VW I loved this video. Great job.

Have you done any reviews/tours on the tool grid systems that Matco and Mac provide? I think there are a TON of people that aren't even aware the system exists...

Glad your momma is doing better

I love the stories that you two share with us, it's not just funny but it's one of those that makes you say I was not the only one who would feel like it.

The SawStop technology works by sensing the electricity like the small electrical current that human flesh has running through it.

Best recommendation ever need to have in school how to do basic house work and mechanics

FYI the building codes in Chicago requires light switches to be serviced by electricians. Even though this is excessive, it prevents a lot of people from even realizing in the first place that they are capable of DIY home repairs. Some other examples of strict city codes preventing homeowners from DIY'ing: toilets, sinks, P-traps, light fixtures, electrical conduit, light switches - these are all things that Chicago code requires a licensed professional to repair. Many home owners don't care about these codes and do their own repairs (ahem), but it's worth mentioning.

Does it include the tan shotgun? Lol