Text of Special and Unusual But Helpful Tools for Appliance Repair

In another video, I went over the basic hand tools that I use all day, everyday. In this video, we're gonna dig down a little deeper and go over the odd ball tools that you need to do special jobs and I'll give you a little insight in to why we need these various tools. This is a battery filler syringe you can use a turkey baster if you want. This is used frequently for flushing drains on refrigerators. Here's a condenser cleaning brush, it's available in any appliance park place. This is just a long skinny brush for cleaning condensers on refrigerators. This is a radiator hose clamping pliers which is very helpful on washing machines and dishwashers when you don't wanna bother emptying the appliance and you need to work on a pump. And here we have a copper tubing cutter which you need for repairing ice maker quarter inch copper lines and if you decide to install dishwashers, you also need that tool. This is a back up, vice grips for where you just in a tight bind and you need something with a lot of force, it doesn't get used very often. Now this little guy is a quarter inch ratchet. It's sitting here with a quarter inch socket on it. Here's a 3/16 and a 5 and here we got a 7 1/2 and the 9/16 sockets. You can get by pretty much any job. One of my favorite mechanics only use the quarter inch drive ratchet on all his appliance work. I use both. This is the 3/8 drive, short extension. Use a 7/16s for agitators on Kenmore washers I have, for the transmission on Kenmore washers and here's a 9/16 which very rarely gets used. Here's a long extension that's helpful on the Kenmore agitator. Kenmore has a basket locking nut called a spanner nut and this is a special tool and hammer that's makes it very quick and easy to knock that nut loose. You can do over the coat chisel which you choose. On other brands, I just use a coat chisel. It just so happens that Kenmore tools get used often enough, maybe a couple of times a year that it's just a smoother operation to use, this one. And you might have noticed that when I showed you the socket sets, I didn't include the 3/8 socket like this and on the nut drivers, I didn't include the 3/8 either. Well, the reason is, they're not used very often but they would come in to special category. The 3/8 nut driver here is handy when installing or removing the tail pipe on a disposer that have to be a 3/8 bolt. The socket is used, as far as I can recall, is only for the bolts that hold the pump down on the Maytag Performa design. So, occasionally you might need these, I'd say have them handy, they're probably gonna come in the set you buy anyway. Most guys that just start in the mechanical trade wind up dinging themselves, so I'd recommend that in your truck you have first aid kit so that you don't have to ask the homeowner for band aid when you need it. I personally only seemed to cut myself at home in the kitchen, I haven't really hurt myself on the job for years but new guys do until they really get used to it, so you do need some band aids. I got a first aid kit in the truck and probably everything in it is outdated but it's a good thing to have. These are two nut drivers of 5/32 and a 7/32. They're definitely half-size odd balls but once in a while, on a timer job and on a gas foul job, you'll find it helpful to have these two half sizes. This is another rarely used but helpful to have is just the standard Allen wrench or x key set. And here is a Pop rivet tool which is only needed on a Maytag drier front bearing, very specialized. You may need a quarter inch or an 8 inch drill bit and a drill motor to drill out the rivets. So you see, this is my own little private joke. This is totally overkill, unnecessary, ridiculous. Appliance guys still have this kind of stuff, you only need simple things that I've shown you in these two videos.