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Join me as I review what in my opinion is the WORLD'S BEST PRECISION SCREWDRIVER SET. This remarkable tool packs a whole lot of precision screwdriving capability into one conveniently small handle. Watch the video and learn the many reasons this is my favourite precision screwdriver set for finicky jobs involving tiny bolts and screws.
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In this video, I want to talk to you about a new kind of screwdriver
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It's from a Canadian company called MegaPro, and it's their Mega Pro Precision Driver
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Why would you need a precision driver? Well, the bits are small, and they're specially shaped, and they're just what you need for working on electronics
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At least that's where I use my precision screwdrivers. And until now, I've used the collection that you see here
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It's just kind of a hodgepodge of drivers. Most of these drivers came to me just as freebies when I buy computer parts
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This is a new battery, for instance, for this laptop. It comes with a couple of drivers
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They're not just small. They're specialized in shape, too. They're not particularly high quality, at least not these freebies
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So that's one reason why I was particularly interested in this megapro
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because I know from past experience that MegaPro is definitely a precision driver manufacturer
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And I've made videos and written about their full-size drivers before. This is a ratcheting driver for just kind of regular screw-driving use
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This is only for precision use. It's like the full-size counterpart. It's got bits stored in the handle here
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interchangeable so it really takes the place of a lot of other drivers comes out
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like this and you can replace it with any of these one thing I really like about
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this is the the end part here this end cap is on a very nice bearing which means
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when you put it against the palm of your hand and you use it to drive it just it
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swive really nicely it it goes along with the whole idea of precision, essentially. It's a precision instrument for precision work. Now, this happens to be
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one of my favorite kinds of laptops. This is a MacBook Pro mid-2012. I rely on computers to earn my living
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Why would I be using a nine-year-old computer? Well, that's because the configuration of the mid-2012
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MacBook Pros was outstanding. Interchangeable memory, replaceable. battery, all kinds of ports and things on the side. I really prefer it to the more
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modern versions so much so that I actually have four of these that I keep in good condition ready to go They constantly being backed up So if something goes wrong something gets worn out
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I've got a replacement. I can just plug it in. I do the download of all the information and away I go
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And then I bring the worn out one up to snuff. And that's kind of what I'm doing with this particular one
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battery life isn't what it used to be. This charging port needs to be changed
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Here's the replacement part. That's where the charging port plugs in, but the contacts are getting corroded
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and they don't work reliably. So that's where this comes in. In order to get this part to replace that
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I basically have to take apart the whole laptop, fans, hard drives, everything's got to come out
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It's a pretty big job. and then I use my laptop so much that I actually wear out keys
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Not that I need to see what they say. My fingers know where the keys are, but this is the third, fourth, fifth time maybe
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I've replaced keys on this particular laptop. Here are the replacement keys here
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They're ready to go. So that's what I'm up to today. But this video is not about how I'm going to do all this
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because there's plenty of videos like this for this particular computer on
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YouTube I don't need to add anymore but this is mostly just about a review of the screwdriver
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which as I said I really like I've been using it for a little while now and it's a great
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driver it's it's far superior to the freebies that that you get and right now I'm
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using the Phillips bit it's a really tiny little little Phillips bit whenever you're
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working on electronics, you need to be meticulous, extra meticulous in fact, because a lot of the
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fasteners are unique. You can't get them at stores. They're just proprietary things. So I'm taking the
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cover off this computer. Now I know from a lot of past experience that there are two different sizes
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of screw. There is the longer one here, which goes in the
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three spots and then shorter ones all the way around. Not a big deal. It's just that you need to keep things in order
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In fact I actually have a collection of little parts When you connect with a particular piece of electronics like this and you make the choice to keep it up instead of Treating it as disposable
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Well, now you've got an opportunity to collect little parts and screws and fittings and things so that you're more likely to be able to
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succeed if you run into a bit of a problem So that's the Phillips driver in action there and I expect we're gonna see a fairly
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amount of dust. That's usually the way it is. Well, it's not too bad. These are the cooling
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fans here, and they're constantly drawing air in to cool all of this hardworking electronics
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But, of course, when it pulls in air, it pulls in all kinds of dust, too. So part of this
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procedure involves cleaning all this. As I said, I'm not going to go into all the details of
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repairs. Let me just say that standard wisdom says you should not vacuum
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the insides of a computer. Certainly I'm going to be vacuuming this
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and I've been taking apart computers like this and working on them. I've done it dozens and dozens of times over 15 or 20 years
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I do vacuum the inside of my laptop. I use a horse hairbrush, so it's not plastic, it's not synthetic
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It's not likely to... You won't build up static electricity. So that's really the danger is that you might zap something
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with a little shock of static electricity. but I've never had that problem
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I go gingerly. I just go where the dust is. And that works pretty well for me
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Yeah, this is kind of where a driver like this shines. And if you look inside, let me just take a look here with this illuminated lamp
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This is also a very helpful thing. This is a magnifying lamp with a built-in ring light
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So you can really see what you're doing. So once you get inside any piece of electronics
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That's where all these interchangeable bits really come into play, because there are quite a few different fastener styles
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I mean, there are the Phillips, which is just like a cross shape
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Got to get the right size, though, in order for that to work. Then there's also what's called torques
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That's a torques one there. Some more torques. Torcs is, the size of it is described with a number
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So for instance, if I'm not mistaken, I think that would be a T6 torques there
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Let see in this one So you see it says T6 torques and yep that the one for that screw there
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So I guess the advantage of the interchangeable style is at least two-fold. First you've got higher quality, higher-quality bits. The Mega Pro is a professional line. These are very hard wearing. I've never had a
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mega pro tip let me down by rounding over and because the metal's too soft. So that's one thing
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Another thing is variety and compact shape. You don't have to trip over a whole bunch of
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screwdrivers like this. And you know in the past these freebie drivers that have come with
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some of the components, repair components I've bought, they have let me down. I mean one time
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the driver bit was soft enough that it actually started to round out the head of the screw. And believe
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it or not, I had to drill out the head of the screw in order to get that little wee machine
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screw out. So whenever I reviewed tools, I try pretty hard to find the flaws because nothing
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in the world is perfect. It's a great driver. The only thing I can fault it for at the moment
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is that, at least with the collection of driver bits I have in here, there is not one called
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a trilob, which is what I have here. It's like the... It's a fill
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The Phillips driver, it's like a Phillips driver, but instead of four arms, it only has three
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And in this case, the trilob driver is what you need to remove the battery
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It's the only trilob fastener in the whole computer here. But I have talked to the Mega Pro people, and they tell me that there are more than 90
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different precision driver bits in the world. It's quite a varied collection, and they're always adding new ones, so quite
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adding new ones. So I'm sure the trilob is going to be added soon. Maybe they've even got it now
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and it's just not in the handle. But bottom line is if you want to have success, if you want to have
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do-it-yourself success, creative success, success at repairing things, you just need good tools
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And that's kind of an investment that I'm surprised a lot of people don't make. You know
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they'll cheap out and they pay for it and they wonder why their DIY life isn't what it should be
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equip yourself properly with high quality tools, even professional grade tools. I mean, that's what I do. I'm not a professional computer guy here, but I have found that good tools matter here
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just like in any other area of metalworking, woodworking. And I think you like the Mega Pro line. I know I certainly do
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