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Wood—especially hardwoods—render the Yankee driver virtually useless. And although in theory a drill bit can be chucked into the tool, using it to actually boring a hole is a laughable exercise in futility. The Yankee driver began its slide into obsolescence about the time that people realized the screwdriver bits could be chucked into power drills, and as cordless drills came into their own, the Yankee driver began to gather serious rust. If you have a Yankee driver, it's time to move along with the times: Get a nice lithium ion 18V cordless drill.
And leave the Yankee driver to your grandson to play with. DIYers seeking a very cheap and easy way to locate studs are often drawn to the cheap magnetic stud finder, purported to sense metal screws or nails inside the wall. This small tool that costs only a few dollars has a magnetic rod inside a plastic view window that is supposed to jump to attention as it crosses over a steel nail or screw in the wall.
As the argument goes, if you find the nails or screws holding the drywall, you have then found the stud. In reality, this tool works well in one situation only—on plaster walls where the construction used wooden lathe nailed to the studs. In this situation, there are many tiny nails embedded in each stud, and the tool has many targets to react to as you pass it across the wall. The magnetic stud finder is very frustrating to use on drywall construction, as the magnet is so weak that it will react only when it passes directly over the head of a screw or nail.
And because drywall is nailed at wide intervals, detecting a stud is mostly a matter of accident. This means that you have a lot of sweeping and dragging across the wall to find a fastener. Today, a much better option is an electronic stud finder, which works by detecting density changes in the wall.
Painting is both the most common home improvement project and a messy annoyance. Of all the home improvement projects you can do, painting offers the most potential for making a big difference for a modest cost. But painting is so tedious and messy that many people end up hiring a professional painter after they have attempted it a few times.
For those that continue to do their own painting, the gadget manufacturers have dreamed up hundreds of devices that say they will make the work easier and faster. Most homeowners soon learn that most of these devices are really aimed at coaxing dollars out of your pocket. Foam painting edgers are a prime example of this kind of device—one that promises to simplify the one painting task that people often have trouble with—"cutting in" or edging around trim moldings, windows, and doors.
But foam painting edgers are fraught with problems, beginning with the fact that foam is a terrible material to use for painting. Even after hundreds of years of evolving painting technology, the best material to apply paint remains good old horsehair or nylon bristles mounted in a brush. In the best of circumstances, edging is a difficult task, even with a regular bristle paint brush. Foam just complicates matters—giving something that looks more like a smear than a brush stroke.
Because the foam does not adequately hold the paint, you are continually dealing with dripping paint, too. Improve on foam painting edgers by learning the "cut-in" technique with regular paint brushes. Or, get in the habit of using blue painter's tape to form an edge. The classic adjustable wrench, often known by the trademark name Crescent, which earned its name thanks to the shape of its jaws, is a standard feature of most home workshops. This tool is essentially an adjustable open-end wrench, designed to replace a large collection of fixed open-end wrenches.
The adjustable crescent wrench is found in almost every toolbox and home workshop, which is something of a puzzle because few tools are less effective than this one. Adjustable wrenches have a terrible habit of loosening, no matter how tightly you adjust them, and this is exactly the wrong characteristic for a tool that needs to tightly grip a nut or bolt in order to work properly. In tests, we found that no brand of adjustable wrench really performed adequately. The Crescent brand adjustable wrench had the least amount of play in the head; the Sears Craftsman adjustable wrench had a bit more about 1mm , and a no-name KR brand adjustable wrench had about 2mm of play.
As an alternative to the frustrating adjustable wrench, you will be better served by a good collection of open-end wrenches or a ratchet wrench with a good selection of sockets. This tool goes by many names, including "tongue-and-groove," or "channel-type" pliers—or by the popular brand name, Channellock. LIke the adjustable crescent wrench, this tool has an adjustable head.
In theory, a pair of channel-type pliers is supposed to make it unnecessary to own several pairs of standard pliers. In practice, some people find this the most annoying and useless tool since the adjustable crescent wrench.
Channel-type pliers have a slot design in the head that includes notches for adjusting the tool for different gripping sizes. These notches are the problem with this tool since they never seem to give you the size you need.
And because you end up adjusting the tool just a little too small or too large for the fastener, you often end up stripping the bolt head or nut you're gripping. Most people who insist on using channel-type pliers find that they need to own several pairs of different sizes—which contradicts the whole idea of having an adjustable tool in the first place. One place that channel-type pliers can be useful is for plumbing work, especially in making the connections for drain traps. Other than this, channel-type pliers are most useful simply as a crude gripping tool.
A single pair of channel-lock pliers is perhaps necessary for the workshop. But for most purposes, have a good collection of specialty wrenches is a better idea. A good pair of name-brand Vise-Grip pliers can also be a good alternative. Before you get indignant, we have no criticism of the true Vise-Grip wrench.
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