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@@Brentw182 Hello Friend! I EDC the Swiss Champ, which is maybe 1mm thinner than the Cybertool L. The CTL has the possibility of loosing a bit, which makes it something I'm not willing to risk for the benefit of the company I work for's benefit. I beleive there are 8 or 9 available bits, but it comes with four.

@@Brentw182 As far as "too large to pocket edc", I'd say no, with the caveat that if you find a way to prevent it from going to the bottom of your pocket, then you can carry it. This could be a clip, like I added to my Swiss Champ, or the $20 swissqlip, or lanyard. If it gets to the bottom of your pocket, I find it want to turn horizontally and it gets intrusive.

@@AlexNaderi-x1o The Original Super Glue brand, 0.01oz tubes. www.dollartree.com/the-original-super-glue-4ct-packs/198664

@@guidetolife9386 No, this series is the first time I have ever done anything like this to any car. I followed the guidance of my coworker, who is a literal genius (156 IQ), who has done several of his cars and knows how to get the best out of your car sound system and whatnot. While I don't doubt there are better products that would give you a better result, for the cost, I am so thrilled with how well the Noico deadener and foam insulator worked, that I have done my wife's car, my parents car, and intend to spend the time to do our new-to-us third car after winter. 👍

@@michaelnasser8697 Makes all the difference, especially at dusk/dawn/low light.

@@jenbuinu5368 That's poopie. No, when I check mine it still starts boiling the paint off my walls across the room. I think Monstrum has a lifetime warranty? 🤔

@ thanks for the info, I will email them.

@@gergnotsloh Nice get! No, I have the same cover on my Glock, but IDK that PSA sells them.

@@oliverrakic9891 Linseed oil.

@@vladuroset Hi, friend. Considering it is one of the thinest, widest, loosest peices of metal, which gets wind, engine, and road noise buzzing through it, I'd say it made a large difference. Untreated, all the engine noise would buzz through the hood, and into the cabin. It also makes dropping the hood sound quality and sturdy, instead of the "cymbals chime", it's a "THUD". considering the amount of time it takes, I would, and have, done it again, in my parent's and wife's cars. 👍

@@yetanotherspuart3993 Hey friend, happy....American Thanksgiving to you too. 😉 Everyone is OK, except a few months ago my black lab in my videos died. And between that loss and feeling like I'm not getting the traffic I'd like on YT, I gave up on it. 🤷 How are thing down under? "Slightly warm" this time of year, right? 😋

@OutsideTheTargetDemographic You live Yay! I get that. I am just happy to see you are okay. So sorry about the Puppers. Rest in peace little one 😥 Sucks that you feel things were not working here. Look after yourself and family first. If you come back, I'll stop by and leave a like and drop a comment. Even if you just post in the community tab. Things here not good. But I'll leave that off your channel. Basics, censor happy people now legally censor people. (Not even sure if I can post that so will send twice. I am restricted from saying many words)

@OutsideTheTargetDemographic @OutsideTheTargetDemographic You live Yay! I get that. I am just happy to see you are okay. So sorry about the Puppers. Rest in peace little one 😥 Sucks that you feel things were not working here. Look after yourself and family first. If you come back, I'll stop by and leave a like and drop a comment. Even if you just post in the community tab. Things here not good. But I'll leave that off your channel.

@OutsideTheTargetDemographic Nt sure if you any of my replies. So I am replying. Rest in Peace Puppers 😥 Stay safe, look after Family.

@@yetanotherspuart3993 Shitty. I had her for ten years, the same time I bought my house. She is still missed. Lots happening with family too, we did a 2.5wk trip out west to the Grand Canyon and 19 states, then son joined a Boy Scouts kind of group, ect ect. Little time to spend on something I think gives me little reward. That's.....not good. Government is rarely good. But they rarely last long either. 😅In Minecraft.

@@SavageGeniusArt2023 🤷Because Chevy needed a government bail out, and the engineers hate you? It's not like light bulbs ever burn out, especially when heat cycled and jostled around over tens of thousands of miles.

@@guidetolife9386 Hello friend. Well, it all depends on the type of car and trim level. But based on my experience, I would absolutely do: +doors (including trunk and hood) +ceiling/roof (largest, flattest, most-drum-head-like part of your car) +wheel wells (a simple spray-on material) +driver and passenger footwell/inner firewall (the wall between the engine and cabin, under the dashboard). Everything made a noticeable difference, even putting sone on the underside of the hood. It all stacks, and soon you will find you don't mind applying the material as much as you thought you would. 🤓

@@OutsideTheTargetDemographic Thank you for responding! A Forester, of course! I just did the doors (took a while!). At low speeds, only minor impact (coated inner section of all doors with butyl sound mat). It's the engine noise and wind noise that get me - you need noise cancelling headphones to avoid acoustic fatigue on long drives. I was surprised you did the hood...I figured that's all external noise (i.e., only what comes through the firewall will be impactful). I'm glad you didn't list the floor as an impactful area (taking out the seats and taking up the carpet looked to be a pain). With limited time, having done the doors, what sequence would you go in for highest impact? Thank you very much for documenting and sharing everything!

@guidetolife9386 The floor had a decent amount of foam and deadener, so I'm sure what I added HELPED, but even my base model had material there already. Honestly, the window tinting (I got the heat-rejecting ceramic stuff) made a good bit of difference from wind noise. Adding a layer of plastic makes the window "thicker" and now the sound has to travel through two, different, layers of material to come into the cabin. Plus, now you have a pimped ride for picking up bitches. Bitches love tinted station wagons. 😉 My Amazon decible meter now reads 53 dB at highway speeds, after everything was done. That's down from 70-something my phone app said I started at. I am *clearly* no professional, but the more you do, the more it stacks. Just do a bit every weekend : I did all ten videos over maybe 3 months, due to two toddlers and whatnot eating into what little free time I have. But also, Dollar Tree has an 8 pack of foam earplugs for $1.25.....so....😋

In regards to the hood : yes, it is external noise, but all the ego noise goes into the flat, transmitting metal roof, which vibrates the sound into the frame, and the into the cabin. Plus, it's the easiest part of the car to get to. 🤓 If you have done the doors, then you know how to apply the stuff in smaller areas. Everything else is more open in comparison. Given wind and engine noise are your concern, I'd recommend: +Window tinting (mine cost $180 to do the whole car, I took it to a shop) +I put rain guards on my windows, IDK if that helped or hindered the wind noise. +The hood is easy to do, and would take like 30 minutes total. +See if you have any material on your engine-side firewall. My car has Z E R O, so what material I COULD get in there helped cut the engine noise down. I have insights on the engine bay, if you need them. +The roof. Largest, flattest, least-braced slab of thin metal, directly in the air stream. It made a marked difference in wind/rain/hail/snow noise. 🤓👍

@@scottthroop6208 They feel and act quality. Very little wobble and seem to be thoughtfully engineered.

@@honeybadgerwrx I did have a roller that I did use on the sheets I could, but the size and shape of some of the door and other panels prevented tools from being used, as I could hardly (and with many, MANY scratches) get my hand or arm into those areas. But yes, the more surface area to be more firmly pressed into place, the better.

@OutsideTheTargetDemographic no i saw you had one. I'm just saying use it with low pressure and only as needed

@@honeybadgerwrx Ideally, I could strip everything down and cover every square inch. That said, you would hit a point of diminishing returns, where more product would not make for less noise, but only more cost, effort, and weight. Even ignorant me doing this for the first time am very satisfied with the results, and will be doing it to every new car I get. 👍

@OutsideTheTargetDemographic I'm not trying to call you ignorant or say you should do 100% coverage. Just giving you tips and tricks to yield a better end result on the next vehicle to apply it to. Aim for 50%, minimal roller, you'll see it will be more effective!

@@harshtimes23 Hello Friend. It did not. I used some heatshrink, it's a rubber tube that, when you heat it up with a lighter or heat gun, will shrink down and wrap tightly around something. Less than $10 on Amazon for a large assortment of colors and sizes. 👍 I went yellow in case I drop it, a higher viz color is easier to find, and the rubber grip gives you a better.....grip...

@@KingkhaBN share.temu.com/sRIbwmFdtLA

@@tylervigue3878 Congrats on the Forester. 👍 It started with the doors, and ended with Insulating the whole thing. It's absolutely worth the effort, and there is so little effort I don't understand why Subaru doesn't just spend the $300 in material to do it from the factory, when everything is already disassembled. Oh well. Now you get to know your car better. 😉

When all done, at highway speeds, I have to decide between having my earbuds play my podcasts on volumn level 1 (just a tad too quiet) or 2 (just a touch too loud). It's made the car more than half as loud as it started.

I'm curious how happy you would've been with using 2 different products from Second Skin automotive with at least 50% coverage.

@honeybadgerwrx I don't know what that is, but even this no-name brand made a massive difference. My earbuds are now at 1-2 bars of volume at highways speeds, when before I needed 4-5 bars. I hardly hear wind, tire, and road noise at highways speeds now, having finished the complete car install.

@@bltefft I do about the same, adding a base of white, then hi viz, then a clear coat. The other benefit is, if your sights are not adjustable, you can paint them to adjust them. Say, you typically hit low. If you paint the front sight only 80% of the way up, your sight "is now lower", which would raise your point of impact. You can start by fully painting them, and then removing the paint to get more accurate. 🤓

@@buffi944 With BOILED linseed, and with cotton rags, I hear they CAN catch on fire. I used UNBOILED, "raw" linseed oil. It takes much longer to dry/polymerize, which to my mind allows it to soak into cracks and crevices longer.

@@CastandBlastfun No problem, Friend. I try to do my own stuff, so I know exactly where to find the SOB that messed up the repairs. 😋 Most things are not as complex as we would believe them to be. 👍 Glad the video was of some help to you.

@@victoriastein2695 I live to serve. 👍

@@MrLex87 Thanks, Friend. I'm going cross country on a 2.5 wk trip, and I have a 44mag for bear, 357 mag for four, two, and no legs (snakeshot), and my 9mm is this Dagger. Light weight, great ergos, high capacity, and cheap enough to replace. Also loving the colors. 🤓 Have you gone the Micro route yet? So far every time I look at the micro slide/barrels, they are sold out. 😒

@@OutsideTheTargetDemographic Awesome stay safe on the trip, And good luck! But Unfortunately I haven't tried the micro slides yet. I just ordered the aim surplus slide, can't beat the cost and went with a lone wolf barrel. Runs like a top. Eventually I'll get one tho. 💪

@@omuromakori3427 I used Amazon and Temu, I'm sure you could get whatever from wherever. The thinner insulator like used here was hands down the most expensive per square foot, and I don't know in hind sight that I needed to use it, vs just the Temu 10mm thick foam.

@@FerociousSniper Don't get me wrong, NICE plier that Knipex is, but I'm starting to wonder if their advertising is better than their product. 😅 For decades Vise Grips and Crescents have fixed all the things. And can be found in higher quality steel, at flea markets across the country. Also, see my Altoids Tin video on two mods you can do to your Crescent wrench. 👍

@@secretsix6 That....sounds like a memorable trip. 🫠 Aren't humans just the worse?

@@achappstube1 Thanks, Friend. It's been a heavy but heavily used piece of kit. 👍

@@oldbarnmenagerie2783 Very unusual concept, and I love it. The looks of smoking, from a charming little scene, or iconography, or character, with the aromatic incense. 👍 A Christmas tradition here in my house.

@@jacquelinegriggs9174 While not intuitive, it's simple enough. 👍

@@TheNakedSalmon Ummm, if I had to guess, I'd say 15 pounds? So the weight of 2 gallons of gas. The return on NOT having noise fatigue is worth the weight and wait (ha. See what I did there? 🤓)

@@Jaang29 The plastic covers both 1) don't resonate sounds like metal does (how many plastic drum cymbals have you seen?) and 2) don't rust like metal does. The spray prevents the metal from making/transferring noise, and from rusting (water can't rust metal that it can't get to). So no, I did nothing to the plastic except remove, clean, and return. Between all the videos worth of work I did reducing the sound, I got the car about 20 dB quieter than it started. Every 3 dB in reducion is a 50% reduction in sound. I would absolutely recommend spending the time and money (less than $400 all in, which could be spread out over a few months if your budget doesn't allow for a bulk purchase) to deaden your car. As proof, I have don't my mom's and wife's as well. It's the equivalent of driving with ear plugs in.

@@Jaang29 Hello friend. Hope all is well after that hurricane you got. I used a two coatings, I beleive. The three pack of spray did about 1.5 cars for me. Anything is better than the nothing from the factory. It absolutely made the tire and road debris sound (flung snow, water, gravel, potholes, ect) much quieter. 👍 It also prevents rust up where you will likely never look to find/stop rust from forming.

@@scotttucker2557 Absolutely. These Crossclimate 2s are all season tires that rip through snow, but cost me -2mpg and are not quiet as they do it. Tires can make a huge difference as well, but I'd rather the traction (so far).

@@stephen_crumley She's a surviver for sure. Very pleased with it, still diagnosing a non-firing second cylinder, but she's a blast to ride. 👍

@@MrPaint42 Lucky, I carry my N-word pass right next to my drivers license. 😅

@@jekyll_eth The length is in the title, and some people get more out of it than the six minutes you needed. Thanks for the comment. 👍

@@WKFS Happy to be of help. I've never done ND in any vehicle, but I will tell you it is absolutely worth the time investment. 👍

Are you noise sensitive in general? Or is it part of a longer story on why you pursued this? I would love to do this in the untreated areas of my vehicle. Some after market noise deadening is in place already.

@@WKFS Oh, I have "sonar tech hearing". I can hear a fan being left on in the other room. 😅 In an attempt to preserve that hearing, I figured 1.5 hrs a day, 5 days a week, I am subjected to the road, wind, and traffic noise of my car, so, might as well try making it quieter. I drive with earbuds in, and I went from having my volume set to 5-6 to now 2, sometimes 3. It's an amazing improvement, for little money and time. Also, I'm convinced my car AC and heater work better, because now the paid-for air stays inside the cabin longer, as it has to now get through additional layers of ND material before being transferred out of the car through the metal body panels. I've done my car, part of my wife's car, and my mom's car. Everyone appreciates the difference it made.

​@@OutsideTheTargetDemographicSounds like we have something in common regarding hearing noises that other humans filter out. 😆 It's a blessing and a curse! My goal is to make the cabin quieter for when the music is off and when it's on, particularly for soft passages.

@@WKFSWe are of one superpower. 🤝 I didn't have a decible meter at the start, but my free uncalibrated phone app said my highway noise was max 82 dB, and now peaks at about 54 dB. Its the benefit of wearing earplugs, without the fatigue of expanding foam in your head hole. It will make phone calls easier for you to hear, them to understand you, and your media will sound better. I can hardly hear my idling engine in a parking lot now. The other thing I enjoyed about the process, was I damn near gutted every part of my car, so now I know where connectors are, parts are, wiring, ect. Lastly, you don't have to spend A weekend doing everything. Unlike washing your car, you can do areas or panels completely independently of each other. Once a week, do thirty minutes of work, and notice how every bit of work you do, stacks. You'll love it.