Adam Savage's Favorite Tools: Socket Driver Adapters!
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Adam shows off two sets of tools that helps him fast: a hex shank adapter that connects his drill/driver to any socket in your standard socket set, and hex drivers that fit any imperial or metric hex bolts. Combined with any standard driver/drill, these are essential for tasks like putting together flat packed furniture!
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Did Milwaukee sponsor this? I thought that unless included, using these with manual sockets voids the manufacturer warranty, if you care about such things.
Adam you should talk about the differences between a drill and a driver, also some sockets can't handle impact wrenches.
you linked toque bits not the Hex
Throw the adjustable pliers out and get some knipex plier wrenches..... you’ll never look back
Dave B impact sockets are made for this very thing. If you crack a standard socket by using your drill or impact driver the torque is set way to high or you have junk sockets. Just keep the drill or impact on low and drive away.
Next Adam Savage's Favorite Tools: Hammer
"Thwacker"
Every tool is a hammer...
If it can’t be fixed with a hammer it’s an electrical problem.
Novice here. Knew of impact drivers but never knew that they had extensions for drills.
@@michael-michaelmotorcycle ...And Linesman's Pliers are known as "electricians hammers", so,.... this line of thinking makes my head hurt....;)....
this seems like it would be in chapter 1 of “Mechanics for dummies” lol
Novice here. Knew of impact drivers but never knew that they had extensions for drills.
@@GilgameshEthics uuuuhhhmm, these were not drills.
I was about to tell you to bite my shiny metal ass... but it wouldn't really make sense.
Maybe, but these videos are called "Adam's Favorite Tools" not "Tools Adam Thinks Everybody Needs."
Tommorow's Tool Tip: An amazing screwdriver that contains both a slotted bit and a phillips bit - IN THE SAME SCREWDRIVER!!! You will not believe your eyes when you see how practical it is!!!
If this is how he is for socket adapters, I want to see Adams reaction to ratcheting spanners! Maybe its because i mostly use them when working on cars, but they changed my life. You dont always have the space for a socket.
Flexi-head ratchet spanners are indispensible for working on cars. I don't know how we ever lived without them.
@@daveh1294 Especially on modern cars with overfilled engine bays! They make life so much easier for those bugger to get to bolt/nut locations.
yeah , all hail the ratchet spanner
Yes, ratcheting ring spanners are great, ratcheting open spanners are hit and miss, and ratcheting crescent spanners are crap.
If you don't have room for the driver use a tite-reach extension.
Adam is a marketing genius. The favorite tool series is a brilliant way to sell ads without having to say you are doing a commercial. Hes got like 20 affiliate links in ebery video and noone thinks hes doing an ad, brilliant
In europe most socket sets come with a lot of different versions of this and some including flexible ones so you can use it around a small bend
Yep, i don't think i have seen or had any socket set without 1 or 2 adapters.
@@joost199207 Ditto here.
I have a small drill(technically an electric screw driver) comes with a 90 degree angular chuck that you can hot swap with the normal one. Makes things even easier.
yeah. Isn't this part of the standard set in the US?
Yup I use those to spin my malt mill when I'm homebrewing. Can be had from any half decent hardware store in Finland, usually in sets of three (1/4, 3/4, 1/2)
People who handle tools already know this... BUT, Adam realizes that some beginner tool users aren't aware of this, and made this video to show them a tool we all know and love.
I work at Home Depot as a merchandising associate. The company ALWAYS sends us fixtures and shelving units to build with hex bolts and carriage bolts and they ALL have nylon lock nuts. These driver adapters are THE BEST THING EVER MADE!!!!!!!!! So much time savings!! If you have ever had to install a what we call a flex wall ( go down the hardware isle some time and look at the gray walls that the product is hanging from) they are heavy and an absolute pain to install. They are secured to the shelving with lock nuts and hex bolts and having an impact driver with this setup is so amazing ^_^!!!! Thankyou for singing the praises of this tool Adam ^_^
Adam, those aren’t wrenches. They’re adjustable hammers.
Thumb detecting nut fuckers to be exact...
Nono, they are adjustable nut rounders
@@sbrubak Saskatchewan socket set?
Universal nut rounder
After all, every tools a hammer!
I thought everyone who handles tools knew this already
What took you so long to catch up with world Adam?
This is like... basic toolset?
And a crescent wrench? Ick. Use a box wrench. Crescent wrenches are for hacks.
@@JCWren Knipex straight jaw pliers murder any old adjustable wrench. Also good for bending stuff. Not to mention how compact they are for opening they have. As machine mechanic I usually keep one with me all the time.
I was going to say, like who doesn't know this? Also use a regular spanner, a adjustable spanner is just for quick shit
I have had a couple of those driver adapters in my belt for a long time. Talk about life savers. I was the guy on the job site with that kind of nifty stuff that all my co-workers never had but always wanted to use. Work smarter, not harder.
I can’t believe I didn’t know about this already. It seems so obvious but dear god I think this just saved my life.
I love how excited Adam gets about simple stuff. I use these constantly. I absolutely love it
At 3:20 you are basically describing 'work drudgery' like you described it in your Hellboy Bullet Belt build and how you found ways to become more efficient and thereby reduce/shortcut the drudgery of work thereby getting you closer to the 20% of the really fun, exciting work that makers experience. Love you, dude.
Stay tuned for next week’s tooltip: the Flathead screwdriver
😂👍
Yeah this tool tip was finally one I own already
RIGHT?! This is like that Far Side comic: "Yes! With the amazing new 'knife', you only have to wear the SKINS of those dead animals!"
The flathead screwdriver. AKA the electricians chisel
With bonus tool tip, the fancy new idea that's all the rage these days: the hammer!
My DeWalt 21V driver and socket adapter has shaved HOURS off of projects so many times that I can't agree enough with Mr. Savage here! I can drive lag screws through 4x4s all day with ease and tear apart a VW Type 1 engine in about 12 minutes with this set up and a 13mm socket. Torque head deck screws are also another fun favorite with impact drivers. Talk about a life changer!
I use these at least twice a day. Mostly automotive related, but its one of those tools that now that I have it, I will always use it.
It's amazing that something that has been around for 30+ years is such big news. I guess in the "olden days" you had to hear about them by word of mouth. Now we have a much larger medium to spread the news.
I can see how this might be interesting to novices but I feel like for those people he should have mentioned impact ready vs non impact ready. Bust open one nice shiny new socket and you’ll have a new relationship with impact drivers.
I second this. I bought my first impact drill and first thing I bent a phillips bit.
tbf I don't think his small driver will be doing much damage to those sockets. I agree tho, don't stick one of those in a larger impact driver and expect the sockets to hold up. Impact sockets exist for a reason
Novice here. Knew of impact drivers but never knew that they had extensions for drills.
@@GilgameshEthics do you mean for sockets? Those adapters are not only for impact drivers, they are good with any drill or electric screwdriver.
There are ones made for impact drivers. I specifically bought the ones I have for the purpose of using it in an impact driver because I've seen what happens to a cheap one in an impact driver . . . . which is hilarious with the shaft literally twisting until it breaks off.
I would've KILLED for that in college! The scene shop desperately needs some of those!
I'm gonna get them those for Christmas!
"I can assemble IKEA furniture like a NASCAR pit crew"
Love those adapters!!! They have changed my life!!!
I thought People knew all of this already
I bought a set by accident and never bothered to return them because "hey, they were cheap and you never know". Been using them often enough since.
My grandfather was doing this with his corded drill back in the 1950s. Not sure where Adam has been...
@@mgabbard It was a nice Milwaukee placement, I would talk about things we've known for centuries if I was endorsed by Milwaukee lol
Novice here. Knew of impact drivers but never knew that they had extensions for drills.
Wow for once I’m ahead of the curve! Not only dose one need impact sockets and bits but torx are essential too and multiple Milwaukee drivers. I use them every second day. I still enjoy Adams excitement about it all though.
Nothing makes me feel like a Formula One mechanic more than a cordless screwdriver and a socket set :)
Everything you said about losing your whole life and seconds are ticking away... I agree 100% Adam. My grandpa is old school and has all the tools in the world, but he will grab a wrench before he grabs a drill and the adapter set he has.
This should be an Allen's favorite tools episode these are truely the tools i love
Been using these for years...Good tool tip!!!
Use them all the time, I do a lot of stage installs with scaffold clamps and cheeseburgers. A rattlegun with 21mm and 24mm sockets in my pocket, saves an enormous amount of time when bracing!
Tools to live by...... had these all for years. Great tip.
I'm glad a drill I bought years ago came with a bit set that included these, I have been doing this long way a lot longer.
I assemble chairs at Furniture Row and these are a must have. I use both the hex drivers and the socket adaptor. Such a timesaver.
I got the chance to visit a ship building / assembly & fabrication company and they all used these adapters on their impact drivers for bolting massive stuff together. I bought some that weekend and they are awesome.
I 100% agree. This tool saves so much time on simple but tedious assembly !
Finally a tool tip for which I already have a set! I don't have a really long set of screwdriver/hex driver bits but I have a small set and I put them into the magnetic extender so unless it's really a tight location heck yes I love those adapters and use them all the time.
i use these all day and have done for years that little Milwaukee 1/2 inch adapter bit is the best bang for buck you're going to find on the market
I love Adam's interpretation of Jamie!!
Milwaukee socket adapters are the shortest I have found. Really handy for those tight locations.
Ratcheting wrench is something I really needed when trying to get into a tight spot and need to tighten a bolt without going crazy.
I think there's a term for a man loudly explaining a simple thing that everyone already knows.
I’m sure I won’t be the only one to say this but generally you DO NOT want to put chrome (non impact rated) sockets on the end of an impact driver. You will run the risk of cracking that socket. Getting an impact rated socket set would be the best for the job especially as you get to larger impacts.
Never owned an impact socket, but use the driver all the time. Including a half inch impact. All my normal sockets work just fine. Not once has one broken. In fact, I wore out the impact driver and had to have it replaced under warranty...but not the sockets. "Impact sockets" are a fantastic way to sell you a second set of sockets you already have in a different color....
@@ryanroberts1104 I've cracked sockets using a breaker bar by hand taking lug nuts off a car. I've cracked sockets using a battery powered impact. It pays to get the right type of socket. The impact rated sockets are made of a different alloy mix and are much stronger. And no, I don't buy cheap sockets. The ones I cracked where off a tool truck and they warrantied them. A broken socket doesn't take nuts off, I'd rather spend a bit more and had a tool that just works.
This is Milwaukee set he showed in a previous vid, This is very much like Snap-on or Mac tools, Not that cheap China crap from Sears or Big Box Stores
It depends on the driver and its max torque output. While you may be correct in regards to high-torque air impacts like those used by auto mechanics for lug nuts, compensator sprocket nuts, etc., using an electric drill or even low-torque electric impact (the ones that typically look like overly beefy socket wrenches with a squeeze trigger) with normal sockets is usually fine so long as you don't buy the cheap knock-off of a knock-off crap.
@@PetrolJunkie Not sure how it "pays" when I've never had to replace one. In the off chance a socket breaks, I'll spend $5 on another one. Tool trucks are for idiots - that doesn't mean I don't buy quality tools.
I have a set of these I use in my ratcheting driver handle all the time. Love 'em.
I bought a set of socket adapters when I saw them at Harbor Freight. I love them way more than I thought I would
I use these every day - for drill-starting small two-stroke engines on the workbench.
I have been doing that for over 30 years in Australia. Dad was doing that ever since a drill came out.
The Old Timers use a old Allen key that was the same size as a back of the sockets and cut them to fit into the drill and they would stick the socket head onto the Allen key shaft with bit of chewing gum.
I already use this method myself and have known it for a while but I absolutely love how much Adam gets so excited over this its awesome .
This is why I have a Wera Toolcheck. Clips on your belt and offers various bits and sockets with ratcher or adapter for your driver or normal drill.
Small warning though, using a driver on ikea furniture (cardboard) is very dangerous. You will need adjustable torque slip!
Used a set of these way back when i sold furniture and trust me, they made my life so much easier. Got a kobalt drill on the cheap, add in some of those hex drivers and i went from doing 2 chairs an hour to 4. Did find out one thing though. If i went full bore and wasn't paying attention, I'd either strip out or over tighten the bolts. On the other hand, this did help me get a few "stuck" bolts unstuck and cranked down tight.
we use these at work all the time they are so good!
10” Knipex Pliers Wrench.
That and A Makita impact bit sets. Got it for $40 on Amazon
Yes, you got it right. Knipex straight jaws are magnificent tools to replace adjustable wrenches
Allen sockets are great too, works with your adapters and ratchets/breaker bars as needed
Socket driver drills when you don't have more than one drill but you got them fancy quick connect attachments between your drill and bits and you need a lot of pilot holes
There’s also an amazing piece of kit that usually come with a socket set. I think it’s called a ratchet??? Makes the sockets much more useful I’ve heard anyway? I guess I’ll have to wait for a video?
It's actually a "ratcheting socket wrench." The problem is you still need to move it back and forth by hand. I think Adam's point is these adapters let you use a motorized driver instead.
Been use the 1/4 dr adapter with my socket hex drivers lately makes life so easy
one to add to your 1/4" hex rack - McMaster-Carr PN 5750A98 - Tight Access Phillips Bit
Doesn't sounds exciting, but it's a #2 Phillips that can reach into some amazingly tight spots. Holds up very well, seems to be hardened.
Was the best cheap add on to my driver purchase.
Good idea, I did not know you could by a drill to socket adapter, I made my own years ago. I cut the end of a 3 inch socket extension, squared the last half inch off a bit in a grinder so it would not slip in the drill chuck. Then the squared end goes in the drill and the other in into your socket of choice. Done.
Adam Savage is the Fred Rodgers of tools!
Was introduced to these at the bike shop. They are awesome for putting on disc brake rotor bolts and then quickly swapping the bit off the drill onto the torque wrench and tightening them down to final torque spec. Super quick!
I altered a mini lathe chuck shank to fit inside a drill gun so I could sand round stock...drill guns have endless time saving applications.
I could never explain the agony of building ikea furniture for my family without those adapters, until now "I'M LOSING MY WHOLE LIFE, SECONDS ARE TICKING AWAY, MOVING EVER CLOSER TO DEATH" using those finger hex keys and stamped metal wrenchs. Thank you Adam, for giving my pain a voice.
These pair really well with socket-wobble adapters. Discovered those to get the extra 5 degrees of slack recently and I’m in love.
Crescent wrench? Oh, you mean nut lathe. 😁
Never occurred to me that some folks might not know about socket adapters, but I guess I had to learn about them at some point too.
I can't live without that adapter;)
Folks, this is clearly intended to change the lives of those who weren't born with the knowledge of socket driver adapters; my all-time favorite tool. Let them learn too.
So you're telling me a drill is faster than a crescent wrench? What would we do without you Adam 🙄
Also good to use an impact driver for that kind of work.
Even my mother has a set. I have multiple sets of these. I even bought a set of adapters from Taiwan when I went there on a business trip, In Taipei there was this store selling mostly electronics parts that was like Candyland
Impact Ready from Milwaukee set are always handy
Thanks for the video, I have a number of not so handy friends, this is a great starter video
Ditto, Adam. Quite simply some of the most useful tools I have in my toolbox. Saves both time and my wrists.
That warm fuzzy feeling when Adam talks about a unique tool you discovered years ago. Accidentally, because you simply needed it
As opposed to the hex drivers, I usually buy the hex head sockets, then use the socket adapter for the driver.
Great tool tip. I have hex drive sockets, metric and Imperial, as well as impact rated sockets. Impact drivers are nice, and light, but a real impact wrench is also nice for when things get serious.
I did not know Jamie was from Indiana. That explains so much!
These are a must have in my tool kit.
I have a great set of impact-rated adapters from DeWalt. I need those hex bits though. Allen wrenches are the bane of my existence, even t-handle ones.
I use these when I go away racing. They’re soooooo much better
10/10 recommend
I am so excited, I have been using the socket adapter for years. I feel like a big boy knowing a tool tip before you said it :)
FINALLY! Something I already have! Adam's been wearing out my Amazon driver this year with his tool tips!
I'm a left arm amputee, and I've been using this method for the last 40 years. The only difference is that I use a vice grips instead of a crescent wrench. I found my first electric drill socket sets in the 1990s on a discount table at an auto dealership, and I got a set of three sizes for around six dollars. I use my electric drill when possible, but when space limitations are an issue I have to use my ratchet and socket set.
been working on a body mount kit to do a chassis swap on my classic car, and man have these been a lifesaver. I think I saved two weeks of my time in just tightening nuts and bolts with my drill over my ratchet. Completely, 100% worth the $5 i spent on them. Hell, now that I know, I'd throw down more if I had to
I only just upgraded the Bosch hand held screwdriver thingy to an impact driver. I already amassed the hex-driver collection you'd highlighted because my wife's father was a practical fella. I can even pit-stop a tyre change with these adaptors. $0.02
Found those recently in my favourite tool shop and had to buy them immediately.. also I love having Adapters for everything and every size in my socket set
Quarantine day 507,423... We're down to this for tool tips 😂
I just bought a set of these yesterday, they are very useful.
I love your tool tips videos xD i only found your channel a few months ago and was so happy! I used to watch mith busters with my dad as a kid and it was one of my favorite shows. Thank you ❤️
I have multiples and they are a must have. Dewalt makes a nice set with all sizes. 1/4 3/8 and 1/2 impact adapters for like $6
We need a “hells bells margret” tshirt please
*Margaret
My dad (a truck driver) is the only other person I've heard say that. My jaw dropped when Adam let it loose.
Yep! I have had all of those for years, they are essential in a tool kit.
However crescent wrenches are what you use when they are the only thing you have got, I have a selection of them but they get used as a hammer more often than as a wrench (spanner in my version of English).
Those impact drivers are my favorite tool I have in my bag. Multiple sets of bit holders from long to short, I have two other extensions, one is flexible and the other is a 90. Short and long JIS, flat, torx, hex, robinson, and sockets for metric/sae and etorx. Can fit them dam near anywhere, and if your grip isn't perfect on it, you are not going to rip your wrist apart.
Ultra pro tip, the opposite of this is a socket that accommodates driver bits.
Super useful to use the ratchet to unscrew hard to reach or stuck screws.
... WANT.
I wish I had these when setting up my home office... And all the IKEA furniture that I have acquired...
I really love the socket set. I know you talked about it before but man its pretty.
I have that same makita driver with the drill as and use it all the time its saved me lots of times and speeds up work .Also its very good at removing stuck screws, Steel in aluminium threads on motor bikes the impact part gets any thing out + it has a fast re charge
Occassionally I get to put together wheelbarrows or wagons a dozen at a time at work, and when a coworker pointed these out it was the greatest discovery.
i love the socket adapters, had never thought of the hex ones now i must have them
I can remember back 15 years ago we didn't have all sorts of different cordless tools available. A cordless drill was all you needed. Today I'm looking at a 1" cordless impact that delivers 1800 ft pounds with just 18v.
My recent epiphany was the actual tool you're using: the cordless impact driver. Picked one up earlier this summer. Just recently used it to remove some old, rusted flat-head screws and the ease with which they came out (especially after not being able to nudge them manually) was like *angels sing*. Picked up a set of impact-quality socket adapters after that. :) Agree they are a nice inexpensive add to the bit drawer.
The milwaukee ones are truly great! I had to source tons of them at work. I used to use those hex drivers hundreds of times a day. They snap fairly often though, so you should order like 5 of the sizes you usually use, instead of a full set