Be carefull with this site guys... I just selected the 500 piece box and payed 20 dollar. Now in my confirmation it says 50 pieces will be on my way from a hongkong company..
Im on my 4th year watching bikes and beards, And I’m a 12 year old and bikes and beards really helped me get closer to god, And I really can’t thank you guys enough, and I even started reading the Bible and seriously can’t thank you you guys enough.😊
Used the foil trick today, pulling the oil filter on my CB500f! Last time, oil ran down onto my exhaust. This time, straight into the pan! Thx for the tips.
Thanks for the tips. One thing I keep in the toolbox is a bar of soap. Put it under your nails and it keeps the dirt and grease out. Thanks for the video stay safe and keep up the great work.
The oddball item I use is old bicycle spokes. A handy length of stiff wire you can bend by hand when needed with a little hook at one end that is great for hooking that socket you’ve dropped through the frame to where your fingers can’t reach. The bonus is that it is also handy for when you need to hang things like callipers or hooking a chain out of the way when your removing a rear wheel. A standard bicycle wheel has between 24 and 36 spokes so one front wheel’s worth of spokes lasts for ages.
Nice helpful tips. I like to use old plastic water bottles or household cleaner containers and cutting them for a particular job and many times using the cap end as a funnel to guide fluid in or out of the vehicle. As always stay safe and healthy! Ron
I was a proffessional mechanic for over 20 years, and I learned that trick from the old timers when I worked in the shop, and it helped out when I was a road tech keeping the customers floor and equipment dry.
Especially 2 liter bottles. Poking a hole in the top with a hot nail in bottles with old used oil for sqeeky berrings and chains on the cotton buggy converted into a tobacco buggy.
For me I went to michaels and picked up some T-pins from the sewing section. They work great for use with alligator clips when back probing connectors.
The automotive electrical class instructor back at my community college required us all to buy a box of them at the beginning of his class. I still keep them in my toolbox and use them often.
That foil idea is great! Definitely going to use that on my classic Suzuki when I do a oil change, all the other stuff was great as well thanks Craig! ❤😁👍🏻
Here's a hack that I use on mine. Get a piece of 1" PVC then slit it down about 3 inches, then use a heat gun to flatten it out and put it under the oil drain to direct the oil to whatever you want to put it in. Total length is up to you, the important part is flaring the end to fit under the bike. I put a lip on the flared end on mine to prevent oil from "backing up" . Can be held in place or use a wire wrap around it and tie it in place. Mine just sits there due to "interference" with other bike parts.
Love the pro tips. I gotta try the chalk thing. My cold shop tip is to keep my tools on heated pet beds under polyethylene sheeting to make heat tents over stuff I want to be warm and dry. Cold hands, warm wrenches. Extra points for using electric pipe tape under trucks.
I just got done with a mildly annoying wiring job on my bike where it was hard to get my crimp tool in, ordered solder sticks. Good ad placement man you got me. Only annoying part is the website is very spammy with “deals” and sent me 2 emails already with “deals”
Those are some very good tipps and tricks, imo every shop needs a radio so you can listen to some music while working and (if its your private shop / mancave) it needs a couch or armchair for the thinking stages of the projects, and another thing i dont want to miss in my shop anymore is a computer to look stuff up, ordering parts or to watch some youtube while screwing around😅
Man, I wish someone had shown me those Soldersticks years ago! I've never seen them around, but I've always wanted something like them. They're on my shopping list! Great video.
Those "solder seal" connectors seemed like a great idea when I got them but I've often found difficulty in safely blasting enough heat to melt them when used in situ like your example of repairing a harness, without risking melting stuff around them. If you want the most narrow repair possible, you can't beat solder/heatshrink
To minimize reflections of your light source(s) in your glasses, raise the temples of your glasses slightly off the ear while recording. Doing so changes the angle of the front face of the lenses so that the reflection is only visible from below the camera's position. Another way to produce the same effect is to raise the light sources above the line between the camera lens and the eye(glasses) of the talking head.
Chinese food containers also hold cleaning agents, so if you dont have a parts washer, it's easier to put some cleaner in the container, ad your bolts, or whatever close the container and lightly shake - great for cleaning small objects!
Solderstick works great on new wire but if the wire is discolored due to moisture or age it's tough to get the solder to adhere to the wire. I use them on my wiring repairs on semi trucks.
Great vid guys. I'm really want to extend the bars on my Rebel 1100. I'd like to try it myself, and I'm sure I'll need those solder sticks to extend the wiring.
Great tips, great video Craig... as always. Gotta say though, living in Australia, hearing you guys make the "L" silent in "solder" cracks me up! Sodder?? 🤣🤣 Cheers from Oz, keep up the great work! 👍👍🇦🇺
Wow you answered a very old question i wondered about I saw the machine shop in a power plant and in all the tool drawers they had a large piece of chalk in the corner of each drawer! I thought it was for marking metal lol.
One more thing about aluminium foil. It's great for scrubbing rust off of chrome. No joke! Take a wad of foil and wet the rusty chrome with vinegar or water or windex and scrub it. This works!
Super garage tip: Vaseline works great to hold fiddly gaskets and o-rings in place. Rubber and silicone safe uhh personal lubricant also works wonders getting things to slip into or over parts. I.e. 2002 VW Golf fuel pump has a big rubber o ring and the lube helps get it to slip into its recess without tearing.
It's also the best grease for low temp assembly of parts that will get oil but need grease to hold it together. Like the output shaft in a sportster transmission. If high temp grease is used the needle bearings will gaul before oil gets in
I do a lot of work out of a single stall up here in ND and my tools take a beating from moisture. I’ve never heard of the chalk trick but I’m definitely gunna try it! Normally, I soak my ratchets in WD40 and wipe all the other stuff down with it as well. That helps keep the rust off but I wish I didn’t have to. Thanks Craig.
Great tip for aluminum foil! I was wondering why I always get oil on everything and blamed poor engineering design. I will be saving a ton of shop towels now. GAME CHANGER!
Tinfoil folded a couple of times to make a pad works marvellously well with a bit of water ( or kerosene ) for getting rust ( or baked on oil ) off of chrome plated parts. Really does work like magic, and doesn't scratch unless you go gorilla on a particular spot. On hard chrome, like fork tubes, it won't scratch at all, not as hard as I could go at it anyhow. I used this method to make my 23 year old sportster pretty again when I put it back on the road four years after an accident that put me in hospital for a while. I got rid of some truly crusty rust with this, and where it was very bad, there was some black pitting afterwards. It still looks miles better than before. A part that only has light, spotty rust can be restored to almost new. I only wish I'd known about this use for tinfoil thirty years ago.
Love these tricks! I learned a lesson many years ago when the blower fan switch in my car failed (=no heat). I used a paper clip to jump the two wires and get the fan working. The lesson was that there was too much current running through the paper clip. While driving down the road I looked down at the connector dangling from below the dash and the paper clip was transformed into a heating element glowing bright red. I panicked and grabbed it with my bare fingers. The still glowing paper clip stuck to my fingers and left a nice little brand on my tips. Lesson learned. Yeehaa!
😂😂 the chalk bit , over here in England when we buy parts we get a slip of brown anti corrosion paper take them collect them and stick a few in the draw
Great video!! Can you do a how to build a Sportster engine series or how to wire a 2005 HDMC FLSTCI or how to do the fuel pump or throttle body and check / adjust sensors or how to install oil lines etc etc I always look for your next project vid!! I really like how genuine you are when you get a bike fired off!! Thank 🎉 y’all’s for doing motorcycle work and tech tips!!
You just reminded me I need a set of leads for my multimeter. My last set got caught in a fan blade. Also having Chinese for dinner tonight. I know what I'm doing with the containers now. Thanks!
@robcreel4257 - Make sure the new leads are designed for your meter, because the wrong leads tend to have different resistances which will bias your readings.
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Get Solderstick at 20% OFF with discount code "TBM20" at www.solderstick.com/sale
solderstick's prices are literally 5 times the price of their competitors which are made exactly the same way.
Key is that they seal the joints from damp so no loss of continuity over time. You can buy shrink wrap as well.
Be carefull with this site guys... I just selected the 500 piece box and payed 20 dollar. Now in my confirmation it says 50 pieces will be on my way from a hongkong company..
@@Lexter462 if you have any issues please let me and I will take care of it.
wow expensive waste 40$ owerprice if buy this, normal 1200 pcs box cost 5$
You didn't mention the beer fridge. It's vital.
Indeed, I hated going back into the house to get a beer
8 years sober. Giant thing of water for me 😄
@@winstonlanda7731 my beer fridge holds water as well. Congrats on your eight years, keep it up!
How tf is there more likes on this comment than the video? 🤨
Beer
Chalk trick is cool! I also hold on to silica packets that come in packaging of most things and use those to keep stuff dry as well.
Love seeing these back to back videos. Thanks for the entertainment guys.
Love the tin foil idea! I hadn't consider it and was about to drop $30 on a Harley oil funnel. Thanks Craig!
I got a form a funnel. Stands by itself a lot better than tin foil or cereal box carboard.
I just got oil on my KTM exhaust - never again 😄
It's always a good idea to think outside the box. 😀
God bless!
The seam ripper for electrical insulation is a genius idea! I already have some of those for leatherwork and general sewing, so thanks for the tip.
Being a Honda mechanic for years, I can say those solder sticks are the best purchase I ever made for my tool box years ago! Love those things!
Im on my 4th year watching bikes and beards, And I’m a 12 year old and bikes and beards really helped me get closer to god, And I really can’t thank you guys enough, and I even started reading the Bible and seriously can’t thank you you guys enough.😊
Praise the Lord!
Used the foil trick today, pulling the oil filter on my CB500f! Last time, oil ran down onto my exhaust. This time, straight into the pan! Thx for the tips.
Thanks for the tips. One thing I keep in the toolbox is a bar of soap. Put it under your nails and it keeps the dirt and grease out. Thanks for the video stay safe and keep up the great work.
Had a 05 sporty. Learned the soda bottle trick. Cut the bottom off then cut it in half. Fits right under the filter to catch oil
These are great, shop tips. Usually these videos are cute, but not all that practical, but I would use every single one of these
Except cameraman Dan. I’m guessing it would take him too long to get here.
The oddball item I use is old bicycle spokes. A handy length of stiff wire you can bend by hand when needed with a little hook at one end that is great for hooking that socket you’ve dropped through the frame to where your fingers can’t reach. The bonus is that it is also handy for when you need to hang things like callipers or hooking a chain out of the way when your removing a rear wheel. A standard bicycle wheel has between 24 and 36 spokes so one front wheel’s worth of spokes lasts for ages.
Nice helpful tips.
I like to use old plastic water bottles or household cleaner containers and cutting them for a particular job and many times using the cap end as a funnel to guide fluid in or out of the vehicle.
As always stay safe and healthy!
Ron
I do the same! Works great for the Harley twins. I am hesitant to use aluminum foil as it is conductive. Cardboard works great too.
I was a proffessional mechanic for over 20 years, and I learned that trick from the old timers when I worked in the shop, and it helped out when I was a road tech keeping the customers floor and equipment dry.
Especially 2 liter bottles. Poking a hole in the top with a hot nail in bottles with old used oil for sqeeky berrings and chains on the cotton buggy converted into a tobacco buggy.
Keep up the good work you’re a natural bro like watching a knowledgeable family member working in his bike
For me I went to michaels and picked up some T-pins from the sewing section. They work great for use with alligator clips when back probing connectors.
The automotive electrical class instructor back at my community college required us all to buy a box of them at the beginning of his class. I still keep them in my toolbox and use them often.
The reflection of the light on your glasses is trippy lol
Good job Dan.
Man, I absolutely love your videos. You helped me realize that I want to become a motorcycle mechanic.
Really great tips you showed.
Thanks
Graduated from MMI this morning, about 2 hours after you posted this, perfect timing
That foil idea is great! Definitely going to use that on my classic Suzuki when I do a oil change, all the other stuff was great as well thanks Craig! ❤😁👍🏻
The dad mechanic we all need!!!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌
Here's a hack that I use on mine. Get a piece of 1" PVC then slit it down about 3 inches, then use a heat gun to flatten it out and put it under the oil drain to direct the oil to whatever you want to put it in. Total length is up to you, the important part is flaring the end to fit under the bike.
I put a lip on the flared end on mine to prevent oil from "backing up" . Can be held in place or use a wire wrap around it and tie it in place. Mine just sits there due to "interference" with other bike parts.
Maybe I'm a little slow but I just found your channel! I'm so glad you started your own after Sean abandoned you guys! Great content thank you!
You have some good ideas here. I also like to keep a bag of golf tees for plugging small hoses and broken guitar strings for cleaning carb jets.
Great tips Craig! Never thought to use a seam ripper! Awesome idea
That's what I call testing yourself. Good job, Craig!
That's Helpful! Thanks!
The paper clip and the seam ripper def did´nt know about them... Thanks for sharing it Craig, cheers from Chile!
Love the pro tips. I gotta try the chalk thing. My cold shop tip is to keep my tools on heated pet beds under polyethylene sheeting to make heat tents over stuff I want to be warm and dry. Cold hands, warm wrenches. Extra points for using electric pipe tape under trucks.
It's nice to see our main man getting sponsorship deals
I just got done with a mildly annoying wiring job on my bike where it was hard to get my crimp tool in, ordered solder sticks. Good ad placement man you got me.
Only annoying part is the website is very spammy with “deals” and sent me 2 emails already with “deals”
Awesome tips, Craig. Thank you! I didn't know 4 of them. Glad I do now!
Good tips big hairy dude, thank you, love the channel and all the best from Scotland.
Nice hacks!. the sidewalk chalk i never gave any thought to. Thanks Craig!
Brilliant. . Thank you very much . . 👍👍
Yes. Dan has certainly complemented TBM.
Trinidad & Tobago.
West Indies.
I'm using you idea tomorrow! Amazing thanks!
Those are some very good tipps and tricks, imo every shop needs a radio so you can listen to some music while working and (if its your private shop / mancave) it needs a couch or armchair for the thinking stages of the projects, and another thing i dont want to miss in my shop anymore is a computer to look stuff up, ordering parts or to watch some youtube while screwing around😅
Really good ideas. Thanks!!
Thanks, great help
0:03 If you raise your key light a bit higher, maybe a foot or two, you'll reduce the glare in his glasses.
Man, I wish someone had shown me those Soldersticks years ago! I've never seen them around, but I've always wanted something like them. They're on my shopping list! Great video.
Great tips thanks for the information
Love soldersticks. I bought a box when wiring up my garage door switch on my motorcycle.
Hi Dan and Craig
Those "solder seal" connectors seemed like a great idea when I got them but I've often found difficulty in safely blasting enough heat to melt them when used in situ like your example of repairing a harness, without risking melting stuff around them.
If you want the most narrow repair possible, you can't beat solder/heatshrink
Get some cardboard put tin foil on it. You can buy plumber torch pads...
Love the Valkyrie.
To minimize reflections of your light source(s) in your glasses, raise the temples of your glasses slightly off the ear while recording. Doing so changes the angle of the front face of the lenses so that the reflection is only visible from below the camera's position. Another way to produce the same effect is to raise the light sources above the line between the camera lens and the eye(glasses) of the talking head.
Chinese food containers also hold cleaning agents, so if you dont have a parts washer, it's easier to put some cleaner in the container, ad your bolts, or whatever close the container and lightly shake - great for cleaning small objects!
Love these dudes - great video as always!
I also use aluminum foil for back purging with Argon. For when you're TIG welding exhaust.
I use a paper towel tube cut from end to end. It seats against the case underneath the oil filter very well and makes a perfect trough.
I love those connectors. You can do wiring that really looks professional and stay bonded together great
Solderstick works great on new wire but if the wire is discolored due to moisture or age it's tough to get the solder to adhere to the wire. I use them on my wiring repairs on semi trucks.
Great vid guys. I'm really want to extend the bars on my Rebel 1100. I'd like to try it myself, and I'm sure I'll need those solder sticks to extend the wiring.
Now i know what to do with moisture problem in my toolbox 👌 thanks 😄
I really like the solder sticks product! Wish I knew about them years ago.
Gotta love those solder sticks. I go with a secondary heat shrink for GP.
Great tips, great video Craig... as always. Gotta say though, living in Australia, hearing you guys make the "L" silent in "solder" cracks me up! Sodder?? 🤣🤣 Cheers from Oz, keep up the great work! 👍👍🇦🇺
Wow you answered a very old question i wondered about I saw the machine shop in a power plant and in all the tool drawers they had a large piece of chalk in the corner of each drawer! I thought it was for marking metal lol.
Didn't know about the chalk. Good idea.
Thanks for the discount on those solder sticks. They definitely come in handy!
One more thing about aluminium foil. It's great for scrubbing rust off of chrome. No joke! Take a wad of foil and wet the rusty chrome with vinegar or water or windex and scrub it. This works!
The solder sticks have been the best thing for electrical work I've used
Super garage tip: Vaseline works great to hold fiddly gaskets and o-rings in place. Rubber and silicone safe uhh personal lubricant also works wonders getting things to slip into or over parts. I.e. 2002 VW Golf fuel pump has a big rubber o ring and the lube helps get it to slip into its recess without tearing.
It's also the best grease for low temp assembly of parts that will get oil but need grease to hold it together. Like the output shaft in a sportster transmission. If high temp grease is used the needle bearings will gaul before oil gets in
Love your videos ..keep them coming
I do a lot of work out of a single stall up here in ND and my tools take a beating from moisture. I’ve never heard of the chalk trick but I’m definitely gunna try it! Normally, I soak my ratchets in WD40 and wipe all the other stuff down with it as well. That helps keep the rust off but I wish I didn’t have to. Thanks Craig.
Old transmission fluid will protect them longer and cheaper since it worth $0 unless you have a waste oil heater.
@@saneauto does that have the same water dispersal properties as WD though? Curious.
@@PickupsAreNotTrucks That would be a great question for Dad. He was a Rocket specialist in USAF.
Tinfoil works great masking off items for painting like wires or some aluminum or chrome brackets instead of tape and plastic.
The seam ripper sounds awesome never thought of that.
All the guys recycling wires at my old job gonna love the seam cutters for Christmas
Another moisture control option--I keep the silica pouches from packaging. Sethem in drawers, tool bags, long term storage, etc
Great tip for aluminum foil! I was wondering why I always get oil on everything and blamed poor engineering design. I will be saving a ton of shop towels now. GAME CHANGER!
You sir are a must have. Go the Beard. 🎉
Been using the aluminum foil trick for years,, definitely a must in the tool box
The seem ripper is a good idea. I think I’m going to get one.
Another must have is wire connector leads. i have at least 20 of them in every size and length.
This is going to be an awesome video, thanks mate
Hope you enjoyed it!
@@The_Bearded_Mechanic it was a great informative video, especially the chalk idea. Thanks mate
Very informative, your left ball is hanging out when you mention the hard to get sump plug... No big issue
Great for restoring Rusty Chrome too Craig , scrunch it up, wet it then rub on Rusty Chrome , try it !
I always enjoy your channeland I often get to lear new tricks. Just like this one.
I must say the solder stick wire connectors is brilliant, I will be getting me a set.
Dude I need solder sticks! Thanks for the tip!!
I've been looking for a reason to grab some of those solder connectors, and 20% was just the bump that I needed. 👍
Tinfoil folded a couple of times to make a pad works marvellously well with a bit of water ( or kerosene ) for getting rust ( or baked on oil ) off of chrome plated parts. Really does work like magic, and doesn't scratch unless you go gorilla on a particular spot. On hard chrome, like fork tubes, it won't scratch at all, not as hard as I could go at it anyhow. I used this method to make my 23 year old sportster pretty again when I put it back on the road four years after an accident that put me in hospital for a while. I got rid of some truly crusty rust with this, and where it was very bad, there was some black pitting afterwards. It still looks miles better than before. A part that only has light, spotty rust can be restored to almost new. I only wish I'd known about this use for tinfoil thirty years ago.
Love these tricks! I learned a lesson many years ago when the blower fan switch in my car failed (=no heat). I used a paper clip to jump the two wires and get the fan working. The lesson was that there was too much current running through the paper clip. While driving down the road I looked down at the connector dangling from below the dash and the paper clip was transformed into a heating element glowing bright red. I panicked and grabbed it with my bare fingers. The still glowing paper clip stuck to my fingers and left a nice little brand on my tips. Lesson learned. Yeehaa!
We all need a Craig 👍
Aluminum foil also makes a great hat!
… and, it will protect against the cosmic rays of the establishment 👍🏻
definitely using the foil tip
😂😂 the chalk bit , over here in England when we buy parts we get a slip of brown anti corrosion paper take them collect them and stick a few in the draw
Yeah, I’d say the most important is the Friend in the Shop. It gets really boring hanging out in the Shop working on something by yourself.👍👍
There are so many things I am going to use that side walk trick for now
Great video!! Can you do a how to build a Sportster engine series or how to wire a 2005 HDMC FLSTCI or how to do the fuel pump or throttle body and check / adjust sensors or how to install oil lines etc etc I always look for your next project vid!! I really like how genuine you are when you get a bike fired off!! Thank 🎉 y’all’s for doing motorcycle work and tech tips!!
I love the soilder sticks I did my whole stereo in my truck flipped it into a ditch flooded the whole inside and we'll stereo still works great
Instead of sidewalk chalk to keep the moisture off the tools use silica packets you get with most medications and vitamins.
Kudos to the editor for the Big Trouble in Little China clip.
Outstanding video Craig! Just love the pro tips and keep up the great work. Keep those great tips coming:)
You just reminded me I need a set of leads for my multimeter. My last set got caught in a fan blade. Also having Chinese for dinner tonight. I know what I'm doing with the containers now. Thanks!
@robcreel4257 - Make sure the new leads are designed for your meter, because the wrong leads tend to have different resistances which will bias your readings.
I second the solder sticks.. game changed