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Here's the Best Places to Buy Cheap Tools on a Budget - YouTube
Channel: Scotty Kilmer
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rev up your engines, today I'm
continuing my never-ending search for
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ways you can save money fixing your car,
by showing you how to save money buying
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car repair tools, now I've been fixing
cars for the last 50 years and if I had
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bought all the tools I got crammed under
this garage brand-new, I'd have over a
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quarter of a million dollars of money
out of my pocket, but yes, Scotty is cheap
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I didn't spend but a fraction of that
money buying these tools, because I got a
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lot of them used, I didn't have much
money when I was a young mechanic, heck
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people were making a dollar 25 cents an
hour back, then so I bought a lot of used
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tools, and that found out one thing about
tools very early, brand-new tools can
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cost an awful lot of money, but if you're
hard for cash and need some quick money
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and try to sell your tools, most tools
have very low resale value, so take
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advantage of that yourself, and here's a
perfect example of it lurking in the
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back of my garage, my old air compressor
I paid $90 for this used from a pawn
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shop over 35 years ago,
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hey it still works like a charm, it's a
professional-grade compressor, 35 years
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I've had it still works great, and say
you don't want to buy a used compressor
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you can get a new one pretty cheap these
days, now I bought this backup compressor
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for about one hundred and twenty dollars
on sale brand-new from harbor freight
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tools, granted it's not the quality of my
compressor that's the professional one
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that I bought in a pawn shop years ago,
it's my backup, and if you're not a
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professional mechanic like me and just
doing your own stuff, one of those
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compressors can be perfectly good for
one guy running air tools, but really my
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old professional one it's so good even
though I bought it used and had it for
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35 years, I never had to use the back of
one yet when I was working, because the old
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one hasn't broken yet, so taking a trip
to the local pawn shop, hey that can save
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you a bunch of money, they have many
tools, you can pick through them, and
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realize one thing about pawn shops,
bartering still exists in that world
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just because it's got a price of a
hundred bucks, you can barter them down
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in almost every single case, because
you're paying cash generally and cash
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rules, sure sometimes you got to walk out
of the store and then they'll say, oh
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come back we'll sell to you for this
much less, but it's kind of a fun thing
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to do I like bartering when it comes to
buying stuff myself, learned it from a
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grandfather,
but here's one warning when you go to a
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pawn shop, if you see tools that are
actually brand new tools, you want to
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check out what the make is, do little
research on their quality, because a lot of
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them these days just buy the really
cheap Asian tools and then sell them
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they're not a pawn shop deal, they're
just being a seller of cheap tools there
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nobody pawned the cheap tools, they just
bought them from China and are trying to
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sell them, and believe me you don't want
to buy the cheapest tools possible in
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terms of quality, my knuckles are still
in good shape, because I buy quality hand
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tools, I don't want them breaking when
I'm pulling on stuff, so be really leery
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about cheap brand new tools in a package,
a lot of times they're just poorly made
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you don't want to buy those, I used to
buy Sears Craftsman tools, they were
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decent tools,
this ratchet it had a lifetime guarantee
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this is like the eighth one I've had in
the last 45 years, they just kept
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replacing them, but unfortunately the
store used to go too is gone now, they
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shut it down, so maybe craftsman isn't
such a good idea anymore, in that case
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you might switch to Duralast tools from
autozone, look at that guaranteed for
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life, they got the same thing and it
doesn't look like the Auto Zones are
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going to be disappearing anytime soon,
and it's always good idea to have a store
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somewhere near you that sells tools that
you use all the time in case you either
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break tools or lose it in the middle of
a job, so you can just zoom down a street
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get another one to come back and fix it,
rather than wait weeks for it to come in
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the mail, now you really can't fix any
modern car without a decent scan tool, so
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I'm going to show you how you can save
money buying a scan tool, now there's
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zillions of scan tools out there, but you
have to decide how much money you want
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to spend, and how far you want to go
analyzing stuff, for example this
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creator, hey it's less than 50 bucks, it
does live data, it does trouble codes or
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erasing stuff, it does some pretty basic
stuff and for 50 bucks that does a
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decent job, but if you're really serious
about fixing your car, this Actron auto
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scanner Plus does a really good job, now
I paid 250 bucks for this one it was new
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and I use it all the time as a
professional mechanic, because it's so
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fast it's much faster than my giant
machines that have to be set up, and I
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can often fix the problem with this tiny
little thing, so if you can find one used
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great or even better get together with
your friends. say you got five friends
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you eat you only have to fork out 50
bucks. and you get one of these top-notch
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scan tools. hey since they fit every car
sold in the United States since 1996. you
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can use them on all kinds of cars. you're
not a professional mechanic. you don't
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need it all the time. so you can share it
amongst friends. now if you're going to work
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on your car you need a good jack, but
don't try to say too much money
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just buying a cheap little Jack, I mean
this little Jack was like $40 at a
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discount auto parts store, but I bought
this gigantic one at Harbor Freight
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tools and it cost me 69 bucks when it
was on sale, and I know people are going to
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say, Oh Scotty you buy tools at Harbor Freight tools, they sell a lot of junky
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tools, well
yeah some of their tools are junky and
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cheap, I'm not going to argue with that, but
some of them are reasonable quality, as
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with any tool you want to do a little
research, for example I bought a cheap
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electric saw from harbor freight tools,
the thing broke within a year, it was a pile
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of junk, so I went to a pawn shop
I bought a Dewalt, I did some research
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good tools, it worked great, saved money
buying it used but I bought a quality
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one, I didn't buy another new cheap one
because the new cheap ones are exactly that
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they're new but they're cheap, so there's
actually lots of ways you can save money
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buying tools to fix your car, but what
the heck, why not start your search at a
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pawn shop, and since this is mechanic
Monday, I'll be giving away some tools I
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bought at a pawn shop, to have a chance
to win just place a clean non offensive
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comment on the youtube comments below,
and a winner will be chosen randomly by
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computer to win some free tools, so if
you never want to miss another one of my
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new car repair videos, remember to ring
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