 So me and Cory are here to talk about tools today and not new tools tools that have fallen off ladders Tried and true tried and true man fallen off a lot of things based on how bad this You guys have dropped this dynamo tag a lot. Um, it's been in our arsenal for about five years five years So we'll leave links to all these things below where you can get this on Amazon We have an affiliate link if you enjoy clicking that but we're gonna talk about some of the tools that He uses because I'm not good at wiring. That's why I don't do the wiring videos That's why I hired an expert to do by wiring We'll start with the label printer There's not a lot to talk about. It's a really basic dynamo Dymoletra time. Dymoletra. I say dynamo, but it's just a D. Y. M. O. Let's your tag basic Gets the job done. Yeah, and it's one of those things that someone's gonna comment say there's some real expensive one I like better One of the things I like is this one is held up well It's not expensive because unfortunately we're doing labeling, you know from the top to the bottom and things well They fall off ladders Corey out in the field. They fall off ladders. We also use that unit in our store, too Yeah, so the label stuff all the time. It's just a handy little thing and once you kind of settle in We have actually have I think three of these that way you can buy all the same Refills for all of them makes it pretty easy. Yep. Now the next one and I like this It's soft fire south what I want to call it soft, but it's south wire Yeah, crimper and punch for punching down patch panels and crimping RJ 45s This is a basic inexpensive tool, but man I mean it's just so light and easy to crimp with and it cuts and it also does a six pair and a four pair So it has it's all in one. Yeah It real basic there's not a lot to it to talk about it's one of those But it's a solid tool that has lasted a really long time in this thing is Scott, but it's a comfortable grip Yeah, so your hands aren't killed by the end of the day Really easy crimp to yeah, it's very easy easy pulled on crimp and then we get a set and they come as a kit You can get this they have a screwdriver kit that goes in there with it real simple crimps A lot of people ask what crimper do you like these have really held up we like these punchers We just buy these individually as well just because they're so easy to use It's just a palm of the hand puncher instead of trying to use a screwdriver style one That's just it makes life easier at the end of the day if you're punching 200 wires That's the way to go and one thing's I like once again. They're not expensive because occasionally These may have fallen in places Oh, you just can't get and you feel bad if you have a real expensive tool It's I mean there's at least one of that one 20-foot wall. He dropped it all the way down into oh, man We've lost a lot of tools and walls out there. I got it. I got a $60 Drill bit. Yeah, it's a it's a bull saw. I just bought and we used it once and it fell down So sometimes that happens on the job. So if you're spending, you know less than $20 for a tool It's it's you feel a lot less bad when you're buying your tool, you know Yeah We'll talk about this real quick. So this is the tech tech ton. Yeah, a tech ton little handy kit It's in your back pocket Multi 46 piece 46 piece Once again a small basic tool set but when you're putting up a lot of cameras and a lot of PoE stuff Sometimes they don't always have just a Philips or a flathead They have all kinds of little adjusters on there to get the tensioner set and you may not have it with you You have to go back down the ladder or you can just keep this in your pocket And then while you're up there you can quickly get something adjusted if you need to and because we do some of these Camera jobs like for school systems and things like that. How many different cameras does the school have? One district I've encountered at least at least ten different ten different variations of dome cameras or this has had it every time Yeah, so it's that for audio to a lot of the audio adjustments one two three clips Yeah, now here's another best $13 ever spent holy cow. I've done it a few we bought a couple of them They're so great If you haven't guessed what this does is goes up in a ceiling tile So you pop a tile out you snap this in and it's got the little edge So it fits pretty much all your standard drop ceilings and when you're pulling the wire through the wire pulls through nice and smooth Without ripping apart the corners of the drop ceiling or shredding the wire because it caught a sharp edge a Couple of these man are so cheap. He keeps a couple of in this van Madison's Madison electronics stingray stingray. Yeah, was it me ray or something? We'll leave a link to this well, but this is it's one of those once again. It's not expensive There's no moving parts. There's not much to go wrong with it. It's really durable plastic too Drops it 25 feet It bounces Other than making a loud noise. It's a real good durable tool. Very durable now. Let's talk about real quick There's a lot of Opinion when it comes to tools. Yes, I know the cobalt is the Lowe's brand. They do sell them on their product I think that I don't know that they're Lowe's exclusive because they do sell them on Amazon I think it sold still through Lowe's. This is just a saw hole kit, but you know You what what kind of drills do you use? I use myself. I use Makita Yeah, he likes some Makita drills, which are a really solid product once again There's a lot of paintings out there, but the for the hole saw kits These have been like the grill cost-effective have held up and these are all well used from Slinger amazing to me is is uses is the paints not even completely off Cobalt put some put some seriously to their products Yeah, because when you're up there you got a drill a lot of holes getting all this cabling and wiring in You know you're popping through stuff this cobalt stuff. I'll leave a link to it, but these have always been Now We'll save this one for last Because we'll cover this real quick because in case you didn't see this the magpul. This is fun Let's start with that one this one here the land scout junior land scout junior So if you do this kind of part-time land scout junior is a good system to have very very cost effective So it's just a cable tester that tests all the pins one unit, but it tests every single pin Yeah, it goes to test every pin real basic I see one end can go in the comm room one end goes in Here plug it around test them cool get the job done. I know all the pins are good It's not like a cable certifiers not real advanced It's not doing any real in-depth signal testing, but it'll get the job done for You know just testing the pins in the cable Now I feel like if you don't have the time to go with one unit to test This is where you go. This is an eight-unit tester from Klein. It's the VDV scout pro 2 We've had this in our arsenal for at least three and a half years and this thing is invaluable This is by far our most important tool because it doesn't matter if you can get that wire in what matters Is you can guarantee it works? Yeah, and what this allows you to do and each one of these are labeled One three and I've reviewed this tool before and this is a follow-up on it Really it still works as good as the day we bought it. You pop these little ends on actually I will admit the new model is a little bit nicer than our older one that we have here But it still works the same way and it allows you to do the testing for either voice cable or RJ 45s And what the numbers represent on here is you go around and plug these on here one two three four And then it tells you which one of these ends you're testing So when you're in separate rooms one person can easily label each of the poles each of the runs And pop a number on them real quick so you know which if you know where you plug them in It's easy to figure out where they are in the com room and which numbers they are So when you have a give four port jack, especially because we take over so many wearing jobs We didn't do so you plug in all four you label where you plugged them in Then you go in the back com room and you figure out where they are on the patch panel And it tells you which one it makes life a lot easier when you test and label on each job Yeah, when you're testing and labeling especially when you're doing a takeover and you're because God knows no one Doctuments anything we document what we do but often are calling us and not the previous guy because the previous guy didn't document what he did It was such we do in kind of a cleanup mess It's not always a rerun, but we got a cleanup and anytime we're doing a cleanup We got to do some of the labeling so you like say if you're individual the the basic one here pretty inexpensive This still helps with if you're a one-man show so you don't have someone Out in the com room and out in the office area doing this But it's even faster if you got two people so you can have them run around plug this stuff in This this finds VdV distance meter Basically what this meter does is allows you to select whatever kind of wire you're using And instead of guessing how much length you have so how much what where do you guys think is here? I have no idea. This is a box that got destroyed. Yeah, it got wet in the rain Yeah, so the box things happen when you run cable and whatever but you grab two wires out of it and Pretty quick here, then you go in there And you simply select your wire. So this is cat six So there we go. We've selected cat six now. We come out and then it tells us Based on the negative and positive we got about 304 feet right here. Yep now this also works With foam lines and the other cool thing is if you crimp an end and you pop it in to the wall It will tell you the length of the run the wall provided it gets goofy if something's plugged in on the other end But if you're trying to trace the wires back and figure out how far that length is already run into wall It works for that as well and it actually has a custom and they get some instructions in here for this It supports different gauge of wire so you can use this to measure more than just cat five wire We've actually used it to measure some alarm wire some audio wire speaker wire things like that You just dial in what gauge wire it is coax coax It's got a coax measure many many settings for different kinds of wire Yeah, so it's kind of cool It's it one of those handy little things when we're labeling stuff and you run into this and now it'll do really short lengths like a 15-foot length of cable as well Now the next little tool is from yellow and fits in the Klein box great and slide the Maraki down here It's from Wi-Fi Texas Wi-Fi Texas This is a roughly a $40 tool they make a new version I haven't really dug into what the new features are on the new version but this is kind of neat so you go here and This is hooked up to a PoE injector we're gonna plug it in over here to this Maraki unit And what comes up on a display is one whether it's been wired in 56 a or b then it's gonna tell us the amperage and the voltage coming over here So it's always gonna even without this plugged in without the Cisco plugged in it's gonna give me Takes a second. It'll display the voltage Then I get the voltage in the amperage just going through to the device This becomes really handy one back to the being inexpensive because you're frequently How often are you testing this with a camera system because the camera went out pop the camera down? That's something that I mean, I don't use it as frequently as that, but I use this maybe maybe twice a week Yeah, so it's just a great little troubleshooting device for going in there and going all right Do I have voltage on this line and you can figure it out pretty quick? So it's kind of a handy tool for doing that. It's convenient requires no batteries because it's powered off the PoE So it's dead simple. You can't get it wrong. I know there's some more advanced tools It give you way more information But a lot of times you just want to know there's their power or not We had a problem where it turns out someone turned off all the power in the switch when they were pushing configurations So when some of the cameras went dead, it was some type of policy configuration There's no voltage coming out real simple fix test it real quick Okay, no voltage then we can troubleshoot further It's just one of things I like simple tools because they're less likely to break down and if you drop this off a ladder It's it. There's not much to break inside of it. Oh, I I've looked inside There's really nothing to it just a little display with a voltage on it But doesn't definitely really handy for doing that It would be worth mentioning that all of this here is stuff I cut out just because I like these tools together Yeah, we actually stick them all in together together really nicely when you do it like that. Yeah, that is a modification I've made yeah, I've made So these two client tools didn't we bought these separate, but they leave you this big spot So we trimmed holes in it to make sure it all fits in a nice case Now this is a newer tool, but a fun tool and we're gonna do a more in-depth review We have a wall we just finished building. We're gonna be doing some more videos on training and how to do this because they kind of serve as a Fun way to show you how they all work, but this is a Magpul Magnipul wall phishing system So what this does and this is is kind of cool. So the Magpul here It really I mean it really is seriously hard to pull apart It's this table's thick This is a custom built There's a few inches of table right here and you can Yeah, let's go Look at that Like do magic tricks with this thing This will go through some pretty heavy walls and what this is you drop this down into the wall and It will yank even through insulation Which of course if you're dealing with insulated walls can be a real pain in the butt It'll pull right through it we have it on this chain, but you actually will put usually put this on a fish stick We just put it to the chain You know for this because it fits in the box a lot of times it's got a standard hook on it This is a really strong braid here And with this allows you to do though put it on a fish stick you can pull that fish stick right down the wall and out to The spot we're gonna do a more in-depth demo on how this is used This is also handy when you have like special holes You got to try and get it through and it's you got to work it sideways because you can roll this roller now There's rollers around an electrical box in the wall right anything like when you got to like pull it around something and this is a real Like rubber soft Coating on here. So when you run it down a drywall, you're not you're not marring up the wall That's what's important about this. So wow that thing is scary. It also Seems that protection against doing stupid things like getting it that close. It doesn't seem to break Looks like it's Now it also comes with this unit right here, which is basically just a pinpoint So basically what that is is you would stick that in your ceiling to try to find where you would drill your hole And then once you found it It lines how it lights up. Yeah, and what this will do too or like so we're gonna do a more in-depth review of this But it's on there. So if you're on the wall, but there's no door So you're like, okay I want the hole here and I can come from the other side of the wall or ceiling whichever one you can push this push pin in Onto a piece of drywall and find that location and punch through there So you know exactly where you're at directly above where you want your hole in the wall to be right It also works through outside walls and we've done a little playing with this It's kind of cool because for example when you got to run out outdoors You got you don't know where exactly it is outdoors You try to measure you go inside the house or you know building push this pin It sticks right into the drywall and you're gonna walk around outside and you're like that's where the holes gonna go So that's where I need to drill you know exactly where you're gonna drill within about a two or three inch spot Yeah, it's fairly accurate. It's pretty direction Like I said, we're gonna do a more in-depth review on this But we wanted to cover just some of these tools that we use on a kind of a regular basis This is a newer addition to the tool set, but yeah a welcome one at that I should put the pin in down. There we go. So you don't poke yourself with the pin That's leave links below to all these fun tools, but a lot of people have asked some of the stuff It's freezing outside today. We were going to show like more of what's in the truck But this is like the the things you have a lot of people are asking about when he messes me like hey What is some of the tools you guys use for this? There's a lot more tools. There's still a lot more tools in general and drills and things like that We'll do some more and for any of these you have questions leave them in the comments below And like I said, we're gonna do this magpul one right we're gonna have a more in-depth How we wire a wall video make an instructional video how we use it and how we use these things a combination for that But if you're looking for some gift ideas for a tech geek that does some of this stuff These are good tools to buy them. We've been really happy with these client tools Like I said this one I reviewed this probably first two years ago. It is held up really well Been dropped from the ceiling many many times and held up very well That's one of the important things us when I do these reviews. They're not just a brand new shiny tool I think will hold up. This is we bought it a couple years ago. It still works great The only thing we've done is hot new batteries in it. 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