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The Basic Tech Tool Kit is something that may be on the exam in various forms, although not any direct questions so I just want to go over this briefly with you. And ah let's talk about the tool kit. You see here a picture of a basic tool kit. I think this is probably a 10-piece tool kit, something like that. And you can get these things in all kinds of configurations. You can get really cheap ones, 8-piece tool kits, and then you can spend hundreds of dollars for like 100-piece tool kits with circuit testers and all sorts of gee-whiz things in there. But these are the basic tools that you're going to use and you need to be aware of these before you go take the exam because they could ask you about these in an indirect way. The first thing you need are some Phillips Head screwdrivers, and notice in this kit it looks like you've got one here, and um, and probably this, this might be a smaller one, it might be a torques wrench, I'm not sure. But ah, a couple of ah Phillips Head screwdrivers, a lot of people even carry small sets of maybe five sizes each of Phillips Heads and ah, flat point screwdrivers. Then you need a couple of star-head torques wrenches. Now a lot of computer manufacturers have gone to these torques-type screws or nuts, if you will, and these have that inset like an 8-sided star type pattern, and these torque wrenches are built for that, and so you need to have some of those. You've probably been using these even if you didn't understand what they were, I don't know. I used them for years before I understood were torque wrenches. Flat head screwdrivers, everybody knows what those are, and you'll need a couple of those. Here's a large one and a small one. And I see an extractor. Now this one is very important, and you'll probably hear about it on the exam. And that is this tool right here. And I don't know if you can see on your video, but there are these little metal catches on the end and this is for any time that we need to extract something off the motherboard. Sometimes ah memory parts or, or various parts that get wired onto the motherboard, or some of them snap under the motherboard because if we grab those with our fingers in the middle of those parts and try to pull them, we may inadvertently put too much pressure on one side and crack the motherboard and obviously that's not anything we want to do. We'd have to replace it. That's not cheap or fun, or easy. And so, this thing will put even pressure on both sides and allow us to pull up or push down and keep the pressure safe and standard on both sides, and it prevents us from putting our greasy, nasty fingers all over the motherboard and the parts. The next thing is the three-prong parts retriever and that is this little hypodermic needle thing right here. Now this thing's a life saver. Anytime you're working on a PC it's not unusual to drop a little screw or a little part and it falls down in between say the rim, ah, memory sticks, or something like that, and it's really hard to get to. Now, again, if you go after that with your hand you may inadvertently break something else loose, or even break it or bend it on the motherboard, and again, cause yourself some expensive problems. So this three-prong parts retriever, or a grabber you'll hear it called, is quite useful. As you depress on this top here like a hypodermic needle, these three legs of this thing, come out, three little wires, and they expand automatically, and then as you let them fly back in they contract and they will pick up screws and small parts and not be laying on the motherboard. You may hear an indirect question about this thing. Keep in mind it's never correct, especially as far as the exam's concerned, to chase these little parts into hard to reach places with your bare fingers, and for obvious reasons. Next is tweezers for the same reason. A good set of tweezers from time to time you have to reconnect wires, or move wires, and you can't get your hands in there and again this is a safe way to do that without causing more damage than what you're actually correcting. So, again, you may see indirect questions on the exam about your tool kit, and I just wanted to go over with you the basics that should be in there and what these things look like as well as what you do with them.