now it's no secret that ifixit has been a long time sponsor of our channel and
we use their kits for all kinds of things from repairing phones to building
computers to i mean i'm sure someone in this building has picked their nose with
an ifixit kit that doesn't necessarily mean that an
ifixit kit is the be-all and end-all of
tool kits in fact some of you have suggested to us
that you can actually build your own ifixit kit for much cheaper on
aliexpress so that is exactly what i tasked Anthony with
this is what we're calling
the ifuxit kit we changed one vowel and
we're gonna walk you guys through how it compares to the brand name ifixit kit
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okay so let's start with what's in a typical ifixit protect tool
kit you got a few of their astonishingly bendy like pride tools
you've got one of their suction cups you've got an esd
wrist strap
you've got some esd safe tweezer like reverse tweezers you've got a couple of
little grabber tweezer doodads you've got
ah these are great so these are their spudgers so these are pry slash poking
tools you can use these to like pop off a wi-fi antenna or whatever else you've
got this metal pry tool you've got there uh i forgot they call
this something knife jimmy jimmy yep jimmy tool
and then you get their 64-bit driver kit which has the extension
the driver handle and then a whole bunch
of different bits that we've used to take apart everything from a nintendo ds
to a computer monitor pretty much you name it you can take it apart with one
of these and a guide on ifixit.com but the thing is that none of this stuff is
really that unique oh i missed the guitar picks which are literally
guitar picks except blue with an ifixit logo on them like you can get a lot of
this functionality elsewhere so let's try to do just that Anthony
hit me with what you found all right well the screwdriver kit is obviously
the most important part for what most
people call the most important part and this here is the uh i think it's
called alouette the alouette so you know
what this actually reminds me a lot of the older ifixit kit so it's got these
little rubbery bases that all of the bits go into like that
it's got a really different looking extension and the driver itself is quite
different from either revision of the ifixit but
feels okay the rubberized grip is not bad
this isn't metal this is plastic um so it does feel a little less
you know the quality
um but is this a ratchet i can't really tell i don't know what this is doing you
know you want yeah oh interesting
so there's a couple cool features of this guy then now this won't necessarily
help you get into some of the tight spaces that i've had trouble right with
the ifixit kit because the way to the only way to extend this one out of the
box anyway is to take the hex driver that's just
the same size as the uh as the bits and
then you can get a little bit of extra length now one other thing that they
actually removed that they used to have on the old ifixit driver
is this hex hole through the top that you can use to jam something in it and
then get a little bit more leverage if you if you don't have enough from the
rubberized grip they removed that from this revision and that is something that
i missed from the old one now the last thing that
i'm not that pleased with is the variety of the bits here
there's just not nearly as many bits and some of the really obscure ones like
security torxes are simply not present
so for those of you not familiar a security torx has a hollowed out middle
so that you can use it to remove security torx screws all right so that's
our screwdriver oh wait hold on i want to see if there's anything else
interesting here three torxes up here with the two tri-wings and then
a uh um like a phillips a female phillips
with a hex on the end that's kind of interesting so you could use your
screwdriver to something something i guess uh there's one pentalobe bit
that i can see the uh the springy thing here it actually works at
like very extreme angles so like you can actually do like 180 degrees here that
looks like a much smoother action there much smoother action there it's
cross-compatible these use the same diameter i believe oh handy
so if you liked certain components of a different kit or you just needed a
top-up of bits or whatever else yep all right so you're saying this is by far
the most expensive part of our diy kit how much is this yeah it was about
12 13 oh that is called the Jake me i like this
and i actually like that it's a little bit longer and doesn't taper quite as
much it feels a little more secure in my hand so how much does it Jake me the
Jake me costs two dollars and 42 cents u.s great value recommended cordless
wrist strap be a bro
wear an anti-static strap so basically
as we conduct to the metal screw that's in the
top through the resistor we will
we will dissipate some static build up
i really wouldn't count on this though so the few things that i've seen that
actually test these out yeah show that it is basically no different
than if you're not wearing one got it
so the ifixit spudger actually doesn't go quite so thin at the tip this one's a
little worn but that's not the entire reason why it's so dull at the end so
i'm gonna pick a spot okay got my spot
and i'm gonna just bend it back hopefully without hurting myself so i can bend that back 90
degrees with my hands spudger
same spot not a freaking chance
like this
i don't care how much it cost i wouldn't price something with this because i'd
probably end up hurting myself you know i'm going to give a pass to the
screwdriver set because i think it's a great value it's not an ifix's kit but
so this is ifixit this is the off-brand one
and in terms of strength i'd say not quite but the blade is a
little thinner and there are times when that might have actually been handy for
me it's nice that i get all these other
options now i don't typically like to use metal tools for prying because you
tend to leave marks in the casing of whatever it is you're trying to take
apart but this curved one here it's got quite a lot of strength to it you can
really get some leverage on that depending how much this whole kit is
even if i had an ifixit kit i'd probably run out and grab one of these just for
this guy and then these other similarly bent ones you got a nice wide one here
and then a more pointed um but wider
like really strong tip here that you could really put some force on i really
like uh these extra ones that come with it
yeah so this one cost three dollars and seventy five cents u.s for those strong
strong recommendations for these ones
so i've got the ifixit ones in my right hand and i've got our off brand i fix it in
my left hand here and you can see that i fix it includes this sort of broader
tweezer that i actually find myself using an awful lot just to pick up a
screw that i've dropped that's non-ferrous or whatever the case may be
but really my main criticism of the ifixit angled one is that the tip if you
try to do any real grabbing or prying anything forceful with it they do bend
quite easily and so that's you know where these can
really stand out to me yeah my ifixit kit at home i ended up breaking off the
tip of the angled ones because they're a little bit
you know less sturdy now it's not a direct replacement for a
broader grippier like more of a grabber and i
still want one of those in my tech tool kit but uh
i'm liking these yeah these get a pass how much are they
a dollar eighty-one heck yeah next round let's go for
these your suction cups
these are garbage
okay i actually had an off-brand suction cup i lost my ifixit one that's from my
kit a while back so i was using an off-brand one to try and pull the screen
off and unless you have a really
good suck
uh you you can't apply enough force to
lift up the adhesive uh just uh for your reference though those suction cups were
1.55 for 50. cool not even worth it as for the rest
of the stuff in here first we've got our off-brand pry tool now these are really
really impressive i absolutely love these i think they're one of the highlights of ifixit's kit
and this one is not
now the handle itself seems fine but there is no way
i'd be able to snap one of ifixit's pry tools
bend yes break
absolutely not these things are fantastic and this is no substitute
i can't believe i forgot to talk about ifixit's lifetime warranty though so if
your spudger from them did this then they'll send you a new one and
that's something that you won't get if you're ordering random stuff off aliexpress so i think the conclusion
then of this video is something i wasn't really expecting there's not a clear
winner here what we do know is that piecing together
your own electronics tool kit could yield actually better quality than
what you get from ifixit at a similar or even better price
but the other thing that we've discovered is that unless you can find
lots or very reputable reviews
of the things you're buying it's quite likely that even though
you're paid half the price half of what you ordered or more
might not actually be usable or of sufficient quality compared to what
you're getting from the name brand toolkit yeah it's a real roll of the
dice
okay i was sort of expecting a more clear winner or loser
but we don't have that so hopefully you guys enjoyed the video
anyway you'll find links to where to buy all the stuff that we feature today in
the video description but the only ones we're really recommending
are the tweezers if you need that kind of tweezers the
screwdriver kit if you don't need all the bits that are included with the
ifixit kit these pry tools and
the Jake me these ones i really like these are absolutely going in our
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unfortunately this one's pretty it's old school yeah did you just pick that up
out of like the the swag pile or just i haven't found it in like the walk the
the warehouse or something i thought you're gonna say in the washrooms i
originally was going to say the washroom i don't know why um quick question
though yes if you could tell ifixit to copy any of this
what would you say to copy
this guy for sure a greater variety of prying tools in
general is something i think they could improve on and it's not really any
better here but a better suction cup is another thing that i'd really like to
see them improve overall though i mean we've worked with them for a long time
that's not an accident i've been using ifixit tools since before they were even
a sponsor and i really i like their stuff because there's that consistency
yeah whatever it is that i need to do i know that the tool they've included is
good enough maybe it's not the best
but it's definitely not just complete garbage
exposures aren't supposed to do that