What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?

Heinz Doofenshmirtz · **Reply #3060 on:** August 24, 2012, 03:48:14 AM

Used the main blade on my CT Lite to open new bags of Iams for our dog and cat, and last night I used the #0 phillips bit to replace the batteries in my daughter's full moon nightlight.

Sazabi · **Reply #3061 on:** August 27, 2012, 02:35:22 AM

Yesterday I cannibalized the front office computer and upgraded it with a new case, motherboard, CPU, and RAM, plus spare parts in the form of an internal card reader; my Cybertool 41 came very much in handy.

Mercury · **Reply #3062 on:** August 27, 2012, 06:05:40 AM

I used my Wave to cut and strip the spark plug wires on my boat. I was replacing the boots and decided to pull some insulation back to allow the center lead to make contact with both the pin in the contact and direct contact on the spring itself. Worked like a charm, now my old 74 starts up without so much as a cough.

Max Archer · **Reply #3063 on:** August 27, 2012, 10:38:28 AM

Opening a cellophane-wrapped book and screwing tripod plates to a camera body and lens.

ketchupgun · **Reply #3064 on:** August 27, 2012, 03:40:06 PM

Photographing a wedding: used my LM squirt's file to make some notches in a wooden hanger so i could hang & shoot the brides dress without it slipping off the hanger

David · **Reply #3065 on:** August 28, 2012, 04:41:38 AM

My brother used my 5WR Toolbox to hold a bolt while he ran up the nut to secure the leg on the new reloading bench.

JAfromMn · **Reply #3066 on:** August 28, 2012, 07:13:49 AM

Used My blast to take down a wire fence,put a battery cable on a dump truck and my Pw 2 on some large flat head screw's on a chainsaw.

I switched out to a sog 2.0 after work used it to tighten up my bbq grill.

Nitecore ezaa r5 to walk the Dog.

JNieporte · **Reply #3067 on:** September 02, 2012, 04:01:34 AM

Yesterday:
Gerber Dime made a great gift for my sister.
SwissTool RX helped put a deck together.
Gerber MP600 helped defuse a bomb (seriously).
Leatherman Juice CS4 installed new windshield wiper blades.

Today:
My daughter used her Squirt P4 to make a model UFO.
Tied my Leatherman Wave to a rope and threw it over the house, allowing me to tie the rope off and scale the side to remove a wasp nest.

magentus · **Reply #3068 on:** September 02, 2012, 11:24:21 AM

I used my Huntsman to repair my employers wheelchair while out for the day at Weston Super Mare (UK seaside town). One of the wheels was making weird noises because the screws securing the rim were coming very loose. Tightened up and fixed in 2 minutes!

sjian · **Reply #3069 on:** September 02, 2012, 07:03:27 PM

-Used a Charge TTI to pick up a spark plug after back it fell back onto the engine block which was still hot
-Used a squirt PS4 help cut and strip wires to fix an XLR cable which broke. I'm wondering if I should've went with a ES4 instead.

Flying Dutchman · **Reply #3070 on:** September 02, 2012, 08:17:07 PM

Skeletool CX today to aid with crib assembly for the new baby (arriving any day now).

JNieporte · **Reply #3071 on:** September 02, 2012, 09:48:43 PM

I found one of my old military-issue Gerber MP600 EOD models while going through some boxes today. It helped me disarm many bombs while in the military.

In the same box was my original SwissTool RS, which I bought for my job as a Firefighter / EMT and thought it got lost when we moved. I looked through every box it might be in; turns out, it was in one marked "Delica's Toys".

Oh, I used my Leatherman Wave to help fix up the garage.

TMFKAMJ · **Reply #3072 on:** September 10, 2012, 12:03:55 AM

I used my surges' serrated blade to hotwire a school bus yesterday

Mercury · **Reply #3073 on:** September 10, 2012, 12:57:28 AM

Been using my Wave all week for opening cans, fixing my eyeglasses, sawing branches, cutting various things with both blades, and tearing stuff up in general.

Boyen · **Reply #3074 on:** September 10, 2012, 12:59:33 AM

I assembled a do-it-yourself barbeque with my skeletool and EDC pry tool today. Was quite nice because nobody had any tools with them and those two tools just had an answer for everything.

theonew · **Reply #3075 on:** September 10, 2012, 06:12:04 AM

Gotta love moments like this: I go into the kitchen and my wife is there with her reading glasses. One of the temples has come off and she says, "I can't believe I didn't lose the little screw." I take the Vic Passenger from my pocket, remove the eyeglass driver from the corkscrew and hand it to her. I get a beer out of the fridge and after I uncap it, using the Passenger, and fill a glass, I look over and she has her glasses back together. She hands me back the screwdriver and says, "Thanks."

Mercury · **Reply #3076 on:** September 10, 2012, 10:23:07 PM

Multitool vindication at it's best.

Lynn LeFey · **Reply #3077 on:** September 11, 2012, 12:46:42 AM

I used the pry-tool (flathead/caplifter/wirestripper) on my Spirit X to get a smurfing steering wheel cover onto my steering wheel.

Give me a big enough lever...

bestsiwy · **Reply #3078 on:** September 11, 2012, 06:13:51 PM

i used plier and file on my swisstool to remove some screws... and i opened some beers

Grail Knight · **Reply #3079 on:** September 14, 2012, 02:05:46 AM

I used my SwissTool Spirit X's screwdrivers to assemble an outdoor weather station and the wire cutter
to cut thick plastic zip ties that help support the station on the mast.

Mercury · **Reply #3080 on:** September 14, 2012, 02:42:29 AM

I used my trusty Wave to install my wife's new license plates. Yay for vehicle registration fees!!

JAfromMn · **Reply #3081 on:** September 14, 2012, 02:58:50 AM

Vic swisstool rs. I used the wire striped on the chisel blade to strip some fine wire. The flat head on some screws, the pliers to get some nut's out and in, the cutters on the pliers head to cut some heat tape, saw on plastic tubing and the rescue blade on some plant life and insulation. Phillips on a few screws holding skirting on.

Busy day.

GNandGS · **Reply #3082 on:** September 14, 2012, 03:57:16 AM

Recent (some cross posted in LM thread):

Squirt ES4

Took apart the microwave in failed attempt to fix.
Opened up a broken LCD picture frame. Looks like good for parts only.
Trimmed a fingernail
Some bending/trimming of a paper clip to make another temp tool

Tyler_ · **Reply #3083 on:** September 14, 2012, 09:35:28 PM

sjian · **Reply #3084 on:** September 15, 2012, 05:06:04 AM

Used my Charge TTI to help build a power supply. Majority of it was just using it weight to hold wires in place for soldering.

captain spaulding · **Reply #3085 on:** September 22, 2012, 04:51:07 AM

Used the mini flathead that goes in the corckscrew of a SAK to tighten my Delica clip.

Mercury · **Reply #3086 on:** September 23, 2012, 01:24:11 AM

I used the phillips on my Wave to install a novelty license plate on my son's tricycle. Now everyone knows whose trike that is!!

JNieporte · **Reply #3087 on:** September 25, 2012, 03:16:00 PM

Leatherman Wave made grooves for a figure four trigger.
Victorinox Huntsman snipped the threads off my daughter's school sweater.
Huntsman's awl cleaned my filthy fingernails.

Lynn LeFey · **Reply #3088 on:** September 25, 2012, 04:22:16 PM

I got into a knock-down drag-out fight with an unruly rose bush, but my Trekker's saw allowed me to come out ahead.

Grail Knight · **Reply #3089 on:** September 25, 2012, 08:33:24 PM

I used my Spirit X to disassembling exterior lights for cleaning and reassembly.
Worked like a charm.

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