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What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?

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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3450 on: January 23, 2013, 08:46:47 AM
Changed a light socket in a lamp the other day with my Victorinox Explorer. Alternated between the large flat head and phillips. Reminds me what a brilliant tool the inline phillips is on a SAK.



Yeah, I like having the capability of switching between the flathead and phillips without having to change bits or anything like that. :tu:

The explorer is probably my favorite SAK.  Have mine on my belt right now in fact.  The inline phillips makes this knife my go to for most things, the only thing missing is pliers.


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3451 on: January 23, 2013, 03:47:20 PM
Changed a light socket in a lamp the other day with my Victorinox Explorer. Alternated between the large flat head and phillips. Reminds me what a brilliant tool the inline phillips is on a SAK.



Yeah, I like having the capability of switching between the flathead and phillips without having to change bits or anything like that. :tu:

The explorer is probably my favorite SAK.  Have mine on my belt right now in fact.  The inline phillips makes this knife my go to for most things, the only thing missing is pliers.

It is one of my faves as well.  That and the Compact are my favorites, and I'm looking to have them mated to create a Yeoman (my personal favorite) and Climber.  Once I have the cash to spare, I will be making that happen (well I should say paying someone to make it happen ;)

Pliers and locking, heavier-use tools are why I carry a full size MT in my back pocket.  I've been finding since I got into SAKs, that most of my uses are handled fine with a SAK.  I still like to have a MT on me though in case I need/would rather use locking blades/tools and pliers. 
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3452 on: January 23, 2013, 04:04:35 PM
Not today but actually y'day the mrs and a couple of the ladies went into the woods to pick out some branches for decorating. My wife comes back and says that they all brought serrated bread knives and steak knives to cut branches with :think: I'm not sure what they were thinking :think: She asked me if I had any MTs with a saw. But yet again I pull through in a pinch and had four or five MTs to meet there needs, a LM MUT, the Wave, Swiss Champ and Charge Ti. I've done this before with the lighters as well not long ago :think:
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3453 on: January 23, 2013, 04:47:12 PM
Not today but actually y'day the mrs and a couple of the ladies went into the woods to pick out some branches for decorating. My wife comes back and says that they all brought serrated bread knives and steak knives to cut branches with :think: I'm not sure what they were thinking :think: She asked me if I had any MTs with a saw. But yet again I pull through in a pinch and had four or five MTs to meet there needs, a LM MUT, the Wave, Swiss Champ and Charge Ti. I've done this before with the lighters as well not long ago :think:

That's funny.  I don't know about your wife, but mine tends to find my new "addiction" and my various MTs/SAKs to be silly and somewhat pointless. ::)  However, it's a different story when she needs/asks if I have one on me to handle a task for her. ::)  That happens more often than she probably wants to acknowledge too. :D 
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3454 on: January 23, 2013, 07:58:32 PM
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3455 on: January 23, 2013, 08:09:21 PM
That's funny.  I don't know about your wife, but mine tends to find my new "addiction" and my various MTs/SAKs to be silly and somewhat pointless. ::)  However, it's a different story when she needs/asks if I have one on me to handle a task for her. ::)  That happens more often than she probably wants to acknowledge too. :D 

Mine isn't really addiction :think: Well, ok, maybe :think: I don't own what I can't use, I just have a lot of what I can use. She doesn't see this as pointless but excessive. She has her own MTs as well that she puts in her purse.

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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3456 on: January 23, 2013, 08:16:44 PM
That's funny.  I don't know about your wife, but mine tends to find my new "addiction" and my various MTs/SAKs to be silly and somewhat pointless. ::)  However, it's a different story when she needs/asks if I have one on me to handle a task for her. ::)  That happens more often than she probably wants to acknowledge too. :D 

Mine isn't really addiction :think: Well, ok, maybe :think: I don't own what I can't use, I just have a lot of what I can use. She doesn't see this as pointless but excessive. She has her own MTs as well that she puts in her purse.


In that case, I'm not completely sure I'm an "addict" then as my collection pales in comparison to many I've seen on here.  I use basically all I have as well, but I do have my favorites and more regularly carried MTs/SAKs.  Some are just placed in various locations for convenient use/storage.  I think my wifey is coming around slowly as she has asked for my help that required a MT/SAK several times, but she does think it's excessive.  She has a Pink Program Micra attached to a small flashlight that came with my Wave in her purse.
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3457 on: January 23, 2013, 08:33:45 PM
In that case, I'm not completely sure I'm an "addict" then as my collection pales in comparison to many I've seen on here.  I use basically all I have as well, but I do have my favorites and more regularly carried MTs/SAKs.  Some are just placed in various locations for convenient use/storage.  I think my wifey is coming around slowly as she has asked for my help that required a MT/SAK several times, but she does think it's excessive.  She has a Pink Program Micra attached to a small flashlight that came with my Wave in her purse.

I call that strategic placement :think: Where would I be needing this tool at this moment? :think: I have MTs and knives placed throughout the house where I can grab one when needed. This helps keep my pajama pants up when I'm in them all day and not having to carrying MTs.  :dwts: Mind you, I don't have little ones running around the house anymore :think: When grandkids come though, I'll have to re-strategize :think:
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3458 on: January 23, 2013, 09:36:49 PM
In that case, I'm not completely sure I'm an "addict" then as my collection pales in comparison to many I've seen on here.  I use basically all I have as well, but I do have my favorites and more regularly carried MTs/SAKs.  Some are just placed in various locations for convenient use/storage.  I think my wifey is coming around slowly as she has asked for my help that required a MT/SAK several times, but she does think it's excessive.  She has a Pink Program Micra attached to a small flashlight that came with my Wave in her purse.

I call that strategic placement :think: Where would I be needing this tool at this moment? :think: I have MTs and knives placed throughout the house where I can grab one when needed. This helps keep my pajama pants up when I'm in them all day and not having to carrying MTs.  :dwts: Mind you, I don't have little ones running around the house anymore :think: When grandkids come though, I'll have to re-strategize :think:

I like that, strategic placement :tu:  I do have to consider or re-strategize the accessibility of some of my MTs as I do have a baby coming in a little over a month.  This will be a challenge as it's been a looong time since I've had a baby around.  My other daughter is 12 and a half and is not a problem with getting into things like a baby/toddler is obviously.  As a matter of fact, I got her very first SAK for her for Christmas (Vic Signature Lite) as she though they were neat.  Get 'em hooked young right ;) :rofl:
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3459 on: January 24, 2013, 01:39:24 AM
Today, and the last few days, I've been carrying my Squirt S4 and my HCRI Q-mini AA in my pocket.  Not a real big fan of twisty lights, but I love the warm HCRI tint and the small size of the Q-mini.  The S4 is as close to a perfect pocket/keychain MT as has ever been created IMHO.  :D

Changed a light socket in a lamp the other day with my Victorinox Explorer. Alternated between the large flat head and phillips. Reminds me what a brilliant tool the inline phillips is on a SAK.



Yeah, I like having the capability of switching between the flathead and phillips without having to change bits or anything like that. :tu:

The explorer is probably my favorite SAK.  Have mine on my belt right now in fact.  The inline phillips makes this knife my go to for most things, the only thing missing is pliers.
That's a mod I've seriously been wanting to do...  I've also been wanting an Explorer with a saw.  And, I can't decide which I should do first!   :think:  Hm.  Maybe an Explorer with pliers AND a saw!   :tu:  Either way, gotta get a Swiss Champ first, to use for the mod. 
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3460 on: January 24, 2013, 01:49:02 AM
Used my Charge TTi to clean up and repair the leaking roof of the radome on a global communications/satellite tracking station while hanging off the side of a knuckle boom 30m up in the air.

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This is a photo from a different excursion to fix the radome - so it's not me up on the boom in the photo.

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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3461 on: January 24, 2013, 02:29:40 AM
Cut a damaged section out of a 5/8ths tagline with my Surge serrated blade...used the Surge plier tips as a key to remove a jammed collet on an angle grinder...and used the Surge scissors to cut away a half-dead fingernail that was hanging off and catching on everything It cut the nail painlessly and quickly.


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3462 on: January 24, 2013, 04:18:20 AM
Day 1 in the forest, I was in a fringe area with poor cell service.  Hooking up the mobile cellphone booster, I discovered the power plug was smashed to smithereens.  Using my Juice, I bared the wires on the power plug of the two-way callout radio (used to alert oncoming traffic on narrow logging roads) and spliced in the wires from the booster.  Now, one plug powers two devices.  Sorry no pics, I wasn't expecting t post this.


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3463 on: January 24, 2013, 07:24:51 AM

This is a photo from a different excursion to fix the radome - so it's not me up on the boom in the photo.



 :tu:

I am surprised that no support feet were extended on the base vehicle.
Maybe it is heavy enough.
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3464 on: January 24, 2013, 08:19:43 AM

This is a photo from a different excursion to fix the radome - so it's not me up on the boom in the photo.



 :tu:

I am surprised that no support feet were extended on the base vehicle.
Maybe it is heavy enough.

It's more than heavy enough with a diesel motor in the bottom of it :)
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3465 on: January 24, 2013, 03:11:40 PM
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3466 on: January 24, 2013, 04:13:15 PM


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3467 on: January 24, 2013, 07:19:55 PM
That picture just makes me want to eat those beef lips all the more...

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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3468 on: January 24, 2013, 07:40:33 PM
It's more than heavy enough with a diesel motor in the bottom of it :)

That looks like a Doppler Radar in the image mvyrmd :think: It probably isn't but it looks like it could be.
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3469 on: January 24, 2013, 07:46:27 PM


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I apologize for the sloppy post, but it's the first time I've done it directly with my phone camera. It's in reference to an earlier post where I explained how I spliced two power cords into one.


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3470 on: January 24, 2013, 07:48:17 PM
I apologize for the sloppy post, but it's the first time I've done it directly with my phone camera. It's in reference to an earlier post where I explained how I spliced two power cords into one.

That's how I understood it :tu: Looks very MacGuyverish :think:
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3471 on: January 24, 2013, 11:35:14 PM
On the way to a Dr. appt. this morning, trimmed a few errant nose hairs with my Squirt S4 this morning, in the passenger's visor mirror in my wife's mini-van...  Grossed her out, but I hate having them sticking out of my nose... that looks even grosser!   :P
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3472 on: January 25, 2013, 04:23:13 PM
On the way to a Dr. appt. this morning, trimmed a few errant nose hairs with my Squirt S4 this morning, in the passenger's visor mirror in my wife's mini-van...  Grossed her out, but I hate having them sticking out of my nose... that looks even grosser!   :P

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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3473 on: January 25, 2013, 05:14:56 PM
On the way to a Dr. appt. this morning, trimmed a few errant nose hairs with my Squirt S4 this morning, in the passenger's visor mirror in my wife's mini-van...  Grossed her out, but I hate having them sticking out of my nose... that looks even grosser!   :P

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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3474 on: January 25, 2013, 10:15:48 PM
In years of carrying leathermen, a first today--I used the ruler on the side of the handle. To mark off a drill bit for proper embedment depth of hilti bolts.


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3475 on: January 25, 2013, 10:29:43 PM
In years of carrying leathermen, a first today--I used the ruler on the side of the handle. To mark off a drill bit for proper embedment depth of hilti bolts.

That's cool :tu:  I like the ruler.  I don't use it a lot, but it's handy for little things like that.  I like the look of it on the outside like on the PST and Rebar. 
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3476 on: January 26, 2013, 06:36:40 AM
Used the LM MUT hammer to put a nail in the wall to hang a hand made rope cross I got in a goodie bag from the hunt last weekend.
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3477 on: January 27, 2013, 09:11:50 PM
Used the pliers and flat head on my spirit x to remove safety device from a mini bic lighter.


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3478 on: January 28, 2013, 04:27:50 PM
Used the pliers and flat head on my spirit x to remove safety device from a mini bic lighter.

Oh I wish I had been carrying a multitool back when I smoked and carried a Bic.  I hated those safety things.  I eventually got a Zippo though, and never carried a Bic after that.  I do miss my Zippos. 
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #3479 on: January 30, 2013, 03:18:23 AM
I used the scissors on my Deluxe Tinker to cut open the package that arrived in the mail today and inside was a brand new Spirit. Oh happy day. :D


 

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