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Pocket MT screwdrivers?

scotland Offline Gareth

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Pocket MT screwdrivers?
on: January 16, 2012, 07:52:04 PM
Just thinking in another thread about how much I prefer the Micra's screwdrivers to the ones found on the Squirt's, but it got me thinking about just how often I actually use the drivers on my keyring MT's. :think:

Some very specific ones I do find useful; Micra's mini-driver is great for glasses and the Phillips driver on Vic's 58mm combo tool is great for battery compartments, but day-to-day I tend to have something bigger and tougher on me so my keyring doesn't get much of a look-in.  Not unless I'm very deliberately putting the tool to the test that is.

So what about you chaps?  Any of you regularly use your keyring sized screwdrivers?
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us Offline Sazabi

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Re: Pocket MT screwdrivers?
Reply #1 on: January 16, 2012, 08:34:10 PM
Regularly?  Nope, but the Rambler's Phillips has been crucial on numerous times when I was working on a computer.  With that said, once in a while I do find myself using the small flathead, but only when I don't have a larger knife or tool on me with an appropriately sized screwdriver.


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Re: Pocket MT screwdrivers?
Reply #2 on: January 16, 2012, 08:42:16 PM
I've had the Rambler for several months on my car key, and for months before that it was the Midnight Manager. And in all those months (:think: maybe even a year) I can't remember using either of the screwdrivers. As you said, I always had something bigger on me. It will stay on the key though. Just in case :D


us Offline Heinz Doofenshmirtz

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Re: Pocket MT screwdrivers?
Reply #3 on: January 16, 2012, 08:47:43 PM
I use the tip of the file on my Executive or the philips driver on my Rambler fairly regularly, mainly to put fresh Eneloops or Duraloops in toys for my kids.  I prefer the Rambler for that, but pocket carry my Executive more often than the Rambler; both get regular use for it though.  I also find them handy for occasionally adjusting the stop-screws on the derailleurs of my bike, and so on.  I also use the eyeglass screwdriver that rides in the corkscrew on my Swiss Champ or my Work Champ every few weeks as well.

In short, yes; after scissors and a blade, it's the tool I use most frequently.
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Re: Pocket MT screwdrivers?
Reply #4 on: January 16, 2012, 09:56:42 PM
I use the Micra philps one for small repairs when cycling.
I use the flat one for extracting batteries!
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us Offline gafftapegreenia

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Re: Pocket MT screwdrivers?
Reply #5 on: January 17, 2012, 04:57:08 AM
I use the Philips and slotted drivers on my Rally quite regularly. I miss the tiny slotted from my S4 , it's a shame the Es4 doesn't have one.
Fan of the Leatherman mini-bit driver and the Vic backspring philips.


 

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