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What did you do with your one piece tool today?

um Offline Mr. Whippy

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What did you do with your one piece tool today?
on: August 21, 2013, 10:01:53 PM
This is a thread that's been sorely lacking.  >:(

So, to start of Post #1 of what I predict will be a top 10 thread within a few months:

Today I used my PocketWrench II to fix the secretary's electric stapler that was jammed up.  PocketWrench II--a kingmaker!  :salute:


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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #1 on: August 21, 2013, 10:11:16 PM
Any pictures? Was she cute? :D

Of the secretary of course. ;) We know how a Pocketwrench II looks like. :P



Good idea for a thread, Nate. :cheers:


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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #2 on: August 21, 2013, 10:15:32 PM
Used my Tofty to open one of my display cabinets at work
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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #3 on: August 22, 2013, 10:23:55 AM
used my gerber shard to fix a broken alarm clock

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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #4 on: August 22, 2013, 04:58:51 PM
Used my Atwood Crypto as a wedge, to level a drawer.

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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #5 on: August 24, 2013, 01:37:36 AM
Boker plus Vox to pry a window safety catch open.
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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #6 on: August 26, 2013, 12:54:13 AM
Atwood Shiner opened a cold Mexican glass bottle Coke*. :tool:

* Pretty much all I've ever done with the thing, open bottles. Thanks again to GG! :P
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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #7 on: August 26, 2013, 02:54:17 AM
PocketTool X Piranha (Leatherman now...)

Pulled a bunch of electrician staples.  (Excellent tool for that job!)


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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #8 on: August 27, 2013, 01:59:30 AM
Today, I was hanging a new outdoor light.  The ground screw was tightly fastened, with a hex head and Phillips slots.  I could not get it to budge with my Leatherman Squirt ES4, Leatherman Charge or Vic Cybertool.  Before resorting to going and getting the impact driver, I tried my Atwood Crypto (with 1/4 bit opening).   It turned the hex head with no issues.  :)


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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #9 on: August 29, 2013, 08:16:41 PM
Not today, but last week, I used my Pocketwrench II to install two G-hooks (are they called that in English?) to a couple of lights used at a band performance.
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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #10 on: August 29, 2013, 09:09:38 PM
Hook clamps usually :)


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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #11 on: August 30, 2013, 10:19:49 PM
Hook clamps usually :)


Aah, that makes sense :)
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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #12 on: May 20, 2014, 05:56:38 AM
I used a Nite Ize DoohicKey to pry pebbles from the sole of my shoe and clean some dirt from underneath a fingernail.
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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #13 on: May 20, 2014, 08:42:42 PM
Nice thread!!

Used Atwood G3 keyton to scrap some dirt from magnetic clutch coil housing we removed from one truck...

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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #14 on: May 26, 2014, 03:37:30 AM
I attached a154CM Piranha 2 to a spare house key in my garage toolbox. Never use for anything else, so it just helps new locate my key when I get locked out of the house. My Craftsman 4way driver popped the tab on a soda. I don't use my few one piece tools that much

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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #15 on: May 27, 2014, 05:26:41 AM
I used my new titanium OPMT as a wedge to open a steel clip:

This is the clip. The thick main part is about 2.4 mm thick, so it's very difficult to bend by hand.


This is my "Tiremet" tool, which I got from eBay. It has hex wrenches, bottle opener, screwdriver and package opener. I got it mainly for the package opener. If you Buy It Now, it costs $23 USD but I got it from auction.


This is it forced into the clip (reenacted picture). The tool is 4 mm thick, which I thought was a bit bulky, but as a wedge the thickness is useful.


Unsurprisingly, it suffered a few scratches, but only on the surface. It fared much better than aluminium would have, which it weighs similar to!

I realised this wedge function is something my existing tools don't have, and it might come in useful. If I didn't have this OPMT, what would I have used? A screwdriver, I guess, or maybe a fork. But the screwdriver needs to have a very thin point, and e.g. the Leatherman Rebar's screwdrivers don't have this.


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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #16 on: May 27, 2014, 05:36:38 AM
I attached a154CM Piranha 2 to a spare house key in my garage toolbox. Never use for anything else, so it just helps new locate my key when I get locked out of the house. My Craftsman 4way driver popped the tab on a soda. I don't use my few one piece tools that much

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I'm confused

I thought piranha 2s are made from 420 stainless.

I know my ptx piranha is made of 154cm I thought all leatherman tools are made of 420 stainless

am I wrong ?

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I used my pocketwrench 2 to remove the screw holding the air filter onto my mower this evening.
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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #17 on: May 27, 2014, 10:14:24 AM
LM's site states Piranhas are made of 420.
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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #18 on: May 28, 2014, 02:16:38 AM
Used my pw2 to loosen the screws holding a fridge door on that I was removing from a home .

it was to big to fit through a doorway.
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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #19 on: May 28, 2014, 03:10:48 AM
I pried a pebble from the sole of my shoe using a Nite-Ize DoohicKey.  Been doing that often with Schrade titanium pry tool, as well.
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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #20 on: May 28, 2014, 06:52:35 AM
Used the PWII to open a big plastic package.
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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #21 on: May 31, 2014, 02:03:35 AM
Used my PWII to measure the diameter of a hole in a pipe at work today.


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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #22 on: May 31, 2014, 02:33:52 AM

today
I used my pw2  a bit extension and nut driver to remove a water meter remote.



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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #23 on: May 31, 2014, 02:38:20 AM
I used my Atwood Crypto to fix a broken frost free hydrant.  I used the prytip (with the hammering of a pipe wrench) to break free the side plates on the handle.  The open end alligator wrench was used to loosen nuts that hold the handle on and the slider bolt that pinches the long valve rod.


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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #24 on: June 04, 2014, 12:47:13 AM
Used my Leatherman 1 to pry open a can of stain.


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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #25 on: June 04, 2014, 02:59:55 AM
Nothing  :multi:
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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #26 on: June 04, 2014, 06:29:19 AM
I used the bottle opener. I don't drink from those bottles, so I don't think I've ever used one. This was a bottle of cough mixture whose stopper was difficult to open. It worked quite well, despite being a different size and material from normal bottles.


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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #27 on: June 05, 2014, 02:55:11 AM
I did some serious prying with my pw2 opening some mailboxes.

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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #28 on: June 05, 2014, 04:06:44 AM
On Saturday, I had to  fix a frost  free hydrant. I used my Atwood Crypto and a pipe wrench to remove the side plates that attach the handle to the rod. 


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Re: What did you do with your one piece tool today?
Reply #29 on: June 05, 2014, 04:30:11 AM
On Saturday, I had to  fix a frost  free hydrant. I used my Atwood Crypto and a pipe wrench to remove the side plates that attach the handle to the rod. 

Long week eh?  :)

I used my Atwood Crypto to fix a broken frost free hydrant.  I used the prytip (with the hammering of a pipe wrench) to break free the side plates on the handle.  The open end alligator wrench was used to loosen nuts that hold the handle on and the slider bolt that pinches the long valve rod.


 

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