My oldest (and only LM) that I have is an Original Supertool that was bought in 1994, so I’ve been using it for 20 years.
The Supertool was my only toolkit back in the days when I living in apartments. Nowadays the Supertool resides in the kitchen junk drawer and is used around the house. For a quick job, it’s easier to grab the LM rather than getting out the dedicated tools. And isn’t that what multitools are for?
The Original Supertool has:
- replaced outlets and light switches
- fixed a vacuum cleaner (replacing that lever that locks the vacuum upright).
- hammered nails (hanging up pictures).
- pulled nails out of walls
- opened polyurathane cans, and got coated in the stuff, but a bath in mineral spirits took care of that.
- been left outside, overnight, in the damp. No rust.
- sharpened hatchets, drawknives, and garden shears ( the file is pretty dull at this point)
- sawed saplings
- pulled saplings out of the ground.
- cut coat hanger wire (I was MacGyering a tool to clear out a gutter).
- replaced the washers in the bathroom sink
- cut and trimmed all manner of cordage.
- most recently, the pliers were used to unclog a perfume bottle that belongs to my spouse. Four months later, It still smells like perfume!
I owe the rust resistance to the polished finish, and maybe the steel LM used was different back then.
After 20 years of use, the file is dull, and I can open the tool 3/4 of the way with a flick of the wrist like a butterfly-knife, but that’s it.
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