Car boot sale find, my first _______ tool!

[pfrsantos]

I've moaned before about the lack of multitool and sharp stuff in the car boot sales around here in Ireland.

But now I've found something goood. 
It beats the white scale Climber I found two years ago for €3. 

The plier head was rusted shut. 
It took a literal WD-40 soaking and tedious forcing open and closing while clamped in a vise to loosen the plier head to the point I could open and close by hand with effort. Then some more wiggling to make it nice and loose.
Then a soap water wash, dry off, open, close, wipe up the rusty slush working it's way out of the plier head, etc. 

Now it's nice and loose, clean, pretty and functional, despite the surface rust still present. I'll leave it like this for now.

I'm extremely pleased to have aquired a Leatherman, my first one, and for €2 at that!
I almost feel like I stole it, despite the entirely unusable condition it was in when I found it.
I'm surprised by how thin and slim it is when folded.

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It's really fun to fiddle with. 

Cool!
 

Can't wait to see wht you'll get two years from now...
 

[pfrsantos]

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[Don Pablo]

After thinking about it, I don't want an awl.
So my options are file, or remaking the blade into a marlinspike (or a package opener?  ), or both!

Since the blade on the kick is thinner than on the fuse for some reason, I could put a file in place of the blade and make the blade into something else and relocate it to beside the lanyard tool. 

[pfrsantos]

It's really fun to fiddle with. 

it's so small on my phone I couldn't see it 

Where's pfrsantos when you need him?

I don't have the special keys for the pivots.

You can borrow mine - PM me.

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[Don Pablo]

I've moaned before about the lack of multitool and sharp stuff in the car boot sales around here in Ireland.

But now I've found something goood. 
It beats the white scale Climber I found two years ago for €3. 

The plier head was rusted shut. 
It took a literal WD-40 soaking and tedious forcing open and closing while clamped in a vise to loosen the plier head to the point I could open and close by hand with effort. Then some more wiggling to make it nice and loose.
Then a soap water wash, dry off, open, close, wipe up the rusty slush working it's way out of the plier head, etc. 

Now it's nice and loose, clean, pretty and functional, despite the surface rust still present. I'll leave it like this for now.

I'm extremely pleased to have aquired a Leatherman, my first one, and for €2 at that!
I almost feel like I stole it, despite the entirely unusable condition it was in when I found it.
I'm surprised by how thin and slim it is when folded.

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It's really fun to fiddle with. 

Cool!
 

Can't wait to see wht you'll get two years from now...
 

Me neither! 
Maybe a cybertool 41 for €3.

[Don Pablo]

It's really fun to fiddle with. 

it's so small on my phone I couldn't see it 

Where's pfrsantos when you need him?

I don't have the special keys for the pivots.

You can borrow mine - PM me.

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