Coast Micro Pliers; help needed with wire cutter

[kasow]

Hi folks!

I recently acquired a small multitool on Fleabay; it's a Coast Micro-Pliers.

The two tools I don't know how to use are extended in the attached photo; to the right is a flat piece of metal with a vee notch cut in it. No taper or sharpening. To the left is a small D shape with a hole and a side notch; it is thinner towards the end with the hole.

The review I saw that prompted me to buy this was in _The Complete Walker IV_ by Fletcher and Rawlins. It's copyright 2002, and says the tool includes a wire stripper (also good for prying things open) and a wire cutter. The prying line makes me think the flat D with the tapering towards the far end is supposed to be the stripper. But I have no idea how to use the V notch part as a wire cutter.

Thanks,
Steven

[gerleatherberman]

Welcome to MT.o!

Most of the time on the budget multitools, the tool descriptions are more optimistic than the tool itself. It will need to be sharpened with a file to be able to strip wire.
Especially in the early 2000s, budget MT makers were sometimes deceptive about the real-world function of an MT.

Hope that helps, and again, welcome aboard MT.o.

Edit: that looks like a golf tee tool, but who knows? Maybe someone else is familiar with that tool? 

[smiller43147]

I'd like a better picture of the first tool, but the "small D shape with a hole and a side notch" is just an attachment point for a small split ring.

[smiller43147]

Now I see the tool with the V notch (on the "other" right).  Not sure what it is.  I also see that there is a split ring mounted on that side, so I'm not so sure about my answer to the other tool.
 

[Sam Lim]

Now I see the tool with the V notch (on the "other" right).  Not sure what it is.  I also see that there is a split ring mounted on that side, so I'm not so sure about my answer to the other tool.
 

That of course is the elusive bubble wand tool. Available on few selected tools... 

[gerleatherberman]

 
Gotta love it when a company just labels some random thing on a tool when they have never even looked at the thing in person. As far as I can tell, there is no legitimate way to 'cut wire'(aside from the scissors or damaging the blade), but sharpening the inside of the prong thing might give you a wire stripper.