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vn Offline friendliestdoggo

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Show me the most impractical multitools
on: August 29, 2024, 08:28:28 AM
The title stated it. We all know how useful the multitools we carry everyday are. How about now we do the opposite and show some of the most impractical or useless multitools here?  :rofl:

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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #1 on: August 29, 2024, 01:35:35 PM
These come to mind 





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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #2 on: August 29, 2024, 01:38:07 PM
Meet the Swiss Bricks.

IMG_9002A by Chako, on Flickr

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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #3 on: August 29, 2024, 07:27:49 PM
Come on now.
Who wouldn't like a Lego multitool?
Addicted to sharp pointy things.
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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #4 on: August 29, 2024, 08:01:32 PM
Crappy made tools with the ergonomics of a brick? What is there not to like!  :rofl:
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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #5 on: August 29, 2024, 08:20:21 PM
Imagine accidentally stepping on those too :rofl:

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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #6 on: August 29, 2024, 08:38:39 PM
We all love SAK but this one is just so ridiculous it deserves a place here. It has everything but how could you even find and use the right tool when you need it  :rofl:
But at least it has collecting value so...  :D

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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #7 on: August 30, 2024, 08:06:24 AM
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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #8 on: August 30, 2024, 09:11:07 PM
   SOG, useless?  Well I will have to take friend hiraethus word for it.  I never had one of the things.  It's funny.  They look about like the other stuff.  What do I know?
   In the interest of further hands-on research, I propose anyone who would like to dispose of a SOG of some sort to send me a PM.  I will give them my mailing address.  I will put on appropriate eye wear and gloves and test these horrible things until they collapse, rust away to nothing, or until I lose them somewhere.  The latter is painfully common around here.  Just last week I lost my cell phone, car keys, pockey knife, and some socks.  I found everything else expect the socks.  Oh, and my pink paper clip that I use to keep my wee SAKs tethered (to keep from losing them) did turn up. 
    I will be checking my in-box.  Best wishes.  Gary
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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #9 on: August 31, 2024, 07:50:28 AM
Not totally useless but almost there.

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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #10 on: August 31, 2024, 10:52:10 AM
I have one of those Stanley with an unground blank instead of a blade.
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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #11 on: September 01, 2024, 01:17:11 PM
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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #12 on: September 01, 2024, 07:48:53 PM
Try slicing through anything without touching the pliers.

Fun fact: you can still buy this today on amazon.
Full metal blunt force trauma

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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #13 on: September 02, 2024, 09:30:40 AM
Yikes!!!  You weren't kidding.  I have no words...

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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #14 on: September 02, 2024, 10:16:36 AM
There are 3 different Irwin models out there.
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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #15 on: September 12, 2024, 05:30:47 PM
Quote from: AzteCypher on September 02, 2024, 09:30:40 AM
Yikes!!!  You weren't kidding.  I have no words...

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Mine (bought around the time these started popping up at Lowe's close to a decade ago) are still in a toolbox until I can get up to the CAT dealer to snag a pair of rebranded Snap-On Spanish-made ones as I try to keep at least a 5WR and 6LN in most pliers  drawers. They sucked--big time. Even worse, the bit driver either smashed my fingers when the holder folded up or the bit would randomly fall out.

Tried the 5WR version as well (Ollie's had them a few years ago for like five bucks a pop) and it was still terrible. The 6LN version's blade is useless due to them being shorter than the pliers.  There's a reason the Schrade Tough Grip (mostly built by Petersen save for the non-pliers bits), Kershaw A-100 (my current locking pliers tool) and Leatherman Crunch all mount the blades to pivot OPPOSITE the pliers.
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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #16 on: September 12, 2024, 11:00:59 PM
I don’t have it anymore but the Swiss Tech Utili-Key tops my list.  You have to open it, which leaves the blade open to use the tools.  Maybe it is just me, but almost every time I used it resulted in a minor cut.



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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #17 on: September 13, 2024, 03:35:33 AM
I had a Utili-Key. The best thing about it was that it could really fly under "no weapons" radar.
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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #18 on: September 13, 2024, 06:04:41 AM
Quote from: Farmer X on September 13, 2024, 03:35:33 AM
I had a Utili-Key. The best thing about it was that it could really fly under "no weapons" radar.
That is why I tried it.  I’ve tried a couple other key shaped tools, nome of which were very useful.


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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #19 on: September 13, 2024, 12:51:07 PM
My constant key companion for years, that is until it broke. I had no problems ever using it but will agree that the design wasn't the best. Now I have a carabiner with hidden scalpel blade made my RovyVon that takes up what the Utili-key did all those years. I never used the Phillips, but that is the part that broke the first time I needed to used it.
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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #20 on: September 13, 2024, 04:22:14 PM
I have a Geekey that I got second hand that flies with me. As far as that form factor goes, I think it's pretty good. It's tightened a couple screws and bolts over the years at least.
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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #21 on: September 13, 2024, 07:02:35 PM
To me key-sized tools are more like toys, rather than actual tools. Usually the cutting edge is too small to be useful for anything other than cutting tapes for opening package, the screwdrivers are short and you can't have a good grip on the tools.

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Re: Show me the most impractical multitools
Reply #22 on: September 13, 2024, 11:54:40 PM
Quote from: BPRoberts on September 13, 2024, 04:22:14 PM
I have a Geekey that I got second hand that flies with me. As far as that form factor goes, I think it's pretty good. It's tightened a couple screws and bolts over the years at least.
I did try the Geekey and it is probably the best of the key shaped tools I have tried.


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