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MacGyver Challenge - April

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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #690 on: April 17, 2025, 04:04:10 AM
Day 16

No use,  but enjoying the tool set on my Spartan.


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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #691 on: April 17, 2025, 04:07:16 AM
Day 15

I took a picture yesterday but never posted it!

The Spartan got me into a new bag of dog food.

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Day 16

This is an improvised sculpture of MacGyver tools… because I have no uses to report today.

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And now I am caught up to the present day!



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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #692 on: April 17, 2025, 05:18:29 AM
Day 16, Mac is going with dual blade SwissBuck mod today.

Very cool 8)


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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #693 on: April 17, 2025, 05:46:51 AM
Day 17

Pretty sure Mac never carried a Huntsman Lite, but it’s a great SAK that doesn’t get enough attention imo

Winter is coming and then going to UK again for Christmas so splashed out on a Patagonia nano puff jacket. I’ve got a couple of things from them before and they last really well so hoping for years of good service from it


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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #694 on: April 17, 2025, 06:56:28 AM
Day 16

Big screwdriver tip to pop out a picture hanger.
SAKs:
58mm: Bijou (3), Classic SD (7), Mini Champ Plus (mod), Alox Classic SD, Rambler (3), Companion
65mm: Wenger Esquire
74mm: Executive (2)
85mm: Traveler, Delemont S10, Bass
91mm: Champion "c", Swiss Champ (4), Explorer (3), Deluxe Tinker, Huntsman, Serrated Spartan/Weekender, Explorer Plus, Deluxe Explorer Plus (mod), Outdoorsman Plus, Champion "a", Champion Plus, Timekeeper Alarm, Golfer
93mm: Pioneer Alox


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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #695 on: April 17, 2025, 07:20:32 AM
DAY 16

An alox farmer x today....the soldier is my go-to for camping or car edc, but I love the alox farmer and farmer x tools.

Thinking ahead of hikes and go-to kits, when you are in an emergency, I have paired the farmer x and survive gso 2.7, with a Ferro rod as a pack carry kit.

Quite nice set I think...MacGyver would be proud.. :salute:







i dig that kit,very cool

Day 11
just hanging around.
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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #696 on: April 17, 2025, 11:05:46 AM
Day 17
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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #697 on: April 17, 2025, 12:01:33 PM
💥DAY 15💥

feel like the the alox minichamp would have been a favorite of MacGyver



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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #698 on: April 17, 2025, 12:12:45 PM
Day 17

The SD classic helped opening a pack of crackers at the office while I was busy surfing around the ocean of code base.


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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #699 on: April 17, 2025, 12:12:59 PM
Day 17

Climber keeping me company today , not huge amount of uses as rained off job site today so just opening cat food bag and some quick heat and eat pizza for tea has been about it.

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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #700 on: April 17, 2025, 01:34:00 PM
Day 17

   I think I had my first bushcraft dream last night.  Bushcrafters found a way to shrink themselves down to mouse size and were living in the wild in upturned styrofoam drink cups.  They were harder to spot in the bush and required much less food that way.  The drink cups made perfect shelters.  Insulated and waterproof. 
    I finally signed up for the Keychain Multi-tool challenge for May.  Could be fun.  Regarding the MacGyver challenge, I have switched up to a Tinker from my old carry.  The full 91mm size and black.  That way I will be prepared for bigger tasks and black ops. 
     Tinker went along on a picking up road litter and clearing wind fall debris from my driveway mission.  Someone is spending a bunch of money on little bottles of Bootlegger.  I don't know how many of these things I have already picked up.  Less than a pint.  Maybe they buy them at the gas station by Walmart?  They then drive up my way and having finished their toddy they chuck out the bottles at my mailbox.  I wonder if it is the same serial litterbug who used to toss out half empty 20 oz. bottles of Mountain Dew soda at my mailbox.  Drink half a soda, put the cap back on, throw it at IMR's battered mailbox on the way past.  I used to pick up one of these every day.  Why didn't they take the unused half home with them?
      If it isn't too windy, I need to work outside some more.  Probably be careful not to step on any styrofoam cups.  Best wishes.  G
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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #702 on: April 17, 2025, 03:30:27 PM
Day 17

Carrying a 1982 Soldier today


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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #703 on: April 17, 2025, 03:42:31 PM
Day 13:

My 30th birthday. No SAK use.
Current SAKs: Explorer, SwissChamp, Handyman (modded), Climber, Super Tinker, Tinker, Woodsman (modded), Electrician, Pioneer, SwissTool, Executive, Ambassador, Champion Plus
Current Leatherman tools: PST, Original Wave, Wave, Wave+, Blast, Bond, Curl, Style PS, Micra

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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #704 on: April 17, 2025, 03:43:02 PM
G, you sure those mountain dew bottles actually had 'dew in them?  :rofl:


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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #705 on: April 17, 2025, 03:43:35 PM
Day 14:

Boring day at the office.
Current SAKs: Explorer, SwissChamp, Handyman (modded), Climber, Super Tinker, Tinker, Woodsman (modded), Electrician, Pioneer, SwissTool, Executive, Ambassador, Champion Plus
Current Leatherman tools: PST, Original Wave, Wave, Wave+, Blast, Bond, Curl, Style PS, Micra

Boomer Sooner!


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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #706 on: April 17, 2025, 03:45:01 PM
Day 17, Mac is going with Electric  Fieldmaster Small today.
"Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds, to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation." Ellison Onizuka


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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #707 on: April 17, 2025, 03:48:11 PM
Day 15:

I have a scratched cornea from a piece of grit that got in my right eye while I was working on my car on Saturday. It feels like I have a grain of sand in my eye when it’s closed, but it’s very sensitive to light when it’s open. I was constantly squinting and my right eye kept watering.

So in the true spirit of MacGyver, I used my duct tape to make an eye patch and raided the office supply room for rubber bands. It actually worked! It allowed me to keep my right eye open without exposing it to light.
Current SAKs: Explorer, SwissChamp, Handyman (modded), Climber, Super Tinker, Tinker, Woodsman (modded), Electrician, Pioneer, SwissTool, Executive, Ambassador, Champion Plus
Current Leatherman tools: PST, Original Wave, Wave, Wave+, Blast, Bond, Curl, Style PS, Micra

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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #708 on: April 17, 2025, 03:53:59 PM
I think it's a great day for the Farmer.


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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #709 on: April 17, 2025, 05:00:40 PM
Day 16

The one time I didn't have a corkscrew model, someone wanted to open a bottle of wine. We found a corkscrew eventually, but of all the days to grab the Hiker...

Had that happen to me a year or so ago, at a baby shower.  All I had was a Pioneer in my pocket when asked if I had a SAK.   The grandmothers wanted wine.

I produced the Pioneer, a young lady, college age, grabbed it a said that will work! 
Followed her to the kitchen area. She opened the AWL, carefully inserted into the cork, working back and forth till about half the AWL was visible and then closed the handle 90 degrees for leverage and unscrewed the cork from the bottle, easy peasy😜

I have since seen the same done with a clip point blade on a pocket knife and a pen blade of another.

But I prefer the cork screw has first option, for corks and wet knots. A AWL is secondary!
If I start and end the day above ground, it is a good day!

Hope yours is as good!

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   A WISE man knows whether or not to say it!!!


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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #710 on: April 17, 2025, 05:04:48 PM
Late happy birthday hsherzfeld. :salute: And nicely done with the eye patch. :tu: True MacGyver spirit. And very piraty, if you ask me. Arrgh. :cheers:


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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #711 on: April 17, 2025, 05:14:14 PM
Day 17

I started this challenge with a cast of a SPARTAN (SE), 84 Tinker, Climber, and a few othe 84 variations.  Plus my EDC Vagabond (far left)

This morning, I found
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Plus, a eBay find, Mountaineer in route, under $30 and free S/H. 🙄

To me this has been a challenge just to avoid looking at AWL the variants.   Corkscrew vs Phillips, pen blade vs small nail file,  scissors vs saw blade,    :facepalm:

And just past the halfway mark.   Point of no return.

So many variations, I am now marking the backside of the main blade with the model name :whistle:
 :climber: :climber: :climber: Faster than rabbits
If I start and end the day above ground, it is a good day!

Hope yours is as good!

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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #712 on: April 17, 2025, 05:17:55 PM
Day 15:

I have a scratched cornea from a piece of grit that got in my right eye while I was working on my car on Saturday. It feels like I have a grain of sand in my eye when it’s closed, but it’s very sensitive to light when it’s open. I was constantly squinting and my right eye kept watering.

So in the true spirit of MacGyver, I used my duct tape to make an eye patch and raided the office supply room for rubber bands. It actually worked! It allowed me to keep my right eye open without exposing it to light.

Have you had the particle removed?
I had it occur once to me, and I know the pain, until it was removed and healed.

Cool eye patch, keep handy for future TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY,  eye matey.
If I start and end the day above ground, it is a good day!

Hope yours is as good!

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   A WISE man knows whether or not to say it!!!


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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #713 on: April 17, 2025, 05:32:16 PM
G, you sure those mountain dew bottles actually had 'dew in them?  :rofl:

   That's a valid question, since nighttime interlopers do sometimes park in my driveway and 'drop a load'.  Generally, with something like a MacDonald's napkin on top to mark the spot.  Yes, I'm sure the bottles had soda in them.  I emptied them and smelled the lemon-lime as they poured out. 
    My old granny wanted to taste Mountain Dew when it first came out.  She had seen some ads on TV.  "Yahoo, Mountain dew.  It'll tickle your innards."  We took her a bottle.  She smelled it and said she didn't like it.  Poured some in a cup and said, "It looks like baby ***".  Then she took a tiny taste, but the picture of what it looked like was too much to overcome.
    I drank the stuff anyway.  In spite of, or maybe because of granny's distaste.  I would take a swig and do the line from the ad in the fake hillbilly accent.  "Yahoo, Mountain dew, etc...."
    Might have been more than you wanted to know.  Best wishes.  G
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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #714 on: April 17, 2025, 05:59:00 PM
Day 17:
Opened contact glue with the blade, tape wasn't going to make it
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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #715 on: April 17, 2025, 08:41:56 PM
DAY 17  MacGyvering outdoors today.

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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #716 on: April 17, 2025, 08:45:22 PM
Day 15:

I have a scratched cornea from a piece of grit that got in my right eye while I was working on my car on Saturday. It feels like I have a grain of sand in my eye when it’s closed, but it’s very sensitive to light when it’s open. I was constantly squinting and my right eye kept watering.

So in the true spirit of MacGyver, I used my duct tape to make an eye patch and raided the office supply room for rubber bands. It actually worked! It allowed me to keep my right eye open without exposing it to light.

I nominate you the MacGyver Challenge winner.   :salute:


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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #717 on: April 17, 2025, 08:49:37 PM
 :ahhh :iagree:
That's a MacGyverism you don't see everyday! :o


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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #718 on: April 17, 2025, 09:07:25 PM
Day 17 of 30

Today only some scissors usage by shortening fingernails, trimming beard and cutted few plastic bands around boxes.

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Re: MacGyver Challenge - April
Reply #719 on: April 17, 2025, 09:36:49 PM
JUst realised i left hardest part of challenge for last 10 days. i promised my self to only use tool what McGyver used. So far Climber and Super Tinker  maybe next one is obvious Spartean


 

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