What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?

[MultiMat]

Leatherman MUT

Carbon scrapper/awl to start a hole & screw in self taper screw, to fix the  handle on the swimming pool's leaf catcher. Scrapper/awl to clean threads on the pool's salt chlorinator's electrical connection post, I am hoping the corrosion is why the clucker is not working properly. BLOODY pool  .

Interestingly the MUT's hammer/cutting hook rules out using the screw driver(long & short driver bits) with the tools handles shut. SOG's V-Cut works better at general cutting duties when compared too the MUT's but V-Cut is not much of a hammer     

[valvestem125]

I used my LM ST 300 to help force together an outdoor Christmas angel my wife wanted put up in front of the house.

[craigy]

today i unpacked a toilet basin and sistenad put together using my leatherman kick i theni then had to chop alot of cardbourd down to a bin bag size and fitted a plug to a shower processor and set up the shower processor.then came home and opened my letters .quite a usefull day for my kick dont know what id do without it.

[Mercury]

opened up a nice gash on my left thumb with a new Vic soldier whilst putting up the Christmas decorations (don't ask), but it was Duncs fault for selling me it in the first place

Ouch    I missed it so much I had to go out and get another one    Thanks Mercury 

My pleasure!  About the knife, sorry about the gash TN, it must've hurt like the dickens!

[nuphoria]

Attempted to repair lock on flat door with Fuse.... fail 

[thundernoodle]

opened up a nice gash on my left thumb with a new Vic soldier whilst putting up the Christmas decorations (don't ask), but it was Duncs fault for selling me it in the first place

Ouch    I missed it so much I had to go out and get another one    Thanks Mercury 

My pleasure!  About the knife, sorry about the gash TN, it must've hurt like the dickens!

it didnt hurt to much but there was loads of blood. it was a nice clean cut but deep. it may leave me with a battle scar lol

[Mercury]

opened up a nice gash on my left thumb with a new Vic soldier whilst putting up the Christmas decorations (don't ask), but it was Duncs fault for selling me it in the first place

Ouch    I missed it so much I had to go out and get another one    Thanks Mercury 

My pleasure!  About the knife, sorry about the gash TN, it must've hurt like the dickens!

it didnt hurt to much but there was loads of blood. it was a nice clean cut but deep. it may leave me with a battle scar lol

A freshly sharpened SAK blade is a force to be reckoned with!

[Sazabi]

Yesterday, or the day before, I used my Squirt P4 to extract an SD card from my HP printer after making a scan.  The model I have won't scan images directly to a computer, but instead, just to a removable drive.  The downside to this, aside from needing removable media, is that the slots are too deep within the unit, leaving too little of the SD card unencapsulated by the printer.  Since my fingers cannot grab at it, and my larger pliers would be a bit overkill, well, P4 to the rescue.  I have to use it every time I want to make a scan, which is rare, but still an occurrence nonetheless. 

[Grant Lamontagne]

Yesterday and today I used my Octane to help install a carbon monoxide sensor in my living room and replace two of the three thermostats in the house.  I chose the Octane because each unit came in clam packs and I really like the clam pack opener on it.  I pretty much used every tool on there to remove the old thermostats, free the batteries from the heat shrink plastic, cut a retention strap that wasn't needed and tighten/loosen various screws.

I cheated for the larger screws and used my electric screwdriver.

To me this is one of the kinds of situations where a multitool excels- you take what you need for a quick job (which rarely, if ever actually works out to being a quick job!) and use a multitool to try and fill in the gaps when the unforseen happens.  I had a couple of regular screwdrivers with me and my cordless screwdriver and that should have been enough, but if I hadn't had the Octane, I'd have been running for different tools, and increasing teh install time from 10 minutes to at least double that.  This would have put my tenant out a bit more, and I hate putting them out since they are paying my mortgage!

Def

[Dunc]

A friend borrowed my Skeletool to cut the breasts out of 3 pheasants for me .

[BlueDot]

Do you worry about blood (or peach juice at lunch) getting into the joint and gumming up the works?  I tend to use fixed blades for 'messy' jobs, and obsess about it when unavoidable.
My Suisse Officier is kind of stiff, but I dread drilling out rivets and such needed to take it to Parade-Rest for cleaning.

[Mercury]

Sadly, the only use I had today for anything was using the pin from my vic champion to push a piece of lint from the crack in the buttons on my droid x.  (I was waiting in the hospital for my wife, she had a biopsy done on her thyroid.  Thank god for the droid or I would have been a wreck!)

[Dunc]

Do you worry about blood (or peach juice at lunch) getting into the joint and gumming up the works?  I tend to use fixed blades for 'messy' jobs, and obsess about it when unavoidable.
My Suisse Officier is kind of stiff, but I dread drilling out rivets and such needed to take it to Parade-Rest for cleaning.

It never bothers me .I'll sit there for ages Cleaning, dying and oiling a knife or tool . I find it relaxing . It would have been easy to use a dedicated fixed blade knife but at the time it was the sharpest knife availabe .

[craigy]

i used my SAK climber to open a tin of soup.

[mtool78]

This was actually yesterday but my colleague was having his 50th birthday and got one small cognac bottle from his friend to raise a glass. Of course there was something wrong with the cap of that bottle and they couldn't get it open - so I took my mt and saved the day. Skeletool to the rescue! 

[JDUB1239]

i used my Leatherman to open the packaging of Leatherman Style CS that came today.

[Sazabi]

I used my Cadet's bottle opener and can opener to separate a couple beads that had become stuck together on my abacus. 

[Sparky415]

I used the large screwdriver on my Kick to open the 'petrol flap' on my car which had iced up 

[MTguy]

I used the saw on my wave to cut the top off my Christmas tree so I could fit the star on, and I used the main blade to open some mail.

[Craig]

Vic Handyman to open packets and cut PTFE tape while changing radiator.

[Dunc]

Used my Skeletool to open a clam pack and a parcel that contained my Acme Thunderer Whistle and also to pull a nail out of the wall .

Dunc

[Mercury]

I used my pulse pliers to pick up a particularly nasty little bug and pitch it out the window.

[Turnstone]

Last weekend we harvested our Brussels Sprouts. My new (used) First Mate was really helpful, the pruning blade was perfect for preparing the tiny cabbages for the freezer!

[Threeme2189]

A few days ago I used my Pulse scissors and file to trim my finger nails.
It worked surprisingly well 

[danbomb]

So far today I opened a few beers with my MUT and cut some packaging.  I also used the punch to activate a hard to reach momentary switch on my guitar effects pedalboard.

[Mercury]

I used my pulse to repair a friends glasses at work.  He was amazed that I had such a tool on me.  Some people need to get out more!

[Neil]

Fitted a new battery into my brothers old ipod photo.  Those little plastic tools for prying pods open are useless.  Custom CT to the rescue



Aside from the opener I also used the bit driver to remove an internal torx screw and the pliers to disconnect the old battery connector.

[Reinier]

That's a cool Cybertool!
What's custom, apart from the Phillips and the watch case opener?

[robibotti]

this morning i used my charge tti to remove a plastic part in front of my honda silver wing 600 to replace the low beams with a couple of led....

[Mercury]

I have been using my new Gerber MP450 all around the house and my grandmothers house since I got it on Christmas.  Handy little devil!