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What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?

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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5730 on: September 24, 2022, 03:19:30 PM
Our kitchen water heating tap has gone bad - again - and it was time to buy a replacement - again. Sadly those Chinese cehapos only last for about a year. Anyway - was about to use two of my favorite ones for the job, but frankly speaking Spirit did cover all the bases with just its flathead screwdriver - perfect for the electrical works

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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5731 on: September 24, 2022, 03:39:04 PM
Great use and great tools, alexanderre :like:


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5732 on: September 24, 2022, 06:32:11 PM
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5733 on: October 18, 2022, 04:35:46 PM
Spirit X had a busy day yesterday.

Fixed a squeaky door handle - took me a few minutes to figure a root of the problem, but nothing a WD40 can’t solve 🙌🏻

Thought it was the mechanism inside, but turns out the handle itself rubbed against the main plate or actually both of the handles on both sides 😆
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5734 on: October 24, 2022, 07:07:45 AM
The scissors on the Super Tinker got used to open some food packaging. Scissors and Awl on the Spirit got used at a bike ride event yesterday. The awl poked two new holes on someone's number bib and the scissors cut the zipties after they were fastened.

Also, the scraper/package opener on the Spirit is worth the price of admission alone on that thing. I've used that probably the most out of all the Spirit tools.
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5735 on: October 25, 2022, 10:24:49 PM
Snack time!!! :whistle:
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5736 on: October 27, 2022, 05:26:26 PM
While we’re back to our western temporary rented apartment we bought a cheapo electrical kettle that started rattling just days after purchase.

Disassembled it with a Spirit and found a loose nut 😆

Used pliers to tighten it up and Phillips obviously
 to assemble the kettle back. Worked as expected ✅

(though Swiss Champ or Work Champ pliers would have been more convenient in this particular situation 🤔)
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5737 on: October 27, 2022, 05:37:25 PM
Great uses :like:


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5738 on: October 27, 2022, 11:00:25 PM
 :iagree:
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What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5739 on: October 30, 2022, 11:36:54 PM
This time around I brought my Telecaster and my new-to-me yet needing quite a few fixes Fender Champ 600 to the western part of Ukraine while it’s kinda hot in Kyiv.

I also brought a few stompboxes - one of them is my kinda mojo - EHX Holystain - a Big Muff fuzz + some cool effects.

I bought it about 15 years ago and didn’t play much lately - I quit serious music about 5 years ago and didn’t touch it since then.
To my surprise it was in a pretty awful shape - noisy pots and switches disrupted the last bits of inspiration I still manage to acquire .

So today I finally had time to go get all the necessary stuff and time to disassemble and clean it up.

Used Spirit all the way - first the cap lifter to pry away the knobs they were too stiff to be removed with the bare hands- trust me, I really tried



Then I used pliers to remove the top nuts - didn’t cover the plier head with any insulation to avoid scratches since those nuts have washers.



As I approached the foot switches I did cover the pliers with insulating tape and indeed managed to avoid scratches (for the most part ).



And then finally I flipped the case over to unscrew the bottom cover with a phillips screwdriver.



Then it was time to remove the main board - to do so I had to unscrew the input/output jacks with the pliers first.



And there it was - accessible and ready to get its first spa in 15 years



I removed the metal cover of each of the two foot switches with Spirit’s flathead screws and sprayed a WD40 Contact Cleaner inside of it.




Then I did the same cleaning procedure for each of the pots - gosh they were hard to turn at first but gave in a few moments after I sprayed their internals.



As a result I got a perfectly working pedal that sounds awesome and is ready to rock now whenever I am

Now I need to get back home where I have a decent Hakko soldering station and replace a malfunctioning volume pot on my Champ 600, but that’s another story .
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5740 on: October 31, 2022, 02:52:26 AM
Well done alexanderre, great pictures :like:


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5741 on: October 31, 2022, 02:58:31 AM
Well done alexanderre, great pictures :like:

Thanks 🙏🏻
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5742 on: October 31, 2022, 06:35:18 PM
My abilities to fix that stompbox would be questionable (I'm much better with things mechanical). Nicely done! :tu:
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Reply #5743 on: October 31, 2022, 07:38:19 PM
My abilities to fix that stompbox would be questionable (I'm much better with things mechanical). Nicely done! :tu:
Frankly speaking that’s exactly the way I always feel about those things up until I somehow get it done I’m no professional by any means - just love fixing whatever I can
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5744 on: November 19, 2022, 07:27:59 PM
Been toting my Tinker Small all week. Yesterday I had an impromptu e-clip to remove, and today I had to change bulbs on my truck and daughter's Jeep.



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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5745 on: November 20, 2022, 09:41:18 PM
This time around I brought my Telecaster and my new-to-me yet needing quite a few fixes Fender Champ 600 to the western part of Ukraine while it’s kinda hot in Kyiv.

I also brought a few stompboxes - one of them is my kinda mojo - EHX Holystain - a Big Muff fuzz + some cool effects.

I bought it about 15 years ago and didn’t play much lately - I quit serious music about 5 years ago and didn’t touch it since then.
To my surprise it was in a pretty awful shape - noisy pots and switches disrupted the last bits of inspiration I still manage to acquire .

So today I finally had time to go get all the necessary stuff and time to disassemble and clean it up.

Used Spirit all the way - first the cap lifter to pry away the knobs they were too stiff to be removed with the bare hands- trust me, I really tried
(Image removed from quote.)


Then I used pliers to remove the top nuts - didn’t cover the plier head with any insulation to avoid scratches since those nuts have washers.
(Image removed from quote.)


As I approached the foot switches I did cover the pliers with insulating tape and indeed managed to avoid scratches (for the most part ).
(Image removed from quote.)


And then finally I flipped the case over to unscrew the bottom cover with a phillips screwdriver.
(Image removed from quote.)


Then it was time to remove the main board - to do so I had to unscrew the input/output jacks with the pliers first.
(Image removed from quote.)


And there it was - accessible and ready to get its first spa in 15 years
(Image removed from quote.)


I removed the metal cover of each of the two foot switches with Spirit’s flathead screws and sprayed a WD40 Contact Cleaner inside of it.
(Image removed from quote.)

(Image removed from quote.)

Then I did the same cleaning procedure for each of the pots - gosh they were hard to turn at first but gave in a few moments after I sprayed their internals.
(Image removed from quote.)


As a result I got a perfectly working pedal that sounds awesome and is ready to rock now whenever I am

Now I need to get back home where I have a decent Hakko soldering station and replace a malfunctioning volume pot on my Champ 600, but that’s another story .

This is great and reminds me to service my pedals soon…


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5746 on: November 20, 2022, 09:45:02 PM
Best can opener on a multitool!  :multi:


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5747 on: November 21, 2022, 06:04:10 AM
 :iagree:
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Reply #5748 on: March 20, 2023, 02:00:33 PM
It’s been a while, but yesterday instead of doing my work related tasks I wandered around searching for something cooler to get my hands on
This is how I found and fixed a bathroom door lock that for some reason started to malfunction and get jammed sometimes for no obvious reason.
After partial disassembly with a Spirit Plus ratchet I’ve found out small pieces of wood left after door handle installation that must have caused the issue. WD-40 made a short work of making it butter smooth and fully functional again


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5749 on: March 20, 2023, 02:03:03 PM
This is great and reminds me to service my pedals soon…
Cool, yet another guitarist among us here

I’m actually thinking of maybe building some pedals myself. The only issue is that I’m a seasoned user and looking for something really unusual and that’s hard to come by in a form of a DIY kit. And a kit is my only option since I’m no professional and would hopefully only manage to successfully assemble a kit
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5750 on: March 21, 2023, 04:00:50 AM
Cool, yet another guitarist among us here

I’m actually thinking of maybe building some pedals myself. The only issue is that I’m a seasoned user and looking for something really unusual and that’s hard to come by in a form of a DIY kit. And a kit is my only option since I’m no professional and would hopefully only manage to successfully assemble a kit

 :cheers: bass is my passion. It’s been several years since I’ve really played, so my pedals have been in storage. Should get them out. I’m happy with boss pedals. Had a DS-1 for almost 20 years now.


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5751 on: March 22, 2023, 11:42:01 AM
Bass is even better - always wanted to get a bass and learn to play it with a bassist's mindset  :cheers:
Boss are a gold standard of course 👍
I also don't play more than 20 minutes a month, but back in a day I thought it'd become my occupation 😀
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5752 on: March 24, 2023, 05:19:01 PM
:cheers: bass is my passion. It’s been several years since I’ve really played, so my pedals have been in storage. Should get them out. I’m happy with boss pedals. Had a DS-1 for almost 20 years now.
Bass is even better - always wanted to get a bass and learn to play it with a bassist's mindset  :cheers:
Boss are a gold standard of course 👍
I also don't play more than 20 minutes a month, but back in a day I thought it'd become my occupation 😀
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5753 on: March 25, 2023, 06:37:37 PM


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5754 on: April 02, 2023, 04:36:36 AM
Hi ! I have been using my Leatherman multitools for over 20 years. I have 5 of them.  A Wave and 4 Micras. I have a small farm and my blueberries and strawberries have netting over a structure that holds up the netting and the Micra is great at cutting the zip ties I use to keep the netting and structure together. It has the best scissors of any Multitool I have used. Not a single day goes by that I don't find a use for it.


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5755 on: April 02, 2023, 01:05:09 PM
Welcome to  :MTO: KBP

Wave and Micra are great carries  :tu:


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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5756 on: April 05, 2023, 01:20:27 PM
CRKT Guppie helped to change the battery of my trusty GMT400:



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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5757 on: April 15, 2023, 05:03:23 AM
A gargantuan can of nacho cheese presented an excellent opportunity for testing some can openers.

 
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Reply #5758 on: May 27, 2023, 10:33:27 PM
I’ll post it here as well if you gents don’t mind

Busy day for my Spirit X Plus

First I used it to unpack a box of herbal tea (no photo taken), then I cut some dill with the main blade




After that I discovered that a bathroom ceiling light that I only replaced a few months ago went almost completely dead

Used a ratchet to unscrew the chassis of the light from the ceiling and Spirit’s small flathead to disconnect the wiring






Will hopefully have that light replaced under warranty tomorrow
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Re: What Did You Use Your Multitool For Today?
Reply #5759 on: May 28, 2023, 09:18:55 AM
Great uses and pictures :like:


 

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