Most interesting unanticipated use

[FredKJ]

Here's something I was curious about everyone's experiences.  Multipliers and SAKS have many tools on them designed for specific purposes.  Often we find a use they were never intended for.  So what is you most interesting unintended use for an impliment?  I know because of the angled design of the blade on my can opener on my Wenger being short and strong it works well for opening clam shell packages and ripping open boxes.

[Hoghead]

A ex-navy diver that I was working with used his PST pliers as a fork.

We were traveling over the road on the engine of a freight train. He pulled his lunch out of a cooler and mentioned that he didn't have a fork or spoon. I offered a spoon, but he declined and said he would just use his Leatherman. I told him the spoon was clean but he refused again.

He pulled out a old PST opened the pliers and used it like a fork to eat his lunch. It looked like he had done it before because he was pretty good at it. I wonder if it was a trick he learned in the navy.

This was a few years ago and no I haven't tried it. I tend to think of eating motor oil when I think of eating off a multitool. I don't use motor oil on my EDC Charge, so it's just a mental image. I guess I would try it if I was desperate, but I'm always prepared so it's not going to happen.

[FredKJ]

A ex-navy diver that I was working with used his PST pliers as a fork.

We were traveling over the road on the engine of a freight train. He pulled his lunch out of a cooler and mentioned that he didn't have a fork or spoon. I offered a spoon, but he declined and said he would just use his Leatherman. I told him the spoon was clean but he refused again.

He pulled out a old PST opened the pliers and used it like a fork to eat his lunch. It looked like he had done it before because he was pretty good at it. I wonder if it was a trick he learned in the navy.

This was a few years ago and no I haven't tried it. I tend to think of eating motor oil when I think of eating off a multitool. I don't use motor oil on my EDC Charge, so it's just a mental image. I guess I would try it if I was desperate, but I'm always prepared so it's not going to happen.

Sounds like chopsticks.  Hope he doesn't use it to fix his toilet plumbing as well.

[Hoghead]

A ex-navy diver that I was working with used his PST pliers as a fork.

We were traveling over the road on the engine of a freight train. He pulled his lunch out of a cooler and mentioned that he didn't have a fork or spoon. I offered a spoon, but he declined and said he would just use his Leatherman. I told him the spoon was clean but he refused again.

He pulled out a old PST opened the pliers and used it like a fork to eat his lunch. It looked like he had done it before because he was pretty good at it. I wonder if it was a trick he learned in the navy.

This was a few years ago and no I haven't tried it. I tend to think of eating motor oil when I think of eating off a multitool. I don't use motor oil on my EDC Charge, so it's just a mental image. I guess I would try it if I was desperate, but I'm always prepared so it's not going to happen.

Sounds like chopsticks.  Hope he doesn't use it to fix his toilet plumbing as well.

He ate with the pliers in the closed position, as if he were holding a grain of salt in the pliers while eating.

I assume he used it for everything just like the rest of us, except he also used his for a eating utensil.

I did like that he was thinking outside the box.   

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

I've never thought of using an MT for eating before

Oddest use I've had was using the can openner and bottle opener on a Camper as an improptu wallet!, a mate of mine had given me a ten pound note, but I didn't have my wallet on me so I folded the note and used the openers to hold the note in place between the liners

[Smitty44]

I use the LM can opener the other day to clean between the planks so that I could waterproof the deck,I've never used it to open a can after 25 yrs.

[Leatherman123]

Using my SURGE as a hammer! But, Vic tools aren't like that.. They try to fit as many functions onto one implement..

[edap617]

I use the awl of my Supertool as tooth pick.

[Benner]

I use the awl of my Supertool as tooth pick.

I use the one on my SI for that too. 

Probably not a good idea though.