Plier-based multitool with electric screwdriver

ComboTool · **on:** December 05, 2022, 02:31:55 PM

Now that's unusual! Don't know if it will stick though.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1255067287/nextool-gemini-13-in-1-electric-multitool

BPRoberts · **Reply #1 on:** December 05, 2022, 02:53:23 PM

NexTool is shaping up to be the Wenger to Leatherman's Victorinox. They'll probably never knock them off the throne, but I appreciate the willingness to try weird stuff.

Kev D · **Reply #2 on:** December 05, 2022, 02:59:38 PM

They'd be better off just making it a ratcheting driver rather than electric, the 230mah battery won't last long. I'd love to see an IP rating for the screwdriver and charging system to, can't see one though.

Tasky · **Reply #3 on:** December 05, 2022, 09:43:51 PM

Is it me, or is this thing massive?

thom53281 · **Reply #4 on:** December 06, 2022, 10:59:08 PM

First I misunderstood the title.

I thought that with "electric screwdriver" a screwdriver rated for 1000V electric work was meant. This is rather the thing missing in all multitools. Till now I never saw a multitool insulated enough for real elecric work. So I was expecting that somebody had this idea and at least the screwdriver in the Nextool would be insulated enough. I was wrong.

(Or maybe it could be with all the moving parts, but I don't want to try it out.)

It is nice that they try new ideas, but I don't see massive use for an electric bit driver. Do they take new ideas somewhere? Designing a multitool for real electric work would be some interesting idea. Not for real electricians - they always need a proper toolkit for their work. But for people like me which have to work sometimes near live voltage (telephone/network installations near or in electric distribution boxes for example...).