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AncientCraftwork Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 2403	Re: I've got a big tool ! Reply #15 - Apr 24^th, 2021 at 8:19am This is about the perfect tool for me. I like big knives / small machetes with steel that only requires a file to make sharp.
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xud9a - call me zud 👍 Funditor Offline Ringing Slocks ! Posts: 573 Nottinghamshire, England Gender:	Re: I've got a big tool ! Reply #16 - Sep 11^th, 2021 at 9:44pm Hmmm, I opened the other, other, er, other toolbox yesterday and found the multiwrench. Is it a turkey, Don't know, I haven't used it. I have used my socket set a few times and no doubt if I had stored the multiwrench in the socket drawer it would have had some use. Update soon. Cheers Zud
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Happydrow Junior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 52 Los Angeles, California	Re: I've got a big tool ! Reply #17 - Sep 12^th, 2021 at 9:15pm 6 inch super bright LED flashlight. Used for everything when looking in and around machinery. Great for finding the cat at night when playing hide and seek. Can't afford night vision and too bulky.
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xud9a - call me zud 👍 Funditor Offline Ringing Slocks ! Posts: 573 Nottinghamshire, England Gender:	Re: I've got a big tool ! Reply #18 - Sep 13^th, 2021 at 5:37am @Happydrow Many seem to forget how a good torch is demanded by even a basic tool box. Nice one 👍 P.S. the primary initiation rite for a newbie is learning how to resize pictures !!! Cheers Zud
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: I've got a big tool ! Reply #19 - Sep 18^th, 2021 at 10:06am My big scissors. Cut thin metal, leather, card, rubber, paper, cord, wire, fingers, etc
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xud9a - call me zud 👍 Funditor Offline Ringing Slocks ! Posts: 573 Nottinghamshire, England Gender:	Re: I've got a big tool ! Reply #20 - Sep 18^th, 2021 at 6:03pm @CA, they look more like light tin snips than anything ! any details on where to find a pair please ?
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Reply #21 - Sep 20^th, 2021 at 12:06pm

pretty sure I got them from mazon - yeah, calld tin snips. But just really multi-useful. And cut a really clean edge.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/8-Inch-Straight-Pattern-Snips-Cutter/dp/B07VMS415G/ref=...
There you go,

bit cheaper on ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184875255000?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item2b0b6c84d8:g...

I might even have got them from the hardware shop in swad.
Knowing me, there's no way i paid more than a fiver for them !

They are seriously useful and given what I've used them for over the years, the metal must be super hard as well.
Apparently drop forged hardened steel. That would seem about right.
Searched my amazon history and - nope, didn't buy them online.

So check your local aladdins cave type hardware store first.

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xud9a - call me zud 👍 Funditor Offline Ringing Slocks ! Posts: 573 Nottinghamshire, England Gender:	Re: I've got a big tool ! Reply #22 - Sep 21^st, 2021 at 7:08am @CA Many thanks for the pointers..,searching , I am
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Reply #23 - Sep 24^th, 2021 at 12:13am

Update

Doing winter prep and creosoting all outdoor timber.
In order to dismantle gate furniture and other items I used the multiwrench.
It is now in the main tool tote.
I found removing and replacing nuts easy .... Ooo er missis .....

Seriously, using a socket and ratchet is quicker and easier than a spanner ( as you know) but where the multi wrench won out was not having to take a socket from its bar, put it on the ratchet, find it is the wrong one, replace it, get the right one and so on to change sizes.
The multi wrench replaces 8 sockets so for the popular sizes with good access it has earnt a place in the main tool tote .
Mine is a cheap one so the handle material is soft and damages easily.
The ratchet has about half the teeth of the socket set ratchet so it is slower to use but given the above, still quicker overall.

Cheers

Zud. Smiley

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dan74 Novicius Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 4 United States Gender:	Re: I've got a big tool ! Reply #24 - Sep 24^th, 2021 at 8:35am xud9a - call me zud 👍 wrote on Mar 30^th, 2021 at 10:05pm: And finally, the multi wrench. Hey xud9a - call me zud, can you explain what are you doing with this tool?
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: I've got a big tool ! Reply #25 - Sep 24^th, 2021 at 12:21pm he was dismantling a gate
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xud9a - call me zud 👍 Funditor Offline Ringing Slocks ! Posts: 573 Nottinghamshire, England Gender:	Re: I've got a big tool ! Reply #26 - Sep 24^th, 2021 at 3:13pm And rebuilding, don't forget the rebuilding. Without that process no gate, only a pile of planks !!!
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xud9a - call me zud 👍 wrote on Mar 31st, 2021 at 3:05am:
And finally,

the multi wrench.

Hey xud9a - call me zud, can you explain what are you doing with this tool?

Or is that a vague question needing clarification ?

Cheers

Zud

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