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Eightleggedfreak

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Ok we all know how valuable and versatile a good multitool is. So, what is the craziest or most amazing task you have done with your multi tool?

I performed emergency veterinary surgery with my Leatherman wave. I saved my cats life!
 
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I'd like to hear more about that! Nothing really crazy here, I'm not much good with tools myself, but I did save the day at a fundraising BBQ recently. The fat started to run out of the drain holes, and we had nothing to catch it. So I quickly emptied two cans of drink down a drain, cut the tops off and used them to catch the fat. Pitiful, I know, but its all I've got!
 
Hey man give yourself some cred, your quick thinking saved the day! As far as the cat story, we took our female cat in to get fixed and they "glued" her incision shut?! I don't why or what they were thinking but she was home for a days and the weird glue gave way(she may have been trying to play with our other cat and tore herself open)anyways she was bleeding a little and we took her in. This time they stapled her shut. She was home another day and I saw her sitting on the bed blinking a lot, sitting on a pile of blood as big around a she is. Apparently she snagged her staples on a blanket and was now bleeding even worse. She was weak and woozy. The wound apparently tore open some more with the pulling of the staples. My wife held her and dabbed the blood away as I rethreaded her staples and pinched them shut again with my trusty Wave(sanitized per OR procedures of course!). The bleeding was stopped and we took her in. When I told the vet what happened he said she lost a lot of blood and probably would have passed out and bled out somewhere without my "surgical" intervention. He also said that this would have happened rather quickly so doing what I did in the time I did saved her. He fixed her back up and she is doing much better now. The best part of this crazy situation was, when I showed the vet my LM Wave he smiled and pulled his Rebar out!
 
a few years back while still living at home, I caught a little beetle or weevil with my eye once while quading with my family. I stopped to try to get it out, but it was trying to burrow in beside my eye. (very not cool) my Dad was able to grab it and pull it out with his PST. Of course my Dad could write a memoir about all the insane things he's done with his leatherman.
 
Was on a 1200 mile road trip and pulled into a gas station in Idaho outside Boise about 2:00am. There was one other car and the gal driving came over and asked if I had a knife. They had hit a cat or something and the air dam under their car was destroyed and dragging on the ground but still attached solidly enough to keep from just ripping it off. I pulled out my Leatherman Sidekick and used the saw to cut it off and we were both back on the road in no time.

She was pretty cute though, wish I would got her info...



There were a few office chairs at work that were falling apart. First the seats had an adjustment that allowed them to tip back and forth but it didn't hold anymore so if you leaned forward at all they would suddenly come loose and tip forward. I flipped it over and checked it out and tightened a nut that was part of the mechanism and that fixed the issue on the one I was using. Not long after I did it on another for someone else. The same chairs also had an issue with the back rests. They had come loose and were barely attached anymore so anytime you leaned back you had to hold the rest in place until you leaned back put pressure on it. Well we had to get up a lot so this was getting really old. I flipped the chairs upside down and I could see the two screws that held the backrest on but the plastic back of the chair made it impossible to get to. I tried to carefully pry it off but that didn't work so I eyeballed it and used the blade to "drill" two holes over the screws so I could get at them and tighten them. Looked bad but the chairs were already rough so it didn't matter. Ended up doing that to probably three chairs. After much sustained complaining they bought us new chairs and after much much more they bought us proper office chairs.
 
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I was at work one day and a co-worker had her cabinet end up locked. Being old office furniture she didnt have a key. Apparently it was left in the locked position and ended up closing all the way and locking shut. First I manipulated the cabinet till it opened, then I used my PS4 to remove the lock. She didn't like the hole left by the missing lock so I used my PS4 to make a pick set from two paperclips and managed to open the lock. Finally I replaced the lock in the open position.
 
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