Small Pry Tools

salvo

salvo

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I have noticed quite a few of you include a CountyComm Widgy in your EDC. There is another nice little pry tool that is a miniature of the Wonder Bar and if any one has used a Wonder bar, that bent and c shaped end is a great pry-bar for tight places with no room for leverage.
I was at Sears browsing the tool dept and spotted this little Craftsman jewel it was only five bucks.
I ended up having to use it already, on my way home from Sears my battery died! I took the Leatherman out and loosened the nuts but one of the post clamps would loosen but would not come off the post, out came the new pry-bar with the wonder bar end and it popped it right off! Picked up a battery at Wally World and was on the road again.
I think I'm going to like this little pry-bar.

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CountyComm used to make two more, larger sizes of prybar. The second to the biggest was like this one. Stanley also makes one about this size, it's in the paint section at China-Mart.

What you posted about, helping with removing a battery cable, is precisely why these tools are so useful for survival purposes. There are so many ways to use them, it's not just as a forced entry tool of some sort.
 
That's a fine little tool. But what does it have to do with the RAT Cutlery forum?
 
Rat 1 said:
That's a fine little tool. But what does it have to do with the RAT Cutlery forum?
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Mini Prybar tools are included in the RAT E&E Kit, the CountyComm prybars mentioned. This is a bit of a survival forum as well focusing on RAT Cutlery merchandise and similar gear.
 
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Can anyone figure out what is being pried apart? It shows improvising using two screwdrivers (obviously) or two "Church Keys" which are nearly extinct now...from an old series of articles.

Mini-Prybars could be handy but you might need a friend for such applications...
 
Don Rearic said:
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Can anyone figure out what is being pried apart? It shows improvising using two screwdrivers (obviously) or two "Church Keys" which are nearly extinct now...from an old series of articles.

Mini-Prybars could be handy but you might need a friend for such applications...
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Looks to me like trying to open the sheathing on heavy gauge wire for the tip pic and tubing for the other pic.

I had one of the Stanely mini-prybars but was severely dissapointed when I was trying to lift a box top and it bent in half. I might have to try the Craftsman version. I EDC my countycomm little guys though and they are very useful and stout.
 
Vaughan makes a decent one as well. I have thrown some kits together for people as gifts, and though everyone included a knife of some sort, the pry-bars are what folks say they found very useful.
 
I picked up a mini wonder bar years ago and it lives in my toolbox for trim carpentry. You can also find them at lowes, Menards, and Home Despot.
 
Over the last three or so years I've probably sold upwards of 400 or so of these little pry bars I started after receiving a request for one customer (Lycosa) who asked for one made out of titanium. At first it was a super way to use up the left over end cuts of scrap I had laying around the shop from making folding knives. Next thing I knew though I was having to order sheets of ti just for them; as everyone wanted one. Apparently they are handy dandy little users for all kinds of things. I've had police officers buy them from me for crime scene probes and office workers that can't carry a knife buy them so they can use them for popping staples, opening packages and so on. Then of course Emerson knives users love them for the flat head screw driver to adjust the pivot on their knife and I even have one guy that sharpened one end ( don't know which one) so he can cut the pizza boxes apart at his business. I get reports back from folks all the time saying how much they find themselves using them and while I can't say they set the world on fire for sale or anything they are fairly consistent sellers requiring me to have a few on hand because usually as soon as I don't someone else wants one. Go figure.

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Don I appreciate the question but we should discuss this in another thread rather than derail Salvo's topic here.

Lets take this to my forum or to PM. ;)

STR
 
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