What did you use your multi-tool for today?

I had a couple of multitool-intensive days.

On Monday I helped a friend fix his car (a rusty piece of crap that's held together by some sort of magic), I know nothing about cars but I had a flashlight and two multitools on me (ST Spirit and Squirt PS4) and following the directions of a mate of mine who actually understood the damned machine we got it running.

Yesterday I used my Super Tool 300 to replace old wiring at my girlfriend's house and install some new light fixtures.
 
Resurrecting an old thread. I didn't see a newer one.

Extracted old batteries from a remote:

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I attached the ears on a cat :)

...a 10" long pinewood derby car my daughter and I are building for next weekends race. She wanted to make her car look like her cat, so I used the saw to cut a notch in the "head" of the car to fit the ears. The ears are made out of small conical fishing weights. I used the crimping part of the tool to machine them flatter to look more like car ears.

Last weekend, I uses the main blade to carve the body into a rough shape before hitting it with the sander.
 
Vic SwissTool chisel. Weird, I rarely if ever use this thing. This week I used it to scrape off some tape from a window. Today I used the corner/edge of the chisel to take off seal from a wine bottle. Worked well for that; short blade with good control but no need to worry about the edge.
 
More use today for the multitool my buddy gifted me.

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(The Case Mako lockback wound up staying on my belt, since I already had the multitool out, and it had a knife blade)

The knife blade got used for opening the packaging. The scissors trimmed the window gaskets to size. The pliers got mostly used for mounting the door hardware. I used the awl to poke and pry in a semi- successful attempt to re-form a crushed male slider tab.

I got the roof panels mounted by myself no problem, but when it got time to secure them to the side panels with screws, one of the 4 screws required, as explained in the instructions, a second person pushing down from the outside to fully seat the roof panels. Voilà my “second person” 🤣:
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The most frustrating part of the whole operation turned out to be peeling the protective paper from the plastic window panes😫. That stuff was stuck on good - I wound up having to scrape it off bit by bit with my fingernails and an old plastic gift card, while running it under hot water.🤬

Opened the box around 7:30, and was all done and cleaned up by 11:00.
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This last week I went to visit my kids for the thanksgiving holiday and took along my Arc. It came in handy several times and got a good workout in various tasks. I used the Magnacut blade of course, the saw, screw drivers, even tightened grandsons eye glasses screws, the file, pliers and scissors. It did fantastic! IMG_0393.jpeg
 
I didn't use mine for anything today BUT I did buy another Wave + from Amazon on sale last night. I had a different Leatherman in my camping van which had not been used in a very long time so gave it to my son when he went off to college. Now, some years later, I got the van back together, had it serviced and washed. When I took it for a shakedown drive, I couldn't find my Leatherman, and remembered I'd passed it along so ordered a new Wave +, arriving tomorrow. Then, and only then, can I go camping... :)
 
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