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11 Handy Facts About Leatherman Tools
I bought one of these in the mid-80’s, and it’s the best tool I’ve ever owned. Earlier this year, despite it being years past warranty, I sent it in, and they fixed it. No fuss, no muss, no questions.
Word of advice to Leatherman owners, though: the wire cutters are really good on this thing, but do NOT try to cut through a car antenna with them. Both times I’ve had my Leatherman fixed, it’s because I tried doing that. The result (both times) was that the wire-cutting edge got dented. The car antenna wasn’t even scratched.
Are car antennas made out of Adamantium?
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1 handy fact about Leatherman tools when I was shopping for them was that the comparable Gerber multi tool was $20 less. I also like the ceramic coating on the Gerber.
Also the Gerber wire cutter is strong but not strong enough to cut through a wire hanger. I’ve never tested it on car antennas.
Well, the car antenna on my old Mustang was sort of brittle, which would indicate that it was somewhat hard.
I’ve accidentally snapped off car antennas on older models. With my bare hands. Clumsy hands, but bare.
Harvey must have anticipated that someone was going to ask the question: why did he twice try to remove one car (or two cars’) antenna(e)?
For streamlining purposes, perhaps, but that’ll only shave — what? — one hundredth off a second off your lap time at Talladega?
Yet this being Harvey, I’m sure there’s an excellent and technically useful reason.
Bought one at Ft. Stewart that I then lost in Kuwait. Bought another one from one of those rolling PX trucks that would come around. Still have that one today. Carry it every day. Only time I don’t is getting through airport screening. I’ll put it in checked luggage for that. They don’t make the one I have (simply called the PST) anymore. Which is a shame.
I agree about both the quality and Leatherman’s customer service. A few years back, I found a Leatherman tool (the original model; I know because I already had one of those) by the side of the road while I was bicycling through the corn and soybean fields. I took it home and discovered that one of the blades was broken. I called Leatherman and asked how I could send it to them to be repaired, and made it clear that I intended to pay for the repair. They told me that, if I sent it to them, they would repair or replace it at no cost. They stuck to this even when I explained how I had acquired it. What a great company.
I’ve never come across a situation where I had the requirement to cut a car antenna.
Were you vandalizing a liberal’s car?
@6 – I think the first time I wanted to cut the little metal ball off my antenna – possibly so that I could put one of those little balls on the end. It ended up smooshing the metal in the Leatherman’s wire-cutters. I sent it back, and the new wire-cutters had a little notch in them, which was supposed to make them more effective at cutting wire.
A few years later, I think I needed a piece of wire & had an old car antenna laying around. I figured my Leatherman’s magic notch would be able to handle it. Not so.
When you get mad at another driver, don’t try to cut off his antenna, just bend it with your hand!