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   Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 15:17:03 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces

   *Here I am with my quite bad Maker habit of using several multitools at once. A clear sign that I just don't know what I'm trying to accomplish, and also, that's the part that I like

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     Luka Rubinjoni (rubinjoni@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 16:12:58 JST Luka Rubinjoni

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     @bruces Hey, I feel called out! Two multitools is the bare minimum for basic operations like unscrewing a screw with a nut - one to use as a screwdriver, the other (with pliers) to hold the nut.

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     Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 14:19:12 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces

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     • Dave Hughes

     @DopedSi *I agree about needing two, or even four or five, multitools, but that's R&D and not production. If you need to make and ship ten identical ones because you just got an order for ten of them, you'd better knuckle down

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     Dave Hughes (dopedsi@mastodon.au)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 14:19:13 JST Dave Hughes

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     @bruces I'm a big fan of the One Tool for One Job idea, until I actually try to do something. Then it's "What's on hand that will get the job done?"

     There are also the innumerable "I need a second $tool for the job" situations.

     Multitools are great for being the available 2nd tool, even if technically it's the 1st tool and your other multitool is the the 3rd one. (The other, other one is busy being a 500 A slow blow fuse)