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The Mininch Tool Pen: What Makes This Design Such a Funding Smash?
You say "There's no middle ground here? A tool is either supremely useful or utterly useless and making a mockery of your profession?"
I know you are being facetious, but actually, that pretty much sums up my view on tools. I have tools that are really well designed, and do what they were meant to do amazingly well, and then I have tools I regret having wasted money on. There really isn't much middle ground. I can't, ever once, remember saying to myself "wow, I'm so glad I bought that kind of ok tool, that sort of works moderately well, at tasks that I sometimes kinda do on rare occasions."
For me at least, tools are either incredibly good uses of money that make getting a job done much easier than it would otherwise be, or they are a mistake I never should have bought.
Here is the target audience, which now includes Core77?:
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GQ-Brasil?
A hex-sided body is a lot easier to fit a vise grip or perhaps a box wrench onto.
[Sorry to be so critical] but many people (dare we say, especially those with a "lack of tool literacy"), will quickly perceive this over-designed tool-holder as a -- pocket panacea. It's not. It's more akin the latest update of the Ginsu Knife, Popeil Pocket Fisherman, etc., etc. Many will be bought with good intentions, or as gifts; but most will end up lost in kitchen drawers, or remaindered at garage sales. What a waste: ID in thrall to Sales.
[One more question: Just how many -- (note: Mininch-proprietary) bits -- does actually it take to screw in a bike?]
I'd rather have multiple screwdrivers with proper grip that aren't particularly fashion conscious than 1 fancy one which isn't practical. My advice is to bulk it up for 'man hands' to grip it properly.
It’s a easily available tool not a F1-pit tool. And there were only 6 bits inside the body.
Needs of extreme torque (which is not often), maybe attach a special sized wrench in the pack only for its hexagonal body will provide larger torque than any other conventional screwdrivers.
Lucky for them! It still looks good