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Leatherman Blast Review
Submitted by An Outdoor Idiots Team Member.
The Leatherman Blast: Hard-Wire Cutters
Now for the hard-wire cutters. They do get through some rather solid metal with surprising ease, though anything over about 2 millimetres in diameter is too large to fit into the hard-wire cutter slot.Here as a keyring, presumably made out of steel, about to be given the Blast's wire cutter treatment, for no good reason whatsoever. It was a leftover from our earlier altercation with Ray, and so we thought we might as well put it to good use in further testing what the Blast could do:
Note that the hard-wire cutter slot in the above shot has an arrow pointing to it. Presumably this is designed to threaten and intimidate any hard wire that it is about to cut. We can confirm that the keyring was not happy. It was even less happy when this happened:
And thoroughly miserable by the end of the test:
In the interests of reviewing the Blast properly, we tried cutting through all manner of things, and were becoming very impressed with just how destructive the hard-wire cutter was. Surprisingly, though, it finally met its match in the form of ... a different keyring to the one above.
It seems that there are keyrings and there are keyrings. The latter one must have been made out of an altogether harder steel than the one shown above. It took much more pressure to cut it. It did finally cut, but it left its mark on the Blast:
The hard-wire cutter still works after sustaining the above damage, though it has doubtless been weakened, and it will doubtless no longer be able to cut thinner wire.
The lesson, other than that the Blast is not invincible, seems to be this: The leverage applied at the hard-wire cutter is phenomenal; thus, if you find yourself straining greatly to squeeze the handles tightly enough to cut through some wire, the chances are that the Blast is going to receive as much damage as the wire, and so you should probably give up, or go and get a more heavy-duty wire cutter.
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Page 2: Overview: Vital Statistics; The Metal; The Plastic; Quality of Construction
Page 3: Overview: Usage
Page 4: Rulers
Page 5: Wood/Metal File
Page 6: Small Bit Driver
Page 7: Screwdrivers
Page 8: Bottle Opener
Page 9: Wire Stripper
Page 10: Can Opener
Page 11: Needlenose Pliers
Page 12: Regular Pliers
Page 13: Wire Cutters
Page 14: Hard-Wire Cutters
Page 15: Saw
Page 16: Scissors
Page 17: Knife
Page 18: Conclusion
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