I saw another interesting YouTube video, which may be of interest to the occupants of this thread.
My 2024 Compact Toolkit with No Compromises - Jon GadgetIf you bought the items he lists, it would cost over £700.
The Leatherman Adapt Kit is a very nice item to store everything, but it's over £70 alone! There appears to be a profusion of multi-tools, with overlapping functionality. Some of those, like the Wera Tool-Check Plus I think are reasonable, but the Leatherman Bond Multitool would seem to be better replaced by a reasonably good pair of needle-nosed pliers.
I'd also not bother with the Fluke non-contact voltage detector, but use something like a Fluke 101 with a decent pair of probes. That can indicate the presence of 240V as well as test continuity, fuses and batteries.
The Toolan Mini Hacksaw handle thing seems nice, but wildly overpriced at £42. There are several small handles that will take a mini-hacksaw blade, and can be disassembled down to a reasonably compact form.
The Metmo Pocket Driver is also nice, and definitely a target for the Tool Junkie, but seems a bit too specialised for this kit.
I can understand that this list was made with a No Compromises approach, but I think several items there could be replaced at a lower cost, without reducing the available features.
He includes a few general parts, like tapes, two-part epoxy, and and cable ties, but I think it would also be useful to include a few other consumables, maybe a short piece of mains cabling, an assortment of self-tappers, some nut-bolt pairs with washers and lock-nuts, some cut up pieces of sand-paper, Sugru (or similar), wire-wool, and short pieces of cable/webbing (small bungee cord?)
So, what do the panel think of his choices, and what other tools or consumables would you include? How would you contain a similar tool kit?
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