December 2008
I.T. Industry
I’d just started a new job on the sort of I.T Support Desk that does everything. After you got back to the office from the Field Service Call, you answered the phones in between rebuilding computers - from the motherboard up. After a week, I realized that I needed a tool kit that was easy to carry and could handle anything I threw at it. It didn’t take me long to settle on the Leatherman Core. The Core had everything I could possibly need – wire cutters, wire strippers, cable cutters, pliers, and four screwdrivers in one package, plus a bottle opener for after work. Who could ask for more?
I lost count of how many motherboards, power supplies and other components I swapped out while in the office, or out in the field, using no other tool but my Leatherman Core. Pretty soon my workmates were using any excuse to borrow my Leatherman at every opportunity.
It’s also gotten plenty of use around the home, and not just on my own PCs. I hadn’t had my Leatherman for all that long when my wife and I got caught out, driving through a rain storm. Only then did I discover that we needed new wiper blades. We pulled into a service station for a new set of blades. The Leatherman Core made the job easy – even in driving rain. We were back out on the road in five minutes. Then there’s the age old question, often heard around the bar-b-que, “Does any one have a bottle opener?” Oh yeah, I’ve got a bottle opener alright, and then some.
Duane
Royal Park, South Australia
OK, you voyeur, you. Enough of reading other people's stories. It's time you told your own tale of gripping heroism or even just neat DIY'ism. We know there's a Shakespeare in you somewhere. Don't make us use the Steens to find it.