An Interesting Tool

[VicParticipant @vic]

In development. I might get one if the price is right when it’s launched.

[VicParticipant @vic]

Edit: Looking at the price of the other tools on their site it’s likely to be above my spending limit for such things! 😂

https://www.metmo.co.uk/collections/frontpage

[bernard towersParticipant @bernardtowers37738]

Another do-it-all

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Vic

Could you please provide a link to that illustration ?

… I’m trying to find the 1913 patent

Thanks

MichaelG.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

It’s O.K. … I found the page

https://www.metmo.co.uk/pages/metmo-pocket-grip

MichaelG.

[MacolmParticipant @macolm]

Incidentally, recommended for gripping stubborn and damaged nuts.

[Michael Gilligan]

On Michael Gilligan Said:

Vic

Could you please provide a link to that illustration ?

… I’m trying to find the 1913 patent

Thanks

MichaelG.

It states that it was invented in 1913 but it may not have been patented

Ian P

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

I may be wrong [it has happened before] but I suspect some feature of the design was covered by one or more 1913 patents … Metmo claims to have “perfected” the “invented” … so we could be looking for a bench-clamp or whatever for its parentage.

Invented in 1913, perfected in 2026. An icon of industry re-engineered for the modern day.

it seems 1913 was a very busy period for wrenches, vices, clamps, etc.

… it’s interesting to just browse espacenet for design ideas.

MichaelG.

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P.S. … I note that the two items illustrated differ in their construction

I wonder if they will both be marketed

[Robert Atkinson 2Participant @robertatkinson2]

I’ll stick with my Leatherman Crunch

Just because you can draw it in CAD and CNC machine it does not automatically any good. This things seem to be about how they look more than function.

[Michael Gilligan]

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P.S. … I note that the two items illustrated differ in their construction

I wonder if they will both be marketed

By the looks of it, that’s the plan, one in 7075-T651 Aluminium, and the other in hardened 420 Stainless Steel, with only the latter having the wire cutters.

As an aside, for damaged nuts etc, I prefer these self adjusting Cromna spanners, rather than Vice Grips.

Bill

[Robert Atkinson 2]

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Just because you can draw it in CAD and CNC machine it does not automatically any good. This things seem to be about how they look more than function.

Agreed, Robert … The very lightly knurled nut, on a rather coarse screw doesn’t encourage me at all … and it looks like being an ergonomic nightmare to use the cutter !

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MichaelG.

[Michael Gilligan]

On Michael Gilligan Said:

Agreed, Robert … The very lightly knurled nut, on a rather coarse screw doesn’t encourage me at all … and it looks like being an ergonomic nightmare to use the cutter !

 

MichaelG.

It shows it in use for that HERE at 5 & 17 seconds, but yes, very much for an occasional operation, rather than productivity.
Might be handy for keeping in a bike jacket pocket, though I carry a couple of the above small Cromna spanners and one of these

[VicParticipant @vic]

I’m not interested in the version with the cutter. I was thinking more about the clamping aspect.

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