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kds5084
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Aug 31, 2016
I was dealing with a dead battery in my old Dodge Stratus about 2 hours away from home. Due to what I can only call "innovative" design, to change the battery I had to remove a wheel and the underside of my driver's side quarter panel, as well as a bolted-on bar holding in the battery. Thank goodness for my CRKT Guppie. You can't really call it the best adjustable wrench, but when stranded with less options and barely any tools, it was nice to be able to accomplish a "simple" automotive task without hitching a ride to wal-mart and buying one-use tools.
kds5084Yup - the guppie is a great utility tool too. Hardly sexy by Massdrop standards, but I'll take "gets the job done" any day.
(pretty awful automotive design these days though. I swapped a spare fuel pump into my '62 Austin Healy in a K-Mart parking lot once, using only the pair of nail clippers that was on my key-chain. I really miss simple, straightforward and accessible mechanical design. Of course, I suppose there's a reason I /have/ a spare fuel pump in the trunk of the Austin, while I don't in most of my newer vehicles, but...)
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