Hey guys, welcome back to my channel, today we're going to be talking about one of these. And so,
this is just a standard credit card tool that you can just pick up for a couple dollars and
it is an 11-in-1 so it has 11 different tools on it and today we're going to be testing all
11 tools and seeing if it's actually useful and whether you should keep one on you and keep one
in your wallet coming up hope y'all are having a fantastic day my name is Townsend Bell with knife
Manuel calm and as I said before we're just going to be testing the 11 and 1 credit card tool I'll
have some links into in the description if you want to pick one up they're really cheap like 5
bucks you can probably get one for one dollar like a dollar store and we're just gonna test
all of the different uses and all the tools on them and we're just gonna see if it's actually
worth keeping one in your wallet so I'm sure most of y'all know what credit card multi tools are or
probably own one but for those who don't I just wanted to go over and say that they're just pieces
of metal that about the size of a credit card and they're about twice the thickness of one
and they just have a bunch of tools cut into them that just perform a bunch of different tasks and
in this one it is an 11 and 1 so it has 11 tools and so today as I've said before we're just going
to test every single one of them and see if it's actually useful to have and should you waste your
wallet space carrying one of these so before we test every single one I just wanted to go over an
overview all the 11 tools that it has so it has a can opener a knife edge a screwdriver a ruler
a cap opener a four position wrench a butterfly wrench a saw blade direction and ciliary indicator
to position wrench and a lanyard hole the lanyard hole I don't know why it counts as one it's just
literally a hole in the metal and so like it's not really serving any purpose besides being able to
thread a lanyard thread which theoretically a lanyard could go through any other piece of the
metal there's plenty of holes to choose from I don't know why they had to use that little hole
up in the corner as the eleventh tool it seems pretty dumb but now let's get into testing every
single one of these in the field so the first tool that I'm gonna test is the can opener and so this
one it's not like a standard can opener it's kind of just like a blade basically that you jab into
the around the can lid kind of pops it open it's very difficult you got to use a lot of muscle just
to push it down and it's very slow going like you just take a little quarter inch at a time and it's
not exactly enjoyable to do but it would do in a pinch and if you're on a camping trip and you just
need to open a can of beans or something it'll do but it's not exactly a favored method to open cans
so the next tool we're going to talk about is the knife edge and as a cutting edge it works fine it
slices through wood pretty easy and it's very sharp but the ease of use is not so good it's
kind of just awkward to hold the card try to carve you just like you don't really know how to hold it
like flat and like pretty large and you're just I don't know it's not very comfortable to hold and
so it's it works as with the can opener but it's not exactly a favored method so the next tool is
the screwdriver and as you can expect it's just the corner of the card kind of grinded down on
one side to fit a flathead screwdriver or like a flathead screw and again it's kind of awkward
to use just because it's attached to a card and it's like kind of awkward but it gets the job
done and I guess this card isn't supposed to be like super comfortable to use it's just supposed
to be there in case you need it and it's kind of for emergencies so the next tool that I tested was
the bottle opener and out of all the tools on the credit card multi-tool it's definitely the
easiest and most familiar to use just because it's basically identical to a standard bottle
opener so next up was the 4 position wrench and the 2 position rich so I couldn't find any bolts
that would fit in the 2 position wrench just because it's so small but I tested out the 4
position wrench and it worked pretty well again it was pretty awkward because of the card format
and just having to turn the whole card and two of the sides being sharp and so it wasn't the most
comfortable experience but it got the job done and would work in a pinch next up was the butterfly
wrench and this tool isn't exactly the most useful thing that I found on this credit card multi-tool
just because the amount of butterfly little bolts that you're gonna find are just very few and far
between and when you do find them they're often quite easy to just unlock it snot the most useful
thing and it's also not the most comfortable thing to use so I don't know I mean it's just something
else that they put on this card I don't know how useful it's actually gonna be but it's there so
next up is the saw blade and I was actually quite surprised with this one I thought it was just
gonna be some little wimpy just blade that doesn't really work very well but this thing actually
choose pretty well and I was sawing it on some pretty hard wood and it was getting through a good
half-inch piece of wood pretty fast and so the only drawback to this is the blade is only about
an inch long so it's a lot of really quick short movements so it can be tiring and it's not like
something that you can use on really big pieces of material but if it's just a small little cut it'll
get the job done so next up is the direction and ciliary tool and this tool is very useful and it
works well but the circumstances that it would work well in are very hard to come by in the
wilderness or in basically many environments and it would need to be a very controlled environment
where the water has zero ripples I tried to use it in my backyard in a puddle and there was just the
tiniest little breeze that was blowing these tiny little ripples on the water and it just messed
with the whole thing and it did not work but when I moved inside and did it in the sink then it
worked fine because the water was completely still with no wind moving and so the circumstances that
it would work in the wilderness are very hard to come by and very slim chances that it would but
it does work and lastly is the lanyard hole so again this tool is not very useful it's just a
really a hole in a piece of metal you're supposed to be able to lanyard through but it's I wouldn't
exactly call it a tool and the other thing is they did group the two wrenches the 4 position
wrench and the 2 position wrench those are two separate tools even though they basically do the
same thing just for different sized bolts so now that we've tested all of the tools on the credit
card multi-tool it's time to decide whether it is useful enough to actually carry around and
have one on you personally I'd say it's so small and it doesn't take that much room up in a wallet
and it's really not that heavy that putting one in your wallet would not really have any
disadvantages it would only come in handy and there wouldn't be any drawbacks to it and you
never know you might need a tiny little saw or a screwdriver in some situations and just
having one will save you in that situation and not having one well obviously it won't and the
drawbacks of actually carrying one around are so small that you might as well so yeah that's all I
got for you today on this topic I'd love to hear your thoughts down in the comments about whether
you carry a credit card multi-tool whether you don't your reasons why just all of that you can
find more information on this topic down in the description there'll be a link to my blog knife
manual calm where I write about everything about outdoors knives survival and there's an article
about credit card knives and tools you should check out there's a link in the description
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