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- G'day, guys, it's Ben from Snowys here.
And today we're having a quick look
at the Leatherman Wave Plus.
Now the Leatherman Wave Plus is a really great,
versatile, user-friendly multi-tool.
So when you grab one of these, you're gonna find three
things in the box.
First of all, you're gonna find
your little instruction booklet,
which is a fairly straightforward thing.
Just shows the different uses you can use
for the tools, different tools you've got.
You've got the Leatherman itself,
and you've also got your little nylon pouch.
Now the nylon pouch is for storing it,
so you can sorta slide it on in there,
clips on over the top.
That protects it.
It's got a little strap on there so you can tie
it to your belt or similar.
Now, the Wave itself, the Leatherman itself was made
of a 420HC stainless steel.
It's rust proof, it's really quite tough,
and, being stainless steel, it's relatively light,
so the whole unit itself only weighs about 241 grammes,
so you're not gonna notice it on your belt buckle
as much as some other heavier sorta duty materials might be,
but it's really quite light, which is handy.
So, as you can see here, it's actually quite a compact
little unit here, so it's only 10.2 centimetres long,
it's 3.7 wide, and it's only 1.7 high.
Now if you were to just sort of fold it out
and get it opened up like this, you're now looking
at it being around about 16 centimetre long.
It's about 11 wide.
When it's fully in use, it's about 1.8 wide as well.
So now that we've got this one open,
let's actually have a look at a few of the tools,
only like I said before, we've got 17 tools,
so it's a bit to get through.
Now we start off with it, you got your needle-nose pliers
on the top, your regular pliers underneath.
That's pretty stock standard.
Now this is where it's quite a good advantage
with the Wave Plus, you see our wire cutters here are
actually replaceable, so you can actually take that out,
you can replace them, and then you just sort
of obviously use your Allen key to screw it back in again.
So the next great feature of this is the ruler,
so you simply need to sort of, I suppose, lay it flat
like that, and then what you've got here is you've
got your centimetres down one side.
It goes up to about 19 centimetres.
And the other is about eight inches or so.
Now that we've got it open like this,
you can actually see on the sides we've got
our little tools, as part of the multi-tool, obviously.
So let's have a bit of a look at those
and see what we've got.
So we'll start off with this side.
First tool here is your screwdriver.
So now they're all pretty easy to pull out,
which is a good little feature of the Wave Plus.
Now this one here, it's worth noting,
you can see that's the Philips head there.
If you just pull it out, you can then expose
your little bit, you can flip it over,
and then you've got your flat head as well.
So that's kind of a nifty little feature there.
Now, it's worth noting that all the tools
do lock into place.
If you pull it out to its full extension,
it locks into place.
To release then, there's a little button on the bottom here.
Pop that in, it releases it, and then you can spin
it around and pop it back in again.
Now the other tool on this side,
which is a bit of a double tool,
I suppose you could say.
Now you've got your can slash bottle opener,
so you can use it to open your cans and bottles.
There's also a little wire stripper built
into the corner of it here.
So that's it for this end.
So I'll just pop that one away.
We'll slide down the other end.
Now the first one here is simply
your larger flat-head screwdriver.
So that's a fairly stock certain little thing there.
Now the next one in line is your mini or small driver bit.
You you've got that there, now it's again same
as the other one, you got your Phillips head on that end.
Pull it out, you can flip it over, and you've got
your flat head as well.
Next one down, there you've got your scissors.
Now, these are spring-loaded scissors,
spring-action scissors, so folds around, clips in place,
just much like the other ones.
And then like anything else, your button is same
on this end as on the other end.
Button in, release, you push them around.
So that pretty much covers everything
on the internal side.
Now for the I suppose the fun bit, you've got your knives
and whatnot on the outside.
So you fold it up.
So one of the great features of the Leatherman Wave Plus
is that it's a single hand, or one hand,
opening function for a lot of the knives on the outside.
Now, like all the tools on the inside,
these are built with a safety feature so that
it can't be moved.
So you see that.
It's just a nice little push button here.
So all you need to do to release our knife is just push
it in there and it folds around.
Now it's worth noting before I pack the knife away,
that's a 7.62 centimetre knife, so it's actually
quite a good little length.
And it's razor sharp.
Now jumping over on this side here,
and here we've got our saw.
Now on this side here you've got your serrated knife.
And the last one here is the file.
Now the file's quite handy.
It's a dual sided file, so you can see your standard wood
and metal file on this side here.
Now on this side here is your diamond coated file here.
So that leaves a nicer finish as well.
As I said before, the Leatherman Plus is a light,
compact, tough-as-nails little multi-tool.
It's got a million uses, whether it's for
when you're camping, hiking, got one in the car,
got one in your toolbox, so wherever you wanna use it,
this'll really serve you well.
It's backed up by Leatherman's 25 year warrantee,
so you can jump online today, snowys.com.au if
you wanna find any more information about them
or if you wanna pick one up.
And with fast, free delivery to most of Australia.
Until next time, happy camping.
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