Here’s mine. Work ruined my previous one so this is the replacement, I made sure the new one had the bottle opener option. 
Favorite: OBD2 Scanner
So that we’ve moved on from that life-devoted tool chest (somewhat when the masons built Notre Dame), here are my favourites:
Test comparison of the Fowler (Helios) dial vernier against Mitutoyos. Good enough for quick reading. The great thing about this calliper is the direct comparison of metric to imperial. Working with design criteria where I want to be either above/below a set value and see within a glimpse my target. Also, no digital counting (too many numbers in my head I lose track).
And then I rebuilt my small hand vice and a fresh coat of paint with new soft jaws:
Victorinox Mini pocketknife.
I use it for:
- opening boxes
- staple removal
- bezel removal on some flashlights
- nail care
- hair trimming
that it works without batteries. Those other units are useless when the batteries go dead—can’t even get a decent reading on the non-scale. And just wait till the alkaleaks corrode the guts off the internal pcb. :laughing:
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All these digital tools use the same format button cell (11.5 x 5.0mm) and thinking I was getting a good deal with Energizer #676 – $10 for 8. Well, it turns out to be zinc/air cells which have a nominal 1.45 Volts. But this pack measure 1.38 V. The instruments flash as low batteries or “- - - -”.
I had never heard of such chemistry, and it’s just in the fine print on the backside. Back to the store I guess and deep pocket the regular Alkaleaks at ~ 3.50 each. A while back that was the price for 2 and I had stocked up.
Nextool flagship mini, cost me about £18 delivered from aliexpress, was here in 9 days. Tiny thing and really useful, fits on my keychain at work. I wanted a small tool with good scissors, some pliers, basic drivers etc.
Fantastic little tool and very cheap.
Looks like a good tool 