 Multi-tool a great secondary crimper.
Reviewer: Another Engineer Guy
As a combat engineer I have used your product over the course of 2 and half years of field time and deployments. I would just like to respond to EOD guys specific suggestions about the tool. Firstly, the majority of military issue crimpers are only single crimp; a truly water-tight seal requires at least a quarter-turn difference between the first and second crimps. The second crimp doesn't do it "tighter", it is simply positioned to plug the gap from the first. A dual-crimping tool would leave a uniform notch at the exact same point in the blasting cap. A single is better than a double. The reason that the multi-tool crimpers are not quite as high quality as military M2 crimpers is becuase the faces of the two pincers on the M2s are very tight together to produce a tight crimp. This would be impractical for a multi-tool. As for the lenth of the punch, leave it alone. You can always place the cap deeper. The punch is a tool, not a measuring instrument, and gives you a capability, not to be mistaken as a guidline for where to place your explosives. EOD does not need another specialty tool. They need proper training and experience.
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 Air Port Security
Reviewer: Peter D
This is the greatest tool going, but mine now belongs to the air port security folks in Canada. Forgot to take it out of my fishing dry bag. If you keep yours with you all the time like I do, it's hard to remember to put it in your checked stuff.
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Improvments
05/11/2007
Reviewer: EOD GUY
I’m an EOD guy on my way into my second Iraq tour, not a combat engineer. I think its wonderful that someone made crimpers a part of their multitool array. Only a few complaints to address. The first is the crimp needs to be better, maybe a water tight dual crimp, that’s the only reason i use my other crimpers more often, they dual crimp for a water tight "seal." Second shorten the tip on the C-4 punch, it should be a short tip/cone, what happens is the long hole that’s left by the tip of the punch leaves to much room for Murphy. The cap will only go so far and then your still left with another 1/4" of air gap and no explosive continuity. Last is just a preference more than an improvement, and that is to make the whole thing out of a non-magnetic material, if possible. Don’t get me wrong with all of this, I use your product regularly, for more than just the crimpers and its held up wonderfully, but if you implemented these changes and made a new product, say an EOD product, I don’t doubt it would be the new standard issue for most EOD units worldwide. And one last thing, it should be an EOD pitched tool, because lets face it, comparing EOD to combat engineers is like comparing hot wheels to monster trucks, but hey, every body needs someone to look up too right? Thanks for your time, and I hope you consider my suggestions. Take care.-EOD GUY
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Can't improve perfection.
02/12/2008
Reviewer: Gabriel McMahon
I'm a Combat Engineer that is almost finnished with my third tour in Iraq. Keep your wonderful product the same! This tool has been around for some years now and mine has never failed me! I do not know how well any of my missions would have gone without it. Don't change the crimpers and dont change the punch, C4 and its components are easily worked with with this tool."Murphy" and his crew can take a hike when I have this product in hand. Keep it your standard stainless steel with its non- reflective coating. This is a rough and tumble environment, if EOD cant hang... You'll find the Engineers up front with the Infantry!
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