Broke my Leatherman today.
I won a raffle in 2008 I think.
The first prize was a gift card which I used to buy the most expensive leatherman that was available in the store at the time.
I have used it so much and still somehow taken way too good care of it. Never abused the blades. I bet the tool I have used the most have been the pliers and the screwdriver.
The leather holster that I used occasionally looks still almost like new.
Cutting hot dog buns for kids when out and about, fixing my bike…
F for respect 🫡
just remember kids: the multi tool is only appropriate when no other tool is available
I see people abuse these things at work all the time, and I’m baffled that they refuse to just carry the correct tool, when they know what repeatable actions they take throughout the day.
The bonus of this is that they made the wire cutter part replaceable so your new tool depending on the model might get the new model plier part with that upgraded.
His watch is over.
Piggybacking the other remarks to activate your warranty. You can take pictures of the metal “grain” in the broken surface, which should clearly indicate the exact material failure mode. I say that since this looks like a brittle fracture - they probably screwed up case-hardening for that batch, making the metal hard all the way through.
You now have an unpaired plier.
Lifetime warranty no? Get it fixed
This is the correct answer, Leatherman’s have lifetime warranty.
File a claim OP
My experience with them was very good. They had my broken Skeletool back in just a few weeks.
*Lifetime of the tool. Also, OP has to prove he’s not dead.
It says all you can eat.
And that’s all you CAN eat!
I swear I can eat this table
Yeah but, as weird as it is to think, I bet steel was better in even 2008. I know that older hand tools used stronger steel, and iirc, it was project farm(i think?) that did a comparison of steel used even through the 1990s and into the 00s and found modern steel to be much softer.
OP breaking a Leatherman is like getting fired on your day off.
“Goddamn! You’ve got to be one stupid motherfucker to get fired on your day off.”
:)
Had the exact same thing happen to me. Got it fixed under warranty no questions asked. Never happened again (even tho I use it nearly every day)
This seems like the least likely point of failure and yet here I am witnessing it twice.
all pliers break at that point.
Oh well I’ve just been outed as a non-plier specialist. At least I learned something.
hey get 'em! they don’t know about pliers!
make 'em go to plier college
F
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a broken Leatherman before today…
You broke the pliers of a leatherman? Are you like the hulk?
maybe it was used ocassionaly as a hammer
I mean true, i did use a leatherman to mine vulcanic crystals in iceland once 💀 i am not even kidding. Sadly that one lasted long enough to get stolen so yeahhh
They have a pretty solid warranty policy as far as I know. Maybe worth checking it out:
I went back to mark the 25 years because I got confused by the 40 year warranty banner if you were a part of some group. You beat me to the punch lol
Rest in pieces
Think you are covered under warranty still…
https://www.leatherman.com/pages/customerservice-warranty
(25 years)
And the tooth still didn’t come out? Damn, time for the big guns… cotton thread and a slamming door 😅
weld it back
