The Gerber Center-Drive is full of features that look pretty attractive on paper. Rather than going with a butterfly style opening, Gerber went with a one-handed slide opening mechanism.
While holding the tool, simply push up until you feel the slide lock into place. At that stage, the pliers are exposed and the spring-loaded handle can be operated.
Gerber goes with a little bit of a nontraditional pliers design on the Center-Drive. Its sloping nose gives it the look and function of a hybrid between standard pliers and a needle nose design.
This gives you the ability to get into some tighter areas while still leaving plenty of strength to grip bolts in the middle. These triangular shaped cutters can be rotated as they begin to dull. A notch at the bottom of each cutter acts as a wire stripper.
The screwdriver is where the Gerber Center-Drive gets its name. By creating an offset design and extending it out to 3.
This is a sound design in theory and it is definitely an improvement in practice. First, they gave the bit holder a magnet to ensure that you can keep a bit in the driver without fear of losing it. The Gerber Center-Drive comes with 14 different bits — 12 are stored in a bit holder that conveniently fits in your sheath, one is held in the driver itself, and the last is held in a spare bit holder on the tool.
A plain edge knife is accessible from the outside of the tool and a serrated edge knife is found on the inside. The plain edge blade features a drop point style and easy one-handed opening with a hole cut in the base. It locks in place with a frame lock. The blade is 3. This high carbon steel blend is not a surprising choice for multi-tool.
Certainly something like 8Cr13MoV would be a good mid-range choice. Some users may even be willing to move up to an S30V or S35VN, but that would raise the price significantly. The file offers fine and coarse sides and is nice to have on board for deburring or filing down other sharp metal pieces.
Not that its ability to crack open a cold brew at the end of the day is any better than other versions, but there is an integrated nail puller and prybar on the end of it. You have markings in both inches and centimeters on the inside of the handle.
While this is probably the only place they really could have reasonably etched it, is only mildly effective because of its placement. It can be used to judge fastener lengths pretty easily though. The fabric sheath features two pockets — one for the Gerber Center-Drive and one for the spare bit holder.
The back features three loops that can be used to thread it onto a belt, clip it to a carabiner, or attach it in a variety of other ways. However, it is a huge step forward in having an effective backup for each of these tools close at hand and saving you a trip back to the truck for one-off jobs. On the clock, Kenny dives deep to discover the practical limits and comparative differences for all kinds of tools.
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Published in Gerber. Tagged under centerdrive center drive Gerber. Read more It has been a while since a multitool has come along that has generated so much excitement and anticipation as Gerber is doing with the new Center Drive Multitool.
Tagged under Gerber Dime Keychain Tools. Tagged under Gerber Curve Keychain Tools. The blades were sharp enough to help whittle a stick for kindle to start our campfire. The beer can opener helped keep us hydrated until early in the morning and the pliers executed a perfect quick fix for the metal stakes of our tent one got bent in the car on the way up to the campsite.
The multitool had a few minor drawbacks. For example, on our camping trip we had a mechanical issue with one of our cars and the multitool was a bit too short in length to reach fully inside the engine bay.
Small pet peeve, and it was solved by the toolbox we carry around in our trunk of our car. It can be a tiny bit challenging to open with one hand. I was working on my car and my left hand was holding up the exhaust and I grabbed the multitool with my right hand and it took me a few seconds to be able to open it. To be fair, I had just received the tool in the mail, so there is a good chance it just needed to be broken in.
I put some WD40 on the internal moving parts and was easily able to open it with one hand. She said she had somewhat of a hard time opening it with her left hand, but after she got it open it was a moot issue.
The tool worked just fine in her southpaw hands. The Gerber Suspension MultiTool is the perfect mix of form and function. It delivers high quality performance at a bargain price. Gerber takes customer reviews and concerns very carefully and with each passing year, incorporates new features and designs into their products.
This long history of innovation Saf. Plus makes for a multitool that cannot be beat, only copied by the competition. One of the best features of this multitool is that it has a very sleek design to it. The same goes for the Suspension multitool. The cut-out areas make this multitool look very sleek and slick…a long ways away from the boxy, ugly, heavy multitools that flooded the market 10 years ago.
For the price, the Gerber Suspension MultiTool is a solid tool that should last you a literal lifetime if you take care of it a little basic maintenance every few months will help it go a long way. Any flaws we listed above were literal mere inconveniences with regards to the value and quality of build.
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