Am I making a spork?

So, I have a decent product. Good warmup edge. Thinking of making a special edition where the backer has hex cutouts to tighten 3/8” and 1/2” bolts. Might even make the biner attachment point one of them. I figure it will mean sport climbers will have a tool to tighten bolts if they are loose. I feel like most people don’t carry a wrench and even trad climbers don’t always have the nut tool with the wrench cutouts on them. 

Also making one where the attachment point functions as a bottle opener. Thoughts? 

I used to have one of the nut tools that had hex cutouts but the few times I tried to use it I couldn't get it to work. The tool would interfere with either the surrounding rock or the hanger itself. I ended up just carrying a small adjustable wrench. I can't tell from the photo but it looks like there is a slight bend in the backing plate so that may work better.

As for the bottle opener a carabiner works just fine.

Ken Tubbswrote:

As for the bottle opener a carabiner works just fine.

I have also run into the interference issue with the nut tool wrench, but something is better than nothing maybe. I’ll workshop it.

As for the bottle opener, sorta gimmicky as literally everything can open a bottle, but wouldn’t hurt to optimize a bit since the geometry is basically there. (Not on the one pictured, but on a collab I did with Crux Forged)

the nut tool "wrench" is all but useless for reasons mentioned above. You cant get a nut much more than hand tight with it due to almost no room for it to actually turn. I'd see your warmup edge having the same issue with having basically no travel to tighten a nut. Cool idea if you can make it functional!

It's already a bottle opener. 

M Awrote:

It's already a bottle opener. 

The world is a bottle opener, yet people still buy them

John Clarkwrote:

The world is a bottle opener, yet people still buy them

Returning to the car after a semi-alpine climbing day, someone had beers in a cooler but no bottle opener. I scavenged a .223 case from the forest road and opened bottles with it to everyone's delight. I hope to one day again be that cool.

An on topic reply: I have the fancy nut tool and find that sometimes it's useless for tightening those bolts and sometimes fine. I'm not sure about the underlying causes -- maybe it's freeze/thaw backing out a bolt? Maybe threads are getting mangled so the bolt can't get tightened?

M Awrote:

It's already a bottle opener. 

Fun fact (not to encourage thread drift or anything): I have found four uses for the metolius fs mini ii:

1. Bailing (its best use)
2. Hating (its most common use)
3. My keys and crack gloves (availability is important for the first two uses)
4. As a bottle opener! I hated it a little less after discovering that so I might need to use other parts of the world for this purpose.

To tighten a bolt you'd need at least 4 or 5 inches of leverage, how would that work with this geometry?

Ok was hoping someone else would ask, but….the f@$k is it??

Mark Pilatewrote:

Ok was hoping someone else would ask, but….the f@$k is it??

Yank on wood, make fingers feel good.

David Lwrote:

Returning to the car after a semi-alpine climbing day, someone had beers in a cooler but no bottle opener. I scavenged a .223 case from the forest road and opened bottles with it to everyone's delight. I hope to one day again be that cool.

Seat belt buckles work great. 

So, useless spork, wrench maybe useful it i can make it clear the hanger gap

If you have the tooling available to make this (custom die punch? CNC laser/plasma/waterjet?) why not go ahead and make a lightweight (1/8” or whatever plate, cutouts for weight savings) climbing wrench set— box wrenches in common bolt sizes, open ended wrenches in common quicklink sizes. 

oh right, I sorta forgot that I could cheaply make custom nut tools with usable wrenches. Great Idea. Any features people want? Can't promise dirt cheap, but can probably say under $15/ea