Hyde 209651 17 in 1 Painters Multi Tool

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The 17-in-1 multi-tool is extra-tricked with everything from an on-board nail set and screw driver to a bottle opener. If you just want a basic painter’s tool for a minimal investment, we recommend the Hyde 06986 6-in-1 Multi-Tool. HYDE 17 in 1 PROJECT TOOL is the most recent multi tool has increased multi-use features to a whopping 17 uses! The big one doesn’t wrap around the sides of the rollers to push the paint off, so it takes about 16 passes, as opposed to eight or so with the small one. After looking at about 30 different available painter’s tools, we noticed that the Hyde was the only one with the small roller cutout.

In addition to the usual prying, scraping, and spackling, I once saw him use one to open and eat a can of tuna at lunch break.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. But for this guide, my more relevant experience is that I’ve completely painted, oiled, or stained every single room of my previous house (floors, walls, ceilings—three or four coats each).

The Linzer has much of the same functionality as Hyde’s 17-in-1, but is missing the small roller cutout. Beyond the small roller bonus feature, the Hyde multitool has a lot of what you’d expect from a good tool of its kind. Also, knowing from personal experience how nice it can be to have a quick and dirty screwdriver on hand while prepping a room for paint, we keyed in on tools with that feature as well. This is the only painter’s multitool that we found that cleans two sizes of roller covers, and it can also open paint cans, scrape old plaster, and crack a beer, among many other tasks.It was all part of a full gut and remodel and in the process, I became acutely aware of all the tools that added efficiency to what can be a mind-deadening job. In fact, properly used, this tool will probably pay for itself after just one or two painting projects. For a tool that weighs less than 5 ounces and has almost no moving parts, the Hyde 17-in-1 contains a vast amount of functionality—including one key feature your typical painter’s multitool doesn’t have.

I've never seen that with the nail set in the end, I'm going to have to check my sundries suppliers now.

I don’t normally embed manufacturers’ video but in this case I did because it’s the best way to show what the tool can do—and also because it’s kind of amusing. com, states, “In the short while I’ve owned my 17-in-1 Hyde Painter’s Multi-Tool, it has come in handy for filling voids in the bathroom subfloor that I’m prepping for tile, removing old caulk along the base of the tub, setting protruding nail heads, removing old drywall screws, and knocking down the nubs on the wall I’m about to paint. The 10th and 11th applications are the ¾" and 11/16" wrenches you need to connect your whip hose to both your spray gun and your main airless hose. For this guide, we also spoke with Mark Clement, licensed contractor and co-host of the MyFixitUpLife radio show.

Squeezing paint probably sounds like pinching pennies, but proper use of a painter’s tool for cleaning rollers can add up to significant cost savings. Because of the benefits of the small roller cutout, we feel these failings are offset by the overall usefulness of the tool. He lives in a very demanding 250-year-old farmhouse and spent four years gutting and rebuilding his previous home. Clement has written for a wide variety of tool and construction publications and has a very good grasp of the needs of the homeowner as well as the full-time carpenter.Also, in looking at the other painter’s tools we tested, the screwdriver ability was a weak point for all of them. What separates this one from the rest of the basic 6-in-1s that we considered were the stainless steel blade, the metal handled cap, the guarantee, and Hyde’s overall reputation when it comes to painting equipment. Seriously, though, Hyde’s 17-in-1 Painter’s Tool has an interesting design; it’s along the lines of what a Swiss Army Knife might be if it had been designed by a painter. The nail set is really low quality and it actually bent the first time we tried to use it (none of the other painter’s tools come with a nail set). Whether it’s finding great products or discovering helpful advice, we’ll help you get it right (the first time).