Hi everyone,

just want to throw a thought at you: What fasteners do you carry?

Looking at typical EDC setups, we seem to have lots of ways to take things apart with knives, scissors, prybars, can openers and so on. For joining or attaching things, we don’t usually have strong options – duct tape, string, snare wire, glue or cable ties are all great, but with just those I feel I’m a bit low on options in some situations.

This picture shows most of the fasteners that I carry. This selection gives me lots of options, and it’s still very compact:

– photonlight croco-type clip with built-in magnets
– cable ties
– bulldog-clips, very strong steel springs (the black part)
– safety pins
– sewing needles
– extremely strong sewing thread, on bobbin of sewing machine
– saltwater fishing line, on bobbin of sewing machine
– blue tack
– two component glue, sets in a few minutes and is ridiculously stronger than superglue
– superglue, tube, tip and lid disassembled for compact storage
– ad-hoc wire connector (the blades only) *
– two units from a terminal strip
– snare wire
– spax screws, self cutting, for wood and many other materials
– nail

* These ad-hoc wire connectors are the inner “double-u-shaped blades” from those plastic thingies that you can slide over two cables and squeeze shut with pliers so that these “blades” cut through the insulation, squeeze the inner metal of the cables, and connect them. Automotive store – very handy.

Thoughts, suggestions…?

Cheers,

Matt