This is the pocket-size version of the two tools above: a 6 inch Pliers Wrench and a 5 inch Cobra, in a polyester belt pouch. It goes with me literally everywhere. Together with a few other tools we’ll get to, it makes an on-the-go kit small enough to carry every day and far more capable than its size lets on.

It has gotten me out of a lot of scrapes. I’ve leveled a wobbly table at a restaurant to help out a waiter, and re-hung a patio gate that was falling off its hinges on a wrought-iron fence, both with nothing but what was in this pouch. If you want one thing off this page to start with, and you want it on you when something breaks, this is it.