Posted on 05/06/2017 5:21:48 AM PDT by marktwain
At the Knife Check for President Donald Trump's speech at the NRA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, I noticed that they were getting a few black composite ice scrappers.
I asked about them and was told that they were being given away at a booth near the FN display.
As I wandered around looking for the black ice scrapers, I noticed the Choate Machine Tool booth.
Choate had made a fiberglass reinforced letter opener in the 1980's so I decided to ask them if they knew about the ice scrappers.
That is us, they said, and hauled out a bag of ice scrappers to refill the empty basket at their booth.
Noting my interest, Fred Choate handed me the orange Car Rescue Tool shown in the picture. It costs $20.95, (price corrected, thanks to Chewy, in comments) and is meant to be attached to the receiving stub of a car seat belt with a little dental floss or similar, breakable, line. That would keep the tool from flying away if the car rolls. The idea is you would grasp the tool and break the line with a quick jerk when it is needed for emergency use. The three main features are the six inch blade for scraping ice, the recessed seat belt cutter, and the window breaker/spike/Phillips screwdriver.
I will be installing the one Fred comped me in my personally owned vehicle.
I did not test the Car Rescue Tool. I value my vehicles' windows and seat belts. But Fred said one of their customers is a first responder. The responder found an unconscious woman in a car in water. He broke out the rear window and cut the seat belt with the Choate tool to
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A nice added feature might be a small light, so it would be convenient to carry in dark parking lots.
I mostly remember Choate for the folding stocks that many of us installed on 10/22 rifles back in the '80's; I haven't thought about them for some time.
Mr. niteowl77
Scrappers, scrapers.. what difference does it make?
Right?
Does it come in brass?
I wonder if it is legal there.
Looks to have some valuable alternate uses.
Scrape your ice.
Use it if you get into a scrape.
Thus a scraper AND a scrapper.
It doesn’t look lethal, I don’t know why it would be illegal.
Crappers, capers, cha cha cha.
And ice pick!
Really, I was just thinking it needs a reason to be carried, by people who have been otherwise disarmed.
Try these instead. They are the BADDEST legal product you can own.
I doubt they would scrape the ice off your windshield, but they will shred any poor sap that messes with you while you do it!
Yep - I still have a few of Choate's early products around here - the Zytel letter opener/dagger marked "Choate Tool Corp" sits in my pencil drawer at work. I think it was called the "Stinger".
One of the early mail-order companies to sell Choate products was L.L. Baston Co., also out of Arkansas like Choate. I used to enjoy getting their catalogues.
In CA you probably need to carry a Pulled Pork recipe and an apron or something to show these are for cooking.
Carrying just a baseball bat in your car is a club.
Add a ball and mitt, and you are ball player, who just happened to have a bat handy.
So wrap them in a old apron, they are the badest tool/weapon you could have in your car.
I have some of them and trust me on this, NOBODY would fight you wearing these!
Mrs. L and I both keep a Swiss Army Rescue Tool in our cars. Pricey but well worth it.
L
i had ten of those letter openers and gave most of them away, still have one, wish i'd of kept a couple more called it the frequent flyer
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