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Review on Spider Tool Holster: Enhance Your Belt-Carrying Experience for Power Drill, Driver, Multitool, Pneumatic, and More by Jon Delgado

Revainrating 3 out of 5

This is great but needs work

I'm a Demolition Specialist, Installer, Finisher, Labourer, Sheet Metal Technician and we build everything from outbuildings to large stilt houses and turkey sheds. Factory hooks on power drills take time and can fall from quite a height. The Gorilla hook is very durable or designed for everyday use. Here is my honest and constructive opinion. I hope it reaches the engineering and design team. I love that you gave me a zip tie to tie around the drill. I'm always climbing obstacles, traverses, so I have to squeeze my tool belt, drill bit and anything attached to me through those obstacles as well. I've been at it for three weeks since I bought these things. I'm impressed, but it takes a beating. The Velcro comes off very quickly and doesn't hold up well. It slips around the handle of the drill, so after using the drill you can press the Velcro and move it to the desired position. In my previous use I accidentally moved it quite a bit around the handle and had to stop to lock the position to holster it. The screed put an end to all that. I read the comment on the attachment system and couldn't disagree with what they said. It's frustrating, especially when everyone's waiting for you to insert your steel end and you're fumbling with your holster, trying to either snap it on or off. Accidentally pulling the lever incredibly often is pretty awkward. As another person mentioned, I can also shorten the lever. What would be nice is the safety mechanism you see on Safariland pistol holsters, just press with your thumb. Put the drill in the holster and the dart will automatically lock into the holster and go nowhere. Then simply take the drill, press the button with your thumb and pull out the drill. When you're done, simply slide it back into your holster and it will automatically lock into place. It's simple and easy to remember, instead of cocking, cocking, half-cocking, almost cocking, but it's not enough to drill, accidentally hit the level every minute of your workday, at least I think I do I finally saved for the latter because I think it's the weak point of the whole system. At first glance, the clip that attaches to the belt seems to be irregularly shaped, it looks more like a cell phone holder for a regular belt. It fits a standard tool belt, but with difficulty. It has no way of attaching to the belt, it just slides along the belt and attaches itself. The problem is that when using the heavy battery kick, I occasionally pull the whole thing off the belt. At this point, I just drop the clip on the mount to the floor and pick it up later. With a regular tool belt, this only happens occasionally as its clip also slides up and down the belt easily, which I don't like. Occurrence. Most regular harnesses are thinner, tighter, and what happens is that when you try to release your impact, which happens with almost every pull, the entire system pulls out with the impact. Pulling the belt clip on the mount with a drill will render this system unusable. You need to make the strap mount wider. There is a tool belt system that uses belt clips. It slips over the belt and you have to pull the tab to attach it to the belt. This allows you to use this belt clip, this holder repeatedly, you can put there a drill holster from the same system, another tool bag, a frame bag, an electrician's bag, etc. These belt clips are much wider and also have an attachment tongue. which folds over to the open side of the belt clip to keep it in place so it doesn't come off your tool belt no matter what you're doing. You can also make the stud, which is the part of the Velcro that goes onto the drill or tool, smaller and metal and trim it a hair. In my work, you often have to switch hands and drill or screw something, the thing sticks out a bit and makes the whole thing pretty unwieldy. . I say this because we wear clothes under our tool belt, we wear suspenders, we have bags and other tools on our tool belt. Since most tool pouches stick out, they move slightly away from the belt for a better grip. Your belt clip is a bit close to the belt making it difficult to open which helps with that latch lever crap and because part of the hanging system is close to a belt clip which makes the holster quite a nuisance. In the meantime, I plan to drill a hole in the metal part of the clip so I can thread the zip tie through while holding it on my belt.

Pros
  • Hands free
Cons
  • I won't say anything