What’s the most useless item you have bought & dare admit it?
Mine was a plastic teabag squeezer..
Mine was a plastic teabag squeezer..
Useless
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A Thermarest something, the £100 plus one with the built in hand pump indicated by 'Hand prints' on the side tube. Used it three times and on the forth the internal seam adhesive failed and I ended up with a big grey balloon shaped thing like a stranded Whale in the tent.
I had bought it the previous Summer but not used it at all. Out of guarantee by a few weeks when it failed.
I've used a cheap bombproof self inflating Multimat, probably for hundreds of nights out since.
I had bought it the previous Summer but not used it at all. Out of guarantee by a few weeks when it failed.
I've used a cheap bombproof self inflating Multimat, probably for hundreds of nights out since.
Tyre levers from reputable makes that snapped. Giant, schwalbe and others. Not bushcraft related but outdoors related.
Wild country hoolie 3etc tunnel tent. Pole snapped two days into a two week trip. Luckily in packed a pole repair tube from a vango, cheapo tent. The more expensive WC Hool tent didn't come with no repair kit but vango comes with na decent one. Needless to say it went back to store and took 5 weeks for store head office to authorise refund! Blacks group are pretty poor at customer service ime.
Wild country hoolie 3etc tunnel tent. Pole snapped two days into a two week trip. Luckily in packed a pole repair tube from a vango, cheapo tent. The more expensive WC Hool tent didn't come with no repair kit but vango comes with na decent one. Needless to say it went back to store and took 5 weeks for store head office to authorise refund! Blacks group are pretty poor at customer service ime.
Nice thread idea.
I'd like to throw in the mix all those cheaper copies of victorinox swiss army knives. Bought one, and had one given as a prezzi, they look the same from the outside, but the built quality and steel quality are just so far off.
I'll have plenty more to add to this thread!
I'd like to throw in the mix all those cheaper copies of victorinox swiss army knives. Bought one, and had one given as a prezzi, they look the same from the outside, but the built quality and steel quality are just so far off.
I'll have plenty more to add to this thread!
While I'm on a roll.... footpumps. Why do they collapse when in use?
I had a secateurs multitool that was made from cheap pressed steel and just bent rather than cut anything.
A Primus *folding* plastic spork.
Clip broke on 1st or 2nd use.
I also have a Ti folding spork that's too thin to be really useful - more of a gimmick.
Takedown Ti chopsticks too... Can't be too rude about them, they were a gift.
Going back a bit, 1980-ish, a Solingen sheath knife (with leather sheath). Steel pommel, antler handle, brass guard & 6" stainless steel blade. It was pretty expensive & really looked the business. It was my first 'real' knife too but turned out to be absolute ****
The convex grind was impossible to sharpen & I ended up throwing it at a tree in frustration after countless attempts to make it usable & about an inch of the the blade's tip broke off. Looking at the cross sections, there were more air bubbles than metal so hardly surprising the thing didn't take an edge.
All that glitters is not gold.
The convex grind was impossible to sharpen & I ended up throwing it at a tree in frustration after countless attempts to make it usable & about an inch of the the blade's tip broke off. Looking at the cross sections, there were more air bubbles than metal so hardly surprising the thing didn't take an edge.
All that glitters is not gold.
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