I am working on a design project and I need to know the most commnly used MacGyver tools, Lets start with swiss army knife and go from there...
Thanx, your help is greatly appreciated.
MacGyver was my hero as a kid!!!

Duct tape!

Gum wrapper!

The powerful paper clips!!

Matches!

Shoelaces

guns
(wrenches, hammers, lockpicks, diversions . . . )

Hand grenades - He's uses the gunpowder from them to blow things open etc

He also uses fertilizer a lot to make explosives. And he opens telephones and takes out the magnets, in several episodes. Have we ten yet?

I think the thing he uses most often is his brain *groan*

Did he use shoelaces more than the one time in "Partners"? I can't remember any other instance, but my brain's hurting right now anyway . . .

Certainly he used string often enough (shoelaces, sleeping bag cord, etc.), not to mention rope (lasso, slack-rope walking, etc.).

He also used light bulbs at least three times that I can recall offhand: at least twice to provide the spark for an explosion, once to make a lockpick.

Paper.

Alcohol.

Oxygen cylinders.

Water.

Oh yeah... ice cubes! For a time-delay diversion in the Gambit with the Lady General, and again in 'Last Stand' to break the lock to escape from the walk-in freezer. Oh, and again in 'The Escape' another time-delay fuse, this time to blow up a drug lab.

Handy stuff, ice!

He also used ice in "To Be a Man".

Potatoes!

We've seen Mac make use of taters for kitchen timers... and for plugging up Bad Guy's exhaust pipes.