Originally Posted by
rjones28
Well, I keep a couple of Park TL-1s in my bag for tire removal 'cause I have dainty fingers.

They shouldn't hurt anything.
Reloading the tire is easy enough by hand and I don't want to pinch the new tube.
One day, after having a discussion somewhere on this forum about the tools, I decided to try my skewer lever to see if it would work in an emergency. Sure enough, it worked.