I remember something like that going bad a while back.
That's why I'd like to see the actual posession of these tools limited to trusted mods / admin.
We have more than a few "bounty hunters" here that will go to extremes to track down people who take advantage of / try to cheat the system.
Any ideas, edits, problems, ideas that would make this more foolproof?
I don't expect anyone to go loaning out their own tools, that's why I think a community effort to get use of large ticket price, seldom used tools would be great. I think that with responsible hands guiding their use there should be a very limited chance of breakage, and repairs could be taken care of by the main fund.
An example of use would be at our upcoming quad-state z-meet, or any other Z meet. An attending mod would bring it with them and supervise the use of it.