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Re: Leatherman PST chronology project
« Reply #375 on: May 05, 2010, 08:07:08 PM »
what about the hollow rivetd screws?
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Re: Leatherman PST chronology project
« Reply #376 on: May 05, 2010, 08:17:22 PM »
..and the screwed rivets?

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Re: Leatherman PST chronology project
« Reply #377 on: May 05, 2010, 08:22:31 PM »
 :D

and the oh wait :P
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Re: Leatherman PST chronology project
« Reply #378 on: May 06, 2010, 02:55:59 AM »
Great idea with the demo picture Dave!  :tu:
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Re: Leatherman PST chronology project
« Reply #379 on: May 06, 2010, 11:43:19 AM »
I shall have a look as I go through Ryan :tu:

In the meantime, tell me what you think of this as a diagram:




thats great Dave, just printing it out  :tu:

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Re: Leatherman PST chronology project
« Reply #380 on: May 06, 2010, 12:02:46 PM »
I'll send you a bill for the royalties Paul ;)

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Re: Leatherman PST chronology project
« Reply #381 on: May 06, 2010, 12:11:58 PM »
I'll send you a bill for the royalties Paul ;)

 :ahhh  :D  i owe ya mate  ;) do you except all major credit cards and PST's  :rofl:
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Re: Leatherman PST chronology project
« Reply #382 on: May 06, 2010, 08:55:09 PM »
Very comprehensive Dave :o Will be a great help in determining age of some PSTs that otherwise would just be educated guesses at best :D Can't wait to see it all when completely finished :cheers:
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Re: Leatherman PST chronology project
« Reply #383 on: May 06, 2010, 09:42:11 PM »
It's coming along, but I'm not happy with the pictures I'm getting at the moment. Need to fix up my lamps or wait until the weekend and get outside I think :-\

The wordy bits are coming together though :tu:


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Re: Leatherman PST chronology project
« Reply #384 on: May 07, 2010, 07:05:21 AM »
Looks really good Dave , I'm looking to expand my PST collection so this will be a great help  :tu:

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Re: Leatherman PST chronology project
« Reply #385 on: May 07, 2010, 08:15:04 PM »
It's funny looking back to 2 years ago how little we really knew about the PST until a few threads like this 1 shed so much light on them :cheers:
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Re: Leatherman PST chronology project
« Reply #386 on: May 11, 2010, 01:10:13 AM »
Well, I'm starting to think I imagined the 4th blade type  :think:

I'm sticking with three for now, but who knows :D

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Re: Leatherman PST chronology project
« Reply #387 on: May 11, 2010, 01:30:27 AM »
Well, I'm starting to think I imagined the 4th blade type  :think:

I'm sticking with three for now, but who knows :D

Were you thinking of a PST II combo blade perhaps? :think:
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Re: Leatherman PST chronology project
« Reply #388 on: May 11, 2010, 02:01:40 AM »
No, it was a bit more subtle than that.

I thought I'd spotted a sort of "halfway" between the sabre and the final clip point blades, not quite the usual one or the other. But it was late, so maybe I was just tired - very odd :-\

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Re: Leatherman PST chronology project
« Reply #389 on: May 26, 2010, 07:43:59 PM »
At the meet on Saturday, I saw a PST that belonged to Tony that was every bit as interesting as I'd hoped.

I'd asked Tony to bring it along, based on some comments he'd made about it on another thread some time ago - I suspected it might be a bit special....



As you can see, it's unused as Tony received it as a gift from his parents in the late 80s. Consequently, it has no date codes (pre-1992)......



It has the "saber blade" and tools that are consistent with a late 80s PST, but has both cm and inches on the ruler - this would suggest a very late 80s model with the metric scale on there.



BUT - this PST has the original plier heads, without any TOOL or USA markings, as used on the early PSTs. I haven't seen this plier head on a tool that doesn't also have the drop point blade, old style awl etc. Has anyone else?

The fact that it is still with its original box too made me want to throw it in the back of the Landrover and clear off with it - but Tony's a big bloke :D

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