Loose or Tight handles!

Leatherman123 · **on:** February 10, 2008, 01:19:18 AM

Do you all prefer loose or tight handles on your MTs? I like them loose then tight!

Spoonrobot · **Reply #1 on:** February 10, 2008, 01:52:51 AM

Comfortably tight. Loose is sloppy and sloppy sucks.

edap617 · **Reply #2 on:** February 10, 2008, 02:39:36 AM

Tight for me. I don't like anything loose.

Sea Monster · **Reply #3 on:** February 10, 2008, 02:40:15 AM

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Do you all prefer loose or tight handles on your MTs? I like them loose then tight!

$:-\$

I have reservations about this thread.

I like my tools firm

On a sak it is easy 'cause they held in place - open or closed, by the spring. - Multitool handles are a bit of a different science

I wonder if SOGs new Piano Locks are good like that (for the blades), since it has an individual bar for each tool, the rest won't flop about...

Back to handles - I suppose if I had to choose - tight, but I don't see why I can't have it just the way I like it - due to the cut of the handles (square) and the ramps on the plier head, even an old PST is firm closed, firm open, and only sloppy in the middle.

I'm told Swisstools snap to Open, Close, and Ninety Degrees with some mechanism?

Spoonrobot · **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2008, 03:03:52 AM

Quote from: Nomad on February 10, 2008, 02:40:15 AM

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Do you all prefer loose or tight handles on your MTs? I like them loose then tight!
I'm told Swisstools snap to Open, Close, and Ninety Degrees with some mechanism?

Yup, the SwissTool plier widget is sprung by tension from the handles when it is shoved off axis by the ramps on the plier heads, thus it is very snappy open/close and does not wear as hard as other butterfly tools.

The SwissTool is handle tension illustrated to perfection for me.

NutSAK · **Reply #5 on:** February 10, 2008, 05:08:47 AM

Quote from: Spoonrobot on February 10, 2008, 03:03:52 AM

The SwissTool is handle tension illustrated to perfection for me.

+1

Dunc · **Reply #6 on:** February 10, 2008, 10:03:45 AM

Quote from: NutSAK on February 10, 2008, 05:08:47 AM

Quote from: Spoonrobot on February 10, 2008, 03:03:52 AM

The SwissTool is handle tension illustrated to perfection for me.

+1

Its a very good method that doesnt show wear even after many years of use .I once had a big name multitool that after a couple of months use could not support the weight of its opposite handle , when the tool was closed and you held it by just one handle the other handle just swung open . You could easily butterfly it but when doing so some of the tools would semi deploy at the same time

Not good

Dunc

Benner · **Reply #7 on:** February 10, 2008, 10:19:12 AM

I like handles a little loose so that they can be opened one handed, but like the guys above I am also keen on that quality snap that is shown when opening the Swisstool.

Mike, Lord of the Spammers! · **Reply #8 on:** February 10, 2008, 10:25:34 AM

Tool's tight, women loose

Sea Monster · **Reply #9 on:** February 10, 2008, 10:44:35 AM

Quote from: Micky

Tool's tight, women loose

I was wondering who would make that joke (or the reverse of it), and I'm not at all surprised it was you!

That said - I rather prefer my women a little bit of both eh.

Dunc - You going to let us know the Make and Model of this most disappointing of tools?

It's in the same family of technologies - the, let's call it a "foot", of my zippo (the bit that goes between the spring and the cap) has worn a little and is now quite flat, giving the lighter a less convincing snap and oftimes not flicking the cap all the way closed.

The lighter is only four years old, but I'm a compulsive flipper, so I won't hold it against any flaw of engineering.

Leatherman123 · **Reply #10 on:** February 10, 2008, 06:24:53 PM

it has to be a ST 200!

Dunc · **Reply #11 on:** February 10, 2008, 08:22:19 PM

Quote from: Leatherman123 on February 10, 2008, 06:24:53 PM

it has to be a ST 2001

Yep a ST 200 . Nice tool and like I've said many times I am a big fan of supertools but this one went too loose too soon

Dunc

Benner · **Reply #12 on:** February 10, 2008, 10:29:50 PM

Quote from: dunc5 on February 10, 2008, 08:22:19 PM

Quote from: Leatherman123 on February 10, 2008, 06:24:53 PM
it has to be a ST 2001

Yep a ST 200 . Nice tool and like I've said many times I am a big fan of supertools but this one went too loose too soon

Dunc

You wouldn't like my Supertool then, it is very loose. I kinda like it that way though.

Leatherman123 · **Reply #13 on:** February 11, 2008, 01:11:38 AM

Any Supertool that has been used for at least two months is loose!

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