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Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)

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us Offline Barry Rowland

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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1950 on: January 09, 2019, 09:51:07 PM
Welcome aboard and nice job!! :tu:
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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1951 on: January 10, 2019, 06:28:32 AM
Can I join the Club?

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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1952 on: January 10, 2019, 07:20:27 AM
Glad to have you Campbell :tu:
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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1953 on: January 10, 2019, 07:52:39 AM
Glad to have you Campbell :tu:
Thank you!!

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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1954 on: January 10, 2019, 12:27:39 PM
Welcome to the club Max and CAMPBELL :salute: Great pics both of you :like:


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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1955 on: January 10, 2019, 12:33:45 PM
Also nice mod on the pins of the lock tabs, Max :like:


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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1956 on: January 10, 2019, 01:35:26 PM
Also nice mod on the pins of the lock tabs, Max :like:

Thanks Poncho65.

I realized reading all the Rebar threads that the tool “wobble” was a common problem reported by users, so I took a closer look at the geometry of the locking system under a magnifier.

I could see that the culprit was play in the lock tab pin holes. It was easy to see that the pin could move forward and back in the hole, enough to allow the tool to rotate slightly on the pivot when locked open.

What’s nice about my ‘fix’ is that there’s no modification to the Rebar. The brass bushing is pressed into the hole from the inside (so it does not fall out), filed down almost completely so the lever can be re-installed without binding on the bushing. Then I simple ground down the remaining part of the tube to be flush with the handle.

All the tools now lock completely solidly, and still deploy smoothly with no issues. Just the casting of the lock recess of the Phillips is a little wide, so there’s still a tiny bit of play, but nothing like it was.

I suspect that LM leave some tolerance to allow for tolerance variations as there are 3 pieces of metal that must align perfectly to lock a tool.

The brass bushings I used are known as ferrules, used inside a rubber grommet to mount RC servos. Pic below.

So the challenge is to see if other Rebar owners are up to the challenge of this fix?

Kind regards, Max

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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1957 on: January 10, 2019, 06:16:34 PM
I really don't have much wobble in mine :think: need to check them more closely though  :cheers: it is a good idea to reduce tolerances  :salute: the bushings you used being a softer metal will also allow for enough play that they won't break if something is off with the lock pins :cheers:


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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1958 on: January 15, 2019, 07:44:22 PM


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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1959 on: January 15, 2019, 07:47:46 PM
Nice  :tu: :like:
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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1961 on: January 16, 2019, 12:18:16 AM
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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1962 on: January 16, 2019, 12:50:39 AM
Great combo buddy!   
Barry


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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1963 on: January 16, 2019, 01:16:34 AM
Thanks Barry !  :cheers:


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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1964 on: April 23, 2019, 06:34:32 PM
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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1965 on: April 23, 2019, 06:44:04 PM
Great pic Steve :like: I bought another regular SS Rebar the other day because they look so good :dd: and I might have modded the last one I had (it had non replaceable cutter head) and made a Reaver with it ::) :D


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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1966 on: April 23, 2019, 09:21:25 PM
Nice !    :like: :tu:


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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1967 on: April 23, 2019, 11:38:11 PM
Great pic Steve!
Barry


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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1968 on: April 24, 2019, 12:43:12 AM
Nice Steve! Awesome tool! :like:


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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1969 on: April 24, 2019, 12:59:33 AM
Thanks fellas !    :hatsoff:


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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1970 on: May 10, 2019, 03:02:48 AM
Cheers!
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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1971 on: May 10, 2019, 04:05:37 AM
Great pic, DT :like: I need to carry a Rebar in the next few days :cheers:


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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1972 on: May 10, 2019, 04:29:43 AM
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Thanks! Yes, you do ;)
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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1973 on: May 12, 2019, 06:27:48 AM
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Thanks! Yes, you do ;)

Think I may carry one tomorrow :salute: :cheers:


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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1974 on: May 12, 2019, 03:48:42 PM
The Rebar has never let me down.  It's a pocket size power house!
Barry


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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1975 on: May 13, 2019, 01:52:53 AM
I carried my new to me SS Rebar today :cheers: I got this one of eBay and had to clean it up and get some rough spots off of it but all in all it was in great shape  :tu:



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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1976 on: May 13, 2019, 02:02:47 AM
Nice find Poncho!
Barry


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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1977 on: May 13, 2019, 11:45:40 AM
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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1978 on: May 13, 2019, 12:33:52 PM
Thanks Barry and Ws :hatsoff: It was nice carrying a Rebar again :cheers: Been a while with all the challenges and stuff :ahhh :D


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Re: Rebar Owner's Club (pic heavy)
Reply #1979 on: May 14, 2019, 05:52:56 AM


I may be working on a holster for the Rebar sometime in the next few months.
For now I made a 3D model and rendering. The model is the closed external parts only.


 

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