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Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!

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be Offline Ivo

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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #90 on: July 03, 2019, 10:53:07 AM
OK here we go with the third set of SAKs.
SAKs with nylon scales :

1 - 5 84mm
6 - 8 91mm

5  2.3803
6  3.3613
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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #91 on: July 03, 2019, 11:10:17 AM
Thanks, but I cannot tell from these pictures. The kind of pictures from which one can usually tell are pictures of the back of the SAK that are taken with a cellular phone using the flash (at some mild angle). The point is that non-anodized liners are mirror-like and reflect light only in certain directions, whereas anodized liners scatter light in all directions. Hence, the very directional light from the cell phone led flash lets you see the difference. I attach an image of the back of a cybertool 29 showing this effect. The cybertool 29 is special in that it has two different liners touching each other (the anodized one and the thick one right next to it). You can see that the non-anodized liners reflect light similarly to the springs separated by them, whereas the anodized liner looks very different.

Like this?
To me the liners aren't anodized.

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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #92 on: July 03, 2019, 11:22:09 AM
Like this?
Yes! Thanks!  :hatsoff: It looks like you have a real EcoLine Handyman (no anodized liners). Very cool!  :tu:


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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #93 on: July 03, 2019, 06:03:08 PM
Yes! Thanks!  :hatsoff: It looks like you have a real EcoLine Handyman (no anodized liners). Very cool!  :tu:

YES! And many thanks for your help.
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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #94 on: August 01, 2019, 11:26:06 PM


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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #95 on: August 02, 2019, 05:40:32 PM
Not very common Spartan serrated with nylon scales


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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #96 on: August 02, 2019, 05:52:44 PM
Not very common Spartan serrated with nylon scales(Image removed from quote.)

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Nice MIB copy jnoxyd!   :tu:

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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #97 on: August 02, 2019, 06:00:01 PM
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Reply #98 on: August 08, 2019, 12:34:26 AM
Not very common Spartan serrated with nylon scales(Image removed from quote.)

That's just plain cool!  How will you resist using it as your everyday picnic knife?


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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #99 on: August 08, 2019, 12:51:10 AM
Two SMICO "Hiker" SAKs, one with "Economy" tang and the other with "Elinox."  It's interesting to note that the corkscrew on the Elinox knife is smooth.  This is correct for this vintage, as Jazzbass pointed out in this thread:   https://forum.multitool.org/index.php?topic=63268.0 








00 Offline jnoxyd

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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #100 on: August 14, 2019, 07:11:46 PM
That's just plain cool!  How will you resist using it as your everyday picnic knife?
Haha, it’ll be hard but I have a lot of SAK and multitools laying around ;)


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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #101 on: March 24, 2022, 07:23:18 AM
Looked like this thread could do with a bump

Very fond of the nylon scales found on the ecoline and 111’s SAKs :tu:




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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #102 on: March 25, 2022, 02:22:57 AM
This thread definitely needed a bump. And it needs more blue.



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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #103 on: March 25, 2022, 04:50:39 AM
I didn't know economy scales ever came in blue! :like:
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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #104 on: March 25, 2022, 08:42:18 AM
:like: :tu:


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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #105 on: March 25, 2022, 11:38:11 AM
 :iagree: :like: not seen blue before either!


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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #106 on: March 26, 2022, 01:51:29 AM
I found a Waiter with blue nylon advertising scales and no Victorinox logo. Sanding the ad off means the scales no longer match each other. I learned my lesson from that, but bought this black Tourist from a listing with poor photos and didn't realize the scales were nylon until it arrived.
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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #107 on: March 26, 2022, 02:24:53 AM
I found a Waiter with blue nylon advertising scales and no Victorinox logo. Sanding the ad off means the scales no longer match each other. I learned my lesson from that, but bought this black Tourist from a listing with poor photos and didn't realize the scales were nylon until it arrived.
 :oops:
:like: I’m going to have to keep an eye out for some blue ecoline

I’d been wondering if you could discretely remove logos from the nylon scales in the way you can with cellidor :think: so not a good result then prol? Good to know

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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #108 on: March 26, 2022, 03:17:59 AM
I’d been wondering if you could discretely remove logos from the nylon scales in the way you can with cellidor :think: so not a good result then prol? Good to know

The nylon can be sanded smooth by hand, but then you're left with obvious texture wherever you don't sand. I did the entire back scale so as not to have a ghost of the advertisement, so now one scale is smooth and the other textured.


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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #109 on: March 26, 2022, 03:47:23 AM
The nylon can be sanded smooth by hand, but then you're left with obvious texture wherever you don't sand. I did the entire back scale so as not to have a ghost of the advertisement, so now one scale is smooth and the other textured.
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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #110 on: January 06, 2024, 04:24:30 PM
The rare motorist in it's natural habitat:

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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #111 on: January 06, 2024, 04:50:33 PM
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A habitat where nylon would be a much better material then cellidor, too.
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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #112 on: January 07, 2024, 01:31:03 AM
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A habitat where nylon would be a much better material then cellidor, too.

Indeed!


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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #113 on: January 07, 2024, 08:13:17 PM
Love it!!


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Re: Economy/Ecoline Owners Club: Show us yours!
Reply #114 on: January 09, 2024, 05:13:21 PM
Here is my Economy Climber, bought new in 2014.

 
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Also, I want to ask you guys.... is this Ranger an economy version? It has regular scales, but it does not have any slots for scale tools.


 
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