Spirit Scissors Imrovement

[Ice Tigre]

Got tired of the scissors on my spirit only opening halfway, half of the blades never leaving each other, impossible to use...Only 3/16" available edge makes it extremely hard to cut verry far verry fast..

To the Dremel!

The spring sat in a little notch, great to keep pressure, no free unspringy travel, but it also didn't let it swing open and off the spring... I remover the one side tab from that notch.

Now it actually opens all of the jaws.   



G.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Nice, useful mod there mate, well done

[Spoonrobot]

Nice mod!

I've found the Spirit scissors to be really excellent for heavy cutting and was just pondering how to open them up a little last week.

Does it make closing any more difficult?

[Ging]

How much metal is there to removed?

I don't have a dremel so could it be done easily with a file?

[Ice Tigre]

 

Closing is fine, unless you leave them all the way open in a + shape... otherwise the curver on the handle pushes them closed, as you close them into the handle just as it does before the mod.

The tab I took off is just the thickness of that scissors half, maybe 1/16" thick?, and about 3/16" wide... not much. But its some hard stuff. Vic sure knows what their doing with their heat treating, it took me a bit with a carbide carving bur in the dremmel. I think a file might be reeeeeeeaaaaaly slow, and hopping for a lot if it cuts it at all.

Gary

[scibeer]

Good idea!!