Wenger scissors and some 557 comments

[kakashi]

I recently bought a 557. Overall I quite like it but it is smaller than I thought it would be.

A couple of issues I have with it so far. The scissors are bloody hard to pull out with the nail knick. I don't know if they're all like that but it seems quite shallow. The scissors themselves are quite sticky in action. Do they loosen up a bit after time or is there something I can do about it?

I don't know who the bright spark was who decided what tool went where but I find the spanner to be next to useless located in the middle of the tool.

I've always had vics so this is my first experience with a wenger.

[Caranthanus]

  ... It's 85mm vs Vic 91mm
Neither some mod can solve your issues pulling out scissors with that tool selection of course, if you would like to maintain the first layer for openers, last one for blade and consequently the awl and corkscrew
Exchanging scissors and wrench layer would made (at least for you ) even harder if not impossible to pull out scissors, because of pliers, almost the same would happen with scissors in second layer (lock button locks access instead of pliers ). Scissors in middle, wrench in second and pliers in fourth would maintain as much actual situation So, as you can see, the position of wrench is almost obligatory and even if it is in middle layer, in fact, can grab and unscrew some 8mm, 7mm etc. nuts and bolts
For the sticky issue, try some action in warm water, that's what Vic advises first.

[kakashi]

I guess you're right mate. Perhaps a case of tool many tools crammed in.

I'll give the water trick a try on the scissors and see if it helps.

[Grass]

Greetings!

The scissor opening problem is one that I have more from the S16 and S18, where the blade lock also gets in the way complicating the opening. Perhaps it is because of this relatively difficult opening that I am not troubled by the S557 opening, which is much easier - if not up to the Victorinox 91mm standard.

I do not have the sticky issue that you mention with any Wengers or Delemonts I have, for some reason.

I like the size, because it allows a couple more layers for weight compared to the Victorinox 91mm. To get these sort of tools in a Victorinox 91mm, you have to carry a lot more weight.

Besides the great weight to functionality ratio, I am a fan of having the lock blade, inline Philips, the nail file/cleaner combination and flexibility of the pliers (even if the position is not great).

I think the Victorinox pliers are, overall, better, and am unconvinced by the bolt tool at this stage. The Victorinox quality overall feels more convincing, too. But Victorinox does not seem to really have a 91mm model at this weight-size-functionality point.

[basilio]

Forum member Kirk13 has/had one with a strange tools layout and no locking main blade
http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,43595.0.html
Scroll down the page to reply #22
I hadn't find any evidence about a possible official release, so I think it was probably a custom order.

[kirk13]

Forum member Kirk13 has/had one with a strange tools layout and no locking main blade
http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,43595.0.html
Scroll down the page to reply #22
I hadn't find any evidence about a possible official release, so I think it was probably a custom order.

The legendary Million Dollar Wenger

[SAK Guy]

[neillcurrie]

The wrench has to be somewhat in the center of the layers because you have to reverse the knife on the nut to open, or tighten.
I thought the same as you at first, but was gently corrected by an informed MTO'er