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This Old Tool.

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us Offline neillcurrie

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This Old Tool.
on: September 07, 2016, 06:35:34 PM
Fashioned after the PBS TV Show: This Old House. A show where a bunch of assorted tradesmen venture forth to renovate someone's "fixer-upper" or old house badly needing TLC.
This Old Tool is a place to show off your Multi that has had significant work carried out on it to bring it back to a "nicely presentable, but maybe not stock" condition.

To kick it off, here's a SOG Paratool that I rescued from the TSA Confiscation sale bin. It was in moderately sad shape: missing or damaged tools, miss-matching handle finishes, chewed up fasteners held everything together, sort of.
I replaced the saw and philips driver, polished all the tool-rotating-surfaces, and then proceeded to give all the handles, fastener heads and Plier Head a uniform finish, a sort of light satin, roughly 2000 grit. I then reassembled everything lubing all the pivots with grease or oil. Blue Loctite keeps the screw threads in adjustment.

To my mind in the multitool world, little beats having and using a decent vintage multi that has had some work done on it, has been taken down as far as it can be taken, and has a certain uniqueness to it's appearance. Small details maybe, but they mean a lot to me.

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Re: This Old Tool.
Reply #1 on: September 07, 2016, 07:17:05 PM
Good idea for a thread :salute: I don't have any before and after pics but I have fixed a few up over the years :cheers:  I hope others have done better than me and have taken pics :whistle:

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Re: This Old Tool.
Reply #2 on: September 07, 2016, 09:44:43 PM
That's a neat job Neill,well done :tu:

I've got a soft spot for the Paratool  :dd:
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Re: This Old Tool.
Reply #3 on: September 07, 2016, 09:55:48 PM
Nice job and cool thread idea  :cheers:
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