R.... R... R.. R.

[jzmtl]

Rust on my spirit! 

Took it out of drawer today and saw this, it was sitting there for last few months and I don't remember ever getting it wet! The leatherman wave sitting next to it was rust free. 

[hawkchucker]

It now is spreading. Quick get all the swiss tools shots!!

[Benner]

Just goes to show that anything can rust in the right (wrong??) conditions.

[Poncho65]

  It's an epedimic quick get the WD-40

I bet all the LM fans here are loving this

(Now enter the Swisstool fans with all there comments)

[jzmtl]

I just spent half an hour to oil up every nook and cranny on everything I have in the drawer, now if they rust I'd be really pissed.

[Grant Lamontagne]

This may sound like more of a cop out than anything else, but are you sure that's rust from the Spirit?  Usually when I find rust in the teeth it's some residue left over from something rusty I'd grabbed with it.

Def

[duckman1975]

use wd40 for stored tools lube it up when your going to use them.

[prime77]

This may sound like more of a cop out than anything else, but are you sure that's rust from the Spirit?  Usually when I find rust in the teeth it's some residue left over from something rusty I'd grabbed with it.

Def

I agree with Def on this one. Maybe it's tiny metal fragments from something you grabbed with the pliers. I have had this happen with some files. It looks like the files are rusted but after closer inspection it was metal shavings on the file that rusted.

[hawkchucker]

Looks like rust to me!
Ha!

[BIG-TARGET]

Dispite all those lectures,all them training films, it went out and got rust.

How indiscreet

[SteamKit]

Given the pattern of rust, I'd have to agree with the theory of it's metal from something else that rusted. It's only caught in the little jaw grooves!

-Kit

[jzmtl]

I tried to wipe it off with paper and cotton swab but nothing came off, doesn't seem to be from something else.

[AndyTiedye]

Have they bred some new and more fearsome rust monster out there?

IS IT COMING THIS WAY?

OHHH NOOOOOOOOO

(quick, throw a couple of Chinese knockoffs at it,  it will take it a few rounds to consume those)

[Poncho65]

Doesn't rust spread Perhaps it has gripped something rusty, but after a while doesn't rust start spreading on it's own So the tiniest spec could have been left on the tool and after a while the rust just spread

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

That's unfortunate , I thought Def was right with his theory, but if you like say it's not metal from another source, then that is indeed unusual

[hawkchucker]

Come on guys you really got to start to admitting. Steel rusts. If it has any carbon in it which the swiss tools have it can rust. I really got to start a 10 step program for you guys.

[DaveK]

Come on guys you really got to start to admitting. Steel rusts. If it has any carbon in it which the swiss tools have it can rust. I really got to start a 10 step program for you guys.

Exactly.

[Gadget Guy]

use wd40 for stored tools lube it up when your going to use them.

Why WD-40?  Wouldn't something like Tri-Flow be a better choice? 

[Benner]

Come on guys you really got to start to admitting. Steel rusts. If it has any carbon in it which the swiss tools have it can rust. I really got to start a 10 step program for you guys.

 

If that had been a LM, no one would have claimed the rust was off of something else.

[max6166]

I found similar rust in the same spot on a lightly used Wave I bought a few weeks ago. There was no other rust. Like Def, I assumed that the rust had been initiated by grabbing rusty objects and not cleaning the rust off afterward.

I could have been wrong about the cause, but it was the placement of the rust and not the brand that informed my guess. I initially assumed the same cause here, for the same reason.

I have noticed that the inside teeth of plier jaws are very susceptible to rust in general. It is really worth examining that area of your MT regularly...

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Come on guys you really got to start to admitting. Steel rusts. If it has any carbon in it which the swiss tools have it can rust. I really got to start a 10 step program for you guys.

 

If that had been a LM, no one would have claimed the rust was off of something else.

No coz we would have expected it

[Benner]

Come on guys you really got to start to admitting. Steel rusts. If it has any carbon in it which the swiss tools have it can rust. I really got to start a 10 step program for you guys.

 

If that had been a LM, no one would have claimed the rust was off of something else.

No coz we would have expected it

Seems like there have been a lot more topics about Vic rust recently than LM. 

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Come on guys you really got to start to admitting. Steel rusts. If it has any carbon in it which the swiss tools have it can rust. I really got to start a 10 step program for you guys.

 

If that had been a LM, no one would have claimed the rust was off of something else.

No coz we would have expected it

Seems like there have been a lot more topics about Vic rust recently than LM. 

That's because rust is the norm for LM's so it's taken for granted, A rusty Vic however is news worthy

[Benner]

Find me 2 other topics where we have pics of a rusty LM. 

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Find me 2 other topics where we have pics of a rusty LM. 

No because you know damn well my search skills leave a lot to be desired

[NeitherExtreme]

I think that aside from a few extremely neglected specimines, I don't think we've seen harmfully rusted tools by either brand.

[Benner]

Find me 2 other topics where we have pics of a rusty LM. 

No because you know damn well my search skills leave a lot to be desired

 

[Benner]

I think that aside from a few extremely neglected specimines, I don't think we've seen harmfully rusted tools by either brand.

You are quite right. 

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

I think that aside from a few extremely neglected specimines, I don't think we've seen harmfully rusted tools by either brand.

You are quite right. 

Yeah, your not wrong mate

[DaveK]

That's because rust is the norm for LM's so it's taken for granted, A rusty Vic however is news worthy

According to 2 people it seems......

Look at it another way. Vic sell a tiny fraction of the multi-tools that LM do. Not susrpring really, as LM invented the idea and therefore will be regarded as the "genuine" plier based multi. However, if you didn't see a correspondingly low number of issues with Vics, whether it be rust or general quality issues, it would probably be time to give up, no?