I used my Power Access last night to cut a small tinder block in half and this happened.
Grant, have you heard anything from SOG about your PA with the issue?
Is the locking mechanism the same or similar to the powerlock? As can see how this happens
overseas manufacturing is not an excuse. This is a tool SOG is happy to sell you. They ask for a specific product, their people are happy with the product, their QA team is happy with the product, so they sell it to you. Would the same robot work better in the US than in China, if it had the same input?Blame the company and its low standards/specifications - not the country of manufacturing.
Quote from: Zed on June 04, 2017, 10:03:51 PMIs the locking mechanism the same or similar to the powerlock? As can see how this happens It is similar, but I think the issues is that the tolerances are looser due to overseas manufacturing. There is absolutely no reason why this should happen, but then it does.And Al, the only reason I keep breaking my own feet is because I'm becoming Wolverine, but on an installment plan. Def
Quote from: dks on June 04, 2017, 11:32:15 PMoverseas manufacturing is not an excuse. This is a tool SOG is happy to sell you. They ask for a specific product, their people are happy with the product, their QA team is happy with the product, so they sell it to you. Would the same robot work better in the US than in China, if it had the same input?Blame the company and its low standards/specifications - not the country of manufacturing.Agreed An appropriate course of action would be to dump the designers and those in charge of assuring quality control in a survival situation with their own defective tools.....
Of course, we did see how much the powerduo improved after the initial run........... Right? Have they ever even admitted that it had issues? As far as they are concerned it was exactly what they ordered.If sog is not happy with it they should recall it, like LM did with the leap. Otherwise, this is the quality they want.
I'm not really one to place the blame on being so lucky that we got a lemon -- that's a lemon for me, for Grant, for Kevin and one for another guy who posted in SOG's Power Access review page. Hopefully 800 other people have Power Access tools they can actually work with. As for China, yeah, they get a bad rap on manufacturing especially on stuff they copy. If there's one thing the iPhone I have taught me, it's that quality products can be produced (and copied ). For all I know, Gerber and Leatherman implements might be produced in some undisclosed China factory, shipped to the US and mixed with USA made implements like blade, scissors, etc and just assembled there and we wouldn't even know which came from where. (Can you know which Lego bricks came from where but you can easily blame a bad brick as "Made in China" haha!) Oh, how about SOG do what Hasbro did to their Transformers line -- everyone got fed up with parts that don't fit or are too loose or mis-aligned rivets so they moved production to Vietnam. And I think it actually helped! Maybe I'm just frustrated coz 1) it's my first SOG. I heard things about Gerber but fell in love with the MP600 despite of all the noise. I was holding that kind of expectation from SOG.2) given MTO's relationship with SOG, I set a really, really high bar for them -- as in MP600 levels of expectation. I wanted a competitor for the MP600/MP400. 3) I can't return it as I've tampered with it already and there's no such thing as warranty from individual sellers here.It's ironic that yes, the blade won't fold down on your fingers, but it'll fold up! -- and I was using the knife to open a box of Swiss Miss powdered chocolate drink for my little kid before bedtime and the blade folded up on me. Blade folds up while going between the box cover tabs of a Swiss Miss pack! Anyway, I'm going to continue grinding away at the inside hinges of the locks to try to prevent whatever from catching on to whatever. Worst case is for me to realize that the lock hinge on the pocket-clip side is off by 0.1mm compared to the other side. edit: hahaha I just realized that I now have a small pair of compound leverage pliers which I've never had before. If I needed a blade or flathead, might as well 1) pull out the SAK in my profile pic 2) reach into my pocket for the Micra.