Leatherman Style PS Scissor Failure....

[theonew]

Nice looking knife

[pfrsantos]

Nice looking knife

Thanks! One of my favourites. For the looks as much as for the performance. It also has the advantage of not scaring anyone. It rather attracks people, even the knife-adverse ones.

 

[AimlessWanderer]

Yep. Nice looking knife 

[pfrsantos]

Yep. Nice looking knife 

Thanks! I spend more in knives than I do in multitools (I also like/use knives more than multis). At some point, I was bound to end up with something nice...

 

[cody6268]

Join the club, it happened to me with a Squirt PS4 I never used for two months, then they broke the minute I opened the scissors.  The scissor spring breaking after being closed for some time seems to be a common flaw--you think they'd try to re-engineer them.  I have Vics which are 50 years old and still going strong on the original spring.  Guess it's time to get a P4.

[pfrsantos]

Like I said, new EDC today. Will carry it for awhile, see how it works for me. First impressions: slimmer, less bulk.

Remember how I started carrying the LM Style PS again, because of the pliers (I almost never used)? Hearing so much about the scissors spring failure and having it happen to me once before, I left it with the scissors open when I got home, to reduce metal stress.

Well, guess what?...
 

Now, besides the metal, I too am stressed...
 

[Don Pablo]

 
Sorry for laughing, but it seems like these springs are breaking left and right.

[pfrsantos]

Sorry for laughing, but it seems like these springs are breaking left and right.

Yup, even if left without pressure during the night. I used it just a couple of times. I woudn't be so smurfed if I used the smurf out of them, but like this...
 

(I wrote smurf myself, it just comes naturally, now...)
 

[pfrsantos]

 

[AimlessWanderer]

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... and so is a lot of other stuff too 

[pfrsantos]

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... and so is a lot of other stuff too 

Well, lucky for me I have only used the Style PS. Not very keen on getting to use other multis from them, now...

 

[theonew]

Yup, even if left without pressure during the night. I used it just a couple of times. I woudn't be so smurfed if I used the smurf out of them, but like this...
 

(I wrote smurf myself, it just comes naturally, now...)
 

I do that too. In fact I even said it to my dog when I caught him kicking around a throw rug, "What the smurf is going on in here?" 

Sucks about the scissors spring but I've been using my Style PS and PS4 without a spring for years and it doesn't really bother me that much since I don't use them on a regular basis, they are more of a just in case item to have around.