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Need to understand "Rebar Love"

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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #360 on: July 29, 2018, 10:49:40 AM
Day 29 - penultimate day

Pirates of the Caribbean - Part 6: Revenge of the Crawly Bits

Just kidding. Rebar VX shares a spot in the morning sun with my SOG Power Access Deluxe, which has recently joined the ranks of MTs in which, like in the VX, the stock file has been upgraded. As you may recall the Rebar file was replaced with a spare diamond file from a Wave.
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #361 on: July 29, 2018, 03:49:50 PM
More great pics guys :like: and I love the diamond files on any and everything as well DT :tu: :like:


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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #362 on: July 29, 2018, 07:48:28 PM
Day 29.5

Rebar VX helping with dinner  :drool:
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #363 on: July 29, 2018, 07:58:07 PM
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Bacon wrapped pork lion...MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmm!  :drool: :drool:
When's dinner start? :cheers: :pok:
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #364 on: July 30, 2018, 12:55:51 AM
My Rebar did some work on the cloaths dryer and cut my arm band off from the reunion.  The blade works great but I miss having scissors.  My Vic's have me really spoiled.




Edit: That was...
DAY 19
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #365 on: July 30, 2018, 03:18:41 AM
Nice pics, D_T and Douglas! :like:

Day 17: Gave the Rebar a good cleaning after a good week of work
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #366 on: July 30, 2018, 03:27:10 AM
My Rebar did some work on the cloaths dryer and cut my arm band off from the reunion.  The blade works great but I miss having scissors.  My Vic's have me really spoiled.
I know how you feel. Oh wait....nevermind. :pok: :D
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #367 on: July 30, 2018, 03:28:54 AM
 :twak: :twak:
 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #368 on: July 30, 2018, 03:33:26 AM
Scissors are nice.  :tu:


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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #369 on: July 30, 2018, 03:40:56 AM
:twak: :twak:
 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Can you at least throw a Classic in your pocket for scissor needs?
Although, I appreciate you making do with the blades!  :cheers:

Scissors are nice.  :tu:

They sure ain't 91/93mm SAK or Surge scissors(my favorites), but they are fine for most of my little-scissor needs.  :)
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #370 on: July 30, 2018, 04:14:27 AM
Day 11
A pocket dump photo  :tu:
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #371 on: July 30, 2018, 04:27:49 AM
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Nice dump there Matt. :tu:
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #372 on: July 30, 2018, 05:03:54 AM
Matt comes and takes a dump on the challenge thread!  Shame!

J/K. Nice EDC, Matt! :tu:
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #373 on: July 30, 2018, 05:07:27 AM
Matt comes and takes a dump on the challenge thread!  Shame!

Truth be told I had the same thought. :facepalm:
 :cheers: Shame on us. :cheers:
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #374 on: July 30, 2018, 05:29:45 AM
  :rofl:


Great minds think alike  :facepalm:
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #375 on: July 30, 2018, 07:28:20 AM
Man this thread is turning into such a dump lol
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #376 on: July 30, 2018, 07:46:36 AM
 :rofl:

Yeah. It has gotten me down in the dumps.

I'll go to my corner now. :facepalm:
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #377 on: July 30, 2018, 08:27:55 AM
My Rebar did some work on the cloaths dryer and cut my arm band off from the reunion.  The blade works great but I miss having scissors.  My Vic's have me really spoiled.
I know how you feel. Oh wait....nevermind. :pok: :D

:twak: :twak:
 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I will NOT mention dumps...  :oops:

Anyway, great pics all around again :tu:

Back to the pork loin Douglas, well spotted - I thought the bacon would camouflage it well enough. 21 minutes on the Weber Q300 at full blast, turn once. It came with oven baked potatoes with feta cheese and herbs and a lettuce salad with avocados, sundried tomatoes and a special dressing. It was a nice balmy night. That is the good news. The bad news is that I read your post too late and didn't save up any for you - and we couldn't resist, it was simply too delicious lo leave anything for the next day or so...  :-\
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #378 on: July 30, 2018, 08:30:32 AM
Day 30 - Challenge Completion Post

I have decided to end this challenge with a final mod report on the Rebar VX.

Remember my slight complaint on Day 11 (see also here)? I've followed up on george1's advice (thanks again :tu:) and sourced a few Fuse pivots from our man in Russia. Only late yesterday night I came around to do the install, which went very smoothly (used a 4mm Allen key to push out the old pivot, then inserted the old pivot from the other side while wriggling and abutting the Allen key until this fell out, and then inserted the new pivot from the now vacated side, all of this to avoid having to realign the tools and all the washers inbetween. This worked fine).

In the shot below you'll not see the results, but trust me  >:D. I have added a spare Fuse pivot and the old Rebar pivot for comparison. According to our man in Russia (see his reference table below) the Fuse pivot is 14.1 mm between heads (when fully screwed on) compared with the about 13.1 mm I measure for the Rebar - this mm extra managed to make the pivot's flat sides fully engage the complementary surfaces of the handle holes, even despite the wider tools, so I'm happy  :ahhh  :D

loki-mobile's reference table

This ends the challenge for me - but I'm going to be checking in regularly with you guys to, ahem, monitor progress  :D and to cheer you on should this unexpectedly prove necessary  :like: :like: :like: Thanks to all participants for joining in and the others for the cheers  :cheers: - this was fun  :drink:

Other loose threads from this thread (pun intentional  :D):
Bent watch spring pin, see Day 7: on GLBM's advice I have bought a set of assorted spring pins of uncertain origin (probably Chinese) and replaced the bent-and-repaired one with a new one. For good measure, I also did the other one as the remaining original pin looked a bit iffy as well. Despite the uncertain origins and to my mind incredibly low price (€5 with shipping, anyone?) these pins seem very solid indeed and the watch has been sitting on my arm unscathed since I did the swap (at least during daytime). No pics of the swap, alas.
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #379 on: July 30, 2018, 09:44:31 AM
Awesome ending to the challenge D_T... Awarded... congrats :cheers:


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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #380 on: July 30, 2018, 10:10:22 AM
Awesome ending to the challenge D_T... Awarded... congrats :cheers:
Thank you jaya_man :hatsoff:
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #381 on: July 30, 2018, 11:41:29 AM
Great ending to the challenge DT :like: :like: and congrats on the badge :tu: Now to get the others to finish without anymore trips to the ER and anymore lost Rebars :ahhh

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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #382 on: July 30, 2018, 01:25:09 PM
Congrats DT , it was fun following along !     :cheers:


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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #383 on: July 30, 2018, 01:49:32 PM
:salute: Thanks Steve and Ponch, it was fun doing it - despite the rough start, but thankfully help was on the way quickly thanks to GLBM :tu:

One thing I agree with wholeheartedly - let's avoid scenes such as below, shall we?

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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #384 on: July 30, 2018, 02:54:40 PM
Great job, D_T!   :clap:


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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #385 on: July 30, 2018, 03:19:17 PM
Awesome posts, D_T! And a huge congratulations on the completion & badge, sir! You've well earned it! :cheers:
I'm also relieved you were able to find and install new spring bars in yoir awesome watch! :like:

And Thank you for the kind words and public service announcement(with the ambulance). It was a pleasure having participated in the challenge with you.  :salute:
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #386 on: July 30, 2018, 10:13:02 PM
Very nice wrap-up D_T and congrats on the badge.  :cheers: :cheers:

Thanks to the G-man I'm right behind you and share in your sentiment of thanks to everyone for sticking with us through a realy rough start.
My  :hatsoff: to all.

DAY 20
So to be honest this has been my go to when I've NEEDED scissors.  The all so compact but mighty COMPACT.  It really makes a great little companion to the Rebar. Especially with the pocket clip and pull tab.




Hope we don't need any more PSA's  :whistle:
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #387 on: July 30, 2018, 10:31:06 PM
 :salute: Douglas!


Nice one with the compact. That is one of the SAKs I really need to get! Seems like it would definitely complement the Rebar quite well. :)

Nice photos as well, Douglas! :like:
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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #388 on: July 30, 2018, 10:44:27 PM
Rebar carried along with a Compact makes total sense.

Truth is, except for challenges, I never carry a pliers-based multitool like the Rebar without also carrying a pocket knife of some kind. Sure the blade on a multitool can be as useful as any knife blade, but it usually easier and less dramatic to pull out a pocket knife to take care of those little things we all use a knife for during the course of the day.

And that pocket knife might not be anything more than a Classic. Right there I've got a handy cutter and some fine scissors. Although lately I've been leaning toward a Wenger Esquire or Vic Ambassador.

But a Compact?

Oh, heck yes!


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Re: Need to understand "Rebar Love"
Reply #389 on: July 30, 2018, 10:46:29 PM
The Compact rely is quite the little power house and with this clip/ pull it just disapears in the corner of the pocket but it's allways ready for action with a quick pull of the "pull".  It will even get you off the "hook" when you got out of the house without your pen.

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