I ran into this nifty little 84 mm Climber the other day. I really liked the inlaid logo, but the knife had broken liners and no snap. If you'd like a little background on this knife, I posted about it here:
https://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,79382.0.htmlSo I decided to use it for mod fodder, cannibalizing the scissors and building another Super Cadet, but this time with a twist. Since I never use a can opener these days, I decided I wanted my next Super Cadet to have a screwdriver small enough to turn the screws in a typical pair of eye glasses, using the Technician screwdriver in my Pioneer Technician as inspiration. After thinking about it a very little bit, I decided I could swap the Baby Climber's small blade for a nail file, add a Technician-style small screwdriver, and build an Alumnus Technician.
Here is the Technician screwdriver implement that inspired me.
Since there is no 84 mm Technician screwdriver implement, the first thing to do was to take a can opener from a previous project to a belt sander and turn it into an 84 mm Technician-style screwdriver.
Here is the Small Climber I started with as the donor knife:
And of course the 84 mm scissors are worth their weight in gold. Well, ok, probably not, but they're valuable and hard to come by:
I had a newish red Cadet that I decided to use as the electron receptor for my mod. I wanted to use the thick-shank knife blade from the Small Climber, but that didn't end up working out, so I've saved it for another project. This picture shows the red-scaled Baby Climber next to a modern Cadet. I love the beefy shank on the Baby Climber's knife blade.
When the Small Climber came apart, the damage to the liners became even more apparent. The crack in the corkscrew liner was almost all the way through. No wonder the poor thing had no snap.
When I put the center bit to the corkscrew pin, it cracked all the way through:
After disassembly of both knives, I began the build of the Alumnus Technician:
Some of the springs from the donor Baby Climber had some surface rust, so I cleaned them up with some scrungey pad thing.
Before:
After:
It takes only a few minutes to assemble the rest of the Alumnus Technician:
And this time around I had a new tool to help me with the pin peening process. I put a pin turner in my drill press and put a nice finished pin head on the pins.
The final Alumnus Technician turned out quite nice and I am very pleased with it. Makes a great companion piece to my Super Cadet.
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