Diesel Scout

[glorn]

So I was unhappy with the Diesel after carrying an old model MP and a Pro Scout. I hated the blade (tip chipped off on the first day), hated the lack of a blade exchanger, hated the phillips driver (which stripped), etc.

I had my old and much loved Pro Scout still around, but it had a broken small flat head, mashed up wire cutters, and sticky pliers.

So they decided to join forces and become a decent and serviceable Gerber tool: The Diesel Scout

(yeah, the name sucks.. I know)

Anyway, here ya go...











Eh, my Blackberry takes sh!te pictures up close, but you get the idea.

-Scout partially serrated blade
-Scout phillips driver
-Diesel can opener
-Diesel file
-Diesel wood saw
-Scout blade exchanger
-Diesel bottle opener/medium flat head driver
-Diesel scissors


I'm gonna EDC it a little, just for grins. I do not have any desire to replace my Surge, but... why not change things up now and again?
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[DaveK]

You should call it the Sciesel, or maybe the Dou(b)t?

Cool mod though Glorn - very nice 

[Neil]

Neatly done sir 

I thought Diesel Scout sounded fine actually 

Neil

[J-sews]

I like the Diesel Scout name too.



Tell us more about it Glorn. I'm assuming you had to leave some blades off in order to fit the wider Scout phillips and blade exchanger?

[Gareth]

That ticks all the boxes for me.  Nice job, it looks factory made.   

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Top job fella

[glorn]

Tell us more about it Glorn. I'm assuming you had to leave some blades off in order to fit the wider Scout phillips and blade exchanger?

Actually, nothing of value to me was lost. I nixed the lanyard, the large flat head, and the tiny little flat head eyeglass driver. And that's it. Unless you count the stock Diesel Phillips of course.

That adds up to 4 spaces, and the Scout Phillips and blade exchanger are both "double wide" implements.

Note that you cannot leave a blade in the exchanger with this configuration, but this does not bother me. I can always sheath a hacksaw blade or what have you. If one wanted to nix the wood saw and place the exchanger there, then you could obviously, and you could gain back one of the flat heads if you like. One thing about the Diesel, the wood saw is quite nice. So I decided to leave it and just have the adapter available inside as an option. I can't mourn the loss of 2 flat heads really. The bottle opener has a decent sized medium flat head on it anyway...


Now all I need is a set of plier jaws from an MP600 carbide. Then I'll have the Multi-Plier I think Gerber should be making.

Well, it would be nice if they would make a version of the wood saw that fits the adapter ala Surge. Then there'd be room for another tool like an awl. But I suppose in the end I am merely suggesting Gerber make a Multi-Plier answer to the Surge, so....

Hmmm... a Surge with carbide cutters... 


Glad you all like it! I am EDCing it today, and so far it is great! It sucks that in order to get a Multi-Plier that lived up to the old ones I used to love required me to build my own, but..

Carbides, here I come! Might go bluntnose too. And in black oxide. I think that would look slick.     

[glorn]

Ah, one more thing to mention.. does anyone here with the skills and the access to a Gerber Scout have the inclination to attempt an awl that fits in the saw adapter? If it were as long as the can opener, it should be able to be mounted in the adapter and then left inside.

Then this version would have the awl it is missing.

I can't say I have anything of interest to offer save for my gratitude and a few rounds of good beer should we ever meet.

 

Or at least if someone tries it and succeeds, perhaps they could post full instructions?



G.

[hawkchucker]

Nice job, and it will suit your purpose if you miss the old scout model.

[J-sews]

Ah, one more thing to mention.. does anyone here with the skills and the access to a Gerber Scout have the inclination to attempt an awl that fits in the saw adapter? If it were as long as the can opener, it should be able to be mounted in the adapter and then left inside.

Then this version would have the awl it is missing.

I can't say I have anything of interest to offer save for my gratitude and a few rounds of good beer should we ever meet.

 

Or at least if someone tries it and succeeds, perhaps they could post full instructions?



G.

Seems like the saw adapter lash up is a little too loose and wiggly for an awl...? Maybe there is a way to make it fit tight though.  

[glorn]

Follow up...


Been EDCing the Diesel Scout along with the Surge and using both intermittently here and there.. fiddling with both.. etc.

I gotta say, I am not going to replace my Surge due to one handed opening and a sturdier feel, but the DS has that lightness to it and the trick Gerber pliers that reminds me of my old Scout and early MP. I admit that it is a lot of sentimental crapola, but those tools were good. They got me by for many years, decades even. It is hard to put down now, and as much as I love the Surge, this tool begs for attention. It came to me broken as far as am concerned, and it knew it (if such a silly thing could be true). Now we both know it is capable and made the way it should have been in the first place.

The Diesel Scout is a true old style Gerber. I urge anyone with the available bits to build one. Now if I can swing a carbide plier head, this sucker will be the premier Gerber MP, hands down.


Yes, I am a bit gushy due to being drunk. No apologies.


I love you Diesel Scout!



 

[DaveK]

Awwwwwwww

[hawkchucker]

That is so   sweet. may you two live long!

[glorn]

Heh heh.. 

[Philabuster]

Diesel Scout?  I'm new to this forum, but the thread title really grabbed my attention.  I have owned a 1980 International Diesel Scout II for 10 years now.   

I have EDC a Leatherman multitool since 1994.  I started out with the PST, then SuperTool, SuperTool 200 which I modified, then I started to get worried when the Core came out with the plastic spacers thinking LM discontinued the ST200.  I since purchased about 4 more ST200s, A Victorinox Swiss Tool, Schrade Tough Tool 21, LM Surge, LM Crunch, and a few more I cannot recall right now.

The LM200 is by far my favorite.     I use it several times a day.  Just today I used the ruler to measure a rod diameter (5/16") and to mark hole locations for drilling; Used the Phillips bit to remove latch; pliers to remove screws, pliers to hold small bolts when grinding them shorter, and Phillips bit to reassemble latch. This was working on a friend's project at his house. 



Diesel Scout forum I frequent
Pic of my Diesel Scout:

[Zack]

Man I love those old International Scouts.  Step-brother used to have one he would go mud bogging in.