The Great Multi-Tool Restoration Thread!!!

Gadget Guy · **on:** February 15, 2009, 01:07:44 AM

DaveK is the king of the PST restoration and his dedicated threads for the PST are fantastic! I thought it might be a good idea to have a thread for the restoration of all multi-tools. Maybe you just did a minor mod, or a full blown restoration, please post it here. Also post any tools that you've saved from the multi-tool graveyard.

I like saving tools that nobody else wants and bringing them back to life. Most times it just takes a good cleaning!

We are lucky in the fact that our collection actually gets used. A well used tool is still very desirable to me.

Here is a Gerber MP600 DET that I just bought. It has been mistreated, but I'm going to save her. Here is the before picture:

I'll post some more pictures after I get her cleaned up.

DaveK · **Reply #1 on:** February 15, 2009, 01:40:12 AM

Oooh my kind of thread

Okay, here is a Gerber (I don't even know what model it is) that I got off ebay for next to nothing.

The seller was very honest about the state of it, and when it arrived, the blade was swinging loose, and the the pliers and many of the tools were seized and very difficult to open.

So I stripped it down, and was very impressed at how easy that was to do, using bits that I actually had in my bit set for a change, and a driver I got from some place on the net

The following picture shows the tool in the latter stages of reassembly, I didn't think to get any "before" pictures, but it was horrible.

I used various methods to get the thick gunge out of every nook and cranny, including immersing in coca cola (it really works as a degunger), and reassembled with a bit of care as to tension of screws to give a tight, but not over tight resistance to each of the components. Obviously, there wasn't much I could do about the "missing" BO coating, but a few strokes of the blade on the sharp maker, and it turned out like this:

This little tool has had a tough life, but for light duties around the house, it will live a little longer. I even managed to clean up the sheath

Gadget Guy · **Reply #2 on:** February 15, 2009, 01:46:29 AM

Awesome, this thread is going to be fun!

Nice job on the restoration, Dave!

DaveK · **Reply #3 on:** February 15, 2009, 01:57:22 AM

Quote from: Gadget Guy on February 15, 2009, 01:46:29 AM

Awesome, this thread is going to be fun! Nice job on the restoration, Dave!

You too GG!

RaptorMan · **Reply #4 on:** February 15, 2009, 03:09:46 AM

is this for tools that we fix or can we add ones that we send out and bring back to life?

Poncho65 · **Reply #5 on:** February 15, 2009, 07:21:59 AM

Good idea for a thread

Great job on both the Gerber's guys

Gadget Guy · **Reply #6 on:** February 15, 2009, 07:30:42 AM

Quote from: RaptorMan on February 15, 2009, 03:09:46 AM

is this for tools that we fix or can we add ones that we send out and bring back to life?

I think it should be for all restoration projects.

donvito · **Reply #7 on:** February 15, 2009, 08:27:22 AM

Great work boys :tu

Mike, Lord of the Spammers! · **Reply #8 on:** February 15, 2009, 10:11:13 AM

Great thread GG

Benner · **Reply #9 on:** February 15, 2009, 12:18:14 PM

Looks like another multiplier that Dave.

I agree, great idea John.

Flash · **Reply #10 on:** February 15, 2009, 12:21:09 PM

In the words of the great Des Lynam:

"Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice"

DaveK · **Reply #11 on:** February 15, 2009, 01:59:46 PM

According to this thread, it looks like mine is a close match to a "type 3" on the Bob scale!

scrappy · **Reply #12 on:** February 15, 2009, 05:04:11 PM

nice thrad
I took the broken serrated blade out of a gerber and replaced it with a bear jaws lanyard, I figured it was better than nothing

J-sews · **Reply #13 on:** February 15, 2009, 05:33:19 PM

Quote from: DaveK on February 15, 2009, 01:59:46 PM

According to this thread, it looks like mine is a close match to a "type 3" on the Bob scale!

Maybe actually a "type 4" Dave? (due to the round nuts on the blade pivots)

DaveK · **Reply #14 on:** February 15, 2009, 05:35:20 PM

Yup, I think you're right actually, in fact that's the pic I copied initially, before losing the plot somewhat

J-sews · **Reply #15 on:** February 15, 2009, 05:41:06 PM

Quote from: DaveK on February 15, 2009, 05:35:20 PM

Yup, I think you're right actually, in fact that's the pic I copied initially, before losing the plot somewhat

No worries mate, you've got a lot on your mind, what with having to reorganize the new toolbox and all....

DaveK · **Reply #16 on:** February 15, 2009, 05:46:43 PM

Lol. That is dangerously close to the truth actually.

DaveK · **Reply #17 on:** February 17, 2009, 10:57:28 AM

I dismantled a Gerber MP600 yesterday, on the thinly veiled premise that it needed restoring

It did have a bit of gunge and rust though, and it cleaned up easier and better witht the pliers removed. I couldn't figure out how to remove the handle tools though, so I might go back and do that again at some point.

Looks good now and I'll post some pics later.

Roadie · **Reply #18 on:** February 17, 2009, 11:14:24 AM

Quote from: DaveK on February 17, 2009, 10:57:28 AM

I dismantled a Gerber MP600 yesterday, on the thinly veiled premise that it needed restoring

It did have a bit of gunge and rust though, and it cleaned up easier and better witht the pliers removed. I couldn't figure out how to remove the handle tools though, so I might go back and do that again at some point.

Looks good now and I'll post some pics later.

There should be one side of the handle where the "blot" head sticks up more, grab this with a pair of pliers and turn. Simple as that

The other side shouldn't move as it is recessed into the handle

MultiMat · **Reply #19 on:** February 21, 2009, 12:54:59 PM

Maybe not a restoration , but a good tune up

. My terrific Kershaw A100 that I got from Neil in a 3 way trade , was 95% perfect , it's only blemish was the main blades linerlock did not fully engage properly

. I tried hard too ignore it , but in the end I could not help my self

.
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The tiny nut & bolt came out easily enough with a socket on the bolt & a 1/4 inch open ended spanner on the nut. I was a little disappointed to find the linerlock could ,ideally have sprung out wards a bit more than it did & I had a half hearted crack at bending the linerlock out a bit. In the end I just sanded & filed the blade's lock stop with a LM diamond file & some wet/dry sand paper. The thing I found a bit tricky was holding the tiny nut in place whilst tightening the bolt. It did not help that the area around the nut was extremely cramped (the spanner only just fitted in the gap) & very little of the bolts thread was visible.

.Trial & error , lead me too a bit of Blue Tac (poster putty) on the end of a jeweler's screw driver & I then stuck the nut on the putty. Worked a treat , a bit of thread lock & using the jeweler's screw driver to hold the nut in place it came together well. I am even happier with the A100 now the lock engages not perfectly but near enough. Thanks again Neil for the tops tool

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The Confined Nut(No not me

)
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Mike, Lord of the Spammers! · **Reply #20 on:** February 21, 2009, 01:24:20 PM

Good work fella

Poncho65 · **Reply #21 on:** February 21, 2009, 02:34:03 PM

I can only imagine the problem that little thing caused

Good work MM

DaveK · **Reply #22 on:** February 21, 2009, 06:23:27 PM

I do like the "honest" way that Kershaw is put together. There's no hidden magical stuff, just good honest nuts and bolts, which is quite reassuring.

Dunc · **Reply #23 on:** February 21, 2009, 06:38:24 PM

Good job

That lockup looks a lot better now

Dunc

Neil · **Reply #24 on:** February 21, 2009, 06:49:25 PM

I just think he's a bit nuts in general

Sorry.

I only had a very brief play with it before it headed down south and I didn't notice the lock was a bit off. Now the Wenger Scout knife that arrived this morning is a different matter. I think the lock on that is for show only, doesn't really work at all

Neil

MultiMat · **Reply #25 on:** February 22, 2009, 01:11:43 AM

Quote from: NKB on February 21, 2009, 06:49:25 PM

I just think he's a bit nuts in general

Sorry.

I only had a very brief play with it before it headed down south and I didn't notice the lock was a bit off. Now the Wenger Scout knife that arrived this morning is a different matter. I think the lock on that is for show only, doesn't really work at all

Neil

So Wenger Elf had a bad day or a very long lunch(German beer

)
Nothing to be sorry about Neil tis the way the factory sent him out in the world. I think fixing & modding your MT's makes you like them more

Quote from: DaveK on February 21, 2009, 06:23:27 PM

I do like the "honest" way that Kershaw is put together. There's no hidden magical stuff, just good honest nuts and bolts, which is quite reassuring.

Quite right Dave , I suspect it is one of the reasons they stopped making it , not cheap to manufacture

It has shown me a better way of twisting wire, clamp/lock on the 2 wire ends & ' Do the twist' pure poetry . You get a lovely even twist in the wire in a fraction of the time.

I had left my Photobucket open, too the Kershaw pics & the wife said "who would possible interested in that !!!"

DaveK · **Reply #26 on:** February 22, 2009, 01:16:52 AM

Quote from: MultiMat on February 22, 2009, 01:11:43 AM

....... the wife said "who would possible interested in that !!!

That's weird.

Poncho65 · **Reply #27 on:** February 22, 2009, 03:12:19 AM

My wife would have just given me the LOOK

Then said how stupid and walked off

Why is it most women don't get it with tools

DaveK · **Reply #28 on:** February 22, 2009, 03:13:48 AM

Quote from: Poncho65 on February 22, 2009, 03:12:19 AM

My wife would have just given me the LOOK Then said how stupid and walked off

Why is it most women don't get it with tools

I think men have a dominant tool gene, whereas women have a dominant shoe gene.

Poncho65 · **Reply #29 on:** February 22, 2009, 04:26:15 AM

Quote from: DaveK on February 22, 2009, 03:13:48 AM

Quote from: Poncho65 on February 22, 2009, 03:12:19 AM
My wife would have just given me the LOOK Then said how stupid and walked off

Why is it most women don't get it with tools

I think men have a dominant tool gene, whereas women have a dominant shoe gene.

Dave do you know my wife

Or are you psychic

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