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Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025

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Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #300 on: February 14, 2025, 07:00:03 AM
Day 13



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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #301 on: February 14, 2025, 07:42:00 AM
That looks like an older version EchoTech.  What are the date codes?

Day 14

Just checked Barry it’s 0996

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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #302 on: February 14, 2025, 11:50:21 AM
Day 14

    Evidently didn't rain hard enough for the river to get up in the road.  Or if it did, the water level went down quickly.  Looked like some water standing at the stop sign, so maybe it did get up for a while.  The tools for the day were a shovel and Wingman.  Didn't really use the Winger for anything. 
     The combo blade and the pocket clip are on the same pivot (screw).  When you tighten them enough to stop the pocket clip from wiggling, the blade is too tight to open easily.  Why have a one-hand opener if you can't open it with one hand?  The blade is easily removed.  I did it once when I was thinking of replacing it with a plain edge blade.  Not so easy with the clip.  It is on the main portion of the pivot and every tool would have to be removed to get the clip off.  Did I ever mention that I hate pocket clips?  Especially wiggly ones.  I thought of using a thread sealant to stop the movement but discovered that my tiny tube of purple stuff had dried up or maybe leaked out.  Drat. 
      I thought of just taking the whole mess apart and removing the clip permanently.  Of course, reassembly might be hard without the correct tool.  Plus, there is the possibility that the screw wouldn't tighten up enough afterward since the base of the clip acts as a spacer.  Might have to make a spacer of some sort to reclaim the correct tool tension.  Double drat. 
      I have carried the same tool before, so getting used to the bulk and weight was not a factor.  I carry it in a pants pocket sometimes.  Usually it gets put in a coat pocket, since that is what the weather requires just now.  The blade is nice and Leatherman sharp.  Best wishes.  G
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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #303 on: February 14, 2025, 01:46:02 PM
It's about the same here.  We got some snow last night, but that wind is strong  :facepalm:  My youngest is now in college, so I miss the days of dropping the boys off at school.  Like your Lego too Aztec!
No more rain over here but the windchill factor made it 12°F this early morning when it was time for the kids to walk to school.  Wife decided it was best to drive them this morning. 

Day 12 - catch up

Forgot to post yesterday as I was wrapping the wife's Birthday present.  Couldn't find the scissors so I pressed this beast into service.  It actually performed very well in spite of it's size. 

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Also did mail call.

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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #304 on: February 14, 2025, 01:47:26 PM
 :cheers: Gary!
Day 14

    Evidently didn't rain hard enough for the river to get up in the road.  Or if it did, the water level went down quickly.  Looked like some water standing at the stop sign, so maybe it did get up for a while.  The tools for the day were a shovel and Wingman.  Didn't really use the Winger for anything. 
     The combo blade and the pocket clip are on the same pivot (screw).  When you tighten them enough to stop the pocket clip from wiggling, the blade is too tight to open easily.  Why have a one-hand opener if you can't open it with one hand?  The blade is easily removed.  I did it once when I was thinking of replacing it with a plain edge blade.  Not so easy with the clip.  It is on the main portion of the pivot and every tool would have to be removed to get the clip off.  Did I ever mention that I hate pocket clips?  Especially wiggly ones.  I thought of using a thread sealant to stop the movement but discovered that my tiny tube of purple stuff had dried up or maybe leaked out.  Drat. 
      I thought of just taking the whole mess apart and removing the clip permanently.  Of course, reassembly might be hard without the correct tool.  Plus, there is the possibility that the screw wouldn't tighten up enough afterward since the base of the clip acts as a spacer.  Might have to make a spacer of some sort to reclaim the correct tool tension.  Double drat. 
      I have carried the same tool before, so getting used to the bulk and weight was not a factor.  I carry it in a pants pocket sometimes.  Usually it gets put in a coat pocket, since that is what the weather requires just now.  The blade is nice and Leatherman sharp.  Best wishes.  G
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Barry


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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #305 on: February 14, 2025, 03:10:53 PM
Thanks EchoTech!  I wondered, because I saw somewhere that the first PST II 's weren't marked any different from the regular PST.  That's a nice example!
Day 14

Just checked Barry it’s 0996

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Barry


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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #306 on: February 14, 2025, 03:13:58 PM
Day 14: More coffee talk ☕☕.
Barry


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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #307 on: February 14, 2025, 04:07:54 PM
Day 14 of 30

Today some package opening at work with Soldier

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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #308 on: February 14, 2025, 05:56:45 PM
Catch up

DAY 11

More lemon tea



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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #309 on: February 14, 2025, 05:59:10 PM
Catch up

DAY 12

The leatherman Creater helped open coffee today...are you seeing a pattern, food prep is my primary knife use at the moment...



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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #310 on: February 14, 2025, 06:01:06 PM
Catch up

DAY 13

Preparing apples for a compote



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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #311 on: February 14, 2025, 06:05:38 PM
DAY 14 - Valentine's Day.... :woohoo:

After the stress of losing my mum, my beautiful wife and I went for a romantic lunch (we have young children so evening meal is difficult, particularly now we lost grandma  :-[ )

Wife refused a picture of her with the knife, so here is her pretty hand



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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #312 on: February 14, 2025, 06:06:47 PM
Day 13



I don't think my post went through yesterday. Either that or I posted it in the wrong thread.  :think:

Anyway mini griptilian with the only other black coated blade I own, and an Emerson CQC7. It's also the only tanto I own.


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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #313 on: February 14, 2025, 07:12:53 PM
Day 14

Wife wanted a mirror over the sofa.  Arrived in a well padded and taped box.  Trekker at work.

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Someone once told me,  ”Trying is just an excuse for not doing”


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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #314 on: February 15, 2025, 01:34:10 AM
Thanks EchoTech!  I wondered, because I saw somewhere that the first PST II 's weren't marked any different from the regular PST.  That's a nice example!

Thanks Barry  :tu:  :cheers:

I’ll post my other modded one today, that one does have PST II marked on and is dated 0903 and 0304


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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #315 on: February 15, 2025, 01:35:13 AM
Day 14 Happy Valentines Day awl!



Just scaping and taping after sanding the mantle today.

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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #316 on: February 15, 2025, 01:39:44 AM
Day 15

PST II modded with a saw to replace a snapped file and broken small driver dremelled into an awl



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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #317 on: February 15, 2025, 03:54:33 AM
Day 15

PST II modded with a saw to replace a snapped file and broken small driver dremelled into an awl

Nice PST ll  :like:
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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #318 on: February 15, 2025, 04:52:42 AM


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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #319 on: February 15, 2025, 05:07:29 AM
Day 14

Happy Valentine's Day Y'awl!

No use today unfortunately.  Just a late night of work.

May the best of your past, be the worst of your future.



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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #320 on: February 15, 2025, 05:30:48 AM
Day 14

Endura opened some books for my younger son…


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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #321 on: February 15, 2025, 05:46:26 AM
Day 14



Mini grip with some chocolate


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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #322 on: February 15, 2025, 06:37:53 AM
Day Fourteen of Combo

Today the SOG multi helped open some jalapeño boudain for the grill.  :drool:

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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #323 on: February 15, 2025, 08:53:08 AM
Yes, great job!  Sorry I missed your post.

Glad you like, I have done a few more mods, now with the skeleton setup... I'll dig them out and take a picture


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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #324 on: February 15, 2025, 01:06:15 PM
Day 15

   Raining again.  At least I got out yestiddy and bought enough snacks and bread to last a while.  Depending on how much snacking and breading I do.  Then it will be back into the low temps again by about Wednesday.  About a half-acre of the W-Mart parking lot was cordoned off.  Employees told me, they were moving in stuff to do an upgrade inside.  Area fenced off was full of shipping containers.  I walked over to the watch display and saw a little short old man looking through the watches like he had lost something in the rack.  Frantic.  Must have been some kind of Valen-time sale.  I looked at a few.  They don't have G-Shocks there.  Just the cheaper Casios.  Also some Armitron and George watches.  I had an Armitron once upon a time.  I went through 3 batteries for it in about two years, then swapped it to someone.  When I left he was still frantically going through the rack. Maybe he knew something.  Lots of the slots for Armitron and Casio were vacant.  Must have been a rumor of coming cheap watch shortages.  Egad.  Maybe I should have bought a Data Bank or one of the retro F91Ws.  The bands on a lot of these thing are too short.  A new wrist watch loses a lot of its glory when you have to cut off the strap and tie a string to make it into a pocket watch.   Best wishes.  G
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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #325 on: February 15, 2025, 02:38:24 PM
I like that!  That would be a great hiking companion!
Day 15

PST II modded with a saw to replace a snapped file and broken small driver dremelled into an awl
Barry


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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #326 on: February 15, 2025, 02:41:02 PM
I agree Gary.  Happened to my first Ironman my brother gave me years ago.
Barry


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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #327 on: February 15, 2025, 02:42:35 PM
Day 15: Dwindling down the pony bottles of Gatorade.  Cut the rings and shorten the pack for more room in the fridge.
Barry


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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #328 on: February 15, 2025, 02:46:36 PM
Day 15

Rescue came out of his sleep.

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Re: Combo Edge 30 Day Challenge - 2/1/2025 - 3/2/2025
Reply #329 on: February 15, 2025, 03:05:17 PM
Day 15

   Raining again.  At least I got out yestiddy and bought enough snacks and bread to last a while.  Depending on how much snacking and breading I do.  Then it will be back into the low temps again by about Wednesday.  About a half-acre of the W-Mart parking lot was cordoned off.  Employees told me, they were moving in stuff to do an upgrade inside.  Area fenced off was full of shipping containers.  I walked over to the watch display and saw a little short old man looking through the watches like he had lost something in the rack.  Frantic.  Must have been some kind of Valen-time sale.  I looked at a few.  They don't have G-Shocks there.  Just the cheaper Casios.  Also some Armitron and George watches.  I had an Armitron once upon a time.  I went through 3 batteries for it in about two years, then swapped it to someone.  When I left he was still frantically going through the rack. Maybe he knew something.  Lots of the slots for Armitron and Casio were vacant.  Must have been a rumor of coming cheap watch shortages.  Egad.  Maybe I should have bought a Data Bank or one of the retro F91Ws.  The bands on a lot of these thing are too short.  A new wrist watch loses a lot of its glory when you have to cut off the strap and tie a string to make it into a pocket watch.   Best wishes.  G
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Your style of writing reminds me of a particular style of speaking, somewhere in the USA, but I can't place it.  (yestiddy should give me a clue.... as would Saturdee, Sundee, Mondee) :think: It's interesting how sometimes we write how we speak, and sometimes we dont... and even more interesting how we speak differently.  William Faulkner was an interesting one. 


 

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