Post by: MMR on August 22, 2018, 09:33:17 AM
It has been in my dads Keychain for a while, and then mine for a while and for the last few months it has been in my girlfriends keychain. It has seen occasional usage here and there, but nothing major.
There are no manufacturing marks or logos anywhere on it, it just says “STAINLESS STEEL” on one side and “ICN” on the other.
Quality wise; it actually seems decent enough. There’s no play in any of the tools, even though they are not locking tools, they open and close nice and smoothly.
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Pliers are spring loaded, spring on both sides, there’s no play in them and they seem to work smoothly.
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File; has both wood and metal sides, and seem to do the job for what you can expect of a small file. Not sure what the end of it is intended for, with an odd design like that though.
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Apart from the file, it has a small flathead and small knife, again both has no play in them and seem to open and close smoothly enough. I don’t think the knife has ever been sharpened, but it will cut paper pretty good, however it’s not crazy sharp either.
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On the other side; it has this flathead / 2D Phillips combo thing, I haven’t tried it out, but I’m sure it will do what you can expect of such a tool, meaning; nothing mind blowing but for the odd screw that’s needs tightened here and there it will do the job.
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Moving on; then there’s this funky (and kind of stupid) looking can opener (pictured next to the can opener in a LM Rebar) I haven’t tried to open a can with it, as I have no can to open laying around anywhere, but as a bottle opener it was struggling a little bit, which is no different than any other can opener I have ever tried in a multitool. So nothing new there.
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Lastly there’s this bottle opener / small flathead combo thing, surprisingly it didn’t perform any better than the can opener when it comes to opening bottles. They were both struggling in the same way, but in both cases I think it’s down to their kind of crude and not exactly precision machining, used in the way they were manufactured.
But overall, for a knockoff which the company that manufactured it was too ashamed to put their name on, its actually alright. I have actually seen worse from name brand tools.
So yeah, not too bad.
Let me know what you guys think.
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Post by: MMR on August 22, 2018, 01:30:36 PM
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Post by: Don Pablo on August 22, 2018, 02:06:19 PM
Post by: Antti Lammi on August 22, 2018, 02:17:19 PM
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Post by: Aloha on August 22, 2018, 02:23:25 PM
Post by: gregozedobe on August 22, 2018, 02:57:20 PM
I've seen a few of these tools around (mostly on evilbay), with various brand names on them, they are pretty common (the pliers are a bit different looking to most small MTs, so easy to recognise them).
Given the main tool is pliers not scissors I wouldn't class them as a Micra copy.
Post by: MMR on August 22, 2018, 07:33:12 PM
Plus also because of their design, they can’t grip on hard to something on to something small, like if you are fishing and working with fishing line.
It’s hard to explain, it has to be experienced.
I think it’s for the same reason that the Micra has a scissor instead.
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Post by: smiller43147 on August 23, 2018, 01:40:09 AM
Do you have a Squirt P4/PS4 or Style PS to do a plier head comparison?
Post by: MMR on August 23, 2018, 07:46:10 AM
Interesting, kind of a cross between a Micra and a Squirt. I prefer the can opener to the tweezers on the Micra.
Do you have a Squirt P4/PS4 or Style PS to do a plier head comparison?
I don’t I’m afraid....
......yet
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Post by: ironraven on August 25, 2018, 11:44:19 PM