When you get to beer #6 you'll figure it all outWhen I get to beer 6, the back door opens, and the problems get resolved by velocity and distance :P
Shouldn't this be the Mega 85? ;)
You were talking about a mod on a Wenger Nomad for the last few years if I remember correctly. :think:
When you get to beer #6 you'll figure it all outWhen I get to beer 6, the back door opens, and the problems get resolved by velocity and distance :P
When you get to beer #6 you'll figure it all outWhen I get to beer 6, the back door opens, and the problems get resolved by velocity and distance :P
still counts as a solution
I reversed a phillips on a Ti 91mm mod and boy what a pain! I filled the hole with brass, then drilled a new hole, AND had to change the angled part of the part that mates with the back scale.
Oh, I was just going to regrind the kick so it closed further. Will that not work? I realised the arse end will be stuck up a bit, but didn't think it was a full tang rework. Was it just to get it to sit parallel, or is there something else I've missed (so I know what to watch for when I'm doing it)
To be honest I have been posting from my phone, and just brought the camera upstairs to see if I got any decent pics :whistle:
I say use the small blade instead of the nail file :poke: It works better for some tasks. But does a 91mm one fit the 84s frame? I kind of hate the 84mm small blade.
The wood saw adds heft, I'm not sure a metal file wouldn't be preferable. I know this means more modding and perhaps getting a file too but for this size that would be my pick.
I thought you didn't like nylon scales? :popcorn: anyway...
Oh, and inline awl :drool: That one's lovely, yeah!
Very clever with the Phillips :tu:
Very clever with the Phillips :tu:
Thanks Tommy :cheers: It took a while to figure out how to make it work, but it took a lot longer to get the right donors together :D
Very clever with the Phillips :tu:
Thanks Tommy :cheers: It took a while to figure out how to make it work, but it took a lot longer to get the right donors together :D
Ya very nice!
Its funny I am tackling the same issue right now on a 91mm job that needs both backside phillips and corkscrew. The problem is I have less space to fit the phillips, so I milled it flat on each side, (kind of looks like a flat leatherman phillips now) but it should fit in space I have for it now. Im using 2x saw backsprings with backtool cutouts to house the phillips. It should work but it hasnt gone together yet.
:popcorn: very cool Al,look forward too seeing it finnished :salute:
Hold it with the drill.
:rofl: BRILLIANT!!!!!!
Grip pin in chuck, set to hammer, and "drill" the side of an axe head at a slight angle! Just enough pressure to get the hammer action to kick in, but not enough to bend the pin. A perfectly pre-peened pin in seconds :D
:rofl: BRILLIANT!!!!!!
Grip pin in chuck, set to hammer, and "drill" the side of an axe head at a slight angle! Just enough pressure to get the hammer action to kick in, but not enough to bend the pin. A perfectly pre-peened pin in seconds :D
WE DEMAND A VIDEO! :ahhh
:D
:rofl: BRILLIANT!!!!!!
Grip pin in chuck, set to hammer, and "drill" the side of an axe head at a slight angle! Just enough pressure to get the hammer action to kick in, but not enough to bend the pin. A perfectly pre-peened pin in seconds :D
WE DEMAND A VIDEO! :ahhh
:D
Hear, hear! :whistle:
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I was referring to a 91mm metal saw earlier; I know 84mm ones are hard to find. Besides, newer ones are better ;)
I'm probably too late for this but what if you turned the pruner balde to a wharncliffe, a sheepsfoot or a bevel point? More function then. >:D :)
It was your preference of cellidor that I recalled, then.
Now you've got me thinking about a mod I had in mind... Will you be modding a Wenger next by any chance? :ahhh
No video :cry: :P
I was thinking of a Vic/Wenger frankenmod. I wonder if you could offer some insight on Wenger entrails once you got it open.
But that's not for now. You're tackling the first project yet. :cheers:
:popcorn:
I really can't believe how well that works. They've actually slightly "over peened" and don't quite seat in the bushings, so I'm just tickling them up with a file. It actually gives a nice domed and burnished finish.
Alox modders take note!
I really can't believe how well that works. They've actually slightly "over peened" and don't quite seat in the bushings, so I'm just tickling them up with a file. It actually gives a nice domed and burnished finish.
Alox modders take note!
Ha, I had that idea and tried to peen an alox mod together... the drill got away from me and just ended up damaging the scales. I gave up on peening alox after that try. :D
As for pre peening I dont bother any more just put the rods through, cut to lenght and pen both ends.
Very nice Al :salute:
Great work :tu:
:salute:
I think thats gotta be the most tools on an 84mm mod Ive ever seen. Excellent job!
:salute:
I think thats gotta be the most tools on an 84mm mod Ive ever seen. Excellent job!
Thank you :salute:
Coming from a professional modder, that means a lot :cheers:
I so envy you folks that have the skill to mod these SAKs. As SAKs are one of my favorite things, I like them even more for the fact they can be customized with so many different parts/implements as I like to call them. I've pondered over what would make my perfect SAK and it changes almost daily. Currently, I am quite content with the Swisschamp, but would actually like to add a pruner blade and electrician blade to it, along with possibly some other implements.
I think the SAK I really want is the XLT (correct me if I'm wrong), the one the adds the pruner, elec. blade, and cyber tool. ???
Anyhow, whenever I see a mod like this it gets the gears turning in my head and if I could afford the overhead, I might even get into modding myself! ::)
:salute:
I think thats gotta be the most tools on an 84mm mod Ive ever seen. Excellent job!
Thank you :salute:
Coming from a professional modder, that means a lot :cheers:
Its hard to think of what else you'd be able to add. Pliers would be kind of impossible to add on an 84, so the only other thing you could go for would probably be a metal file/saw. It would work on the wood saw backspring, but youd have to shorten it to fit.
I stopped working on 84s as it was much more difficult than any other size to work on. I still get alot of requests though for cadets with scissors, so someday I'll get back to working on that size.
:salute:
I think thats gotta be the most tools on an 84mm mod Ive ever seen. Excellent job!
Thank you :salute:
Coming from a professional modder, that means a lot :cheers:
Its hard to think of what else you'd be able to add. Pliers would be kind of impossible to add on an 84, so the only other thing you could go for would probably be a metal file/saw. It would work on the wood saw backspring, but youd have to shorten it to fit.
I stopped working on 84s as it was much more difficult than any other size to work on. I still get alot of requests though for cadets with scissors, so someday I'll get back to working on that size.
Yeah, I think the best thing for pliers on an 84 would be to start from scratch, and conjure up something like they have on the Rangers with the triple backspring. Not a job for at the kitchen table though :D It would have been nice to have the metal saw in there too, but that might have been one tool too many. At the minute it's a very good size and weight, and isn't too unwieldy or obtrusive.
I was actually walking around earlier and thought to myself you can't actually tell it's in the pocket.... then I realised it wasn't even in my pocket :rofl:
I carried it for half an hour before I realised I forgot something :ahhh :ahhh
Mini-driver for the corkscrew :D Now sorted :tu: ;)
A quick count up of the features:
Full sized plain blade
Full sized serrated blade
Scissors
Wood saw
Corkscrew
Nail file
Inline awl
Phillips driver
Large flat blade driver
Small flat blade driver
Eyeglasses precision driver
Can opener.... untested :whistle:
Cap lifter
Wire bender
Toothpick
Tweezers
Mega84 v1 is complete and operational
:nanadance:
I can picture you at your kitchen table, stuffed to the gills, unhappily eating tuna fish, beans, peaches and spaghetti-Os so as not to let them go to waste
:D
Mega84 v1 is complete and operational
:nanadance:
Now, that's quite an unusual SAK toolset, especially clad in nylon scales! No key ring tho' :rofl:
See, I said it'd be good. :tu: I pictured Al, with a beer in one hand, fag in the other with a maniacal grin, frantically bashing away at some SAK parts on his doorstep in the middle of the night, lit only by a headtorch, surrounded by dismembered SAKs. :D
Very clever with the Phillips :tu:
Thanks Tommy :cheers: It took a while to figure out how to make it work, but it took a lot longer to get the right donors together :D
Ya very nice!
Its funny I am tackling the same issue right now on a 91mm job that needs both backside phillips and corkscrew. The problem is I have less space to fit the phillips, so I milled it flat on each side, (kind of looks like a flat leatherman phillips now) but it should fit in space I have for it now. Im using 2x saw backsprings with backtool cutouts to house the phillips. It should work but it hasnt gone together yet.
Cheers Bob :cheers: I was originally hoping to get away with not having to add that second liner, but as it happens they were needed anyway for access to the nail nicks on the cap lifter and nail file. They're still tight, but doable with my nails, and would have been impossible with one liner. The awl worked out well too with just a sliver ground off the kick :tu:
Are you using an inline Phillips for that mod, or have you milled it offset? I wouldn't imagine you could afford to lose much off the tang side of a backspring Phillips :think:
:rofl: BRILLIANT!!!!!!
Grip pin in chuck, set to hammer, and "drill" the side of an axe head at a slight angle! Just enough pressure to get the hammer action to kick in, but not enough to bend the pin. A perfectly pre-peened pin in seconds :D
Ok, here goes..... four pictures
After a couple of days carry, there's a bit of side to side play in the main blades, and there's certainly more daylight between the springs. I think the pre peened heads done with the hammer drill, have "settled" in their respective bushings. I had a suspicion that might happen when I was peening it up.
As regards the overall concept, version 1 has certainly proved itself though, and the knife was not meant to be considered finished at this stage anyway.
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I'm not sure where Fiddy got his serrated blade, but there is/was a serrated Recruit: http://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=RecruitThanks..
It might be an 85mm Wenger blade. Wenger has done a lot more serrated blades than Vic in the past.I'm not sure where Fiddy got his serrated blade, but there is/was a serrated Recruit: http://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=RecruitThanks..
:tu: Just did a quick ebay check... $75 USD! But I will keep looking now that I know they exist. Seems like in the pics the serrated blade is longer than the plain blade...I have a regular 91mm main blade here I can see how it fits and how much would need to be cut, maybe just get a weekender.
I have done some serrations by hand but I'd really like a factory look, maybe I can build some kind of a jig for spacing....maybe do a run of serrated blades? I dream too big.
I'm not sure where Fiddy got his serrated blade, but there is/was a serrated Recruit: http://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=Recruit
:woohoo: I win again. :D