I have to admit, I stole this 'idea' from a very great post/mod from Silverwarior.
Having had a MUT for a number of months now and having never done anything with it, it made me remember why! SCISSORS!
As soon as SW posted his mod of adding tweezers and scissors, I immediately went to my parts drawer and found my extra pair of Surge scissors, squared them up and I was hit with the bug again.
Everything seemed to line up really really well, but things would be so much darker than the shining optimism that I had initially.
So I go ahead, took a Surge pivot screw, shimmed up the gap with some bronze washers and tightened it up. Little did I know this would take MUCH more work than I anticipated.
The next problem was the back spring. On a Surge, the liner lock stops the scissors from rotating and the back spring engages and everything is cuttingly happy. The advantage of that design is that when folded back, the scissors aren't sprung and slides back in with no resistance.
After 3 different attempts at solutions (including using a meltable polymer to fill the gap, using aluminum foil to make a spacer and super gluing the crap out of it) I finally thought, I am going to pin this sucker.
Drilling a tiny hole with my carbide bits was easy, and then trimming a nail to fit into the hole was even easier.
I peened the back side of the pin so that it would stay put and sanded it flat on the belt sander.
Installing the back spring, and then installing it into the MUT.
Then the dark side of this mod reared its ugly head. I knew this would be a problem as soon as I thought to pin it. The permanent backspring pin pushes the scissors out into it's natural unsprung state.
SOOOOOOOO...
20 mins later I had a solution! A rotating lock!
I took a screw driver part from a knock off SAK and starting hacking away into a plate to swing in the way of the scissors. A bolt was then trimmed down and the threads cut off on the inside of the screw so that when tightened, the plate would be able to swing freely. A set of thin washers completes the mechanism.
Then, a corresponding hole was drilled and tapped. The bolt is trimmed so that it doesn't interfere with plier head closing.
After installing the whole thing together again, I encountered yet another problem. The locking plate would swing freely and could slip off the scissors. I imagined the MUT in my pocket and the scissors deploying with great vigor...no thank you.
Solution: milling a little notch in the scissor handle so that plate will stop wiggling. Works like a charm. A little squeeze on the scissor handle loosens the plate and it swings out of the way.
And now...for some hero shots:
Thanks to Silverwarior for reminding me about my MUT!
HACK ON!