Take a quick look at your Paratool..

Anthony · **on:** October 12, 2008, 06:52:53 PM

Take a look at what holds the lanyard ring on your Paratool...what is it?

I had a Paratool head a while back I eventually traded to Def that had a very short hex bolt holding the lanyard attachment on. The Paratool I own now has a sort of peened bolt making the lanyard ring pretty much fixed on the tool (it still can spin freely).

I've got another Paratool on the way from a member here and I'm curious as to what it's going to have..

Medic82 · **Reply #1 on:** October 12, 2008, 08:00:46 PM

The peened bolt and I can't spin it, trust me, it's stuck

J-sews · **Reply #2 on:** October 13, 2008, 03:18:27 AM

This is mostly theory, but according to the Encyclopedia:

The first ParaTools can be identified by having a PAT PEND stamping on the side. (After the first year or so they were stamped with a US PATENT number) These original tools also had a different configuration to the plier pivots, a bolted flipper lever instead of riveted, and extra lightning holes on the handles.

Picture of the extra lightning holes:

WH867 · **Reply #3 on:** October 13, 2008, 06:11:57 AM

Both of mine have the same amount of holes but one is stamped with the normal letters and the other is not stamped. Does this mean one is an older model or just a bad day at the Sog factory for one of them?

Both have the peened bolts holding the lanyard.