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Pocket Survival Tool rehab!

us Offline Poncho65

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Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
on: July 06, 2021, 01:02:07 AM
I had just recently won this PST on eBay and it arrived Saturday :woohoo: I had been wanting one of these for a long time and when I saw this one I snatched it up pretty quick :ahhh :D The overall shape of it wasn't bad :whistle: but it really needed some TLC ;)



I started by completely disassembling it :ahhh







The tools aren't in bad shape other than some rust and being pretty dirty :D The other side of the file (shown in a pic above) was worse than the side shown here ::) :D





Next, I put the pieces in a container and soaked them overnight in WD-40 :salute: after the soak I laid them out on a paper towel and started to clean each tool individually :tu:



I took some close ups of the knife, file and plier head :cheers:  It still strikes me as funny to see Japan stamped on some of the early LM parts :D









The WD-40 really helped :woohoo: after cleaning each tool I sanded and used a rust eraser on them to get any grime left that the WD-40 didn't get rid of :tu:

After that I started putting it back together :woohoo:



I tightened the tool up and tested each pivot to get it fairly well in opening and closing :salute: As seen above the handles still had some scuffs and scratches. I took a sanding block and some metal polish to finish it on out and... well the pictures can speak for themselves :dd:











Now a few pics with some similarly old PSTs :woohoo:






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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #1 on: July 06, 2021, 01:11:27 AM
Great job Poncho65!  :salute:
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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #2 on: July 06, 2021, 01:21:26 AM
 :iagree: :tu:
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us Offline Poncho65

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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #3 on: July 06, 2021, 01:22:37 AM
Thanks Chako and pa :hatsoff: It turned out really well and I am so glad to finally have one of these in my collection of PSTs :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:


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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #4 on: July 06, 2021, 01:26:41 AM
Nice!  :like:

Cool font on one of the other ones you have too.  :tu:


us Offline Poncho65

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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #5 on: July 06, 2021, 01:32:53 AM
Thanks, Synco :hatsoff: I especially like the scribbling on the bottom one in that last couple pics :whistle: ;)


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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #6 on: July 06, 2021, 01:41:16 AM
Great job Poncho :hatsoff:


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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #7 on: July 06, 2021, 01:41:32 AM
I especially like the scribbling on the bottom one in that last couple pics :whistle: ;)
Looks like a scratch, you could probably buff that out.  :pok:   :whistle:


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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #8 on: July 06, 2021, 01:58:26 AM
Good job Poncho  :tu:

I'll be performing my first attempts at rehabbing very soon on my PST and OG Super Tool.


us Offline Poncho65

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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #9 on: July 06, 2021, 02:25:17 AM
Thanks Echo and Adam :hatsoff:  Good luck with the rehabs as well, Adam :salute: Just take pics as you go so you can remember where everything goes when you go to put it back together :tu:

Looks like a scratch, you could probably buff that out.  :pok:   :whistle:

I think, I will not ::) :facepalm: :D


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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #10 on: July 06, 2021, 05:39:43 AM
Great job, it cleaned up nicely !    :cheers:


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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #11 on: July 06, 2021, 06:07:22 AM
Nice!


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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #12 on: July 06, 2021, 06:24:11 AM
Great job :like:

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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #13 on: July 06, 2021, 12:15:28 PM
Thanks Steve,  dmatt and RF :hatsoff:


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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #14 on: July 06, 2021, 03:20:24 PM
Great outcome.  Its part of the hobby that I very much enjoy.   
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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #15 on: July 06, 2021, 05:19:59 PM
Thanks Aloha :hatsoff: I do love to be able to fix and clean a tool up to very usable again :salute: I buy lots of tools second hand (as you do) and sometimes I have to do nothing and other tools require a bit more love to get back to serviceable condition :ahhh :cheers:


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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #16 on: July 07, 2021, 10:22:06 AM
That must have been soo much fun!
And an 80s PST that is on top  :o

Very nice collection there Poncho  :dd:

...very cool scribbling too on the early 90s one  :tu:


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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #17 on: July 07, 2021, 02:03:48 PM
Thanks Stitchy  :hatsoff: the listing was for a PST but I saw the writing immediately  :ahhh I know about how to age them from pics usually :whistle: :angel: :D

That signed PST was also a poorly written description but it was from probably 2009 and I am sure I got a good deal on it way back then :D


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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #18 on: July 07, 2021, 04:49:17 PM
Excellent job there Poncho  :clap: :clap: :clap:
They don't like it up 'em!


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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #19 on: July 07, 2021, 07:56:17 PM
Thanks Surge  :hatsoff:


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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #20 on: July 10, 2021, 12:20:49 AM
 :like:  :cheers:   :salute: :salute: :salute:


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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #21 on: July 10, 2021, 01:49:10 AM
Thanks pnoodle  :hatsoff:


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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #22 on: July 10, 2021, 07:32:09 AM
Wow, looks great! It's amazing what a little TLC can do.

Did you have any trouble with the knurled screws? I took apart one of my older Patent number PSTs, and I noticed half the screws were not the normal variety. They had more teeth than the Lokimobile parse tools were designed for, and it made taking them apart a total pain. Got a bit mad at myself because I eventually used the crunch and dinged the screws a tiny bit.


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Re: Pocket Survival Tool rehab!
Reply #23 on: July 10, 2021, 04:28:47 PM
Thanks Bob :hatsoff: No, no problems taking it apart :salute: I have had a bit of trouble with a couple knurled screws over the years on other tools but for the most part the loki wrenches work great and make modding a much more pleasurable experience than it was before I had them :salute:

It went about as smoothly apart and together as any tool I have ever taken apart  :woohoo:


 

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