Broken cellidor scale

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shimarin

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I don't know what happened, but this is the first time I've broken a cellidor scale. I think I'm leaning towards alox scales now, and I'm also a little worried about my precious executive model.
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I just found a few on ebay. Search for "NEW GENUINE VICTORINOX 74mm SWISS ARMY KNIFE SCALES"
 
yeah it happens. In my experience more with the larger/heavier 91mm models. My Swiss champ took a fall from the counter and cracked the scales.

You can find replacements online fairly easily and they’re easy to put on. Otherwise you can sent it back for repair and if I recall you only have to pay postage. I’d just buy a set of new scales on eBay or Amazon might even have them.
 
ALSO Don't "fix" unless it's like glue one piece back again.
 
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I hear about people breaking their cellidor scales so I've dropped mine 3x on cinder block retaining wall material and no crack. They definitely need to pick another material lcer cellidor [I believe] but even with the thinned out scales, cracking isn't always a guarantee thankfully
 
ShaiHulud said:
I hear about people breaking their cellidor scales so I've dropped mine 3x on cinder block retaining wall material and no crack. They definitely need to pick another material lcer cellidor [I believe] but even with the thinned out scales, cracking isn't always a guarantee thankfully
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A few years ago, both me and my son-in-law had aSAK scale break in exactly the same place. Mine fell out of my pocket as I was getting dressed, and from about mid thigh high fell on the tile bathroom floor. John had his knocked off a kitchen counter and onto the tile floor. Both my tinker and his hiker had the top 1/4 to 1/3 of the scale break off. It was the opposite side from the shield, at the top end of the knife. Both scales had a hollow space with a horizontal rib running across the width of the scale. The scale broke off right at the rib that bordered the hollow cavity.

Looking at both knives, I could see this was not a coincidence. It is a design flaw brought on by Victorinox trying to save a few pennies on plastic by casting large hollow cavities in the scales. You very rarely if ever saw this kind of breakage in the older SAK's with solid scales. Now I only own alox in anything else than my classic. I had a classic break almost like the one in the OP, and I filled the empty space with JB Weld and as it was drying, took out the toothpick and let it set up. When dry, put toothpick back in and down the road it goes. The classic is the only exception to the alox only, as I do really use the tweezers for getting burr's out of my dogs paws.
 
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The problem for me with alox is no toothpick or tweezers although I do like their look. I've never had a plastic scale break.
 
jackknife said:
A few years ago, both me and my son-in-law had aSAK scale break in exactly the same place. Mine fell out of my pocket as I was getting dressed, and from about mid thigh high fell on the tile bathroom floor. John had his knocked off a kitchen counter and onto the tile floor. Both my tinker and his hiker had the top 1/4 to 1/3 ofd the scale break off. It was the opposite side from the shield, at the top end of the knife. Both scales had a hollow space with a horizontal rib running across the width of the scale. The scale broke off right at the rib that bordered the hollow cavity.

Looking at both knives, I could see this was not a coincidence. It is a design flaw brought on by Victorinox trying to save a few pennies on plastic by casting large hollow cavities in the scales. You very rarely if ever saw this kind of breakage in the older SAK's with solid scales. Now I only own alox in anything else than my classic. I had a classic break almost like the one in the OP, and I filled the empty space with JB Weld and as it was drying, took out the toothpick and let it set up. When dry, put toothpick back in and down the road it goes. The classic is the only exception to the alox only, as I do really use the tweezers for getting burr's out of my dogs paws.
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Good to hear from ya, I wish they would expand on the alox series and either bring back the solid scales in cellidor or do some R&D into other synthetic materials, perhaps polymer or delrin, maybe polypropylene, so long as it doesn't contain DEHP or PFOAs. Cellidor had their century in the sun, in order to stay relevant they do need to change their materials in order to catch up with the times
 
I love the Exec! I lost my favorite one with blue and white G10, too, so I feel your pain. Good luck.
 
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