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Hi everyone,
What was supposed to be a day of joy turned out to be a almost complete disapointment.
I received 3 minitools, 2 Leatherman Micra's and one Sog Crosscut. Two out of three were not OK. One Micra had those tiny scissors returnspring "hooks" not returning but hanging and one had to manually help them spring back.
So in effect these scissors had no functioning return action. Does anybody have a self to do fix/solution?
The SOG Crosscut was the biggest disappointment; The scissors were wobbly to say at least but this was partially caused by the two "screwpins" not screwed together, they were just undone with threads showing.
when fastened by hand the wobble was partially gone, SOG says they have locked them with locktight, I think they ran out in it on mine. One of the four so called gears was bent 15 degrees outward so when opening the "tool" they almost didn't touch the oposite gear. The file is useless for filing your nails, the Micra's is much better.
The tweezers although wider then the one from the Micra couldn't pull a hair from my arm, and no I don't have tiny arm hair I fall in the heavy kind of hair distribution type of guy.
The tweezers had a 3/64" difference in the length of the legs and there was a burr on them from "sharpening" they touched only at the extreme point. The toothpick (plastic stake) can be used for killing "modern plastic allergic" Vampires nothing else, I couldn't get it between my teeth.
The small srewdriverblade on the caplifter was rounded by "polishing" and slipped a screwslot of a tiny screw off my glasses, the Micra was grinded perfectly no polish on the head.
Cutting with the Crosscut turned out to be a big disappointement to, OK it may cut a little more each snip of the scissors but 1. it did so with more force needed then with the Micra, so where do the gears come in this story ? 2. The cutting action was much rougher then with the Micra. 3. It can't cut as close to something as the Micra can, I tried it on my fingernails, a friendly advise don't do try that with the Crosscut if you like normal nails afterwards.
My conclusion, I'm glad I didn't spend $ 45 on the Micra and $ 60 on the Crosscut in Holland. But even so I could have just bought myself 3 SAK's with better though tinier scissors etc. but I never ever had a DUD SAK and now have 2 minitools that are defective.
I won't be troubling myself with expensive postage costs and hassle sending the defective Minitools back to Discount Knives, and I point out that I ABSOLUTELY don't blame Brian for this unfortunate mishap as I don't, I blame SOG and Leatherman.
I hope the Micra can be made operational,if somebody can give me a suggestion I would welcome it.
The Crosscut will retire to a nail on the wall so that I can always see my DUD of the Millenium.
I just hope somebody of those "Proudly made in the USA" Tool companies starts realizing that selling quality is better then trying to earn a fast buck by cutting corners and producing more then quality control can handle.
I for one have learned my lesson, the hard way, I could have bought 2 nice SAK's for the money I spend on the two rejects. For me it'll be SAK until somebody proves me different.
Best regards, and congratulations with your 223 years of existance as a Nation,
Bagheera
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[This message has been edited by Bagheera (edited 05 July 1999).]
[This message has been edited by Bagheera (edited 05 July 1999).]
[This message has been edited by Bagheera (edited 05 July 1999).]
What was supposed to be a day of joy turned out to be a almost complete disapointment.
I received 3 minitools, 2 Leatherman Micra's and one Sog Crosscut. Two out of three were not OK. One Micra had those tiny scissors returnspring "hooks" not returning but hanging and one had to manually help them spring back.
So in effect these scissors had no functioning return action. Does anybody have a self to do fix/solution?
The SOG Crosscut was the biggest disappointment; The scissors were wobbly to say at least but this was partially caused by the two "screwpins" not screwed together, they were just undone with threads showing.
when fastened by hand the wobble was partially gone, SOG says they have locked them with locktight, I think they ran out in it on mine. One of the four so called gears was bent 15 degrees outward so when opening the "tool" they almost didn't touch the oposite gear. The file is useless for filing your nails, the Micra's is much better.
The tweezers although wider then the one from the Micra couldn't pull a hair from my arm, and no I don't have tiny arm hair I fall in the heavy kind of hair distribution type of guy.
The tweezers had a 3/64" difference in the length of the legs and there was a burr on them from "sharpening" they touched only at the extreme point. The toothpick (plastic stake) can be used for killing "modern plastic allergic" Vampires nothing else, I couldn't get it between my teeth.
The small srewdriverblade on the caplifter was rounded by "polishing" and slipped a screwslot of a tiny screw off my glasses, the Micra was grinded perfectly no polish on the head.
Cutting with the Crosscut turned out to be a big disappointement to, OK it may cut a little more each snip of the scissors but 1. it did so with more force needed then with the Micra, so where do the gears come in this story ? 2. The cutting action was much rougher then with the Micra. 3. It can't cut as close to something as the Micra can, I tried it on my fingernails, a friendly advise don't do try that with the Crosscut if you like normal nails afterwards.
My conclusion, I'm glad I didn't spend $ 45 on the Micra and $ 60 on the Crosscut in Holland. But even so I could have just bought myself 3 SAK's with better though tinier scissors etc. but I never ever had a DUD SAK and now have 2 minitools that are defective.
I won't be troubling myself with expensive postage costs and hassle sending the defective Minitools back to Discount Knives, and I point out that I ABSOLUTELY don't blame Brian for this unfortunate mishap as I don't, I blame SOG and Leatherman.
I hope the Micra can be made operational,if somebody can give me a suggestion I would welcome it.
The Crosscut will retire to a nail on the wall so that I can always see my DUD of the Millenium.
I just hope somebody of those "Proudly made in the USA" Tool companies starts realizing that selling quality is better then trying to earn a fast buck by cutting corners and producing more then quality control can handle.
I for one have learned my lesson, the hard way, I could have bought 2 nice SAK's for the money I spend on the two rejects. For me it'll be SAK until somebody proves me different.
Best regards, and congratulations with your 223 years of existance as a Nation,
Bagheera
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[This message has been edited by Bagheera (edited 05 July 1999).]
[This message has been edited by Bagheera (edited 05 July 1999).]
[This message has been edited by Bagheera (edited 05 July 1999).]
