SAK.... I need to ask

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I've had my Victorinox for almost six years now, and love it. I have found so many uses for all the tools that just made my life that much easier. Well, not all the tools, really. I have never quite found a single, practical use for the small "hook" on the back. So really: What is it for?
 
Parcel carrying. I used to use mine when I worked at a hotel, the paper guy would drop off about 50 bundles for all the patrons and I'd have to load them. I didn't have gloves and they were all bound with that yellow nylon stuff. I was never so happy to have my hook thingy in my life heheheh. Hope that helps.
 
carrying heavy plastic bags that would otherwise cut into the hands on that long trek to the car on the other side of the parking lot?
 
Mine gets used to help carry baled straw bound with wire. It has also been useful on bundled newsprint wrapped tightly with cord. Fortunately, I don't have to do either very often.
 
How about the hook on the base of the awl on a Vic Spirit? What's up with that? You can't carry a package with it unless you want to poke holes in it . . .
 
In another thread here someone suggested using it to pull buttons through button holes on the cuff of your sleeves. I've tried it and actually it works really great for that!
 
Thanks for the fast replies. Most of those seem pretty practical, but I'm not quite sure i want to test the strength of my SAK by lifting groceries on a tiny hook.
 
Best use for the hook I've found- tightening mi'lady's corset at a ren faire. The SAK is a little non period, but no one was looking. :P

MassMatt said:
Ummm, that's the "Columbian shovel", very popular in Hollywood and nightclubs throughout the world.
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Not quite.

Pharmacists get their meds in very large containers, several hundred pills/capsules. Your doc shouldn't be writing prescriptions that big. So when you fill your Rx for, say, 30 of something, they pour what looks like about 30 into a tray that has a chute on it to fill the bottle. Rather than contaminate the meds with thier fingers, even gloved, they use this thing that looks like a butter knife. That is what the spatula is for.

They are also generally robust enough that you can use them to crush a pill or basically baton a pill or caplet in half. You find them along with a flat, solid end cap on some older folders that are generally described as "pharmacists" or "doctors knives".
 
That's hillarious matt, lol I was kind of thinking the same thing.

Raven, thanks for the logical response, that makes a lot of sense the whole using it so you don't contaminate the meds.

Sorry about the thread hijack I'll shut up now.
 
[note: this post is not to be taken seriously]

I think it's kind of funny that the Compact model has the hook. I can just picture how that came to be...

"We're going to make a new model that is small and thin but still is high in functionality, it will be for minimalists... of course it will have a blade... what else should this one have?"

"Let's use the plus scales so we can include all of the removable implements."

"Good idea. We can also use the combo tool, that will save space."

"We can have a corkscrew with the new mini-screwdriver, fitting into the whole "compact" theme..."

"We should include scissors, which has been a staple of the classic line for many years..."

"Anything else? Let's limit this to two layers. What else can we include??"

... [long pause]

"Anyone else??"

...

"I've got it! I know what else we can have... a frickin' HOOK!"
 
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