SAK Question

Carolina River Rat

Carolina River Rat

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I just bought a Vic Super Tinker. Sweet tool. My question is this: What is the hook for? Never seen one on a SAK before.
 
Called the "multipurpose hook" you can use it for many things. There's a vid on youtube of a VIC commercial where a guy fishes his glasses out of the toilet with the hook!
Originally, the use was for the european market where alot of their packages still come wrapped in paper and held together with twine. If it's a heavy package, the twine can cut into your hand so you carry it with the hook.
I've used it for tightening the front laces in a pair of boots. Usually, they're hard for me to get my fingers under, so I slip the hook in there and pull.
 
Lol, I was given a climber for Christmas and I was wondering the same thing!

Andy
 
carrying things (very good leverage), some use it too untie knots or make cordage tighter, for lifting bail type handles off the fire, some people have used it to hold the sak pen, pulling tent pegs, clothes hanger, pulling parts apart, ring pull, shoe/boot laces; it's only limited by your imagination ;)
 
Turn it upside down, and its a coat hanger in the bathroom stall at the bus station. Come on, Einstein! :)

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Come on, everybody knows that the Swiss Army created the SAK's hook facilitate a quick commando descend down the cables of stalled ski lifts...
 
the hook is basically installed for hang the sak on an cord after wash it with mild soap and water toughfully and let it dry. we swiss think about everythig LOL

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For washing and drying out an SAK???
OMG! how mundane....
Now I know the Swiss think of everything <LOL>
 
There's a victorinox commercial where the hook was used to retrieve eyeglasses that had fallen into a toilet. Clever :D
 
Ultraman said:
There's a victorinox commercial where the hook was used to retrieve eyeglasses that had fallen into a toilet. Clever :D
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no joking around that matter, i wear glasses :D

seriously, we swiss do alot of camping and the hook was designed for pull out the metal on the side of the tent.

also, in the older days, any box that we swiss bring to the mail had to be an cord around them, to hold sutch boxes, by hand, it cut into your hand easy and we walk an good bit with the box to the next mailoffice, sometimes to the next mtn :D so the hook is helpfull too. same as we bring out the garbagebag.

not to be to mutch off toppic, in older days, what i hear, the hook was also useful to easyer open swiss females bra, must have been quite an mechanic back then, better use the sak scissors :D

you see that not cool looking hook has alot of features, spl the hook version who has the nailfile on them.

what we swiss would do without the hook!

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swissbianco said:
not to be to mutch off toppic, in older days, what i hear, the hook was also useful to easyer open swiss females bra, must have been quite an mechanic back then, better use the sak scissors :D
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That's the best use of any tool on a SAK that I've ever heard - thank you!!!

I'm going to try it on my wife right now...
 
Chris "Anagarika";6323302 said:
ultraman,

It's easier to use hand, and wash afterwards .. than using SAK and wash the SAK :D
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Probably he just limited washing to the hook by being very very careful, but I see your logic!
 
....or stand to loose the entire wrist to some severe crap water infection and than have an SAK firmly implanted on to what remains of the forearm with the SAK's hook blade fully extended....
 
swissbianco said:
not to be to mutch off toppic, in older days, what i hear, the hook was also useful to easyer open swiss females bra, must have been quite an mechanic back then, better use the sak scissors :D

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In olden days, hooks were used to tighten ladies' corsets, not to loosen them or anything. Far from furthering romance, hooks are counterproductive. Also, taking scissors to a foundation garment is just plain wrong. With sufficient practice (and encouragement), a gentleman can uncouple bra fasteners smoothly with one hand. I think maybe some guys spend too much time with their computers. :D

GIRLYmann said:
....or stand to loose the entire wrist to some severe crap water infection and than have an SAK firmly implanted on to what remains of the forearm with the SAK's hook blade fully extended....
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Try this; roll your sleeve down far enough to cover your hand, grasp your SAK with the hook extended, and wave it around yelling "Aaargh!"
That should appeal to the ladies. :D
 
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