Vic SAK Question

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marcinek

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I have a Super Tinker, and all of a suden today, the screwdriver/cap lifter blade has "siezed." Wont budge. All the other blades/tools walk and talk just fine.

Any suggestions?
 
sounds like a rock/stone got in there Marc! are you pounding sand again :p lol!

I've heard of air plowing, boiling (careful with the plastic scales) and force!

good luck buddy and let us know what happened.
 
Soaking in WD-40 might do the trick. Also, open all the other implements on that side so you can get a good view as to whether anything might be stuck in there. If this wasn't a Super Tinker, but a locking model that you had just acquired, I would have suggested that you make sure the lock on the screwdriver isn't in the way, but yours isn't a model with a locking screwdriver. And yes, I have made that mistake, thinking that the screwdriver had seized when it had just locked like it was supposed to. :grumpy:
 
Dantor said:
sounds like a rock/stone got in there Marc! are you pounding sand again :p lol!

I've heard of air plowing, boiling (careful with the plastic scales) and force!

good luck buddy and let us know what happened.
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I can't see what's wrong with the darn thing! I'm going to give it the WD-40 treatment next. If that doesn't work, I'm gonna beat on it with a roll of Duck Tape...if that doesn't do it...I'm taking the Vise Grips to it!

Or I suppose I could buy a new one....but what's the fun in that!
 
Now the small blade (on the same pin as the screwdriver cap lifter) is doing the same thing....despite a cleaning/oiling!

Seized!

I think something has gone catastrophically wrong in the "guts" of the ol' gal. Shame.

I might have to treat myself a brand new knife....I don't want to.....but I think I have to.
 
If it is something wrong inside then you should send it in for warranty repair. Victorinox will fix it.
 
(wonders if someone is tying marcinek's shoe laces together and spiking his lemonade.... hmmm)

marc I want to see this sak now! that would bother me so much! (fist)

would it be worth it for you to send it in? they have a pretty good warranty policy and I've heard good things about it.
 
As far as seeing it....there's not much to see! I can't see anything. The blades on the other pin open and close great....the small blade was fine....now it doesn't budge. Very strange.

I thought the knife had compressed somehow on the messed up end....I don't know.

Most likely I'll just buy a new one and keep poking around this thing until I figure out what the heck happened. Or I'll just send it to Dantor! Let him figure the confounded thing out! :D
 
Vic mechanism is as simple as it gets. I actually think it's harder to make it seize solid than to break it. Maybe somebody is pulling your leg and put a drop of super glue in the mechanism.
 
Sep said:
Vic mechanism is as simple as it gets. I actually think it's harder to make it seize solid than to break it. Maybe somebody is pulling your leg and put a drop of super glue in the mechanism.
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Agreed! I cant imagine what would make any blade seize, let alone two of them on the same end. Either there is something stuck in there or something is broke (what?) or that end is somehow "pinched."

I don't get it at all.
 
znapschatz said:
And while waiting for the warranty return, you can buy another SAK for interim use. It's a win/win :D .
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Yes, but then do I buy new Super Tinker while they are fixing my old Super Tinker...or do I buy another model? Another head scratcher!
 
you should pick up another new model
so that way you can have the new model AND the new super tinker when it returns
double the fun that way ;)
 
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