VICTORINOX - Disassemble -Experiment- Reassemble (How to 🤠& Not to Do 😬)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2024
- I decided to make a video detailing how to take apart a Swiss Army Knife tool, and then how to put it back together again... at least this is what it looks like for one beginner.
I've seen a couple of videos making everything look quick and easy. While I'm a pretty capable DIY'er (DIY Daphinator!), I seemed to encounter challenge after challenge.
For example, drilling out a rod to release the rivet. I used a diamond coated drill bit (for me the regular bit worked better) but it remained very time consuming and difficult to properly core out.
Per my effort I learned some things along the way.
If you are thinking about digging into a SAK project, then I hope this video helps you learn a bit as well... and perhaps a video with enough length to include the stumbles may help you avoid likewise tripping.
And if you are experienced, then please share your knowledge with me and others about your best practices!
Good resource on basic modification- to disassemble and put back together:
forum.multitool.org/index.php...
Tools/supplies to modify:
forum.multitool.org/index.php...
Brass rods 2.2mm:
amzn.to/3VSY1Pu
Brass rods 2.5mm:
amzn.to/3nVtd4b
Sak Plus Scales:
www.etsy.com/listing/12711044...
Rivets:
www.ebay.com/itm/323923258565...
I found a seller on Ebay. Supply is often limited, so may be sold out; keep checking back. Otherwise, Ebay most likely remains the best place to look for other sellers. If you are careful you can reuse the existing rivets.
0:00 Intro
3:56 Removing Cellidor Scales
5:22 Drill and Punch Out Rods
9:52 Breaking a Tool
17:42 Keeping Track of Layers
20:14 Considering a Modification
26:25 Reassembly
30:24 Peening
34:06 First Look and Some Tweaks
38:21 Final Look Over and Thoughts - ตลก
Another idea for better alignment… I’m messing around with layers and while I haven’t snugged everything it seems like this would work well:
First: lay down the back outside scale (the one without the driver cutout in it)
-Then add another inner aluminum spacer (any best fit from spare inside spacers lying around… and file inside profile edge as needed for tool to best lay down)
-Now lay spine and knife and flathead/cap-lifter layer (with phillips on backside). Don’t include the usual small spacer that goes behind the flathead/cap-lifter.
-Place top outside scale and check that everything aligns well.
While I haven’t peened everything, a cursory opening and closing of tools is working well… they don’t close into each other. And there aren’t any gaps due to layers not being parallel.
It does still require using a Dremel to make a nail nick on the flathead/cap-lifter.
This Video was 10/10 helpful! Thank you for show all of it ( including part when it got difficult ) ! Most people edit that stuff out. I glad you kept it in to make me feel better about my own struggle! Thanks again!
You’ve spoken exactly to why I wanted to make the video… thank you for your kind comment.
May my struggle serve to minimize yours just a bit... and if not, at least we have Solidarity! 😄😉
Very honest and natural tutorial mate !!!
10/10 !!!!!
I think admitting and showing all ‘natural’ struggles is useful. Thank you for watching and the compliment… and your thoughts on the other comment.
I found this video right after modding my first Victorinox. The degree of pain and fiddliness rings true. Thanks for leaving in that footage.
Aaaaah, solidarity. 🍻
Thank you for making this video. I've been toying with the idea of modding for some time now, but haven't taken the first step. It's nice to have your realistic video to show what it really will be like when I dig into it. It is incredibly valuable for me to set realistic expectations for myself: I am more likely to create a frankintool than a masterpiece on my first try.
You’re very welcome. 😊
I wish I’d had a video like this to watch before diving in. Indeed my expectations were way off the mark and my leaning as a perfectionist obsessed with quality was promptly humbled.
I felt frustrated at times wondering how much my stumbling was stupidity vs normal challenges. Ultimately I remembered I had no real in depth guide to go by and was in some ways flying blind.
And I guess it’s like any craft where refinement only comes with practice, learning from our errors, and discovering obstacles and subsequent accommodations and efficiencies along the way.
The experience makes me all the more appreciate the work of folks who do phenomenal modifications.
I wish you the best on your first Frankentool… it will be charming for any of it’s imperfections, because it will be one of a kind by your hands. 🤩
This was awesome! I think we would be fast friends. Always tinkering with and pulling apart stuff we have no business doing, then wondering why we did it, but determined to make it work! Am I about right? I can’t leave anything alone and I’m feeling the vibe from you!!! Thank you for doing this for me! 🤗 You are adorable and I will probably do the same mod step by step with your video guiding me!
Wheeeeee… yup… double trouble
😆🤜🤛🤠😜
If you try it I’d love to know how it goes… hopefully you avoid my mistakes. I would see about somehow contouring and fitting a full length spacer instead of my wonky nipped end “washer”… you wouldn’t have to glue anything in place and it perhaps it would eliminate the pesky gap.
One one hand I’m determined to leave it all alone and go do almost anything else with my time, on the other hand I share that affliction you mentioned and given some passage of time will return to the chopping block with curiosity, a few profanities, and hopefully some satisfaction regardless the outcome.
😄💩💃🏻
And check out this guy… he’s just showing off. 😆
I’m not sure where he got his super powers. I like how he used his dremel for cutting and filing the top rod before peening.
th-cam.com/video/XJ5x0BjYKG4/w-d-xo.html
I have watched a lot of videos of SAK mods, and you give more crucial info than any of the other ones I've watched, since all that I've seen so far don't show every step. Watching what a pain it was, does not make me want to go through with it. LOL Though, knowing me, I probably will. I second what another commenter said, you seem like you would be a great friend. You give off warm, fun, and caring vibes. I wish you the best in whatever you do!
Thank you for the kind words. 🧡Hopefully I've performed my service to persuade you not to bother.😝 And if you do, at least you have an idea of what you're up against. If you do give it a try, I hope you learned from my mistakes and let me know how it goes. 😄
Great and helpful video! I think I will stick to the finished products. Good work!
Exactly what I determined the best course of action for myself as well. 😁
The experience of fiddling with this made me all the more appreciate folks making custom SAKs, like custom_sak or fit2survive_ on IG to name a couple. Just bonkers the skill and creativity they've dialed in.
Really enjoyed watching you work your way through it. I've been modding days army knives for a couple years. With a lot of practice I've gotten pretty good at it, but I still run into a roadblock almost every time.
When disassembling the knife I don't tape it. I punch the pin just enough to remove one layer, then repeat. It's a whole lot easier than trying to get that pin through the whole knife at once.
Thank you… That’s a good thought about the tape. My goal was to not have the layers explode all over the place (less important when an exploded SAK reference is available online)… I once tried your suggested way of gently tapping just enough for individual layers to come off at a time and it was a chaotic mess… it’s hard to be gradual when the rivets don’t budge without a muscular whack!… but it also makes sense that the whacks need to be harder if trying to pound rivets through many layers, where they might get even more tensioned by disturbing the tolerances pounding here and there eking them through. 🤷🏻
Orrrrrr… I was just being too ogre-ish and impatient. 👹 I think my impatience with the process is a general liability. 😜
If you think of any more advice lemme know. 🙏
A spring-loaded center punch can be your friend. You need to drill deeper using a sharp drill bit. Use a 1/16 pin punch to drive the pins out. I use a plastic shell holder from a box of handgun shells.
I must have some mysterious forces working against me… beyond just myself.
😬🤡👻
I had tried a spring loaded pin punch in a previous endeavor and it wouldn’t even begin to leave an adequate punch divot from which to start drilling. Like, basically no indentation at all.
Then I had tried to use a carbide tipped drill bit as I’d heard recommended… after that $ spent I discovered it was far inferior to my regular bits (not to say the regular bit worked well).
I had used a pin punch, and yet due to the pins not wanting to budge (perhaps from having difficulty drilling out the pin cores adequately) the punch tip bent… and eventually cracked off. That definitely made this project harder.
I think my primary problem was, as you mentioned, needing to drill deeper… but struggling to do so. I also found it curious how on the two disassemblies I’d undertaken, the relative ease or stubbornness of the pin removal was a world apart.
I just looked up a plastic shell holder device… neat! That seems like it would work nicely. But how would you have room for the pins to drop out? Or do you anchor the holder onto a plank of wood with little purpose drilled drop holes?
Your inner scales seemed bent inwardly making friction when opening the blade.
While peening, you should slide some washers to prevent the inner scales not to bend.
It should be Snugly fit at pivot points but free on the rest of the scales.
Thanks.
Hi, thanks for your thoughts.
The scale bends a bit because the whole idea/arrangement isn’t spaced properly to begin with. 😬💩
I had to add something of a spacer for this particular configuration of tools to line up so as not to bump into each other when opening/closing. It’s basically how I realized that mods beyond just swapping whole layer sets in or out doesn’t really work (unless fabricating something to address incongruity). Anyway, I think this is more the cause of some rubbing friction, vs issues related to any distortion related to peening (my hammer strikes stayed well centered over the peening rod)… although peening too much will definitely tighten/bind up the tools.
Good luck if you take on any mods!… I’ve only tried twice and I’m already back to just enjoying my wide collection of already perfectly functioning SAKs vs this confounding frankentool process. 😆🤡
Hubiese sido mejor ponerle la herramienta philips a una bantam.😅
That would be a very nice little set up. Sadly, not possible in a one layer knife. It should likely be possible to do a two layer knife with one being the blade and cap lifter, and the other the phillips and magnifying glass… it’s amazing how often a combination seems like it should work, but it will not. Realizing this is what derailed me from fussing about with more modification experiments of just trying to redo SAKs with oem parts. These experiments are expensive and require pulling apart well made tools. 😬