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To: tomkat

Mine is an older model as it has the brass frame on the magnifying lens.

Also added the small screwdriver to the corkscrew and mine didn’t have a safety pen hol I removed the side slabs and added a sewing needle hole .

Magnetized the sewing needle, polished it up good with Flitz and it has served me well for decades as owners like you can appreciate .

The magnetized sewing needle worked as a improvised compass and when used with the guts from my 550 para cord boot laces made field repairs to gear and clothing easy.

Would like to see Victorinox make a space on the slabs for a ferconium rod for emergency fire starting.

Seriously thinking of routing a slot in the slab and making one myself....

All in all ....it’s perfection personified for a pocket knife. Even the little magnifying glass was great for looking at bench marks etc on topographic maps,

Stay safe !


142 posted on 01/04/2013 8:01:18 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos
Would like to see Victorinox make a space on the slabs for a ferconium rod for emergency fire starting.

If you hurry, you can still get a Victorinox USB keychain knife. Detach the USB drive, use it for something else, and mill a fire starter to fit the empty slot. Just an open hook at the pivoting end to leave it in the frame, or remove it completely.

Something strange is going on with the "assault model" of the USB keychain knife. I paid $200 for the all-up version with 32GB, a fingerprint reader, laser, and IR projector controller. Now it's going for about $750. A "naked" USB-only device is about $8 and up (for a small amount of RAM). Anything with a knife, light, laser, or scissors on it is well over $100. RAM upgrades are relatively cheap, but a bit more expensive than cheap generic chicom USB drives. Besides the custom packaging, they have been tested by independent labs to meet and far exceed all the EU standards for RAM that everybody claims to meet.

For $158, you can get still(?)this Alox model with 32GB, knife, file, and scissors. But no target designator or remote detonator. Something fishy definitely going on, waaaay under the radar.


169 posted on 01/06/2013 11:09:10 AM PST by 300winmag (Overkill Never Fails)
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