Leatherman TTi, peanut butter, and water?

peripatew

peripatew

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Odd title I know, but I'm curious about cleaning my TTi. No, it doesn't have peanut butter on it. But how hard is it to do some deep cleaning on these?

Also, what would you do if you dropped yours in a lake? WD-40 is and then polish it up?

I love my Leatherman, but it was a gift, and I still feel like it is too nice to really use. But, if I knew how to take better care of it once it does get dirty, I think I would be more inclined to use it.

I'm considering carrying it with me in my accessory pouch on my Becker BK-7. But, it sometimes gets quite nasty as I'm doing varies things in the wilderness. Thoughts?

Thanks!

Luke
 
It's a tool that was meant to be used. Use it, and worry about the cleaning later.
My Leatherman Wave doesn't get cleaned too often. Just some oil in the joints and I just wipe it with a rag after using. The knife blades get wiped on my pants leg after using. It's good to go.
 
I give my tools a bath of mineral oil once or twice a year. I work around a lot of grease and chemicals, so just take a drinking glass, fill it with baby oil, drop the tool in and let it soak over night. You'd be surprised how much crap the mineral oil pulls out of the nooks and crannies. It works well for my leatherman tools since I can't take them apart.

SAKs get a bather of hot water and dish soap. Then the joints at the springs get 3n1 if their is any "grit" to the action.

I just take my SOG apart and clean it the same way as the SAK. Let dry and reassemble.

Don't be afraid to use your tools. That's what they're there for:thumbup:
 
Trust me the person who got it for you probably won't care if they see you with it & it's dirty, they'll see you with it, see it's dirty and think to themselves "Wow, he really likes that tool I gave him, he uses it all the time... it's nice to know I got him a great gift!"

It's like buying a nice car, and then -never- driving it. Enjoy it!
 
I have to say that I have a Leatherman Supertool that I have had for 10 years, and I have never truely "cleaned" it. I have lightly polished or sharpened the straight edge blade, but that is it. I have hammer straightened the small screwdriver once. Thing still works like a charm.
 
Steely_Gunz said:
I give my tools a bath of mineral oil once or twice a year. I work around a lot of grease and chemicals, so just take a drinking glass, fill it with baby oil, drop the tool in and let it soak over night. You'd be surprised how much crap the mineral oil pulls out of the nooks and crannies.
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sorry if this sounds like a "dumb question" but by what you just said is mineral oil, baby oil?
 
mineral oil and baby oil is the same thing just sold in different aisles and at different prices! if they weren't id be scared to ask where baby oil comes from!
if you are concerned about moisture in any tool you can try carrying it on a carabiner or lanyard and let it dangle and no matter what it will always dry out faster than it would in a sheath
 
No problem! By the way, have you noticed that there are quite a few Lukes around here? I don't ever seem to run into many in "real" life, but we seem to find our way here!

Edit: now that I think about it maybe there's just a couple of us on a few different forums, who knows?
 
Power to the Lukes! I gave mine a hearty WD-40 bath, and it seemed to clean it up well (it was pocket lint dirty mostly). But, the smaller tools were harder to open. So I'm going to try some 3-in-1 and see if that helps. I have some weak fingernails, and so I have a hard time opening them. Thankfully, the pocket clip works as a backup to open things.

As a side note, I'm really pretty tired of hearing "may the force be with you". A curse of the name I suppose. :D

L
 
naked said:
Power to the Lukes! I gave mine a hearty WD-40 bath, and it seemed to clean it up well (it was pocket lint dirty mostly). But, the smaller tools were harder to open. So I'm going to try some 3-in-1 and see if that helps. I have some weak fingernails, and so I have a hard time opening them. Thankfully, the pocket clip works as a backup to open things.

As a side note, I'm really pretty tired of hearing "may the force be with you". A curse of the name I suppose. :D

L
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So far, the Lukes I know bathe themselves, but thanks for the tips on how to get all that pocket lint off them. :D
 
I read on Ritter's site that that XTi was replaced by the ALX, but the TTi has a better blade of Crucible’s CPM S30V rather than the 154. I wonder if this is worth the upgrade?
 
naked said:
...Thankfully, the pocket clip works as a backup to open things...

...As a side note, I'm really pretty tired of hearing "may the force be with you". A curse of the name I suppose. :D...
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One way I use the pocket clip (or the bit from the bit holder) is to push out the lanyard ring that hides behind the saw. I don't know how you could get it out without some other tool?

Yes, some people must just spend their lives waiting for a chance to say "I am your father" or "may the force be with you" or "the force is strong with you". I usually just give them a dumb look and say something along the lines of "Whats that? Is that from a movie or something?"

As for the TTI, I'm happy with my Ti. That said, I don't feel the need for the latest steel either, Ive been happy with 154CM.
 
Wow. I totally forgot about the lanyard ring! The response I used when younger was "Shut up or I'll make you my mother". Yeah... But like I said it was a long time ago.
 
naked said:
Wow. I totally forgot about the lanyard ring! The response I used when younger was "Shut up or I'll make you my mother". Yeah... But like I said it was a long time ago.
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LOL! Years ago (when Instant Messenger was new) I would randomly talk to other Lukes, and found out we all had the same problem. Some of them had some funny ways of dealing with it, but I forget most of them now...
 
I remember doing the same when ICQ first came out since you could search by names. Awesome.
 
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