Victorinox scissor spring?

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jamesbeat

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The scissor spring on every vic knife I have ever owned (which is quite a few) has broken within weeks of ownership.
I think it's a pretty serious design flaw and I was hoping someone might have come up with a solution?

If not, is there anywhere to buy spare springs?
 
If you are breaking them so readily, you are doing something wrong. These springs hold up to years of serious use.

Try a Wenger, they use a lever to push open the scissors.

See KnifeCenter for spare SAK parts.
 
I have owned and used Vic SAK's for many, many years and I have only broken one - and that was from years of use.
 
I use the scissors on my Climber,Huntsman,and Classic all the time.I have'nt broken any yet.
 
Never broken a spring here and i have a swiss army knife that's older than me! You sure you're buying a victorinox?
 
I don't know why they broke, I have had at least five sak's that I can think of offhand, maybe more. Each time I've had one break, it's always been in exactly the same place, the 'knee area' where the sharpest bend is.
I use the scissors for cutting my fingernails, I don't see how that would be an abnormal thing to to with them?
I remember years ago making a makeshift replacement out of a piece of razor blade. That never broke, but it did keep falling out.
 
Awesome, thanks matt1987 :)

Incidentally, my apologies for posting in the wrong section of the forum, I always think of sak's as slipjoints, and therefore 'traditional'.
Thanks to the mod who mived it to the correct section.
 
i have been using victorinox scissors for cutting finger nails, so far never even broke the scissor... i've seen broken scissor spring on my friends old SAKs, but that becouse of abuse or accident like closing the scissor while the spring is out of allignment...

good look on your sparepart hunt... the wenger suggestion is great idea... but i dont thing the scissor on victorinox is design flaw, they would have change the design instead of still producing billions of them...
 
Another here who has never broken one, in fact I think they're surprisingly robust. I've stressed all mine quite a bit.
 
My Cybertool 34 has been my EDC for almost 11 years - still on the original scissors spring. It isn't all that hard to get a replacement (plus spares if you want to keep replacements on hand) and I do have a couple of other SAKs with scissors that I could borrow the scissors springs from. But I am surprised that someone could readily break one no matter how they use it - the scissors can't go past where the handle hits the base bit, so you can't bend the spring too far. Really what can one person do to their scissors that is different to anyone else (except use it for thousands of of cuts per day and flat out wear the poor thing out in a few weeks)?
 
I need to change out the sping on my sak...but I'm not sure how. Anyone know how this is done??

Thanks
 
The spring is held in by a little eye at the bottom of the spring. I just took some pliers and pulled it out from the side. To replace just line up the spring and squeeze it in with the pliers.
 
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