hello everybody adam savage here in my cave with a show and tell this morning uh that is a direct
result of a video we shot a few weeks ago and that is the repair and uh reassembly of a part of my
victronox swiss army display model it sits above my lathe and in that video i discovered while
showing it off while doing a show-and-tell about it that it was missing a blade i remade that
blade promptly mounted it backwards and i know that's driven a whole bunch of you absolutely
bananas and i apologize for that um however it's just yeah at any rate uh that video went up a
few weeks ago and i just got this incredible letter uh twotested.com dear adam uh i hope
this letter finds you healthy and well i wanted to reach out to you as i have really enjoyed
watching your latest video where you repaired the giant swiss army knife it was a great pleasure to
see how you managed to bring the broken tool back to life with your ingenuity and passion
as a sign of my appreciation i would like to present you with this swiss champ
uh that i myself assembled here in ebok for you i hope it inspires you to continue the great work
that you do serious uh with kind regards from switzerland carl elsinor the ceo of victor knox
assembled a swiss champ and sent it to me carl holy cow uh he finishes with if you ever find
yourself in switzerland we would of course be happy to offer you a factory tour showing you
how we produced the knife that brought you and your viewers so much joy oh oh it's on it's on
yes totally i want to come to switzerland i want to visit the birthplace of my favorite knives
what a delight um here's i didn't expect to do this in this um but as i was talking about the
uh the knife having uh the blade mounted backwards i realized that it's cruel for me to talk about it
knowing that it's sitting there driving so many of you nuts and not dealing with it so
in celebration of this magnificent addition to my pocketknife collection i thought i'd
celebrate by fixing that blade for y'all yeah so that's what i'm gonna do give me a second
okay this thing was making some bad noise recently so it's uh maybe reasonable
okay um so the offending blade is this one and it's mounted upside down and backwards and i think
it's a fairly simple matter for me to replace it i also this thing was making a clicking
sound recently and so i turned it off until i could deal with it so it's all sort of time to
make this thing better again okay so uh i want to disconnect
that right and that means i have to undo wow it's a lot of stuff stacked up in there isn't there
all right
nut driver for that
let's see if i got the right one nope and
nope
i don't like to make that many trips no
no oh there it is
okay
okay i'm going to
swag this out of my way there we go yeah something like that that keep it out of my way without
harming it sure okay oh right that's also ah yeah yeah now i see okay i think i can i think i can
i can't yep i can okay great washer
so now what i want to do is i want to turn this this way
and i want to put this over here right right
so the question is right i want the opposite side the opposite side all right
yep okay good it's a pressure fit so now it sits on this side facing that way and i
can figure out its position yes i can just use that look at that okay i need a transfer punch
yeah that's it okay so it's gonna oh wow it's way out the edge there but
yeah that is exactly where it is yep i just happened to cut the whole thing wrong but
that's where the hole is so then the question is what size hole do i drill and it would be a .115
and that's close to 1.25 but that's an eight and i don't need that
this is going to be a pressure fit so
just grabbing a drill here i'm using the uh the one drill bit under the 1.094 or 0.109
7 64. okay
and put it in there oh it's the wrong way
great that's a nice solid fit that felt like a good purchase on it uh
did i put it in the wrong side did i manage to do that
hang on hang on did i really manage to
where's it supposed to go in this way
no that's all that's that's that's no good that doesn't work no it's gotta go the yeah
sorry about that i was about to mount it wrong again but wait i'm very confused i thought
i thought yeah i thought that it goes this way however i seem to have mounted it backwards
okay so let's do it this way then
again it's a very light load
then this little teflon washer then that guy goes back
oh right and then this comes back down i knew there was something going on so wait wait wait you
all right
let's see what we can get out of this
oh nope okay so something's dreadfully wrong there
wait i know you're probably watching knowing exactly what's going wrong here for me but i don't
i think that one of the things is that
you stay i will find a circlip for you i promise see uh
okay let's just see if that does it
is all right with the world all is right with the world okay so uh i'm gonna turn that back off
i'm gonna put this nut on and then uh i gotta do one thing i gotta find a circlip
for that little pin right there okay
let's see so very very small very very yeah it's gonna be one of those squad
this one let's see
oh i lost it okay i need a pair of needle nose
ah i see what i did
that is supposed to go on on the other side no it's fine there isn't it
yeah i think that's fine all right let's see here
so great uh test power
so
yeah yep yep set it okay let's just double check
oh i almost got sliced by my own knife ah so where was i i was finishing up there you go ah my fellow
my fellow completists who found this blade being backwards to drive you nuts i apologize uh all is
back to normal uh carl and all of the amazing people at victorinox thank you for making
such awesome tools that make so many more things possible for the people who are carrying them
and i will take you up on the invitation to come to switzerland visit your factory damn
that sounds like fun thank you guys for joining me for this show and tell and i will see you next
time you