I started this one on September 16, 2006.

Lothithil:

MacGyver:

MacGyverGod:

Hawki:

Amy:

Mac:

Sheepy:

Pseodonym:

MacNymph:

MacsChick:

Amy:

Amy:

MacNymph:

Amy:

MEP:

The last post was on September 27, 2006.

OMG

That you REPOSTED IT!!

Well...if it entertains you that much...I guess I'm glad I reposted my own idiocy!

It's really nice for a newbie like me discovering all the old threads that way! Of course I would have anyway, was making my way through all the things, but hadn't come to this one yet.

Unfortunately, I don't have to share any stories since I somehow don't want to separate my SAK from the other things that came with him like chewing gum, paper clips, matches and duct tape but the whole box is just too large to keep carrying it in the pocket.

Maybe I should get myself a second one for actually using it

Over the years I have used my SAK to get out of a number of jams. i used to carry one on trail rides. it was quite handy for picking small pebbles out of my horse's hooves. I also kept one tied to a leather thong in the barn and used it for cutting bailing rope on hay bales.

In 1993, I was in Switzerland and bought something like a half dozen SAKs for family and friends as presents for Christmas. One of my sisters still has the knife I gave her. Mine got stolen!

I currently have about 5 different ones around the house. There is one in my car, my desk at work, our first aid kit, our backcountry survival kit, the kitchen and in my briefcase. Never know when it might come in handy.

I've used them for everything from removing stones from horse hooves to opening wine bottles at parties. The only thing I haven't been able to do is unlock the door. Amy you aren't the only one too incompetent to pick a lock. At least your neighbors didn't call the police.


I also had to use it when I got locked in my home office when the doorknob broke. The SAK,don't think I could live without it.

I finally did go get a spare key made...and I actually had to use it once!

Well, our neighbors on either side are probably at least 100 yards away and we live in the woods... And when I read that about calling the police, it reminded me that the newer neighbor is the whole reason we lock our doors anyway! They're kids were actually caught snooping around another neighbor's house and I started to hear strange noises at night. Before that we hadn't locked our doors in 3 years! Creepy. So, see, getting locked out is a new experience for me!

Ah Gotcha.

We have neighbors on all sides. In fact the people that live behind us can look in my bedroom window.

It only took 3 months, but I was able to train my husband that window blinds only have one setting--DOWN!

Hmm, neighbor kids sneaking around. Definitely creepy. We don't have that problem around here, too many people watching. We also have an alarm system installed. Good thing it was turned off when I tried to break into my house.

by a gypsy girl???

Now thats funny right there.

[FONT=Times][SIZE=7][COLOR=red]I don't have a SAK. How many people are losers like me and do not have SAKs? I just want to feel like I'm not alone. I do have two pocket knives though, can that count?

An old climbers saying: "It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop."

Not a gypsy. A sticky fingered friend of my college roommate. Of course I couldn't prove it. My roommate's friend dropped out of school about three weeks later. The last I heard, he was working in a fast food place. Oh well, bygones.

I've replaced the SAK and gotten on with my life and met some very cool people in the process.

I'm new to this, but I have a real good story.

I have carried a SAK with me for a long time, and one day while I was at work, one of y friends came by to see me and to do some shopping. Well, as he was getting ready to leave he realized he had locked his keys in his car. They had fallen into the seat when he got out. Fortunately he left his windows cracked, but not enough to get your hand in. I had my SAK, and a pair of earbud headphones. I used the headphones, and tied them around the ends of my SAK and used the hook tool to lower my SAK into his car and pull out his keys. Ever since then he has called me MacGyver.

I have been a MacGyver fan for a really long time, and I believe that MacGyver should run for President in 2008!

http://www.specialfarm.net/macgyver2008.html

Usually I just thing those earbuds look funny on people. Finally a useful purpose.

Welcome to MOL Burkamus MacGyverus!

Really? You think? I thought I looked pretty cool wearing mine!

Welcome Burkamus and very nice SAK usage.

MacGyver was my hero from 6th grade to 12th, I rarely ever missed an episode. I still am a huge fan and I have my 9 year old son a big fan too. Well, I am on my second Swiss Army Knife, and I upgraded from the knife like MacGyver's to an even bigger SAK with the magnifying glass and all the trimmings. I have started campfires with the magnifying glass, cut walking sticks with the saw, manipulated locked doors with various blades, fixed glasses with the tiny screw driver, etc. It has saved the day for me for years. If I was to ever have any cosmetic surgery I would just prefer to have this knife surgically attached to my right hand!

I second MacGyver for President in 2008!


I recently got an SAK. I never had one, as they were kind of hard to come by in Moscow. If I needed some sort of a tool, I usually improvised by combing the roadside. Life is sooo much easier with an SAK though. I didn't know what I was missing.

A perfect example, at a horse rescue I volunteer at, we always have a problem with those scissors dissolving into thin air right about the time the fields need haying and there is that plastic baling twine that has to be disposed of, or if you're mucking the stalls and need extra bedding and have to cut open the bags of wood shavings, of course the scissors or any other sharp objects somehow evaporated. Now instead of wasting time looking for something sharp, I just pull my knife out of my pocket. Problem solved.

Really? You think? I thought I looked pretty cool wearing mine!

Post a picture and we'll let you know.

Its ok. I looked in a mirror but thanks for the offer anyway.

We seem to have a problem with disappearing scissors (and rubber stoppers too for some reason ) at my work. We hide our SAK so other departments don’t “borrow” it. Well it’s not really hidden but it lives in my lab coat pocket and no one but the lab is brave enough to search in there.

About a week ago one of my computers blew up. It was pretty spectacular too, sparks came out and even the power went out in the apartment for a second. Well, once the power was back I had to investigate what happened. The nearest tool was my SAK. I took the computer apart just using the can opener which on mine also doubles as a screwdriver that happens to fit the philips screws on a computer. Turned out the transformer in the power supply blew. Well, that power supply was about 15 years old and it was ripe time for it to blow I guess. I had this funny feeling that the computer itself might be okay. That particular machine has a bit of a reputation for being indestructible. I managed to find a replacement power supply on the internet. It was surprisingly easy despite the fact that I needed one of those ancient power supplies that have the power button out on a cable to connect to the faceplate and the mainboard connectors that are in two skinny pieces (roughly half the wires of the modern computer). I installed the new power supply this weekend, again just using my knife and wouldn't you know the computer came back. The only thing that seems to be permanently blown is the CMOS battery, so after every complete powerdown the machine forgets to look for secondary drives on each cable. Oh well, no big deal, I just tell it to look and all's well.

Why do I keep around a computer that's 15 years old? Same reason I kept a car around which was 19. If it still works and does just fine, why throw it out? Besides, there isn't a computer around that is capable of catching more memory leaks in my codes than this one. If there is even a little thing wrong in a code, this machine will squeal about it like there is no tomorrow.

I have to repeat myself again though. Now that I have one, I don't know how I managed to live 29 years on this planet without an SAK.

Boring, I know, but I opened a can of tuna just yesterday when we were can opener-less at work! Carry my SAK every day, everywhere! If I ever run into RDA, that's my object to sign, gosh darn it!

I disassembled my dead laptop with my SAK. I couldn't fix it without about $300-worth of parts-though, so all the pieces are just sitting in my bedroom floor at the moment.

Well, though it's not really a jam, i do use my SAK to open those impossible wraps on grinders you buy in conveince stores, cuts the sandwich in half nicely too

What's a grinder?

It's how people in her part of the world refer to what the rest of us call a Sub Sandwich (or filled roll )

A "grinder" is a submarine sandwich, hoagie, various names given to those wonderful long sandwiches. In Cape Cod Mass, a grinder is a cold sandwich ( like Italian cold cuts, ham & cheese ) and a sub is a hot one ( like Meatballs, steak & cheese ) Hoagie is never used here.

And in my part of the world, a grinder is a hot sandwich of either meatballs or sausage, a hoagie is cold cuts, usually Italian, and a sub is anything else on a long roll.

Thanks for the lesson, you guys!

I just call them all "sandwiches"!

I used the little blade on mine tonight to unscrew the doorknob on my son's bedroom door. The doorknob ocassionally sticks and you can't open the door. The only way to get it open is to take the knob off the door and unjam the part that slides into the doorframe. I got the knob off the door, unstuck the lock mechanism and I'm leaving it like that unitl I can get a new doorknob.

The door to my husband's office was locked and no one knew where a key was. Before I called a locksmith, I said, "What would MacGyver do?" I got the SAK and went to work....................................................... wish I used it as efficiently as Mac does..................... locksmith was expensive!

Yay!! Your first post!!

Even MacGyver is never sure that his tricks are going to work...