Leatherman 74103003 Juice KF4
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Product Details
Manufacturer: LeathermanModel: 74103003
Product features:
- Yellow anodized handles
- 14 tools in 1
- Serrated knife
- Saw blade, file, and awl
- 25 year warranty
- Field & Stream (1-year)
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Description of Leatherman 74103003 Juice KF4
Includes the following tools: Needlenose Pliers, Straight Knife, Wire Cutters, Hard-Wire Cutters, Extra-Small Screwdriver, Small Screwdriver, Med / Lrg Screwdriver, Phillips Screwdriver, Lanyard Attachment, Saw, Awl, Serrated Knife, Diamond File. RulerWhy should you buy a Leatherman Juice? Quality, durability, precision and attention to detail are the standard for all Leatherman products. With its compact size, smooth lines and contoured shape, the Juice fits your busy life. Each tool's fresh contemporary color will brighten your day, and you'll love having quick access to your favorite blades. Freedom and convenience are what Juice is all about. The Juice KF4 - Solar Yellow is full of bright ideas. Luminescent outer panels of yellow or gray anodized aluminum enclose pliers, wire cutters, and four screwdrivers, as well as a saw, awl and diamond-coated file. The KF4 gives you a choice of a straight knife blade or serrated. With a slightly thicker size, it also provides a handy ruler and comes with a lanyard attachment. The KF4 is covered by the Leatherman 25-year warranty.Code-named Solar, the Juice KF4 from Leatherman packs 14 very cool tools into one compact, metallic yellow, anodized-aluminum body. Only 3-1/4 inches long, and weighing a mere 5-1/2 ounces, the Solar truly is small enough to carry comfortably in your pocket. Like other Leatherman tools, the Solar butterflies open to expose the needle-nose pliers/wire cutters/wire stripper, with access to three flat-head screwdrivers, a Philips driver, and a lanyard attachment. The tool's handles harbor additional tools: a saw, an awl, a diamond-coated file, a ruler, a serrated knife, and a straight knife. When it's time to work, the Solar positively snaps into the open position. The individual tools are made of high-grade stainless steel. The Juice multitools do lack the blade-locking mechanism found on Leatherman's Wave, but the blades click crisply in place and hold securely. Like all the Juice models, the Solar makes a snazzy gift for technophiles and gadget lovers alike. --Jon Groebner
Tools and Hardware Reviews of Leatherman 74103003 Juice KF4
Customer Review: kf4, a backpacker ideal
Summary: 5 Stars
This product is great I've already used it on a camping trip!
About the casing: I've had a leatherman squirt p4 for about 2 years on my keychain. I use it just about every other day for some small thing or another. I can say that the casing is not cheap plastic, and to affirm another reviewer it is anodized aluminum. Both the squirt p4 and juice kf4 have the same casing and after 2 years of constant abuse there is some wear on the anodization after many drops of my keys, and random projects. The wear is relatively minimal to how hard I have used this little tool (squirt p4). I'm not worried the slightest about the kf4 being damaged by falls or scratching from stuff in pockets or a backpack. It's not a delicate tool, and neither is the squirt p4.
Build quality: I noticed that the awl sits above one of the blades and holds it in place somewhat, the only time I feel that it isn't perfectly sturdy is when the awl is extended and the closed blade has the slightest play.
One engineering oddity is the difficulty of using this tools' lanyard loop for a keychain/lanyard. I find it difficult to pull the loop out and resorted to using my p4 to fish it out. Maybe after some use this loop will be more easily removed. For the time being, I am not using the loop. The kf4 is too big for my keychain. It's slightly different from the squirt p4 in that the loop must be extended from the inside, whereas the squirt p4 has the loop out by default. It all makes sense but personally I can live without the loop on the kf4.
Attention to detail with this tool's build is amazing. I didn't realize until I was playing with this tool more, that each blade has a different feel on the outside of the knife when it's completely closed. Basically without looking at the tool, by touch only, one can identify which type of blade is on each part of the tool. The back of each blade has a distinct feel that lets the user know what they're touching. Example: the saw has a ripple, whereas the straight blade has a distinctive edge.
The pliers were handy in a situation that required a fix to my old 70's backpack frame. I had to cut a thick ring to repair the strap holding pin, and bend it to fit. The wire cutter jaw worked perfectly in this situation too.
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