Looking for a Ryobi Nack Knife

[Rick_Br]

I have an earlier version of this - it appears to have been bought by Ryobi but also appears to be discontinued. https://www.ryobitools.com/products...iRU5ZkrXBf1cdWnEeBswdjiGKREyo-yHRKITRjOzagmJg

Is there anybody making a version of this tool?

Thanks
Rick

 

[neophyte]

The patent is assigned to Techtronic Industries.

US5604984A - Utility knife with rotary blade magazine - Google Patents

A utility knife has a blade magazine removably mounted in a manually holdable housing and rotatable about an axis parallel to a longitudinal axis of the housing. The blade magazine has a series of radially and longitudinally extending circumferentially spaced blade-receiving slots for separately...

patents.google.com

It looks like the knife or an earlier version was sold as the Nack Pro Utility Knife, as well as the Tim Allen Signature Tools Utility Knife.

"The Nack" utility knife

I saw a knife today that a customer had called "The Nack". It was all aluminum with a revolver like cartridge of replacement knife blades. I have never seen anything like it. Started looking around the web, for replacement blades he requested, and can't find it anywhere. I can find a different...

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[Rick_Br]

Thanks Neophyte - looks like this tool is part of history. I guess I'll need to go back to a standard type utility knife

Rick

 

[rlitman]

Thanks Neophyte - looks like this tool is part of history. I guess I'll need to go back to a standard type utility knife

Rick

This thread reminded me I have one of these (original in belt sheath) in my junk drawer, so I started looking on eBay and found this:

NEW QUICK CHANGE CARTRIDGE FOR NACK UTILITY KNIFE (15 BLADES, 30 CUTTING EDGES) | eBay

Instead of taking apart your knife to flip or change the blade when it gets dull, with the Nack you retract the blade, rotate the end cap, and slide a fresh blade in place in a matter of seconds.When those 15 blades have been used, you have another 15 blade edges hidden and ready to go in less...

www.ebay.com

It seems that some blade cartridges are still out there, but the handles are going for good money now.

One of the pictures in that ebay listing shows that the Nack was once sold as a Fein product too.

 

[neophyte]

There are other utility knives with blade cartridges available nowadays, but the blade cartridges work differently.

Toughbuilt seems to be the most common one recommended nowadays (no actual experience with the Toughbuilt system though).

There are also magazine fed Japanese/Asian style utility knives, that use the snap-off blades.

This might be one of the models.

Tajima Chrome Magazine Dual Lock Knife with 1in ROCK HARD Blades

Tajima Chrome Magazine Dual Lock Knife with 1in ROCK HARD Blades - ACM-700C

www.acmetools.com

 

[Kscardsfan]

My brother gave me one of those branded as a Craftsman. I was curious if the blades were discontinued and stopped using it. When I get home I'll have to search for it.

 

[Rick_Br]

Neophyte - thanks for that link for toughbuilt - that looks like a reasonable alternative.. I may order one of those. It appears it takes a fairly standard blade.
Rick