STANLEY Instantchange Retractable Blade Heavy Duty Utility
STANLEY Instantchange Retractable Blade Heavy Duty Utility Knife with Interlocking Nose Design and Quick Blade Change 0-10-788
STANLEY InstantChange Retractable Blade Utility Knife with 3 blades
From the makers of the original World-renowned STANLEY utility knife comes the STANLEY InstantChange Retractable Blade Utility Knife, supplied here with three blades to get you started. Long-lasting, strong, and durable construction, featuring InstantChang tool-free, push-button, blade change technology for hassle-free blade changes, and a retractable blade for safe storage and transportation when not in use, The InstantChange Retractable Blade Utility Knife has an interlocking nose design for safety. Ideal for most general purpose, DIY, and construction cutting applications.
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BLADE STORAGE AND HANG HOLEStores up to 5 blades in the handle, and complete with convenient hang hole for lanyards, tethers, and safe storage. | GENERAL PURPOSEIdeal for general purpose, DIY, and construction cutting applications. | SUPPLIED WITH THREE BLADESSupplied with three blades to get you started. Replacement STANLEY utility blades for either general or specialist applications sold separately. |
| Weight: | 222 g |
| Dimensions: | 21.89 x 7.9 x 3.51 cm; 221.81 Grams |
| Model: | 0-10-788 |
| Part: | 0-10-788 |
| Colour: | Grey |
| Pack Quantity: | 1 |
| Batteries Required: | No |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | Stanley Black & Decker |
| Dimensions: | 21.89 x 7.9 x 3.51 cm; 221.81 Grams |
| Quantity: | 1 |
Arrived next day as a prime member, well packaged. I use it every day at work cutting boxes open and cutting down shrink wrapped pallets of boxes with the slot on the bottom edge that allows the shrink wrap to enter and cuts it as you pull it down, with the blade retracted. button at back push in to open storage space in handle to store stanley blades. has a large loop at back that I have attached a quick release catch to attach to my belt loop. Also very sturdy been dropped multiple times on to concreted floor and not shown any sign of damage. Blade can be changed quickly with a button on front of knife, fully extend blade hold blade and press button you can then pull blade out. Good slider button to extend and retract bladed, totally safe so blade will not come out while in your pocket. Good solid heavy feeling. Made to last.
Strong robust product this.Easy to use feels good in the hand however I read in the purchasers reviews of the difficulty with the wrapping,I to found unwrapping a challenge but perseverance paid of and am very pleased with my purchase Don’t let the comments about the wrapping out you of this is a very good knife.
It’s a fantastic Stanley knife, it just takes a bit of used to, removing the blades, thankfully there are a few youtube videos that get to the point and talk you through the process.
Don’t take it apart! packaging is ridiculous, Stanley ( Black & Decker ) Need to revisit it. After 3 of us tried to remove it I checked reviews, got irritated & cut the cardboard where it shows to pull… Nonsense instruction! it worked a treat, easy to install a blade with a bit of jiggling.. Hold the blade with cloth or gloves on. Once you get used to it it is a quick change, not the best blade I’ve had but it seems robust , time will tell.
I got this and was very worried that I’d need to take it apart to remove the label, after reading reviews.
Cut the label, pulled it and it was out
Blade was a little fiddly to put in to start with, but didn’t take too long to sort it out
Haven’t tried it yet, but seems quite sturdy
Been using these knives years,read reviews and thought this can’t be that hard surely,YOU DO have to take the knife to take packaging off,video it coming apart (for dummies),watch back on your video to re assemble it with ease
The challenge is to get the cardboard label out. It you want to take the label out intact, you have to disassemble the knife which is what I did. However once I took it apart I could see the the label would slide out easily if I had cut the label as close to the top of the handle as possible. You need to avoid leaving a hook of cardboard which can catch when you try to slide it out.
1. The blades are STORED in the body. They do not automatically feed through. Just in case you were wondering how it worked (like me)
2. To remove packaging. Push slider all the way forward. It will stop two thirds of the way along. Push down on slider, move it back slightly and then push down harder and slide all the way forward to the end.
3. Push in yellow button at side and pull packaging out
4. To access where blades are stored. Push black button at rear hard down and pull bottom part down. Blades are in here. Push it back in place. It clicks
5. To remove a blade. Push slider all the way forward. It will stop two thirds of the way along. Push down on slider, move it back slightly and then push down harder and slide all the way forward to the end.
6. Press yellow button. Remove blade
7. To add a blade. Leave everything as it is. Press the yellow button. Slide blade in until the top edge of the blade is completely inside the knife. Let go of yellow button.
8. One final point. If you push the slider all the way to the end (see 5 above) the blade wobbles a bit. Pull the slider back to hide the blade, now slide it forward. It naturally stops two thirds of the way along. In this position the blade does not wobble.
Hope this helps.
I have owned several Stanley knives over the years but have never encountered one so awkward to deal with. To access the blades – once you’ve managed to fight the ridiculous cardboard insert!! – the black button at the rear of the handle needs to be pushed all the way forward. This I found impossible without using an implement to force the button along far enough to release the two halves of the handle and reach the blades. Unscrewing one screw to separate the two halves of the old style Stanley knife and replace the blade was so much easier than this ridiculously involved system!! Yes, the knife is solidly built and well designed ergonomically but for ease of use… no way!!
But this new generation of Stanley knife is superb! It is still a chunky, heavy tool but feels well balanced in one’s hand, and is supremely comfortable to hold, and I don’t have particularly large hands for a woman. It is robust and feels solidly made.
The small recess in the bottom of the knife enables you to (as some reviewers have pointed out) cut string etc. but it is perfect for stripping electric wiring!
The rubber thumb rest almost forces you to hold the knife correctly, safely, and in an ergonomic way for the best cut. Brilliant!
Having the spare blades in the knife handle compartment is an added bonus. No more hunting around in tool boxes and drawers!
Changing the blades is a doddle. I really can’t see why some reviewers have complained about it. Provided you push the slide right to the top, it’s then simply a matter of pressing the yellow button in the side and sliding the blade out, and sliding a new one in, until it clicks.
As to the packaging, once again, if people took ten seconds to examine it, they would see that there is a section of the card in the slider bit that is perforated. Give it a good hard tug, the perforation breaks and the card is then easy to just slide out of the knife. If you click on the photo below, you can see the break, on the right hand side of the card, just at the top edge of the image of the blade, indicated by an arrow.