I carry a Leatherman Juice S2 as a main tool/utility. It has a scissors, cutting knife, can opener, both types of screwdriver heads, and a pliers. I really like having all these tools in a small, lightweight package.

The problem has been that they keep falling apart. I just exchanged by second one for the same problem: the long, thin ribs that make up the outside of the S2 (and provide the tension on the foldout tools?) keep falling off.

On the first one, they fell off and made holes in the S2 but everything still worked.

On the second one, which I used on two bike tours this summer, they all fell off at once and everything simply flopped out making both the knife and pliers unusable.

They aren't cheap ($60 at REI) and I really like them so hope it was just a fluke. But, two failures in a row suggests I should start looking elsewhere for these options.

Does anyone else use the Juice S2 or other similar Leatherman tools and had these kinds of problems?

Thanks,

Ray