STANLEY 10-788W Instant-Change Retractable Knife

Unable to change the blade. I tried for about two hours and finally had to take it apart to change the blade which is very risky working with a sharp blade. My fingers are sore from pushing the yellow button.

This thing simply does not work. The blade does not come forward out of the handle. The money I spent on it is wasted and I'll be choosing any other brand before STANLEY from now on

What were you thinking? The first thing wrong is that you need to work at getting the knife separated from the package. Then you need to load a fresh blade into the knife. Per online videos the thumb lever is supposed to sllde all the way to the front of the slot. Good luck! The lever almost makes it to the end and I was able to jiggle the new blade in. However, the new blade is now locked into the knife and the thumb lever doesn't move.

Just bought it and some instructions on how to load the blade would be extremely helpful. Ridiculously poor picture instructions on a very small piece of cardboard that show you how to remove the blade but not how dangerous it is to have to push the new one in. Not to mention new blades always have a light coat of oil on them making them slippery. I'm stuck with it now but will never buy another one. I'd rather spend a little more time and unscrew a screw and lay a blade in it's proper position, than risk slicing a finger open shoving a razor blade in to tight slot and several times to finally get it to go into the right spot. Avoid at all costs if you need your fingers.

Terrible utility knife. It took me 20 minutes just to take the package off - who ever invented that should be in a different line of business. The utility knife itself is fine but it's not easy to install new blades or to change blades out. The instructions are terrible as well. Very frustrating.