442 shocker!

JD Mandrell

JD Mandrell

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I carried my Buck 442 for a few days and left it in my backpack 2 days ago, took it out this morning and the blade was covered in rust!

I admit I am surprised, I have never had 420HC rust before, and I have caried 110's in my pocket and not wiped off the blade for weeks.
 
:eek: ...WHOOOAA...That is a "shocker" TLC...I've left 442's wet and in the garage for weeks after I forgot I left 'em there and never had one rust...Matter of fact...I lost one last spring when I was working outside the house and my wife found it a few weeks ago and it was none the worst for it's months outside in the "salty air" we have around here next to the coast...That is so weird...:eek: :eek:
 
OMG, TLC, what you have there is the 1095 prototype that J. Houser has been working so many long and hard hours on. He planned on surprising us for Xmas with that option thru the BCKS.

His absence from the forums here and the long wait from Buck proves this...everyone there(including the elves) is looking for that blade and now you've gone and messed it up.:D :D ;) ;) :D Preston
 
I lost a 420HC folder in the woods for over a year. When I found it there were a few very small corrosion pits that bled rust stain over the blade making it look very rusty. After I cleaned and polished it you could hardly tell it had ever been corroded.
TLC, your situation seems different. Maybe the blade steel was off spec?
 
Do you have pics TLC?
I haven't seen them rust either! But it is metal!
Was the backpack damp?
 
wh4f said:
Do you have pics TLC?
I haven't seen them rust either! But it is metal!
Was the backpack damp?
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No, I leave knives in this pack all the time, I am going outside to take pictures of another "Bucklite" I recieved in the mail today :D I'll take pictures of this 442 also.
 
Well here is one side of the blade.

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Two things to keep in mind, these pictures are AFTER the blade was oiled and scrubbed with 000 steel wool to remove as much as I could and in the backpack at the same time as this 442 were a 112 and a 285 Bantam, niether of which has so much as a spot on their blades.

To weird.....
 
The Last Confederate said:
Two things to keep in mind, these pictures are AFTER the blade was oiled and scrubbed with 000 steel wool to remove as much as I could and in the backpack at the same time as this 442 were a 112 and a 285 Bantam, niether of which has so much as a spot on their blades.

To weird.....
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:eek: :eek: ...TLC...That is beyond "WEIRD" ...I've never seen a 442 rust like that as fast as it apparently has. I don't think I've ever seen ANY 442 or Buck for that matter rusted that way at all...I'd almost bet that Jeff H. would love to have that knife to see what the heck is going on with it...:confused:
 
DarrylS said:
:eek: :eek: ...TLC...That is beyond "WEIRD" ...I've never seen a 442 rust like that as fast as it apparently has. I don't think I've ever seen ANY 442 or Buck for that matter rusted that way at all...I'd almost bet that Jeff H. would love to have that knife to see what the heck is going on with it...:confused:
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I have seen them with a little rust if not taken care of but thats a good amount!!!

Who is this Jeff H. that you speak of Darryl?
 
Hmmm... velly interesting...
...but stra-a-a-nge...

Never had a problem with rust in any of my Buck knives, in/around/near salt water, or down here in muggy southern Texas. (You can bet my carbon steel knives are wiped down well with Break Free.)
 
wh4f said:
I have seen them with a little rust if not taken care of but that a good amount!!!

Who is this Jeff H. that you speak of Darryl?
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...I too have seen tiny "smudges" of rust from bad neglect Jim but this shouldn't have happened that quickly...Jeff Hubbard is the Quality Engineer and a "General Big-Kahoona" at Buck...He's always shown a tremendous interest in solving quality problems of this sort. He's also one of the "good-guys" at Buck...
 
Thanks Darryl,
I will put that in my memory banks!
Hey by the way aren't they all good guys/girls at Buck :D
 
wh4f said:
Thanks Darryl,
I will put that in my memory banks!
Hey by the way aren't they all good guys/girls at Buck :D
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Accept for that "Houser" guy, he's mean...mean I tell you! I once saw him kick a puppy just cause it's name was "Queen"! :D:D:D:D
 
TLC, was there anything in your backpack that could have leaked and that is stained, not rusted????? Preston
 
pjsjr said:
TLC, was there anything in your backpack that could have leaked and that is stained, not rusted????? Preston
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Nope, the only thing in there besides the knives was a nylon wallet no liquids of any kind.

I'm baffled about what happened, the knife was only carried for a few days in my pocket and then dropped in the backpack, the only thing I remember cutting with it was a piece of typing paper. The 112 in the pack had been carried WAY more time in my pocket and had been floating around in that same pack for 4 days. It doesn't have so much as a single spot on it's blade.

:confused::confused: One of those flukes I guess, I'll carry it tomorrow ans see if it gets worse. Never seen 420HC do this?????
 
TLC, this is probably unlikely, but have you used any kind of cleaner, lube, or solvent on that blade recently -- a new brand, or a new bottle of a brand you've used before?

I.e., was there something one the blade (besides H20) that might have been a 'fertilizer' for rust? Have you oiled or sharpened it since you bought it?
 
MG_Saldivar said:
TLC, this is probably unlikely, but have you used any kind of cleaner, lube, or solvent on that blade recently -- a new brand, or a new bottle of a brand you've used before?

I.e., was there something one the blade (besides H20) that might have been a 'fertilizer' for rust? Have you oiled or sharpened it since you bought it?
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Nope, I just got it Monday in the mail and the only thing used on it was Rem-Oil. I oiled the pivot with a small drop and wiped the blade down with some, but I use Rem-Oil on all my knives.

I haven't sharpened it since I got it, it has one scary sharp factory edge on it.
 
Wow, what a mystery... DarrylS is right, you should send it to Buck and see if there's something wrong with the steel.

Or, you've discovered a new species of 420HC-eating bacteria...
 
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