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Another "Is My Military Normal?" Thread

Shmackey

Shmackey

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Just got a serrated, new-model Military. My, what a knife. My Benchmade 710 was my large knife before the Millie showed up. No longer. Well, they're actually very different knives, so at least they won't have to compete...

Anyway, mine opens very easily, but it makes kind of a muffled, scratchy, rubbing-against-paper sound. I assume that the side of the blade is rubbing against the G-10 and this will wear in over time. But maybe mine's missing washers or something. Here's what I've done:

Lubed it with Tri-Flow and worked it quite a bit
Let it sit overnight
Worked it again in the morning
Backed off the pivot pin enough to make sure the lube could get in everywhere
Lubed it and worked it again

It's a little smoother now, but that wasn't really the problem. It's more that I wonder why it makes that scratchy noise. I might not even think twice about it, but after a bad experience with REKAT QC (which involved, among other things, G10 powder everywhere), I don't like this noise.
 
Hmm...certainly seems possible. And now that I've continued to work it around, it might be going away a little.

It's always been very easy to open, and not un-smooth. It's not as buttery as my axis 710, but nothing is.

Is there a particular lube that works well between steel and G-10? I started with Tri-Flow (perhaps the teflon would be good here) and I have some Militec coming.
 
I had the same experience with my first Military, sounded like steel drawn across sandpaper. The G10 has fiberglass cloth base I believe, and this is one source of unusual sound. Another noise from a new knife is the ball dedent on the liner, until it wears in a groove the ball slides over a ground surface on the blade. Open/close a few hundred times and that noise also goes away.

I used the grease sold by CRK for their Sebenza, works fantastic, knive opens very smoothly and sandpaper noise is eliminated. The CRK lub also made unlocking the liner very smooth.

Regards,
FK
 
Schmackey -- I must have made 5-7 applications of TufGlide and several score -- at least -- cycles of the blade before it reached what I considered a smooth enough level. My memory is pretty tricky, but I think I recall a bit of that noise. Not sure I would have used the word sandpaper, but a definite sound of friction.

Once it reached an acceptable state, it has remained there, or possibly continued to smooth out a bit. Reason I can't remember as clearly as I'd like, is that at the same time, was working hard on my CRKT Apache. It was far and away the tightest CRKT model I've had, and the lock was awful tight. Point is was working on both of them at least once a day, for at least several minutes, but in the background, so to speak, as I read/posted on the forums.

Hopefully, everything will work out smooth as silk. for you.
 
it's getting more quiet...and even smoother. soon, i'll screw the pivot back to where there's no lateral play and go from there.

it's a very nice knife. have i mentioned that i'll pay lots and lots of money for one with an axis lock? (sorry, i couldn't resist.)
 
Schmackey,

When I recently received my "new style" serrated Military, i noticed that it had a different sound when opening than my older style (Diamond engraved) plain edged model. It is a more solid, less hollow click. Mine did not have any hint of the scrathy sound you describe. The new Millie was smooth and easy to open from the get-go. My older one however, started off fairly tight, but now is absolutely slick; in fact I would call it buttery.

Good luck w/ yours. Just keep playing with it.

Jeff/1911.
 
Neither of my Militaries do this as Jeff said they sound different and the liner bar is grey on one polished on the other. I think perhaps you have something gritty in there like sand or something? HAve you taken it to bits to have a look? If you don't want to, try flushing it out with hot water or a hose pipe and use a LOT of WD-40 right in there. When dry use a lot of hat water and once dry again use something like Militech-1 as a lube.
 
Hello,

the more you will use it the more you will forget about it and the smoother it will get.
Militaries are like old leather jackets...
The more your use them the more you know why.

cheers,
JM
 
My Military is smooth as silk. Was that way straight out of the box. You might oughta send it in. Maybe they left out a washer or something...

--Matt
 
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