Anyone take apart a benchmade?

[copper]

I feel the need to completely clean and overhaul my 910 stryker. I hear warnings about pressure screws or something like that and that they are very hard to get back together. Is it really that bad? I'm relatively mechanically inclined. What can I expect?

Thanks

 

[Jackal]

Go to the Benchmade forum and do a shearch on my user name. You'll find a thread I started about doing this.

-AR

 

[Professor]

You won't have any problems at all. There are no trick screws or anything like that.

Most important: pay special attention to how it is assembled before you disassemble. Remember the small bushing goes on the locking liner side, etc.

Take your torx drivers and remove all screws, including the clip. Underneath the clip is the side of the pivot that needs to "pop" out when the screw is gone. Take it competely down, and clean away. The only time-consuming part I run into sometimes is re-aligning the bushings, blade, and liner holes when re-inserting the pivot pin.

Professor.

 

[blademan 13]

Piece of cake, go for it. Tsk, tsk, tsk, you will lose your warranty however

!

 

[Samurai6]

Take a look at the clip side of your Stryker. If the handle screws have the steel inserts in the G-10 handle scale, you have almost nothing to worry about. If the screws are threaded directly into the G-10, be very careful removing them. If they don't break loose with very slight turning force DON'T TAKE IT APART. You can clean the 910 just fine without taking it apart.

You can sometimes get the screws to break loose by warming the handle slightly. Again, be careful, there are heat sensitive plastic parts in the handle and pivot.

Otherwise, if you have ordinary mechanical aptitude and the right set of Torx drivers, disassembling and reassembling a Benchmade liner lock is child's play for the most part.

 

[Chang]

I wouldn't do it, because I'm afraid to void the warranty.

I did take apart an EDI Genesis, and disassembling/reassembling a knife isn't very hard. I disassembled my EDI so I could polish the parts and make it look better. I am still polishing the screws, the silver on black looks very neat. The liners were also a little gritty in terms of polish. I'll fix that too.

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