Anyway to fix a tight clip ?

Kennieyk

Kennieyk

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I just got my Delta z knife and the clip is so tight I can hardly get it on my pocket , Its the delta z OSPREY. I hate to bend it :(
 
work it out slowly, just means it won't be carried for about a week.

Take a sheet of paper, fold it. if it's tight and doesn't clip to a pocket easily, try a 4 layer first.... then refold the paper for a 6 layer fold(3rds and 1/2) the next day, 8 layer fold the next day... until the clip is open enough for your pocket. when you find the right tension, leave that thickness of paper under for another day or 2.

will be easy to clip and unclip, without bending the clip in a vice.
 
I think you should bend the clip in a vice! I just got an Emerson with a clip that was too tight as well. bending the clip while it is on your knife puts stress on the little screws and the threads they go into. It is better from a stress point of view to take your time with a vice. Just clip the part with the screw holes in a vice and bend the clip out a touch. Put it back on your knife and check the fit. Repeat as many times as necessary. It is best to do 4 little bends than to try to do it all in one and end up bending it back and forth.
 
I'm going "against the grain" on this one to say leave it as it is! The tightness will keep you from losing the knife, and the clip will loosen alittle by itself over time. If you try to bend it, and if the steel is tempered, it might just break.
 
I think its just a little too tight , I end up not cliping it and putting it in my pocket or leave it lay out at work ,.So I think it will get lost faster if i dont losen it up . I have the paper in the clip now , I think it should losen it up enough to get it cliped with out fighting with it for 5 minutes .
 
maybe a teflon washer under the clip on the screw side? (if its a screw in style lol!
 
I have loosened many clips that were tight from the factory [ like my two new enduras last week ].

Just grab the end of the clip on the knife and tweek it a little at a time until you get the right tension. Never had one break that way and I've done quite a few in the last 20 years that way.

Takes all of a minute and you are done.

Brownie
 
Originally posted by brownie0486
I have loosened many clips that were tight from the factory [ like my two new enduras last week ].

Just grab the end of the clip on the knife and tweek it a little at a time until you get the right tension. Never had one break that way and I've done quite a few in the last 20 years that way.

Takes all of a minute and you are done.

Brownie
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To be totally honest, I've done that myself a couple of times, but I guess that we both have been lucky that the screws didn't strip-out or that the clip didn't break...(Murphy must have been asleep at those times.:D.).
 
I don't know what the Delta Z clip looks like, but in some cases the problem might not be the tension so much as the abrasiveness of the clip and/or knife's scale. On a few of the "pre-wire" Spydercos, I removed the clip, slightly rounded the edges on the bottom of the clip with a file, and sometimes even polished the contact point with fine grit sandpaper. On the Buck Mayo, I found the knife's scales overly abrasive out of the box and polished them with 800 and 1000 grit paper, and did the same to the clip. MUCH smoother withdrawal, without losing any retaining strength.

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Glen
 
glockman99:

What I have been doing lately when tweeking the clips the way I do is use a SAK multi-tool plier covered in an old t-shirt to "clamp/hold" the screw area while tweeking, usually only if it is not a metal handled knife.

I've never had a problem with them, just go easy on the tweek, a little at a time until the tension is acceptable.

Brownie
 
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