Blade Play Endura 4?

[carrot]

My E4 clicks loudly up and down if i put it on my computer table and press down?
I haven't cut anything but some paper with it since i got it some month ago.
Can't tighten the main screw since i don't have that sort of screwdriver.

That's normal. It does not affect the safety of the lock or the function of the knife. Relax and put some scratches on that new blade!

 

[Franco G]

I've had it for 2 days short of 2 months now. I've taken it apart several times, though.

I can see that the probelm is that the lock bar doesn't sit flush with the scales (and therefore the blade tang). It isn't making 100% contact with the tang, so it's allowing that bit of room for movement.

There hasn't been anything I can do about it, either. Every time I put it back together and make sure the lock is exactly fitted to the tang, it just reverts back to the same state next time I close/open it.

So if you grab your knife, put your thumb on the lock bar, put your pinky through the hole and pull, you don't feel any movement of the lock bar on your thumb?

As is obvious from your post, it is a question of quality. There are people who get a good ones, there are people who get lemons.
A number of lemons (my feeling) is raising.

A vertical blade play is not necessary at all. Proof? I have some cheap Spydercos with no blade play, so there are knives WITHOUT a blade play, Q.E.D.

Franco

 

[adorable_harree]

I have a couple. No blade play. Vertical blade play can develop after a hard use.

True. My Endura 3 has about a 2mm vertical play when open but this knife has been abused and then some.

Define abuse? Countless openings when I got it, more countless openings by flicking it open...used it to pry open paint lids, used it as a throwing knife for a short amount of time and hard kitchen work. I got the knife around 2004 and still abusing it.