Bradley Alias I Lock Up Question

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Robert1_1

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Hey can anyone with an alias let me know if they get a double click with the lock up. My new alias seems to have 2 positions at the end of the lock-up. Just before it fully locks the lock bar comes in slightly with with an audible click, then the blade needs to be pushed all the way up to fully lock and I hear a second click. In other words, it's not just one smooth sweep to lock-up. Is this normal. Just checking since this is my first alias and the centering is pretty off and thinking about asking for an exchange.
 
I mean when you do it slow. Is there 2 distinct positions toward the end? It's probably normal but just checking. I notice if I flick too hard the lock bar can be difficult to disengage. Hopefully this will work in.
 
I just looked at NIB Alias I and my NIB Spyderco Military and my gen4 XM18-3.5". They all have two clicks. The second click is when the lockbar moves over on the tang. The first click, I don't know, I see some slight movement of the lockbar, but it is nowhere near being able to move over the tang (for lockup) at that first click. The blade is still 20 degrees or so short of lockup on the tang. I think it's there for all of my framelocks and linerlocks. Perhaps related to the detent.
Normal.
Sonnydaze
 
xjzhx said:
Sonny, that sounds like the tang clearing the detent ball.
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This ^.

I own a Bradley Alias. The first click is the blade clearing the ball-detent in the lock-bar, the second click is the lock-bar snaping into place against the blade. Perfectly normal.

If you watch the blade and the inside of lock-bar really closely as you open the knife you will see it happening.
 
Like posts above say, its the detent ball clearing the tang making the lock bar smack into the tang of the blade.

It's normal.
 
Like has been said the first click is the detent ball falling off the blade when you open it slow. I can hear it on mine when opening slow.

My lock was sticky at first as well. I did the pencil trick until it wore in. Now it is very smooth to unlock.
 
Hoosier what's the pencil trick? Unlocking the new alias feels inconsistent now. Sometimes easy sometimes hard or even stuck. Normal til it breaks in?
 
Take a pencil and color in the lock face on the blade with it. The pencil graphite lubricates the lock just enough to keep it from being sticky. I did it when mine was new, but after a few hundred openings it smoothed out.
 
Also at first it was really sticky. Sometimes it was bad enough that I need two hands to unlock it. But all that has cleared up now with some break in time.
 
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