broken when chopping!!

[scrumpy jack]

[/IMG]Was doing some chopping with a cold steel lct, up until this point it had not been used at all, i,d had won it on an aution site sometime ago and it was in unused condition i,d only modded the edge..... when that happened.....

 

[Morrow]

Was doing some chopping with a cold steel lct, up until this point it had not been used at all, i,d had won it on an aution site sometime ago and it was in unused condition i,d only modded the edge..... when that happened.....

can't see the images.

 

[SouthernCross]

Me neither



Kind regards
Mick

 

[beandip]

Hi, scrumpy. Try the IMG code from this page instead of the HTML: http://s825.photobucket.com/albums/zz180/scrumpyjack357/?action=view&current=078.jpg

 

[Watchmaker]

Would probably qualify for warranty - except for you modding the blade, perhaps.

When I look at the proportions of the blade relative to the tang, this was waiting to happen, though.

 

[Bill Siegle]

That rust inside the break shows there were cracks there for a while before the breakage. Definitely hit Cold Steel up for some warranty work.

 

[scrumpy jack]

I work in an areospace company, and the NDT guy said in had appeared to had been welded in that area, there were cracks and some porosity present...

 

[myright]

Here's the pic for you guys that don't feel like clicking on the linnk

 

[scrumpy jack]

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[scrumpy jack]

Thanks myright, i,d just worked it out

 

[scrumpy jack]

[/IMG]

 

[myright]

Ugh - that sucks, scrumpy... I hope they replace it for you. Did the blade go flying when it broke or did it get stuck in the wood?

 

[scrumpy jack]

I was merryly chopping away and my hand came up with just the handle in it, blade wedge in the wood.

 

[hikeeba]

Is that a Cold Steel LTC Kukri, a Cold Steel Kukri Machete, or a knock off of one of the two?

 

[scrumpy jack]

COLD STEEL LTC KUKRI not the machete, it was in the orginal box, a little tatty but the orginal box.

 

[mete]

To properly examine a fracture surface it has to be in foucs !

 

[baldtaco-II]

That rust inside the break shows there were cracks there for a while before the breakage. Definitely hit Cold Steel up for some warranty work.

Exactly that. Get a refund or replacement.

 

[Bushman5]

well, if they dont replace it, i would grind out part of the blade and the butt, drill some holes, and mount some new slabs.....it would be one heck of a stubby camp knife!

 

[amiga]

Well, it's a Cold Steal. They arent that great of a knife maker for a while.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Well, it's a Cold Steal. They arent that great of a knife maker for a while.

Now that's a shame you would toss that in. Here we have a decent technical discussion about a specific problem and what to do about it, and you make a general remark that tells us nothing -- except perhaps that you don't like Cold Steel.

By the way, they don't make any knives themselves. All their production is contracted out. Some of their lines have a long record of reliability.