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Larryz71

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Newb here.... What is going on with the axis lock? Can I fix this myself? Very gritty when I try to open/close. Is the omega spring broken? @Benchmade

I really don't want to send this knife back to @Benchmade. I just got my 940-1601 back after a loooong wait. Horrible grind that benchmade CS gladly fixed with the acceptance of my ~$25 for a replacement blade.

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Sorry looks broke to me. They’re r some alternatives, Wilkins sells omegas so do a few others. And some are making them out of hobby wire!
 
It appears that the end of the Omega spring that fits into the small hole in the liner has somehow come loose. Would need to remove the handle scale in order to put the end of the spring back where it goes.
 
Yeah, that spring is certainly out of place. you could try to just push it back along its track to its home, but that feels like a terrible idea. The other terrible idea is to just pull the scale and see what's what. Depends on how comfortable you are, and how good your screwdriver set is.
 
gadgetgeek said:
Yeah, that spring is certainly out of place. you could try to just push it back along its track to its home, but that feels like a terrible idea. The other terrible idea is to just pull the scale and see what's what. Depends on how comfortable you are, and how good your screwdriver set is.
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There is no "track" per se to push it along. The only good way to fix it properly would be to remove the handle scale. Whether the OP does it himself or sends it back to BM for them to do it.
 
SpyderPhreak said:
There is no "track" per se to push it along. The only good way to fix it properly would be to remove the handle scale. Whether the OP does it himself or sends it back to BM for them to do it.
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yeah, I was just comparing his photo to my bugout, and it seems like it should just slide back if its jumped its notch, since that end is just floated. But its all probably a bad idea.
 
I greatly appreciate the help guys.

Warranty and CS are the reasons I bought benchmade. I just didn't think I would have to use them so often.
 
I couldn't help myself. Officially confirmed the omega spring broke... Off to benchmade.

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Dang that sucks, I’ve been fortunate and never had that happen. Try the hobby lobby hobby wire, there’s a thread about it and a few actually sell them, just a thought.
 
Don't buy Benchmade's sight unseen. They have issues making them correctly.
 
Dallas T said:
Was it flicked a lot
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Uhhh, it was flicked a fair amount when it was new. I just couldn't keep the thing out of my hand.

Overall though considering these knives are supposed to last for years, no it was not heavily flicked.
 
Well luckily it is a Benchmade so you shouldn't have any issues sending it off or getting it back. I can understand not wanting to sending in to warranty, but at least you know it'll get fixed.

I've been dreading the day my mini Ritter's omegas break on me, I use that knife for everything so my pocket will feel like it's been ransacked until I get back in hand. Maybe that's just the reason I need to buy a second one, haha.
 
Mechanical things break. It happens. I think to expect otherwise is a little past optimistic. Certain members here seem to expect a rib-eye dinner at a lunch counter price.
 
gadgetgeek said:
Mechanical things break. It happens. I think to expect otherwise is a little past optimistic. Certain members here seem to expect a rib-eye dinner at a lunch counter price.
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That's an expensive lunch counter you go to.

$110 is not inexpensive. It's just relative to what else you buy and what you value.

It's also the lock design. A $30 Rat 1 or $40 Tenacious lock will almost literally never break from spring tension. I've never seen it. I've also never seen a spring break on a Spyderco Ball Bearing Lock, because it's a more durable design. The Omega spring makes the knife easier to disengage and more fun to use, but it's a weaker and less reliable spring than the coil spring in a ball bearing lock. They're both plunge locks, just with different interfaces between lock and Tang and different springs. A $250 Benchmade with the axis lock (which is the same as on a $100 Benchmade) is just as likely to break and just as much more likely to break than a ball bearing lock... And definitely a liner or back lock.

The thing is I have a Bugout on its way to me lost in the mail right now :mad:
 
godzilla78 said:
Please tell how you inspect a spring to to see if it will fail, I’d love to know ;)
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LOL good point. I read the first post and didn't update the thread before replying so I didn't see that post. But the advice still stands when buying a benchmade.
 
godzilla78, If the feel of the knife is gritty as OP stated as his symptom, but it is obvious if, with this symptom plus the wire does not look like it is wrapped around the lock stud as Dallas T may have observed. Comparing it to pics or another benchmade in hand will probably tell the tale.
I just ordered three 10 foot pieces of surplus piano wire ($11.5x), which is the best throw away wire I could think of whose original purpose was to maintain length under repeated stretching albeit in environmentally controlled circumstances: yes honey I put it against an inner wall away from the windows. They measure 0.20, .24, .29.
I want to have on hand for tuning up a bm710, and inspecting and maybe dressing the cassette frame inner faces of my BM535-RogueBW-CF. Going to use needle nose pliers wrapped with an appropriate amount of extreme tape to shape the large omega curve, and a piece of furniture grade ash with an appropriately sized hole drilled for shaping the 90 degree anchor, which I will snip down to length after bending. The 535 OEM wire reported by others to measure 0.021, a large grip is reported as 0.24 or five I think.
 
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wilkins omegas are for he large griptilian and won’t fit the bugout
Dallas T said:
Sorry looks broke to me. They’re r some alternatives, Wilkins sells omegas so do a few others. And some are making them out of hobby wire!
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