Ok, I want to start a thread about Camillus camp knives. These are the U.S. and U.S.M.C. knives made of all metal.
I own one that I sent in to be repaired for a broken spring, and I just received another as part of a group of knives that need repair so that I can learn to work on pocket knives. This isn't the type I was hoping to work on, but it was part of the group.
The interesting thing is that this is a 1979 and the exact same spring is broken. Do any of you have the camp knives? Have you noticed reports of the can and bottle opener spring being a weak point on these knives? This is just one style of knife that seems to have a weakness built into the design or at least the materials from quite a few knives has been inferior. If I remember correctly the knife I had carried for several years and sent in for repair was 1980s vintage.
Has anyone written a history about these particular knives? Maybe was an article about them in some magazine or newsletter?
Al
I own one that I sent in to be repaired for a broken spring, and I just received another as part of a group of knives that need repair so that I can learn to work on pocket knives. This isn't the type I was hoping to work on, but it was part of the group.
The interesting thing is that this is a 1979 and the exact same spring is broken. Do any of you have the camp knives? Have you noticed reports of the can and bottle opener spring being a weak point on these knives? This is just one style of knife that seems to have a weakness built into the design or at least the materials from quite a few knives has been inferior. If I remember correctly the knife I had carried for several years and sent in for repair was 1980s vintage.
Has anyone written a history about these particular knives? Maybe was an article about them in some magazine or newsletter?
Al