Carbon steel screws

[Nocturnal13]

This could also go in the Becker or Ka-bar threads but it can apply to any brand with carbon steel screws. After a long while I saw there were some surface rust on the screws of my Becker BK-9. I was wondering what the best way would be to remove the rust without removing the black coating. And after reassembling should I put some oil on the parts that is visible?
Thanks

 

[Agith]

There is rust ontop of the coating? That sounds odd to me.

Toothpicks and some WD40 are probably you best friend there.

 

[Nocturnal13]

There is rust ontop of the coating? That sounds odd to me.

Toothpicks and some WD40 are probably you best friend there.

It worked, thanks for advice. I will be putting some blue loctite on as well, how tight should the scale screws on a fixed blade be? Sounds like a stupid question but unlike with my folders, I tighten it till it stops but if I give a small amount of more pressure it turns a bit more (feels like a squeeze type of turn if that makes sense) it also has the upgraded linen micarta scales so I don't want to put too much pressure on the micarta

 

[Agith]

It worked, thanks for advice. I will be putting some blue loctite on as well, how tight should the scale screws on a fixed blade be? Sounds like a stupid question but unlike with my folders, I tighten it till it stops but if I give a small amount of more pressure it turns a bit more (feels like a squeeze type of turn if that makes sense) it also has the upgraded linen micarta scales so I don't want to put too much pressure on the micarta

Micarta is pretty tough stuff. Typically with scale screws I use a bit of blue loctite and tighten it pretty hard without risking stripping the screws. You don't usually need to take the scales off much on a fixed blade so the goal is to make sure they don't come loose when you don't want them to.

 

[Nocturnal13]

Micarta is pretty tough stuff. Typically with scale screws I use a bit of blue loctite and tighten it pretty hard without risking stripping the screws. You don't usually need to take the scales off much on a fixed blade so the goal is to make sure they don't come loose when you don't want them to.

True, this is the first fixed blade I removed the scales and it was only because I got the new micarta scales.

 

[Danketch]

Pin the scales with brass, stainless, copper and you wont have to worry about cheap carbon SHCS. What do you need to remove scales for? This is what I have done for all my Beckers because the factory scales are actual excrement, and the wood ones I make look and feel much better.