You can "get it" vicariously through me.
I'll post pics and everything.
It's the least I can do
OK
Irons :
As promised. Photos.
Sorry I'm late, USPS was a day off on their estimated time of arrival.
I was very pouty Monday night; it wasn't pretty.
But I'm all smiles today . . .
Which knife to buy ? Which knife to buy ?
Why the traditional answer around here . . .
BOTH !
Some one put up a post asking about a knife rebuild surface to work on . . .
here's the CRK cloth for example.
PS : I just got that red block to put my bits in. It is made of very soft plastic and is easier to get the bits out of than those harder plastic blocks that come with the bits. On the big river for five bucks or so and you get two of these blocks; I took one to work.
Some one said how tricky it was to get the screw into one of these wire clips. The trick is to thread the screw in about a thread's worth without the clip in place, then slip the clip into place and tighten the screw.
I must say I was really confused about whether or not this knife had steel liners. That is I was sure it did from the info I read and reviews that said it did except for that one reviewer who said it did not have liners. I was sure it did . . . until I got my knife and looked in there.
On first blush it looks like there are no full liners; maybe partial liners.
Once I took the knife apart my fears were laid to rest.
I am relieved to say it has good bronze washers.
And now we come to why I took the knife apart in the first couple hours that I had it . . . you guessed it . . . to reduce some of the excessive spring rate. Minga !
Sal : This isn't a Cold Steel car door brutalizer . . . chill out on all this spring force dude.
PS : I found the spring tweaking to be more tricky than I thought it would be :
- It is possible to bend the spring straighter and it can actually add lever resistance (it acts like a lever stop) if you don't leave some downward bow in it.
- The short bend needs to be unbent a fair amount; see the photo after this one.
Kids . . . don't try this at home . . . I AM a professional
Seriously though you can get in trouble with this and curiously make the lever feel worse. Good news is you can back track and undo that problem. Maybe don't try this
with this knife if you aren't "handy".
One good way to set the pivot tightness/blade play is to snug up the screw until the knife won't close then loosen it at right about this point until the blade suddenly lets go and gets closed by the spring force. Don't over tighten the pivot to keep it from closing just light torque on the screw is enough.
