Chinook 3 lock test

CQC86

CQC86

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Has anyone here tried or seen some lock tests for the chinook3. While in Iraq, I had a chinook 2 lock fail on me one day and as far as I know, the chinook 3 lock has been beefed up. Just trying to see how much stronger it has become.
 
CQC86 said:
I had a chinook 2 lock fail on me one day
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How?

It would be very surprising to learn that a failure was due to the strength of the lock, as opposed to an accidental unlocking or incomplete locking in the first place.
 
I was opening the knife and I used the spyder hole along with a slight wrist flick. I heard the knife hit the stop but the lock didn't engage. I thought I must have somehow mistakenly pushed the lock release. I played with it some more and could not produce the same results. I cleaned and lubed the knife and played some more but made the lock fail again. I then did a moderate spine whack and this cause the lock to fail. After a while of opening and closing I could pretty much cause lock failure just by applying pressure on the spine.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Or dirt in front of the lockbar. My Chinook 3's lock up solidly.
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Yeah, that's what I meant by incomplete locking in the first place. Dirt or pocket lint in that spot is the usual culprit.

I'm sure Sal and company can figure it out.
 
Yeah, you should probably send it in to Spyderco's Warranty and Repair.

I sent in a Salt 1 that had some side to side play and they replaced it. It took a while but I was happy. :)
 
CQC86 said:
I was just opening it and closing it. Practicing deployment. The hardest thing that knife has cut is 550 cord.
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Then this really isn't about lock strength per se. It's not as if it just needed to withstand 50 PSI more than it was rated to handle. It's just plain defective.

A corvette that stalls out at traffic lights doesn't need an extra 20 bhp--it needs to go to the mechanic. :)
 
Shmackey said:
How?

It would be very surprising to learn that a failure was due to the strength of the lock, as opposed to an accidental unlocking or incomplete locking in the first place.
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True sir. I cut my pinky finger when the Chinook 2 I began carrying didn't lock because of a snap flick I did. Blood everywhere. Wife was amazed why I was smiling while walking around with my finger dripping blood...
 
I have all 3 of the Chinook models and have had no problems or concerns with any of them.

Does the lock fail every time now or just on occasion ? I have a non-Spyderco lock
back that failed because the lock bar chiped and pretty much turned it into a slip joint.
 
Send it to Spyderco. If there is a problem, they want to know. Several years ago, they had a batch of Manix lockbars that were not properly heat-treated. When people sent the knives in, the problem was identified, the knives were replaced and the part supplier lost his contract. None of it would have happened if people had just posted about a propblem instead of sending the knives in.
 
This doesn't sound like a lock failure to me, it sounds like a classic case of operator malfunction. Don't recall ever seeing where Spyderco warranted their knives to be 100% "flickable".

Paul
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