One of the guys at work found a knife while digging on a work site. He knows that I tinker with with knives so he gave it to me to see if I could get it working. It's a USA made Gerber automatic, but it did not work when I got it, the blade would come out about 1/2 way and stop, and the tip of the blade was buggered beyond repair. So I brought it home took it apart, soaked the parts in some Ed's Red, cleaned up the rust on the springs, and polished the bearing surfaces and screw heads, I did what I could with the tip, mostly sanding out the grind marks ans tweaking the angle. It's as ugly as sin but it should work. The thing now opens with a nice clunk, and slicker than cat snot. I contemplated baking on some flat black epoxy paint but figure that would just be putting lipstick on a pig.
