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I gave a delica 4 as a present to my father back in 2009, and it's been trough hell since then. Used abused, broken tip, sharpened on cement, and so on, i really don't know what he hasn't done with it.
I had posted pictures of it from time to time around here.
It was kept opened in his work bag, and full with dirt, from construction sites, that you couldn't close it anymore, well, totally.
I figured i would clean it for him, but noticing the huge amount of vertical play after a bit o cleanup, i opened it, and realized either a piece of the blade rusted away, or broke, at the lockbar contact point. Now it just "kind of" locks, has a lot of vertical play, like half a cm either way, and closes just pushed on the spine.
As seen from the pics, a part of the blade is missing, but with the pivot screw tightened, it can still be used for one or two things.
But i really think it's time to retire it, and give him another knife, ...more like a cheap hultafors hvk...


I had posted pictures of it from time to time around here.
It was kept opened in his work bag, and full with dirt, from construction sites, that you couldn't close it anymore, well, totally.
I figured i would clean it for him, but noticing the huge amount of vertical play after a bit o cleanup, i opened it, and realized either a piece of the blade rusted away, or broke, at the lockbar contact point. Now it just "kind of" locks, has a lot of vertical play, like half a cm either way, and closes just pushed on the spine.
As seen from the pics, a part of the blade is missing, but with the pivot screw tightened, it can still be used for one or two things.
But i really think it's time to retire it, and give him another knife, ...more like a cheap hultafors hvk...

