Detent From Hell

[Razor]

I just trade for a new ZT 909. Boy, talk about a strong detent! This is one of the early ones, serial # 163. My other 909 detent was just fine. Wonder if this one just needs to break in? Can anything be done about a detent this strong? Getting older and my fingers are not as tough as they once was.LOL shissy I guess.

 

[Jason B.]

I would contact Josh a REK, he's the man for knife modification. I think I've heard him mention installing ceramic detent balls, probably a nice upgrade.

 

[Glenn056]

Just needs breaking in

sent from a highly secretive CIA base somewhere in the deep jungles of South America shhh

 

[Razor]

Thanks everybody.

 

[Mo2]

you can try and bend the lockbar a little bit. be careful not to bend it too much, only slightly out.

This is not the greatest video, but it shows what im trying to tell you better than i can put into words.

[video=youtube;0WPOMzugnv8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WPOMzugnv8[/video]
id avoid using the lube of choice and as much as that guy uses tho. yuk.

 

[Wowbagger]

you can try and bend the lockbar a little bit

Yes!
I was going to say that to.

Another one I have been reluctant to pipe up with :

You could put a little Si C grit on the ball and detent with some grease and work the knife then wash it out with some solvent and or disassemble the knife and clean it. Kind of drastic but . . .

Trivia :
In the old days, seventies, long distance bicyclists who couldn't afford the components for their bikes with ground and mirror polished bearing surfaces would disassemble the bearings, add some valve grinding grit (basically what I recommended above) and then go ride the bike a while and after wards break the whole bike down and wash the grit out with solvent and rebuild with just fresh grease and new balls. The components were rounder and polished and if very well adjusted and maintained after that would last twenty years of hard use.

The bike I rode to work today has many original bearing surfaces (that were ground and polished at the factory) and it is over thirty years old.