Digging my SnG. Some questions.

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I love this SnG and it’s with me all the time. I have not cut with it as yet, but will soon. So far, just breaking in the action and it’s very smooth now.

The model is a recent one and has an unusual pivot screw. What tools can be used to open this up?

Will opening it up void a warranty?

How does the camo finish last when using this to cut normal stuff, like boxes, etc.?

Is the choil cut out intended to be used, by putting the index finger in there?

There is a screw that holds on the clip. It is long enough to invade the area where the blade closes into it. Do I have to worry about the blade eventually contacting this screw?

Last - a critisim - on my knife, I cannot use the lanyard hole if I wanted to, as the knife tip goes past the hole and would effectively cut any lanyard I put onto this knife.

Any experienced Strider owners out there who can help answer some of all of these?
 
Originally posted by Boink
The model is a recent one and has an unusual pivot screw. What tools can be used to open this up?

Will opening it up void a warranty?

How does the camo finish last when using this to cut normal stuff, like boxes, etc.?

Is the choil cut out intended to be used, by putting the index finger in there?

There is a screw that holds on the clip. It is long enough to invade the area where the blade closes into it. Do I have to worry about the blade eventually contacting this screw?

Last - a critisim - on my knife, I cannot use the lanyard hole if I wanted to, as the knife tip goes past the hole and would effectively cut any lanyard I put onto this knife.
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1. I thought it was a torx? :shrug:
2. Nope. :)
3. It will wear with hard use, but should hold up to boxes and such.
4. Yes.
5. Not as far as I've heard.
6. Sadly, that is a known issue. :(
 
Hi Boink,

All your questions can and have been answered at the Usualsuspect network. The homepage is http://www.usualsuspect.net/

Look to the "hardcore strider" section, do your searches there and you will be good to go.

I can answer the questions for you but that area of the USN is all hardcore Strider nuts and everything you'll ever need to know about that beauty of yours is there to be had.

Mick posts there often and monitors as well.

SnG all the way sir, I am now carrying the SnG on the strong side pocket with the MPC at the waist strongside for anything that needs prying as well.;)

Stay sharp

Brownie
 
Wow. Fast response. Thanks, guys. Here is a picture of the pivot on this knife. Now that you say it, it might be a torx. The other screw side is what puzzled me.
 

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Is that a 4G SnG with the new larger pivot?

Thats what it looks like from the picture.

How did you get one so quickly? If that what I am seeing you move very fast in the right circles there sir.

I see it as numbered 006, mine is a 3G numbered 002.

Brownie
 
Boink,

From what I've read, the lanyard thing is either intentional or won't be changed soon. I think that Mr. Strider recommends looping the cord through only one scale (I forget which one).
 
Looks like an allen rather than a torx. The other side of the pivot requires a spanner wrench. Most people make theirs by filing down a wood drill bit or a regular screwdriver with a very wide tip.
 
I got the knife at NYCKS the other week. I guess it's a new generation. Is that what you mean by "G"? The spanner wrench will be tricky. I have what's called spanner screw drivers, but they are for spanner screws that have two little holes in them, rather than a slot or phillips head.

Maybe the allen will work wth some heavy finger or thumb pressure on the opposite side.


002? -- that's what I call hanging around in the right circles! :)
 
Originally posted by thombrogan
From what I've read, the lanyard thing is either intentional or won't be changed soon. I think that Mr. Strider recommends looping the cord through only one scale (I forget which one).
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Any idea why this may be?

It seems to be an odd design choice.

Is there simply not room available in the handle to place a hole such that a lanyard strung in the conventional manner would not contact the blade?
 
Yup, that's the latest 4th Gen. from the "Bull Pivot."

There are several threads within the past week on the USN that takes you through the SnG Generations both pictorally and verbally. Highly recommended reading.

To disassemble, you'll need a spanner on the obviously non-hex side.

:)

The various Generations 'till this latest had hex/Allen or Torx. My Gen1 #090 clip point, for example, is Torx on both sides.

Allen
aka DumboRAT

PS -- as to how he got this 4th Gen so fast, well, in adsdition to the show knives, TAD Gear sold a bunch just earlier this week, within hours of release. :)
 
Boink:

Two threads from that forum you should read.





One may not pertain completely to your model on the wrenches needed but still worth a read.

Stay sharp

Brownie
 
fishbulb:

Mick stated that were initially going to go with a lanyard but discovered they did not need it.

The link above will explain how the strider fans who want a lanyard are proceeeding.

Stay Sharp

Bronwie
 
As has been mentioned many times before, the management of Bladeforums and USN requests that you not post links to the other's site.
Brownie, I'm sure you werent aware of it but this has been a hot topic. A search will reveal much more reading than anyone would want.
 
if you ever take a SnG apart you will see amx usage of the the space inside the knife. On my SnG , shes a lame freak and doesn't really fall into a model # , I can only thread the lanyard thru one hole. I use the TI locking side .

Boink :

You can make a spanner from an old screwdriver using a dremel .

Nice score sir !!:D
 
Originally posted by the45guy


Boink :

You can make a spanner from an old screwdriver using a dremel .

Nice score sir !!:D
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Cool idea! :)

Like early man, man makes tools with tools. Ingenuity. :D
 
Boink:

[ 006 ] Not too shabby a number there yourself.

Congrats.

Mine took about 500 open and closes before I was able to close it one handed, yet brand new it opened as smooth as virgin olive oil.

Brownie
 
Mine took only about 75 or so before it opened smmothly, it's now like butter. Used CRK grease on it.

As far as taking it apart, I use the Benchmade tool kit for the that:
T-10 works on the pivot, T-8 works on the G-10 handle assy.
I did find the pivot screw would loosen over time after the intial field strip, so I used loctite on it, no problem at this time after 4 months of use.

Loctite used is PROLOCK # 24206, red bottle, blue fluid.
 
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