does Kershaws warranty cover stupid?

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Johnnyvegas

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For starters, wanted to say hi, I have lurked here for awhile, and just now gotten around to posting.
Cut a live wire with my Cyclone tonight, and burned the blade pretty badly, I expect it could be ground out, but it was great the way it was. I am so POed with myself for taking someone elses word the breaker was shut off.
Can the blade be replaced? I would be happy to pay for it to be changed!

Dumb in Idaho!

John
 
I'm positive someone more knowledgeable about the specifics of the warranty will be able to answer your question soon.

But I'm wondering, if it's not too much trouble do you think you could post some pics? I'm wondering what an electrically burnt blade would look like.
It sounds interesting. :D
 
My daughter did the same thing with a Mora and she was lucky the plastic handle saved her from frying herself. The blade had a chunk blasted out of the edge.

The real experts on what the warranty covers or what repairs they can make are Kershaw's people themselves. Ask them directly for a quick and complete answer. This being in their forum, you'll hear from one of them soon. :)
 
Johnnyvegas said:
For starters, wanted to say hi, I have lurked here for awhile, and just now gotten around to posting.
Cut a live wire with my Cyclone tonight, and burned the blade pretty badly, I expect it could be ground out, but it was great the way it was. I am so POed with myself for taking someone elses word the breaker was shut off.
Can the blade be replaced? I would be happy to pay for it to be changed!

Dumb in Idaho!

John
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Woah!

As far as I know the cyclone does NOT have plastic handles. Did you get fried too I wonder?

Can you post a pic of the knife!? I am really interested to see the damage caused by mains electricity on sandvik steel.:eek:
 
Breakers save lives.

Contact Kershaw's warranty department, be honest about what happened, and see if you dont walk away satisfied. I am guessing you'll be just fine :)
 
Didn't this very same thing happen to someone else recently (in the past few months)?
 
Yeah I am curious as to what kind of jolt you got out of it?


Last summer I was using an old steel cased electric drill to put a couple holes in my garage floor. Apparently it had an internal short, and I got all 110 volts for like 4 seconds. Couldn't let go of the drill, so took me about 4 seconds to be able to throw it across the garage.

That sucked.
 
If it's not to bad, you might be able to send it to Tom Krein and have it reprofiled.
 
It really all depends on which wire was cut first...the hot or the neutral. Theoretically, if the blade first cut into the neutral (which is essentially ground potential in a properly wired home) and then into the hot wire, the current would shunt immediately to the neutral/ground and the potential of the knife handle would never rise; the breaker would pop, end of story. However, if the blade cut into the hot wire first, the knife itself would go hot, and the current would look for the closest way to ground, which could be the person holding said knife, especially if they were grounded (leather-soled shoes on concrete, touching any grounded object, etc.). In real life, the momentum of making the cut probably would have kept you from getting shocked...too much...if the blade went hot.


The proof is left for the student. ;)
 
topspeclt said:
Woah!

As far as I know the cyclone does NOT have plastic handles. Did you get fried too I wonder?

Can you post a pic of the knife!? I am really interested to see the damage caused by mains electricity on sandvik steel.:eek:
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Nothing fried on me, just the knife, and the breaker didn't trip either, scared heck out of me but nothing damaged except my wits.
I am guessing you can't upload pictures from your computer, I don't have photobucket or anything, sorry I can't post any pictures.

Thanks guys!

John
 
John, Photobucket is worth the very little trouble of setting up. As a paid member I can upload from my computer, but I find it's easier to use Photobucket anyway. And Photobucket lets me edit and label my pics to organize them better.
 
SPXTrader said:
Didn't this very same thing happen to someone else recently (in the past few months)?
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Yes, I thought I was rereading the old thread.


Johnny, If I was you I would call Kershaw's customer service and explain to them what happened. There is a decent chance that they will replace the blade.

Edit: Just saw your last post,:foot: :D
 
topspeclt said:
Woah!

As far as I know the cyclone does NOT have plastic handles. Did you get fried too I wonder?

Can you post a pic of the knife!? I am really interested to see the damage caused by mains electricity on sandvik steel.:eek:
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From what I can see in the pic, the blade could be reground without much trouble. If it is not able to be warrantied, you might want to pursue that.
 
riffraff said:
Oh, that's not bad. I was expecting a much larger divot! :D
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As was I. Were you trying to strip the wire end or did you try to cut straight through the wire. Cutting straight through a wire is hell on a blade. For future reference use a pair of wire stippers/cutters.
 
Give me a shout if needed. That is for sure something that could be fixed easily... even without a regrind.


Tom
 
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