Does the para 2 still come with a pivot bushing?

[mr_anderson]

I'll have to take mine apart again, I don't remember seeing a pivot bushing.

 

[Razorsharp-Travis]

my ol para had side play, its not the washers you want to mod, you want to shorten the pivot pin

 

[The Deacon]

Looks like I have to take a supplementary evening course in English, since only mkjellgren understood what I was asking. The rest of the discussion is based on other people's replies about the uselessness of pivot bushings and what have you.

Except that his proposed solution will not work. The critical relationship on the PM2 pivot is that the thick portion of the pivot has to be just the slightest bit wider than the thickness of the blade. If it's narrower, the blade will get pinched between the washers regardless of how thick or thin they are, since they ride on the thinner outer ends of the pivot and butt up against the thicker center portion of it. In that case, the only ways to fix it would be to either thin the blade tang, or replace the pivot with one that's wider.

EDITED TO ADD: I should clarify that. Sanding down the washers may cure the problem, but only if the washers were cupped toward the inside or had burrs on their inner sides. Either of those things would make the washer go past the "stop" provided by the stepped pivot. In that event, it's not a question of making the washer thinner, just making it flatter.

 

[Fancier]

Mrdeus, your english is perfectly clear. Mkjellgren was just the only person that gave you a simple solution, but that answer was not necessarily the correct answer for your question.
Everybody else is trying to clarify for you how the pivot system on the PM2 works. By all means take your knife apart and do anything you like to it if warranty repair is out of the question for you, but you might want to listen to people with multiple viewpoints before you start grinding on your washers.

 

[mrdeus]

So, to summarize, the answer to the question was: "They did not stop making the para 2 with a pivot bushing. However, its implemented as a stepped pivot in the para 2, so it's not exactly like the Sebenza (if that was unclear). It seems like your pivot is too small or the blade and washers too thick, whichever way you want to look at it."

 

[The Deacon]

So, to summarize, the answer to the question was: "They did not stop making the para 2 with a pivot bushing. However, its implemented as a stepped pivot in the para 2, so it's not exactly like the Sebenza (if that was unclear). It seems like your pivot is too small or the blade and washers too thick, whichever way you want to look at it."

Basically correct, except for the washer part, although calling the PM2 stepped pivot (which has not changed) a bushing is a bit of a stretch, IMHO. A more accurate answer would be that either the thick central portion of the pivot is too narrow or the blade is too thick, whichever way you want to look at it, or else one or both washers are cupped toward the blade or have burrs on the blade side. The washers sit on the thinner, outer "steps" of the pivot, so their thickness (within reason) is unimportant as long as the sides facing the blade are smooth and flat.

If the washers are cupped toward the blade, the cure is simple, reverse them. If they're burred on the blade side, reversing them would work if the other side is smooth, otherwise sanding and polishing them would. If it's the relationship between the pivot and the blade, then replacing the pivot bolt may, or may not, work but thinning the blade tang would.