Does Your emerson commander do this?

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guitardemon

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I’ve had my Emerson commander for a little while and i just started to notice that when I close it that my blade rubs up against the right liner and even makes a little rubbing noise. On most of the knives I own the blade sits in middle of the knife and doesn’t touch either side of the liners. Doe anybody else’s commander do this?
 
I notice this whenever my pivot screw loosens up a bit. Then I move the blade to the center and tighten the screw a little and it stays centered. This is with a mini CQC-7b and a CQC-11.
 
my cqc 7 does that when it gets loose. i just check the screw periodically to make sure it is tight.
 
Happened to my new Emersons. I've even polished the pivot portion of the blade to clean up the action some.
 
i have had a couple do that but only when the pivot was loose, if it still rubs after tightening i would send it to EKI & let them fix it.
 
Death's Head said:
Happened to my new Emersons. I've even polished the pivot portion of the blade to clean up the action some.
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I've done this with a leather strop and very gently rub in circles. Not only is the blade centered all the time now without it being overly loose or tight, but the action is one of the smoothest knives i own. :D
 
I've had two Emersons that rubbed the liners when pressure was applied to open. I cured the problem by adjusted the non-locking detent, but ended up sending it in to EKI.

Vu
 
I own a HD-7 and noticed that the blade rubbed against the scales when the pivot bolt loosened. A quick fix is to take knife apart, clean all components and apply a drop of thread lock solution on pivot bolt assembly before putting back together. Tighten to a working fit and let cure for a few hours. Works wonders!
 
This problem is not uncommon among linerlocks. I have a commander and a cqc7 super that does that whenever the screws loosen. The thing with linerlocks is that when the blade is closed, the spring naturally pushes the blade towards the direction that the spring is opening to.
 
I got a mini commander for Christmas and had to disassemble it twice, get the dremel out and polish the pivots, adjust the detent, lubricate everything. Now it's sort of ok, but it was disappointing getting a new knife that costs over $120 (msrp $179.95) and have to rebuild it out of the box. I opened and closed it and worked the blade over 1000 times yesterday (yes I was bored) and that did not help, in fact it worsened it, nope, it wouldn't wave 95% of the time either (destroyed $40 pants). Also the lock kept sticking and needed a screwdriver to disengage it quite a few times. This knife should have never been allowed to leave the manufacturer in this condition. It's too much hassle sending it back and paying for shipping (paid shipping once to get the thing) .
 
Not even going to bother, I'll fix it myself. Not that 12 bucks is too much for shipping, but yep, it is for something I already paid for to have shipped to me in the first place and I can do it for 4 bucks, then wait another 2 weeks to get back. It's funny that my 25 dollar Boker Subcom came in better working order.
 
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whatever, i want my stuff to be right, and if i have to wait 2 weeks for that so be it, too bad ya got a bad one but imho its the exception rather than the rule, all the EKI's i've ever had exhibited great F&F right outta the box.

i know that doesnt help ya though, good luck with it.
 
blub said:
...get the dremel out and polish the pivots, adjust the detent, lubricate everything.
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I doubt you will have much luck in sending it back to EKI after you went to town with a Dremel on a brand new knife. You should have sent it back unused (and undamaged) and asked for a new one.
 
gatour said:
I doubt you will have much luck in sending it back to EKI after you went to town with a Dremel on a brand new knife. You should have sent it back unused (and undamaged) and asked for a new one.
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Asuming he only polished the pivots, as in with a buffing pad, I wouldn't think it would matter. If he actually sanded some of the metal away, that is a different story.
 
No metal, only polish, lube and flipped the washers over the way they should have been. Actually it's a lot better now, I've been fiddling with it and it's starting to come around, it's not my favorite but it's somewhat acceptable now, I just can't see how it could've been sent out this way, sometimes it flicks and others it sticks.
 
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