Doh! Getting blood off micarta....

Zardoz

Zardoz

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I have an addiction for taking stuff apart, so imagine my joy at recently obtaining a second-hand Large Dyad and finding it was assembled with screws.
So, last night, ease out the four Phillips and gently prise things apart.
And two lockback springs combine to eject no less than 27 parts (!) in every direction with the big serrated sheepsfoot attacking my knuckle. I now have a three classic Spyder serration scars on my finger to attest I am a true Spydie Knut.
Never the less, after an entire evening re-locating the exploded parts and finely tuning with the Dremel in polishing mode, I now have the shiniest, smoothest operating Dyad in existence, which is now DNA coded to me by virtue of the blood stained micarta. Like Judge Dredd's gun, anyone now who picks it up with the wrong DNA will get bitten by the now blood lusting Sheepsfoot. The quiet clip-point twin just seems to biding it's time...
 
Give ya' some advise (kinda late coming ) If you wanna get blood outta ANYTHING, use Hydrogen Peroxide
( costs about .89 cents at drug stores ) FYI

AET ;)
 
Zardoz,

I have worked as a pistolsmith/Glock armorer, and one thing that I quickly learned is that anytime that you are taking apart ANYTHING that even MIGHT have lose springs in it is to put the item that you are taking apart (along with your hands/arms) in a large clear plastic bag, so that WHEN the springs go flying, the bag will catch them.
 
Wear goggles next time, and try Glockman's advice.
I think you're lucky that the blade or other parts that exploded out didn't attack more important part, like the set in orbits, and the set that's usually hanging outside the body.
 
ya mean I am the only one to marvel that he actually got it back together -- and it works?

Zardoz - I am sincerely in awe :)

Chuck
 
It's tempting to take these things apart, isn't it?

I haven't taken apart a lockback or axis yet, but I've taken apart linerlocks, and even my MT LCC DA(just for the hell of it). Take apart, clean, polish, oil during reassembly...

might just pick up a cheap lockback with screws and take it apart... I know I can get one for about $15(canadian)...

good job at finding the peices back together into a <b><i>working</i></b> knife...
 
Mis-counted, there's only 23 parts. I've probably left 4 additional items inside during assembly (screwdriver, sandwich, finger, small dog).

2 x Micarta slabs
1 x Liner
1 x Sheepsfoot blade
1 x Clip Point blade
4 x Phillips #1 screws
4 x screw bushes
4 x nylon bush washers
2 x nasty leaf springs
2 x spring blocks
2 x locking arms

Apologies if those are not the correct technical terms. The screws are set with loctite or similar, and adjust the blades / locks tension. There was a note inside, "Help I'm trapped in a Seki workshop".
 
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