Dropped folder

[JustinP]

Hey all. Yesterday I was at work cutting a box open with my zancudo and I dropped it and then stepped on it on accident. Haha. It used to be very smooth and I could just flick it open and now it's almost like it's grinding at a certain point. Nothing looks bent or anything. Is there a simple fix for this kind of thing or is this the excuse I need to go buy a new knife?



That's where it gets caught up and starts grinding.

 

[NJBillK]

Take it apart, clean it and look for any marks of rubbing, put it back together. Open and close it a bit and take it back apart, see if you can see any wear on the cleaned surfaces. If nothing shows, it still acts funny and you still trust it to lock fine, use it as a loaner or a beater knife for carpet, garden work, and other dirty things.

Our just say is screwed and buy a sebenza with a handcuff lanyard for keeping it off the ground

 

[Favorite Blade]

Probably just has a small burr on it somewhere. Find it, file it, fix it.

Then go buy another knife for the heck of it anyway.

 

[PURPLEDC]

let me ask you when you dropped it was this on a relative clean floor or did it land in any kind of crud? Try holding the lock over while moving the blade. If the grinding goes away there is probably some crap on the blade that the detent ball is grinding into as it rolls over the blade. If the grinding persists with the lock disengaged then you may have got some grit in the actual pivot area. You can take it apart if you are confident in your ability. If you are not you can simply loosen the pivot and flush it with lighter fluid and re lube.

 

[jeffsenpai]

Probably just has a small burr on it somewhere. Find it, file it, fix it.

Then go buy another knife for the heck of it anyway.

Took the words out of my mouth. Fix it, then buy a new knife anyways!

 

[duxbellorum]

I will rephrase what has already been said:

take the knife apart, take a sharpie or tolerancing marker and color over all of the parts that you think might be making contact with eachother. assemble the knife again, open and close it a few times, disassemble, and look for spots with the marker rubbed away. If you have a bad spot, it's probably in one of those newly naked spots.

Also, while you have it disassembled, make sure both of the handle portions are flat, you may have bent something when you stepped on it.

When you are all done, and the assembled knife functions nicely again, reward yourself with a nice new knife =D