Emersons don't like lateral stress?

[Lycosa]

Wrap, pinch, a small piece of Teflon tape around the screw threads.

 

[mmike87]

Open your knives and hold your two thumbs near the pivot and flex the knife a little. Then close the knife and see if the blade is still centered in the handle. In my experience, this small amount of flexing (which doesn't require prying a door open to place on a knife, just fairly normal work) will cause the blade to go off-center or rub the liners. Then I have to flex it the opposite way to get them to go back.

In fairness, I do keep the pivot loose enough for there to be a tiny bit of play to allow it to wave open reliably. I hadn't thought of the pivot being the issue. I always assumed the frame was flexing.

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I tried this on my CQC-11 "UTCOM" and the blade doesn't move at all laterally when opened. Perhaps this is because it's a larger knife, but it's solid as a rock all the way around.

 

[sscups]

I tried that white plumbers tape, maybe 2 times around the pivot screw, worked well. Didn't move after that.

Not sure if that is same thing as teflon tape though.

After that, I ordered the weakest loctite, I think it is 222 purple, from a harley davidson dealership (seems to be the only place I could find it) and that solves the problem for sure : )

 

[Bonescraper]

Thanks guys, You have been extremely helpful.

 

[SIFU1A]

I tried that white plumbers tape, maybe 2 times around the pivot screw, worked well. Didn't move after that.

Not sure if that is same thing as teflon tape though.

After that, I ordered the weakest loctite, I think it is 222 purple, from a harley davidson dealership (seems to be the only place I could find it) and that solves the problem for sure : )

plumbers tape is what we are speaking of, i use it on pivots too, usually.