fix spinewhack failure?

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fishface

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Does anyone have suggestions for fixing the liner lock on an existing knife - I really like the Gerber Applegate Folding Fighter (GAFF) except that mine fails the spine-whack abysmally, making it useless for any serious self-defense applications. Can this in fact be fixed? Help? Thanks for any input!

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The beatings will continue until morale improves.
 
Don't whack it on the spine.
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Send it back to Gerber, their service center does good work.

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Sola Fide
 
I don't think I can - I bought it used, and have been doing a bunch of fiddling with it since (drilling/grinding away Zytel, sharpening the false edge, dremelling amay some of the interior liners - although not in a place that would affect the lock, and besides it was failing prior to the dremel). So if they would work on it at all, it would probably cost some decent money as well as time. Anyone know what sort of magic they would work, and how, if I were to send it back? Thanks for any input - FF
 
Buy a small piece of titanium thats a little thicker than the locking side of your knife and make a new one. Or you might want to spend a few $$$ and have a maker do it for you.

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Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms!!!
 
I had a gerber lockback that snapped the blade into, trying to cut alock tag on the an electric meter, I got the wire cut, with it. i had to pull the meter(housefire). I had reworked the handle considerably. They put a new blade and new wood on the handle, charged me $13.00 this was 10 yrs ago. I still have the knife. They sent me a note advising me of the charge, and If I didn't agree they would send it back to me, as is.

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Sola Fide
 
well, I'm just too impatient to take any of these sensible suggestions, so this is what I did: I marked the farthest point that the lock reached on the base of the blade, and filed very lightly just at and past that point to reduce the angle, so that the lock could travel a little farther along the blade base (by lightly I mean a few seconds with a small rsuty needle file) AND IT WORKED!! Yahoo! I put a dent in my couch armrest spinewhacking (that sounds bad, somehow) and the sucker didn't budge, not after repeated attmpts, whereas before the filing it would fold up with all the resistance of a dead fish. YOWZA! Just an FYI for any other novice who faces such a problem with a production knife . . .

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The beatings will continue until morale improves.
 
Don't spine whack unless you want to pay for the damage it does to the knife. It may be a status symbol to some people when they have a knife that took a spine whack but this kind of treatment of a folder fall into the catagory of abuse. The custom makers that I know of and most of the factory folks will not fix abused knives unless you pay for the work.

If you realy want a knife that does not close, buy a fixed blade.


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old pete
 
Believe me, after the work I've done on this thing it is WAY to ugly to sell - it's a pure keeper, my butt-ugly but now effective folding fighter. I dunno about status symbol . . .I had to make sure it would pass a spine-wack test, because if it can't then it can't be used for defensive applications, wherein the blade might rapidly come into contact with something hard. Sure it's not as sturdy as a fixed-blade, but carrying a FB is not always an option.

Now I just have to figure out how to mount a pocket-clip on this beast . . . maybe through the lanyard hole . . . .

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The beatings will continue until morale improves.
 
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