Wowbagger
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I cut all the shrink wrap off a pallet today. Everything was GOOD !
I cut all the shrink wrap off another pallet. Everything was STILL good !
I pulled the knife out for the third or fourth time and about gouged a slot in my finger tip on the immovable flipper lever (I’m exaggerating for as much sympathy as I can get here) . . .
nada. Knife won’t open even a little bit. I couldn’t get a hold of enough of the blade to pull it out. No thumb stud or nail nick.
My only flipper.
And it’s my Grail too !
What a revoltin’ development.
Truck driver ’s watchin’
what to do ?
feel stupid I guess . . . no . . . wait . . .
Grabbed the little Cold Steel Lucky clipped to my front pocket (flipper was in my belt pouch) and kept working.
I got home and visited with The Chef.
Then
before I changed out of my work clothes I had the bright light and the jeweler’s visor and the torx set out . . . ready for major knife surgery if necessary. I was convinced one of two things was going on . . . since the extra thick custom handle scales are soft and held on with long screws it is just possible for one of them to actually make contact with the blade on one side near the pivot and slow down the deployment. But how could THAT screw have gotten tightened in ? If anything it would have worked loose . . . right ?
and the other thing I was thinking could have happened was that I bent the titanium frame / liners of the knife while wrestling something at work . . . but the knife was working fine while unloading the pallet and there was no wrestling there just a lot of carrying and the knife was behind me in a pouch.
. . .
visor on, light on . . . there . . . see where the screw hits the blade ? ? ? nooooo that’s the detent ball . . . screws are fine . . . good clearance.
THEN WHAT THE FLIP IS HAPPENING ? ?? or what is keeping the flipping from happening more like ?
aaaaaahhhhhhh HHHHHHHHAAAAAA !
There it was . . .
While at work unloading the pallet, under the shrink wrap , holding some of the boxes together . . . there was clear box tape and I had had to cut those apart before we could carry the boxes in one at a time.
Now at home, looking inside the knife, I see a little rolled up wad of box tape sticky side out wedged between one side of the blade and the liner.
I pushed the blade open with a strip of stout card stock and pealed off the wad of tape. There is dammed box tape glue on the blade but she is flipping again ! ! ! !
WheeeeeuuuuuuuUU.
Just shows though . . . a person needs a back up in case the main goes down.
People say carry just one knife; it’s all you need.
Madness ! Sheer madness.
Don’t get caught with your flipper stuck.
I cut all the shrink wrap off another pallet. Everything was STILL good !
I pulled the knife out for the third or fourth time and about gouged a slot in my finger tip on the immovable flipper lever (I’m exaggerating for as much sympathy as I can get here) . . .
nada. Knife won’t open even a little bit. I couldn’t get a hold of enough of the blade to pull it out. No thumb stud or nail nick.
My only flipper.
And it’s my Grail too !
What a revoltin’ development.
Truck driver ’s watchin’
what to do ?
feel stupid I guess . . . no . . . wait . . .
Grabbed the little Cold Steel Lucky clipped to my front pocket (flipper was in my belt pouch) and kept working.
I got home and visited with The Chef.
Then
before I changed out of my work clothes I had the bright light and the jeweler’s visor and the torx set out . . . ready for major knife surgery if necessary. I was convinced one of two things was going on . . . since the extra thick custom handle scales are soft and held on with long screws it is just possible for one of them to actually make contact with the blade on one side near the pivot and slow down the deployment. But how could THAT screw have gotten tightened in ? If anything it would have worked loose . . . right ?
and the other thing I was thinking could have happened was that I bent the titanium frame / liners of the knife while wrestling something at work . . . but the knife was working fine while unloading the pallet and there was no wrestling there just a lot of carrying and the knife was behind me in a pouch.
. . .
visor on, light on . . . there . . . see where the screw hits the blade ? ? ? nooooo that’s the detent ball . . . screws are fine . . . good clearance.
THEN WHAT THE FLIP IS HAPPENING ? ?? or what is keeping the flipping from happening more like ?
aaaaaahhhhhhh HHHHHHHHAAAAAA !
There it was . . .
While at work unloading the pallet, under the shrink wrap , holding some of the boxes together . . . there was clear box tape and I had had to cut those apart before we could carry the boxes in one at a time.
Now at home, looking inside the knife, I see a little rolled up wad of box tape sticky side out wedged between one side of the blade and the liner.
I pushed the blade open with a strip of stout card stock and pealed off the wad of tape. There is dammed box tape glue on the blade but she is flipping again ! ! ! !
WheeeeeuuuuuuuUU.
Just shows though . . . a person needs a back up in case the main goes down.
People say carry just one knife; it’s all you need.
Madness ! Sheer madness.
Don’t get caught with your flipper stuck.
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