Folders that are a PITA to reassmble

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pedicabdriver

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I just spent about thirty minutes putting an Endura 4 back together. :grumpy:

Note to self: Stop taking lockbacks apart.
 
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say:

ALL folders are a PITA to reassemble.

It's always a balancing act. So if you don't like "screwing around" (get it hurhurhur) with small parts....don't take your damn folder apart.
 
Axis and Ultra locks are a PITA to assemble, if I do not have time and the patience required.
 
EKA Swede 88. The handle is a solid piece of wood with all of the parts put into a milled out section. Getting a blade plus washers into a slot barely wide enough for them to fit, and then getting the washers to line up with the pivot hole = not fun.
 
I' ll second the Spyderco Endura, that knife really required ALOT of force to reassemble.
 
A CRKT M21 with AutoLAWKS. :mad: :thumbdn:

It has both the liner and a secondary spring for the autolawks. And that little thing loves to pop out and go everywhere. Plus you have a million screws holding it in.

The Tenacious I actually found rather easy. I've never had a problem putting a Spyderco back together. BM's AXIS lock is a bit annoying, the BBL is a touch easier.
 
It's funny you mention Kershaw AOs. My AO models are easier to reassemble than my Od-1 was, as long as you have some grease for the torsion chamber it's quick and painless.

The Od-1, I couldn't get the dang flipper to fit correctly into the internal channel thing attached to the blade. If you have an Od-1 I think you know what I'm talking about, it was a PITA. The Od-1 has a seperate flipper from the blade so you have to line it up perfect or the action won't work right. Talk about good times and four letter words...
 
The biggest pita I have had was one of my Kershaw Skyline's... After reassembly and no matter how much I played with the screws I could not get it to flip like it used to and it has play , it's like Kershaw did some hudu magik on it when it left the factory.

The Kershaw AO's I have have been much easier for me than I thought to reassemble.
 
pedicabdriver said:
I just spent about thirty minutes putting an Endura 4 back together. :grumpy:
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I'm curious, was it an FRN-handled Endura?

A while back, I bought one of the green G10-handled Enduras on eBay. It was pretty nice, but the blade's edge bevel was a bit too obtuse for my tastes. I ended up exchanging the blade in it with the sabre-grind combo blade from one of my FRN-handled Enduras. Also swapped out the locking bars between the two, due to the precise fit required between the blade & lock. Putting the G10 Endura back together was actually pretty easy, I think due to the extra rigidity of the handle and thicker, FULL stainless liners. The FRN handle, on the other hand, was more stubborn. In trying to reinstall the 'spring' underneath the locking bar, I noticed that the FRN handle, even with it's (thinner, nested) skeletonized stainless liners, tried to flex a bit too much. The spring kept jumping out of it's 'groove' in the FRN handle scale. Had a heck of a time getting it to stay put while trying to fit the other handle scale to it. Gave me a pretty good lesson on the relative differences in handle strength & integrity between the two knives...
 
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Tostig said:
The biggest pita I have had was one of my Kershaw Skyline's... After reassembly and no matter how much I played with the screws I could not get it to flip like it used to and it has play , it's like Kershaw did some hudu magik on it when it left the factory.

The Kershaw AO's I have have been much easier for me than I thought to reassemble.
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I took skyline apart for many times, so easy to reassemble it. Not sure for your problem. And took my scallion and blur apart for many times as well. No problem to reassemble them in 3 minutes. I think I am addicted in taking things apart, including my laptop, cellphone and so on.:D
 
I tried replacing a broken spring in a MT CFO2. No fun.
 
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