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CLIFF NOTES FP-10 is good and it made my Endrua 4 Stainless open really fast....
About 2 weeks ago I bought an Endura 4 Stainless and I was kind of disappointed at how much work it took to get the thing open with one hand. I'm a fairly large man with big hands and I was getting a work out from this thing. I never really wanted to be able to open the knife with just the flick of the wrist, but rather a quick push of the thumb and a slight, well timed flick of the wrist, like the rest of my folders. I probably opened and closed the knife about 500-600 times the first week I had it, just sitting there watching tv opening and closing......
I determined that much of the resistance on the blade was due to the locking bar contact with the blade as it rotated. Regular lubrication really didn't do anything. Gun oil didn't do much either. "Dry" Teflon lube, nothing either. One trick I use for some gun parts is with silicone spray. I take the silicone spray (stp or something like that) and spay it into a small container or in this case the cap to the spray can its self. Fill it up about an inch with the spray, and then let it sit until all the propellant has evaporated and there is nothing left except a pure silicone "gel", and I apply it in small amounts using a model paintbrush. This worked OK for the knife, making it noticeably smoother, but the it attracted too much pocket lint and and was pushed off the metal by the blade-on-lockingbar contact. While testing out the silicone I also pushed the locking bar as much as I could past the point of just being able to unlock the knife, to break in the spring and take some of the tension away. This also helped a great deal, but still not enough.
And now the point of this whole post, I ordered some FP-10 because I heard it was good stuff. Applied it. At first I was disappointed, it didn't really didn't make much difference. So I applied just a TINY bit more and decided to let it sit to see if it would "soak in". That wasn't too smart(read on).... After letting it sit and them playing with it for a while, it became noticeably smoother, to the point where I can open it so fast you'd think the blade is going to chip the locking bar. The bad thing was that the little bit of excess I put on got on the blade and the handle. As a testament to how durable this stuff is, it took me about 3 days and multiple uses of 99% isopropyl to completely get the flim off the metal that was left by this stuff
You can definitely see where this stuff has soaked into the metal, and not just sitting on to the surface of the metal. So all in all, this stuff was worth it, and definitely enhances my spyderco experience
About 2 weeks ago I bought an Endura 4 Stainless and I was kind of disappointed at how much work it took to get the thing open with one hand. I'm a fairly large man with big hands and I was getting a work out from this thing. I never really wanted to be able to open the knife with just the flick of the wrist, but rather a quick push of the thumb and a slight, well timed flick of the wrist, like the rest of my folders. I probably opened and closed the knife about 500-600 times the first week I had it, just sitting there watching tv opening and closing......
I determined that much of the resistance on the blade was due to the locking bar contact with the blade as it rotated. Regular lubrication really didn't do anything. Gun oil didn't do much either. "Dry" Teflon lube, nothing either. One trick I use for some gun parts is with silicone spray. I take the silicone spray (stp or something like that) and spay it into a small container or in this case the cap to the spray can its self. Fill it up about an inch with the spray, and then let it sit until all the propellant has evaporated and there is nothing left except a pure silicone "gel", and I apply it in small amounts using a model paintbrush. This worked OK for the knife, making it noticeably smoother, but the it attracted too much pocket lint and and was pushed off the metal by the blade-on-lockingbar contact. While testing out the silicone I also pushed the locking bar as much as I could past the point of just being able to unlock the knife, to break in the spring and take some of the tension away. This also helped a great deal, but still not enough.
And now the point of this whole post, I ordered some FP-10 because I heard it was good stuff. Applied it. At first I was disappointed, it didn't really didn't make much difference. So I applied just a TINY bit more and decided to let it sit to see if it would "soak in". That wasn't too smart(read on).... After letting it sit and them playing with it for a while, it became noticeably smoother, to the point where I can open it so fast you'd think the blade is going to chip the locking bar. The bad thing was that the little bit of excess I put on got on the blade and the handle. As a testament to how durable this stuff is, it took me about 3 days and multiple uses of 99% isopropyl to completely get the flim off the metal that was left by this stuff
You can definitely see where this stuff has soaked into the metal, and not just sitting on to the surface of the metal. So all in all, this stuff was worth it, and definitely enhances my spyderco experience