Having trouble getting Commander blade centered

[mongomondo]

I bought a new Commander and it's great except the blade wasn't centered. When I open with the disk I can hear the blade scratch the right handle.

I took the blade out, cleaned it, and put it back in. If I tighten the pivot so that there is no bladeplay, the blade leans to the right and scratches it when I open it. If I loosen the pivot so that the blade is more centered, there is a ton of blade play.

What should I do? The washers look exactly the same. Do I need to put one specifically on the left or right side?

 

[Haze]

I sounds like it could be that the second detent is pushing the blade too far over.
I had this exact problem on one of my Persians, I just pushed the wee "finger" the
second detent sits in back into the liner a small amount and that fixed it right up.

 

[mongomondo]

How did you push it in?

 

[SakuTheGreat]

You can use floss to pull the second detent back a bit, just take the knife apart a fish it through the scale.

 

[mongomondo]

Is this the detent I need to adjust? Because, I can't get it to budge. Not sure what I can do with floss, the thing is super tough,

 

[1kimo4u]

i had a mcusta basic that was slightly off centered. i followed the following advice from one of str's posts.

open knife. wrap blade with a rag. place wrapped blade flat on my truck tailgate (instead of workbench). apply even pressure on handle downward (BE careful). be sure to push in opposite direction of cant. probem solved. sounds too simple but it worked. go figure!

hope it works for you too.

cheers, kimo

 

[mongomondo]

Hmm, don't know what happened. I took the handles apart and put everything back together without adjusting anything. Blade is now centered.

 

[Lycosa]

Magic!!

 

[spidyman]

I've always found that if you tighten the pivot with the blade closed to the poin that you can not open it then adjust for proper tension the blade centers quite nicely with minimal effort.

 

[amen74]

Same thing was wrong with my Mini Commander when I first got it.
I took it down and adjusted the same detent and it also worked.