Help with Manix 2.

My roommate's Manixes had noticeable lateral play only in the closed position that was incurable by tightening the pivot. I don't really know how to explain why that would be. He's fine with it though so I didn't go through any great lengths to fix it for him.
 
RevDevil said:
This is true Josh. You've never seen someone forget to leave the knife on the counter when heating the water in the microwave I take it.:cool:
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Microwaves will seriously mess up with metal. I'm talking about sticking a pot on a stove till it boils then taking it off and dropping the knife in for a few minutes.
 
bada61265 said:
theres always going to be some movement depending on how much your pushing on it side to side. the handle will flex making it look like blade flex. id make shure your looking at it right before you send it in. best way to do that is to observe the gap and sides of the blade at the pivot. mines pretty tight but the blade can be pushed some back and forth in the closed position. i think its just the flexing in the handle and not a loose pivot. when opened i see only the barest amount of movement side to side and thats less than most of my dozen or so folders.all of which i consider tight to very tight.
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idk about that, my benchmade 940 when tightened has 0 discernable blade play... i mean 0. and thats still loose enough to flip open and closed.
 
RevDevil said:
There is a little Loc-tite on there, hair dryer works well too if one is not inclined to make knife tea (dinking blade in hot water).
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FlaMtnBkr said:
You might dink something up.
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Josh K said:
What are you going to mess up with some hot water? :confused:
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I was just joking around. It shouldn't hurt anything and I have suggested it before for stubborn loc tite. Wouldn't do it with wood or other natural materials though.
 
My Manix 2 has the exact same lateral blade play when closed. It's brand new and has never cut anything - so it's not wear. I'm thinking it must be at least semi normal...
 
For the love of Pete. A blow dryer on high for about 60 seconds on the pivot - no slopping around - the pivot screws will come right out. Have the right size bit in your tool, press down and then turn. ;)
 
cziv said:
For the love of Pete. A blow dryer on high for about 60 seconds on the pivot - no slopping around - the pivot screws will come right out. Have the right size bit in your tool, press down and then turn. ;)
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Due to the design of the knife, tightening the 2 pivot screws will have no effect.

After researching it looks like the only fix is to take out the pivot spacer and sand it lightly. I'm not that worried about it so my knife is staying intact.
 
That's cool. I was only addressing how to break blue lock-tite. :)
 
I know that :) I screwed up and missed the parts that the knife play couldn't be removed by tightening it anyway. I posted w/o reading the posts carefully. Good luck on it. :thumbup:
 
CrimsonTideShooter said:
My manix 2 has pretty substantial lateral blade play in the closed position. I've tried tightening the two pivot screws on each side of the blade but neither of them budge in either direction.


I guess it's not really a problem, mainly an annoyance but for 85 dollars I think it should be tight. Is there any way I can fix this?
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I have a first gen Manix (Manix 1??) and it's never had any lateral blade play at all. I mean absolutely zero. There was some blade offset though, to one side, which Spyderco fixed for me. Send it in for them to fix.
 
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