so I've had my Groove for a few days now and just haven't been QUITE happy with the action - a bit too gritty no matter how much fiddling i did with the pivot pin. I decided to strip it, clean it, sand it, lube it, and put it back together. It worked; the knife is significantly smoother opening now. And I have all these neato pictures to share.
I like to start out on this side, as i find removing the pocket clip makes working on the knife a lot easier. It turns out it's necessary anyway.
In this picture, you can see the clip was covering the back of the pin, which is very interesting - uses a hexagonal bolt head to hold itself in place when passed through the frame.
Next, go at those bolts securing the G10 overlay with a Torx T6 jewelery driver. There's a bit of loc-tite (or something; Thomas?) on the screws so don't strip out the head by twisting too hard.
This is what you're left with on this side...
Onto the next side:
and removed!
From here, you use a Torx T9 to remove the pivot pin screw and the T6 again to remove the body screws.... I didn't take very good pictures of this part as my hands were sorta full.
The body screws are a really neat design. For one, the heads are hidden by the G-10 overlay when it's attached. The heads fit in a recess, they pass through the backspacer and then thread into the opposite side. I like it.
So once you've taken out the pivot pin screw, the body pins, and pulled off the scale, it looks like this...
obviously, something has to be done! I think it's just that the production date was in April 07 (if memory serves me right) but there was all sorts of black, graphit-ish stuff in there that was just making an awful noise.
so cleaning off the contact areas on the blade with just a paper towel gave me this nice mess:
after going at all the contact surfaces (inside of the scales, outside of the blade around the pivot, both surfaces on both washers) with paper towel, I gave them a light sanding with fine-grit sandpaper, like so:
okay, I'll continue this in another post... lots of images, haha...
I like to start out on this side, as i find removing the pocket clip makes working on the knife a lot easier. It turns out it's necessary anyway.
In this picture, you can see the clip was covering the back of the pin, which is very interesting - uses a hexagonal bolt head to hold itself in place when passed through the frame.
Next, go at those bolts securing the G10 overlay with a Torx T6 jewelery driver. There's a bit of loc-tite (or something; Thomas?) on the screws so don't strip out the head by twisting too hard.
This is what you're left with on this side...
Onto the next side:
and removed!
From here, you use a Torx T9 to remove the pivot pin screw and the T6 again to remove the body screws.... I didn't take very good pictures of this part as my hands were sorta full.
The body screws are a really neat design. For one, the heads are hidden by the G-10 overlay when it's attached. The heads fit in a recess, they pass through the backspacer and then thread into the opposite side. I like it.
So once you've taken out the pivot pin screw, the body pins, and pulled off the scale, it looks like this...
obviously, something has to be done! I think it's just that the production date was in April 07 (if memory serves me right) but there was all sorts of black, graphit-ish stuff in there that was just making an awful noise.
so cleaning off the contact areas on the blade with just a paper towel gave me this nice mess:
after going at all the contact surfaces (inside of the scales, outside of the blade around the pivot, both surfaces on both washers) with paper towel, I gave them a light sanding with fine-grit sandpaper, like so:
okay, I'll continue this in another post... lots of images, haha...
