How to ....ADJUST.... a $&#%#@-ing Swiss Army Knife.

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When your Swiss Army Knife gets dirty or whatever it gets that makes the blade decide to be hard to open and no amount of oil will help and in fact makes it get worse and you have to resort to washing it out with hot water and still it likes to get sticky and hard to open and you get SICK of washing it with hot water and you finally use Liquid Wrench, cleaning fluid, WD-40, Mazola, spit, and STILL it gets gritty and you finally reach the end of your rope and fill it with Simichrome and grind the snot out of it and THEN end up with it so gritty that you have to BOIL it to get the crap out and it still isn't slick to open, well when that happens here's what you do.

You take off the scales, carefully place the blade of ANOTHER knife at the crack junction of the blade and the saw (or whatever is next to the blade) and you give it a ...........WHACK!

It spreads the frame ever so slightly and actually does seem to be the final solution.

GRRRRRRRRRRR

:barf: :barf: :grumpy: :eek: :mad: :)
 
If you had bought a sebenza that wouldn't be a problem, just take it apart and clean. :p :p
 
DaveH said:
If you had bought a sebenza that wouldn't be a problem, just take it apart and clean. :p :p
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Or for the price of a sebbie he could buy 20 good SAKs.
 
Since the ends of the blade pivots are protected by the side scales on an SAK it is hard for the channels to get tightened up. This is in contrast to a knife with exposed pivot rivet heads that can sometimes get peened tighter than it came from the factory. If you don't have something jammed between the blades and the sides your problem is probably bending of the side panels. If you either pinch the side panels together or spring them apart near the middle of the handle the side panels will tilt around the rivets and pinch the blade. The direct fix for this is to do the opposite at the middle of the handle (spring the side panels appart or spring them together until things are flatter). You can test the idea before you start trying to permanently bend things. Just wedge something in the middle of the channel to try and spring the side panels appart or use some rubber band to squeeze the middle of the handle.

The other common source of this problem is dropping a knife and dinging the edge of a side panel near the pivot. That problem can be seen by careful inspection. You fix it with a little careful file work.

Usually if cleaning, lubricating, and the above don't solve the problem I can loosen the pivot adequately by just a little sidewase blade torgueing with the blade open. I just use a little pressure against a bench back and forth.
 
Usually if cleaning, lubricating, and the above don't solve the problem I can loosen the pivot adequately by just a little sidewase blade torgueing with the blade open. I just use a little pressure against a bench back and forth.
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Me too. Until I ...REALLY .... get pissed. I tried the ole "open blade twist" gambit. I tried the "screwdriver in the middle" caper.

And wot happent? :barf:

UNTIL.... I said "Look ya lil Swiss gnome basserd! You are gonna OPEN EASIER! Kapische?" an stuck a knife blade in an whacked it.

It's a little known technique kept secret by Swiss watchmakers.

:D :eek:
 
What is this thing, "SEBENZA?"

I have never seen one with a saw or a toothpick. I don't know if I could tolerate a single purpose knife.

:rolleyes: :D
 
Sebenza.

You don't need a saw if your knife is really sharp. :)

You can pick your teeth with it. The Classic blade tip is pointier, but if you're carefullll ....
 
I could tolerate a single purpose knife
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so buy a quality pocket tool AND a sebenza.

But why not just toss it and buy another it's pretty much a disposible knife.
 
Never have a problem. If I get it to dirty, I use flitz to get gunk off the blade, then toss it in the dishwasher, a bit of 3in1 oil on the pivots, good as new.
 
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