im afraid to tell my friends.......

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avpshadowman

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that my benchmade 940 broke :(

i got all their 'good' advice, saying that the knife wasnt worth the 75 USD i paid for it. third hand too. i kept replying that it was a piece of equipment i can trust not to break on me.

so what happens ? one of the springs breaks :( not good, im definately not going to be telling them though

ever felt like that with your non knife knut friends ?

Daniel
 
Don`t sweat what your non knife nut friends will say.If they are like my non nut friends they think $7.50 is too much to pay for a knife.
 
You might try sending it back to Benchmade. Unless it was badly abused, most of the big companies will repair it for free.:)
 
Since it was third hand, I really doubt the warranty will cover repairs. I think I read somewhere on the forums, though, about making replacement omega springs out of piano wire. Mebbe you can do a quick search?
 
Springs can break in anything. Just send it in. The cost cant be much more than postage to repair it.
Springs sell for very little, but are very important to have them be very high quality. I had a trigger reset spring break in a high quality combat pistol. It was after several years of fairly heavy use, but still, it can happen at any time on any device that uses a spring of most any type. That's why you always need a plan B. Remembering that any mechanical device can and will fail at the worst possible time is all part of a world with Mr. Murphy in it. Your knife is high quality and a great knife. Don't let this bum you. Its also impossible to explain to non knife nuts what a knife costs. They think its all the same stuff they see sitting in a bowel on the counter of the gas station for .50 cents. -mike
 
heh thanks for your advice, actually chang has been nice enough to offer to try his hand at making a couple of springs for me out of guitar string. id actually like to make my own too, i checked up on the search, it doesnt sound overly difficult

just you know, i sorta flinch when i think of them saying i got jibbed and ripped off and the 'i told you it wasnt worth that much' heh. but if they dont ask, theres no point in telling them either, so mums the word :)

Daniel
 
Ahh, just because you have a blowout in your corvette doesn't mean the car wasn't worth it. The springs are a part that wears out. You replace 'em, you got a new knife!

;)
 
I wouldn't worry about them giving you grief. Any tool, esp. second or third hand ones, can break. I would email Benchmade and ask them if they would send you a couple of spare springs since you are so far away and the cost of sending the knife in for repair would be rather prohibitive. They make a very good product, and I suspect they will help you out.
 
Well it's not a real big deal. Previous owners probably were rougher than necessary. If a spring replacement makes it a bad purchase I'll gladly give you the $75 for it :) Seriously though, it's a great knife at a phenomenal price so it needs a minor thing. Still a hell of a deal!
 
While this thread has been necroed I have to ask, why doesn't Benchmade ship their knives with a few extra Omega springs.

However I think this would 'encourage' people to void their warranty by takng their knife apart.

So then if my warranty is already voided why can't Benchmade just send out some new omega springs?
 
So since this zombie is loose, is anyone else afraid to tell their friends when they have a knife failure?
 
bt93 said:
So since this zombie is loose, is anyone else afraid to tell their friends when they have a knife failure?
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That's assuming I have friends... :(
Jk I got 2 friends that know anything at all and I wouldn't hesitate to admit a failure.
 
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