Inside the Dodo

ChrisN

ChrisN

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I love to pull things apart.

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Makes me appreciate the work that went into the design, and the tight tolerances necessary to make it work reliably. In order to prove the lock to my own satisfaction, I clamped the blade tight in the vice and leaned down firmly on the handle. Lock is secure, but the movement of the ball to unlock is now a bit sticky.

Chris
 
Thanks for the pics. Always wondered what it would look like exposed.

Nice and clear!
 
Nice job with the pics.

One question; in the first pic, there's a triangular patch of steel directly under the ball that shows up different. Is this ground at a different angle, polished, coated, or what? What functinon might it serve?
 
It looks like it's ground down at an angle. I think this would let the lock disengage without pulling the ball back so far, and help the blade slide the ball back as it closed. Just a guess.
 
Nice pictures ChrisN. I bought a black serrated Dodo some days ago and I wondered about the inside of the knife. Your pics made it clear.
 
As a side note, there are NO stop pins in there, just solid metal back AND FRONT stops created from one chunk of steel the ball rides in. So flipping (or snapping) the knife open or closed by retracting the lock will cause no damage IMHO.
 
a great help to folks like me who can take one apart, but either break a piece while pulling it apart or during reassembly. nice low risk look at the innards of what I now, and have since the day I got it (less time at Spydie hospital to deal with lockup), carry as my edc.
 
thx for those pics, I always luv to see mechanisms inside:)
seems like a smart design to me
 
proud2deviate,
I believe that section of the 'tang' is ground down to avoid 'snagging' on your fingers when you are disengaging the lock. Even with that, I find that it sometimes snags on the pad of my thumb when I am disengaging the lock.

Thom
 
Chris, nice pictures! When the Dodo is stripped like that, is there any machining on the inside of the scales, or are they completely flat inside? Also, is it put together completely with Torx screws? I have trouble seeing that in the pictures I've seen of this knife.
 
I see the space cut through the scale for the ball and spring, but inside the scales, are they smooth all the way along, or are there recesses inside somewhere?
 
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