Is the TiLT carbidized?

[wolf5391]

Judging by the pictures the tilt is not carbidized.

But if this is the all black version than to my knowledge there is dlc on the lockface. Therefor adding a little wear resistance on the lock face.

my 0300 has dlc on the lock face and is slowly wearing off, but not nearly as bad as carburizing.

I find the dlc works well with stickiness and to prevent lock damage/deformation.

Very interesting.

 

[wolf5391]

I love the bearings too. Brilliant stuff, and strong too. In New York City, pretty much everything except a SAK is a gravity knife, but fortunately most cops don't care about that nonsense and just look at size.

Anyway, I don't know WHAT went on back there with the CRK craziness... Totally out of place and just a bit psychotic. Far as I've been told, the 0560, 0550, and Tilt have carbidized lock faces.

sorry about that, it gets hectic anytime CRK is mentioned in a different way. I didn't mean to offend anyone in this thread, I was just being attacked by my usual stalker

 

[Heiheit]

Look a bit closer

 

[wolf5391]

Look a bit closer

am I wrong? I cant view the picture larger, but i guess im wrong.

 

[Tripton]

Looks carbidized to me.

 

[phrenik]

if the pics are too big, let me know Ill edit these out so it doesn't take people forever to scroll. I figured I would repost the large pics for wolf since he said he couldn't view the larger image

Pic in hand was taken [at night] but my ceiling light uses daytime lights, the "warmer" one on its side was taken with a warm tinted flashlight [preon 2 warm limited run] that looks incandescent, the whiter variant was taken with a neutral white quark aa2.

When looking at the tang, you can see part of it is "lighter" that is the part that has worn away/worn down from my uses.

 

[BLUEGINGER]

Interesting. A little off topic but what's a good lube for this style of bearing system? I plan to own a kvt knife system in the near future and I'm not familiar with this particular opening system as I own manual knives. Sorry for hijacking Heiheit.

 

[wolf5391]

Awesome, Thanks for the enlarged photo. I guess in the smaller picture I couldn't see. I was wrong

I do however want to say it seems weird that they only carbidized part of the lock face instead of the whole lock face.

I wonder why that is?

 

[BLUEGINGER]

Maybe because the blade tang only contacts part of the lockface? Probably wrong since I missed out on the tilt and haven't seen one up close.