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Just recieved my 0561. Is this normal?
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I just watched your video the second time and taking ZT to school with a LT knife "Come On Man" Keep away from the Kool Aid that CS serves up. I'm with the other suggestions pencil lead and break it in.
Looks like someone still didn't get their 0560/0561 and is a bit jealous
. Keep your condescending remarks out of my thread, thanks. As for everyone else, thanks for the suggestions. Going to break it down and apply some sort of lubricant to it. Blade centering doesn't concern me (as you can see from the Cold Steel which I carried for years) I just thought I should point it out in case this was somehow causing the sticky lock.I don't really understand your post but Cold Steel makes some decent knives for the price.
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Don't break it down, because you have to put the pencil lead (graphite) or sharpie, on a lot of times and open and close it over and over. Put it on the blade base instead. I have Galyean Pro Series, large Lahar and it was fine at first, but it developed a very sticky lock, just like yours and I must have opened, closed it and applied pencil mark 100 times, before it started to work flawlessly. After it started to unlock normally, it's worked without any futher aplication of pencil lead.
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The only thing abnormal in that video is the lack of shirts
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You can see how tight the lock is on it and it's now fixed.
Who the heck wears shirts in their own home?
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Following Super Mod Bastids suggestion, I started putting graphite from a pencil on my Ti frame locks that are sticky. Works like a charm, everytime. Once the graphite has worn off, its super smooth and buttery.
Nothing wrong with that 0561.
Moose
Nothing wrong with that 0561.
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Looks like someone still didn't get their 0560/0561 and is a bit jealous
I don't really understand your post but Cold Steel makes some decent knives for the price.
Actually hes had a 0561 for awhile now and he knows his knives. And FYI, Cold steel really doesnt "Make" anything. Rather they simply slap their name on any product that gets mall ninja approval. And your lock on the Ti lite is engaging so late I would be willing to bet it either has significant veritcal play or its going to develop it soon. And if that is how you feel a knife should be operating I would suggest learning more. And not to split hairs but just for future reference. If you insist on going with a wife beater on youtube. Try trimming the bushes if you get my drift.
Damn near everyone.
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The lock on the CS Ti Lite is not solid, it's shaped like an upside down L and I believe all of them lock-up like that.
Sesei,....ignore the haters....you did fine and got a great knife. These suggestions should work..I apprenticed a long time with a full time knife maker and its just physics and metal work to get it right for you..no big deal....
David
ps. i dont wear a shirt around the house either many times lol....however, I would suggest taking that sharp 561 and trimming those pit hairs..omg
David
ps. i dont wear a shirt around the house either many times lol....however, I would suggest taking that sharp 561 and trimming those pit hairs..omg
You watched that video for all the wrong reasons lol. Regardless of whether he had the knife or not his attempts at insulting me were not appreciated and neither are yours. Like I said, if you're going to just sit here and make fun of the way I look, just leave. I took it apart and applied some graphite per the recommendation from the posters in this thread and it is noticeably smoother. I was working the lock all day today and it's beginning to work the way I imagined it would out of the box.
Damn near everyone.
Negative.
Lmao!! But I don't want to trim my curly man locks. Perhaps shooting the video from that angle wasn't the greatest idea and I'll keep that in mind should I record anymore videos in the future lol. Haters are to be expected when you're criticizing something that's highly sought after I suppose but like I said, everything is smoothing out and I'm really loving the knife after all is said and done.
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Why would you want to take it apart? You can apply the graphite to the blade's base, where it locks up and do the same-thing and a lot faster.
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In life and many times on this forum you will encounter a certain whimsical force called humor. Sometimes when people come on the forum and post videos of themselves misshandling sharp objects and making points about the item being defective and not working as properly as a jacked up cold steel open themselves to this force. If you dont remember I was one of the first go actually give you suggestions on how to get your knife working properly. Bigmark was not insulting you but rather criticizing you for how you were handling the knives and making poor comparisons.
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I enjoy taking my knives apart. Mechanical nature and intrigue make me do it.
I just take my time, pay attention as I go, and make notes. I often "deep clean" my blades once a month or so, or if they have had a serious work out, say, cleaning fish or animals, and getting wet in the river/lakes.
It may not be needed, but I do the same to my guns, I just like to do it.
But I don't advocate doing it if all you have is vice grips and a flat head screwdriver, either. There is a right way and a wrong way to do it.
I just thin a pencil down and apply it when the blade is closed and the lock bar face is accessible, but the first time, I disassembled it to do it. Mostly so I could get an even coat along the face.
So far, the most exciting take down, was my 303, 301, and Hogue EX01. They have some very interesting innards.
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I can understand that Moose, but in my experience the lock isn't fixed by just one application and it needs to be applied over and over, while opening and closing the knife.
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I couldn't agree more.
I don't think handguns should be expected to work properly until they've had at least 500rds put down the barrel. Metal mechanical devices just work better with use, as they "adjust" themselves to parts mating. That can only be done by "working it in".
Anyone that expects moving mechanical parts to fit perfectly fresh from the factory, has high expectations. Everything has to break in.
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I enjoy taking my knives apart. Mechanical nature and intrigue make me do it.
I just take my time, pay attention as I go, and make notes. I often "deep clean" my blades once a month or so, or if they have had a serious work out, say, cleaning fish or animals, and getting wet in the river/lakes.
It may not be needed, but I do the same to my guns, I just like to do it.
But I don't advocate doing it if all you have is vice grips and a flat head screwdriver, either. There is a right way and a wrong way to do it.
I just thin a pencil down and apply it when the blade is closed and the lock bar face is accessible, but the first time, I disassembled it to do it. Mostly so I could get an even coat along the face.
So far, the most exciting take down, was my 303, 301, and Hogue EX01. They have some very interesting innards.
Moose
I just took out the polishing compound and was about to polish up the engaging surfaces of the lock and then realized that could potentially compromise the lock up and decided against it. I did however continued to disassemble my SKS and polished up the bolt assembly and gave it a much needed clean. Very satisfying once the gun is back together and everything is nice and smooth. Just been working the lock on the ZT and reapplying pencil to the base and it's been working great. I'm going to need to break the knife down again as I can see some of the graphite getting into the pivot but so far there is no noticeable difference in the deployment speed/smoothness.
I read your post about not needing to take the knife apart when the knife was already broken up in front of me :grumpy: but it was cool to see the KVT(?). In hindsight I should've known that I didn't need to break it down to apply graphite but hindsight is always 20/20.
I'd be careful using liquid lubricants on knives as debris such as pocket lint and dirt will just coagulate and cause the action of the knife to be real gritty. I've found the graphite has been working out real well for breaking the knife in.