A while ago I was messing around with my Camillus Ka-bar, I had my collapsible baton open, and I wanted to collapse it, so I got the bright idea of beating the butt of it on the butt of my Ka-bar to make it collapse,
that didn't work, all I managed to do was collapse the leather handle slightly enough that the crossguard became loose. I thought of how I could permanently stop the problem, I managed to beat the leather out again to tighten things up, but how can I prevent that from happening ever again. I was thinking of soaking the handle in something that will cause the leather washers to swell up permanently and not affect the leather negatively. Maybe Melted arctic dubbin or mink oil in a double boiler, just put the handle in there overnight or something like that. Also it's got the rubberized black stuff on the handle.

