Kershaw, Can you please make your grommets any shape but round?

Scurvy092

Scurvy092

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First I had a Leek that I could not disassemble because the grommet just spun inside the g10.

Now I have a Piston and when I went to flip the clip to tip down, the grommet literally just fell out of the g10. That wouldn't be a problem if the grommets were oval, square, octagonal etc because it would prevent it from spinning inside the g10.

You do it for the pivot studs already.

Sorry to vent.
 
Once of my Blurs was round instead of hex and it took me an hour to remove it. I needed to vent too.
 
Can't get my E.T. apart even though it's the hex head (still it spins), so changing shape is not sufficient
 
I am going to have to chime in and agree here. I tried for over an hour to flip the clip on my echelon, but the grommets just spin with the screws. Looks like it is going to have to stay tip up. :(
 
Those little grommets have teeth on them, I'v never found them to spin or give me a problem, and I've dealt with them on the Echelon (clip), the Skyline, and the Piston. I guess I'm lucky...
 
I had to gorilla glue my red oso sweet on two out of the three to get them to stay put in order to disassemble. I have been lucky on most of mine.
 
when I hit that problem I bust out the soldering iron & heat up the pivot enough to break loose whatever is preventing it from unscrewing.
 
Read this thread yesterday and said: "Never happened to me!"
Put my Echelon back together to test fit before lok titeing. Can't get the pivot loose because I striped the G10 around the hex head of the pivot.
 
If you have either an eyeglass screwdriver or precision screwdrivers, you'll be able to put it in one side of the hex pivot head in the G10. Then hold it so you can screw the pivot screw in or out.
 
Same damn thing happened to me. On disassembly of my new 0350, I didn't even get a chance to take the pivot apart ONCE before the G10 stripped and the hex head spun like a top. I'm tearing it down to pull the torsion bar and try her ala manual for awhile. I tried using the smallest screwdriver I have on hand to slip in there along side the hex head and hold it in between the hex and G10 like sticktodrum said, but it just rolled the screwdriver out of the way. That and i'm gouging the G10 pretty good in the process. Has me kind of wishing there was an allen or torx "hole" recessed into the back of the pivot so you could have a bite on both sides.
 
I have had success using a piece of rubber (inner tube) on top of something slightly small around than the pivot head. (don't remember what I used a nut maybe) By pressing very hard on the torx tool the rubber gripped the pivot head enough to hold it.
 
Thanks for the advice! I ended up using a small folded piece of sandpaper (for extra bite, i'm not worried so much about scratching on the shiny part of the pivot stud) pinched between the jaws of a pair of channel locks. On the top side of the handle I had a large washer with some cloth underneath to protect the G10 from the channel lock's jaws. I put the torx tool through the washer hole to loosen the pivot screw as I squeezed the channel locks. What a pain!
 
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