Lock sticking badly on 0551. UPDATE: pg. 1

Man I'm really starting to feel bad for you. What are the chances the same guy gets a soft spyderco gayle bradley and a bad 0551? Go play the lottery. Roll tide ,haha always wanted to say that to someone from Alabama . I just hope ur not an Auburn fan but from ur BF name I'm thinking I'm ok.
 
spydusse said:
Man I'm really starting to feel bad for you. What are the chances the same guy gets a soft spyderco gayle bradley and a bad 0551? Go play the lottery. Roll tide ,haha always wanted to say that to someone from Alabama . I just hope ur not an Auburn fan but from ur BF name I'm thinking I'm ok.
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Roll tide!

The 0551 finally smoothed up, so hopefully my luck is turning around. :)
 
After the first few days of fondiling my 0551 it started getting a little loser. The detent started getting iffy soo I loctited and tightend up . Now its been perfect ,I really love this knife just love it.
 
spydusse said:
After the first few days of fondiling my 0551 it started getting a little loser. The detent started getting iffy soo I loctited and tightend up . Now its been perfect ,I really love this knife just love it.
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It's awesome. I tightened both of mine up, and after cycling the one I carry a few hundred times it has smoothed up like crazy. It's possibly the smoothest most fluid folder I have.
 
Still have next to me what I had on me today . Hey, why not pics of the 0551 don't get old.
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CrimsonTideShooter said:
It's awesome. I tightened both of mine up, and after cycling the one I carry a few hundred times it has smoothed up like crazy. It's possibly the smoothest most fluid folder I have.
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Hey can you let me know how you tightened it up? Mine's pretty bad, takes two hands to open.


-Freq
 
freq18hz said:
Hey can you let me know how you tightened it up? Mine's pretty bad, takes two hands to open.


-Freq
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I just took two torx 10 bits and tightened the whole knife down. You think its already tight but on both of my knives the screws holding it together were relatively loose.


Tighten it up, put sharpie on the tang and keep working it. The first 2 days I'd have to reapply the sharpie literally every opening. But have faith, it WILL get better - it just takes time. I hope this helps.
 
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