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I have a Case 1964-1969 redbone barlow (#62009). It is a beautiful old knife that I won on Ebay. I definately bought it as a user. It had a teeny bit broken off the blade tip at one point. I fixed this along with a nick in the pen blade and gave it a thorough cleaning and sharpening. It was really gunked up with grease and dirt. After cleaning I noticed it had some blade wobble, so I peened the pivot pin and lightly sanded and buffed out this repair. As I said, it was pretty gunked up and after I cleaned it I noticed that when I sqeeze the scales there is a tiny bit of give. At the back of the knife there is also a space about the width of a piece of paper between the backspring and liner on one side. It looks like the solution might be to gently peen the brass scale pins but I am terrified of cracking the scales. If I use the knife as is, will I crack the scales because of the movement caused by the space between the liners and scales? There is not a tremendous amount of movement or space. In fact, I only noticed it because I was holding the knife and squeezing it tightly while hand buffing the bolsters. I am new to this so If I have to peen the scale pins, what do I use and how do I do it? Many thanks!!
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! I even repaired a toilet with it once! Ok. . . here's what I ended up doing. I cleaned the areas between the scales, liners and backsprings with acetone. I also used some slivers of paper and some pieces of drink can I cut into strips to get all the gunk out and dry these areas. I then took strips of 120 grit sandpaper and sanded between the scales and liners both ways. I then recleaned these areas. I ended up making a tiny anvil from small steel rod. I cupped the end with a dremel tool so that the pin on the opposite side rested in it. I them made an identical tool to use as a punch. I put the anvil in a vise and peened the pin on the butt end of the knife. This did the trick on the butt end. I was very careful and was judicious so as not to crack the scales. Next I turned my attention to the area adjacent to the bolster and about halfway up the side. The tiny pin next to the bolster could not be peened because it was sanded flush with the scales. After cleaning and sanding between the scales and liners, a visible gap could be seen. I mixed up some JB Weld and used slivers of drink can to push it into every area of these cracks. After making sure no excess epoxy was left anywhere, using the tiny anvil and punch, I peened the middle pin and clamped the scales behind the bolster where I put most of the JB Weld with a squeeze clamp, then wiped off all the excess. I will leave it to cure until morning. then I will know if I was successful. Wish me luck. If it works, it will be an invisible repair and I'll have the coolest EDC knife on the block! Sorry I don't know how to post pictures.