Made a Spanner for Striders....Works Good!

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jimmy123

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This is a spark plug distance measurer and you can get them from autozone of whereever.

I used a file and a drill to shape the steel. Works awesome, I torqued it to the max and it works fine...

No need to spend 60.00 on a atwood prybar for only getting the spanner use of it, this thing only costs like a couple of bucks and some elbow grease...

 
Hey Jimmy...

Glad you saved yourself $58.00 but now you have a spark plug gap guage that only works on Striders.. :)

I'd rather have the Prybaby personally...

ttyle

Eric
O/ST
 
Normark said:
Hey Jimmy...
I'd rather have the Prybaby personally...
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Yeah, me too, and I don't even own a Strider.


Now...wait a minute, I DO have a prybaby, but no Strider. I guess I'll have to buy a Strider knife. But.....then I will have to buy another Prybaby----the Spannerbaby...Does it never end?:D

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Normark said:
Hey Jimmy...

Glad you saved yourself $58.00 but now you have a spark plug gap guage that only works on Striders.. :)

I'd rather have the Prybaby personally...

ttyle

Eric
O/ST
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So what do you gap a Strider at anyway?:D I'm a garage do-it-yourselfer too. Glad things worked out. Nothing's worse that putting in time on a project and it goes to S... right at the end.:grumpy:
 
you can also use a fork. just bend the teeth apart a little bit.
 
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This may sound like an incredibly dumb question, but what is that thing used for?
 
Thanks. Strider can't even include a tool to adjust the pivots on their knives? :rolleyes:
 
Here's one from the Atwood sight.
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Lots of interesting items on that sight http://www.phlaunt.com/atwoodknives/
 
I think it's retarded that they even need a spanner wrench to adjust the pivot screw. Way to make things over complicated and difficult. They could have just used Torx or a flat head or anything.:rolleyes:
 
I tend to agree. It always made sense to me to do it the way Ernie does on his Emerson knives with standard screw heads. I do not recommend breaking down a folder in the field though. Seems like a recipe for loosing screws for sure doing that so a non standard tool like a torx doesn't bother me much but for a $400 knife I always thought that the spanner was included. Are you guys saying that costs extra? .

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heck i am not sure strider even sells a spanner to adjust them much less supply one w/the knife lol.

everyone on the strider forum told me to get a spanner baby, am sure they are neat but i was just wanting to adjust my pivot and $60 is kinda high for that, might get one though.
 
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