Manix Lock Click

VermontEdge

VermontEdge

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Hey there. Just wondering about the click/catch I can feel and hear when disengaging the lock on one of my manix's. I've read that twisting the spring so that it sits differently in the locking mechanism works, but is there a way to do this without disassembly? I'm a firm believer in not disassembling my spydies but this is really starting to annoy me.

Thanks!


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In every single manix I've had that did the click you're talking about, it was always due to the actual cage. There's a long polymer "spike" for lack of a better word that holds the spring.

Sometimes, there's a little bit of flashing left over on the tip of that spike, and that catches the spring and makes a little click. Not saying that is 100% what is causing yours, but for me that was it. I fixed that annoying click on the few I had just by cleaning that flashing off the cage.
 
Sometimes with my Manix, I can make it mimic an axis lock. I'll dig the handle into the heel of my hand and grasp both sides of the lock in a pinch grip with my thumb and forefinger and pull the lock back. That allows the blade to swing freely and if you fully extend the blade by gently flipping it open and release the lock that way, it's silent. You just have to have large and strong enough hands to do it I suppose, because the spring is significantly heavier on the ball cage lock vs. the axis lock.
 
I also should mention I actually like the sound the lock makes when it engages, including the ball cage lock on the Manix. My favorite sound a lock makes on any knife I own is the Sage 1, followed closely by the first gen Gayle Bradley. There's something gratifying about the way those locks engage. However, I can understand wanting to mute it at times.
 
My Blurple Manix2 has a click just as the blade begins opening. I can't tell what's causing it.
 
AF said:
My Blurple Manix2 has a click just as the blade begins opening. I can't tell what's causing it.
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My blurple doesn't have that initial click but my all black Manix does. I think it's the ball bearing clearing the tang of the blade.


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AwayFromMySpydieHole said:
In every single manix I've had that did the click you're talking about, it was always due to the actual cage. There's a long polymer "spike" for lack of a better word that holds the spring.

Sometimes, there's a little bit of flashing left over on the tip of that spike, and that catches the spring and makes a little click. Not saying that is 100% what is causing yours, but for me that was it. I fixed that annoying click on the few I had just by cleaning that flashing off the cage.
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Thanks for the tip! I'm wondering if maybe it'll just wear in and stop clicking.

Were you able to remove that flashing without disassembly?




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VermontEdge said:
Thanks for the tip! I'm wondering if maybe it'll just wear in and stop clicking.

Were you able to remove that flashing without disassembly?
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You have one of the Vorpal Manix knives, collector subset of One in a Hundred like Jimmy Stewart's Winchester. (Snicker-i-doo!)


All kidding aside, the advice re: tiny pip of flashing is usually the case. It should subside with regular/normal usage, opening and closing.
Caution:strong:caution, the board is full of stories of bad outcomes with folks disassembling their Manix knives. It can be done esp, "one side at a time," but search for tips if you are so compelled.

In the absence of misophonia, consider a patient watch-and-wait approach as developing personal strength of being unruffled by a trivial irk, which too shall pass.

and enjoy that Manix!
 
btw my/our inference may be incorrect, but it seemed as the sound to which you refer is the "plasticky" click, thin but sharp and insubstantial, vs. the more solid-sounding thunk of bearing-surface engagement/disengagement. the former is the flashing pip sound.

cue Jack Gilford, "Did it click, or did it clack?"
 
My Cruwear developed a click, it actually made the lock hard to disengage for a couple of weeks then it went away with use. It came back briefly, you could feel and hear it this time but didn't make it harder to disengage this time, and disappeared again. It has been good since.
 
spyderg said:
My Cruwear developed a click, it actually made the lock hard to disengage for a couple of weeks then it went away with use. It came back briefly, you could feel and hear it this time but didn't make it harder to disengage this time, and disappeared again. It has been good since.
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Cool. I think I'm just gonna go this route and keep using it.


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