Messed up my 45!! Help

[Kyui Su Kim]

When I was fixing the alignment on my 45 I must have screwed up somewhere. The handles are tightened now and still the handles are off alignment. The problem with this is that the blade gets stuck in the safe handle. It sort of is off to one side of the handle. Ca anyone help me out on this. I emailed BM and they said that they cant service it anymore.

 

[sniperboy]

dude.. take care of the pupies I send you anyways.. I am not sure I understand - I have an imge but I duno if its what you mean... can you hoot us an alignment pic?

 

[Dawkind]

Sounds to me like you've tweaked your safe handle trying to re-align it. It sounds like you went too far. You could try to 'back-up' your alignment but now you've got to be real careful or the twisting is going to weaken, or already has weakened, the joint where the blade/handle/pivot pin meet. Those handles were cast, the same as the current knives, and I've seen them exhibit voids and pockets. Be very careful or the next post from you is going to make us all cry when you describe what a BM45 looks like in several pieces that aren't attached to each other anymore..............

 

[Kyui Su Kim]

Oh it's still alright, just doesn flip well. My freind has some tools to help fix it. For right now though I'm just going to leave it alone.
And yes it is still in one peice.