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Can anyone help me out on this, I contacted Micro' 16 days ago, and there's still no one there that can answer this simple question. New knife (from '06). Side to side play with knife fully open, (SOCOM Elite M/A), while holding lock in open position. After a few days use, blade play in open, locked, position. they Finally told me yesterday, after spooking through there phone system, and trying again, "it might have loosened during use", and it's OK to adjust it my self. (not a warrenty voider, yet LOL)
In all my experience, A liner-lock with a little blade drag lessens wear on stop pins, gives a more consistant and positive lock-up. I have a hard time buying that "blade play in normal" on these knives. An auto, doesn't need as much "wobble''as this linerlock has./ /So then, simply, when the torx head is turned, the back of the pivot pin turns with it. How do you tighten/ loosen these things? I've never seen a pivot pin that wasn't milled, so that the back side fit in so it wouldn't turn. After over two weeks and no answer from Micro', certainly not going to send the knife back for thier experts to take a look at it. The way things have gone (there are details I left out here, I don't criticise people or run them down), it would take six months to get my knife back. It's a pity to start looking at what's supposed to be one off the best, as a knock-around knife, and expensive mud scraper. Thanks.
 
I just sent a new MT Socom Elite auto back to MT due to a blade play problem. You can check out my review of the knife in the auto forum. I'll update my review when the knife comes back. I feel your pain. It's a bummer to buy an expensive knife and not be satisfied with it.
 
Use a hair dryer to heat the pivot, or you can boil that bugger! Either way what you are trying to do is soften the loc-tite that was used. I really do not like knives that don't have a fixed female pivot. It can not me that much more expensive for a company to provide that for the end user so they can tighten or loosen the pivot, at least if it is not a fixed pivot don't put loc-tite on it, send the stuff for the buyer to apply. My Blade-Tech Rijbak came with a one use tube of thread lock for me to use when I got my pivot where I liked it.

Anyway, heat is what you need. You may also need a flat head screwdriver and pad the tip and stick it inside the handles as close to the pivot pin as possible. Give the driver a little twist to apply pressure and then try to unscrew the pivot. I've done this before with great success and no damage to the knife as long as you PAD THE TIP. Btw, if you do this you should loosen the frame scres a little so that you don't put undue stress on them and tear out the threads of the aluminum handles, which is easy to do.
 
Thanks a bunch, I appreciate both of your; advice, experiences' and help. Will see if they treat me right on this before any conclusions. I'll give about twenty more days, although three was too many. Will follow advise on pivot, they've already told me, O.K., to "try" to adjust it to take the, several more than a thousandths of an inch of "tolerance", out of this thing. Missed that Konjo II for a moment. This does make a more compact boot scraper however, but don't drop one of these in a pocket without some blade drag to assisit the detent in holding it closed. It might yell ''got ya" when you reach in to retrieve it.
 
Let’s see if we can find the right forum …
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