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Microtech socom manual, general hardware, who fixes stuff?

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upstate88

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Greetings,

I have a SOCOM manual and wanted to take the pivot out to clean it it. The pivot screws are REALLY in there. I was unable to get them out, and ended buggering one up a bit. My questions are below...

1. How do folks go about finding replacement screws, just in general? Does anyone know specifically where I could find the pivot for this knife? I get that I can call microtech, but I have heard that can be a bit of a challenge.
2. Would folks recomend heating the pivot and trying again?
3. Are there members here who will sharpen, clean, repair, or tweak as a service? Who would people recomend?
4. I have been using the stubby Wihas now for some time. Is this a good go to, or do folks like something else?

Nathan
 
Got the pivot out, and cleaned it up. Someone went ham with red lock tight on the pivot screw, but the scale screws were not lock tightened at all, go figure.

Question still stands... Were could I get a new pivot screw?
 
upstate88 said:
Greetings,

I have a SOCOM manual and wanted to take the pivot out to clean it it. The pivot screws are REALLY in there. I was unable to get them out, and ended buggering one up a bit. My questions are below...

1. How do folks go about finding replacement screws, just in general? Does anyone know specifically where I could find the pivot for this knife? I get that I can call microtech, but I have heard that can be a bit of a challenge.
2. Would folks recomend heating the pivot and trying again?
3. Are there members here who will sharpen, clean, repair, or tweak as a service? Who would people recomend?
4. I have been using the stubby Wihas now for some time. Is this a good go to, or do folks like something else?

Nathan
Click to expand...

I don't know much about Microtech knives, but I use Hot-Air to heat up thread locked fasteners.
 
upstate88 said:
Like a heat gun?
Click to expand...

I use a Hot-Air Rework Station that is made for surface mount soldering. I think the tip is a 5mm. It works very well. I use 250C for Blue and 300C for Red threadlocker. I heat the fastener in about 15 second cycles until it comes loose pretty easily. It usually doesn't take more than three cycles. I also tape off the scales around the fastener (just in case) with Kapton tape.

CPK Scale Removal-1a.jpg
 
Hot air can work, as long as there aren't materials around that will be damaged by the wide spread of heat. A trick I sometimes use in such cases is to touch the tip of a soldering iron to the screw to quickly get it hot without heating the area around it much. As Robert noted, kapton tape can work to help limit the spread of heat with hot air, as can aluminum foil.

I would not use red loctite - use blue. You want good quality fasteners to prevent this happening again. I would check McMaster Carr or somewhere that carries Holo-Krome fasteners. They are the best I have used, bar none. Make sure to get the yellow box version - yellow box means US-made, green box means imported. Your Wiha tools should be top tier. I use them too.
 
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