MINI cyclone INSIDE Look and FIX

I have tried writing instructions a couple of times over the years - it's incredibly hard! Photo/ instructions are simply great -and very timely for a project I'll be working on.
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i just sent my second mini cyclone back to kershaw for the exact same thing as the first one. torsion bar. disengages after being opened and closed, and also it disengages randomly in my pocket and i get a loud clunk. sometimes it does it every time, and sometimes it does it every second or third time. no more mini cyclones for me. i sent them a note asking to swap it out for another model. i will gladly pay the difference for something else since not many are the same price, less the $9.xx shipping cost of course.
 
CrawlinYJ said:
i just sent my second mini cyclone back to kershaw for the exact same thing as the first one. torsion bar. disengages after being opened and closed, and also it disengages randomly in my pocket and i get a loud clunk. sometimes it does it every time, and sometimes it does it every second or third time. no more mini cyclones for me. i sent them a note asking to swap it out for another model. i will gladly pay the difference for something else since not many are the same price, less the $9.xx shipping cost of course.
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that little bar just needs to be bent ever so slightly and it never fails after the fix. But, I feel your pain. It should be coming out of the factory perfect. I'm sure kershaw has already fixed it on newer ones. will be interesting to watch
 
OregonEdge said:
that little bar just needs to be bent ever so slightly and it never fails after the fix. But, I feel your pain. It should be coming out of the factory perfect. I'm sure kershaw has already fixed it on newer ones. will be interesting to watch
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the first one was about a year and a half old. the second one was about three months old, but who knows how long it has been in stock. a shop warrantied it for me due to some customer service issues i had with them. but i asked for an exchange over the phone with kershaw and they thought it was reasonable that i do so, so we will see if they honor it when my knife arrive in the next two or three days.
 
I don't find the thumbstuds particularly useful on my mini-cy's - is there a reasonable way to simply defeat the roller "switch" and simply make 'em a speed-safe all the time knife?I like everything else about the mini-cy - but view the switch as sort of a manual safety on a revolver feature. Once I got used to the flipper and converted the knives to tip up carry -I've experienced typical locks open every time Onion /Kershaw reliability - the exception is that somehow - probably once every two weeks or so - I manage to get it switched to manual and it does what it's designed to do and doesn't speed safe open.
I'll admit to being enough of a barbarian that if someone can tell me exactly where to put some glue/locktite - that'd do it for me. What concerns me is I don't want to acidentaly permantly glue the thing together.
 
audiopile said:
I don't find the thumbstuds particularly useful on my mini-cy's - is there a reasonable way to simply defeat the roller "switch" and simply make 'em a speed-safe all the time knife?I like everything else about the mini-cy - but view the switch as sort of a manual safety on a revolver feature. Once I got used to the flipper and converted the knives to tip up carry -I've experienced typical locks open every time Onion /Kershaw reliability - the exception is that somehow - probably once every two weeks or so - I manage to get it switched to manual and it does what it's designed to do and doesn't speed safe open.
I'll admit to being enough of a barbarian that if someone can tell me exactly where to put some glue/locktite - that'd do it for me. What concerns me is I don't want to acidentaly permantly glue the thing together.
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You might want to just tighten the screw that's at the on/off wheel...That should prevent it from moving onto "off".
 
Tightining that bolt seemed like it really fit my idea of a potential cure. Cranked down on it pretty good - didn't lock out the SS on/off feature - but did in fact make it really difficult to un-latch the blade from the opened position. Slight loosening got everything back to normal -sure was worth a shot.
After looking at the pictures/operating description some more - would it make any sense to simply remove the on/off wheel, the bar below it and just put some carefully placed Bondo or JB Weld where the Torsion bar's end is held by the transfer bar? Ok - this would clearly make Kershaw's warranty a thing of the past and the dual action feature would be gone - but can anyone think of why this wouldn't work if what you wanted was a speed-safe via flipper all the time knife?
 
Final note on use/abuse of min-cy. Removed thumbstud , removed roller ( on/off switch) - now have a sleeker - assisted open always knife.Parts probably could be put back in - in the case of the thumbstud this might not be real easy.
The pics on this original post were absoulutly great - hope they can be restored?
 
Being a person who is mechanically challenged (aka/klutz) - this post WITH THE PICS - is what got me into diss-assembling folders.I still only take 'em apart if something IMHO isn't right - but looking at 'em from the inside out has given me a vastly greater appreciation for both the design features and craftsmanship that goes into a good to great folding knife - and accumulating horror of some that aren't either good or great.
Having been a service manager - I can appreciate that Kershaw and and probably every other folder manufacturer on Earth -are way short of enthusiastic about their customers taking whatever tools they can lay their hands on to rip a knife apart.
Still - this was a truly great,useful post -please restore the PICS!
 
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