Mini Osborne with Flytanium shred carbon scales

[general bacardi]

Hi, new to the forum. Apologies for my horrible photos and dirty work bench, but thought I'd share some pics of my Mini Osborne customized with Flytanium shred carbon scales and a Benchmade full-size deep carry clip. I love the look and lightness of these scales, however there's a somewhat minor issue. With the stock scales, I could flick the knife closed very easily, and achieved full lockup with no blade play when open. With the new scales, I can't quite seem to dial in the pivot tightness to do that. If it's tight enough to avoid blade play, then it won't flick closed easily (it will do it, but you have to flick it with very exaggerated wrist action.) If I loosen the pivot so I can get it to flick closed easily, then it has a bit of blade play when open. I tried a bit of Benchmade blue lube, and I made sure to gradually and sequentially torque the scale screws, (the way you do lug nuts on a car wheel) not overtightening them, but that didn't resolve it. The knife is still new, so maybe over time the pivot bushings will wear in and it'll get dialed in.

 

[scottc3]

Welcome geberal bacardi, No pic, looks like a big blob of hash? With a free BF account, you need to use a pic hosting site, upload your pic and copy html code, pasting it into your thread.

 

[general bacardi]

Weird, I put the photos up by clicking on the image button in the thread text editing box. (The images are hosted on Google Photos.) I first used Google Photos "generate link" feature, but that didn't work when I pasted the URL into the dialog box. But then I right-clicked on the photos, selected "copy image address," and pasted that URL into the dialog box. the pics are showing up fine for me in the post. Do they look like blobs to everyone else?

 

[kreole]

Pics working fine for me

 

[scottc3]

hmmm, still nothing for me but blob, let me tweak settings, new California law starting July 1... maybe July 1, requiring google to follow end user settings?... Also, just this month have been playing with cookies "vendor." settings.

If it's tight enough to avoid blade play, then it won't flick closed easily (it will do it, but you have to flick it with very exaggerated wrist action.) If I loosen the pivot so I can get it to flick closed easily, then it has a bit of blade play when open. I tried a bit of Benchmade blue lube, and I made sure to gradually and sequentially torque the scale screws, (the way you do lug nuts on a car wheel) not overtightening them, but that didn't resolve it. The knife is still new, so maybe over time the pivot bushings will wear in and it'll get dialed in.

Advise let it break in, dry if you want, that should give enough variance to tune pivot however you like it.
I break in for a few weeks before bothering to inspect pivot, polish, clean, flip washers (sometimes I find production punch bowing not pointed away/outward from blade), or otherwise play with tune up/centering.

 

[general bacardi]

Thanks scottc3 , good tips!