My new Endura II - what driver for the clip screws?

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These screws were obviously machine set - tight as anything! Using a small phillips driver doesn't get me anywhere - they don't budge and I don't want to strip them out.

Is there a special size driver bit that fits it perfectly? (Just like my Microtechs, whereby a WIHA #5 torx bit is the "magic bullet.")

Thanks for any help. Looking to go "tip up."
 
Maybe the screws are set with Loctite. Slightly warm-up the screws with a hairdryer (this will "release" the Loctite), and try again, making sure that your screwdriver fits well, and that it's held "straight". Slow, easy, steady pressure.
 
Thanks for the input. I can tell that this is going to be an ordeal.

Step one - go to store and select a driver.
Step two - clamp the knife to a bench, flat on the bench
Step three - heat up the screws with hair dryer borrowed from my wife
Step four - apply downward pressure of screwdrive along with vice-grips for torque
Step five - hope that I don't skip and scratch up the knife with the screwdriver tip

Step six - forget this and send it in to Spyderco to switch the clip! :)
 
Well, I found the right driver - one that has a beefy handle, but now my new Endura is ruined.

Moved the clip; while tightening the screws, one of them broke in half! - one half the screw is permanently in the hole; the head of the screw fell out on the desk.

Brand new Endura, too. Already oiled up and worked the pivot pin in good. Now, it's toast.

I hope that Spyderco will back me up on this one - ideally, would like to send it in and get returned a new one with the clip already moved for me.
 
Huh.

Recent quote from rec.knives:

>>I had a stainless Endura and two of the three
>>screws securing the clip just sheared right off.

>I hear that they've closed their repair shop and
>are refusing to do anything about their knives now.

...I'd assumed it was just bashing (especially the second part), or stretching of the truth (especially the second part), but <i>is</i> there a problem with the clip screws on SS Enduras?

And I assume the "repair shop" is still open for business? :rolleyes:
 
I'd say there might be - the screw head actually twisted right off - really freaked me out - I was wondering why it was continually turning.

From past experience, when you "work in" several screws, each one in turn, the item you are attaching flexes or flattens out, so that a previously tightened screw needs a turn or two more, due to stress relieved from other screws going in.


So, this screw kept turning and I'm like when's this thing going to tighten? , then suddenly the screw head falls away!

My local "brick and mortar" knife store on Long Island, The Bladesman , says they'll send the knife in for me; maybe even give me a replacement while the damaged one is being taken care of.

It's not just loss of the new knife temporarily; it's all the work in getting the pivot pin worked-in so that it operates the way you want. A new knife makes you start from scratch.
 
BTTT - anybody else have problems with broken Endura screws, or are these two just coincidence?

Sal or Carlos care to comment?
 
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