Need help taking apart a Protech TR3

snowreaper1

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Allright so I just received got this knife off the exchange and I like to take apart my knives and give them a good cleaning when I first get them.
I'm having a hard time unscrewing a couple of the body screws to this knife. There seems to be a little bit of loc tite in the threads. When I went to unscrew it
I was able to break the tension and got about half way and then noticed the screw was just spinning in place. I think some of the loc tite build up is whats making it
hard to finish unscrewing it. So now I can't loosen or tighten the screw. It just spins.
Is there an easy way I can get the flat back side of the screw to stay in place? I've tried putting a dot of super-glue on it with a piece of tape over it and that didn't work.
If any one has any suggestions I would appreciate it. Thanks

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if you put a soldering iron on the screw head it will heat up enough to melt the glue and let you loosen the screw. if you need to keep something from spinning, put some superglue on a toothpick and touch a spot on the pivot screw (after cleaning it with acetone to get rid of any lube) to stick it in place. you can clean it off later with some 0000 steel wool.
 
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i've heard that pressing your knife hard with a rubber eraser (or any piece of thick, soft and grippy rubber) under the spinning screw can be enough to hold it. i guess the screw has to be at least flush with the scale surface for this to work ... it's worth a try. anyway you have to break the loctite bond like richard advised before.

no first hand experience on this though.
 
you could superglue a sliver of ink pen eraser to the head. it has grit which would help hold the head better from spinning. then you could press it against a hard surface.
 
Im heating up the soldering iron right now. Hopefully it will loosen up all the gunk and It will be a lot easier to ease the screw out. I'll try the dot of super glue on a pop sickle stick and
see how that sticks. Theres a little divot in the middle of the flat screw so that makes it even less contact surface to hold together. I might just end up sending in to Protech if I'm not
successful tonight. Man.... I really hate lock tite. All it does is make a mess and make everything so difficult to take apart.
 
Rubber band it first. Iv had sucess with that method. Just place a rubber band on the spinning screw and apply pressure. I was going to pick that one up from the exchange, but you got it first!
 
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