Need help with KLVUk

[uluapark]

My klvuk has tang movement inside handle when using, is this a bad sign?
when i go to chop kindling, i can feel the tang moving back and forth in the handle.
what are your recommendations?

 

[Jens Schuetz]

G flex epoxy will fix it.

 

[uluapark]

how do i get it in? nothing else is loose.

 

[J W Bensinger]

I think you'd have to pull the pommel cap. Another possibility-and it might or might not work-is to treat it as though you were going to actually remove the hilt, without actually filing off the peened section of the tang holding the pommel.
If you put the hilt in a strong plastic bag intended for boiling food in, and boil the hilt, the laha will soften. If it actually melts all the way it may fill in the area where the tang is moving.
Otherwise you may have to pull off at least the buttcap, so you can squirt some epoxy down in there.
The pommel removal job isn't too hard, but there are some tricks to getting it back together right.

 

[Yangdu]

Send the KLVUK back to HI and I will send the replacement one this week.
Sorry for the tang movement

 

[J W Bensinger]

^there you go, brother.

 

[cul4u01]

Is that customer service or what?

 

[Karda]

Thank goodness for Auntie!
All need to remember that the KLVUK is NOT on the warranty for chopping wood.
Also, please read this: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/903477-Warranty-Issues

 

[uluapark]

will do, thank you miss yangdu. your customer service is the best.
I will be out of town till friday, will put it in on friday. thanks again.

edit

Got home early and mailed it today. thank god for kind passengers.

 

[uluapark]

Send the KLVUK back to HI and I will send the replacement one this week.
Sorry for the tang movement

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thank you for your great customer service. it will be mailed this week.

 

[Gehazi]

nothing but love for HI, remember and buy a full price blade when you get the chance !

 

[Dirtbiker]

will do, thank you miss yangdu. your customer service is the best.
I will be out of town till friday, will put it in on friday. thanks again.

edit

Got home early and mailed it today. thank god for kind passengers.

Passengers?? Are you a pilot, cabbie, or bus driver?

 

[uluapark]

Passengers?? Are you a pilot, cabbie, or bus driver?

non, passenger. they overbooked and someone gave up theirs to me, i gave them cash for their kindness.

 

[Steely_Gunz]

Excellent outcome