Can I redirect this discussion a bit? I took my Covert Folder apart all the way, after ten years in my waistband, and it didn't go back together quite right. If I tighten the caps on the main pivot point enough so the blade doesn't rattle, the side-lock spring can't move out and get behind the base of the blade and lock the knife. Looking in at the threaded metal bushing, the axle if you will, that the caps screw into on each side, it seems not to be centered perfectly on the side of the knife where the side-lock is located, one side of the bushing sort of disappearing under the hole in the handle, so that, naturally, the more I tighten the cap on that side, the more the blade torques around sideways until it is drawn down so far that it gets in the way of the side-lock spring. I mean the tolerances there are very tiny. You'd think with so few pieces it'd be impossible to reassemble it wrong. But an hour and a half of frustration and I quit, glad just to have it working at all lock-wise and despite the new play in the blade. I've sent an inquiry to Gerber, but this is imposing on them, I know. Checking over what I wrote, I wonder if I switched the bushing around (it only goes in one end first, microscopically wider than the other end) and put it in from the other side, that non-centering might be away from where it can drag the blade out of being perfectly aligned in the handle so the side-lock slips out and locks the opened blade properly. But, reading that over, it doesn't seem that it would help, and I think I already tried it. Thank you.
