New Strider failure

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I think you won't believe this........

A few weeks ago i received a brand new Strider SNG.
First thing i noticed was that there was no lock up, when the blade was completely opened the lockbar did not touch the base of the blade.
As a result the blade could rock back and forth.

I corrected it by disassembling the knife, and bending the lockbar quite a bit further, so after reassembling the knife did lock up well.

However.....

Just a few seconds ago the stop pin fell out of the blade.
I don't know what to say, and i am truly speechless,
 
Sorry to hear that. Who did you buy this from? I just recieved a new PT from true north and it is perfect. Great lock up, blade centered, no blade play. Steven
 
The stop pin fell out? do you mean the pivot pin? you might need a spanner. If its broken Mick will fix it, l go to strider.com and make a name on the badlands forum, that will get it fixed very quickly. That does suck quite badly but eventually something like that will get past quality control. I had a custom that was in similar shape. lol. (fixed in less than a month total turnaround time)


Pictures please????
 
I would contact the place that you bought it from, and send it back to them. If that is inaffective, then I would send it back to Strider, after contacting them, and getting a return #.
 
I would like to see some pictures. I have an overall negative impression of Strider, but this is pretty intense.

There's no way this sort of thing would be acceptable on a 40 dollar CRKT. If I got a CRKT like that I'd never buy another one again--I can't imagine buying a 400 (+?) dollar knife that was useless. I stick to Benchmade, Spyderco, Kershaw and customs.
 
That sucks balls.

Send it back to Strider, they will fix it up.

Man, Strider makes some great knives, but their quality control deffinately leavs something to be desired.
 
Contact either where you bought it or Strider. I'm sure this can be taken care of quite painlessly. Strider has a pretty damn good reputation!

Wondering why you dismantled it originally, should have just sent it back!

Win
 
The stop pin in reputed to be a little loose so that tritium headed pins may be installed easier. As far as street talk goes. Don't they just screw together?

Mine's fine so far on my SnG.

I'm aware that particular knife has had issues with you - but you're still far better off than owning a psuedo-PSnG with delayed action closing. My only complaint is mine won't cut through blast doors or deflect laser rounds.

Still looking for the perfect knife.
 
hmmm, good luck.

I wouldn't go to the badlands forums and post about it, unless you like heaps of abuse.

I'd just send it back to where you bought it and ask for a refund. (and buy something else)

Strider QA/QC has been debated here many times, it seems that if you can't pick one out in person, then there's some risk.
 
$400 dosent get you a perfect knife. it just generally gets you a better knife than $100 would. (most times):p

the strider guys will fix stuff like this. send it in to them.


i really dont know and i've done no research whatsoever. but isnt Strider Knives a pretty small company for the quantity of knives they put out?

compared to benchmade or spyderco. i would think strider couldn't have the amount of QC that those big guys have.
 
I happen to think they should have MORE.

Smaller shop, less people, lower number of knives produced, much higher cost knife should result in more and better QA, not less.
 
It sounds like you just got one with a bad pin but I am not sure what you are referring to. The stop pin is screwed down on that knife as is the pivot. Either one could have threads that are bad, or it may be more related to your putting it back together wrong. Don't take offense to that, but you did take it apart. It is possible you cross threaded the screw, or just didn't screw it down the right way.

Its generally a good idea to make sure you know which screw, which barrel and what orientation each had before taking a folder apart. Many times these are location specific parts but I cannot say for sure on this one. I try real hard to make sure if the screw head is on the non lock side when you disassemble it to put it back together so the screw head is back where it belongs. If you put it in backwards by placing the pivot barrel so the screw side of the pivot is on the lock side instead of the non lock side of your folder for example, the barrel may need turned around as it may be the root of the trouble. On still others just having the pivot pin too lose can cause a stop pin that is not the screw in kind to fall out.

STR
 
A new knife that doesn't lock up is not an isolated QC failure. It points to an absence of quality control. Unfortunately you didn't dump the lemon immediately. Maybe you still can. Send it back to the dealer, just don't tell them you've already fixed it once yourself.
 
Pivot pins require spanners, like the Prybaby, to tighten to spec.

I've tried repairing a knife I should have taken back. If the dealer won't help, Strider's reputation indicates they will gladly. I wish I had done that for my Kershaw - it'd be done.
 
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DaveH said:
I happen to think they should have MORE.

Smaller shop, less people, lower number of knives produced, much higher cost knife should result in more and better QA, not less.
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might be right.

but i've worked in a bigger company and also a small business in the same industry.

the small business was hell. id be lucky to get 5 mins to wolf down a sandwich at "lunch time". small business guys have a lot more than one job.

id gladly take up the beauracratic BS of a bigger company than have that freedom and hectic ambiguity of small business.
 
The pin i am refering to is the pin that sits in the blade itself.
I would not call it a double-sided thumstud, as the oval opening in the blade works much better to open the knife.

I was only holding the SNG in my hand while surfing this forum, opening and closing it now and then, as it suddenly fell out of the blade.

This pin by the way has no thread on it, just 2 marks on it in the middle that seem to be made with a pair of pliers.
When i disassembled the knife earlier to fix the lockbar that wouldn't lock, i did not touch this stop-pin.

By the way, there is also a model SMF on it's way to me as i write this, i do hope STR did the quality control on this one,
:D
 
You guys are so much more forgiving than me. I get angry when a 100 dollar knife has an off centered blade. And I get a different knife. If I *ever* buy a knife at any price with 0% lockup and a pin that falls out, I will never buy a knife from that company again. And I mean that for $20 Byrds. It's unacceptable from one of those keychain knives at a gas station.

Fortunately, it seems like 20 dollar knives have vastly superior quality control that Strider lately, and so despite the dozens of production knives I've bought under a hundred dollars, only a few of them had imperfections, and those were merely cosmetic--off centered blades and the like.

A good warranty and service department at best compensates for terrible QC. It might compensate enough to keep the one knife (and never buy another one from them again). But now it's just an excuse for creating dangerous (to the user) tools. Unacceptable. Strider owes you an apology.
 
Gonna have to agree...if its as described, one of three things must be true:
1. No one ever opened the knife to check its quality- Bad
2. Someone checked the knife for quality and didnt care- Worse
3. We are missing some part of the story- Likely
 
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