? on my new mini cqc7

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I just received my new mini cqc7 with green g10 and black plain blade, i was wondering if anyone else has had the same problem as i? The titanium bar that stops the blade in the open position is not long enough to touch both sides, (it rattles in the closed position from side to side about 1/8 inch)When the blade is open it obviously locks into place and there is no rattle. I dont know wether to send it back or try fixing it myself. Oh by the way the knife is an awesome little blade,(my wife says it is cute and she might like to have one also). Thanks for any suggestions from the usual suspects.

P.S. I also got with it the skull t-shirt in od green........

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I don't own a CQC7, first off. But I've disassembled and reassembled a good number of folders.

From your description, I think you are talking about the blade stop pin, the one visible when you hold the knife in a sabre grip with the point away from you, on the top of the handle... true? Not the liner lock, but the pin that stops the blade tang from rotating past "open"...?

If so, your description makes it sound like a QC problem with the length of the tang stop pin, and an egregious one at that if 1/8" gap is accurate (most of my folders are only 0.15" to 0.185" in the first place, and 1/8" that you mention is 0.125".)

I don't know how the CQC7 is fabricated since I don't have one in front of me, but one thing you could try would be to remove the G10 scales, and if the stop pin is screwed into the liners with screws on both sides, make sure those are tight (Kit Carson press fits his for example, most other makers use screws).

1/8" sounds like a HUGE gap to make up and this adjustment wouldn't make that much up... I suspect if you measure your gap, it's more like a 1/32" or so. If the gap were a few thousandths, then yeah, tighten up stop pin screws. Might as well try though.

I think you'll be sending it back for a properly sized stop pin.



[This message has been edited by rdangerer (edited 03-13-2001).]
 
I heard of this problem once before, only once, and Emerson took the knife back and fixed it. I the tightening suggestion above doesn't work, I would sent it back, as opposed to just asking for a pin to be sent to you, so you can be sure it fits right.

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-Scott
Usual Suspect, Junior Grade

Now, about that Emerson site...
 
I talked to Derek at Emerson today, and he said that it sounds like they drilled in to the g10 to far (since all of the blade stops are the same size). He is going to email me with some suggestions to fix the problem. I however will probrably send it back for total confidence in the knife, and the experts touch. I really dont want to let go of it yet(i hav'nt even had it 24hrs yet ) Thanks for the suggestions to the U.S.
 
I saw the mini-CQC7 yesterday. I didn't play with it, just looked at it in the display case. It is a cool little knife.
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Ive heard someone post of this problem on the boards before, and i believe that someone wrote a way to *i*g*r rig it that went something like this :

Cut off a small piece of the eraser from a pencil. Disassemble the knife and put it in between one side of the stop pin and the handle stop pin relief hole.

That should stop the rattling.
 
I fixed mine with a piece of black isolation tape. There was not much of a gap, but it was annoying, I mean, I bought a knife, not a rattle
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