ouch...AXIS lock failure. Wonder what happened

probably sat there spine whacking it for hours til it broke. If you push a knife enough, it will fail. Or it was a dud
 
"catastrophic" failure.... I think not.

If you bang the crap out of the spine of any folder chance are it'll come unlocked and fold. I'ver NEVER had a problem with any AXIS lock I've owned (10+) to date. I'm not really sure as to what the point of this video may be.
 
myright said:
"catastrophic" failure.... I think not.

If you bang the crap out of the spine of any folder chance are it'll come unlocked and fold. I'ver NEVER had a problem with any AXIS lock I've owned (10+) to date. I'm not really sure as to what the point of this video may be.
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I guess the guy that posted that video just wanted to show a broken AXIS lock. Someone said that AXIS locks could take 5000 PSI before giving in which I don't believe, but it seems like an AXIS lock should take a little more than what he's doing in the vid. Then again, he might have done it a lot harder in the past which resulted in that kind of lock failure.
 
harkamus said:
I guess the guy that posted that video just wanted to show a broken AXIS lock. Someone said that AXIS locks could take 5000 PSI before giving in which I don't believe, but it seems like an AXIS lock should take a little more than what he's doing in the vid. Then again, he might have done it a lot harder in the past which resulted in that kind of lock failure.
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You've got to take these videos at face value. You never now what the guy did to the knife prior to taking the video. The knife could have been tampered with or it could also be a factory defect like stated above.
 
Stop the video at 36 seconds and you'll see that the axis lock is not engaged; it's not getting up on the flat. Almost like the rear of the blade was altered. But maybe it's just the poor video resolution. Focus and steady the camera.
 
myright said:
You've got to take these videos at face value. You never now what the guy did to the knife prior to taking the video. The knife could have been tampered with or it could also be a factory defect like stated above.
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Yea. I have just never seen an AXIS fail before so this both odd and interesting to watch at the same time.
 
The edge of that bench looks like it has taken about 100,000 spine whacks too.
 
The lock is most likely not properly engaging, or is not sticking because one or both springs are broken. It's really just that simple. If the lock can properly engage and the springs hold it locked, you can not break one of those locks without doing something unbelievably stupid.

The springs can break. I've had two different spring failures on two knives, but I've been made to understand that the cause was a manufacturing flaw in original production. Alternately a knife with a lock that is not adequately engaging could have slipped through QC, but my money is on stupidity of the owner.

Hand me a solid bar of titanium and a few hundred dollars for the trouble, and I will find a way to break it the same afternoon. Nothing is unbreakable.
 
Looks like my mini-rukus, almost lost a finger when using it one day.
 
This video has been around a long time - years. I have had similar problems with a couple of mine. Sometimes you can get an axis lock that just don't fully engage the tang when opened. Either the ramp is too steep or the tang is too rounded to engage properly.

I had the problem with my mini-rukus too. I took out the blade and ground down the tang a little so the lock engaged more fully.
 
I figured it was that video again. Posted almost two years ago and it still crops up here.

I know a guy that broke an anvil with a hammer. All that proves is some people are stupid. The same thing can be said of that video.
 
All that I know is that, a properly fitted axis lock .. Like all the models that I have owned.. and my EDC.. Will prove to be Solid and reliable like a tank...
Videos like this.. prove nothing other than it needs a fixing..!?!?

I know.. I had an old busted up 551 Grip .. So I ground the broken blade to a tip.. And used it as a throwing knife for a while.. It was already beaten. So I wanted to push it to the max.. Occasionally the knife would unlock.. But that is because I threw it 40MPH at a wood pallet.. Yet after all of the beating's.. It would not fail.. Or fail a hard or light spine whack...

Im sorry.. I just get annoyed when people post this stuff... It informs nothing.
 
Yup, that vid is yesterday's news. I have never seen a ligitimate failure of an Axis Lock. The odd broken Ω spring, but never a complete failure.
 
The axis locks on my Cold Steel Recon 1s are all very sturdy. I imagine if one takes these knives apart and doesn't put them back together correctly, this type of failure will occur. I suggest that he do videos of spine whacking liner locks.
 
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