Para military 2 stays open after swinging closed- Anyone else have this problem???

I close my paras by pushing in the lock and letting gravity pull the blade closed. Before it hits the stop pin and bounces back upwards a bit I release the lock, blade stops, and I finish closing by using my thumb.
Op your knife appears just like my three paras from your video. Your knife is good. Just use your thumb on the spine and make sure its seated.
 
My Sage3 would do this after adjusting the pivot so it would be loose but not have any side-to-side play. The blade would drop with no resistance and bounce back up. I wound up dropping the blade on my finger and just the weight of the blade cut me so I tightened it up a slight bit and now there is some resistance but it still drops freely but it's slowed down and doesn't bounce any more. I find it perfect now, when it was too loose I didn't trust closing it one handed.
 
When I first got my Paramilitary 2 I had this issue, I wasn't sure if it was bouncing off the stop pin or as mentioned by mjolnir74 off my finger/fingernail. Being used to closing my benchmades the way the OP wants to close the Para2 I quickly learned how to do it. It just takes some practice especially if you aren't used to. I will say though that when I do it I usually let gravity take the blade but I mostly close it like allyourblood does in his video.
 
I'm going to guess you are just trying to close it the same way you do with an axis lock. The axis lock detent is the tension from the omega springs while the compression lock detent is just a hole and detent ball so it might be slightly more difficult to close one handed. The only real suggestion would be to just practice closing it on handed if it really bothers you.
 
This is definitely a problem with design and is easily fixable. I have personally fixed this on both my black and my s30v version of this knife and now I love flicking it closed without touching the blade.

And I'm sorry but if you are so careful with this knife that you close it with two hands that is sad. Personally I buy my knives to use them and use them hard. Now I understand if it's a knife that is elegant and just a carry knife with dress pants or something but this is definitely not the knife for that, to me this a knife you use and get things done with. Just my two sense.
 
colubrid said:
So tightening te pivot screw will adjust the detent snap?

Hmm, doesn't sound right, but i will try it if you say so. I just hate to lossen the locktight that spyderco puts on their pivot. I already tried with a T7 stardriver and it is tight as a drum. Didn't want to force it so i came back here to check with you and make sure this will increase the detent snap or pressure?
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As others said, what you're describing is perfectly normal, and it takes a little bit of practice to get the timing down, so you can release the lock right before the blade closes so that it doesn't bounce open. I quoted this post in particular to let you know that the Para 2 pivot is a T10, not a T7. With the amount of loctite Spyderco sometimes uses, you will strip the screw if you try to force it using a T7.
 
Yah but the real problem is the fact that the bearing in the frame lock isn't fully engaging the detent in the blade (the hole the bearing sits in) it is only riding the edge. If you pull your blade stop pin out you will understand, and we are only talking fractions here but those fractions make a huge difference in how the detent holds the blade back. I will get some photos up tomorrow or the next day.
 
Also don't use the knife without the stop pin but you can manipulate the blade with your fingers and you will see it actually has a lot of travel before its tight and before the bearing in fully encased in the detent.
 
I have found when this happens to me, my thumb is too far up in the lock slot and the finger choil actually hits the meat of my thumb and pushes the blade back out.
 
The blade is actually bouncing off the stop pin because its try to engage the detent at the exact time it hits the stop pin. By making it engage the detent first and then rest on the stop pin you solve this issue.
 
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