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foldingfreak

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i just got a Gerber Harsey Air Ranger and it is awsome. everything is perfect. but the only flaw is the clip. it is too tight. any suggestions?
 
Hey foldingfreak. First step would be to get the right drivers for the clip screws. I don't know what screws they use, probably torx, allen, or maybe phillips. Then you have to take the clip off. Put the clip in the vice, clamping the vice onto the flat where the clip screws go, and then bend the clip back so that when you put it back on there is less resistance. Be very careful not to overbend it, it could very well break or fatique severely. You'll want to cushion the vice grips with something softer than the clip to prevent marring, I suggest two scraps of flat plastic. I'm not talking about CD Jewel box pieces, thicker and tougher ones. In lieu of that, be creative. Good luck!

Edit: And welcome to the forums!
 
I would highly discourage it. The clip is held on by the the three screws (judging from an Air Ranger picture), and pulling on the clip like that will put a load of stress on the threads for the screw. I can almost guarantee that you will have to tighten the screws afterwards at the least, and you'd need the drivers to do that. If you have the drivers, you can take it off and use pliers or something to bend it the right way. Use anything but the method of leaving it on the knife. There is a high probability that you could strip a screw thread doing that,which would permanantly damage the knife. Also, if you overbend, you wont have enough forward-push room to bend it tighter, so you'd really be up a creek. Perhaps you have a friend or family member with the right tools? Don't rush at the expense of damaging your folding companion, my two cents.

Hope that helped
 
The problem is, if you don't have the tools and aren't sure how to do it, you probably will "screw" it up if you try. I hate to be negative about this, but I know some people aren't very handy. Messing around with tiny screws can be tricky and fixing the clip while it's still on the knife is even trickier. You may need a friend who can look at it for you, maybe some old hardware store in the area has someone good at that sort of thing. I wouldn't just take it to Sears or Home Depot, though.
 
Try slipping a thick stack of cards under the clip and leaving them there for a few days to loosen it up.
 
Thats what I was going to say,or a stack of 2 or 3 pennys.
 
Sears tool store carries Torx drivers and they run inder $3 ea.
 
Wow. When I read the title to this thread I thought that this would be some thing more serious....

Foldingfreak, not to be a dink, but pull it together a bit. If the pennies wont work for you, try something softer than that like cardboard or even paper. The answers to your question are in this thread, but you seem unwilling to try any...
 
I took my AFCK into sears to find the right size driver for it. They just have them stuck in a display. I tryed different ones until I found the one that fits. Go ahead and spend the $3 bucks and get one. Chances are if you have other knives it will fit them but if not the next time you bend the clip on your air ranger you will be set.


john
 
I find that using a wedge provides good control, since the amount of bending is controlled precisely by how far the wedge is pushed under the clip.

I bent the clip of my SMF, with clip attached, using a wedge I whittled from a piece of 1" pine stock. The pine is soft, so no worries about scratching either scale or clip.

Push in a bit, extract, measure tension - push in a bit more if tension is not right - repeat until the clip tension is right.

Hope this helps!
 
One of my favorite series of folders was the Mirage by CRKT...every one of them I owned needed the same treatment. pull the clip up and put a dime or penny under it, wrapped in saran wrap of similiar to prevent scratching the knife hanle, and leave it there for a few days.
 
foldingfreak,

First of all, welcome to BladeForums. Second, please understand that you don't need to post the same question 8 times to get an answer...Have a little patience. Third, ask mom or dad if they will take you down to your local Sears store so that you can get the proper tool to remove the clip on your Gerber folder, in-order to "fix it" correctly...Once the clip is off the knife, usually a LITTLE bending via hand-pressure is all it takes to make it good.
 
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