Power Cord Melts Benchmade Knife

The problem with selling parts is that BM knives are not serial numbered or anything. So, if you reassembled the knife wrong (and I'm not saying that you would, but IF you did), and the lock failed and someone got cut really badly, they might sue BM. How then is BM gonna prove that it wasn't a production defect? Unfortunately, we share this world with lawyers.

Even if you don't sue 'em, people might think poorly of BM's knives because of an accident that wasn't their fault. If it says BM on it, BM feels responsible for it.



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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by phatch:
My brother in law vaporized a small wrench working on a free electron laser at Boeing. Someone else turned the power on when they weren't supposed to.

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Yaahhh ! I think that's why we always locked out the power when we worked on equipment. Our techs weren't allowed on the workfloor without their personal locks.

 
Hmmm...

Now why didn't Isuzu replace my old '81 Imark diesel when I rolled it seven times?

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Professor:
Hmmm...

Now why didn't Isuzu replace my old '81 Imark diesel when I rolled it seven times?

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'Cause rolling your car isn't nearly as cool as vaporizing a wrench or melting the blade on your knife.
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Let no one ever from henceforth say one word in any way countenancing war. It is dangerous even to speak of how here and there the individual may gain some hardship of soul by it. For war is hell, and those who institute it are criminals. Siegfried Loraine Sassoon
 
If you bought an ISUZU I guess you don't deserve a new one.
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Your 110V AC power has one hot line that is swinging something like plus and minus 170 volts relative to ground. The neutral line is actually tied to ground at the nearest power transformer, outside in an underground vault or up on a power pole. Your third line (if you have one) is also tied to ground, but some place like where your power enters your house.

You get a shock if you connect one part of your body to the hot line and another part of your body to neutral, the ground wire, or to some other path to ground. The knife in question cut into the hot wire and neutral or ground at the same time. Since the idiot was not touching ground on some other part of his body the current didn't go through him. He was probably in contact with the blade through some part of the knife and it was not the handle material that protected him.
 
had to do this it looked so lonely sitting there at 25 posts
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Anyway Chang, I'd follow the chain of brownouts to get this guy and then weld on him a bit.

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Several years ago, I was riding with a friend of mine in his old car (I have no idea what it was) and we hit some nasty railroad tracks going a bit to fast. The engine just stopped dead and we couldn't get it started or anything. Figuring that maybe the bumps had knocked the battery cable off the battery, we went to open the hood, but it was really heavy. Once we got it partially open, the problem was obvious. The battery had bounced up and hit the metal hood and welded itself to the hood where it was still stuck. How annoying.

Think W!

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Balisongs -- because it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Gollnick:
The problem with selling parts is that BM knives are not serial numbered or anything. So, if you reassembled the knife wrong (and I'm not saying that you would, but IF you did), and the lock failed and someone got cut really badly, they might sue BM. How then is BM gonna prove that it wasn't a production defect?</font>
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Not to mention the fact that disassembling the knife to replace a part (unless just the clip) is voiding the warranty anyway. So, it doesn't really matter whether it is the same part or a different part, BM can always claim that they voided the warranty anyway.


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DOH!

W.A.

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