Queen Backspring Failure

[stuartyr]

Hi all, first post here.


I was just opening one of the blades on my Queen stockman and the backspring snapped. Looking at the cross section of the break, it is tarnished to about half the depth of the break, suggesting there has been a hairline crack there for some time previously to it actually breaking. I am gutted as this was one of my favourite knives! Oh well, we will soon find out how good thir customer service is as this is a definate warranty claim.

Has anyone ever seen this happen before?

 

[Grateful]

I had a backspring break on a SCHRADE trapper once. It was the only one I ever saw have that problem. I asked about it on the traditional forum and based on the replies that I got their it does not happen very often.

 

[A. G. Russell]

This is really rare and only happens when the companie is reaching for top performance of the knives.

in 1966 I bought a shipment of Leo knives from Solingen and sold them through ads in The American rifleman and the springs began to break and as the first person selling knives by mail I heard about it very quickly and as I was working out of my bed room it was not long before I began to hear the springs pop at night, ting, ting and I would have to go through the boxs to find the ones that had snapped. Leo went out of business and I had to make all those knives good. They simply made those springs too hard on the entire lot of knives. I had used a file and whetstone on every one of them too.

Thanks for the thread, I had forgotten about the above. A. G.