removing a blur pocket clip?

[kimberfan]

i cant seem to get the torx screws out with out stripping them even tho i have a t6 bit

is there a trick to getting them out?

 

[ono724]

I just use a lot of downward force while twisting. I've heard some people use heat on the screw to soften the thread lock. Never tried that myself. Good luck.

 

[Morrow]

I've had some come right out and others that I had to heat up. I used a soldering iron and it worked fine.

 

[incaorchid]

The heat should do the trick but if you strip the torx head you can carefully cut a notch across the head of the screw so that a regular screwdriver fits and try it again.
(try a dremel with the little cutting wheel)
Either way the downward pressure is important.

 

[Morrow]

The heat should do the trick but if you strip the torx head you can carefully cut a notch across the head of the screw so that a regular screwdriver fits and try it again.
(try a dremel with the little cutting wheel)
Either way the downward pressure is important.

I've had to do this very thing. A coworker snapped off the clip of his Blur. I could not get one of the screws out. I ended up cutting a slot in the screw head with a dremel. Kershaw CS sent me a new clip and screws and all was right again.

 

[oregonknifenerd]

Before you screw with it, what model Blur is it? I'll cry if someone takes a dremel to one of the more collectible models when so many of us are trying to get our hands on them.
I shed a tear every time I see a post of someone's beat up limited run Blur... I know they were made to be used.. but it's like seeing a rare car wrapped around a telephone pole because the guy had no idea what he had.
Something like a car that only 5 were in factory blue and some guy wrecks it when he could have sold it and had money to buy 5 of the same car but in red to drive hard...

 

[DaPro]

FYI torx bits wear out after use, you might try grinding a little bit off the tip of the bit so you are getting a better bite on the screw...I have been using the same husky set for a few years now, I have had to grind the bits down a few times to get some bite back.

This will certainly help if there is movement between the bit ans screw head.

 

[ono724]

FYI torx bits wear out after use, you might try grinding a little bit off the tip of the bit so you are getting a better bite on the screw...I have been using the same husky set for a few years now, I have had to grind the bits down a few times to get some bite back.

This will certainly help if there is movement between the bit ans screw head.

Excellent advice :thumbup::thumbup:

 

[thinshavings]

My blur has hex screws not torx.

 

[oregonknifenerd]

Kershaw employees always recommend Wiha tools. I think they just like to say wweee haaaaaahhh