removing a blur pocket clip?

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kimberfan

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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?
 
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.
 
I've had some come right out and others that I had to heat up. I used a soldering iron and it worked fine.
 
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.
 
incaorchid said:
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.
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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.
 
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...
 
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.
 
DaPro said:
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.
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Excellent advice :thumbup::thumbup:
 
Kershaw employees always recommend Wiha tools. I think they just like to say wweee haaaaaahhh

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