Repair translation?

blade man

blade man

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I have a Ti frame lock from a premium maker. It's awesome, but has a bit of vertical play (not lock rock). I emailed the manufacturer about this, and received this response:

"Hello,
You can try to avoid the vertical play by pressing several times the frame plate towards the spring.It can be done when the knife is half-folded."

Anyone want to help translate that? I can't quite decipher what they're saying to do.
 
The frame plates are the two sides, with at least the side with the lock bar being metal. The spring would be in thinned portion of the lockbar. I can get some movement by pushing on the spring, but I don't see how it would remove vertical blade play.

But normally I don't find any vertical blade play on a frame lock unless the lock bar has moved to 100 percent.

What is the knife? How far does the lock engage?
 
It's a CKF MILK, and yes, I asked them to clarify with no response. I need to try rotating the stop pin, but since I couldn't quite decipher that message, thought it'd ask.
 
If the stop pin is adjustable, that's the ticket. Loosen it and rotate it a bit and see how it goes. You may have to play with it. With my Benchmade 761, I just loosen it, open the blade, tighten the stop pin, which automatically jams in tight. I don't know about the CKF.

With CKF, you may have a language issue.
 
What do you mean when saying vertical play but not lock rock. Are you mening that with the lock disengaged you can pull the blade slightly vertically? Or do you mean whrn opened and locked you can get the lockbar to slip and it feels like the lock might fail?
 
It sounds to me like they're telling you to increase spring tension in the lockbar by pushing it inward.

I'd try rotating the stop pin as mentioned above. If that doesn't work you might try the lockbar thing, but it'd make me nervous; bending the lockbar at all.
 
Finally picked up some metric Allen wrenches. Stop pin is not a fix, rotating it didn't make any difference. I would just strip it down, but the pivot is free spinning.

Sigh...guess I'll send another email to CKF.
 
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