Rtak2 broken...

I shipped the broken one back too Ontario Knife... 3weaks ago... so i have too look i´ve i found some picture´s from the breakingpoint...

Carsten/Morales is my reliable witness that we have testet the blade month ago in the woods near my home in hard wood...withe non demage on the blade...
 
Morales said:
There are definitely photos which show the broken RTAK but maybe Kay will post them himself or I ask him if I can. The knife broke close to the handle, where the serrations start.
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Very interesting. Perhaps stress risers are another good reason not to use serrations on fixed blades.
 
my RAT 7 also got problem last week. I chopped a fish (2 kg) with bamboo raft below the fish....my RAT chip off the steel.

I think harder steel make it easier to broke or chipp off the blasde
 
Guten tag !
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Get one before it is too late !
 
I chipped out my RTAK a couple of years ago. I was just chopping some spruce when I noticed the knife had a dime sized chip near the middle of the blade edge. Needless to say it should not have done that. Instead of sending it back I put the knife in a vice and applied some pressure with help from a steel pipe. The knife snapped in two fairly easy. My guess is some of the early RTAKs were not properly heat treated and were therefore pretty brittle. I think Ontario has fixed that problem for the most part, although I have not purchased another one since. Good luck with the new one and let us know how it goes.
 
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