Salt1 problems part2

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Ok I posted here awhile back about my Salt1 not wanting to stay in my pocket and I got a good answer about bending (slightly) the clip so as to give it a bit more "tension".

Well I did that and no luck,four times now I've went to get up and had the thing fall out of my pocket! :eek: twice in my right-side hip and twice from my right-side back,beyond that I've kept an eye on it and found it to be "riding up" in my pockets constantly.....

I'm going to resort to a belt pouch and take the darned clip off.
 
I am not sure what you tried originally but bending the clip has worked very well for several of my knives. It is important to take the clip off of the knife during the bending process. If you do not take the clip off of the knife then you will not be able to give it enough tension.

Here is what I did...
I took the clip off of the knife. I held the top of the clip (part with the hole in it) against the edge of a table with some vice grips. Then I used my hand to bend the clip by a small amount. I reattached the clip to see if there was enough tension. If not, the process was repeated as needed, each time bending the clip a little farther.

This process has worked well for restoring the tension of several of my pocket clips. In fact, a couple of them were way too tight after the bending process.

Hope this helps,
Tom
 
After four years with my Native, my clip started getting a little goofy. I took the clip off the knife, grabbed the end (with the hole) with my Leatherman and bent it forward a bit. It wasn't anything extreme, but now my clip never slides off my pants at all.
 
TheKnifeCollector said:
How about carrying IWB, appendix carry?
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Thing is I wear a black BDU shirt-jac with a belt...or a vest or some kind of coat year-round.

And yep I took it off (the clip) when I bent it,it seems to be a thing about the singel screw attachment they use now-it just does't hold as well as the three screw type.
 
Does the clip itself have any spring left, ie; when you pull up the end does it snap back down?
 
I have never heard of such a thing. If the clip is a problem just have them send you a new clip. They will do that for you.

I wouldn't bash the knife or the company if the clip is bad. I still don't know how it could be. Have you taken the entire clip off and bent it in?

Sounds to me like you don't know how to tighten the barrel bolt properly.
 
I do tighten the "barrel bolt" right-it just get's loose,a lot...but it doesn't seem loose which is weird,wait a few weeks and see if it springs and no,it just wiggles up and down.

And yes plenty of spring,once the bolt goes loose forget it though...as I said the three screws seems a better way to attach a clip.

And Joey? I'm not bashing anyone,just saying I've a problem.
 
My reservations about the three-screw clip attachment are that those fine little screws seem easy to strip -- and I have read several accounts of people saying that theirs had stripped, or even that they came stripped already.

I have a good amount of faith in the so-called "barrel bolt" clip attachment.

I think Loctite sounds like the solution to Krull's problem. Either that or he has not been generous enough with the force when tightening the screws. Krull, did you make sure to hold the back one while tightening the front one?

-Jeffrey
 
Bodieism said:
You could try putting some loctite on the bolt.
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+1 for that. That's the first thing I do when I buy a knife is take out the pivot screw (if applicable) and the clip screws and put blue loctite on them.
 
you can also try removing the spacer/washer that is part of the bolt assembly. I pulled mine out and it helped keep the clip tight. it gives that bolt just a little more to screw into. also, try reversing the barrel and bolt, and see if that helps keep it tight.
 
One thing that seems to make sense to me about the barrel-bolt is this. If the clip gets bent to the point of being loose, while it is still screwed on tightly to the knife, then you may have a problem with looseness. Understand that the part of the clip that rests into the recess of the FRN acts as a sort of lock washer. It’s rectangular in shape, which prevents the clip from slipping side to side. If the clip gets bent so that the whole of that rectangular section is not resting perfectly within that recess, then you will not be able to make it secure because the shaped part (rectangular part of the clip that rest in the recessed FRN) is no longer the proper shape (as in flat) to maintain that security.

This is important because if the clip gets bent away from the handle while the barrel-bolt is tight, then chances are that it was bent at the point where the barrel-bolt screw is holding it in place. That means that the clip is now deformed in that area, and will not hold it securely (IOW, it will slop around).

This doesn’t account for it not staying in your pocket. No matter how loose the clip is, you should be able to take it off, and bend it to the point that it stays secure. You should be able to get it so tight that you might actually think your trying to draw a Subcom F out of your pocket when you go to draw it.

The Vice-Grips is a good idea because the nose of them is flat and square. Clamp it right up against the part that rises out of the recess, and then bend the clip.
 
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