Should I dissasemble an axis lock?

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Was tiling my bathroom and used my bm 940 to cut open some bags of grout. Totally stupid I know. Anyway, a handfull of the dry powder fell on the knife. I blew it off with compressed air, rinsed it in warm soapy water and blew it off again. I still hear grit when I move the lockbar back and forth, but none in the movement of the blade. I guess there is still some down betweent the liner and the handle where the springs are. Is it safe to take this think apart? Just a little nervous that I won't be able to get it back together the same way. This knife is so easily flickable and has a super tight lockup.
 
I take my 943 apart all the time and clean it thoroughly. You just need to be careful and remember how it goes back together. Mine locks up just as tight now as the first day that I took it out of the box and I have had it apart at least a couple of dozen times. I am sure that it probably voids the warranty by taking it apart but that is something that you will have to think about before hand.
 
Benchmade says no. Not if you don't want to void your warranty. That's one reason I sold off all my Benchmade knives. It bothered me too much that I couldn't replace a part, like an Omega spring, when I was out hiking or someplace inconvenient if one broke. They won't send or sell you extra O-springs anyway...I asked. Aside from that, the axis mechanism is marvelous.
 
Sure, if you're half way decent with tools (which you probably are if you tiled your floor).

If you do even a marginally good job of putting it back together you won't void your warranty. Benchmade is pretty good about those things and they don't go hunting for people who took their knives apart. If it looks like it came from the facotry assembly wise you'll be fine.
 
Pill bottles, flim cans, tupperware, or even coffee cups will help. I'm not sure how complex the axis lock is but when taking apart my AO knives I put the parts I take off into seperate containers in order, then just backtrack when I put them back together. It shouldn't be a problem, go slow, work in a really well lit area, and don't work over a shag carpet.
 
It´s not the big deal to get it disassampled. I guess, you will take care of the Clip screws, spine schrews and the pivot screw and pivot itself.

Putting the pivot back works best if the handle spine is not tightened. Leave those screws a bit loose and the pivot moves in nice.

For the washers i took a bit of Militec-1 or any oil you prefer and it stick to the liner or the blade on both sides. Then push the steel liners a bit wider, so the blade with the washers will slide in (or the blade alone between the washers).

Then you take a little screw driver (your torx - 6) and keep the pivot hole open for the pivot to come in. Tighten the pivot, so everything sits nice and loose it for personal prefered blade movement.

That´s all. I need not more than two or three minutes to get it all disassampled and back.

Leave the springs where they are.
 
I agree. If you have the right tools and a little bent towards these type things then go for it. Otherwise just keep rinsing and using the compressed air to remove the grit.
 
You shouldn't need to fully disassemble a 710 to clean it. Just remove the scales, and don't tinker with the Axis Lock bar or springs. That should be enough to let you clean the Axis Lock itself pretty thoroughly.
 
Use wd40 with the small tip. open and close while spraying inside the action. works for me.
 
Can't be worse than a press button auto. (keeping the blade in place while putting it back together HURTS)
 
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