Speaking of Lost Knives

[Practical Use]

I lost my Camillus Ralph EDC (Talonite). Two days later it "turned up" in the washing machine with the load of wet cloths I forgot to take out.

That Talonite really works - not a bit of rust.

Now, where is my Benchmade AFCK in M2?????? I checked the car and went back to the restraunt. No one turned it in. No, not in the washing machine. If you are the one who found it please return it!!!!!!!!

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[Sgt 127]

Had a Benchmade Mel Pardue folder go throught the wash...AND dryer. Guess the heat weakened the Loctite. Is expoloded in there. With the help of a flashlight and a stick with a magnet on it, I retrieved most of the pieces from the guts of the dryer, lint trap and other nooks and crannies. Dropped the whole pile of parts in a ziplock baggie and shipped them back to Benchmade. They didn't even raise an eybrow, fixed it sent it back, no charge, in less than 2 weeks. Two days after I got it back, the coil spring broke. They wouldn't send me a replacement,and I didn't feel like sending it back again and made a new spring out of piano wire stock. Still working...

 

[Warthog]

Ha! Yeah never listen to warranty small print...non-related to knives, but I completely smoked a car amp once because water got in it...just sent in the old one and they sent me a new one.

 

[calyth]

Originally posted by Sgt 127
Had a Benchmade Mel Pardue folder go throught the wash...AND dryer. Guess the heat weakened the Loctite. Is expoloded in there. With the help of a flashlight and a stick with a magnet on it, I retrieved most of the pieces from the guts of the dryer, lint trap and other nooks and crannies. Dropped the whole pile of parts in a ziplock baggie and shipped them back to Benchmade. They didn't even raise an eybrow, fixed it sent it back, no charge, in less than 2 weeks. Two days after I got it back, the coil spring broke. They wouldn't send me a replacement,and I didn't feel like sending it back again and made a new spring out of piano wire stock. Still working...

You've got an incredible claim that I'm still giggling about

 

[Sgt 127]

...forgot my wifes quote when I told her what had happened: "Well, if that knife was so important to you, you wouldn't have left it in your pants pocket." I mentioned to her that I always go through my pockets BEFORE I throw them in the washing machine. She believes that if clothes are laying on the floor, the pockets should be empty. We reached a compromise, I do my own laundry now.....

 

[calyth]

Sgt 127: somehow that sounds like something that's going to happen with one of my knives, especially when my parents are vigilent in washing all the clothes around the house.