SpeedSafe Pictures Wanted

[JNieporte]

Does anybody have a few pictures of the SpeedSafe mechanism in the Leek or Scallion (ie. the handle scale is off with the SpeedSafe still in)? I'd like to know how to take one apart and know how to put it together, before I do it for real. For maintenance and cleaning.

 

[svrider3]

Does anybody have a few pictures of the SpeedSafe mechanism in the Leek or Scallion (ie. the handle scale is off with the SpeedSafe still in)? I'd like to know how to take one apart and know how to put it together, before I do it for real. For maintenance and cleaning.

Right Here.

Hope this helps. There's really nothing to it. Just make sure the knife is in the open are nearly open position when you start to take it apart to relieve the tension on the torsion bar. Start with the screws in the scales then take the pivot screw out. Also you might want to lay a towel in your lap so you don't drop and lose those tiny screws.

 

[glockman99]

One trick I learned in my pistolsmithing days was that when I'm taking apart something that I'm not familiar with is, to put the items as well as my hands and tools in a large clear plastic bag while I'm taking it apart, just in-case a spring goes flying out. That way, the plastic bag will keep the spring from flying across the room, and getting lost.

 

[Tim Galyean]

The hardest part about putting a speedsafe knife back together is getting the torsion bar to drop into the hole in the blade. A trick that I use is taking something very thin (I use my pocket scale) and pushing the torsion bar into the hole. Rotate the blade back and forth while moving the torsion bar with your thin tool, and it will drop right in. Sometimes you can take a peak on the inside of the knife and see the hole in the blade and the torsion bar and just push the torsion bar right in the hole with your thin shim like tool.

 

[Thomas W]

Here are a few rough images of a real old Boa:

SpeedSafe in the closed position

Open Position

 

[OregonEdge]

wow... great shots... I've seen how this works by taking apart... but this is a great reference for others!

 

[terrymcg]

Thanks Thomas!

It's nice to know how what I'm carrying all the time works!

Cheers,
--
Terry McG

 

[Dog of War]

One trick I learned in my pistolsmithing days was that when I'm taking apart something that I'm not familiar with is, to put the items as well as my hands and tools in a large clear plastic bag while I'm taking it apart, just in-case a spring goes flying out. That way, the plastic bag will keep the spring from flying across the room, and getting lost.

C'mon now, g-man ... I love it when a S&W rebound slide spring gets loose, never know where it might wind up in the workshop if it doesn't stick in yer eye.

That is a darned good suggestion, BTW.

 

[OregonEdge]

I say just make sure the knife is open before you tinker... that's one I struggle with

 

[glockman99]

C'mon now, g-man ... I love it when a S&W rebound slide spring gets loose, never know where it might wind up in the workshop if it doesn't stick in yer eye.

That is a darned good suggestion, BTW.

Yah, if you don't control that (stiff) spring as you're "prying" the rebound slide from its' post, things can get "interesting" quickly. I've delt with quite a few of those while doing "trigger-jobs"..