Spyderco disassembly

[Boozoo Chavis]

I use a large ultrasonic jewelry cleaner with solvent to remove hidden gunk and grime on pinned knives. I just let em' soak and vibrate for an hour or two, blow them out with an air compressor, change out the solvent, and put them back in the cleaner for another hour or so. Works great.

 

[STAGE 2]

Finally... I appreciate the posts from those of you who decided to actually give constructive responses (no disrespect to Mr. Glesser as I understand how company policy and liability may constrain a response). I'll be attacking it this weekend so I'll let you all know how it goes... especially you Django606

 

[yoda4561]

Well, I can see you've got your mind set to do this, but I beg you, before you go ahead and do something this drastic to a pinned and press fit knife, follow Sal's suggestion. Hot running water, a toothbrush, some dish soap, scrub the pivot area out and let the water and detergent do their thing, dry and relube. This has gotten every folder I've ever owned cleaner than new, and I'm talking dirt, grease, solid dry film lubricants, you name it, it'll clean it out. Unless there is an adhesive residue that has frozen the pivot solid I would not bother trying to dissasemble that knife.

 

[4 s ter]

Finally... I appreciate the posts from those of you who decided to actually give constructive responses (no disrespect to Mr. Glesser as I understand how company policy and liability may constrain a response). I'll be attacking it this weekend so I'll let you all know how it goes... especially you Django606

I think you must be intending to follow the destructive rather than constructive responses It's your knife and you can do whatever you want to it. However, with respect, I do think you would be better served by a "less than perfectly clean" knife than you will be by a press-fitted SS knife which has been disassembled and reassembled by an amateur without the proper tools. Maybe you'll be completely successful -- or maybe you'll be in the market for a new Police.

Good Luck!!!

David

 

[the_mac]

Step 1: Purchase large can of WD40.

Step 2: put the red straw in the nozzle, and blow the ever-loving #$%#$ out of the innards of your knife. The WD40 eats grease and displaces water, will work just fine to get things loosened up, and the power of the spray will move the dirt out. Use the whole can, it's cheaper than buying a new police because you destroyed yours trying to be a hero.

Step 3: Wash the knife in hot soapy water to remove the WD40 residue.

Step 4: Blow dry with compressed air.

Step 5: add a drop of lube to the pivot, and open and close a dozen times.

Believe me, that will get it clean. The WD40 will eat the gunk, and will move it out of where it was hiding. And it's a hell of a lot less effort than tearing apart a press fit knife and trying to put it together again.

 

[SIFU1A]

i suppose ya could spray it with gunscrubber too, then re-oil/etc,

 

[Django606]

Just don't pound too hard, or you won't even be able to open the knife or work the lock.


Have fun

 

[stevekt]

Good luck dude. Use Froogle to find the cheapest price on a replacement knife.

 

[sa_95616]

Stage,I also have a police model that was very dirty and gunky.What I found to work very well on it was nail polish remover.Cleaned it up very well.Good luck with all the advice flying at you.