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Spyderco Quality Control
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Hate to revive an old thread but: I was still grieving my purchase of the Resilience a fine, large Spyderco that they're almost giving away.
In My Spyderco QC original thread I was aggravated about it and a Military I received. The Millie was substituted for a perfect specimen and I had resigned myself to live with the Resilience due to the low cost and wanting to avoid further costs in shipping etc.
I have taken that knife apart so many times - changing the washer array, tightening the spine screws in different order, using the matchbook shim trick but nothing would get the blade off the liner.
I had a burst of energy and "I'll fix it or break it tonight" attitude. I used my old buddy hoopster's trick of bending the liners. At least that's what I think happened.
I loosened the screws everywhere and figured out which way to bend the knife in order to possibly center the blade and went for it.
I put it point down into the floor and got a piece of hardwood for the handle and stepped into the pivot area with my heel lightly and bounced. Tightened it up a bit and it was 1/2 way centered.
Loosened the screws again and repeated 2 more times until perfectly centered and slowly tightened everything up and low and behold a dead centered blade on my big old Resilience! Loosened things up and lock-tited everything but the pivot down snug.
All is well with me and Spyderco now, razor sharp centered blades on all of them! Kudos to hoopster for the tip - nothing ventured, nothing gained man!
In My Spyderco QC original thread I was aggravated about it and a Military I received. The Millie was substituted for a perfect specimen and I had resigned myself to live with the Resilience due to the low cost and wanting to avoid further costs in shipping etc.
I have taken that knife apart so many times - changing the washer array, tightening the spine screws in different order, using the matchbook shim trick but nothing would get the blade off the liner.
I had a burst of energy and "I'll fix it or break it tonight" attitude. I used my old buddy hoopster's trick of bending the liners. At least that's what I think happened.
I loosened the screws everywhere and figured out which way to bend the knife in order to possibly center the blade and went for it.
I put it point down into the floor and got a piece of hardwood for the handle and stepped into the pivot area with my heel lightly and bounced. Tightened it up a bit and it was 1/2 way centered.
Loosened the screws again and repeated 2 more times until perfectly centered and slowly tightened everything up and low and behold a dead centered blade on my big old Resilience! Loosened things up and lock-tited everything but the pivot down snug.
All is well with me and Spyderco now, razor sharp centered blades on all of them! Kudos to hoopster for the tip - nothing ventured, nothing gained man!
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I recently got a native dlc through an e-tailer. The only thing I noticed was that the person (or machine?) slipped with the tool when they were tightening the lanyard hole screws... on both sides. It looks like it takes an odd, shallow, cross-shaped bit, so I'm not really surprised.
I don't really care about it, its definitely not enough to send it back, but still, it is a little sloppy.
I don't really care about it, its definitely not enough to send it back, but still, it is a little sloppy.
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