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Sticking Lock on Strider AR?

Keep working on it. I had a GB with a sticky liner lock and after a couple weeks of opening and closing it the lock smoothed out. It helps if you flick the blade open harder then normal.
 
After work today the lock seems to be getting broken in better.
I rubbed it LOL ;) with pencil lead and I am now able to close it again with one hand.

Thanks guys
 
My SnG took a couple of days to work in too...Now, it's like sweet butter when I open and close it...:D
 
My SNG is also very tight on lockup and has caused my thumb to be raw in breakin.
I'm now using the left thumb to disengage the framelock. OOOCHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Graphite seems to help, I have been flipping it open real hard to move the lock further in. It will only go halfway to full lock on a real hard snap that it won't get in the real world so it has many years left.

What makes it tolerable until breakin is accomplished is the fact the blade open very quickly on deploynent. Most important for self defense situations.

Brownie
 
brownie0486,

Yeah I hear you I am really pleased that the lock up is so tight!
I have never had as much confidence in a folder before. I have used Buck Striders and those are really tough but the lock up on a Strider custom is unlike any other custom or production knife I have tried.

I agree that I am not to worried about getting my fodler closed FAST I prefer it to OPEN FAST and have the lock stay put.

With my AR, I hacked through a two by four at work form one of the pallets and the lock never moved even a millimeter! Now on other folders even my Buck Strider doing this causes the locks to move visiably to the right. most other folders out there I would not even dream of doing heavy chopping and prying with they would break ;)
IMO

The lock up is still really strong and I have moved to the left hand close method for now my right thumb is getting a work out.

Maybe Mick wants us all to have hacked up super strong thumbs like he does????
 
Sorry Spartan, can't help you. My AR worked perfectly from day 1 and has always been that way to date. Opens with authority, locks up tight, and closes upon command--imo, worth every 35,000 penny!
 
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