taking apart a kershaw shallot.....

ryan9977

ryan9977

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hey everyone...i got a shallot i'm takin apart....how the heck do u get the main screw by the pivot off....it just has the screw on one side and a black circle that is flush on the other side...when i turn the screw the circle just spins and it doesn't loosen....i never saw this before yet on any of my oter folders.....thanks for any advice....ryan
 
There were a couple of threads on this on the Kershaw forum (may it RIP :() There are several approaches, but the one I use and feel is the easiest is to just loosen the clip screws and insert something in between the clip and the "spinning pivot" like a piece of thin cardboard, thin rubber, tape, plastic, etc. then tighten the clip back down. Hopefully the friction of whatever you put in there will be sufficient to keep the pivot from rotating while you loosen the pivot screw. FWIW I use a regular hole punch to make round inserts of thin polyethylene (coffee can lid) to put between the pivots and clips on my Shallot and Leeks, and just leave them there.

Maybe someone with privileges can find one of those threads if that doesn't work for you.
 
thanks dog....i actually searched a bit and found an old thread...i tried the tape between the clip and it didn't work....just gotta keep tryin...this makes me not wanna even own it...such a pain to take apart and clean.....ryan
 
tape... nice sticky tape, or possibly high grit sand paper to hold it in place while you unscrew it. you may consider using a soldering iron if you used a thread locker.
 
no other ways of getting this thing apart?....i put about everything i can between the clip to hold it still....ryan
 
take off the clip and place a super thin piece of leather under the clip. by thin i mean 1/32" or less. put the clip back on and try removing the screw again.
 
i actually have some really thin leather and it didn't work...i also tried tape under there....soam foamy rubber stuff....nothin worked:mad:.....i really can't believe they make these things so hard to take apart....makes me not even want it anymore....i really wanted to try out the zdp finally.....ryan
 
I've had similar difficulties. I've found a combination of two things work. Heat up the pivot for a while until the loctite softens up. Open the knife and put downward pressure on the blade while working the pivot screw out. This has worked for me everytime. An extra set of hands helps a lot.
 
try the soldering iron trick but make sure to have some solder on the tip for good contact. that should soften the loctite
 
Man ... leather was a great idea, can't believe it didn't work (or other suggestions, for that matter.) I've never had much difficulty ... but many times wondered exactly why Kershaw uses this kind of pivot on its AO's, unless it's because of product liability concerns.

One thing I'll mention as an aside ... once you've got it apart, cleaning off the old oil on the pivot and bushings, then lubing with Militec-1 using a heat gun (a/k/a hairdryer :) ) to 'cure' per the instructions will make the action super-sweet. Also, I like to use teflon pipe thread tape like plumbers use on my pivots; keeps them from working loose, but you never have a problem adjusting or getting your knife apart again.
 
I answered this in my forum also so I figured I'd put it here as well. :thumbup:
Sometimes the knives just do not cooperate at all.

ryan9977 said:
str...figured i would post this quick question since i have the same knife.....your clip looks great by the way....my question though is how the heck do u get it apart?.....the screw by the pivot has that black circle on the other side and it just spins when u turn the pivot screw.....i have tried putting stuff under the clip and screwing it down....didn't work at all.....i gotta get this thing apart to regrind the blade.....ryan
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Try putting the blade on a bind by leveraging it sideways on a flat table or in a wood vise in your shop and then turn it once the pivot is on a lateral stress bind. If it doesn't work then try it with heat from a wood burner or soldering iron by heating up the head of the screw good and a bind to stress the barrel sideways to help hold it still and it should give so the head turns for you to back out.

STR
 
I know this is an old thread, but I was having the same problem on my new shallot and found this via search. After reading the suggestion of the tape, I rolled a bit of masking tape up sticky side out and used that. It was pretty thick but I didn't have any trouble getting each of the clip screws started with the clip over it. Then I just used the force of the screws to compress the bit of rolled tape against the pivot. It worked perfectly!

So for anyone who finds this thread via a search, even though the tape idea didn't work for the OP, it is certainly worth trying.
 
Old thread, but I just went through this and am sure others will too. My trick for getting the pivot out:

I cut the tip of a rubber hose plug off and placed this on the spinning pivot, then ran a plastic shim across it. Clamped this down with a couple of C-clamps with pads on the jaws to prevent marring the handles. First try and the pivot screw came out.
 
Why so complicated? Take a rubber band, put it under and between the clip screws and then tighten them down. Remove the pivot screw and be done.
 
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