Well today with nothing better to do than watch the heavy lake effect snow I decided to take apart two knives I just recently acquired. The first being a REKAT Carnivoure full size. This knife is a second but outside of it sayin second on it you can't prove it by me. So let this saga begin.
Now last week I took it apart but left the rolling lock alone. Today I figure what the heck lets see what makes this thing tick. Big mistake. Unbeknownst to me is that there is a spring under that titanium liner! Ping the second I started to remove the scale. What the hell was that I says. Did you see that I say to my son. What the hell was that thing he says to me. Make a long story even longer for the better part of an hour we are looking for this part. I kind of figured it was some kind of spring as it pinged just didn't know what kind. Luckily we have tile floors in the breakfast room so it wasn't like I was looking for it on a rug. Eureka I says as I find it. Didn't say eureka either but something along those lines. Well after cleaning everything off with iso alcohol and relubing with miltech, I am trying to figure out how the spring is kept in place when trying to replace the liner. How the hell did they do this at REKAT I says to my son. How the hell should I know he says to me. Quiet I says to him.
Needless to say the technique was discovered by accident. I was having a devil of a time with the catch that rides in the half moon slot the lock rides back in forth in. The spring mounts behind the push lock and is held in by the pressure of a tab of plastic in a slot along with the downward pressure of the liner. Simple matter of sliding the liner over the stop pin and the release of the lock and then sliding it over the tab and the spring. Pretty easy actually if you think about it. So I did it and it is fixed and works great. Best 35 bucks I have spent on a knife in a good long while.
The second knife I took apart is the B/S Tranni model. This I just rec. on Sat via a trade. This is the old school style with the sealed pins to lock the two halves of the knife together. Hey this thing was working great as for smoothness but I wanted to see what made it tick so to speak. I take it apart without a problem. It has one round washer and two half moon washers together to give it the space it needs for the liner lock to work. As I said getting it apart isn't a problem. Getting it back together as your hands are all gooped up with tetra gun lube on them is entirely different. Not to mention the fact that belive it or not those pins or rivest really do there job well as there is no way to spread the halves to make the parts fit. Well after a good hour of fiddling with it and with my son coaching me I actually did get the washers in and the blade aligned and back together. ONly thing is the washers were opposite of where they should be.
I figure I did it once well I'll just do it again. I did but it took another hour of scewing with it. Suffice to say that it works like it is on well oiled glass now and the liner hits dead nuts center of the back of the blade.
All in all a few lessons learned here and I was able to see how they worked and I made them better for opening smoothness. The BST is a helluva knife for the FRN handles used I must say. I like it. keepem sharp
Now last week I took it apart but left the rolling lock alone. Today I figure what the heck lets see what makes this thing tick. Big mistake. Unbeknownst to me is that there is a spring under that titanium liner! Ping the second I started to remove the scale. What the hell was that I says. Did you see that I say to my son. What the hell was that thing he says to me. Make a long story even longer for the better part of an hour we are looking for this part. I kind of figured it was some kind of spring as it pinged just didn't know what kind. Luckily we have tile floors in the breakfast room so it wasn't like I was looking for it on a rug. Eureka I says as I find it. Didn't say eureka either but something along those lines. Well after cleaning everything off with iso alcohol and relubing with miltech, I am trying to figure out how the spring is kept in place when trying to replace the liner. How the hell did they do this at REKAT I says to my son. How the hell should I know he says to me. Quiet I says to him.
Needless to say the technique was discovered by accident. I was having a devil of a time with the catch that rides in the half moon slot the lock rides back in forth in. The spring mounts behind the push lock and is held in by the pressure of a tab of plastic in a slot along with the downward pressure of the liner. Simple matter of sliding the liner over the stop pin and the release of the lock and then sliding it over the tab and the spring. Pretty easy actually if you think about it. So I did it and it is fixed and works great. Best 35 bucks I have spent on a knife in a good long while.
The second knife I took apart is the B/S Tranni model. This I just rec. on Sat via a trade. This is the old school style with the sealed pins to lock the two halves of the knife together. Hey this thing was working great as for smoothness but I wanted to see what made it tick so to speak. I take it apart without a problem. It has one round washer and two half moon washers together to give it the space it needs for the liner lock to work. As I said getting it apart isn't a problem. Getting it back together as your hands are all gooped up with tetra gun lube on them is entirely different. Not to mention the fact that belive it or not those pins or rivest really do there job well as there is no way to spread the halves to make the parts fit. Well after a good hour of fiddling with it and with my son coaching me I actually did get the washers in and the blade aligned and back together. ONly thing is the washers were opposite of where they should be.
I figure I did it once well I'll just do it again. I did but it took another hour of scewing with it. Suffice to say that it works like it is on well oiled glass now and the liner hits dead nuts center of the back of the blade. All in all a few lessons learned here and I was able to see how they worked and I made them better for opening smoothness. The BST is a helluva knife for the FRN handles used I must say. I like it. keepem sharp
