Tang pin loose in my 42

bloodyknuckles

bloodyknuckles

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What should I do? The tang pin just jiggles a little. I don't have a second knife to keep me company, so I don't exactly want to send my only knife (BM42) back to Benchmade. And I don't have access to a soldering iron or anything like that. Superglue? LOL!! Help?
 
Well, you did ask for help... I think the mature approach would be to send it for repairs. The time without your balisong outweighs the potential cost if you f#ck it up, IMNSHO. FYI... I've been playing a lot of poker lately--its on my mind constantly when I'm not at work.

PS, neither a soldering iron nor super glue will fix your predicament.
 
My suggested course of action:

1) Buy that Jag from Knifezilla.
2) When it arrives, send the 42 back to BM for repairs. Not advisable for anyone else to do it.
3) Flip the Jag. By the time the 42 returns from BM, you probably destroyed the pivot pins.
4) Send the Jag to Mer for a new set of handles.

The tang pin on the BM 42's are pressed fit in. It has several "lugs" machined in to help keep it tight against the blade. Sound like you've compressed one of those lugs. It's not enough to make the tang pin fall out, but it enough to be annoying.

Here's a previous post with the same issue (as if I won't find it :D ):

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=169331

And for some serious discourse on tang pins (it's the thread that led me downhill on this forum), here's one more: Warning, long reading.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=174537
 
Thanx for the responses.

Tony: I knew you'd find a thread. All the suggestions you made, are sort of in the works. I did order that Jag on Friday. I also asked Sniperboy to find me a real BM 259, so that's in the works too. So when I get the 259, I'm sending the jag to Mer to get re-handled, assuming he'll do it. While that's with Mer, I'll send the 42 to BM. You read my mind.
 
My 42as is in the shop for he very same reason. I was hesitatant to send it since they already have my 43 but it had to be done. It got so loose that the pin would slide out of position and hit the handles outside the cups (really throws off your flipping). So I sent her off Friday I think. Just send it back and Angie will take care of you. And they'll even sharpen for you while it's there.
 
Can't understand it. Only knife I ever had to send back was a PC 68. Tang pin on one of them was pushed through one side of the tang. Got it back in less than a week.

Just sent a BM Custom and a 35 back but both of those are old and been rode hard and put up wet.
 
I can't tell you why both my 4x's crapped out at the same time but my I seem to remember that the 45s (harley davidson)'s tang pin was loose as well but I may have been halucinating (Cam should be able to tell you for sure).
 
I sent my 42 back earlier this year and they replaced the tang pin (mine fell out) and sharpened it up for me. It was back in about 12 days from the day I sent it to the day I got it back.
 
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