The difficult Tri Ad lock

I have a Mackinaw that was terribly stiff to unlock, virtually impossible at first. But it's fine now.
My latest, an SR1 is brilliant. Totally solid lock up and just right to disengage. I love it. It's a replacement for the first one I had which had a little up and down blade play.
 
Best lock there is out there in my opinion. Zero play.
Some were maybe a little 'harder' in the beginning. But never a problem. The lock works, after some use, real smooth.
 
I haven't counted lately but I have around 20 triad lock folders and the only one that is difficult is my XL Counter Point.
I most likely have to strip it down and do a bit of work cause I can initially press the bar and it feels very rough and if I let it go back into position without closing the blade it will disengage normally on the next press.

But once it is opened again it goes back to being difficult.

All my other blades close nicely especially after getting broke in.
 
It's not necessarily a bad thing to have a difficult to disengage lock...but a damn near impossible lock to close, that's a different story :mad:

I had one of those, "gotta find the edge of a counter" to close Spartans-- it was a real PITA-- or would that be PITThumbz?--until I took her down and polished up the mating surfaces of the TriAD with some 2000 wet/dry 3m sandpaper wrapped around a dowel...now she's smoooooth like butttah :cool:
 
I agree with many of the others. I only had one sticky Triad lock on an old Recon 1. Ever since all the new changes Cold Steel has done in the last few years, I see nothing but their quality continue to rise. My Frenzy was one of the smoothest folders I have had, both lock wise, and action wise.
 
I would love to see if Cold Steel could keep it's weight and size down and go back to the Ultra-Lock.
 
Why? Axis variants are available across a wide number of manufacturers. The Triad is only available through Cold Steel. They may as well ride that gravy train till the biscuit wheels fall off.
Hypermole said:
I would love to see if Cold Steel could keep it's weight and size down and go back to the Ultra-Lock.
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The Cold Steel Mini Recon 1 Clip Point would be the one knife I'd like to have with an Ultra-Lock. I have a full size one but that's back when they had paint on the blade and it's a bit bulky.

I just really love that blade shape and size. Maybe SOG will put one out with G 10 Scales.
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I only own one CS knife (Aus8 Mini Recon), but have had a Recon 1 and UH on my wishlist for a long time. I had the sticky lock issue with the Mini, but traced it down to the hard edges on the lock spring digging a notch into the aluminum backspacer. Often, the spring would get caught in that notch and significantly increase the pressure needed to lock/unlock the knife. Once I beveled the edges of the spring, the problem permanently stopped. If CS fixed this issue that's great, but it was easy enough to fix.
 
Steel130 said:
I agree with many of the others. I only had one sticky Triad lock on an old Recon 1. Ever since all the new changes Cold Steel has done in the last few years, I see nothing but their quality continue to rise. My Frenzy was one of the smoothest folders I have had, both lock wise, and action wise.
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I just got a Frenzy last week and it has the stickiest lock out of around 3 dozen CS folders. I've opened and closed the knife probably 2 hundred times, still sticks. The blade centering was way off too. Will have to take this one apart and give it some love. If this was someone's first CS, they might not want to try another. My first was a beautiful Code4. Also just got my first Ti lite 6", aus8 plain scales, under $50 and perfect centering. Love CS knives but not for everyone.
 
Well I dunno, figure it's becomes a real worry
If a folder gets way too easy to unlock
Especially if it happens With the slightest touch.
So in short,
"Quick to open, and slow to unlock"
suits me just fine.
 
Love it. My XHP Code 4 is just an absolute joy. Lock-up feels absolutely unbreakable, but when the lock is disengaged, the blade swings shut super smoothly and on its own weight, and clever design means if I'm holding the knife normally, it's the ricasso that lands on my finger and not the edge. That said, I have handled an American Lawman before and I could barely disengage it. I'll still buy one eventually but I definitely won't buy a Tri-Ad lock knife sight-unseen. Just in case I get an ultra-stiff one.
 
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