The Manix 2 Click

I had a problem where the plastic cage would feel like it would catch when I went to close the blade. I would pull back on the cage, it would feel like it would catch, then there would be a "click" sound, and then the blade would close. It took enough force that it made me think something was catching or hanging up on something.

I tried everything to fix it. I took the thing apart and sanded down a ridge on the metal piece that houses the ball bearing and plastic cage. That didn't work. After that, I tried sanding off a ridge on the stem (little straight plastic piece) on the plastic cage because I thought that might be catching on the spring as I tried to close the knife. That didn't work.

After that, I looked all over online and saw some suggestions of opening the blade, very slightly loosening the screws that hold in the metal piece that holds the ball bearing and plastic cage, pressing the sharpened edge against something (safely, obviously), and then retightening the screws. That didn't work either.

I almost gave up. On a whim, I put a drop of oil on the tang of the blade (the area the ball bearing rides against) and on the ball bearing itself. I have no idea why, but that immediately fixed the clicking.

I don't know if it makes a difference, but the oil I used was CLP and the knife was an S110V model.
 
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I have I think 8 of them, only the recent XL Jade M4 version has a click. My newest one is the LW Rex45 and it doesn't click.
 
I don't think the click in the ball bearing lock is what the OP was speaking of this time. On some Manix 2s when you just start to open the blade there is a click ... it doesn't interfere with anything really it's just something you notice if you have some without it. I just purchased a LW in Rex 45 and hadn't noticed it at all until I was messing with it after this post and if I open it very slowly I can hear it. Opening in in normal use I hadn't picked up on it at all. I have read some people seem to have a more audible "click" and some say they can even feel it slightly ... that isn't the case with this LW but it does have a tiny "click".

NWPM2 said:
This video in the first post of this thread is basically the problem I was having:

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/update-s90v-manix-2-action-is-tight-with-clicking.1574792/
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JJ_Colt45 said:
I don't think the click in the ball bearing lock is what the OP was speaking of this time. On some Manix 2s when you just start to open the blade there is a click ... it doesn't interfere with anything really it's just something you notice if you have some without it. I just purchased a LW in Rex 45 and hadn't noticed it at all until I was messing with it after this post and if I open it very slowly I can hear it. Opening in in normal use I hadn't picked up on it at all. I have read some people seem to have a more audible "click" and some say they can even feel it slightly ... that isn't the case with this LW but it does have a tiny "click".
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Interesting. I've got two Manixes and haven't noticed that kind of click on either. The problem I had bugged me because it made closing the blade a more difficult. If it's a sound that doesn't make opening and closing the blade more difficult, I'd prefer not to have it, but I don't think it would bug me enough to get rid of the knife.
 
I have a black/dlc blade manix2. It never clicked until I took it apart for cleaning and put it back together. I have found that putting a little grease in the cage where they ball sits can help eliminate the click, but it’s not 100%.
 
I don't think any of my 3 G10 or 1 LW models do it but now I'm curious and going to pull them out of the safe tonight and check lol.
 
I never noticed the click until this thread.
The click doesn't bother me at all, I didn't notice it until reading this.
Still one of my favorite knives.
 
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