Ti military problems

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bladedude92

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I have a Ti military that has the steel lock bar insert but has developed lock rock. Has this happened to anybody else? What should I do about it or how could I fix it?

Thanks,
Matt
 
The first thing to check is that the the pivot screw is tightened up correctly, if lock bar is rocking side to side there is too much room there. So tighten the pivot screw up ALL the way then loosen to suit.

Bo
 
If that doesn't work, you may need to give the lockbar a little more bend. I've noticed on several framelock knives that the lockbar does not come over onto the blade tang with enough force to hold the blade against the stop pin at the top, and after a little wear sets in it allows the lock do as you have described. In fact I did this to my Military when I got it, and have done it to most of the framelocks/liner locks I have. It doesn't take much and you need to do this carefully, but it is doable. Funny, the only framelock I didn't need to do this with is one I couldn't do it with, a Lion Steel SR-1.
 
Gonna withhold my perverted thoughts :eek:
After you confirm it's fixable with the pivot screw, take the aforementioned screw out, degrease it (clean cloth and rubbing alcohol work) and put a dab of blue loctite on it. Then get the screw where you want it, and it should never move again.
I had this problem with my Tenacious, the screw worked loose because it had no loctite.
 
Check the contact of the blade with the stop pin too. If that can be adjusted to fix the problem before messing the with the pivot or the lockbar, so much the better.
 
I would just send it to Spyderco, the point of the insert is that they just have to put a different one in to adjust lockup. Mine needs one too but there's no way I'm sending it across the border.
 
bladedude92 said:
Lock rock is when a frame lock has up and down blade play and the lock bar will rock side to side.
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Side to side on the lock engagement or as you hold the knife in your hand edge down move up and down?

Lately there is a confusion regarding blade roll and lock rock.

The stop, the pivot in the middle and the lock engagement are the three points of contact on a framelock and liner lock forming a triangle. If the blade connected to the lock more in the middle or at the top of the lock down where the detent is on most (ie closer to the pivot pin) then you would experience blade roll. This is when you have vertical type play but what happens is the blade actually rolls on the lock because the lock connects in the wrong place.
 
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