Tired of Your 710 Working Like Old People Run ?

[Wowbagger]

Maintenance, Tinkering, Embelishement and Freaking Finishing What Benchmade Starts
The whole story is here; click this
The gist of it is :

I needed a spindle I could put between the scales to hold the washers in place.

I grabbed some 1/8 inch 304 stainless rod, cut some flats on the ends to fit into the rectangular holes in the liners and cut it short enough to easily fit between the scales without bowing the knife open (the washers alone are to fill the gap).

BadaboomBadabing and we are back together.

. . . now . . . it flies shut like a Big O' Dog every single time I release the lock.
I can point the blade at the floor and slowly pivot my wrist and the knife closes ! ! !
Just the way I envisioned that it could !

 

[Getting older]

Interesting

 

[REK Knives]

So basically you made a standoff? Nice job! I like how you think out of the box

 

[Mr.Wizard]

How is the extra spacer helping the action of the knife?

 

[Wowbagger]

Thanks Josh. Praise from a Pro (I'll take it).

So basically you made a standoff?

Yes but, at this stage at least, a stand off anyone who can take the knife apart can come by and install.

A box of washers and a stick of metal rod with flats filed on the ends.
And absolutely no modification to the knife it's self. I think that was part of Benchmade's problem with me installing a third blue spacer; I was going to drill the scales and or the liners and bolt in the spacer like the other two. Which I may still do.

The next stage for me may be turning a standoff that looks like the others. We will see.

I'm so thrilled that the knife is finally friendly AND PREDICTABLE to use I don't want to stop and take it apart again.
Not yet anyway.

 

[Wowbagger]

How is the extra spacer helping the action of the knife?

There is a thread I posted a link to but the short story is that while gripping the knife and releasing the axis lock one tends to press the liners / scales together and that pinches the blade at the pivot. The only standoffs / spacer posts are on the tail end of the knife and they don't help keep the slot at the blade apart as well as the original design of the 710 which had a full back spacer that went up at least as far as the washers I installed.

Before I could hold the knife in one hand, pinch the knife near the pivot with the other hand, pull the axis lock all the way back and the blade would just hang there suspended from swinging down. When I released the pinch the blade would swing down.

I would get all excited about turning on my metal lathe an exact replica of the posts at the tail end but it still wouldn't be blue and to duplicate the exact blue as the others would be nearly impossible. I'm not excited about getting all three anodized the same color. I suppose I could turn three and then they would match.

Pisses me off that benchmade will not simply SELL TO ME one more blue spacer post.

I really like the blue posts to ! ! ! !

I don't want to put a full back spacer in the knife.

So anyway that's what the washers do; keep the liners apart while gripping the knife to close it.

 

[Petunia D. Feeble]

Thanks Josh. Praise from a Pro (I'll take it).

Yes but, at this stage at least, a stand off anyone who can take the knife apart can come by and install.

A box of washers and a stick of metal rod with flats filed on the ends.
And absolutely no modification to the knife it's self. I think that was part of Benchmade's problem with me installing a third blue spacer; I was going to drill the scales and or the liners and bolt in the spacer like the other two. Which I may still do.

The next stage for me may be turning a standoff that looks like the others. We will see.

I'm so thrilled that the knife is finally friendly AND PREDICTABLE to use I don't want to stop and take it apart again.
Not yet anyway.

MXG Gear sells standoffs for the 710. You could buy two sets, drill one out to slip over the post you already made and have 3 matching standoffs.

https://mxggear.com/collections/for...eep-carry-pocket-clip-for-benchmade-knives-24

 

[Wowbagger]

MXG Gear sells standoffs for the 710. You could buy two sets, drill one out to slip over the post you already made and have 3 matching standoffs.

But then I wouldn't have something to be happily cross about

Seriously though; thank you ! I'll check them out !
Happy Holidays !

(you hear that Christams 710 . . . with proper care you could go on to live a normal life and not have to wear that leg brace . . . er . . . I mean wear that spacer patch job.)

 

[fishface5]

very creative!!

 

[afishhunter]

Ummm ... the old folks I know don't run.
Our wheelchairs, rollators, and walkers get in the way.

I can still pedal my (adult) trike though.
(now if I could just figure out a way to take the rollator with me on the trike ...)

 

[Wowbagger]

rollators

I've fixed quite a few of those for people . . . but up till now I didn't know that was what they were called. I just looked it up.

Haha . . . I know this big old biker dude, he's a retired diesel mechanic . . . hell he had german shepherds that were bigger than I am.
I kid you not; he had an adult trike with a big basket on the back. He would ride it down the hill to the liquor store and back up to his house.

I'm still scratching my head as to why he would want to do that; rather than take his chopper or his big truck.

People are weird.
PS: he rides a two wheel bike to.

 

[afishhunter]

People are weird

AMEN, Brother! AMEN!!!

I'm pretty sure if I could still get my leg over my bicycle, I could still ride it. (I think my balance has pretty much recovered from the "mini stroke" I had a few months ago)
I can't, so I guess I'll never know for sure.
(bummer. bicycle is a mildly updated (then) almost top of the line (there was one model above it) 1989 KHS Montana Summit)