VERTICAL PLAY ON POCKET HOBBIT

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RAF22M

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I just recieved a Pocket Hobbit through a trade. I noticed the blade has a small amount of vertical(up and down) play when it is locked open. Any ideas on how to fix this problem without sending the knife back to REKAT or a knife repair place?

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THANKS,

RAF22M
 
My new Pioneer has it as well.

It depends on how knife savvoy you want to get but I'm planning on opening it up, widening the hole the blade stop is mounted in and replacing it with a slightly larger diameter matching piece. This should take up the very slight amount of slack between the blade and blade stop.

I think if you send it back to REKAT they will do just that or have to replace the liners. The problem is because the hole for the blade stop is drilled just slightly higher than it should be which leaves a little slack when the blade is open.

Call me crazy but knives are a hobby and I either make them the way I like them or break them trying!

I was able to fix the blade stop from rattling by removing the clip side G-10 and filling the front half of the recess cutout for the lock pivot and blade stop partially full with epoxy. When the epoxy was at the rubbery stage of hardening I put the knife back together which forced the epoxy to dry around the blade stop and create a perfect fit. Since it was already rubbery the epoxy did not adhere to the stop and I now have a perfect fit! Really easy fix!

BTW - Doing any of the above effectively voids your warranty, but from what I hear REKAT is the type of company that would help you recover from it.

I personally consider doing these things fun and challenging. If it were a knife I paid more than $100 for I'd probably send it back.

E-mail me if you have more questions, I'll try and post the results here tomorrow night since I'll be doing it tomorrow.

If you don't see results here by the end of Sunday I probably threw the knife out the window and went to get a pizza, it's been known to happen
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Have fun
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cpirtle,

IF you do happen to mess-up your REKAT Pioneer beyond repair, please send it to me, rather than toss it out of the window, as I also like to tinker.
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Dann Fassnacht
Aberdeen, WA
glockman99@hotmail.com
ICQ# 53675663
 
Well, a couple of trips to the hardware store, 2 pizza's, 3 trips to the yard to find my knife and a Saturday later, I finished the Pioneer
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Actually it wasn't that bad but I wouldn't reccomend it for the faint at heart.

The knife came out PERFECT though
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I started by taking one liner and the blade stop to the hardware store, I purchased about 5 different pieces of steel and aluminum that were all slightly bigger then the original stop pin.

Once home I realized that while at the store looking at power tools (
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) I set down the piece I thought would work best forgot it there and didn't buy it. Rather than go back and get it I went to the next piece up in diameter, a piece of 1/4" tool steel. It was going to be too big so I chucked it into the drill and used sandpaper to knock off 1/16".

Next I widened the hole's in the liners to take the rod, cut it to length, polished, beveled and fitted. That was the easy part.

Since the stop rod was now bigger I had to re-fit the blade. This was literally a matter of increasing the diameter of the notch a little each time, re assembling the knife and checking lockup. The beauty of the rolling lock is that you know when the lock is in the proper place because the slide is all the way forward. I reassembled the knife AT LEAST 30 times, I was very patient because if I made the stop notch too big I'd be back to where I started.

Finally..... It Fit perfect and locked up tight!
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After dancing around in the yard humming the theme to Rocky (ba ba BB baa ba BB baa) I decided that since I had already blew any chance of getting "In warranty" service from REKAT on this knife so I polished the action, liners and top edge of the blade.

All in all, I gave up a Saturday (about 8 hours) to avoid giving up 2 weeks with my newest, and one of my favorite knives, well worth it IMO.

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Hello RAF,

I had the same problem with my Carnivore. I spoke w/ Bob Brothers by phone and he said it was possible the hole for the sop pin and elongated due to excessively hard opening. I kenw this was not the case because the knife had never been abused. However, I disassembled the knife to see what I could see. I saw a perfectly round stop pin hole....at least to the naked eye. I sent the knife back to REKAT and they replaced it.

Now, I also have a SIFU whose blade was not centered between the liners. after trying the fix I'd seen here on the forums without success, I took this knife apart too. In attempting to reassemble the knife I was compelled to learn more about the rolling lock because after the reassembly, the lock/blade relationship was not as it should be. After again dissembling the knife, I was able to get things working again. I now believe it is possible verticle blade play could be the result of an improper lock/blade relationship. Having dissambled the knife a couple of times I believe I understand its workings better and am no longer intimidated by the complexities of the rolling lock. You might try taking your knife apart to determine if you can eliminate the blade play by tinkering with the lock/blade relationship or, obviously, you can send it back to REKAT.

Good luck,

Willieboy
 
cpitle & Willie Boy,

Thanks for all the useful info. I took apart my Pocket Hobbit and after a few minutes of of looking around, I found the problem. It seems that the stop pin was a little bent. With a few taps of a hammer and flipping around the stop pin from its original position seems to have fixed my problem. The Hobbit locks up very tight now.
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THANKS,

RAF22M
 
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