Weak or non-existent detents

[longbow]

Have a Patriot and Roadhouse, 2014 and 2013 respectively. Second owner and non existent detents on either. These are double detent models. How to fix, ideas welcome, looked up on the Tube and frankly none of the procedures' work on these, also blades are off center, but I like'em anyways. thanks

 

[toker]

I broke my knife down and slight bent the detent cutout (both sides) to make more contact.

 

[longbow]

Yep tried this and it worked somewhat on the Roadhouse version. It is a weak detent but now it is a detent at least. Not so much on the Patriot version. I'm bending the lock bar in too as I assume that is how it's supposed to be done. The liner lock bars are strong as in well heat treated as its difficult to get them to even move off the original bend. That's it. stay safe

 

[Officer's Match]

I have had liner lock knives, Emerson's in fact, that the detent ball wore flat. I carefully punched it out into a paint stir stick, carefully dug it out, rotated the flat spot to the opposite side, and pressed it back into the lockbar tab. Worked for me, combined with the aforementioned tab spring adjustment.

 

[El Jay]

With my lack of skill I just send them in.