What do you guys use on your pivots?

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gottahaveit27

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Just wondering what everyone uses to lube the pivots on their Spyderco knives. I haven't gotten a new Spyderco in a while and I've got a new manix coming. I use blue lube on my Benchmade knives and find it works really well. Can I use this on my manix or do I need to use oil or grease? Thanks!
 
If you like that it would be fine to use. I use tuffglide or balistol.
 
Benchmade blue lube.
Not the cheapest stuff, but at least it's cheaper than Reeve's stuff, while it does the same.

I don't have a lot of points of reference though, because this one bottle has been lasting me forever....
 
Tuff-Glide and not much of it and not very often. Keep the lint and other junk out of em and they will be just fine.
 
I use tetra gun grease. Very slippery, very thin if you smoosh it around. Very smooth. CLP on the blade.
 
I tried many different lubes before the CRK grease. I am 100% sold on it. It works great for bronze or Teflon washers. Does not collect dirt and lint as much as tuffglide, tw-25b or others. The little syringe works fantastic as an added plus. One tube should last a long time.
 
tundratrader said:
I tried many different lubes before the CRK grease. I am 100% sold on it. It works great for bronze or Teflon washers. Does not collect dirt and lint as much as tuffglide, tw-25b or others. The little syringe works fantastic as an added plus. One tube should last a long time.
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That's the truth, you need so little of it. If i could figure out how to pop the lanyard tube out of my Ti Millie i'd clean and CRK grease it.
 
Don't understand Tuffglide collecting dirt and lint. If you apply it as a coating on a knife blade, once dry, nothing sticks. I use Tuffglide on the rotating bezels on my watches with no problems and no lint collecting stickyness.

If I disassemble the knife, I use waterproof Hi Temp boat trailer bearing grease....it doesn't wash out with hot water and soap.
 
tundratrader said:
I tried many different lubes before the CRK grease. I am 100% sold on it. It works great for bronze or Teflon washers. Does not collect dirt and lint as much as tuffglide, tw-25b or others. The little syringe works fantastic as an added plus. One tube should last a long time.
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I also no longer use Tuf-Glide as a lubricant. I'm still very sold on it as a blade coating but it becomes too gummy after the mineral spirits evaporate, and tends to collect a lot of grit - more than conventional oils/CLPs and more than good greases.
 
wally@ferguson said:
Don't understand Tuffglide collecting dirt and lint. If you apply it as a coating on a knife blade, once dry, nothing sticks. I use Tuffglide on the rotating bezels on my watches with no problems and no lint collecting stickyness.

If I disassemble the knife, I use waterproof Hi Temp boat trailer bearing grease....it doesn't wash out with hot water and soap.
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When i use tufglide it's usually before storage. I have tried it as a lubricant on one of my slip joints. The knife has a very gritty feel to the backspring until i lube it with a drop of tufglide. less than a week later it's gritty again. Gritty usually means dirt.
 
Mineral oil

or

Parktool Grease:thumbup:
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The tuff cloth works great as a wipe. I mainly use mineral oil but if it was a knife I was going to get salty or knew it wasnt going to be used on food I would use it for a blade coating.

Tuff Glide I have tried on striders, CRK, my hinderers and various other folders for the pivot and it always collect dirt and crap. I have tried less and I have tried more always the same result. I know the mineral spirits dissipate but whatever the lube is that is left just collects crap. I left 1 knife out of pocket for a week drying and it still collected dirt.

I carry a knife deep in pocket not clipped 100% percent of the time regardless of clothing. Jeans, khakis, turnouts or sweatpants. The CRK grease has not failed. It works perfect no dirt collection and it is far smoother than others I have tried. I am sure folks have different results but this is what works for me. I carry my knives and use my knives.
 
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