ZT 0452 lock up

Yeah that helped it a lot for sure. Now the lock doesn't seem to have the room to slide all the way over. Thanks alot Stabby!
 
Yes we deserve to know the truth, sometimes the truth is hard to find. I suggest sending the knife in when you are ready.
 
salmonkiller said:
Yes we deserve to know the truth, sometimes the truth is hard to find. I suggest sending the knife in when you are ready.
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I'm so far pretty happy with the lock up, since I tightened the pivot up a bit. I can't get the lock to just slide all the way over like before. It moves a bit and stops on the beginning of the blade's lock face angle, just like it should! SEe this thread did have some worth and in the end solved MY problem IDK about anyone else's. Who would have thought, a loose pivot on a brand new knife would cause that.
 
stabman said:
One other question: what's the pivot tension like?
On a CQC-12 I had, if the pivot was loose, the lock-bar could easily go almost to the other side.
When the pivot was tight, the lock-up was good, and didn't move much at all.

Basically, the loose pivot allowed the blade to tilt a tad, making for a very flat surface for the bar to slide across (ramp tilted till it was straight across, pretty much).
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Good work stabby! You solved the problem and you get to keep both hands! But get no knife :(
 
Glad to hear it was a quick and easy fix. I'm very curious to see the effect it will have on the lockup of some others that posted. Shipping knives with a loose pivot isn't the best QC, but it's a whole different planet from shipping them with bad locks.

Almost forgot, thanks for starting the thread. It might have taken a whole lot longer to turn up a solution without it.
 
Im glad tightening the pivot helped. I think there is real plus to this thread in the sense that i think we all learned something. Some i hope learned that knife setup is not always as simple as it seems even if you think it is. And i learned that had this thread died a page ago the answers may never have been found. Im glad it all worked out in the end. This was a good thing. But i think it also speaks a little to why some dont like the back and forth debate on what is or isnt defective from a picture. So much can get lost in translation from one person to the next. And how many were absolutely convinced the knife was faulty? Thats why i try not to lose it too early on because without the actual knife in front of me all i can do is make assumptions.
 
Insipid Moniker said:
Glad to hear it was a quick and easy fix. I'm very curious to see the effect it will have on the lockup of some others that posted. Shipping knives with a loose pivot isn't the best QC, but it's a whole different planet from shipping them with bad locks.

Almost forgot, thanks for starting the thread. It might have taken a whole lot longer to turn up a solution without it.
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Lets be fair though. We dont know if it loosened with use or if it was shipped that way.
 
Knife is BNIB, never used period. I'm glad I didn't send it in and I;m glad the thread remained open, so I could get good information that lead to a solution. That's what it's all about here! Collective minds will find a way!
 
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Lock up now after pressing the same, also it unlocked easy. The like factor for me on this knife went up for sure.

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jill jackson said:
I checked and snugged it up a bit and it seemed to help.
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jill jackson said:
Yeah that helped it a lot for sure. Now the lock doesn't seem to have the room to slide all the way over. Thanks alot Stabby!
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Awesome! :thumbup:
Glad it worked out. :)

craytab said:
Good work stabby! You solved the problem and you get to keep both hands! But get no knife :(
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Pretty sure my wife is getting me a knife for our anniversary, so I should survive. :D

grownstar said:
Yaaaaaayyyyy!!! Who woulda thought a snarky Canadian would solve the problem? ;)

(just kidding, stabbers!)
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craytab said:
I think he would say there was no question :p
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Works for me. ;)
 
stabman said:
One other question: what's the pivot tension like?
On a CQC-12 I had, if the pivot was loose, the lock-bar could easily go almost to the other side.
When the pivot was tight, the lock-up was good, and didn't move much at all.

Basically, the loose pivot allowed the blade to tilt a tad, making for a very flat surface for the bar to slide across (ramp tilted till it was straight across, pretty much).
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Would've been real nice if you had've mentioned that in your first post :grumpy:
I know you were only holding back because you didn't want to slow a good thread down :p


jill jackson said:
Yeah that helped it a lot for sure. Now the lock doesn't seem to have the room to slide all the way over. Thanks alot Stabby!
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:thumbup:
 
Ken44 said:
Would've been real nice if you had've mentioned that in your first post :grumpy:
I know you were only holding back because you didn't want to slow a good thread down :p
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You know, I probably should have thought of it earlier.
When I batonned down that tree with the ZT 0561, the pivot loosened up a bit, and the lock travelled over further.
Not all the way, but it did move further.

When I got home and tightened it up, I was pleased at where it was locking. :)

For some reason, that actually slipped my mind entirely until after I thought of the CQC-12 example. :o

Brains are weird things...I'm still trying to figure mine out. :D
 
I was trying to center the blade on a Spyderco Fluted Military and noticed the lock-up depended on the pivot tightness. So, I should have checked that but who thinks a NIB over 200 dollar knife, would need it's pivot tightened about a full turn on each side, for the lock up to work correctly.
 
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