Hey man when you carry this in your pocket are there chances of it opening inside and doing some damage to yourselves asking cause I'm about to buy one but curious about this happening
I did the exact same think literally 5 minutes after playing with my knife for the first time. I panicked, searched TH-cam for “AKC F16 knife fix,” found this video and all is right again. Thank you! 👍
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I was screwing around with my dads knife and hit a can that was full at close range. He wasn't home at the time and all my siblings just sat there waiting for him to get home to see what happened. He never found out. Thank you so much
I know what you mean. The first time I did this...over a decade ago, I looked at it and said, hum, now how do I fix that? So the first thing I tried was pulling the blade all the way out, ha. It does not take a neurosurgeon to figure this one out.
Thank you so much for this video. My girlfriend thought she broke her knife on her birthday and was super upset as we tried to fix it for like 30 minutes. As soon as i found this video it was instantly fixed, and the birthday was saved, so thanks.
I hear this a lot. "Its a safety measure". It's not. The reason for the amount of spring tension is that if they made the springs strong enough to shoot the blade through your hand, you wouldn't have the thumb strength to push the button forward. There are two latches that come down hold the blade in the open or closed position. If something gets in the way the latch will not drop into a groove and hold the blade in position. The blade doesn't weigh much so the springs don't have to be very strong to move the blade forward or backwards.
Wait wait wait… What?!! It’s not that the springs are weak it’s a safety feature so if by some miracle the button is activated and the knife opens in your pocket it doesn’t skew your leg or stomach. The Microtech Halo will open and go through your hand and into your chest! It’s a single action OTF knife, you retract the blade and cock the spring using a handle on the bottom of the knife. That model doesn’t have the safety feature and will push your hand away from the tree and go into your leg or chest if it opens in your pocket.
@@88997799 no it's not lmao sure it can work as a safety feature but it's not intended to be because if you buy a good one it will never missfire in your pocket
You are an absolute genius! My cheap OTF fell out of my pocket, when I picked it up, the blade was free floating. It wasn't expensive, but would be a fast, reliable tool to get someone off of me if I can't get to my sidearm. I took it apart, expecting it to fly to pieces when I separated the casing, but it didn't. I didn't see anything broken, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to function. Then I remembered, you can figure out how to fix ANYTHING on TH-cam. Your video was the first I came to, thankfully. Thank you! You now have a new subscriber.
My girlfriend's knife has been out of commission for a few months due to this problem (not caused by the issue you described here). Thank you so much for helping us to fix this problem!
Thanks for making this video -- it was super helpful. I haven't watched a video or honestly even looked at the inner workings of an OTF knife before. As a few other commenters said, I dropped it within an hour of owning it and this happened. My first thought was, "well this is a piece of trash," and now I know it was just operator error and my own ignorance. But not anymore!
OMG!!! You just saved me man... it happened to me the first 10 minutes of owning my 1st Microtech by the way, dropped it on the floor and the blade just got loose 😱 was going crazy! Thank you, I had no experience at all with dual action OTF’s 😅
LIFE SAVER, so relieved you explained the exact thing that happened, havent had my knife for a day, already made that mistake, 20 bucks for the little thing & i was scared i had just lost, THANK YOU.
I did this with a MT Hellhound clone I got the very first time I triggered it, against nothing, but it still broke. So I took it apart and created another problem. Then I just got a Lightning and tried to send the blade through a roll of paper towels. Looked up your fix and I was able to get the fake MT back together and fix both blades with your trick. Thanks a lot!
You can also flip the switch to the down position and shake it down hard and it clicks back in. I did it in the parking lot after driving 2 feetaway from buying it and as I was turning around to go ask the guy who I bought it from if he knew how to fix it, I just shook it hard once with the button down and it worked right away.
Subscribers sending you messages with the question how to fix this "problem" is not really sending a strong message about the intelligence of your subscriber base ;)
No, just this kind of specific question which you should be able to figure out when you have half a brain (EVEN if you are 10). I mean, if you are interested in a knife like this I assume that A: you know something about it B: are able to find an answer on internet or C: this is something you kind of figure out for yourself experimenting a little and doing some basic troubleshooting / problem solving? I felt the same (already a longer time ago) with a question Jeff addressed about how to replace a flint in a Zippo or something similar, people send messages to him about how to do this stuff...come on.
Dependent on the problem. Although your comparing a simple spring mechanism to an engine. Not a good comparison. Good luck with your mechanical engineering though mate.
I took the whole knife apart to try and figure out the problem, i cant believe it was this simple, i should have come here first. awesome videos thanks for the help and advice
As with the last post I did it in the first five minutes and looking for a video how to take it apart and try to fix it. Your video is a lifesaver. THANK YOU so much.
I remember I just bought my first OTF about a week later this happened and I was so pissed I spent $100 on it. I took it apart and fixed it. Then I learned the easy fix and was like DUH, its happened with all of my OTF knives at one time or another.
when i was about 12 yrs old, i was at a diving camp in cologne germany. we went into an army shop and were instantly thrown out for being under age. 2 doors down we purchased otf knives at a souvenir shop. Man, those were the days :) Ofcourse we did try this stuff, even shooting into hand after seeing it didnt go through paper even. But i remember this fix was something we immediately found out. Or even better, we just held it up to let the blade slide back in the hilt, and then snapped it in place with a medium firm flick of the handle. Still works to this day, some 30++ years later :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Got one a month or two ago and I haven't done it because I didn't want to break something but my wife saw it and tried to put a hole in a paper plate and this happened... She offered to buy me a new knife because she assume she broke it.... Maybe I will let her buy a new one and then "magically" fix this one.... Thanks again!!
@@Astrau3s those are not otf knives. Those are ballistic knives developed for Russian special forces. They literally turn the blade into a projectile and are crazy illegal
Dude you are the man! I really thought my knife was busted after only having it for a few hours and all I had to was give it a little pull! Really helpful man, thank you so much!
That is hiliarious. I just got a Hogue OTF today in the mail. The first thing I did is open the knife against the postal box it came in! But I just gave the knife a jab with my wrist and the blade went back into place. Good video.
I honestly would consider this more of a pro than a con because it serves as a safety mechanism, just in case it opens up on you by accident. If you really want to stab something then open the blade how you should open it and stab it. Not a big deal.
Just earned a new subscriber. Literally did this within the first few minutes of having the knife 💀. So glad to have it back. Thanks for the simple and to the point vid man, keep it up
well it's energy conservation, you are providing the energy to charge the spring with your thumb and that's not a lot of energy... to actually punch trough your hand you would need way stronger springs.. which means you couldn't charge it with your thumb.
I'm pretty sure how the mechanism works it isn't "derailing" from anything. Instead the springs are at rest when you start to slide the trigger and you are by doing that building tension. Once a certain point in the trigger movement is reached the blade is unlocked from the inside of the handle at the bottom, and more so "tossed" forward, where it then locks back in once it is all the way out. same for back in. So its more similar to you throwing a football at a brick wall, and the football stopping, because of the brick wall, than a train being derailed of of tracks or something. I was thinking of the physics of this while playing around with my lightening a while back. I can hold my arm out in front of me, knife in hand, blade pointing up, and start to swing my arm downward windmill style, and at the right moment start to retract the blade, while increasing the speed of the swing, and actually "derail" the blade pretty consistently, just from essentially speeding up the actual handle of the knife enough that the blade can't keep up. It's not too hard really, but can take a little practice to get the timing.
Well said also. It's the same principle with people that actually think taking a shotgun blast, or any gun shot for that matter, to the chest can launch a man backwards, if that were possible then the recoil from the butt of the gun would also launch a shooter of similar mass backwards as well.
Plz read this I need help!; my da otf knife was fine now all of a sudden every time I retract the blade it keeps de-railing and I mean EVERYTIME it’s really getting annoying someone please help me
Thank you so much ! I just got one as a graduation gift and I was devastated within minutes of showing it off. I was on hold with Benchmade as I stumbled upon this video. Thank you so much !
It's not necessarily the springs they are made with a clutch that disengages the blade from the carrier. It's pretty much a safety feature. Love your videos keep it up brother.
Sounds like he didn’t know how to retract the blade. However the halo model will open and go through your hand or into your chest. Single action doesn’t have the safety feature.
Holy smokes, I'm glad i looked this up. I decided to open the blade to an empty plastic bottle and then it did this. I thought it was game over lmao. Thanks for the help!
Canesugar True and something heavy and durable that can hold down the compression. Add all this and it'll virtually become a spring activated crossbow. :p
If it accidentally opens your doing something wrong its just the engineering, the springs are at rest when its closed/open, i have a halo V from micotech and its a single action it will keep going untill it locks out, if you put strong enough springs in a d/a otf you wouldn't be able to push the button forward.
Thank you for the quick-fix!! The question that plagues me now is: now that I see how easily the OTF's derail, if I had one for back up protection, how reliable is it? Mine appears to derail easier than the one you showed in your video. That is by the way, a rhetorical question.
You can also give it a good flick/whip to do the same thing with one hand. Or you can hold the switch back, pull the blade, and then let go (of the blade, not the switch) to close it in one motion
Exactly what happened to me. 1. Playing around with it, then wondering if it can poke through a paper 2. Notice knife is free floating, moaning “oh, oh no, I broke the knife” 3. Sees this guys video, cancer cured. My knife went okay, but my face turned red. Cant thank you more. *This guy is a god*
Hey, I have a brand new benchmade Infidel 10th anniversary, when I turn it straight up and push the blade out, 1 out of probably every 10 times it will not come all the way out. What do you think? I’m starting to get a little aggravated because I payed 454 bucks for a knife that isn’t even reliable. Idk what to do
That's kind of an ignorant comment. You don't automatically know everything about a knife when you first get it. Same thing with everything you buy. I'm sure you've never watched a tutorial video to fix something. I did this the first time I thought I messed up my OTF knife, but I know not everyone would think of that.
Kegan Gardner I had an OTF when I was 12 (before Internet) and I figured out how to fix this problem on day 1. He's not getting messages asking how to fix this 'problem'.
@@GhostActual206 It really isn't logical thinking, hand someone a of knife without telling them what it is and you'd be surprised how many people don't know how they work. Common sense is not common.
I did this with my dads knife with a paper towel and I freaked out thinking I broke it so I looked it up and found this video. Knife is fine and fixed THANK GOD!!!
Very informative. I've been checking out various knuckle duster knives with spring loaded baldes. The reason being I didn't want the blade cutting my hand while I had my fingers in the kncukles. I may just stick to regular folding knives.
Holy Crap Just got a new Microtech OTF knife, and my Dumb Ass did this. Then I went into panic mode. I opened up the knife and nothing seemed to make sense of how the blade goes in & out. Thank you for posting this vid. Now my knife is back to normal
It works !! Amazing. Thank you! So we have to go to TH-cam to find ways to make it work. That system is not reliable at all. I've got an AKC F16 and neither manufacturer or seller do not provide any assistance. I've bought one auto knife just out of curiosity but definetly not serious for daily use.
Cure- take that baby apart and install MUCH stronger springs heheheheh, or remove the stop and make a blade launcher out of it lol, or both, ooppps just gave the internet whack jobs a new and bad idea lol.
I didn’t try to shoot it into anything it just stopped working so I took it apart maybe a dozen times very frustrated then I ran into your video thank you so much😅
OMG! I cant like this video enough! I found a sweet Microtech OTF in a public bathroom sink (I know, thats shady) but anyway I looked into the value, which was right around $180ish. I then tried to do the little stunt you did, but to a really thin flimpsy water bottle. It still happened. I had lost all hope until now. Thank you so much!
LOL, the first thing I did with my knife was try to open it against the box... I thought I broke the knife. Then I flicked it real hard and the blade got back on track and all is lovely again. I thought it was an anomaly, but as you stated in your vid: "it's common"... So my knife is fine...
Honestly,you don’t even have to pull it back out..you can just swing it a little and it will lock in place...I’ve read so many comments of people complaining thinking they broke their new OTF,you would think they end up pulling the blade before throwing it in a drawer and thinking it’s useless from then on
I got one today, and I laughed my ass off when you said “you’re gonna wanna see if I can go through something. So maybe you tried it with cardboard”. That’s exactly what happened
I call it a safety feature it can also happen if your blade is to heavy for your spring my helly techs blade was custom blade handle job and if you open it pointed straight up it tends to have a similar problem
Holy shit how are you a literal knife psychic, The way you described my situation was so comically perfect 😅 thank you so much for helping exactly correctly!!!
Thank you soo much I thought I broke my knife within 5 mins I opened it and kept trying to fix it for and hour and then I found this video cant believe it was that simple. You gained a sub❤️
Yes you are correct that is how to repair it. BUT now my knife will only retract when I hit the button to extract the knife nothing happens as if a spring came disconnected or something. Should I toss it in the garbage or is there a quick fix? Thanks for your time I appreciate it. Btw, I would have already taken it apart to fix but it doesn't look like it comes apart.
I literally did this within the first 5 minutes of owning my knife... and now here I am
Same i did this as soon as i bought it with the receipt for it. Now im here thanks dude
LMAO
I literally flicked my wrist and it worked.
Same lol sat down in the car right after buying it and tried a pack of cigs haha. I realized right away how to fix it.
same
My feeling of crushing disappointment has been replaced with joy! Thank you for this simple fix. You are truly a Master!
Hey man when you carry this in your pocket are there chances of it opening inside and doing some damage to yourselves asking cause I'm about to buy one but curious about this happening
One of the first things I did was try to shoot it through a can lmao. Thank you for this
Holy crap me too.
I did that to but mine was a plastic bag, I thought it was gonna cut like butter but no
You and the two people that replied are actually retarded
@@reubensmith6781this is insane...me too
I just fixed what i thought was a broken 80$ knife in 2 seconds because of this video. You have no idea how grateful I am
Did this within 5 minutes of taking my Microtech out of the box...
Same here and I almost cried
Same😂 I was freaking out
Lol I'm waiting on my knife to arrive and this was literally the first thing I was gonna do. Now I know.
Should’ve got a benchmade lol
Same
I did the exact same think literally 5 minutes after playing with my knife for the first time. I panicked, searched TH-cam for “AKC F16 knife fix,” found this video and all is right again. Thank you! 👍
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I was screwing around with my dads knife and hit a can that was full at close range. He wasn't home at the time and all my siblings just sat there waiting for him to get home to see what happened. He never found out. Thank you so much
yo me playing w my dads knife and totally freaking when this happened 😂
L😂l
The simple fix is way to simple. It seems like a given to pull the knife out all the way. I don't know how people didn't know this lol
Apparently before they try to pull out the blade they would rather get on the Internet and type out a message to Jeff
I know what you mean. The first time I did this...over a decade ago, I looked at it and said, hum, now how do I fix that? So the first thing I tried was pulling the blade all the way out, ha. It does not take a neurosurgeon to figure this one out.
True, but WAY too many out there make a pet rock look intelligent, lol.
looseballs1966 my pet rock is very smart actually
+blaze ice IQ rating?
Thank you so much for this video. My girlfriend thought she broke her knife on her birthday and was super upset as we tried to fix it for like 30 minutes. As soon as i found this video it was instantly fixed, and the birthday was saved, so thanks.
I hear this a lot. "Its a safety measure". It's not. The reason for the amount of spring tension is that if they made the springs strong enough to shoot the blade through your hand, you wouldn't have the thumb strength to push the button forward. There are two latches that come down hold the blade in the open or closed position. If something gets in the way the latch will not drop into a groove and hold the blade in position. The blade doesn't weigh much so the springs don't have to be very strong to move the blade forward or backwards.
or, in small words, you don't need stronger springs, it's an automatic knife, not an automatic ballistic knife
No
I don't think you understand basic mechanics
Wait wait wait… What?!! It’s not that the springs are weak it’s a safety feature so if by some miracle the button is activated and the knife opens in your pocket it doesn’t skew your leg or stomach. The Microtech Halo will open and go through your hand and into your chest! It’s a single action OTF knife, you retract the blade and cock the spring using a handle on the bottom of the knife. That model doesn’t have the safety feature and will push your hand away from the tree and go into your leg or chest if it opens in your pocket.
@@88997799 no it's not lmao sure it can work as a safety feature but it's not intended to be because if you buy a good one it will never missfire in your pocket
You are an absolute genius! My cheap OTF fell out of my pocket, when I picked it up, the blade was free floating. It wasn't expensive, but would be a fast, reliable tool to get someone off of me if I can't get to my sidearm. I took it apart, expecting it to fly to pieces when I separated the casing, but it didn't. I didn't see anything broken, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to function. Then I remembered, you can figure out how to fix ANYTHING on TH-cam. Your video was the first I came to, thankfully. Thank you! You now have a new subscriber.
My girlfriend's knife has been out of commission for a few months due to this problem (not caused by the issue you described here). Thank you so much for helping us to fix this problem!
Thanks for making this video -- it was super helpful. I haven't watched a video or honestly even looked at the inner workings of an OTF knife before. As a few other commenters said, I dropped it within an hour of owning it and this happened. My first thought was, "well this is a piece of trash," and now I know it was just operator error and my own ignorance. But not anymore!
OMG!!! You just saved me man... it happened to me the first 10 minutes of owning my 1st Microtech by the way, dropped it on the floor and the blade just got loose 😱 was going crazy!
Thank you, I had no experience at all with dual action OTF’s 😅
LIFE SAVER, so relieved you explained the exact thing that happened, havent had my knife for a day, already made that mistake, 20 bucks for the little thing & i was scared i had just lost, THANK YOU.
I just bought my first OTF knife and this happened within 6 hours, your a life saver man thanks lol
Jeff when are you starting your ASMR knife channel
jimmyf1312 what do "ASMR" mean
Liam M Anal Sex Meridian Response
Automatic knives seem really interesting and satisfying to handle, shame I'll never get to try one out in the UK.
not legally that is
Some states in America don't allow these
Laugh in American
Whelp... Time to move to a non police state.
But you get to sip on a glass of tea 🫖
I did this with a MT Hellhound clone I got the very first time I triggered it, against nothing, but it still broke. So I took it apart and created another problem. Then I just got a Lightning and tried to send the blade through a roll of paper towels. Looked up your fix and I was able to get the fake MT back together and fix both blades with your trick. Thanks a lot!
You can also flip the switch to the down position and shake it down hard and it clicks back in. I did it in the parking lot after driving 2 feetaway from buying it and as I was turning around to go ask the guy who I bought it from if he knew how to fix it, I just shook it hard once with the button down and it worked right away.
There’s actually people in this world that couldn’t figure that out? Man that’s scary
Gonna cry?
You're so cool...
I was hoping to see if I can fix my knife and already showed me what I did already. The springs in my knife are just broken. Video disappointed me lol
Subscribers sending you messages with the question how to fix this "problem" is not really sending a strong message about the intelligence of your subscriber base ;)
shots fired
No, just this kind of specific question which you should be able to figure out when you have half a brain (EVEN if you are 10). I mean, if you are interested in a knife like this I assume that A: you know something about it B: are able to find an answer on internet or C: this is something you kind of figure out for yourself experimenting a little and doing some basic troubleshooting / problem solving? I felt the same (already a longer time ago) with a question Jeff addressed about how to replace a flint in a Zippo or something similar, people send messages to him about how to do this stuff...come on.
Dependent on the problem. Although your comparing a simple spring mechanism to an engine. Not a good comparison. Good luck with your mechanical engineering though mate.
Objects which are vastly different in complexity- Erego non comparable. You consider fixing car engines very simple, now build a rocket ship.
Ironically, a 'rocket ship' isn't necessarily a particularly complex piece of engineering.
I took the whole knife apart to try and figure out the problem, i cant believe it was this simple, i should have come here first. awesome videos thanks for the help and advice
As with the last post I did it in the first five minutes and looking for a video how to take it apart and try to fix it. Your video is a lifesaver. THANK YOU so much.
Wouldn't pulling out the blade be anyone's first thought when it gets stuck?
You underestimate how dumb most people are.
What my Ex-wife said when my blade got stuck in her sheath!
I remember I just bought my first OTF about a week later this happened and I was so pissed I spent $100 on it. I took it apart and fixed it. Then I learned the easy fix and was like DUH, its happened with all of my OTF knives at one time or another.
when i was about 12 yrs old, i was at a diving camp in cologne germany. we went into an army shop and were instantly thrown out for being under age. 2 doors down we purchased otf knives at a souvenir shop. Man, those were the days :) Ofcourse we did try this stuff, even shooting into hand after seeing it didnt go through paper even.
But i remember this fix was something we immediately found out. Or even better, we just held it up to let the blade slide back in the hilt, and then snapped it in place with a medium firm flick of the handle.
Still works to this day, some 30++ years later :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Got one a month or two ago and I haven't done it because I didn't want to break something but my wife saw it and tried to put a hole in a paper plate and this happened... She offered to buy me a new knife because she assume she broke it.... Maybe I will let her buy a new one and then "magically" fix this one.... Thanks again!!
So the scene from the movie IT is impossible??
Muhammad Daniel not exactly there's Russian made otf knives that can penetrate skin and keep going. They're just highly illegal in the US
Bryce Garrett what is the name of that knife?
I want the knife from "it".that square body front slider
I was thinking that too 😂😂😂
@@Astrau3s those are not otf knives. Those are ballistic knives developed for Russian special forces. They literally turn the blade into a projectile and are crazy illegal
I remember doing that with my name when i was like 11 I was like "omg i broke it!" then i figured out you just cocked it back into places lol
My brother in law gave me one for Christmas and started did that with the blade earlier today. Thank you for treating my stupidity.
Dude you are the man! I really thought my knife was busted after only having it for a few hours and all I had to was give it a little pull! Really helpful man, thank you so much!
my blade is not free floating its locked in the deployed position and button moves freely with no blade response???broken????....im thinking so
Were u able to fix it? I'm having the same issue.
That is hiliarious. I just got a Hogue OTF today in the mail. The first thing I did is open the knife against the postal box it came in! But I just gave the knife a jab with my wrist and the blade went back into place. Good video.
6 years later and he is still needed thanks
I did this within 5 minutes of getting my first OTF. Derailed it on tissue paper lol.
I honestly would consider this more of a pro than a con because it serves as a safety mechanism, just in case it opens up on you by accident. If you really want to stab something then open the blade how you should open it and stab it. Not a big deal.
Just earned a new subscriber. Literally did this within the first few minutes of having the knife 💀. So glad to have it back. Thanks for the simple and to the point vid man, keep it up
You're the first person to show me this. I needed this education! Thank you so much! I'm super grateful!!
I replaced the springs in mine with the strongest springs that would fit and it still derails I'm pretty sure it's a safety measure.
well it's energy conservation, you are providing the energy to charge the spring with your thumb and that's not a lot of energy... to actually punch trough your hand you would need way stronger springs.. which means you couldn't charge it with your thumb.
I'm pretty sure how the mechanism works it isn't "derailing" from anything. Instead the springs are at rest when you start to slide the trigger and you are by doing that building tension. Once a certain point in the trigger movement is reached the blade is unlocked from the inside of the handle at the bottom, and more so "tossed" forward, where it then locks back in once it is all the way out. same for back in. So its more similar to you throwing a football at a brick wall, and the football stopping, because of the brick wall, than a train being derailed of of tracks or something. I was thinking of the physics of this while playing around with my lightening a while back. I can hold my arm out in front of me, knife in hand, blade pointing up, and start to swing my arm downward windmill style, and at the right moment start to retract the blade, while increasing the speed of the swing, and actually "derail" the blade pretty consistently, just from essentially speeding up the actual handle of the knife enough that the blade can't keep up. It's not too hard really, but can take a little practice to get the timing.
Well said also. It's the same principle with people that actually think taking a shotgun blast, or any gun shot for that matter, to the chest can launch a man backwards, if that were possible then the recoil from the butt of the gun would also launch a shooter of similar mass backwards as well.
Plz read this I need help!; my da otf knife was fine now all of a sudden every time I retract the blade it keeps de-railing and I mean EVERYTIME it’s really getting annoying someone please help me
Take it apart and clean it
Nick W I don’t know how to 😭😭
Thanks, I just bought a Bushmaster and after 10 actions it did the same thing. Thanks, you saved me the trouble of sending it back! 😁👍
Thank you so much ! I just got one as a graduation gift and I was devastated within minutes of showing it off. I was on hold with Benchmade as I stumbled upon this video. Thank you so much !
You made my day a hell of a lot better. Thanks for the tip.
Hadn’t even been 15 minutes, but thank you
It's not necessarily the springs they are made with a clutch that disengages the blade from the carrier. It's pretty much a safety feature. Love your videos keep it up brother.
Thank you so much dude!!! I was freaking out and you literally saved me from a heart attack lol. All heros don't wear capes.
I wouldn't call that a flaw. I'd say it's more of a safety feature.
This literally happened to me 2 minutes after I got it
Edit: By it, I mean the Double Sided Utx 70
Short, simple, and common. Amazing video!
It's amazing how many people dont understand this is a safety feature. It's even described in the instructions that come with my knives.
Jeez, even though the thinnest of papers
My co-worker got a microtech halo and did this oh man it was hilarious the look on his face.
Sounds like he didn’t know how to retract the blade. However the halo model will open and go through your hand or into your chest. Single action doesn’t have the safety feature.
Absolute life saver I did it and freaked out thinking I had to take apart the whole thing thank you🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Holy smokes, I'm glad i looked this up. I decided to open the blade to an empty plastic bottle and then it did this. I thought it was game over lmao. Thanks for the help!
WORKED LIKE AN ABSOLUTE CHARM. YOU ARE FANTASTICO SIR
Its a safety mechanism
It's not safety. The springs are weak. In theory, you could replace the springs and make it go through your hand.
you would need a very beastly spring for that I think, and a very pointy knife.
Alan Rodriguez that's a good thing too, that way it doesn't go completely through your thigh from an accidental open
Canesugar True and something heavy and durable that can hold down the compression. Add all this and it'll virtually become a spring activated crossbow. :p
If it accidentally opens your doing something wrong its just the engineering, the springs are at rest when its closed/open, i have a halo V from micotech and its a single action it will keep going untill it locks out, if you put strong enough springs in a d/a otf you wouldn't be able to push the button forward.
I just feel bad for the people that couldn’t figure this out themselves .
Thank you for the quick-fix!! The question that plagues me now is: now that I see how easily the OTF's derail, if I had one for back up protection, how reliable is it? Mine appears to derail easier than the one you showed in your video. That is by the way, a rhetorical question.
You can also give it a good flick/whip to do the same thing with one hand. Or you can hold the switch back, pull the blade, and then let go (of the blade, not the switch) to close it in one motion
Your gonna hit 400K any day now :)
:) exciting, Ill do giveaways soon
+cutlerylover awesome :)
Awesome haha
ARE YOU SAYING THAT 1 SCENE FROM IT IS FAKEEEEEE
Yeah it is bullshit. OTF knives wont shoot thru a neck or leg lmao!!
Exactly what happened to me.
1. Playing around with it, then wondering if it can poke through a paper
2. Notice knife is free floating, moaning “oh, oh no, I broke the knife”
3. Sees this guys video, cancer cured.
My knife went okay, but my face turned red. Cant thank you more. *This guy is a god*
Hey, I have a brand new benchmade Infidel 10th anniversary, when I turn it straight up and push the blade out, 1 out of probably every 10 times it will not come all the way out. What do you think? I’m starting to get a little aggravated because I payed 454 bucks for a knife that isn’t even reliable. Idk what to do
IF someone needs to watch this video to fix their knife they really should not be touching knives in the first place
That's kind of an ignorant comment. You don't automatically know everything about a knife when you first get it. Same thing with everything you buy. I'm sure you've never watched a tutorial video to fix something. I did this the first time I thought I messed up my OTF knife, but I know not everyone would think of that.
Kegan Gardner I had an OTF when I was 12 (before Internet) and I figured out how to fix this problem on day 1. He's not getting messages asking how to fix this 'problem'.
@@GhostActual206 It really isn't logical thinking, hand someone a of knife without telling them what it is and you'd be surprised how many people don't know how they work. Common sense is not common.
rabbitslayer42 agreed, I did the same thing and I immediately just pulled it out to see if it would work and it did, and I’m definitely no genius
@@GhostActual206 Okay, dumbass
didnt work for me :(
just bought mine... not even 2 minutes and im here... thank you
LOL. I just broke my OTF within 10 minutes of owning it. Easy fix thanks to this video.
hey jeff
hey
+cutlerylover my name is jeff
+Vincent has swag Than who's Vincent
+NEinAK Busted!!!
Good question if he is Jeff who is Vincent??? LOL
Okay seriously, people who can't figure out by themselves how to fix this "problem" should not be allowed to own a knife. Not even a butter knife.
you wanna buy a $250 knife cheap? that didn't work
I did this with my dads knife with a paper towel and I freaked out thinking I broke it so I looked it up and found this video. Knife is fine and fixed THANK GOD!!!
Wish I could thumbs up this 6000 times. THANKS DUDE. Have a blessed life.
if anyone has seen the new it the dad wouldn't have died :/
Alex Wilkinson some of switch blades actually can penetrate skin and keep going they are SUPER illegal though
I figured this out in 30 seconds messing with my dads otf
Why did I do this almost immediately after I bought it I thought it was broken but then I found this Thanks for doing these vids man
Very informative. I've been checking out various knuckle duster knives with spring loaded baldes. The reason being I didn't want the blade cutting my hand while I had my fingers in the kncukles. I may just stick to regular folding knives.
"pull it all the way out"
Last time I did that, I was arrested.
jeff will not respond
I beg to differ :)
I dig to beffer :O
I big to deffer :(
+Eric Holladay I bagged a heifer
I see what you did there
Holy Crap
Just got a new Microtech OTF knife, and my Dumb Ass did this. Then I went into panic mode. I opened up the knife and nothing seemed to make sense of how the blade goes in & out. Thank you for posting this vid. Now my knife is back to normal
It works !! Amazing. Thank you!
So we have to go to TH-cam to find ways to make it work. That system is not reliable at all.
I've got an AKC F16 and neither manufacturer or seller do not provide any assistance.
I've bought one auto knife just out of curiosity but definetly not serious for daily use.
It's a "Feature" not a problem.
Cure- take that baby apart and install MUCH stronger springs heheheheh, or remove the stop and make a blade launcher out of it lol, or both, ooppps just gave the internet whack jobs a new and bad idea lol.
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!! My OTF had the same problem and you just helped me to fix it!!! Took 2 seconds!!! Thanks again 👍🤜
I didn’t try to shoot it into anything it just stopped working so I took it apart maybe a dozen times very frustrated then I ran into your video thank you so much😅
OMG! I cant like this video enough! I found a sweet Microtech OTF in a public bathroom sink (I know, thats shady) but anyway I looked into the value, which was right around $180ish. I then tried to do the little stunt you did, but to a really thin flimpsy water bottle. It still happened. I had lost all hope until now. Thank you so much!
The stab test:
I never thought of that!! 😱 SO glad I returned mine now!
I had this problem 30min after I got mine. Thank you!🎉
My first OTF knife arrives in the mail tomorrow. This video just saved me from a potential Oh Shit moment.
WOW! I futzed around with mine for an hour or so. Itried your fix and I am back in business. Amazing and thanks!
U saved my life I was about to drive all the way back to the store and return it.
Lol I just bought mine at a gun show a couple hours ago and this just happened. I was devastated bc I spent 125. Thank you so much for this video!
LOL, the first thing I did with my knife was try to open it against the box... I thought I broke the knife. Then I flicked it real hard and the blade got back on track and all is lovely again. I thought it was an anomaly, but as you stated in your vid: "it's common"... So my knife is fine...
Took me ten minutes….. Thanks,you saved me from the warranty blues….
Honestly,you don’t even have to pull it back out..you can just swing it a little and it will lock in place...I’ve read so many comments of people complaining thinking they broke their new OTF,you would think they end up pulling the blade before throwing it in a drawer and thinking it’s useless from then on
You are just awesome. Thank you. I have the same knife. I already knew what to do in this instance but I just wanted to say that you are AWESOME!
Well hey, took me a trip to the throne to start playing with my new toy and boom now I’m here
I got one today, and I laughed my ass off when you said “you’re gonna wanna see if I can go through something. So maybe you tried it with cardboard”. That’s exactly what happened
I call it a safety feature it can also happen if your blade is to heavy for your spring my helly techs blade was custom blade handle job and if you open it pointed straight up it tends to have a similar problem
Holy shit how are you a literal knife psychic, The way you described my situation was so comically perfect 😅 thank you so much for helping exactly correctly!!!
lol I only know becase it was a lot of people including me a long time ago :) im glad you found the video and it helped...
Thank you soo much I thought I broke my knife within 5 mins I opened it and kept trying to fix it for and hour and then I found this video cant believe it was that simple. You gained a sub❤️
Yes you are correct that is how to repair it. BUT now my knife will only retract when I hit the button to extract the knife nothing happens as if a spring came disconnected or something. Should I toss it in the garbage or is there a quick fix? Thanks for your time I appreciate it.
Btw, I would have already taken it apart to fix but it doesn't look like it comes apart.