Great tip, thank you! Also, for those of you that don’t have the tool… I wrap a flat head screw driver with electrical tape… You could also wrap a coin. That way if you slip off it shouldn’t scratch your scales or hardware.
If you're a moron then so am I! I have several knives with non-captive pivots and it's very frustrating! I can't believe either of us hadn't thought of this! I've been searching the interwebs for 2 hours looking for a tool (someone should make a tool for this) or any kind of solution! Thank you sir!
Thank you. I've disassembled an un-countable number of knives, a decent amount of which had free spinning pivots. I've never had one that I couldn't pop free by putting a little lateral tension on the open blade and un-screwing at the same time....until I got this MBK mini Old Guard today. I tried everything I could think of, to no avail. Found this video, worked on the first try!! Sadly, this knife IS a captured pivot but it looks like the G-10 rounded where it holds the pivot barrel because the screw was so stuck with loctite. Anyway, thanks again!
Given Shiro’s quality and prestige it seems unconscionable that they would use a free-spinning pívot and a very nonstandard screw slot. They did, though, create a market for obscenely priced tools and high-priced repair kits! I have both an M111 and a Neon Zero (purchased new) and recently bought a bit set for both made by Casey Lynch - not cheap either but better than searching and paying for a shiro tool. I’ve yet to disassemble either of them as they’re just safe queens for now, but do I understand correctly that they use locktite on the pívot screw?! That would seem to be adding insult to injury. Love their knives but won’t buy another until they change the pívot design. And this may seem a crazy question but is there any chance that placing the pívot bushing under lateral stress could potentially cause deformation? Thanks for this video!!
Thanks for watching man! It might be common knowledge to a lot of people, who knows? I just learned it though and it helped immensely, so I wanted to pass it along!
This method still doesn’t work for my neon zero I just got. Whoever had it before me seriously put way too much loctite on it. I wonder if they used red loctite as well, which is supposed to be “permanent”. No amount of heat or pressure on the blade as shown in your video is working
This worked! I tried so many other things this is probably video #20. I did have to use a vise to get enough force but it worked!
Great tip, thank you! Also, for those of you that don’t have the tool… I wrap a flat head screw driver with electrical tape… You could also wrap a coin. That way if you slip off it shouldn’t scratch your scales or hardware.
If you're a moron then so am I! I have several knives with non-captive pivots and it's very frustrating! I can't believe either of us hadn't thought of this! I've been searching the interwebs for 2 hours looking for a tool (someone should make a tool for this) or any kind of solution! Thank you sir!
Thank you. I've disassembled an un-countable number of knives, a decent amount of which had free spinning pivots. I've never had one that I couldn't pop free by putting a little lateral tension on the open blade and un-screwing at the same time....until I got this MBK mini Old Guard today. I tried everything I could think of, to no avail. Found this video, worked on the first try!! Sadly, this knife IS a captured pivot but it looks like the G-10 rounded where it holds the pivot barrel because the screw was so stuck with loctite. Anyway, thanks again!
Absolute life saver!!!! Pivot was stuck on a brand new 111 and this was the only things outside of the other usual options that worked.
Awesome to hear it!!! 🙌
Worked like a charm on my old Ontario Apache Tac 1
Thank you. Trying to salvage a poor purchase of an Acta Non Verba A100 and could not figure this out. Worked instantly.
Nice tools, like it. Thank you for the tip.
did not work on my spyderco ukpk
Sweet Jesus, man! THANK YOU!
man you're a lifesaver! i even went for the crazyglue but to no avail haha
dude thank you so much, take care !!!
thanx ... worked flawlessly
Thanks for the tip. 👍
Great tip! I discovered this by accident a few years ago.. works great
this needs to be on top of the search list, scratched the shit out of both my hinderers
Given Shiro’s quality and prestige it seems unconscionable that they would use a free-spinning pívot and a very nonstandard screw slot. They did, though, create a market for obscenely priced tools and high-priced repair kits! I have both an M111 and a Neon Zero (purchased new) and recently bought a bit set for both made by Casey Lynch - not cheap either but better than searching and paying for a shiro tool. I’ve yet to disassemble either of them as they’re just safe queens for now, but do I understand correctly that they use locktite on the pívot screw?! That would seem to be adding insult to injury. Love their knives but won’t buy another until they change the pívot design. And this may seem a crazy question but is there any chance that placing the pívot bushing under lateral stress could potentially cause deformation? Thanks for this video!!
is the turtle on the far left a gen3 and the one on the far right a gen 2?
Awesome gear 👍🏼
Great tip. Thanks
Always enjoy the tips🤘🤘😎
Thanks for watching man! It might be common knowledge to a lot of people, who knows? I just learned it though and it helped immensely, so I wanted to pass it along!
This method still doesn’t work for my neon zero I just got. Whoever had it before me seriously put way too much loctite on it. I wonder if they used red loctite as well, which is supposed to be “permanent”. No amount of heat or pressure on the blade as shown in your video is working
i just use a ten cent dime