Great video. Usually I just take the blade out and leave the handle together to clean my Benchmade's but if I ever have a need to fully take apart a Benchmade I'll definitely be using this video as guidance. Great job Nick. Well done.
I've always wondered what the dirtiest knife you've had was and how truly effective a good cleaning can be. I think after watching this I now know. Thanks for another excellent video!
Thanks for doing this video. Just bought mine and it came the same way. It was bone dry and a little over tightened. Now mine swings almost as well as yours lol My first Benchmade. :)
Watched this video while polishing the washers on my new Crooked River. They were super un-flat. It didn't completely fix the side to side play, but it made it a great deal less noticeable. Also really improved the action as well. Fortunately for me I didn't have to take down the entire knife. (I've taken down some Ganzo axis locks before...and they are not pleasant to reassemble).
I put this video from 199 to 200 likes. You're welcome. Just playing man keep it up, you know your shit and keep it 💯. Keep doing what you do brother 👍
My god was putting the pin back difficult. I have managed to center the blade by pulling back on the axis lock while installing the pin and it worked...Atleast the knife is smooth as butter now.Thanks for the vid.
Great vid Nick ! I've been having a damn fit here lately with a couple of my Benchmades ... After maintenance , after putting loctite in the pivot , I tighten the screw and it's too much , let off and it's too lose - there is no middle ground where I don't have blade play !!! I've tried loosening or tightening in extremely small increments , but nothing works ! I honestly don't know why I bother with Benchmade anymore ?!?! They are soooo inconsistent !!! Hell , even the blade has vertical play when touching the axis lock bar on 3 of them ! lol It's sad !!! Oh , and I'm still searching for a better way to apply loctite ! There's been a couple times a little too much came out of that damn tube !!! Haha
Really digging that G10. Not a huge fan of the axis lock in general, and Spyderco does it better in their Manix and the like anyway, but I could definitely see myself enjoying the Rift with that really nice reverse tanto profile
You could feel the tension. The pivot was riveting! (knife metaphors) Benchmade is probably a good example of why most people don't disassemble knives. A thread on BF revealed that very few (of those participating in the thread) do. But your results speak for themselves. It's worth doing.
Phosphor Bronze washers are STAMPED out of sheet stock. The stock is VERY consistent in thickness (typically +/-< 0.0001). You can expect dishing of the final product, with the edges of the finished washer dishing UP in the direction from which the center hole has been punched.
I bought empty nail polish bottles with brushes in the caps and they work great with the liquid loctite. Remember, do not fill the bottles as loctite cures when not exposed to air.
1) Cry 2) Email the manufacturer for a new screw 3) Extract by grinding out a slot-head groove, or using a rubber band, or a stripped screw extractor set OR Shrug and superglue, if it's a cheapy.
If you’re just using loctite for the screws, you can just squeeze the bottle so the loctite reaches the opening of the tip, and then just dab the threads of the screw in it.
Question on a slightly similar but different edc knife. Any thoughts on the Spyderco Brad Southard Positron? Carbon Fiber or the Knifecenter exclusive orange g10 sprint run? I'm finding mixed results and be curious on your take. Thanks!
Hey Nick can I buy that oiler tool online? Does it have a name to look up? It looks like a very handy tool to have when taking knives apart and putting back together. thanks ...
Do a "Nick Outdoors" episode. Go camping with the girl freind before summer ends and show off a few knives youd consider ideal for camping cooking as well as thick rope cutting and wood widdling.
Yet another very expensive Benchmade knife that works like a cornerstore $25 dollar special. I really don’t know why people keeping buying from this company. The precision work coming out of companies like WE knives blow Benchmade out of the water. Who cares if it’s American made if it’s garbage? And why the easily stripped T6 screws on the body? Having worked on my Fact for far too long I can appreciate the miracle you just pulled off on a Benchmade knife- wow it works and is centered. A Benchmade. What a miracle. How long before it goes off again? 😎🤣
I cringe ever time I see you shove that torx bit in the pivot hole and start using it as a punch pin. The safest thing to do is use the pivot screw you just removed. Tread it back on just a few turns (enough for 3-4 threads to engage) and push on top of that. There are less chances of damaging threads this way.
4 years later, still the most informative axis lock disassembly and tuning guide on TH-cam
Love the extra close up photography. Makes a huge difference when we watch on our devices. Well done thank you!
Thanks man I own 34 benchmades and your videos have taken my love for their knives to a new level 🙏🏻
putting this back together has broken my spirits, I struggled so much
Great video. Usually I just take the blade out and leave the handle together to clean my Benchmade's but if I ever have a need to fully take apart a Benchmade I'll definitely be using this video as guidance. Great job Nick. Well done.
As someone with little exposure to the internals of modern folders I'm really enjoying these videos. Please keep them coming!
I've always wondered what the dirtiest knife you've had was and how truly effective a good cleaning can be. I think after watching this I now know. Thanks for another excellent video!
I've noticed the same inconsistencies with the washers in my Benchmades. I usually run them over a fine grit bench stone then strop them.
Thanks for doing this video. Just bought mine and it came the same way. It was bone dry and a little over tightened. Now mine swings almost as well as yours lol My first Benchmade. :)
Watched this video while polishing the washers on my new Crooked River. They were super un-flat. It didn't completely fix the side to side play, but it made it a great deal less noticeable. Also really improved the action as well.
Fortunately for me I didn't have to take down the entire knife. (I've taken down some Ganzo axis locks before...and they are not pleasant to reassemble).
I put this video from 199 to 200 likes. You're welcome. Just playing man keep it up, you know your shit and keep it 💯. Keep doing what you do brother 👍
home run! high five Mr. Nick!
My god was putting the pin back difficult. I have managed to center the blade by pulling back on the axis lock while installing the pin and it worked...Atleast the knife is smooth as butter now.Thanks for the vid.
They do in fact sell empty needle-applicator bottles in the Amazon. Been meaning to grab one for loctite dispensing myself.
Hey Nick where can I get a leather strop like that??
Great vid Nick ! I've been having a damn fit here lately with a couple of my Benchmades ... After maintenance , after putting loctite in the pivot , I tighten the screw and it's too much , let off and it's too lose - there is no middle ground where I don't have blade play !!! I've tried loosening or tightening in extremely small increments , but nothing works ! I honestly don't know why I bother with Benchmade anymore ?!?! They are soooo inconsistent !!! Hell , even the blade has vertical play when touching the axis lock bar on 3 of them ! lol It's sad !!! Oh , and I'm still searching for a better way to apply loctite ! There's been a couple times a little too much came out of that damn tube !!! Haha
Really digging that G10. Not a huge fan of the axis lock in general, and Spyderco does it better in their Manix and the like anyway, but I could definitely see myself enjoying the Rift with that really nice reverse tanto profile
You could feel the tension. The pivot was riveting! (knife metaphors) Benchmade is probably a good example of why most people don't disassemble knives. A thread on BF revealed that very few (of those participating in the thread) do. But your results speak for themselves. It's worth doing.
Hey nick can u review a keychain aaa flashlight ultra tac k18 and or sure fire Titan plus 300 lm on the sure fire and 360 lm on the ultra tac
Phosphor Bronze washers are STAMPED out of sheet stock. The stock is VERY consistent in thickness (typically +/-< 0.0001). You can expect dishing of the final product, with the edges of the finished washer dishing UP in the direction from which the center hole has been punched.
You can try getting a needle or hypodermic needle for the lock tight.
I bought empty nail polish bottles with brushes in the caps and they work great with the liquid loctite. Remember, do not fill the bottles as loctite cures when not exposed to air.
What do you do if you strip a screw head?
1) Cry
2) Email the manufacturer for a new screw
3) Extract by grinding out a slot-head groove, or using a rubber band, or a stripped screw extractor set OR Shrug and superglue, if it's a cheapy.
Thanks.. I'm gonna try the grinding. I've had way too many BM pocket-clip screws strip on me.
Do a 556-1 disassemble and clean please
Nick, do you like cars? What car do you have?
If you’re just using loctite for the screws, you can just squeeze the bottle so the loctite reaches the opening of the tip, and then just dab the threads of the screw in it.
Mission Impossible: Benchmade Disassembly
I have the same knife only mine works perfectly and is #710 by Ganzo 😁
Nick: Am sending you my youngest daughter, see if you can get her to work, aha!!!
Pretty fucking entertaining...I appreciate that
Question on a slightly similar but different edc knife. Any thoughts on the Spyderco Brad Southard Positron? Carbon Fiber or the Knifecenter exclusive orange g10 sprint run? I'm finding mixed results and be curious on your take. Thanks!
Hah. Got a review of that guy coming up. The verdict is "Heck no".
+Nick Shabazz good to know! Thanks! Also been looking at the Spyderco GB2.
Hey Nick can I buy that oiler tool online? Does it have a name to look up? It looks like a very handy tool to have when taking knives apart and putting back together. thanks ...
Right here... amzn.to/2b4gRvw
Nick Shabazz would you mind posting a new link please? this one no longer exists
Do a "Nick Outdoors" episode. Go camping with the girl freind before summer ends and show off a few knives youd consider ideal for camping cooking as well as thick rope cutting and wood widdling.
Hay ! That's a copy of the ganzo firebird f710!
Not quite a clone .the liners are milled ( i think there stamp out ) out .
Jeez, I wish you would tape that blade. Might avoid this clip being in the next episode of Game of Thrones!
Painfull.
Something so basic.
How do you make it look so difficult.
You think that's hard try doing the same on a Ganzo G720 which has a full spacer, what a bugger.
This was painful to watch lol, it's so much easier if you take the springs off and put it together like a normal folder.
Yet another very expensive Benchmade knife that works like a cornerstore $25 dollar special. I really don’t know why people keeping buying from this company. The precision work coming out of companies like WE knives blow Benchmade out of the water. Who cares if it’s American made if it’s garbage? And why the easily stripped T6 screws on the body? Having worked on my Fact for far too long I can appreciate the miracle you just pulled off on a Benchmade knife- wow it works and is centered. A Benchmade. What a miracle. How long before it goes off again? 😎🤣
I cringe ever time I see you shove that torx bit in the pivot hole and start using it as a punch pin. The safest thing to do is use the pivot screw you just removed. Tread it back on just a few turns (enough for 3-4 threads to engage) and push on top of that. There are less chances of damaging threads this way.
Probably safer, you're right. But then again, making you cringe is fun...
kill them damn little washers, I hate, I hate little washers, (Cap. Hook)...
No wonder BM has poor quality control; they have to waste so much time and energy putting these things together.
so dumm