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(151 votes) Published: Nov 05, 2007 7:05 p.m. In 2 Favorites Lists Viewed 1256 times
Well in this egg, I will show you how to clean and improve the speed of your knife. For my guide I will be using a Kershaw Leek (A great starter knife)which does have SpeedSafe.
What is SpeedSafeŽ?
SpeedSafeŽ is the patented, assisted-opening system built into many of Kershaw’s best-selling Ken Onion knives. SpeedSafeŽ assists the user to smoothly open the knife with a manual push on the blade’s thumb stud or Index-Open system. (Index-Open uses a protruding portion of the blade’s finger guard to give the user an alternative to the thumb stud. The user manually pulls back on the protrusion with the index finger to open the blade.)
Now on to the egg.
Materials
Knife
Size 6 and 8 Torx drivers (will vary with model)
Anti-Seize Lubricant
Grease
Synthetic liquid lube
Q-tips
Small cups
DHL print your own label paper (regular paper and tape will work)
Procedure
Step 1 Gather materials.
Step 2 Peel off sticky area of DHL label, or put some tape sticky side up, on your piece of paper.
Step 3 Open knife, if you are using a SpeedSafe/ Assisted knife, to this position.
Step 4 Remove pivot screw and place on sticky area/ tape.
Step 5 Remove spine screws and place on sticky area/ tape.
Step 6 Remove non-locking frame scale.
Step 7 Remove the black backing piece, and the blade.
Step 8 Remove Torsion Bar cover
Step 9 Use Q-tips to clean the Torsion Bar inset completely.
Step 10 Smear a pea sized amount of Anti-Seize Lubricant in torsion bar inset.
Step 11 Replace Torsion Bar.
Step 12 Replace Torsion Bar cover.
Step 13 Replace black backing.
Step 14 Remove washer(s) and clean pivot area on blade.
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Step 15 Pour some Synthetic Liquid Lubricant in a
Dixie cup.
Step 16 Dip Q-tip into Synthetic Liquid Lubricant and spread on blade pivot area.
Step 17 Spread Synthetic Liquid Lubricant on locking scale pivot area and washers.
Step 18 Replace washers and blade.
Step 19 Replace non-locking scale side. Make sure that the torsion bar goes into the hole in the blade.
Step 20 Dab the pivot screw in a pea sized amount of grease.
Step 21 Replace pivot screw.
Step 22 Tighten all screws.
Step 23 Wipe excess grease from pivot screw.
Step 24 Move blade vertically to spread lubricants.
Step 25 Give the knife a test open.
Step 26 See if your knife has any blade play.
Step 27 Tightening pivot screw will remove play, but may make the knife hard to open. Find a good balance for personal taste.
TA-DA!!! You are DONE!!!
You should now have a much smoother opening and closing, as well as being easier to open and close.
Thats all folks, feel free to ask any questions.
P.S. I used Vids (.gif’s were taking to long to process/ not processing at all...) to make this as easy as possible. They did take a while record and upload, so, if you feel the need to rate low, post a comment with your reasoning.
Nov 05, 2007 9:39 pm - I have the same knife, but mine says Snap-On on it...(Yeah, that means I overpaid for it!)
If (when) your spring breaks, you can make a new one out of a small piece of an old carburetor throttle return spring. Actually, I suggest taking your knife back apart and pre-bending a new spring now, before the original breaks. It’s easier to match the shape when the original’s in one piece.
Also, I suggest a little BLUE loc-tite on the screws. The snapping action of the SpeedSafe Kershaws tends to loosen all the screws, especially the little spine screws (I lost one of my screws... I’m screwed! LoL).
Otherwise, Kershaws kick ass...
Good egg... 5*
Its stupid that people would complain about the number of videos. Its not like you had to watch every one. Just read what the steps say, and if you don’t understand, use the video to clarify.
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