James Miller Just by buy a cheap torx set at Wal-Mart and back the blade screw a quarter to half a turn.

make of video showing this. sounds helpfull

Make sure you don't hit the cat.

The point of locktight is so it doesn’t come loose

+lee33htzdiscotech Uh Oh! I see a Google Hangout in our future, talking someone's wife through the reassembly of an M4 Stryker on video chat! BTW, picked up your knife yesterday... she's a beauty! Get better, brother!

Justin Faith Absolutely right. My brain and mouth must have not been on speaking terms that day.

Would there be anything wrong with lightly sanding / polishing the washers? To get the lip off. Guess I should have watched it for a few more min lol.

lee cho no such thing as a 1000 grit Arkansas

Replace it with a omega spring maybe?

Dakota Greenwood Every few years. Once you get it tuned up properly, and that pivot Loctited, it pretty much stays where you put it.

Not if you don’t screw it up 😉

It's just fun to do

You're comparing a knife to a car which are 2 different things. A car takes way more knowledge than a knife. Idiotic comparison. It's called maintenance. You need to do this if your knife has been put through tough conditions otherwise stuff will build up and the action will be unbearable. I know it's hard to believe but I don't want to wait 2-3 weeks for my knife to ship to Oregon and back just to get it cleaned or fixed. Unless it's a huge issue where it's beyond my capabilities I'll just clean it myself...

@@Phaminator525 no actually comparing a knife in a car or identical. They are both mechanical devices apparatuses wherever what you would like to call them. They both have multiple moving parts within one assembly. listen don't tell me about getting stuff in your knife and what not I've dropped knives into concrete while deployed to Afghanistan in Iraq I've had days upon days upon days of very fine dust getting in everything it even got inside the watches we were wearing it was so fine. in all instances where a folding knife was concerned all it took was some compressed air and a couple of drops of oil and everything returned to normal. This includes when the knife was encased in concrete. People take knives apart because they want to not because they need to period And when you're talking about a bronze phosphor pivot actually no oil at all or any lubrication is needed that's the point of having bronze phosphor washers. I've talked to many many many Custom knife makers and I asked them what do you put on yours and they say nothing the ones that I carry I run dry. Shane Seibert went so far as to tell me he doesn't run any lubrication on his bearings in his custom knives period when I asked him well how come you don't use ceramic bearings and he said it doesn't make a difference whether the ceramic or stainless it doesn't matter in a knife because there's no amount of friction or heat that's going to be built up that we require a change in either. Which is why he runs no lubrication. you see lubrication is only required when there is heat generated that's why you put oil in an engine that's why you put lubrication on moving parts is to reduce heat when you open and close a knife I don't care if you do it a hundred times in a row as fast as humanly possible you're never going to generate enough heat to require a lubricant. Do what you want to do but just note all I'm saying is it's completely 100% unnecessary.

@@shepleonard8695 so sand and dust is the only thing that could mess up a knife ? Ever thought of water? Salt water? You definitely need to open your knife and clean it if you dropped it in salt water. And no phosphorus bronze do not run smooth if you don't oil them after a while. They still work yes, but they're not smooth. And no a car would not be a good comparison because it takes a level of expertise to take apart the engine. You dont need to be a blades Smith to take apart a benchmade 940. Sharpening and making a knife is a different story but maintenance can be done by ANYONE. It's like cleaning your gun. Will it still shoot if you dont? Some guns yes, but it wont be good in the long run if you dont properly maintain the tools you use. I'm not gonna call sig whenever I want my pistol cleaned. Same with a knife.

@@Phaminator525 I live at the beach. I surf and fish weekly. I've never had a knife rust ever. Why? Because I rinse them off with soap and water and I dry them. in 48 years of my life I have never once had to take a knife apart for any reason. You have to go back before the 1980s and look at the folding knife for the most part they were all slip joints or lockbacks. You couldn't take these knives apart we're talking about Buck, Case and Böker. Yet you have knives from these companies that are 50 80 100 years old and still usable today yet they cannot be taken apart. So again I will close with there is no need whatsoever to take any knife apart. as for bronze Foster washers yes they do run smooth the longer you run them smooth the smoother they will become. I have a three sisters forge beast that will drop shut just as easily as a Norseman. what you fail to understand is by cleaning a knife and lubricating it you're inviting in debris to get hung and stuck on that lubricant which will cause things to Gunk up which will cause the knife to not be a smooth and will actually cause the material to start to break down because of the abrasiveness of this concoction. But if you run your knobs dry they don't collect debris and what little bit they do or can can easily be blown out. That ooh and ah super smooth sensation you get right after you take apart a knife and clean it and then lubricate it the moment you stick it in your pocket it begins to breakdown and start collecting debris.

They're just a T6 Torx head. Most of the time you can do it with one. When it cracks loose you don't need another one on he other side. I've never had one be very stubborn at all.

+TheApostleP On my knife, it's not quite a regular T6. The shape the torx interlocks with doesn't go all the way down the hole. Instead, it forms a torx hole shaped blade, and it cuts right through the metal of the torx heads. Excepting my really nice Craftsman torx driver, but the amount of force I'm applying without it budging is scary, and anymore will definitely cut that head too. I can already see where the metal started bending.

+toadstkr I was about to say it too, as a guess, that it may well be lock tight, and your right toad, most torx drivers are indeed cheap, and they do break in many situations. I heard Craftsman tools are now made in China. I can't say I know for sure if that's true, but I've heard it from several sources. ??????

+toadstkr Thanks very much for the spot-heating heat advice! I see upon some research that that's the way to do it. I'll have to get ahold of a soldering iron somehow. The driver that's survived, the craftsman, is USA made, the nicest driver I could find in the nearest three hardware stores. It bent a little, but it started to twist like a spiral, rather than cut or snap.

+Howabouthetruth Some are, some aren't. Kinda like Red Wing boots, you have to put a bit of research into buying them now. My particular one is made in the USA.

+TheYoungSheepdog Regular Loctie 222 needs 2 hours to sit, before you go ahead flicking and flipering.

+Mark Yarger I suppose you could, but I like to call their lifetime sharpening service "Lifedull." LOL! They can't sharpen well, either on the production line or in their Lifesharp department.

Whats your job?

delav83 The 940 Osborne.