just recieved my native and spydercard... hints?

[Lt.Hawkins]

would oiling the "hinge" be a good idea? i have some gun oil that i use to lube my paintball markers mechanisms... would this be a good or bad idea to apply to the knives?



or do i just need to work them a bit, break them in a little?

[Clay Kesting]

The answers yes to both questions. A little lubrication to the pivot pin and locking bar is very useful. Just about any lube will do although everybody seems to have their own favourite. Mine is Tuff-Glide.

Working the actions a couple of hundred times will help smooth it out. At least that's the excuse you can use when your playing with your knife whilst watching TV. You know you're going to do it anyway <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>.

Clay

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[Lt.Hawkins]

watching TV? i was doing it at work.

[The Stare]

I too am a TufGlide fan. A great # of folk swear by Militec-1 or something like that. Others are died-in-the-wool White Lightning users.

From my perspective, Lt., I would recommend using the thinnest lubricant you possibly can. Otherwise, some oils and greases can collect a lot of dusty crud down in there, and eventually cause it to be difficult to cycle.

TufGlide comes in a half oz bottle with a metal -- really looks like a wire -- applicator approx. 1.5&quot; long. It is tiny in diameter, and you can get the lubricant down deep exactly where you want it on most knives. Perhaps the best thing about TufGlide is that it evaporates. It doesn't leave a residue. Instead, the components adhere to the metal surfaces of the knife. Non-gunky.

Quite a few Spydercos come with peened pins hlding them together, and one cannot take them apart to get at the workings. So, please be careful about using something like 3-in-1 oil or something that can really gunk up your knives.

Hope this helps.

Stare

[Mancer]

Yeah I too oil the hinge as well as the blade when I get it, even tho its SS blade, Im a fan of doing things the old messy way and keeping the blade well oiled and shapened, Ive got both of the blades youve just got, they gr8,love the native and the Scard is a small wonder.

Seeya l8tr

MaNcEr

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