rcmodel
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Well, sort of.
Flipped my Benchmade 710 open this morning to cut something, and it failed (for the first time ever) to lock up like a bank vault door.
I was so surprised I almost let it swing shut and cut me!!
Come to find out, it wasn't the Axis-Lock that failed, but a $1.99 Scripto lighter in my pocket.
A tiny 1/16" dia. coil spring fell out of the child-proof lock on the butane lighter, and my knife sucked it up inside the blade stop cutout next to the henge somehow.
The tiny little spring is magnetized strongly enough ( I would guess from the Piezoelectric current zapping by it) to move a compass needle!!
Anyway, it stuck to the blade and kept it from opening quite far enough for the Axis-Lock to engage!
One of those once-in-a-lifetime things that couldn't happen.
But it did.
Who would have thought I would ever have a tiny magnetic spring in my pocket!!
rc
Flipped my Benchmade 710 open this morning to cut something, and it failed (for the first time ever) to lock up like a bank vault door.
I was so surprised I almost let it swing shut and cut me!!
Come to find out, it wasn't the Axis-Lock that failed, but a $1.99 Scripto lighter in my pocket.
A tiny 1/16" dia. coil spring fell out of the child-proof lock on the butane lighter, and my knife sucked it up inside the blade stop cutout next to the henge somehow.
The tiny little spring is magnetized strongly enough ( I would guess from the Piezoelectric current zapping by it) to move a compass needle!!
Anyway, it stuck to the blade and kept it from opening quite far enough for the Axis-Lock to engage!
One of those once-in-a-lifetime things that couldn't happen.
But it did.
Who would have thought I would ever have a tiny magnetic spring in my pocket!!
rc
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