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Benchmade 580 in the field (sand)
Commentary around the usage of 580 Barrage in the Field. Hiking on the beach. Sand in the axis lock?
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By chrisw40, April 6, 2009 @ 7:57 pm
Thats a situation when your new torx set comes in handy.
By CreativeOutletHobbie, April 6, 2009 @ 10:16 pm
agree, but I’m extremely happy that I didn’t have to use it.
By EdgeOutdoor, April 12, 2009 @ 2:46 pm
You probably should have taken it apart, because sand will stretch our the axle. Benchmade makes their knives with about 3,000th of a millimeter space on either side of the tang between each handle. Anything that gets in there and scratches it is going to stretch it out and loosen the lock so that it will give you play when it is locked open. Compressed air might have been fine, as long as you didn’t grind the sand in there too much, but for higher-end knives, I would recommend taking it apart.
By CreativeOutletHobbie, April 12, 2009 @ 7:51 pm
Yeah, that is the proper way to do it, but given my skill and time spent on taking another knife apart it wasn’t worth it to me. Its still working okay at this point.
By clap5, April 20, 2009 @ 2:20 pm
When are they going to release this knife? All sites claim “avalible soon” or “pre order”. I hate waiting!!!
By clap5, May 5, 2009 @ 7:46 am
I can’t even take mine apart. I think they put lock tight on the threads. My torque screws are getting chewed up.
By devouringfate, May 9, 2009 @ 2:05 pm
Sand is bad for everything. Especially folding knives
By CreativeOutletHobbie, May 9, 2009 @ 2:45 pm
Sand is even worse for camera gear
By balisongman07, September 16, 2009 @ 10:27 pm
axis is pretty okay about sand actually, i saw a video of some guy that dug his griptilian in sand and it opend and closed pretty well
By CreativeOutletHobbie, September 22, 2009 @ 8:53 pm
This is the assisted-axis version though. I don’t like my knives crunchy sounding.