The Man Without Fear wrote:
> Anyone know how to or have ideas on a lockback that has stopped
> locking back/broken? Need some help!

Jeeze we're going to need a little more to go on there, Man. ;)
(you can't provide -too- many details)

I don't really like lock-backs I prefer slip-joints.

Alvin in AZ

From:	brian w edginton
Subject:	Re: Lockback
Date:	Fri, 21 Jan 2005 03:31:51 GMT

On 20 Jan 2005 16:35:21 GMT, intimidatingly@aol.com (The Man Without
Fear) wrote:

>Anyone know how to or have ideas on a lockback that has stopped locking
>back/broken? Need some help!

Umm.....sounds a lot like a "throw it away and get a new one"
situation.
But, if it was a high-end custom, get in touch with the maker.
The only lockback I ever had that broke a backspring was a Sheffield
"Colonial " that I bought in the 60s.
Damned thing just SNAPPED one day.
Not too many factory knives are "fixable" after warranty runs out.
Luck .........
brianWE
Been there, done that.....but so have others.
Without the DNA, you can't prove a thing!

From:	Del Cecchi
Subject:	Re: Lockback
Date:	Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:45:49 -0600

brian w edginton wrote:
> On 20 Jan 2005 16:35:21 GMT, intimidatingly@aol.com (The Man Without
> Fear) wrote:
>
>
>>Anyone know how to or have ideas on a lockback that has stopped locking
>>back/broken? Need some help!
>
>
>
> Umm.....sounds a lot like a "throw it away and get a new one"
> situation.
> But, if it was a high-end custom, get in touch with the maker.
> The only lockback I ever had that broke a backspring was a Sheffield
> "Colonial " that I bought in the 60s.
> Damned thing just SNAPPED one day.
> Not too many factory knives are "fixable" after warranty runs out.
> Luck .........
> brianWE
> Been there, done that.....but so have others.
> Without the DNA, you can't prove a thing!
Had a buck pocket knife that stopped locking. Tried cleaning out the
fuzz and everything. Even put it through the dishwasher (stainless is
good for something) and no love. Sent it back to Buck, got brand new
replacement. And I had had it for several years.

From:	The Man Without Fear
Subject:	Re: Lockback
Date:	22 Jan 2005 00:26:38 GMT

I was hoping someone had some creative ideas for me, like superglue or
something crazy.

From:	alvinj at XX.com
Subject:	Re: Lockback
Date:	Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:16:30 +0000 (UTC)

The Man Without Fear wrote:
> I was hoping someone had some creative ideas for me, like superglue
> or something crazy.

Oh well heck, in that case... :) Open the sucker up and wrap
bailing wire around the handle where the pivot pin is... using your
line pliers pull up and then twist down (to take up the slack you
made when you pulled up on the wire).

"Crazy" I got. ;)

You still haven't said what kind of knife it is or anything. :/

http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/Buck503.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/Buck503a.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/Buck503b.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/Buck503c.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/Buck503d2.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/Buck503dR.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/Buck503fin.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/Buck503finC.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/Buck503pinC.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/Buck503pinP.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/Buck503pinS.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/Buck503pinF.jpg

Doggonit I lost track of which pictures are of what. :/
(someday I need to weed them out;)

Shirley "Man", you can fix yours.

Alvin in AZ

From:	The Man Without Fear
Subject:	Re: Lockback
Date:	23 Jan 2005 23:19:21 GMT

Hey Alvin.
It is a small lockback with a plastic handle. It seems to not have any screws
in it that would make it able to unscrew it and take it apart. The silver
*screw* that holds the handle together has no flathead or philips, it is just
flat and smooth. I use it to open boxes. I am not one to throw knives away,
until the blade breaks into many parts, bearing unusable. I would of taken it
apart already if I could have.
Any other ideas?