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I don't feel it's right to have to send in a knife that costs me 240AUD + 70AUD for shipping just to have them replace the crappy washers they used with the same junk. Just the shipping fees alone to send something from Australia to spyderco, not to mention the wait time is a good reason why I don't...

If you take a look in david (evil d's) thread, you can see how damaged one of my washers are from flattening them back out (metals can only stretch so far before snapping) and it is still one of my smoothest spyderco knives. I have it at absolutely no blade play at all and if the lock bar is held op...

Haha when I heard that you had to tighten it without stripping it, sounded like that's a lot and naturally thought everyone would get to the same torque before screw gives and strips. When it felt like there's still plenty, it's not going to strip, I gave it a few more turns. Lol guess that's the re...

http://i64.tinypic.com/9kz13t.jpg The camera on my iPad isn't that great, but you can still make out the detents it left in the Ti http://i64.tinypic.com/143eutt.jpg My washers actually have a split... but the good thing is after flattening out the washers, when I use a peg to hold lock bar open, t...

I read about doing it gradually, but that was after I had already watched the vid and tried it out. At least we know what to do from now on. Mine was curved from factory too, but didn't fully form around it til I tried to fix it. Like your solution suggests, we just need to help it wear in. Just tig...

Hi, I saw your vid on YouTube and left a reply there but thought I should also write something here. *caution do not tighten as hard as you can without stripping screw* Everyone has different strength and ability to tighten without stripping, and doing this actually would harm more than help. Follow...