Hinderer Action is terrible

Stixmagill

Stixmagill

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I received a preowned Hinderer XM-18 3.5 and the detent is terrible. It will not flip open worth a damn. If any of you have a suggestion on how to address this, please let me know. I would love to return it and have them address it at the factory. Any experience with this my friends?

Thank you,
Scott
 
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I'll hang with you until the Calvary arrives . . .
what EXACTLY is happening when you flip it open ? Is the resistance so light you can't build up any force on the blade before the blade moves
or
is it too hard to open / pushing hard but the blade does not move ?

Or is it that you build up a good bit of force and the blade jumps forward but then there is too much resistance in the pivot and it stalls part way open ?
 
How old is it? I think the very early ones had a less than great detent and later Rick made changes. Also, how is the action when you open it with two hands, slow, gritty, tight, or super smooth? It should be the latter.
 
Is it an older generation of Hinderer? As in PRE - tri-way knife? On the older Hinderers the detent was sometimes not as dialed in as the XM-18s have been since the Tri-way models were released.
 
The first one I ever bought had this problem. Very weak detent. Others I've bought after weren't nearly as bad.
 
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