Tenacious Washer Mystery

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I recently took my Tenacious apart to clean it after using it in a muddy/wet environment, and to my surprise, I found three washers...a large on on the side opposite the liner lock, and two smaller ones on the side with the lock. My question is this: Is the double washer intentional? :confused: If not, I feel that it may be somewhat detrimental to the smoothness of the knife's action.
 
Lol, I'm not "messing" with them. I put them all back where they came from. Just wondering if it was an accident...they're reeaaally thin and stuck together. I'm guessing it's on purpose. SO I left 'em that way.
 
I have never found three,must have been stuck together,i am like the master don't mess with it,taking a knife apart takes skill to not screw it up............
 
Not all that uncommon to find two washers on one side or the other on Spydercos. Those things are very thing and they will stick together. By the way Spyderco will send you some more if you should need them. Just email or give them a call in Warranty.
 
Actually my Tenacious has 4 washers in total, 2 REALLY thin ones on both sides.
I' ve been wondering about that, too:confused:
 
Mystery solved! I just put all three back where they came from, and it works just the same. I'm glad I'm not the only one to have wondered about this. Thanks for the help!

Love the Tenacious, BTW.
 
I would sure put it back the way they came out. I am thinking that since these knives are at least partially hand assembled (maybe more than partially!) that the washers may be important to proper spacing and appearance of the finished product.

The extra washers, even at their minuscule thickness, my be used in fact for shims.

Just a thought - there seems to be too many multiple washer assemblies here for them to be flukes of manufacture.

Robert
 
Being an assembly machine designer, a machine to assemble a knife would cost a few hundred thousand dollars: I think almost all knives are had assembled.

I'm thinking that to reduce cost, the tolerances on the grind for the liner lock, backspacers, etc. were loosened up and the extra washers are used to match the correct distance between the scales. No problem with it, just a work around to a preventing cost wherever possible. Benchmade has done this on a few of their nicer knives by using blade stop pins that were shorter in distance than the gap between the scales. The result is a smooth action because the pivot screw is determining the gab distance between the scales instead of trying to match the distance determined by the blade stop pin.

2 bronze washers should actually cause a smoother action, if the washers slide against eachother.
 
Mine has 4 washers too. Small ones on the outside, large ones closest to the blade. I just assumed it was a way of shimming an unexpected change in manufacturing tolerance, or as a means of making the blade a little smoother.
 
Hah! Oh man have I had problems with tenacious washers, it was really gritty so i thought I would try to clean them so i took them out, and then i broke one of the washers. They sent me new ones but they weren't the right size or i just didn't know how to put it back the way it was suppose to be so I took my SAK and cut the washers so they would fit! Now its got blade play and the most uncentered blade in the world lol. I am going to send it in and see what they can do about it. But it is a great knife.
 
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