OTF Microtech Knife ultratech cleaning

hi this is David from razor sharp unlimited dot-com Donna Florida today we are going to show you how to clean and disassemble a micro tech out the front if you don't have the tools you have to bring it to us because we're an authorized micro tech dealer if you have a set of tools and you do take the knife apart in and something happens to the knife you'll void your warranty so the best thing to do guys bring it in to us a lot of services sharpen it repair it if we can't in-house if not then we'll go ahead and forward it to micro tech if you need a micro tech turned in you can bring it to us since we're an authorized dealer will generate an RMA get it in for service and that's usually four to six weeks turnaround time but today I've got a couple customers knives that set me this is a friend of ours out of Chicago he's a police chief he's had a couple misfires on these ultratex these are older ones from 2002 but if you notice in any micro tech is a double action a single action would be like the halo or the Nemesis where you have to pull a plunger back in order to fire the the knife these all have detents on them the government requested that if company manufacturers out the front knives that they put a detent where you couldn't just walk up to somebody and stick them if your knife gets dirty or malfunctions it'll jump track like this and it'll free the blade all you do is take your handle in your finger and pull the blade to just lock it and then it resets the mechanism inside to fire the knife most commonly with the micro tech knife if they start misfiring nine times out of ten it's caused by some lint it could be caused by people oiling them too much and the best thing that we found is the less oil the better so if you do have a newer style with a glass breaker or personal defense tool you can take a poncho nail or something stick it in here unscrew this take your clip off and inside there is a hole you can take compressed air and blow it straight out and it will come out here that should take care of your problem if you're having a lot of misfires or you do need to lubricate it the best that I found is just plain raw silicone spray one shot in the end cap work it back and forth couple times be sure that it's not misfiring and you should be good to go so that's that's how you service the micro Tech's at the house if you have a compressed air can of air that's clean your keyboard with but this just screws back in here and then just tighten it up with a like I said with a tool that will fit inside here just snug it up you can also use that for reversing your pocket clip if your left or right-handed carrier these here are the the altar tacks these are the older models like I said we're going to try to take one of these apart and see what the problem is is bear with me a minute this this particular model takes torques the newer models take the special screws that Microtech developed you have to have the tool once in a while we get the tools we sell the tools as a dealer you know we have to stock six seven hundred dollars and tools just to service these knives I heard through the grapevine that micro tech is not making the tools for open purchase I could be wrong us what I've heard they're not even given dealers the tools from what I understand either so that's that's kind of I don't know we should we should be able to serve it if we're an authorized dealer we should be able to service the the knives we sell our core business is law enforcement military for the last eight years and what we try to do is we try to service everything in-house for our guys so they don't have to go back to the manufacturer and be out of commission for four to four to six weeks what we normally do is if we don't fix the knife in-house or there's something that needs to be forwarded to the manufacturer we normally do that you have if for any reason you guys do take your micro Tech's apart be sure that you are very very careful with taking everything apart because there are many in many Springs inside these units and there we go we've got the top off this is what is inside the micro tech scarabs ultratex their double action basically this is the slide right here that slides and fires and these are all make basically on an ER show so what you do is when you push a button through this slide lifts this blade up this slide here lifts the blade up and fires the knife and locks up what happens is as you can see how much oil that is overall then it has caused malfunctioning we'll have to clean this up and everything and go through it the best thing we use is degreaser or a Benchmade blue Lube works really really good on everything it just takes everything's biodegradable so what we're going to do is we're basically going to take this knife down tear both of them down he sent me two of them we're going to tear them down soak them clean them all up get them back in a working order and then we're going to forward them that's the slide for the for the mechanism for the blade as you can see as a spring now if you guys use these knives around salt water you have to be careful because right here there's a little eyelet sometimes those rust and they'll break off and then you know you'll lose your spring and everything and you won't have any function but other than that that's basically how the knife goes together there are like I said two is a small spring right in here that you have to be careful you don't lose and the other spring is up under here which these are your blade stops there's a little spring here in here if you should ever lose that it has to go back to the manufacturer we don't stock those type of Springs and we've have to forward them to micro tech so basically in closing the UTX 7585 ultratex scarabs combat rodents protons are all double actions st. same cleaning purpose procedure like I said if you don't have the tools you can bring it by to our store will service it for you free of charge sharpen it for your charge if you bought the Knight from us if you didn't buy the knife from us it would be a service charge to clean and sharpen in closing once you get this back together just be sure that it is firing normally sometimes they say people I've heard through forums and stuff that if the blade does detent you can slam the blade down and lock it that way that's the worst thing for the blade you could break the stop pin internally so it's easier just if you have a malfunction just to hold the knife in two hands pull the blade and reset it so if you need any micro Tech's right now we've got a sale on them we've got a large selection we have many many styles in everything coming in throughout the week you can reach us at razor sharp on limited com you can reach us on the phone at 833 for zero one seven two or you can reach us by email website follow us on Facebook YouTube we're going to be shooting some more videos or getting a lot of new stuff in get ready for a blade so until next time guys this is David from razor sharp unlimited stay sharp

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Published: Mon Feb 18 2013