The Inside Of A Microtech Ultratech & How It Works

hey guys what's going on Sherman here I told few you guys that I was going to do a video on the disassembly of my micro tech Ultratech so we're going to be doing today now real quick juju 13 13 already has a video on how to take apart an OT f knife he took apart a lightning Brand OTF but the internal mechanisms are almost identical to that of an ultra Tech's but I wanted to specifically take apart my Ultra tech just to show you guys that maybe I already have one I've never taken it apart or maybe thinking about getting an ultra tech and maybe you're a little bit nervous about taking them apart you don't know what to expect a little bit apprehensive so I just want to show you guys how to do it um how to do some maintenance on it because it's really not that difficult if you know what you're doing and that's why I wanted to make this video just to show you guys how they work and how to take them apart and put them back together but definitely go check out juju 1313 video because he's a really smart guy much smarter than myself has a lot more experience so definitely check him out alright so I have with me my homemade micro tech tool I cannot take credit for this but all it is is a pencil salt in half wrapped in duct tape to make it slightly more cool I just took three of those small picture hanging tax or tax you put in a picture frame chop the heads off with some wire cutters on needle nose pliers and just push them into the pencil so it works perfect because like I said my review micro tech has their proprietary screws and they also sell a dit to take their knives apart but those bits are about 25 dollars apiece I mean really if you can make one for practically nothing you know I can make the bit you know I'm willing to pay the money to buy the knife if I can't make the knife I'm not willing to spend nearly $30 for a bit just to take one knife apart now one more thing I wanted to address that some people are a little bit nervous about taking these things apart because they say it'll void the warranty but really if you take apart any knife you void the warranty just about every single company Spyderco benchmade car aw they'll all tell you to send your knife in for maintenance you know to have it really have screws tightened resharpened all I could stuff but nobody does that maybe they send their knife in to have sharpened but nobody sends their knife end of it oiled you know stuff like that companies expect that they know people take their knives apart all the time I know all of us do companies just tell you that because they don't want you to take your knife apart and you have an accident or you don't know what you're doing and you lose a piece because that's that's money the company has to take out of their pocket I've replaced so companies are perfectly willing to replace factory defects things that they mess up they don't want to cover for your mistakes you know I'm saying so they don't want to have to pay because you lost something out of negligence so that's the only real reason they say they do that but really they know people take their knives apart so don't worry all right they're just going to start unscrewing it I have a little magnetic Bowl handy so very very nice screws there are really thick too compared to most screws you see on knives holding the frame together now this driver if you can even call it that you can't really torque down on these screws so you can't tighten them down too far or too hard but I would recommend lock tightening these with some blue loctite or thread lock what you're going to call it this'll ease don't back out all the time on you because like I mentioned in my review these screws will back out occasionally just from the force of the blade being propelled like it's like assisted opening knives assisted opening knives will sometimes have the same thing because of the force so did she just driver works perfectly now when you're doing this some things are under some spring tension so kind of hold the two pieces together and just very gently remove this top frame and word of advice hold on just press down on the firing button just hold on to it very carefully take this aluminum scale off and then remove the firing button because the only thing holding the firing button in place is the two handles being pushed together all right so there's the firing button has a hole right in the middle and then a mill that hole on the side I'll say I'm not really sure why the hole on the side is there as you can see really not sure why that's there here's the firing button that's not off to the side and very important to have not one dimension there is a tiny tiny little spring underneath the firing button do not lose this it's a very important piece so just put that off to the side put in a bag put it on a magnetic dish or something because what that does is that it holds the firing button suspended it suspends it and kind of raises it up off of that surface just to kind of prevent drag from the button you can see a lot of wear right there from the firing switch that's normal most of that's from that spring like I said that just holds the button up so you don't have a lot of drag up against that aluminum handle or else it's going to make for a very sluggish deployment all right so here is the internal mechanism it should be very careful because like I said this is under spring tension it's liable to pop off at you so there is the carriage system a single spring system now I believe the the lightning brand OTF has a dual spring system but I'm pretty sure that those two sprint that one of those two Springs are weaker than this one so it's almost like those two make up one of these you know what I'm saying because this is a very very high quality high tension spring but real quick I want to show you the inside of this aluminum scale it's a very nicely machined you see that groove in there that is for the spring all those little dots of oil are from the factory so that's nice it comes oiled from factory there's the blade okay so really to to clean this out just very carefully do as I just did and just very carefully wipe that down and just blow on it spray some compressed air in here to just blow out any kind of lint that this would collect from being in your pocket because since and you know it's not exempt from getting the lint inside of it just because the sides aren't opened because it's not a folder lint can still get up in the little hole that the blade comes out of you would also want to mate do a few drops of oil or just one drop of oil on the spring itself and just kind of wipe it down like you would the spring of a firearm and rule of thumb I just like to lightly oil any part of the knife that has where that is going to receive wear so any piece it's going to have another piece of the mechanism moving over it you know oil right there where the button goes just a little bit when I say oil I mean a just a tiny drop and then maybe rub it in I recommend a lot people ask me what oil I use I use century solutions tough glide it comes in a little needle applicator some people use benchmate blue Lube some people use Froglube just whatever it doesn't really matter but I want to show you guys just in case this does pop off or maybe you need to take it off for cleaning just very carefully this just comes off and then the spring is going to pop off because it is under tension the entire time it's on this carriage all right here's what I'm talking about here is the carriage milled out of aluminum you see the groove there for the spring now very important to remember this little notch right here that is where the firing button attaches and it always goes towards the tip of the knife right up here if you can step it off to the side there's the blade in there the blade cannot come out of the handle so there's really no way you can like take this apart mix and match blades and handle scales it just you can't now that is the locking system it is a I believe it's steel and it's got a spring on so it's under spring tension that is the first lock that up here that is the secondary lock it's like a door ice it's under spring tension so basically what happens is I'm going to catch I try to show you guys alright then when this Kara just pushed down all the way that little portion looks like the tang of a knife kind of do this on getting frame it loosens that little door right there and that's very important what that does is it disengages that lock so the blade can come forward that's the first lock now what happens is that when the button you move the button forward brings that lock back into engagement and then that part right there opens up that lock and the spring tension that has been built up because the spring actually connects to the tang of the blade so this little hook attaches to the tang of the blade and then the smaller hook attaches right there on the end of the carriage so one spring is always attached to the carriage and the other spring is always attached to the tang of the blade so keep that in mind so when that loosens the gate the blade is free to deploy so under all that spring tension the blade shoots out and then when the blades out it gets locked into place by that door maybe it's port terminology I'm gonna try to show you guys real quick so I'll loosen up that door the blade comes out and then normally that door is pushed out of the way by the carriage system comes out and then locks like so so I said the blade can't come out any farther than that just by design so I said it cannot move now it doesn't rattle like this when the spring is in it because the spring is actually pushing downward a little bit all right so then what happens is it now it's been deployed then this and I know it comes off of the spring this comes forward and actually attaches to that little round piece as attached to the blade see that little round piece pinned through the blade the tang of the blade that is connected to that pulling downward so when you press back on the firing button getting pieces all stuck in here anyway and you push back on the firing button you see that mechanism loosens that lock and then the spring tension guys don't forget that hook at the hook of that spring is attached to the tang of the blade so but once that door is unlocked that little locking mechanism right there the blade shoots back down into the handle and then but anyway it's this probably like I said poor terminology but that's basically how that works bring that back in and then it locks back into place so Carter does much Betty a much better job explaining it than I just did but that is an enough shell how it works hope you guys understood that I'm going to show you how to put it back together one very important thing you cannot just take this carriage and lay it down into place it has to be set in and then pushed back so that that door is pushed in that lock is pushed in that is very important or the scythe will not work when you put it back together so make sure you put it in a little bit past that door and then push it into place okay so I said here's the spring and just put these little hooks on the end of the spring looks like a screen door spring now one of these hooks is longer than the other make sure the longest hook goes down in the bottom towards the spike because that has to pin through the tang of the blade so as to go through this carriage system and pin into the tang of the blade like so it's not going to be perfectly flush but it just has to go into the tang like that are also one word anyway let's put this piece back in there this is only no exact science to how you put this back together just whatever works so what I do is I make sure that I hold this down just press down with your thumb or whatever just make sure it doesn't pop out oops there you go the carriage is actually sitting down on top of it instead of pushing that lock out of the way like I mentioned and just try to bring this forward look there you go and attach it make sure it just it's just going to push up and then come back and just rest against that shoulder see the hook is going to push down in there kind of rest against that no exact science to that it's just it's got to be under that spring tension sits under spring tension right now so be very careful or else is just going to pop right back out just don't set it down real hard or anything like that all right so we're going to put the firing button back in take a little spring goes down in this hole right in the center just set it down and you see that little cutout right there goes in that stem of the carriage now this is also under spring tension like I said so you kind of try to hold that in place I take the aluminum frame just put it back on now my recommendation when putting this back together is to put two screws in that are the closest to the firing button first now the reason I do that is because the only thing that holds the firing button in as I said is the two scales pushing together so this will just pop right out if you or could pop right out if you don't tighten those two first that's just my recommendation anyway thanks for just gonna tighten all these back up like I said you cannot really torque down on it but these are all these are all tightened so don't worry they're not going to just fall out and they're not going to unscrew for a long time so imagine most you guys don't use euro tf's several several several times in a day so now we're going to really have to worry about these screws backing out especially if you lock tight them but I mean I'm just speaking to you guys who don't already have the proprietary micro tech driver for these screws and so I'm just talking to you if you make one of these yourself yeah I would recommend lock tiding these screws with the blue loctite the blue allows you to be able to backed screws back out eventually not the red stuff or the white that stuff's permanent pretty much all right they see that was very very simple it just takes a little bit know how and just be very delicate pretty much it is definitely a different process from taking apart most other knives but it's something that you guys are going to need to know how to do if you buy one of these unless you just buy it and store it and never plan on carrying it never plan on dust or lint building up never plan on oiling it but um it is crucial to oil those springs or else they will kind of they could corrode over time and break now yeah you could just order a new one from from micro tech but if you don't have to don't so that's just how you would perform simple maintenance on this you now I just do want to mention you don't really have to take this apart some people say you can just drop oil down through the hole but in my opinion most of its just going to get on the blade and not in the mechanisms needing oil so I would recommend taking this apart yourself and oiling the areas needed just to make sure that your ultra tech lasts for a really really long time hope but I do want to just show you real quick it is functioning is absolutely no issue whatsoever so actually I made a little bit more salt so functioning absolutely perfectly just like it did before I took it apart alright guys I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope that I can talk I hope you can take something from this and hope it helps out that guys enjoy the rest your day stay safe stay sharp and God bless Sherman 6:1 for peace

Channel: sherman614

Views: 419,754

Rating: 4.5832372 out of 5

Keywords: taking, apart, microtech, ultratech, inside, how, it, works, otf, out, the, front, automatic, knife, knives, sherman614, disassembling

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Length: 18min 11sec (1091 seconds)

Published: Tue May 14 2013