D'Allara Rescue tears pocket

deeker · #1

I had my D'Allara Rescue clipped on my LH cargo pocket of my pants. I ran down a couple flights of stairs (skipping a couple stairs at a time) and felt a strange bump against the lower part of my leg. Apparently the bouncing down the stairs flipped the blade open and it sliced a small hole in the bottom of my pocket. :eek:

I think I'll tighten the screw just a wee bit , and slide the knife so the blade is against the edge of the pocket - to avoid any undesired openings! :rolleyes:

edit: typo - stupid fingers!

#2

Hi Deeker,

thanx for the input. We'll have to look into that.

sal

ront · #3

My D'Allara DP is one of the smoothest opening knives I have. Very nice. I do have it against the back part of my pocket.
Sorry about your pants :D . One of the hidden dangers of this addiction I suppose.

Ron

deeker · #4

Sal,
Thanks for the quick response. I don't consider this a problem with the knife, more a user error. It opens so smoothly, and I did have the screw maybe not as tight as I should have for a big chunky blade... but I just loved that effortless opening! It's tighter now.

Ront - better than it leaving a hole in the owner! :o

gull wing · #5

Glad you like it! I like mine loose, so I can flick it open and closed.

CopilotATS-55 · #6

whoops :D
D'Allara:1 Pocket: Zipo

sotyakr · #7

Certainly not the "wardrobe malfunction" most of us would want to have happen!

Axlis · #8

I was expecting to hear a horror story about a bad :spyder: bite to go along with that hole in your pocket :eek: Thank goodness this wasn't the case for you!

hrdwrguy · #9

The D'Allara is a smooth knife and as mentioned by others very "flickable." It is a big heavy blade to be retained by that ball bearing. I wonder if the height notch that it sits in to keep the blade closed could be "raised" a tad so that the blade had to rotate say 30 degrees before it over came the notch and slid open. On my knife the blade must only open about 10 degrees before the ball bearing pops past over the hump at the top of that notch, it then tends to open to about 40 degrees where it comes to rest on the smooth semi-circular section of the tang.

I can't quite picture if the blade would still open as smoothly as it does now, or if the geometry to do this would fit in the current frame or the blade (it may require a significantly larger radius curve on the tang) of the knife but it would be interesting to find out. Sal and Spyderco may have already looked at something like this and found it didn't work well.

Mike

ront · #10

I just tightened the pivot screw up just a very small amount. It is still very flickable (if I want to) and still very smooth, but does not open quite as easily.

Ron

deeker · #11

I did as well, Ron.

I will have to try the 'stair test' again - with an older pair of pants. :p

DAYWALKER · #12

Aloha deeker!

:eek: Thank God it's a tip up! :eek:

Take care and God bless :cool:

The Deacon · #13

DAYWALKER wrote:Aloha deeker!

:eek: Thank God it's a tip up! :eek:

Take care and God bless :cool:

Think you've got that backwards Chad, accidents like that only happen with tip up knives. With tip down, unless you do hand-stands, gravity is your friend. With tip up, you are fighting it constantly.

Combine that with a heavy blade and a lock with very little "spring tension" holding it closed, and almost zero resistance to further opening once that initial slight resistance has been overcome, and tales like this become almost inevitable.