The MG DAMM is a nice looking knife. In size and configuration it seems to be on par with the ZT 0560, although I don’t know if N690 is comparable with Elmax. I’ve read it’s close to VG-10, and that’s a good steel so assuming they have a good heat treatment that would be excellent value for money at the $60-$90 you’d pay for it.
I’m looking for a cheap source for tritium vials. It’s not easy to find them in such a small size.
Based on two months of use the N690 blade seems very similar to my other VG-10 blades (Spyderco Endura) regarding edge retention and sharpening.
Not yet, I had the EX-03… Hogue is putting out some great knives.
any of them can be adjusted to the hole?
There’s a few different sizes and shapes on AliExpress
I seem to remember someone on here (or the other place) had some for sale at reasonable prices.
Strangely enough some counties will not allow the import of tritium, they treat it like it’s wildly radioactive, it is a bit but not wildly. 
Thanks for the link, but I need the vial only (without the protecting case).
Here is the sales thread on CPFMP
http://www.cpfmarketplace.com/mp/showthread.php?270326-B-rt-s-Tritium-thread-part-deux-bis
SanRenMu 763, but the belt clip is hurting my finger so need to figure out how to remove it, no luck yet, no suitable tools in the box
Size 1/16 hex bit fits the screws perfectly.
You can also try the 1.5mm metric hex bit but that’s a smaller size.
Steve and AlexGT thanks for the links I’ll check them out.
Thx! will go shopping tomorrow for 1/16 hex
oh sorry, I had not noticed they were all encapsulated
see if these are worth to you:
1.5x6mm: http://www.banggood.com/1_5x6mm-Trit-Vials-For-DQG-SPY-DQG-Fairy-LED-Flashlight-p-921950.html
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That’s the size I need. Thanks!
I decided to do a little tune up of my work Delica today. I'd never diassembled a lockback before, and figured that I'd give it a go. I remember "Nutinfancy" mentioning that he took his Endura apart, and spent a whole afternoon trying to put it back together.
It came apart easily, the mechanism is simple as hell. I cleaned all the parts, and highly polished the washers, blade tang, liners, and lock bar parts with a dremel and jewelers rouge. Everything was nicely lubed with fluorinated grease. Now to reassemble the knife.
Nightmare!
No matter what I did, the heavy wire that acts as a spring for the lockback kept popping out before I could clamp the liner over it. I tried for hours. Finally I assembled the body, without the blade in it so there was no tension on the spring. Holding the lock down, I inserted the blade into the handle, but what about the washers? I had to pry the handle a bit, and try to slide them in between the blade and the liners by poking with a tweezers. Everything kept shifting around, and if my hand slipped off the lock, everything fell apart.
I finally got things aligned, I think, and inserted the pivot. OK! I was setting the screw in place with a tweezers when it went flying into the air. Damn! I crawled around under the table with a flashlight to find the screw when I came accross a highly polished bronze washer which I was sure I had put into the knife. I did find the screw also.
Now I have to pull the pivot again and try to slide the washer into place. This time I used a zip tie to hold the lockbar down. That made it easier. More time spent trying to align the washers and blade...I got the pivot in and screwed down.
OK. Let's see if all that pollishing of parts and fluorinated grease will make any difference on a lockback knife.
I depressed the lock and the newly sharpened blade dropped free fall, like an axis lock, and sliced right accross my finger producing a torrent of blood.
I think I have smoothest lockback knife around, but my suggestion is, "don't ever take apart your Delica or Endura". Now I know why they used rivets on my Caly3.
Been there, sounds remarkably similar to some of my exploits with a SanRenMu 7078 and it’s backspacer. The backspacer seemed to straighten out a bit as soon as it was free of the restraining forces of the screws holding it in place, I ended up overheating the spacer trying to get it to bend, I’ll make one to fit sometime but I’ve bought another 7078 and it’s staying in one piece for now.
These are remarkably useful for nudging washers into their place, or a bit of card can come in handy. Something like a centre punch can help locate the washers while the pivot is sliding through the scales and washers.
I only have very few back locks in my knives, it’s just a style I’m not that keen on.
I don’t know what it is, i just have a hard time getting into spyderco knives. they just look gawd awfully ugly to me.
I knew there had to be a simpler way. I just couldn’t figure it out.