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Re: Wenger Ranger owners...
Reply #30 on: October 12, 2009, 11:40:52 AM
Ben I have a Single bladed OHO Ranger and it has no side to side play but does have up and down play when locked open .

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Re: Wenger Ranger owners...
Reply #31 on: October 12, 2009, 12:04:32 PM
So the same as mine then.
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Re: Wenger Ranger owners...
Reply #32 on: October 12, 2009, 12:24:46 PM
So the same as mine then.

Sounds like it mate , it doesnt bother me as I can't see any conditions where it would fail.

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Re: Wenger Ranger owners...
Reply #33 on: October 12, 2009, 12:39:21 PM
So the same as mine then.

Sounds like it mate , it doesnt bother me as I can't see any conditions where it would fail.

Dunc

Same here, but only because it is a SAK.  If it was a folder, it would bug the hell out of me.  :D
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Re: Wenger Ranger owners...
Reply #34 on: October 12, 2009, 07:44:29 PM
Ben I have a Single bladed OHO Ranger and it has no side to side play but does have up and down play when locked open .

Dunc

same on my 75
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Re: Wenger Ranger owners...
Reply #35 on: October 12, 2009, 08:16:36 PM
I just checked my OHT, slight, never noticed before it's so slight.
I just received my Ranger 58, even less but a tiny bit, neither
bother me in the least and if it wasn't for Ben and this thread!~ :twak: :P



So that's Pacific Salts and Rangers I have ruined for everyone now then.  :D

LOL!

Remember when you raised a big stink about the vertical play in your Salt.  ;>

Said it bugged you when you went to cut anything on a flat surface because you could feel the blade shifting as you presssed down to start the cut.

Reconciled youself to the nasty blade slop in your Salt yet?

Learned to live with that horrid little click whenever starting a cut?

Seriously, I think any lockback will have some small degree of vertical play when locked up, just due to the basic design.

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Re: Wenger Ranger owners...
Reply #36 on: October 12, 2009, 08:42:14 PM
I once remeber seeing a photo of a side by side cut away of a Buck and Spyderco Lockback . The Spyderco lock bar fitted the blade cut out way better then the Buck one did and I mean WAY better  :o  But that doesn't mean Buck is a bad design does it . Its only bad when it fails .


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Re: Wenger Ranger owners...
Reply #37 on: October 13, 2009, 01:12:10 AM
I just checked my OHT, slight, never noticed before it's so slight.
I just received my Ranger 58, even less but a tiny bit, neither
bother me in the least and if it wasn't for Ben and this thread!~ :twak: :P



So that's Pacific Salts and Rangers I have ruined for everyone now then.  :D

LOL!

Remember when you raised a big stink about the vertical play in your Salt.  ;>

Said it bugged you when you went to cut anything on a flat surface because you could feel the blade shifting as you presssed down to start the cut.

Reconciled youself to the nasty blade slop in your Salt yet?

Learned to live with that horrid little click whenever starting a cut?

Seriously, I think any lockback will have some small degree of vertical play when locked up, just due to the basic design.

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It still bugs me, but after seeing that very pic that Dunc has referred to above and after learning how Spyderco lockbacks "work" I am not as fussed now as I know it's completely safe to use.
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Re: Wenger Ranger owners...
Reply #38 on: October 13, 2009, 01:17:59 AM
Up/down play seems normal for liner lock SAK, since you can't get too precise with stamped parts.


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Re: Wenger Ranger owners...
Reply #39 on: October 14, 2009, 05:46:28 PM
Isn't it "common knowledge" that SAK liner locks are only there to avoid having the blade close on your fingers and not to provide the "solid lockup" we're used to see in "tactical folders"? :think:


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Re: Wenger Ranger owners...
Reply #40 on: October 14, 2009, 07:17:47 PM
Isn't it "common knowledge" that SAK liner locks are only there to avoid having the blade close on your fingers and not to provide the "solid lockup" we're used to see in "tactical folders"? :think:

Probably, but I was keen to hear if people had mixed results and as it can be seen, they do.
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Re: Wenger Ranger owners...
Reply #41 on: October 15, 2009, 12:26:13 AM
Probably, but I was keen to hear if people had mixed results and as it can be seen, they do.

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Re: Wenger Ranger owners...
Reply #42 on: September 18, 2013, 02:47:32 AM
Thread revival! My old style ranger (mountaineer) has a little bit of vertical play. It doesn't bother me and its very slight but I did notice it.


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Re: Wenger Ranger owners...
Reply #43 on: September 19, 2013, 02:30:59 AM
all of my six rangers have vertical play... not rattling play though. save for my Wenger Montaineer. Lock-up is solid. but if there was lateral play then I'd be worried
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