Small Details Look Inside a Brown Knives Cortex!

Published: 3 years ago

Let's tear down, clean out, and take a close look inside this incredibly well-made knife! Unique hidden flipper tab, dual-row bearings system, internal stop pin, a detent hole unlike I've ever seen, and more -- there's some really cool stuff going on in here!

Feel free to jump around to the parts you find interesting (chapters below), or watch the whole thing and listen to my musings!

Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:27 What we're looking out for
03:24 Disassembly
05:35 Dual Row Bearing System
06:28 Internal Stop Pin
07:54 Flipper Tab Groove
08:44 Mystery Holes
09:52 Clip Attachment & Backspacer
11:08 Finally noticing the milling
11:44 Stationary Pivot
12:36 Detent Ball & Ramp
14:43 Tools (lol)
15:49 Let the cleaning begin!
16:09 Ceramic Ball Bearings
16:57 That's the Detent Hole?!?!
17:58 Internal Micro Milling
18:53 Light Lockbar Tension = Free Fall Knife
21:49 Cleaning Solvents
22:20 Cleaning Screws
23:28 Dual Row Bearing Tracks!
24:49 The Joy of Knife Maintenance
26:15 Let's lube it up!
27:13 Made Up Science Words?
29:17 Dual Row Bearing Tracks pt 2
30:32 THE SCIENCE WAS REAL!
33:05 Put Loctite INSIDE the pivot
34:12 Action Check
35:03 Wrap Up

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