Identification Assistance Request

[jerryd6818]

Came home from Indiana yesterday and my landlord had left a sack on the assembly bench out in the garage. In the sack was a book he thinks I should read and this unnamed automatic. I know nothing about it. The only mark on it is "Stainless" and a couple of dots stamped on the tang. If there was ever a country of origin on it, it's long gone with no evidence of intentional removal.

It fires well but lock-up is a tiny bit weebly wobbly, not much, just a little bitty bit.

Any and all help and or opinions are greatly appreciated. My guess is foreign manufacture with Japan or China being my first inclination, in that order.

[wiseguy]

looks like a Chinese coil spring fired automatic [ these can be bought in parts and put together yourself or pre assembled ],,,,,you could probably get some of the side to side play by tightening the pivot screw a bit or remove it and put a bit of locktite on it , set its play and let it dry so it dont back out with repeat firing.

[PigSticker]

My wife has a stainless auto in her purse that is the same way I figure it's a Chinese it fire's pretty damn hard acyually--
Looks like your knife has had the pivot screw replaced notice it has a phillips head instead of a torqes

[jerryd6818]

Thank you gentlemen. After I posted (why not before? ) I went looking with Google and found several with that clip/spring cover on the pile side. All Chinese made.


wiseguy -- It's a fine line between taking out the play and slowing down the fire speed.



PigSticker -- All the screws are Phillips head. I wonder if they're metric. I wonder if it would be worth the trouble finding replacements with Torx heads. Nah, probably not.

[wiseguy]

a fine line indeed