Skiff Bearings Measurement Guide - POCKET KNIFE UPGRADE!

[@jg8979]

This is exactly the video I needed. Thank you.

[@thepracticalblade9013]

Happy to help!

[@shadowcastyt]

Skiff also has a chat of the more popular knives and has a link to exactly what size bearings you need for your knife, knives like the mordax, Malibu, ZT’s line up, F5.5 all are on that chart

[@thepracticalblade9013]

Yeah. It's a semi-complete chart and I figure it's good to teach people how to fish rather than to just give them a fish.

[@jeremyspaulding7735]

Excellent tutorial and a very simple explanation of caliper usage. Great video 👍

[@thepracticalblade9013]

Thanks! Way too many people trying to figure out if skiffs fit. If you can take apart your knife, you can figure it out!

[@jeffgordon6199]

Thank you for producing this video! It is very informative and very easy to understand! I have a SOG Terminus XR which might benefit from a set of Skiff bearings but it's not on their compatibility chart. Now I know exactly how to figure out if they make bearings that will fit this knife! 👍

[@thepracticalblade9013]

Good! If I can help one person, it was worth it. I constantly see people asking if the skiffs will fit their knife. I've personally had it where their compatibility chart said they'd fit and then they didn't. Its nice to be able to answer the question and be sure.

[@breathtaking-steel]

Great Video, thanks

[@thepracticalblade9013]

Thank YOU for stopping by!

[@Chappa36]

Quick question… Have you ever heard of (or tried) running skiffs dry I have a set coming for a Malibu and someone from the knife community told me because they are non corrosive he runs them dry to avoid dust/“gunk” build up TIA would love to hear your opinion 🗡️

[@thepracticalblade9013]

Honestly, depends on what I'm feeling, no science behind it. What I can say is that I have experienced mixed results. Firstly, if I do lube bearings, I used a low viscosity lube to minimize the friction. Secondly, I have noticed some knives run marginally better dry or lightly lubed. Depends on the knife. Corrosive or not, I don't usually factor that in, since I don't really live in a humid climate. I suppose it's something to consider with steel bearings. The above being said, I want to emphasize that when it comes to lube, the most drastic change in performance I've noticed across various knives and various brands is lubing the DETENT BALL/TRACK. I often find that lubing the bearings doesn't make a notable difference, but more times than I can count, applying even just a small drop of lube to the detent ball has been the difference between gravity shut and wiggle shut.

[@eyeofthetiger4184]

G'day Cory, what a useful vid, great stuff mate !!!. Suggest when measuring OD, it pays to lay the bearing or washer flat along the measuring surfaces rather than perpendicular, (like you would with a longer tube),. Might sound pedantic, but a good habit since it guarantees a perfect tangent on both "sides" of the component, where as perpendicular does not necessarily. i.e. it is possible to grab the circle out of symmetry and there's no need to fiddle with rocking it back and forth either. Hope that makes sense. Cheers Duke.

[@thepracticalblade9013]

HEY DUKE! Yay, a tip for ME! That solves quite a few problems. Lol. Thanks!

[@eyeofthetiger4184]

@@thepracticalblade9013 No worries man, its all about info sharing, doesn't have to be a one way street IMO, glad it helps.

[@haroldanaya685]

Fantastic video thank you

[@thepracticalblade9013]

Happy to help!

[@maticuchillos]

Hi! Where do you buy the counterbore? It’s difficult to get , thanks ! And congratulations!

[@Kris_Stiletto]

Well done! :-) Peace, Stiletto :-)

[@brandonbrumley7434]

Thanks for the video. Can you recommend a micrometer? I am looking at the $10 from Amazon but does that one have enough accuracy?

[@thepracticalblade9013]

That one is adequate for anything thatmeasures in mm, or if you're willing to convert from mm to in for better in figures. That one only measures inches to the hundredth (0.00). I'd recommend one that measures to the thousandths if you can (0.000).

[@Hungrybird474]

Yes ! Thank you ! 10 ths s , hundredths , thousandths and then ….?

[@christalnewsom4867]

Nice and informative..

[@thepracticalblade9013]

Thank you!

[@lootbloody9760]

hey, great video. just one question are the steel washers you ordered hardened?

[@thepracticalblade9013]

If they are, it wasn't specified as such. I actually specifically wanted ones that weren't especially hard so the ceramic bearings could wear them in nor easily.

[@lootbloody9760]

@@thepracticalblade9013 thanks for the answer

[@blairtaylor9552]

Yeah, when you're measuring the outside diameter, or the balls, or the flat washer thickness, just use the flats of the jaws choking up at least an inch further toward the display. The flats are ground totally flat, especially on Mitutoyo. Best NOT to try to measure out at the tip on a tiny round sphere 😞. Ball diameter- just hold the bearing choked up between the flat jaws and you'll get your .062". Also good to mention that calipers can measure DEPTH from BOTH ends of the beam. There are 4 ways to accurately measure using calipers.

[@thepracticalblade9013]

Good tips. It was the first thing my dad (a machinist) said after he watched the video 🤣

[@sterlingstoots3215]

Is there a wrong way to put skiffs in or are they the same on both sides ? Any info would be appreciated?

[@thepracticalblade9013]

Depends - What do you mean same on both sides? Same thickness of the cage on each side of the bearings? If so, then yes, they're the same. Skiffs, to my knowledge, are 100% symmetrical on all dimensions. What issue are you having?

[@sterlingstoots3215]

@thepracticalblade9013 my brand new yan chevron full titanium will flick good about 5 times then it tightens up I have cleaned it and installed skiffs and still tight I called the maker I have to ship it on my dime of course made by Reate I should not be having these problems out of a $300 knife I'm so stressed.

[@thepracticalblade9013]

@@sterlingstoots3215 I mean, to be fair, you MODIFIED a $300 knife... did you have those problems beforehand? Or did it come with skiffs? I've had that happen before and sometimes there is an insanely small piece of debris or a metal shaving / burr that is trapped in a bearing cage somewhere. Might be good to give them a scrub with a toothbrush and some alcohol and re-lube.

[@sterlingstoots3215]

​@thepracticalblade9013 I put the Skiffs in the knife after I called the manufacturer told me to Clean it and I did and it's worse I put the skiffs in and it's smooth it still tightens up after a few flicks I'll just send it in to yan.Thanks for all the help I didn't mod it though I took out the skiffs and put the original back in it .

[@stephenjohnson3084]

Will those fit my TS380, father????🤣😂😂😂

[@gologulug1295]

Hi TPB, I just checked your channel and like your angle on things. I watched 6-7 videos and there's one thing that is KILLING me: The same and the same and the same background music track looping and looping and looping all the time. I just can't continue listening to it. Sorry about that, but I have to be honest. I think it doesn't help anybody else either and distracts too much. For me, it has gotten nervewrecking...

[@thepracticalblade9013]

Hey there! Constructive feedback is always appreciated and you did it politely. Yeah I try to keep it low enough to be noticed but hopefully not high enough to be distracting. It's good feedback. Nobody else has said anything yet but I'll consider this going forward!

[@gologulug1295]

@@thepracticalblade9013 Don't take it too seriously, though, I guess the annoyance only kicks in when someone watches several in a row like I did. BTW I was happy to finally hear someone say the truth about the Malibu and the Reeve classics. If it wouldn't matter to me I wouldn't have dug out this old fake google account to write you this (I'm usually just a passive viewer). Keep it up, good luck ;)

[@thepracticalblade9013]

@@gologulug1295 Much appreciated! The origin of the channel was me getting burned on a pricey knife and wanting to prevent others from experiencing the same... so it's not that I go our of my way to find things wrong with knives, but I have sworn that'd I'll do my best not to be positively biased just because I paid bug bucks for something. I want to prevent people from feeling as disappointed as I did. Heh.