Eshaw99
Just livin' the dream
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- Dec 9, 2004
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Well, as I sometimes have a tendency to do, I did something stupid last night at work. It was a slow night, and I was in need of something to occupy my time. My Xikar has been bugging me recently because one of the blades has been sticking a little bit when I open and close it. I figured something got up in there, so I thought I would take it apart and clean it. This is my first Xikar, and I've only had it about three weeks. Needless to say, I had no experience taking apart one of these, and zero knowledge of its inner working components. Did I let this deter me? Hell no. 
So I got a couple of flathead screwdrivers, and removed the screw at the hinge. As I began to pull one of the blades out, the other one popped out on its own, as blades are apt to do I guess. Along with the blade, a couple of very small metal pieces hastily made their escape as well. Luckily, they didn't fall off of the counter, so I was able to find them. This time anyway.
After a few minutes (ok, a lot of minutes) of studying the device, I formulated a theory as to how the thing was supposed to be put back together. I'll tell you this about a Xikar, just because you figure out how it's supposed to be assembled, that doesn't mean you can just do it. After 45 minutes of fitting the blades back in, and bending that f***ing V-shaped metal piece at just the perfect angle to get it back in there, all I had left to do was put this little spring in there and close it back. I put the spring on that little fitting it goes on, and began to compress it so I could close the two sides together. Right when I almost had it, the spring shot off its fitting and flew off somewhere onto the dark-colored carpet we have in the store.
F*ck :angry2:
It might as well have been the ocean, because this little spring blended PERFECTLY with the carpet it was sitting on. It took me three freaking hours before I found it! So after I found it, I had the great joy of starting all over from the beginning. Another hour later, I finally had the thing put back together. Do the math. To put my little cigar cutter back together took almost FIVE HOURS!
So the moral of this story is, four hours is still less than the five days I would have waited if I had sent it off to Xikar. It was well worth the effort. :thumbs:
Oh, and if somebody posts that there's some little trick to do all this in five minutes, I might get so angry that I'll take my Xikar and cut off my own pe..HEY LOOK AT THE TIME! I've got to go to work!
So I got a couple of flathead screwdrivers, and removed the screw at the hinge. As I began to pull one of the blades out, the other one popped out on its own, as blades are apt to do I guess. Along with the blade, a couple of very small metal pieces hastily made their escape as well. Luckily, they didn't fall off of the counter, so I was able to find them. This time anyway.
After a few minutes (ok, a lot of minutes) of studying the device, I formulated a theory as to how the thing was supposed to be put back together. I'll tell you this about a Xikar, just because you figure out how it's supposed to be assembled, that doesn't mean you can just do it. After 45 minutes of fitting the blades back in, and bending that f***ing V-shaped metal piece at just the perfect angle to get it back in there, all I had left to do was put this little spring in there and close it back. I put the spring on that little fitting it goes on, and began to compress it so I could close the two sides together. Right when I almost had it, the spring shot off its fitting and flew off somewhere onto the dark-colored carpet we have in the store.
F*ck :angry2:
It might as well have been the ocean, because this little spring blended PERFECTLY with the carpet it was sitting on. It took me three freaking hours before I found it! So after I found it, I had the great joy of starting all over from the beginning. Another hour later, I finally had the thing put back together. Do the math. To put my little cigar cutter back together took almost FIVE HOURS!
So the moral of this story is, four hours is still less than the five days I would have waited if I had sent it off to Xikar. It was well worth the effort. :thumbs:
Oh, and if somebody posts that there's some little trick to do all this in five minutes, I might get so angry that I'll take my Xikar and cut off my own pe..HEY LOOK AT THE TIME! I've got to go to work!
