Oft Care Guide

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Frequently Asked Questions

• Is there a standard of care in the care guide?

  These care guides do not establish either a standard of care, or the minimally adequate care which meets constitutional standards. Please note we have provided two formats of the documents below: the second file marked TEXT is a graphics-free, text-based version, optimized for screen readers.

• Can a care guide be used as a substitute for doctors?

  While they identify and describe generally recommended courses of intervention, they are not presented as a substitute for the advice of a physician or other knowledgeable health care professional or provider. Individual patients may require different treatments from those specified in a given care guide.

• Do individual patients require different treatments from those specified in care guides?

  Individual patients may require different treatments from those specified in a given care guide. Care guides are not entirely inclusive or exclusive of all methods of reasonable care that can obtain/produce the same results.

• What is the purpose of the care guides?

  These care guides are not fixed protocols that must be followed, but are intended for consideration of health care professionals and providers.

• Do OTF knives need lubrication?

  OTF knives require more maintenance than any other knife. Each individual OTF knife will have it’s own requirements regarding the amount of lube/oil to keep it functioning properly. As an owner, you will have to determine how OFTen lubrication is required to keep your knife functioning.

• How to clean an automatic OTF knife?

  The best way to clean your automatic OTF knife is to flush it out with a good gun cleaner or a quality cleaning solution. If your automatic OTF knife has a removable glass breaker on the end, removing it will make the flushing procedure easier. You will be able to flush it out from end to end.

• What are the most common problems with OTF knives?

  The opening at the end where the blade fires out is susceptible to dirt, crud, and pocket lint migrating inside the knife where springs and mechanisms are located. This can cause lock up problems during deployment and retraction of the blade, and is the number one reliability issue with an OTF design.

• What's wrong with the OTF design?

  The OTF design is susceptible to failure as far as the blade locking up when fired (deployed), and not fully retracting when desired. The opening at the end where the blade fires out is susceptible to dirt, crud, and pocket lint migrating inside the knife where springs and mechanisms are located.