Camloc Installation Tools

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Ron Wanttaja wrote:

On 04 May 2004 02:45:58 GMT, (B2431) wrote:

OK, I'm no A&P and haven't been to mechanic school. I have been
installing camloc receptacles for 30 years and never ever heard of one
of those drill jigs. I use one of those, I guess you call them step
drills. I don't see how anything could be better than those even if they
were the same $15.00 or so. $475.00!! OUCH! I think I would gnaw a hole
in there first

I wonder if ASS has sold any of those. I can imagine them having the same one
on the shelf for years.

Don't have to sell too many, at that price. It's like the "Far
Side" cartoon with the two spiders building a web across the
door of an elementary school: "Yeah, but if we pull it off,
we'll eat like kings!" :-)

Ron Wanttaja


I have a pliers and the dimple dies that I bought from a Camloc supplier
30 years ago -- I certainly did NOT pay the amounts quoted above for
them! It was something like $10 for the pliers and $25 for the grommet
dimple dies. I also found another pliers at a surplus tool place for $3
about 10 years ago.

You can make tools to cut the proper size holes by grinding a couple of
spade bits to the proper diameter -- they work very well on sheet
aluminum.

Standard camloc receptacles are self jigging. Use a unibit or rotabroach
to drill a 7/16 hole, drop the back side of the receptacle into the hole
and drill the rivet holes. You can use a standard receptacle as a jig
for a sealed receptacle.

jls wrote:
Anybody ever made any of these? The pliers would be easy to make. The
drill jig is $475, the dimpling tools about $300 apiece, and the lockwasher
tool $100. Anybody ever make any of these, or are they patented? If they
are patented, maybe that explains the exorbitant prices.

I made and regularly use tools for installing dzus buttons and their
receptacles. I use them on my airplane. Does that make me a felon?



--
John Kimmel


I think it will be quiet around here now. So long.

"Ron Wanttaja" wrote in message
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On 04 May 2004 02:45:58 GMT, (B2431) wrote:

OK, I'm no A&P and haven't been to mechanic school. I have been
installing camloc receptacles for 30 years and never ever heard of one
of those drill jigs. I use one of those, I guess you call them step
drills. I don't see how anything could be better than those even if they
were the same $15.00 or so. $475.00!! OUCH! I think I would gnaw a hole
in there first

I wonder if ASS has sold any of those. I can imagine them having the same
one
on the shelf for years.

Don't have to sell too many, at that price. It's like the "Far
Side" cartoon with the two spiders building a web across the
door of an elementary school: "Yeah, but if we pull it off,
we'll eat like kings!" :-)

Ron Wanttaja


That Mr. Wanttaja is a funny (and ordinarily amicable) guy but sometimes a
little intimidating. The last exchange I had with him sent me into
temporary exile when he demanded a duel. And all I had done was recognize
his lawyerly wisdom. "Pistols at dawn," he said, if memory serves.

The mechanics on our airport make their own tools for camloc installation
and are astounded by the prices for ACS's tools.
**********

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise and I know they are
dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me, I would take him
kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet retired spot and
kill him.
- -Mark Twain

On Wed, 5 May 2004 08:21:59 -0400, " jls" wrote:

That Mr. Wanttaja is a funny (and ordinarily amicable) guy but sometimes a
little intimidating. The last exchange I had with him sent me into
temporary exile when he demanded a duel. And all I had done was recognize
his lawyerly wisdom. "Pistols at dawn," he said, if memory serves.

Don't worry, I would have deloped. :-)

Ron "...and I would have aimed using my blind eye" Wanttaja