[Milsurplus] Pin Head screwdriver for mil phone plugs

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Yes.  I've encountered the laced ones sometimes as well but for building 
cables, that technique is too time consuming for what the cables are worth.  
There was obviously originally a tool used to close the clamps.  Various 
sorts of general purpose pliers don't do a neat job of it.  Once you put the 
plastic sleeve over it, you can't see it.  But I know it's still there and hate 
doing what I consider sloppy looking work even if no one ever knows it was 
done.

In a message dated 2/1/2010 7:11:56 PM Central Standard Time, 
jcoward5452 at aol.com writes: 
> By clamp ring do you mean the strain relief at the back end of the 
> phone/mic plug? If so, I carefully pry these up and then carefully close them 
> upon re-assembly.These reliefs I have also seen as "whipped" as in the 
> "whipping" at the end of a line (rope). I have duplicated that and it is not 
> difficult.
>  Jay KE6PPF
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WA5CAB at cs.com
> To: jcoward5452 at aol.com; w7qho at aol.com; AAF-Radio-1 at aafradio.org
> Cc: milsurplus at qth.net
> Sent: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 4:16 pm
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Pin Head screwdriver for mil phone plugs
> 
> The olde phoneco people call the screw the "thousand line screw".  And the 
> screwdriver the "thousand line screw screwdriver".  I've had one of the 
> special screwdrivers for years, courtesey of one of the olde etc.  All that I 
> can say is that regardless of what method other than the proper tool you 
> use, it's a bitch dealing with those little screws.  Since I got the proper 
> tool, it's just ho-hum.  Now if only I could find a proper tool for 
> removing and/or reinstalling the (usually brass) clamp ring.  I'd settle for just 
> the installer, as that's far and away the harder of the two jobs.
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