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Problem #1: The Tools Slide and Slip Along the Linkage -
It has been difficult at times to maneuver the locking linkage. Once the end of the tool is placed on the lock linkage, the tool wants to slip along the smooth surface of the linkage as opposed to moving the linkage to the unlocked position. The reason for this is simple. The round smooth surface of the car opening tool is being placed on the round smooth surface of the lock linkage. Two round, smooth surfaces, placed together do not work well together. This works against your efforts to maneuver the linkage to the unlocked position.
Solution: Knurl the part of the tool that makes contact with the lock linkage.
Tools that are designed to
couple or seat on the lock
linkage are knurled before
our flattening process.
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This process provides you with
a smooth tool on the sides with
a textured surface that makes
contact with the smooth locking
linkage.
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The textured surface of
the tool makes it easier
to maneuver the linkage
as opposed to slipping or
sliding along the linkage.
Less strength is required.
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Problem #2: Tools Are Either Too Big or Too Weak
Over the last few years. car manufacturers have increased the quality and materials used in making car doors. Their efforts have created tighter doors and less space between the weather stripping and the glass. The tightness created has made it increasingly difficult to insert your car opening tools between the glass and weather stripping in order to lower the tool into the door cavity. When you are able to insert your tool, it becomes more difficult to maneuver your tool around due to tightness. The solution sounds simple. Make tools thinner to make them easier to enter the door cavity, right? The problem then becomes the strength of the tool. By making the tool thinner the tool looses its stiffness and strength. Without the strength, the linkage becomes difficult if not impossible to maneuver.
Solution: PRO-LOK has changed the size and shape of 25 of its car opening tools.
• Only the highest grade music wire is used.
• We start with a thicker diameter wire and flatten two sides.
• The tools are then shaped and then heat treated (some tools twice) for additional strength and breakage protection.
The result is stronger but thinner tools. The flat side of the tool is inserted between the weather stripping and the glass. When the tool is rotated, you have a stronger tool.
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