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Old 01-03-2020, 07:39 PM
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As a follow up I ordered some WedgeLock 3/32" cleco's from Cleaveland Tools and they worked fine, even on the holes I tried to over dimple.

Apparently I have a bad bunch of cleco's. I guess paying extra is worth it. Good thing I only bought 65 for the test kit
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Old 01-03-2020, 07:43 PM
jwellman jwellman is offline
 
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I have been slowly converting over to the Wedgelock Clecos as well. The Kwik-Lock ones aren't really bad. But it seems that I have a large amount of bad Kwik-Lock ones where I haven't had a single bad Wedgelock. A good Kwik-Lock is pretty similar to the Wedgelock...but the Wedgelocks also have a higher clamping pressure...which I can feel in my forearms as well!

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Old 01-03-2020, 08:29 PM
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I have some 450 Cleco-lock clecos from ATS and they?ve never given me a problem. Purchased in a few different lots over the span of 18 months so presumably not all from the same manufacturing batch. I have also added about 200 wedgelock clecos to the mix and I?ll admit those seem higher quality. They also take a little more effort to insert into the raw prepunched holes. I also ordered 25 clecos from brown tool and they turned out to be Kwik-lock and every single one of those was absolute garbage. Brown tool never responded to my inquiry for return or refund. To this day when I pull out a silver cleco and it gives me trouble it?s always a kwiklock that immediately gets tossed in the garbage. I think by now I have most of them purged from my collection.
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Old 01-04-2020, 03:45 AM
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As a follow up I ordered some WedgeLock 3/32" cleco's from Cleaveland Tools and they worked fine, even on the holes I tried to over dimple.

Apparently I have a bad bunch of cleco's. I guess paying extra is worth it. Good thing I only bought 65 for the test kit
You?ll always get a variety of opinions from the masses, but for what its worth... you get what you pay for with tools. I?ve learned that there are a number of items, that I?ll buy from Cleveland because they always have quality stuff and stand behind it.

I?ve tried to buy cheaper drill bits for example - but I?ve had the best luck with ones from Cleveland. For anything that you?ll be using heavily - drill bits, clecos, pneumatic squeezer, etc, do yourself a favor and invest in quality stuff. My squeezer stopped working about halfway into my build, I called Mike @ Cleaveland, he contacted the manufacturer, and I had it rebuilt in less than a week.

They?re really great folks and you wont be disappointed.
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