Save the Cleco!

[humptybump]

Louise, are telling us Paul delivered stale material ?! Say it ain't so!

[Ironflight]

Originally Posted by humptybump

Louise, are telling us Paul delivered stale material ?! Say it ain't so!

"No good thread start (even one from two years ago) goes unpunished...."

[Finley]

What kind of a crowd comes up with this stuff????

If you got a kick out of this tread like I did, Go directly to Pay Pal and forward 25.00 to dr!

[Skyflyer]

Gee Paul I just wash and lube them with an occasional day out in the sun. You wax them too?

[Jerry Wilcox]

In the mid 80's the economy was in a bit of a slump so I decided to leave aircraft maintenance and landed a job with the city as a firefighter. The shift work allowed plenty of time to do other things and having the aircraft background and a bunch of tools I ordered my first RV6 kit. I had started a Mustang Two but a friend with a 4 kit convinced me the new 6 was the way to go. These early kits had no predrilling and were very labour intensive and clecoe's went in and out by the thousand's.I finished the 6 in 92 sold it and ordered another.I was heavy into the second kit (12 month build) when the local university approached the FD about getting some guys to do some phisical fitness testing for a group of students doing a study. I was just over 40 at the time but went along, I had kept in decent shape as part of the job but didn't go at it like many of the guy's. I completed the tests and was probably in the average catagory in most of it except for one. I had never done a grip test before but what they had was sort of like picking up a suitcase with one hand then the other, when you grasped the handle you squeezed as hard as you could and it registered on a scale. I did one hand and noticed a funny look come over the young student's face then similar with the other hand. I remember the readings were about 85 on the left and a bit higher on the rt. I asked the student how I had done and still with a questioning look on his face he said I had gotten 100% on that one, apparently the best he had seen prior was around 60.
If your working steady a your RV and clecoing every day be carefull with those handshakes, don't want to hurt anyone.
Jerry

[gmpaul]

Ah yes the handy little cleco is a workhorse and mild mannered but be wary of its cousin the side grip cleco clamp. Is there any builder who has not been bit by one of these?

[comfortcat]

This is kinda sweet. It sounds like Paul is getting ready to setup a retirement home for Clecos. We can send all our old clecos there to be taken care of. It is:

"The place where clecos go to Dye."

Dkb

[wjb]

Originally Posted by N8RV

Personally, I disassemble each and every cleco on a monthly basis to clean and lubricate, exercise and then return to the box. And they're not only segregated by color and function, but neatly lined up in rows in special velvet-lined, walnut boxes that I made for them. The rows allow me to rotate them sequentially so that they all get used equally.

And if anyone believes that ... you've never been to my hangar!

Yea, I'm calling "bull****" on that one! Tho, the clecos would be happy for the attention. Yea, way way BS. ;-)

(I should add, before submitting anything to VAF, I should check the log. I had the gall to post "anybody lube their clecos?" ... hmm, quite a thread already alive.)

[wjb]

Originally Posted by beattiema

In honor of this important tool, our new dog, a jack russel/chihuahua mix, has been named Cleco.
The only problem is our non aviation friends just don't understand. Oh well, have to find new friends.

I'lll be your friend, and our yellow lab won't have any issues with the name. As long as he/she smells good....

[Bill_H]

I used to theorize that wire coat hangers reproduced in the darkness of the closet. But where does the extra mass come from?

I now theorize that, at night, clecos sublimate to vapor and re-condense in the closet as wire hangers. That would explain a lot.

I wonder if I could get a government grant to prove this theory?