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Patented Tool Solutions
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. 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.
This process provides you with
a smooth tool on the sides with a
textured surface that makes contact
with the smooth locking linkage.
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.
Knurling the end of the tool
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 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.
PRO-LOK's Xacto-Grip
Flattening Process
PRO-LOK's
Original Wire
Xacto-Grip
BeforeWire
Flattening
Xacto-Grip
After Wire
Flattening on
One Side
Xacto-Grip
After Wire
Flattening on
Both Sides
XactoGrip Tools vs Other
Manufacturers Wire Tools
Company X
Up to 40%
thicker than
Xacto-Grip
Company Y
Up to 30%
thicker than
Xacto-Grip
PRO-LOK's
Original Wire
Xacto-Grip
Tool
4
Flattening the wire