Garage sale find.

[dewman]

Does anyone have any idea what this is? I picked it up at a yard sale this morning for .25 cents. Could it possibly be some sort of knife opening device. I've read here on the site about devices used in the knife making factories that the employees use to open knives, thus saving their thumbnails over the course of the day.

It has the "ears" on one end and at the other, there is another half round protrusion. Any guesses?

Thanks
Dewman

[Gunsmoke47]

Hey Dew, I really don't know, but to me it looks like the leverage is wrong for a knife pick. I would think an opening device would be at a right angle to the blade. Not parallel to the blade as your picture would suggest. I bet someone here will know for sure. Kelley

[Gr8Scout]

Well, do a google search and you'll find mil-std seems to mean 'military standards' and there are thousands of entries. I could not find a 'mil-std corporation listed.

Phil

[cstricklen]

dewman, That is a tool that is used to open (and close) quick-release fasteners that hold hinged access doors and cowlings, etc., closed. They are commonly used on aircraft. Can't remember, really, what those fasteners are called--CamLoc, I believe. Just a quarter turn with that tool, used as a sort of horizontal "screwdriver," does the trick.

Charlie

[dewman]

dewman, That is a tool that is used to open (and close) quick-release fasteners that hold hinged access doors and cowlings, etc., closed. They are commonly used on aircraft. Can't remember, really, what those fasteners are called--CamLoc, I believe. Just a quarter turn with that tool, used as a sort of horizontal "screwdriver," does the trick.

Charlie

....I know the things you're talking about. They ususally have them on access doors on aircraft. I remember them when I was aboard the USS Ticonderoga when I was in the Navy. It DOES work good for opening knives with exceptionally strong springs, too! Tried it.

Thanks for the info.

You guys are a wealth of knowledge.

Dewman

[Gr8Scout]

So let's just make this into a knife thread. I give to you the 'JunkYard Dog' by Keshaw.. In Air Force trim. Note the access door on the reverse... with the tool shown we could open it up. So, according to my logic, the tool our Dewman found is actually what he suspected: A tool for opening up a knife.

Mystery solved.

Phil

[justold52]

Sure G Scout I see the access door on your aircraft...

To me that knife looks like one you can count on to cut any thing that comes along.
I like that type of blade over the serrated ones. If I want to saw some thing I would get a saw.

O that made me think...

G Scout next time I see my son I will have to ask him about the model you sent me.

[redferd]

That's a nice AF knife. How is the blade steel in them? I think dewman made a good discovery. Good conversation piece and actually will work on a knife too. Good find.

[Knifekid]

It is a camloc tool but an old one. That Mil-Std number is now out of date. I do a lot of work for NASA and most of the items we build for them are all done by Mil-Std's. Mil-Std's are designs, testing procedures, and assembly standards for the products they use.

[cstricklen]

I don't doubt it's an old one--I think it's exactly like the ones USAF ground crews used in the late 60s.

[Mossdancer]

Wish they had been around in the early 60's. At that time they the buttons were called dzus fasteners. Pronounced zeus.
moss

[cstricklen]

I remember those. Same thing, really. CamLoc was little more than a new name. The slotted flush Dzus fasteners were so common they became sort of a generic name. I think it was one of those deals where for years the noncoms still called them Dzus fasteners and the officers called them CamLocs.