Tool for adjusting military phone jack

Abstract

Various embodiments of the invention provide a tool for adjusting a military phone jack. A tool for adjusting a military phone jack, the tool comprising a modified head cap screw, an expanding split collet, a collet receiver shaft, and a jam nut driver. The modified head cap screw has an edge of the head cap machined to an angle between 1 and 89 degrees with respect to the unmachined portion of the head cap which is further from the screw shaft. The expanding split collet comprises a central hole throughout its longitudinal axis with the hole of sufficient diameter to receive the modified head cap screw, two or more slits through the exterior wall of the collet and extending from one end of the collet, and a machined inner diameter of the end of the collet having the slits, the angle of the machined inner diameter matching the angle on the head cap of the modified head cap screw. The collet receiver shaft has an internal thread drilled into one end of the shaft, the internal thread receiving the thread end of the modified head cap screw. The jam nut driver comprises a central hole throughout its longitudinal axis, the hole of sufficient diameter to receive the expanding split collet and the collet receiver shaft, the jam nut driver having a grip end and a nut end, the nut end machined to receive a jam nut.

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