Tool for Torquing Circular Electrical-Connector Collars
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Sunday, October 01 2006
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A simple tool exerts a strong grip.
An improved tool has been devised for applying torque to lock and unlock knurled collars on circular electrical connectors. The tool was originally designed for, and used by, astronauts working in outer space on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The tool is readily adaptable to terrestrial use in installing and removing the same or similar circular electrical connectors as well as a wide variety of other cylindrical objects, the tightening and loosening of which entail considerable amounts of torque.
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