Classic Car Maintenance: Using a Cleco
Mark OjaMark Oja demonstrates how easy it is to install and remove the Cleco, a tool that most classic car maintenance professionals use to easily and effectively joint sheet metal panels on their cars.
Okay, you're looking to put together some panels. You've been doing some tin work in your vehicle. The professional way to put panels together because you're gonna be putting things together several times, putting them together, taking them apart, is to use a cleco. And these clecos are used universally throughout the fabrication industry. And in this case, bottom line is you drill yourself a 1/8-inch hole.
They work far better than screws because they do not groove the hole. The cleco actually fits in that hole, And it simply, it pops through the hole and holds the panels together. Really simple device but very effective. Those panels don't slip around. It allows you to do other fabrication because the panels that you have behind aren't gonna move around, and they also come out just as easy.
Simple as that.
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