HOW DOES THE CLICK-LOC™ COMPARE TO COMPETITIVE DEVICES?
The CLICK-LOC™ is by far the most widely accepted secondary locking feature for special applications such as those listed previously. No other competitive product exists which meets all the original USAF design criteria for self-locking fluid fittings (the CLICK-LOC™ does). Recently some “one sided” designs have been introduced. They are called that because they do not require any locking component on the male threaded part. Instead these designs attempt to safety the fitting by locking the nut to the hose or tube of which it is part of. This is never done even with safety wire! The reason why is that when the coupling nut is tightened it has a tendency to impart a twisting force to the hose or tube on which it is installed. This is such a well known problem that many hose manufacturers design their hoses with a second hex behind the coupling nut (to allow another wrench to be used to minimize twist-up) and a stripe painted down the length of the hose to indicate the degree of
