How do you get stripped Cam on shaft to tighten up

[goodmore]

The big Cam nut on the bottom of my upper shaft will not tighten up all the way. I turn it tight & then it will get loose again like it is stripped. I can snug it up , but the lower shaft has a slight wobble. Is there any way ti fix it or put something in there to help it tighten up? I have a spare s rod with one on it , but I have no idea how to get them off.

 

[pistolpete]

It is quite possible that not only the cam lock is stripped, but also the the lower rod is worn where the button in the camlock contacts it. Remove your lower rod and check it for wear. If you want to remove the cam lock, this is how. If you look closely at the cam lock, you will see a seam where the top ring is glued to the main body. The ring is located at the handle end of the cam lock, let's call it the top. Insert a sharp, thin knife blade into this seam and work the blade as to seperate the ring from the body. It is glued with a type of super glue. Once you have the ring seperated, you will see that there are 3 pieces. The top ring, the body, and the button. You can buy a new cam lock from your Minelab dealer or directly from Minelab. These cam locks usually dont stand up very well and are easily stripped by over tightening. Should you want to install a new one, remember, the little "tit" on the button goes towards the top. Put the ring on the shaft, install the button into the large hole,tit facing to the top, then put the main body on the shaft. Put a couple drops of super glue on the ring/body mating surface, spread around the whole diameter with a toothpick, put the 2 pieces together and hold them together until the glue sets. Turn the assembly as it is drying to be sure that the button has not glued to the body because of excess glue. Try to hold the 2 pieces together for as long as you can to be sure of a good glue joint. That's it!

 

[goodmore]

Thank You . I will try it this weekend.

 

[Critterhunter]

Haven't really looked at one to see for sure if this will work but if there are any kinds of threads or a surface area where the cam lock is supposed to tighten you can try using some Teflon tape meant for water pipes and such. That will fix stripped threads or at least tighten up two areas of contact.

The easiest fix would be this- Take off the lower shaft and remove the snap pin that snaps it's head out through the adjustment hole on both shafts. Notice that clip has two heads but Minelab was too lazy to drill the adjustment holes all the way through so both can pop out. Drill them all the way through on the lower and upper shaft. Make SURE you are not using too large of a drill bit or it will create slop, and also make sure it's straight or the pin's two heads won't snap out properly. Doing that alone will probably make the shaft stiffer than stock even without using the cam lock. The custom shaft I built doesn't use a cam lock yet because I've got the adjustment hole drilled all the way through the spot where the two shafts join is MUCH stiffer than stock. The Whites lower Tall Man carbon fiber rod I used already had the snap pin's holes drilled out on both sides. I figure Minelab must have saved a thousandth of a cent by not running the drill all the way through both rods.