Caught ya,
So you are the one who developed the Duck Cannon. I knew it had to be a
spridgeteer to develop something like this. Tell me something, they
say they used frozen ducks. Did they freeze them to shoot them out of
the cannon or was it because you couldn't persuade a duck to fly
directly into the mouth of a Gas turbine. Messy business working on
these Gas Turbines.
We made a potato cannon once. Used to shoot them up on the carriers'
decks. I know, we submariners were a little crude. LOL 8~}
Rick
> Actually, on an aircraft almost every bolt and fitting
> is safety wired because it is not only the fastener
> failing that is bad, it is the damage a bolt can cause
> by seating itself in, say, an engine core, an
> actuator, a fan, etc. (this is known as FOD, "Foreign
> Object Debris or Damage"). When I worked on JSTARS at
> Northrop Grumman, we would FOD an engine every few
> months to the tune of $1 million of your tax dollars,
> despite daily "FOD Walks" where we would line up and
> walk the taxiway picking up debris. Bolts are also
> installed in orientations so that if a nut works loose
> the bolt has a chance of staying put. Drives the
> wrench turners crazy cause the heads are usually in
> extremely unaccessible areas.
>
> Ron
>
> --- richard.arnold@juno.com wrote:
> > > Another alternative, if you have a drill press, is
> > > to cross-drill a small hole through the hex head
> > > and safety wire it in place. You can run the wire
> > > between the two bolts.
> >
> > >> Your joking, right!!!!??
> >
> > He's not joking. Safety wiring is normally used in
> > applications were a
> > failed fastener will have extreme consequences (such
> > as the aircraft will
> > fall out of the sky....). I've done it to a
> > small-block Chevy with
> > header bolts that kept vibrating loose (V8 Vega).
> >
> > Most difficult thing, other than drilling the holes,
> > is spiral wrapping
> > the wire; I used a set of pliers designed for that
> > task. These pull the
> > wire through a pair of guides and twist the wire.
> > After that, you only
> > need to remember to secure the wire so that its
> > 'tightening' the bolt
> > head when secured.
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
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