spitfires
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: New Big end bolts

To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: New Big end bolts
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 19:30:03 +0100
In article <001c01c10899$2a363a60$9c43e9cc@informatics.net>, BILL
McDEVITT <wmmk1@informatics.net> writes
>Jeff, In my humble opinion, that's an old wives tale!! Just check the
>originals
>for cracks and threads for stress.

In order to do a comprehensive set of tests for cracks or stress you'd
have to spend a lot more than you would buying a new sets of BE bolts...

Fer chrissake, these are critical components which can be replaced for
less than sixty bucks.   Why are we even talking about re-using suspect
ones?   (And, until they have been thoroughly inspected, they *are*
suspect).

ATB
-- 
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

///  spitfires@autox.team.net mailing list
///  To unsubscribe send a plain text message to majordomo@autox.team.net
///  with nothing in it but
///
///     unsubscribe spitfires
///


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>