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1. Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: BarrMark262@aol.com; Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:55:11 EST; Just curious list, as to why do our cars have some nylock nuts as fasteners in some areas, and nuts and split washers in others. I prefer the nylock when your fingers and hands are really cramped and; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00319.html (7,308 bytes)
2. RE: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: "Matthew E. Hale" <haleme@bellsouth.net>; Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 07:30:36 -0500; I finished completely disassembling my MG last year and did not find a single nylock in the whole car. Every thing is fastened with a bolt, flat washer, lock washer and a nut. I don't think Abingdon; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00321.html (7,852 bytes)
3. Re: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@MGAguru.com>; Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:18:21 -0600; I think locknuts can be easily classified as either free spinning or friction type. Plain nut and split washer would be free spinning, where you can spin it down most of the way with your fingers and; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00322.html (11,261 bytes)
4. RE: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>; Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:33:21 -0700; The only place I recall seeing nylock nuts on one of my MGs was on my 71BGT on the bolts attaching the drive shaft to the rear of the transmission. And they very well could have been put there by a p; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00323.html (8,351 bytes)
5. Re: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: jello@ida.net; Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:03:10 US/Mountain; For the best info on locking systems, refer to the book: Nuts, Bolts, Fasteners, and Plumbing by Carroll Smith. Generally he indicates that there are few effective locking mechanisms. I'm at work and; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00325.html (12,310 bytes)
6. Re: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>; Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:12:26 -0800; I don't think nylock nuts were fitted from the factory. At least I can't recall having found one on my 66 B. -- Max Heim '66 MGB GHN3L76149 If you're near Mountain View, CA, it's the primer red one w; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00326.html (8,290 bytes)
7. Re: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: Charles & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>; Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:50:02 -0600; You're saying you adjust the valves every 6,000 miles and change 34 nuts and washers each time? CR; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00329.html (8,261 bytes)
8. Re: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt $T$" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:43:17 -0000; Agreed. Many supplied as part of rebuild kits these days are not shown on the original parts list. Some may have been retrospective factory changes in the drive to reduce maintenance costs for fleet; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00339.html (8,901 bytes)
9. RE: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: "Brinkman, Gerardo V" <GB127167@teradata-ncr.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:05:22 -0500; Probably because Nylon was yet invented when the MGB was designed !!!!!!!!!!!! The first time I saw Nylok nuts was on a car designed/built in the late 70's, I can't remember seeing any on any car bui; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00344.html (8,362 bytes)
10. Re: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:35:27 -0500; Nuts, one says. So I went into Machinery's Handbook to see what additional wisdom could be made to this discussion of nuts. Who among us who is not an engineer would ever think that in the index woul; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00345.html (9,716 bytes)
11. Re: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:04:21 -0500; According to one source, Nylon was invented in 1935 and given the handy name of "polyhexamethylene adipamide" by a DuPont chemist named Wallace H. Carothers. For some reason the product was renamed N; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00346.html (9,074 bytes)
12. Re: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt $T$" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:56:04 -0000; Dunno about Nylok nuts, but nylon was invented in 1935 - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dt35ny.html; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00348.html (8,528 bytes)
13. Re: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: David Woerpel <dwoerpel@wi.net>; Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:26:20 -0600; Actually, I just watched a video from the Team Thicko Race Group here in the midwest and Roger Menadue (Donald Healey's main wrench) was verifying the authenticity of a Healey prototype. There were s; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00349.html (9,185 bytes)
14. Re: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:31:54 -0800 (PST); Brinkman, Gerardo V SEZ - Nylon was introduced by DuPont in 1939. There are probably some components of the MGB that were designed before then. :-) And at the risk of sounding pedantic, the trademark; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00350.html (8,492 bytes)
15. Re: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:38:08 -0800 (PST); I SEZ - ...And eneric is spelled Generic! :-) -- David Breneman Distributed Systems Software Analyst DHL/Airborne Express 3101 Western Avenue Seattle, WA 98121 Phone: +1-206-830-4253 Fax: +1-206-830-; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00351.html (8,045 bytes)
16. Re: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: Bud Krueger <budkrueger@earthlink.net>; Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:53:13 -0500; Around 1960 I had occasion to work on instrumentation for the AEC. One of the standard items in the parts bin was something known as an ESNA Stop Nut. I think that ESNA was the manufacturer. They wer; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00352.html (10,382 bytes)
17. Re: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:09:20 -0500; Oh, that tiny washer? The one that weighs less than the ink used to print its name? Bob; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00373.html (8,108 bytes)
18. Re: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt $T$" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 15:55:56 -0000; *Everything* was rationed in the UK during and after the war, until the early 50s in the case of food. My future wife and I stayed in a hotel in Cornwall in the late 60s and hanging on the door was a; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00380.html (8,149 bytes)
19. Re: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1): Author: "Paul M." <rowman22001@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:29:40 -0800 (PST); -- "Paul Hunt (T)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk> My father is a retired airline pilot and former fighter pilot. Whenever I tell him any of my "car that got away" stories (like when I was offered a ve; /html/mgs/2003-11/msg00381.html (8,346 bytes)

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