-------------------------------1113159627 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 10/04/2005 16:14:01 GMT Standard Time, johnedavid@... writes: Lock Nuts These seem usually to be put together with the thinner nut on top. However I saw once in an engineering journal that this is wrong, the top nut is the one with the most strain (the bottom one being relieved by the pressure of the top one) and therefore the thicker one should be on top. Anyone any ideas? John David This is correct! But I have only seen them used (in the bell industry) with the smaller nut on top! I use a full size nyloc nut on top of a std plain nut, and this seems to work very well. Matthew -------------------------------1113159627 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

In a message dated 10/04/2005 16:14:01 GMT Standard Time,=20 johnedavid@... writes:

= Lock=20 Nuts

These seem usually to be put together with the thinner nut on= top.=20 However I
saw once in an engineering journal that this is wrong, the = top=20 nut is the
one with the most strain (the bottom one being relieved by= the=20 pressure of
the top one) and therefore the thicker one should be on=20 top.

Anyone any ideas?

John David

This is correct!

But I have only seen them used (in the bell industry) with the smaller= nut=20 on top!

I use a full size nyloc nut on top of a std plain nut, and this seems = to=20 work very well.

Matthew

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