[Bell Historians] Re: Trowbridge, Wiltshire

[David Bryant]

>Why not replace the split pins with lock-nuts then? They're much
>easier to take apart and a lot more reliable!

I beg to differ. My experience is that split pins are more likely to prevent 
the nuts undoing than lock nuts are. Problems with split pins often arise 
because they are reused many times and become weakened from being bent back 
and forth a number of times.

David