[Bell Historians] Re: Trowbridge, Wiltshire

[Richard Offen]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, matthewhigby at a... wrote:
> 
> 
> In a message dated 08/04/2005 16:01:08 GMT Standard Time, 
> davidbryant at h... writes:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> In my experience - a plain nut with a nyloc nut on top (locked 
together) - 
> never comes undone!
> 
> Matthew

Well said Matthew! It's a matter of engineering common sense: from 
first principles a lock nut has got to be better than a split pin.

Apart from that, David clearly has never had the bother of drilling 
out the remians of a split pin that has rusted into the nut and 
broken off in the process of extraction. After only one or two 
operations of that sort, you become ardently anti-split pin!!!!

Richard