http://www.boltscience.com/pages/info.htm
Actually, it's quite interesting, with many threads (giggle...).
I stole this from the Miata Club site.
Tom M.
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"Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' Let us go and make our visit."
T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"Now and then we had a hope that, if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
Mark Twain
Re: Bolt Science For Nerds
The contributing articles by George Lorimor on fastening technology (torque vs torque angle) are very interesting. Before I retired, I worked in the power distribution transformer business. I put a lot of effort into trying to get the industry away from using torque values for parts that were sealed with Buna-N rubber gaskets. The ideal compression for Buna-N is 30%, but most torque values recommended by various supplier engineering departments over compressed the gaskets.
I could convince most of our suppliers engineering departments that the torque values were wrong, and that torque angle was a better measurement, but they would not change their documentation. The problem was that end customers would always default to torque because that is all they understood.
I could convince most of our suppliers engineering departments that the torque values were wrong, and that torque angle was a better measurement, but they would not change their documentation. The problem was that end customers would always default to torque because that is all they understood.