:: Self locking nuts can be reused (in non-bearing and sealing applications)
:: if you can't thread the nut on by hand because of the nylon. Since those
:: puppies run about a dime to a dollar each, there's no point in throwing away
:: a good one.
I reuse nyloc nuts all the time. If the nut runs free until it hits the nylon
insert it should be okay. But I have been spending more on small drill bits
and safety wire than Nyloc nuts these days.
As for the cost, I used to buy them a few at a time for about 40 cents each at
the hardware store. Then I decided to just go ahead and start buying stuff
like that at a fastener specialty shop. Cost me $3.56 for a box of 5/16 SAE
Nylocs. I thought, gosh, that's 36 cents each, not much of a deal. And then I
remembered it was a box of 100, not 10. Boy, and I tell my wife that powers
of 10 are foolproof when it comes to arithmetic!
mjb.
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