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Re: re- Whitworth and Triump

To: "Jerry Kaidor" <jerry_kaidor@engtwomac.synoptics.com>
Subject: Re: re- Whitworth and Triump
From: paisley@cme.nist.gov (Scotty Paisley)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 09:57:00 EST
"Jerry Kaidor" writes:
 >> Scott Paisley writes:

 >> "All the parts falling off this car are of the very finest British
 >> manufacture"  (probably due to a whitworth fastener failing... :-)

 >  *** Ur, probably not.  According to Carroll Smith, the Whitworth thread form
 > is very good, featuring nicely radiused thread roots and peaks. These
 > help to prevent stress concentrations that lead to fastener failure.

Ah Ha!  So that explains why the older cars drop fewer parts than the
newer vintage.  I guess they just don't build them like they use too.
At least we can get the newer ones apart with tools from sears.  Of
course that might be the reason so many parts fall off my car...
Humm...  Thanks alot Jerry, now you got me wondering...  Maybe I'll
change all my fasteners over to whitworth!  Yeah!  Just think what the
next owner of my car would say about me!  "What an intelligent
mechanic that previous owner was!"  Gosh!

-Scotty



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