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> From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
> To: Cwn74@aol.com
> Cc: carbuff@nac.net; rmideke@interbase.com; spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: trunnions
> Date: Friday, December 04, 1998 10:33 PM
>
> Webster's "New Collegiate Dictionary" defines it as, "a pin or pivot on
> which something cam be rotated or tilted."
>
> I have seen the term used to describe the rocker arms used in the valve
> train of an engine.
>
> Regards,
> Joe
...and also the barrel with threaded hole for a bolt with hole through the
shaft (to take a cable) that can be tightened down (such as the cable for
the bonnet release on TR4/5/6 cars that goes into a trunnion on the bonnet
release mechanism).
Keith
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