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Re: Paper clip, er, caliper conspiracy!

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Subject: Re: Paper clip, er, caliper conspiracy!
From: AMfoto1@aol.com
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:42:41 EST
   Okay, okay Randall, I promise, cross my heart, etc. not to use any paper 
clips when I rebuild my calipers!
   (Sorry, I couldn't resist. ;-)
   Alan Myers
   San Jose, Calif.
   '62 TR4 CT17602L
   http://www.triumphowners.com/640 
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Take an ordinary paper clip and try to pull it apart
with your hands.  Can't do it, the tensile strength is far beyond what a human
can pull.  Now bend it back and forth a few dozen times.  Before long, it will
break in two !  You've exceeded it's "fatigue life" and it failed. 
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