[Healeys] BN2 balljoint crosstube- tight nuts

[Rich C]

Thanks for the information Curt, The machinists hand book really is the bottom
line.

Rich


From: Curt/Nancy Arndt
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 12:17 PM
To: andy pole
Cc: acmiller at mhcable.com ; healeys at autox.team.net ; Rich Chrysler
Subject: Re: [Healeys] BN2 balljoint crosstube- tight nuts


Gentlemen,

If you don't care about fastener minutia, then stop reading now.

Slotted vs. Castellated nuts

http://www.chinafastener.info/en/images/yp_pic/180.jpg

Slotted nut

http://www.circlip.biz/images/slotted-nuts.gif

This image says it's a castellated nut but is in fact a slotted nut!

http://www.lrseries.com/resources/user/232348594207797ea6f7aee2db4271d2d3c7c4
74/3259-CASTLE-NUT.jpg

Castellated nut

http://componentparts.co.uk/Images/Castle%20Nut%20%28large%29.png

A good number of the images on Google claim slotted nuts are castellated nuts
and vice versa, so you obviously cannot trust the web on everything.

Bottom line... the official source is the Machinery's Handbook.  My 16th
Edition,1959 volume printing clearly shows the distinction. It also has quite
a bit of info on Whitworth Fasteners and UNF, UNC fastener markings that
distinguished them from Whitworth.

Cheers,

Curt




On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:40 AM, andy pole <ampole at hotmail.com> wrote:

  Curt

  Depends on what you get supplied, slotted nuts have the 'slots' more or less
half the height of castle nut 'slots' and as you point out they are different
animals, And yes the correct bmc fastener is a slotted.
  I stand corrected, just pointing out its usually easier to run a standard
nut down it first, then replace with the correct one.
  cheers

  Andy