[Shop-talk] misshapen hex nuts

[Michael Porter]

On 5/31/2019 11:18 AM, John Innis via Shop-talk wrote:
> This looks like a shortcut on the part of the mfgr.  I have seen nuts 
> where the threaded hole is bolonged a bit to create tension to assist 
> with self locking, but all of those I have seen has a perfect hex.


To add to that, in all the stover nuts I've seen, the distortion is only 
in the upper part of the nut, not the full thread--otherwise, it could 
not be installed without difficulty or chance of cross-threading.

Pitch `em.  They're junk.


Cheers.

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Michael Porter
Roswell, NM


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