Nylock Nuts

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Werner Schierschmidt Participant Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1	Nylock Nuts 07/23/2009 2:02 AM
	How often may a Nyloc Nut be used, and where can I find a written specification specifying this?
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Anonymous Poster	#1 Re: Useage of Nyloc Nuts 07/23/2009 2:28 AM
	Once! If desperate hit the top with a hammer and use again - at your own risk.
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TVP45 Guru Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 4448 Good Answers: 143	#2 In reply to #1 Re: Useage of Nyloc Nuts 07/23/2009 8:01 AM
	A GA! If only you were registered... To the OP, you have to give more information. There are single-use lock nuts and there are reuseable lock nuts. Have you checked with the manufacturer for their recommendation? There are also industry-specific standards. Have you checked that? There are also safety standards. Do you have an internal standard with regard to locking fasteners? This is not a "one size fits all" question. __________________ "Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." Elwood P. Dowd
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The Prof Guru Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Western Australia Posts: 767 Good Answers: 58	#4 In reply to #2 Re: Useage of Nyloc Nuts 07/23/2009 8:27 PM
	Was me! Sorry, not signed on, was travelling and using a different computer. __________________ If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (A.E.)
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Tim in Mexico Guru Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Anywhere I may be at the time Posts: 661 Good Answers: 16	#3 Re: Useage of Nyloc Nuts 07/23/2009 9:20 AM
	Once and only once PERIOD. Example at this moment I'm in the middle of an extensive gear train overhaul on an EMD (medium speed 3000 kw engine) due to the fact that someone rebuilt a water pump and re-used the 2.00 usd lock nut that secures the pumps drive gear. 25,000 usd in parts and 500,000 in down time was the result!
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sb Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2550 Good Answers: 103	#5 In reply to #3 Re: Useage of Nyloc Nuts 07/24/2009 4:41 AM
	Why that ? Due to that magnanimous fellow you got the money 25,000 usd in parts and 500,000 in down time, labour and other costs and then a job in this recession times. Say god bless the person, let there be more like him and more resourceful ones. At the moment unable to find some examples, may be persons who will just align the bearing broken cage or weld the broken gear tooth or something like that _{(people do it you know)} __________________ Fantastic ideas for a Fantastic World, I make the illogical logical.They put me in cars,they put me in yer tv.They put me in stereos and those little radios you stick in your ears.They even put me in watches, they have teeny gremlins for your watches
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Tim in Mexico Guru Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Anywhere I may be at the time Posts: 661 Good Answers: 16	#6 In reply to #5 Re: Useage of Nyloc Nuts 07/24/2009 6:06 AM
	Theres no shortage of these guys in the oil field. Theres enough in fact that you all could try and recruit some into your fields of work. I really wouldn't mind at all to be rid of a few of them.
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sb Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2550 Good Answers: 103	#7 In reply to #6 Re: Useage of Nyloc Nuts 07/24/2009 6:38 AM
	Not mine, i prefer my customers recruiting them. __________________ Fantastic ideas for a Fantastic World, I make the illogical logical.They put me in cars,they put me in yer tv.They put me in stereos and those little radios you stick in your ears.They even put me in watches, they have teeny gremlins for your watches
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