jnorris
MEMBER
Wisconsin
Drinking rum in the morning does not make you an alcoholic. It makes you a pirate!!
Lock nuts or castle nuts with cotter pin
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Drinking rum in the morning does not make you an alcoholic. It makes you a pirate!!
wireweinie
FOUNDER
Palmer, AK
The 'proper' way is any way you can install the cotter pin, in which it does not rattle and it does not catch on other parts. All else is just gravy.
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aktango58
FRIEND
18AA
It is also nice when the next guy can reach into a space and back out without tearing his shirt, or drawing blood.
bob turner
Registered User
That one on the lower aileron horn has left lasting scars. Occasionally it is so bad my buddies say "you need stitches!"
wireweinie
FOUNDER
Palmer, AK
Steve Pierce
BENEFACTOR
Graham, TX
Piper did it a lot. I guess they were using their stock of drilled bolts since early on everything was cotter keyed. Most were in shear. I have seen drilled bolts with lock nuts in tension break at the drilled hole.
Eddie Foy
MEMBER
South Florida
OK for experimental? It is either safe or it is not.
AdirondackCub
Registered User
Ballston Spa, NY
Agree with Glenn if it rotates, pin it. My gear has Nyloks
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wireweinie
FOUNDER
Palmer, AK
skywagon8a
MEMBER
SE Mass MA6
Is there a tab welded on the gear fitting which will prevent the bolt from rotating? If so, the bolt is not subject to rotation and an elastic stop nut is applicable. Just because the gear can rotate on the bolt, it does not mean that the bolt is subject to rotation. You need to be able to answer the question "Can something cause the bolt rotate?". If the bolt can not rotate it is fixed. Things can rotate on a fixed bolt.
