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On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 23:04:44 -0500, "Hal Rosser"
wrote:

crimps can 'work loose'
Same reason you have 5 lug nuts on your wheel instead of 2 or 3.


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Nonsense.

Properly crimped, the wire will break before the crimp "works loose".

Your tire has multiple lug nuts to spread the stress, not because a
smaller number will "work loose".

73, Bill W6WRT

"Bill Turner" wrote in message
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Nonsense.

Properly crimped, the wire will break before the crimp "works loose".

Your tire has multiple lug nuts to spread the stress, not because a
smaller number will "work loose".

73, Bill W6WRT

Guess that's right, let's see now. Formula ! car wheels just have one big
lug nut, don't they?

Harold
KD5SAK

kd5sak wrote:
"Bill Turner" wrote in message
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Nonsense.

Properly crimped, the wire will break before the crimp "works loose".

Your tire has multiple lug nuts to spread the stress, not because a
smaller number will "work loose".

73, Bill W6WRT


Guess that's right, let's see now. Formula ! car wheels just have one big
lug nut, don't they?

Yes, and six drive pegs
http://www.f1-country.com/f1-enginee.../wheelrim.html

so the nut only holds the wheel to the hub and doesn't take the stresses
of propelling the car.

W8LNA

"W8LNA" wrote in message
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kd5sak wrote:
"Bill Turner" wrote in message
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Nonsense.

Properly crimped, the wire will break before the crimp "works loose".

Your tire has multiple lug nuts to spread the stress, not because a
smaller number will "work loose".

73, Bill W6WRT


Guess that's right, let's see now. Formula ! car wheels just have one
big
lug nut, don't they?

Yes, and six drive pegs
http://www.f1-country.com/f1-enginee.../wheelrim.html

so the nut only holds the wheel to the hub and doesn't take the stresses
of propelling the car.
W8LNA

On street wheels the nuts do support torque, but not like a single central
one would (like the formula 1 without the pegs). The holes in the wheel are
tapered, the nut seats on the taper and the lug shaft (threaded lug) does
not contact the wheel hole. The torque is transferred by radial forces on
the nuts. (pardon any unintended pun)
73, Steve, K9DCI

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:00:57 GMT, "kd5sak"
wrote:


Guess that's right, let's see now. Formula ! car wheels just have one big
lug nut, don't they?


Pit-stop time is critical. You want to race a car that takes 6 guys
all fumbling in over- intimate proximity to change each wheel?
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"What is now proved was once only imagin'd" - William Blake

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:44:41 +0100, Paul Burridge
k wrote:

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:00:57 GMT, "kd5sak"
wrote:


Guess that's right, let's see now. Formula ! car wheels just have one big
lug nut, don't they?


Pit-stop time is critical. You want to race a car that takes 6 guys
all fumbling in over- intimate proximity to change each wheel?

NASCAR crews seem to do just fine with on man at each wheel. Each
wheel has five lug nuts.

R