On 18 Feb 2010 09:09:41 GMT, Jasen Betts wrote:
On 2010-02-17, life imitates life wrote:
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:44:56 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:
In article ,
life imitates life wrote:
I have a pair of twister pliers for lock wire. They are not actually
meant to be use to CUT the wire either, even though they have side
cutters incorporated into them. Any monkey knows how to flex fracture
wire that uses a medium that work hardens. That is the right way to
"cut" lock wire. In fact, one is supposed to use the side cutter to
simply score the wire a bit, and then the number of flexes is reduced to
just a few.
Lock wire is soft steel. If you have pliers not able to cut that, put them
back in the kid's play box where they came from.
Lock wire is NOT "soft steel" you complete and utter retard. It is a
very specialized, high tensile strength wire. Soft steel does not get
made into wire AT ALL.
tie wire is soft steel.
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"Tie wire"? Is that what you brits call "lock wire"? The wire used to
keep fasteners from becoming loose and falling off of an assembly?
If so, you are dumber than dog ****. LOCK WIRE is ALL stainless. HIGH
GRADE STAINLESS. It is a mission critical assembly element in nearly ANY
AND ALL military assemblies where vibration is introduced.
That pretty much covers all of it, and no, they do not use soft steel
for this purpose EVER, ANYWHERE. Anytime you get a chance, take a look
and see if you EVER see any locked fasteners and assembly where the lock
wire has rusted. You cannot. The reason is simple. Aside from the
apparent lack of aptitude to grasp the concept to begin with that some
here seem to possess.