On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 19:48:51 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

When you are forging a piece of steel the size of a UPS truck...when
the balance goes out after something busts...at 5000,000 psi (5000
tons)...**** tends to unload..and load up other parts of the
press..increasing the pressures way past their own safety ranges and
BANG!!

Helluva press!


They broke the nut and threaded end completely off one end of one
rod..the press no longer was in balance..and it simply busted the
remaining two nuts..and the 4th nut...it busted off at the BOTTOM of
the shaft..not the top. It was BANG! BANGBANGBOOM! by accounts..that
fast too. Having a 5' nut some 30' above the operators head come
loose..tends to make assholes pucker up pretty tight. That nut..has a
buttress thread and a hole in the middle of it thats 39" in diameter.

I'll bet people were pinching buttonholes in their skivvies.

That's bigger than Lady Liberty's nuts. g She has nuts with a 1'
span between flats holding her steel infrastructure to the pedestal.
I was impressed.

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