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Re: Bonnet stop holder - getting out the nut

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Subject: Re: Bonnet stop holder - getting out the nut
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:30:31 +0100
In article <11EEFA4B6844D511A0E70008C71E9F018F3967@ABDEXH01>, Richard 
Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com> writes
>James,
>
>There is the main 'L' shaped bracket that holds the nut and attaches to the
>bonnet - something like this
>-----__
>      l\
>      l \
>      l  \
>      l___\
>           \
>            \
>            l
>            l    (looking forwards at the rear right corner of the bonnet
>
>On the top of the horizontal section of this 'L' is an inverted flattish
>'U', which actually traps the nut:
>
>       ______________________
>       l  ----------------  l             (what you would be able to see if
>you
>       l  l              l  l              could look outwards at the 'L'
>       l  l              l  l              bracket if the upright bit of the
>'L'
> ______l  l______________l  l______        wasn't there)
>--------------        ---------------------
>
>I think this bit is what Mike is referring to as the 'flap',

It is.

> but since it is
>welded both sides (I think)

I don't think mine was.   It appeared simply to have been "folded" into 
place.

ATB
-- 
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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