Thanks Randall. I work in a building full of mechanical engineers. I'll talk
with some of them about this tomorrow. I think fasteners are probably
covered in the machine design class that all of them take.
- Hugh Fader
>
> > I always thought that the plain section was required to
> keep you from
> > bottoming out the stud into the blind hole. True?
>
> I discussed this exact topic with a professional mechanical
> engineer (and
> Jaguar owner) a few years back. He said that for maximum
> strength, the stud
> should not only bottom in the hole, but be torqued into
> place. This helps
> spread the load into the deeper threads in the head/block,
> and prevent the
> top thread from tearing out. (This assumes that the stud is a higher
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