>There is a terrific book called Nuts, Bolts & Specialty Fasteners (or
>something close) written by a race engineer whose name escapes me. If
>you can find it through Amazon, etc., it will be of great help.
>
Carroll Smith
Also does Tune to win, Drive to Win, Engineer to win, and Prepare to win.
Bsically the short course on Race Car fabrication and preparation.
Got all five and I can dig them out if you need ISBN #'s
Ric Bergstrom, Richmond, VA 73-74 Midget
Central Virginia MG Classics WWW.CENTRALVAMG.COM
RICHMOND BRITISH CAR DAYS ---September 18th and 19th, 1999
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On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 12:19:00 -0400 "Thorpe, Jeffrey"
<jthorpe@kilstock.com> writes:
>Curtis,
>
>Stainless steel fasteners are not the strongest and are not
>recommended
>for critical applications. I believe that they actually have less
>tensile and shear strength than Grade 5, and I am positive that they
>are
>weaker than Grade 8. The stainless is harder than grade 5 or 8, but
>also more fragile.
>
>If you want the strongest bolts available, you need to find some
>aircraft-grade bolts (there is a technical term for these but I can't
>think of it off the top of my head). Aircraft Spruce & Specialty
>(aricraft-spruce.com)(?) has a large selection of whatever they are
>called.
>
>There is a terrific book called Nuts, Bolts & Specialty Fasteners (or
>something close) written by a race engineer whose name escapes me. If
>you can find it through Amazon, etc., it will be of great help.
>
>Jeff Thorpe
>'60 Bugeye
>
> ----------
>From: Curtis Carlson
>To: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
>Subject: Sway bar mounting bolts
>Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998 12:48PM
>
>Hi there listers:
>
>I received my new sway bar in the mail yesterday but it didn't contain
>the bolts which mount the bar to the frame via the squarish buffer
>brackets.
>
>Does anyone know the bolt size for these 4 bolts? I suspect they are
>9/16" fine or something close, but haven't had any luck determining
>the
>exact bolt size.
>
>Also, for mounting the brackets to the A-Arms, I wanted to get the
>strongest bolts available, so I bought stainless steel
>bolts/washers/nuts for this. Do you all think that this will work
>okay
>and do I have to worry about any electrolytic action between the
>stainless steel bolts and the regular steel of the A-Arms and the sway
>bar mounting braket?
>
>Regards,
>
>Curt
>
> --
>Curtis Carlson
>'66 Austin Healey Sprite MkIII ("Gerty")
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