Re: Igor's Test

[i6941TB@gnn.com]

>Igor Kessel dropped one shoe when he wrote:

>> Now, I'm gonna crack a beer open and proceed downstairs to my garage. 

Then Al Powell politely reminded me that I shudav not abused the foreplay and 
gone directly to the business end of the deal:

>So, Igor......where's the other shoe?  Whassa story?  End up working 
>on the beer 'steada the Audi????

Good guess, Al, guilty. Coupla friends landed at my place that evening and after 
several beers AND vodka-martinis I could not operate the QWERTY keyboard without 
too many typos. Well, I have to justify my national image somehow, that 
irresponsible Hollywood has firmly planted in the minds of americans...=8)

Here is the story. The log bolts were rock solid, i.e. the clicker, pre-set @ 
110NM, could not move them a bit. Also, when I last torqued them at the Glen 2.5 
mos ago the ambient temperature was around 30°C and now it is around 14°C. I 
theorize that the bolts should have contracted radially, perhaps several 
microns. All my engineering reference books are in the office and I don't 
remember the coefficient of expansion for Fe from the top of my head.

However, the more I follow the string, the more I lean towards PDQSHIP's and 
Phil Payne's point of view on this issue. I did see the stretched thread on the 
bolts in the past. Fortunately they always make fasteners of a softer material 
than the body that accepts them.

Igor