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Offline Saltfever

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Correct cotter-key installation?
« on: July 13, 2012, 03:55:50 PM »
Have you been doing yours correctly? Enjoy  :wink:

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Re: Correct cotter-key installation?
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2012, 04:34:02 PM »
  Salt, I have been a backyard mechanic/ala race car "guru" for over forty years, and I have never seen or had anyone explain what this short video has.
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Re: Correct cotter-key installation?
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2012, 07:21:11 PM »
Agreed, great videos, they were mentioned in another thread, I never knew that was the correct cotter key application!

Offline Kiwi Paul

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Re: Correct cotter-key installation?
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2012, 10:37:26 PM »
Well, That`s one thing I`ve actually been doing right all these years. Probably the only thing though.....Oh Wait! I`m still Married! Counts as right, Yes?...... :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Offline kiwi belly tank

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Re: Correct cotter-key installation?
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2012, 09:29:31 AM »
No mate, doesn't mean you're doing that right, just acceptably close enough to their way.
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Re: Correct cotter-key installation?
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2012, 09:43:19 AM »
No mate, doesn't mean you're doing that right, just acceptably close enough to their way.
  Sid.

Or to slow to know better! (20 years here :-o)

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Re: Correct cotter-key installation?
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2012, 08:42:55 PM »
20 years? Trent, you rookie.

Joanie and I are spending this weekend in the Tri Valley area of Livermore, CA. Feels like we have drunk barrels of wine, which expains the $300 dinner tab last night.

Oh - 29 years BTW

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Re: Correct cotter-key installation?
« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2012, 12:02:47 PM »
   Barb and I 37 years, and she still won't let me drive when we travel to the Salt.
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Re: Correct cotter-key installation?
« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2012, 12:17:16 PM »
Carol and I 40 years next month
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Re: Correct cotter-key installation?
« Reply #9 on: July 16, 2012, 12:29:14 PM »
All these years and I was doing them right...Couldn't been from my dad who was a wind tunner model maker machinist and private pilot....Naah just coincidence.........JD
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Re: Correct cotter-key installation?
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2012, 12:39:55 PM »
Cotter pin ?   Aint them kinda expensive ?  I been usin' nails, same thing, kinda, sorta and you can buy then by the pound !

Doug, there might be a reason Barb wont let you drive .  considering your talents only seem to consist of going in a straight line, I can see why highway driving might be a challenge !  :-D
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Re: Correct cotter-key installation?
« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2012, 12:43:11 PM »
Nails are too danged expensive and probably manufactured by people that don't speak my language, so I prefer to use coat hangers from the local dry cleaners.  Lots of "safety wire" per clean shirt. :evil:
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Re: Correct cotter-key installation?
« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2012, 01:00:48 PM »
When I worked in Aerospace we had to attend every kind of class you can think of and get certified. Good information, I still have many of my instruction books and certs. Glad I had the chance to attend them and they were all free on their time.
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Re: Correct cotter-key installation?
« Reply #13 on: July 18, 2012, 01:23:57 PM »
Nails are too danged expensive and probably manufactured by people that don't speak my language, so I prefer to use coat hangers from the local dry cleaners.  Lots of "safety wire" per clean shirt. :evil:

Sending shirts to the dry cleaners ain't cheap (ever hear of wash-and-wear?  :mrgreen: )

Personally, I use the metal hooks from broken bungie cords I find along the highway - that's cheap!

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Re: Correct cotter-key installation?
« Reply #14 on: July 18, 2012, 01:40:00 PM »
Coathangers used for cotter keys? I thought coathangers were for welding rods.  :-D

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