12-01-2006, 07:38 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Outside Miami,
FL
Cobra Make, Engine: Several
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Obviously... don't have much experience...?
Ten years of driving the big red car with a single nut and a safety-pin clip on each wheel isn't visible in my pix. Your graceless assumption is also erroneous.
The M8F requires a rather big & fancy 2 1/2" or so Snap-On socket wrench with a 3 foot bar to install and remove the single wheel nut. But, the nut does have a clip to retain the nut in case it wasn't correctly torqued.
But, how good it holds when properly torqued isn't my point at all. i wouldn't care if it is 5000 lbft when it is removed, if it was torqued correctly when it went out. My point was what happens when the wheel isn't torqued correctly when mounted? What keeps it from falling off at speed when an error is made? Perhaps your crew/you don't ever make errors?
How does a 150 mph tricicle handle in a turn? From experience, i can say not very well at all.
Take a look at all the castelated nuts on aircraft cable systems and multiple safety wire looms all over the aircraft. Some things (like control cable pulleys and wheels) ought not fall off and ought to be properly tightened, i am sure we agree; but things are frequently forgotten with stressfull circumstances, new crew members, hurried practice prep, equipment changes, weather changes, another weather change, etc.
Just a suggestion given in good faith, friend.
Here's a picture of an AN416 Retainer Pin:
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