[s-cars] wastegate cap removal
Marc Gorelick
marc at frogville.net
Mon Jun 13 13:24:02 EDT 2005
I haven't heard that term since Seagate ST-251 (40Mb MFM) hard disks
became obsolete. ;-)
Back in the day, I "fixed" these by the dozen by taking them out of the
computer's case and giving them a violent twist on the yaw axis at
power-up.
Keith Maddock wrote:
>On 6/10/05, Robert Rossato <r0ssat0_987 at att.net> wrote:
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>>That way when tapping the cap with the rubber mallet releases the
>>stiction that's holding it down, the nuts will catch it.
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>Ahh stiction !
>
>That has to be the most beautiful word in the engineer's handbook :-D
>(to me at least !)
>
>Cheers,
>Keith
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