Re: Why Bolts

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <37F6AE78.EC36FB1A@snet.net> -=Bob=- writes:

>> Don't know why they dropped the set screws - my 1980 Audi 80CD had them.

>> Mind you - both sheared when I tried to undo them.

> Thats why.  They tended to round off when you tried to remove them after a few
> years.

Interestingly, drilling them out and retapping the threads was the first
engineering job I did on a car in almost fifteen years.

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 Phil Payne
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