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Common 300-series stainless steels have lower tensile strength than common alloy steels. Stainless steel fasteners are more prone to shearing off when torqued if you are not aware of this. Note that
Larry, thank you for the interesting comments on galling. A common situation is a stainless U-bolt on an antenna, with stainless nuts supplied. What would you think about tossing the stainless nuts a
Works fine for me, though grade 8 nuts would be overkill for most ss bolts. David Robbins K1TTT e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net web: http://www.k1ttt.net AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1tt
Indeed, yes! Here is what I replied but forgot to send to the reflector: Unless the U-bolt is fully supported, I doubt you can approach full tensile strength of the U-bolt itself; I don't know the in
Lest I be misunderstood, let me clarify that I would prefer to put a good anti-galling grease on all-stainless fasteners rather than use a Grade 5 nut on the stainless steel U-bolt. My main reason is