[AR] Re: Intertank coupling design

  • From: Uwe Klein <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:40:52 +0200

Carl Tedesco wrote:
4. For sections we wanted to separate we used twenty (20) 8-32 screws.
   We had a few screws strip in the thin 0.072" wall, so your method
   with inserts is appealing.

There are nice former type taps around for giving threads in thin material
some flesh.
The traveling tradesman I met at a friends hydraulics shop recently
even had a range of no predrill one pass formers suitable for (stainless)steel.
( Tool and material gets red hot ;-)

uwe



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