data.3news-bydate.test.rec.motorcycles.104485 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: extraordinary footpeg engineering
Organization: Inland Steel Company; East Chicago, IN
Lines: 18
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] writes:
> Okay DoD'ers, here's a goddamn mystery for ya !
>
>
> The stud on the side of the bike that clunked when I turned was absent. I'm
> fairly sure it was there before the event. In fact, the thread in
> the hole in the footpeg was perfectly intact, with no evidence of something
> having been forcefully ripped out of it only moments previously.
>
> Okay all you engineering types, how the f**k do you explain this ? How can you
> rip a tightly fitting steel thread out of a threaded hole (in alloy) without
> damaging the thread in the hole ?
You can't knock a threaded stud out from its hole without destroying
the threads. Also part of the stud would still be in the hole.
Therefore the stud was *not* in the hole before you touched something
down on that side of the bike.
....Dr. Doom