Friday, June 15, 2007

RE: turn of the nut

Make a few mock-ups from the material that you are tapping in a size that
you can put in a Skidmore. Put the mock-ups in a calibrated Skidmore and
measure the tension. Use the RCSC turn-of-the-nut method QC process.

Regards,
Harold Sprague

>From: raincat1@aol.com
>Reply-To: <seaint@seaint.org>
>To: seaint@seaint.org
>Subject: turn of the nut
>Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:29:09 -0400
>
>
>Say I have a tapped hole, and I need full pre-tension on the bolt. How do
>I apply the "turn of the nut" method? How do I test representative samples
>as required by AISC? In this connection - I don't have a nut!
>
>Thanks !!
>
>
>Rainier C. Catubig
>San Diego, California
>
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