Well they make a special to shear set of bolts of soft
steel for snow blowers available at any mini motor shop,
or even Sears for that matter..
Else what about a brass bolt ?? You use brass sheer pins
for the prop drives in outboards. Go get a Ryasons metal
book. It gives the shear strength per diameter of each type
grade of metal.
Bob B
>From: Rikk Rogers <rkltd@swbell.net>
>To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org> (Military Vehicles Mailing List)
>Subject: Re: [MV] Winching, Wenching and drinking.........
>Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 14:26:13 -0600
>
>True,
>My shock was at the fact that it is aluminum.
>I have used shear pins for years in power-takeoffs on tractors ect. but
>they
>use soft steel, and can be replaced with a soft bolt.
>An Aluminum pin could be hard to find NOS, so what else works when you wipe
>out 3 or 4 at a time?
>
>Never done that? Have you ever stuck a deuce to the frame in justsoft mud?
>
>
>rikk
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
>Behalf Of Greg
>Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 2:02 PM
>To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [MV] Winching, Wenching and drinking.........
>
>
>Yeah, but that's the whole point of a _shear_ pin. Either you use it as
>it's
>designed, or if you'd like you could replace it with some CroMo, and then
>replace other more expensive parts when they break instead. Your choice :)
>
>Greg
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Rikk Rogers <rkltd@swbell.net>
>To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 11:27 AM
>Subject: Re: [MV] Winching, Wenching and drinking.........
>
>
> > Aluminum! ouch!
> > What else can be used?
> > rikk
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eugene PANTANO [mailto:snoshu@market1.com]
> > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 12:14 PM
> > To: Rikk Rogers
> > Subject: Re: [MV] Winching, Wenching and drinking.........
> >
> >
> > The aluminum pin on the front winch is supposed to have about a 11,000
> > shear point....not much.... Gene
>
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