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General Safety Wiring Rules

General safety wiring rules outline procedures for properly installing safety wire on components to prevent nuts, bolts, and fasteners from loosening. Key points include making a pigtail at the end of the wire to prevent snagging, using new wire for each application, tightening nuts to align with casting slots, ensuring wire is tight but not over tensioned, applying wire so it tightens the nut, and twisting the wire taut and evenly. The safety wire loop should stay down and not tend to come up over the bolt head. Cotter pin installation follows similar guidelines, making sure the pin fits neatly in the drilled hole with little play and bending prongs so they do not extend beyond diameters or rest

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General Safety Wiring Rules

General safety wiring rules outline procedures for properly installing safety wire on components to prevent nuts, bolts, and fasteners from loosening. Key points include making a pigtail at the end of the wire to prevent snagging, using new wire for each application, tightening nuts to align with casting slots, ensuring wire is tight but not over tensioned, applying wire so it tightens the nut, and twisting the wire taut and evenly. The safety wire loop should stay down and not tend to come up over the bolt head. Cotter pin installation follows similar guidelines, making sure the pin fits neatly in the drilled hole with little play and bending prongs so they do not extend beyond diameters or rest

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General Safety Wiring Rules

When using the safety wire method of safe tying, the following general rules should be followed:
1. A pigtail of to 1\2 inch (three to six twists) should be made at the end of the wiring. This
pigtail must be bent back or under to prevent it from becoming a snag.
2. The safety wire must be new upon each application.
3. When castellated nuts are to be secured with safety wire, tighten the nut to the low side of the
selected torque range, unless otherwise specified, and if necessary, continue tightening until a
slot aligns with the hole.
4. All safety wires must be tight after installation but not under such tension that normal handling
or vibration will break the wire.
5. The wire must be applied so that all pull exerted by the wire tends to tighten the nut.
6. Twists should be tight and even and the wire between the nuts as taut as possible without
over twisting.
7. The safety wire should always be installed and twisted so that the loop around the head stays
down and does not tend to come up over the bolt head, causing a slack loop.

Cotter Pin Safe tying

Cotter pin installation is shown in figure 6-30. Castellated nuts are used with bolts that have been
drilled for cotter pins. he cotter pin should fit neatly into the hole with very little side play. The
following general rules apply to cotter pin safe tying:
1. The prong bent over the bolt end should not extend beyond the bolt diameter. (Cut it off if
necessary.)
2. The prong bent down should not rest against the surface of the washer. (Again, cut it off if
necessary.)

3. If the optional wraparound method is used, the prongs should not extend outward from the
sides of the nut.
4. All prongs should be bent over a reasonable radius. Sharp-angled bends invite breakage.
Tapping lightly with a mallet is the best method of bending the prongs.

Thread:
A screw thread is defined as a ridge of uniform section in the form of a
helix on either the external
or internal surface of a cylinder.

Pitch:

Pitch is the distance from the crest of one thread to the next.

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