cotter
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As far as anyone could determine, both tragedies resulted from faulty cotter pins, only an inch or two long.
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As the U.S. cotter pin in the United Nations, Lodge was given Cabinet status and a large voice in U.S. policy�and grew in stature to measure up to both.
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Serial writers ran out of hazards years ago, have been working switches on them ever since; the loose cotter pin on the stagecoach, for example, has been used an estimated 7,000 times.
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Release the cotter pin from the spindle nut, then remove the nut and washer, and the entire hub should slip off the axle.
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On every bolt use a castellated nut and a cotter pin, or an ordinary nut and a lock washer, so the bolt will not work loose.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Pag?, Victor Wilfred
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