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From: prb@access.digex.net (Pat)
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Subject: Re: Excess Shuttle criticism was Re: Shuttle 0-Defects & Bizarre? DC
Date: 16 May 1993 10:43:09 -0400
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In article <stephens.737384293@ngis> stephens@geod.emr.ca (Dave Stephenson) writes:
|had.'  and went on to mention that in aviation if you are found
|with an adjustable spanner in your tool box you can be fired. An
|adjustable spanner by trying to fit all nuts, fits none of them
|properly, and so damages all of them. In the demanding environment of
|the air the adjustable wrench is rightly considered a lethal instrument.


Dave,

	What i recall from air craft maintence.  Torqque  and safety
wires or cotters  were more important, then if some bolt
face were nicked up.  If it was in bad shape you replaced it
with another $30,  aircraft grade bolt.  I can see adjustable spanners
eating up profit,  but lives?

pat