route66
Gold Supporter
- Joined
- Oct 12, 2004
- Messages
- 902
- Location
- Parks, AZ
- Aircraft
- c-182/ RAF AAI Mod.
- Total Flight Time
- 2000
During my build I would need a bolt here and there and would measure the span needed, go to one of my 2 trusty gauges and order the exact bolt. Sometimes they would arrive right on and sometimes they were too short. Every time they were short I would think to myself, “What were you thinking?” After months of this order and reorder bolts till I have an ample supply of extra bolts to open a hardware store it struck me today, I have two gauges! The first came with my RAF kit and has instructions to measure the grip of the bolt and my other I purchased at Sun & Fun from A/S I assumed was read the same way. Wrong! The A/S gauge measures the entire bolt length.
My question is:
What is the standard way to measure an AN Bolt? Grip, length or should I assume both depending on the gauge?
Keep an eye out for my e-bay auction for an enormous collection of aircraft AN bolts once I finish.
My question is:
What is the standard way to measure an AN Bolt? Grip, length or should I assume both depending on the gauge?
Keep an eye out for my e-bay auction for an enormous collection of aircraft AN bolts once I finish.