----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce C. Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Cotter pins
I wish they would start making that type of crank-set again, so we could call them,
Welcome Back Cotter - pins.
Bruce A "Hoosier" in Indiana where no one can explain, What a "Hoosier" is, On the outskirts of the French copied Notre Dame, Where the mascot is an Irish Leprechaun, And everything makes total sense.
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Editor's Note , From Raoul Delmare Marysville Kansas U.S.A. ( just another John Sebastian fan ) :
By the way , or as I prefer to say , buy the whey ,
It's pronounced " kaaah - TARE pin "
You see , there was once this famous television series , here in the U.S.A. , the result of which was mostly the career of someone , named John Travolta .
" Welcome back . . . "
> > We seldom wail-on or whack anything when a customer's around,
> > we prefer the smart authoritative rap.
> > The 'authoritative' is important. You must think of that crank pin
> > (you'll never hear us call it a cotter either, those resemble bobby pins
> > and are secured by inserting and spreading, at least through my old
> > schools of training, including '71 Schwinn Factory School
> > and manual. < <
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> Strictly speaking, a cotter is a vague term meaning anything which
> passes through a hole and is used to fasten something to a shaft.
> It could be split pin, a parallel sided pin like a bolt with no thread,
> a taper, or the bicycle type which uses a taper and a threaded end.
> Confusingly, the one you are calling a cotter pin is also sometimes
> called a clevis pin which strictly speaking is a pin through the two
> ends of a clevis which is a U-shaped piece of metal used to
> support one end of a beam. Here in darkest rural Sussex, we call a
> split pin a split pin, a parallel sided pin, with or without a threaded
> portion at the end, a clevis pin. A pin with one flat side to make a
> taper, we call a cotter pin. If the pin has a round section and is
> uniformly tapered, it is a tapered pin. A crank pin is the parallel
> sided part of a crankshaft on which a connecting rod big end bears.
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> This has damn all to do with bicycles, but it illustrates again how
> imprecise technical language can be. Actually, unless I am buying
> them, I call my cotter pins Desmond and Ruby. They never seem to mind,
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> Stuart (wishing he had not started this) Tallack
> West Sussex