I can tell it?s time to turn to the forums when I have been avoiding the project for a few weeks. Hoping you can help with question 2 of 2!
I have seen pictures on these forums and elsewhere that show a stripe of thick paint-like substance on fasteners, e.g. on the tip of a bolt where it comes through a plate nut, or where a nut goes over the tip of a bolt. I understand the concept of safety-wiring fasteners and believe this to be a separate but related practice. I see no mention of it in Van?s build manual. Is it?s purpose as I suppose, to indicate that a torqued bolt has not spun, and to help prevent them from spinning, used on fasteners with friction-safety like nylock nuts/deformed thread nut plates? What is this called?
The real question is to gage the wisdom of the crowd: does everyone do this, or is this an extra step many think a good idea and others eschew, like meticulously priming everything?
Thanks much,
Jeff
I have seen pictures on these forums and elsewhere that show a stripe of thick paint-like substance on fasteners, e.g. on the tip of a bolt where it comes through a plate nut, or where a nut goes over the tip of a bolt. I understand the concept of safety-wiring fasteners and believe this to be a separate but related practice. I see no mention of it in Van?s build manual. Is it?s purpose as I suppose, to indicate that a torqued bolt has not spun, and to help prevent them from spinning, used on fasteners with friction-safety like nylock nuts/deformed thread nut plates? What is this called?
The real question is to gage the wisdom of the crowd: does everyone do this, or is this an extra step many think a good idea and others eschew, like meticulously priming everything?
Thanks much,
Jeff