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DESTRUCTIVE TESTING OF PITTED CHAINPLATE
After making my new chainplate I put the old pitted one in a vise in a position which would maximize the stress on the pitted area. Then I tried to bend it to open up the pitted area. However, much to my surprise it was another area that the chainplate bent in, indicating to me that there was no significant loss of strength in the pitted area,
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Comment by Clyde A. Phillips on September 20, 2013 at 11:17pm
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Bob,
It would be interesting to measure that bolt hole along the longitudinal center line on both sides of that chaingplate. The hole on the side showing looks elongated to me; maybe the other side shows a bit of compression. I don't think that will tell us anything except the movement of the metal, but it would be interesting to those like me. Thanks for the picture.
Friend Clyde, the Old Man (as my granddaughter calls me when I call her Young Lady)
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Many of my photos there do not relate to Newporters, but a search through my collection may prove useful for your studies.
My drawings are not accurate in many respects as a result of the PAINT program used to draw them, There is no accurate scale and at best they are only useful to indicate some specific detail. Some are inaccurate because of my poor memory. Use them to help you think, not as a detailed presentation of the subject matter.
If any of you want to start a web site I suggest you remember what has happened to both my Ning site and this site (which is a Ning site) and remember that my Blogspot site is free and Blogspot's owner (Google) has promised to keep it that way.
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