BoatBanter.com - View Single Post

Gene Kearns wrote:
On 28 Oct 2005 08:50:16 -0700, wrote:

If you are speaking of the lug nuts, one side is left hand threaded to
prevent the lugs from loosening. There are a lot of applications like
that that make left hand threads essential.

That's just silly.... unless we are talking knockoffs. There is
nothing intrinsically thread locking about left hand threads, unless
they are coincident with the axis of rotation.... and lug nutS aren't.

If the only forces to worry about were axial, then theoretically, lugs
would only need to be tight enough to hold the wheel to the hub, like
finger tight.