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Ian Malcolm

wrote:

found the the previous & only owner of the boat, a very wealthy man,
had drilled through pennies to use as washers. There were at least 120
of them all through the boat.

Wow he must have been filthy rich Doug..That's over 1.20..

You're pretty good at math, Joe!

I said that he was very wealthy not because of the washers, but
because his house was on 2 blocks of property in a very expensive old-
money inside-the-beltline neighborhood. His house & yard was bigger
than many university properties.

Dimes make great #8 washers and cheaper than SS.

I think you'll find that they have a lot of creep & distort too much
at high loads. However if you don't mind tightening the bolts every
time you sail and replacing the dimes every year or so, they'd be
great.

Look up the relative strengths/properties of the materials before
making cheapo substitutes.

I guess that's why there's a demand for real engineers.

DSK

Well, I've got 2P 'washers' under the nuts holding the pintle and
gudgeon onto the transom of my Albacore. No problems with dishing or
sinking into the wood. Untill the coins were fitted, there were always
problems with the fittings working loose. Bronze fittings so stainless
would be not so good. Our recent 2Ps are cupronickel over steel so one
has to go through one's change with a magnet if selecting washers :-(

NB 'Defacing the coinage of the realm' was an offence over here under an
act of 1861, no-one seems to know if its been repealed, and as I dont
want to be transported to Australia, I dont know how the 2Ps ended up
with holes in them, Honest Guv ;-) (The Queen's head and the portcullis
on the obverse were carefully sanded off before they were drilled, no
point in inviting trouble.)

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