[BC] Clevis photo

[tg at btsg.com]

You are exactly right.  If it is bent, it has also already bent the threaded part of the U and that
alone could fracture the clevis and cause it to break.  I would not get near it until I got a tower
crew out there to fix it.  I also noticed what looked like a soccer field of something nearby.  If
that thing falls you guys could be in for a lawsuit should it hurt someone.  FIX IT!!

Tommy Gray!

----- Original Message -----
From: Jess hundahl

the cross-bolt on a clevis is *NOT *supposed  to be bent. 
Can you say "run as fast as I can?"

The clevis has been deformed by stress and is close to
failure. _*Do not bet your life on this Wink Link!!

*_
Jess Hundahl

Northwestern University

1877 Campus Dr.

Evanston, IL. 60208  USA

Carl Strathmeyer wrote:
> The good news - from recent discussion here, it sounds like the cross-bolt
> on a clevis is *supposed* to be bent. That makes me feel a lot better, since
> I just found this fitting on the tower of the college station I'm helping
> out. I thought the clevis had been deformed by stress and was close to
> failure.
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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/cstrathmeyer/4033885874/in/set-7215762251223851
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> The bad news - I couldn't figure out why there were fractured remains of an
> insulator threaded onto the cable above the clevis. Is the photo showing the
> clevis/insulator failure mode some of you have noted?
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> BTW, this is the only clevis on the entire tower. I suspect that means it
> was pressed into service as a quick repair for some other failure - maybe
> the insulator.
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> --Carl
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