[BC] Clevis photo

[Jim Wagner]

Is it possible that some of us may have missed Jerry Mathis' reply to this with a photo of a brand new one?  

>Would it be a clevis? Specifically, Joslyn J732. Go to this link for a
>picture:

> http://www.macleanpower.com/products/item.asp?ITEM_ID=2114

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-----Original Message-----
  From: 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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> 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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