Originally Posted by
operator
Yet manufacturers still apply loctite to their crank bolts by default. Explain.
Please explain your statement. How have you determined that manufacturers apply loctite to their crank bolts?
If this was the case, why don't they include the necessary material or instructions with their products?
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.