I'm reassembling my 3 piece alloy wheels (or will be, once I've had the broken stud spark eroded out... ). They were originally assembled with external toothed lock washers (M6) but I was wondering why they used these instead of spring washers...
What are the advantages/disadvantages of each?
All you ever wanted to know about washers, albeit from an American perspective:)
Contrarily to what straightdope claims there is a sentence in the Bolt Loosening page at
The site has lots of useful information. Do you know what pooching is? (no - it's nothing to do with taking the dog for a walk). I didn't before reading the Glossary of Terms page.
Bob
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