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Overtightening eyed as cause for flaws in Big Dig tunnel nuts
The Boston Globe ^ | October 22, 2015 | Nicole Dungca

Posted on 10/24/2015 7:58:49 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Edited on 10/24/2015 8:11:08 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Flaws in nuts that hold up lights throughout the Big Dig

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bigdig; boston; cracks; deeznuts; i90; i93; infrastructure; inspection; lights; massachusetts; nutcracker; nuts; shoodyunionwork; transportation; tunnels; unionsatwork
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Norm Lenhart
Union guys over-tightened the nuts to create moar work for Union guys in the future...

Brilliant! BRILLIANT!!!

21 posted on 10/24/2015 9:20:11 PM PDT by kiryandil (Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Obviously there are some cracked nuts walking around on two legs - wonder what they will do to fix them.


22 posted on 10/24/2015 9:23:53 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The poor Big Dig will always be with us . . .

At least until the Big Crack leads to the Big Flood resulting in the Big Closure.


23 posted on 10/24/2015 9:29:29 PM PDT by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: 867V309

I guess all the commuters can then drive through the grass in that big park where the freeway used to be.


24 posted on 10/24/2015 9:47:18 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: editor-surveyor

True..... salt air that bad in Boston to get above the lighting in the tunnel or is it just runoff from streets above ? Question from the high plains of Texas as I dunno nuthin about boston.....


25 posted on 10/24/2015 10:18:05 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I hate when there’s flaws in my nuts.


26 posted on 10/24/2015 10:20:05 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

There was a brief experiment up here with Chinese Drill pipe. That crap didn’t last long.


27 posted on 10/24/2015 10:41:04 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Not over tightening. ...Poor engineering specs, quality control and procurement practices seeking lowest costs. Result: cheap fasteners of poor quality and strength.


28 posted on 10/24/2015 10:41:26 PM PDT by octex
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Oh, I thought is was talking about eye flaws on big nuts...


29 posted on 10/24/2015 10:48:35 PM PDT by WVKayaker (On Scale of 1 to 5 Palins, How Likely Is Media Assault on Each GOP Candidate?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Big Dig cost more than the English Channel Tunnel, but there are still traffic jams along its route every rush hour.

The Big Dig was just a scheme to enrich the union thugs and the crony crapitalists.

30 posted on 10/24/2015 11:00:00 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: clearcarbon
Were any of those workers given torquing instructions in their native language?'

They tried, but the pictograms took up too much paper, and animal sacrifices to the gods of nut-torquing weren't allowed.


31 posted on 10/24/2015 11:34:59 PM PDT by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ted Kennedy’s true legacy.


32 posted on 10/25/2015 1:35:11 AM PDT by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Most steel in U.S. is of U.S. origin not imported, imported steel makes about about 28% of U.S. market even now while imports are way up this year. Most of imported steel is imported as finished goods. U.S imports largest amount of steel from South Korea, then Japan, Brazil, then China, with about twice as much from South Korea as China.


33 posted on 10/25/2015 7:33:27 AM PDT by jkeith3213
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To: jkeith3213

I’m not saying they didn’t use Chinese steel, but its unlikely as its not on the west coast, and Chinese imports have almost no price advantage over domestic steel outside of specific U.S markets as transportation is such a big part of the cost. If China’s economy wasn’t about to implode so that they pushed out steel below cost, it would cost more to import Chinese steel than use domestic steel.

I wouldn’t put it past liberals or government to do stupid things and waste money though.


34 posted on 10/25/2015 7:43:47 AM PDT by jkeith3213
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To: octex

My failures when overtighening break the bolt, not the nut.

I go with poor materials due to graft.


35 posted on 10/26/2015 7:27:41 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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