Sentence examples for broken bolts from inspiring English sources
But they have had mechanical problems, including missing and broken bolts.
This paper explores the use of dynamic testing of rock bolts, currently used for collar load estimation as a means for indirect measurement of the effective installed bolt length, in order to determine potentially broken bolts.
Preventing rust is much easier than removing broken bolts or studs.
A vital part of the first sustained effort to monitor big climate shifts at the top of the world was being threatened by three broken bolts.
[True euphoria struck a week later, when Dr. Stanton was back in Monterey and saw figures from the polar waters flowing in regularly from the buoy. "It calls in twice a day, like a good child," he said in a recent e-mail message. But that would be later.] For now, Dr. Stanton huddled on the ice with the divers and Dr. Morison and the balky winch and the broken bolts, trying to help.
Gay ran a wind-assisted 9.75sec in his first 100 metres of the season at the US world championship trials in Eugene, Oregon, on Thursday, and said after the race that he felt he could break Bolt's record if he could improve his start.
Mixed up in the hay was all kinds of garbage, such as bottomless shoe-tatters, shoe-patches, old stocking legs, rotten rags of wadmal, pieces of cord, fibers, fragments of horseshoes, horns, bones, gills, fishtails hard as glass, broken wooden bolts and other scraps of wood".
Owing to the strength ratio between the purpose-made fixture and the threaded fastener, two of three possible failure modes occurred during the performed tests, i.e. bolt breaking and bolt thread stripping.
Partway through the race, Goldie had broken a bolt in his rigging; although he could no longer contribute to the power of the Light Blue boat, he continued to stroke and provide the required rhythm to lead Cambridge to the victory.
Be cautious to avoid exceeding the torquing specifications - the cost of a broken off bolt-head and even falling into a cylinder is very high.
