Sentence examples for loose fasteners from inspiring English sources

(3) Virtual track stiffness Diseases, such as dirty ballast, hanging sleepers, and loose fasteners, can cause deformation and holes, leading to virtual stiffness for the rail support.

Never use a torque wrench to break loose fasteners.

The investigation into the Santa Fe involves a concern over a loose fastener in the steering shaft of 2011 models.

A loose fastener on an electrical panel caused a small part of that panel to char last month, though that occurred on a test flight without paying customers.

This paper proposes an approach based on frequency shift to identify the damaged supports including the loose or missing fasteners and damaged ballast.

"I have always prided myself in trying to draw a car that was esthetically satisfying because I reckoned the mechanics might give it another coat of polish, or they might find a body fastener loose that might fall off tomorrow as opposed to getting the cover on as quickly as possible because it was ugly," Anderson said.

In this study, the rail-sleeper-ballast system is modeled as an Euler beam evenly supported by a series of springs, the stiffness of which are reduced when the fastener is loose or missing and the ballast under the sleepers is damaged.

Although it is reliable when the fastener is missing and the damaged ballast is on the surface, it provides less help if the fastener is only loose and the damaged ballast is under the sleepers, which are however frequently observed in practice.

When you've adjusted your timing to the proper setting, tighten the fasteners you left slightly loose previously.

Make sure all the fasteners are open.

You can use drywall nails or screws to secure the panels to the studs, but screws are superior fasteners because they do not pop loose as nails can.