what is a fender washer?

"Henry" wrote: I remember laying down in the straw, but not with the horse. Had much better company. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I think you must be using the word "laying" in a much more memorable sense than I did.

it's something that you don't use in wood turning...

what's your next step, going to a rock polishing NG and asking if it's better to be blown than injected? (I've always preferred the former)

mac

Please remove splinters before emailing

Chuckle! That sucker has no idea who he's messing with, does he? Give him hell, Gunner.

Harold

:On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:08:02 -0500, Leo Van Der Loo : wrote: : :> :> :>STOP THE CROSS POSTING PLEASE, THIS IS A WOOD TURNING SITE !!! : : :Would you damned wood turners please stop typing in caps!! Besides :this is a metal working site, and we dont work to 1/8" and call it :precison. : :Wood butcher!! And you cut down Gods Trees to do your damned criminal :work. :We only dig up mountains for our materials! : :So there! BRAAAAAAAPPPPPPPP! : :Gunner : :"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, :on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. :True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, :but why this is more stylish than :sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know." : -- P.J O'Rourke (1989) :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Gunner, could we talk you into hanging out in rec.aviation.homebuilt some? You got style.

By few of us a fender washer is used to keep brass pipe against a mandrel while drawing the pipe to a larger diameter.

LB

add to below "fender welting" - mostly not used now, but my older cars all have it to go between fender and body - reduces squeak, keeps water out of the joint - wethers and disintegrates so you have an excuse to remove the fenders and do it over again.

Argghhh! Please please please, if you want more Gunnervision, have him copy his junk to your mailbox. Because if he starts polluting RAH with his political bullshit, I'm gonna' make sure that everybody knows who invited him. :-)

Wayne

If this is a serious question, I'll give a serious answer. A fender washer is similar to a normal washer except that the matal disk is much larger in proportion to the hole. In a normal 1/4" washer, for example, the outside diameter is about 1/2". A 1/4" fender washer will have a 1/4" hole in a 2" disk. Fender washers are mainly used in automotive applications, hence the name. The larger diameter of the disk spreads out the force of the bolt so the fender is not distorted. There are other applications around the shop, too. One of them is if you're going through your miscellaneous jars of screws and bolts to hold something together and your found bolt is too loose for the hole and you need a washer to fill the gap, the fender washer fills the bill nicely. Or, if you're using thin material and don't want to pull through the 1/4" plywood, for example, it would have a similar effect as if used on an actual fender of a car--it spreads the force of the pull between nut and bolt.

-Jim Gott- San Jose, CA