At 12:22 8/9/99 -0400, EMZ wrote:
>    I think you missed the point of shear bolts. They break off
>at you install them. What is left is a bolt that had a very
>specific torch.

I didn't miss the point, Eric, we just disagree <g>.  I say that what's
left is a bolt that has been intentionally made difficult to remove, just
like the one-way screws in restrooms.  There's nothing about that set of
crummy sheetmetal brackets that needs any extra-special torque tolerance,
and I'm not convinced that shear bolts would be the way to get it if there
were -- too hard/expensive to make them to an exact spec, and plenty of
other ways that don't involve having to drill the fool things out to remove
them.  You know, castellated nuts, torque+angle etc.  But all these things
are doing is holding the column up to a couple of bend-in-your-hand
brackets coming from the top of the dashboard.  Not exactly rocket science...

:)
david
David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net