Re: [DMCForum] Re: Backwards Trailing Arm Bolts

["Jim Strickland" <ihaveanaccount@xxxxxxxx>]

So which is better?  Toby TAB or Walt TAB?

Should we have a TAB showdown or are there already conclusive results?

I would not call the walt TABs light, so either the person that said they
were like aluminum is on crack or there is a significant weight
difference between the two TABs.

Jim



On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:59:57 -0400 "Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxxxxx> writes:
> > BTW: did anyone else with Toby bolts find them disconcertingly 
> light?
> Look and feel like aluminum! In theory are hardest metal ever 
> invented
> by modern man. Guess I'll find out...
> 
> You mean you actually splurged and bought Toby-TABs?  Yeah, they do 
> feel
> lighter than regular bolts, but not as light as aluminum.  I found 
> that they
> could still pick up a very strong magnet.  The Walt-TABs (also 
> Inconel 718)
> that I'm hocking pick up a magnet very slightly better than 
> Toby-TABs.  I
> have a poop sheet on them somewhere that I'll post online (when I 
> can find
> it again).  It gives a list off how much of each element is in the 
> alloy.
> 
> Did you have a problem finding 12 point tools to fit the Toby-TABs?  
> Do you
> feel comfortable not using a lock nut?
> 
> Walt
> 
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