Todays Project - What did you do today?

[TomG]

(04-15-2014, 02:15 AM)awemawson Wrote: 'Split Pins' surely ? A cotter pin is cylindrical with a tapered flat and often a thread to pull it tight into it's hole. Often used on bicycles as the pedal crank retainer.

Or is this a US / UK language thing ?

Those pins are not a common piece of hardware over here. As far as I know, bicycle cranks are the only place they are used. "Cotter pin" is the common name for what you guys call split pins.

I'll bet that inconsistency has caused heartburn for many joint US/UK manufacturing project engineers.

Tom