Re: [MV] How do you unscrew an Army anchor?

From: Jonathan Boos (acfarer@cox.net)
Date: Wed Aug 17 2005 - 18:24:18 PDT


Q. How many MVers does it take to unscrew an Army anchor?

A. (enter your pun here. i.e., Too many. The Army REALLY screws things up!)

Jonathan

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] How do you unscrew an Army anchor?

> WARNING!!!
>
> STEP AWAY FROM THE DEVICE!!!
>
> IT IS NOT AN ANCHOR!!!
>
> IT IS AN UNEXPLODED EXPERIMENTAL MUNITION!!!
>
> IF YOU HEAR TICKING OR WHIRRING, RUN...DO NOT WALK... AWAY !!!
>
> Just kidding.
>
> apb
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Douglas B Rupp" <rupp@gnat.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:35 PM
> Subject: [MV] How do you unscrew an Army anchor?
>
>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Douglas B Rupp [mailto:rupp@gnat.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:26 AM
>> To: 'Military Vehicles Mailing List'
>> Subject: How do you unscrew an Army anchor?
>>
>> I bought a 25000 lb anchor at a Government Liquidation auction a while
> back.
>> I thought at first it was Navy but a) the color is wrong, b) it doesn't
>> appear to have ever been in sea water, c) the shape is unusual.
>>
>> A friend (who was very persuasive) claims it's an Army "dead head" used
>> on
>> (for example) a Ranger training course to counterbalance an suspended
>> cableway or something similar.
>>
>> I want to use it for a similar purpose (couterbalance) but I can't get
>> the
>> top off. The anchor is made of steel filled with cast iron with a
>> hemispherical bottom and a 6' tall 10" diameter post sticking up. In the
> top
>> of the post there's a 2 piece funnel shaped *aluminum* clamshell with 6
>> recessed allen headed bolts in a circle around the edge of the clamshell
>> top. There's a 1-3/8" hole at the bottom of the "funnel" and wire rope
> marks
>> on the tapered sides, so it seems clear that the clamshell is supposed to
>> come out and apart so that a wire rope with a knob on the end can be
>> inserted.
>>
>> I got the bolts out and the funny thing is that the bolt heads are
>> resting
>> on steel anchor, not aluminum, so the bolts aren't holding anthing
>> *down*.
>> The only other purpose they could serve is to prevent the aluminum top
> from
>> rotating. So the only conclusion I can come to is that the aluminum top
> is
>> like a gigantic bolt that unscrews from the anchor once 6 smaller bolts
> are
>> removed. I made an unscrewing tool and put about 600 ft-lbs of torque on
> the
>> top but it didn't budge. The next step would be lubrication, heat and
>> more
>> torque.
>>
>> I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has seen one of these things and
>> knows how they work.
>>
>> --Douglas Rupp
>>
>>
>>
>>
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