Transmission tower lock nuts - GIFs

**Altair** · Jun 11, 2021, 10:51 PM

Transmission tower lock nuts.

Previously:

Hydraulic nut splitter - GIF
Hexagon nut art - GIF
Flange nuts made by three different methods - video
Autosplitter nut splitters - GIF
Nut sorting/storage in one - photo

**that_other_guy** · Jun 12, 2021, 07:05 PM

So.....how are they removed for maintenance?

Thanks!

**Haroun** · Jun 12, 2021, 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by that_other_guy

So.....how are they removed for maintenance?

Thanks!

They have a blue wrench for that

**earz** · Jun 12, 2021, 09:08 PM

Interesting. I had never seen these so I did some googling. These are patented as anti-theft, and are a replacement for needing to weld towers together since they can be installed using basic tools and will not loosen. I suspect that if there is a need to remove them, they have to either split the nut or cut the stud out.

**hemmjo** · Jun 13, 2021, 02:45 AM

I am curious why install the counter nut also? Just to be extra safe?

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**Toolmaker51** · Jun 13, 2021, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by Haroun

They have a blue wrench for that

Lol.

At the same time, wondering if the proliferation of these gifs are often surreptitious; conveying information used for counterfeiting/ infringements of patents and processes?

**Elizabeth Greene** · Jun 15, 2021, 09:11 AM

The nuts appear to have a scoop cut in them that goes up to a square-ish shoulder. I wonder how they machine that squared off part.

**Isambard** · Apr 2, 2022, 05:44 PM

Interesting. Those are Pal nuts, I thought they had died out. Chev used then on the rod bolts of stove bolt straight sixes, last century...
Apparently, they are still alive and available.