William, If the connections were not tight enough heat could have built up to melt the bolt mount. It is not all that uncommon and confirms the importance of properly torqueing all connections. Nathan Jones Power Source Solar
On Wed Feb 9th, 2011 11:23 AM CST William Miller wrote: >Friends: > >We were repairing an install yesterday that contained a group of Trojan L-16 >batteries. To our surprise, two of the threaded studs pulled out of the >battery cases. The studs are really just standard machine bolts with the >heads pressed into a socket. I have never seen this before. Has anyone else? > >William Miller > > >Please note new e-mail address and domain: > >William Miller >Miller Solar >Voice :805-438-5600 >email: will...@millersolar.com >http://millersolar.com >License No. C-10-773985 ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
