<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I don\u2019t believe the problem was galling, the bolt was already seated and I was just doing a final torque on it. Tightening wasn\u2019t excessive for the size of the bolt. Looking at the cross section of the bolt it just doesn\u2019t look like it has solidified in the mfg. process. I think oxides were formed from metallic impurities during manufacture or some other related cause.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ron<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 2, 2018, at 8:26 AM, Jerry Shafer <<a href="mailto:jerrysgarage01@gmail.com" class="">jerrysgarage01@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Ron<div dir="auto" class="">It almost looks like the bolt to stud is off center as it might be gauling causing pre-mature torq on the stud that can lead to failure, try grease paste on the threads next time, it might help.<div dir="auto" class="">Jerry</div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 1:14 AM Ron Young <<a href="mailto:solareagle@solareagle.com" class="">solareagle@solareagle.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">Anyone seen this before, the bolt on a shunt inside a Magnum inverter snapped right off, other half inside the shunt. I was tightening it but I don\u2019t believe excessively. It appears to be crystallized. Magnum is replacing the shunt but it\u2019s my good luck that the job is 5 hours into a remote backwater along a punishing road.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img id="m_-344536557039743109811FE001F-119C-4484-BD67-1CAF6DE83219" src="cid:C144C59D-E8D9-447E-9122-455227CCCC6A" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ron Young</div><div class="">earthRight Solar - <a href="http://solareagle.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">Solareagle.com</a></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">
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