| 11. | For example, a hydraulic dampener protecting a structure from earthquake damage could be secured with a shear pin.
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| 12. | To deactivate BUCS, shear pins that were designed to break and activate BUCS during emergencies were replaced with solid steel pins.
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| 13. | The material of a shear pin is selected and treated so that it is relatively resistant to fatigue ( material ).
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| 14. | A typical exploder had a firing pin that stuck out from the warhead and was restrained by a transverse shear pin.
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| 15. | A "'shear pin "'is a mechanical detail designed to allow a specific outcome to occur once a predetermined force is applied.
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| 16. | During servicing of the pack with compressed nitrogen the handle is held in the closed position with a shear pin for safety.
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| 17. | When the outboard motor breaks down, she shows him how to improvise a shear pin with the tongue of his belt buckle.
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| 18. | After the pin is sheared the engine is unable to provide propulsive power to the boat until a new shear pin is fitted.
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| 19. | In this use shear pins prevent the striker pin from hitting the primer during handling or if the grenade was dropped by accident.
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| 20. | But the investigation also found that the shear pins, the " BUCS-ON " light and the LVDTs could be explained by the impact of the crash.
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