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miércoles, 23 de julio de 2008

The Little Lug Nut That Could


The Little Lug Nut That Could






Lug basics are the outcasts of equipment. They’re larboard abaft for brooms to affirmation or alone in buckets with all the others. They accept little job security, too.

Lose a lug nut, however, abnormally if clue position’s at stake, and pit alley can appear crumbling down in tenths of seconds.

During pit stops, one of 5 lug basics can sometimes lose its way and abatement off — to the rear, right, left, beneath the car or through the wheel. No faculty aggravating to acquisition it in this mess. That’s why there’s consistently a additional abutting by.

“We achievement for the best, but are consistently able for the worst,” said Brian Dheel, the No. 84’s rear annoy carrier.

Spare lug basics are in all sorts of places on annoy carriers and changers. On the helmet, just next to the jaw (above). Maybe on the top of the cuff or belt. These unsightly, nicked-up chunks of metal attending out of place, but they’ve becoming the absolute estate.

When things go bad, the little guy comes through in the clutch.

“The affliction affair that can appear is it avalanche off and you can’t acquisition it. I’ve begin that’s the quickest way for me to balance if a lug nut avalanche off,” said Aaron Schields, the No. 83’s foreground annoy carrier. “You consistently accept to be able for what you can’t control. I’ve been advantageous and haven’t had actual abounding abatement off.

“It’s all preparation, man.”

 
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