Symbol on this Bolt

[Rod Dumbreck]

I don't know if it's just my pessimistic side, but Im always looking down and finding strange things on the ground. Today, this bolt, M12 sheared off at about 27mm. Immediate paranoia that it is from the loader, because thats about the only thing that has been down that end of the yard, and looking at the head, apart from the strength, three letters. Anyone know what alphabet the middle one comes from?

 

[livestock 1]

8.8 is the grade the rest is the manufacturer

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

8.8 is the grade the rest is the manufacturer

I am hoping someone might tell me who that was, or at least confirm its fallen out of a passing Russian aeroplane not a JCB Loadall

 

[livestock 1]

I am hoping someone might tell me who that was, or at least confirm its fallen out of a passing Russian aeroplane not a JCB Loadall

You haven’t got enough problems to worry about

 

[livestock 1]

If it’s JCB then the bolt would be sourced anywhere except the U.K. or Europe

 

[Welderloon]

Eastern European Alphabet

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

Eastern European Alphabet

But only if they have gone like Toys R Us, with the backwards R

The symbol on the bolt is the opposite way round to the Russian b,

whatever it is, second letter of their alphabet), and I tried google image search, nothing like it. Im going to google Bolts R Us next.

 

[bravheart]

Hmm just wonder then how rod took and published the picture? Saw a picture of someone driving a combine the other day. Taken from the cab door it looked like for all the world that they were driving with the controls on their left hand. As that's not possible the picture must have been reversed some how. Just wonder if that's happened here as all the other symbols would be the same from either side.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

It's that fat Russian geezer from the alphabet, but he's headed home

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

This is the trouble with having the property class 8.8 as it works both upside down and l to r, I did try using a brass rubbing technique which didn't reveal anything and also to pencil over the bolt and stamp it on a piece of paper, on the glass window of the front door for a flat surface, the attached is the result. So I still don't know whether to read it from the middle or from the outside!

 

[Nearly]

Compare it with the other bolts on a few machines?
Most jcb stuff has silly undersize bolt heads on M12 shank to save a few pennies.
It's quite likely to be a cuckoo bolt, ie already replaced once on a machine.
Tractor or trailer drawbars or axle spring clamps at this time of year?

 

[TripleSix]

I don't know if it's just my pessimistic side, but Im always looking down and finding strange things on the ground. Today, this bolt, M12 sheared off at about 27mm. Immediate paranoia that it is from the loader, because thats about the only thing that has been down that end of the yard, and looking at the head, apart from the strength, three letters. Anyone know what alphabet the middle one comes from?

Check over the loadall, the bolts that stop main pivot pins in are like that.
And will shear the bolt if the pins are seizing in the bushes.

It's not a 520-50 by any chance is it?

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

Check over the loadall, the bolts that stop main pivot pins in are like that.
And will shear the bolt if the pins are seizing in the bushes.

It's not a 520-50 by any chance is it?

My thoughts have been heading that way, but no grease on it when I picked it up. But that could be why!
530-70 on 10,000 hrs

 

[FonterraFarmer]

It's that fat Russian geezer from the alphabet, but he's headed home

Distant relation to Stick Man???