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Explanation: Or ping-test (not to be confused with IP pinging).
Probably as unusual as 'spechten'. The honor goes to Jack for knowing what it is. I was just curious if there was an alternative for 'acoustic tapping' that comes closer to 'spechten', which led me to 'pinging'.
"Experience helps. I recall reading a story of a shop that builds big aparatus and the shop personnel would tighten large fasteners by hand then check the "tightness" by striking the fastener with a steel hammer and listening to the pitch of the resulting ping. Too low a pitch, not tight enough. Too high a pitch, too tight. When the suits (design engineers) came to visit out came the torque wrenches. One day a suit showed up unexpectedly and saw how things were being done. He used a torque wrench to test all the fasteners that had been done with the ping test and found them all to be well within tolerance, most within only a couple of ft-lbs." http://weldingweb.com/showthread.php?t=42393
Once the collar is swaged on, no additional tightening with a torque wrench is required. A simple sound test by pinging it with a hammer verifies the tightness of fit. http://bit.ly/csFO5O (pdf, page 2, 12 & 16)
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I am sorry, I am not very good at this system so I am probably doing it wrong. However, I think I will use 'acoustic tapping' in this text, so thank you all very much. I am informed that I should wait 24 hours to choose the best reply, but alas I do not have that many hours to wait.
- bouten waren aangetroffen. Aan de uitlaatflens was een lekkagepunt aangetroffen. Voor de brand was uit visuele inspectie en "Spechten" gebleken dat de bouten niet los hadden gezeten. Het type flens dat voor dit type installaties gebruikt werd zou een goede keus
Michael, I don't whether you're just trying to be funny or seriously ridiculing my suggestion, but physically tapping mechanical connections, couplings etc. is a fairly common way of testing their tightness. See http://tinyurl.com/2w9pwc5 , for example. To my mind, 'spechten' could refer to this.
Or perhaps they are using several woodpeckers to check the tightness of their nuts? (@Jack: I was trying to be funny. I think your suggestion is correct.)
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acoustic tapping
Explanation: Given your further context I think my suggestion in the discussion section (see above) is probably correct, Carmen. For that reason, I'm entering it as a formal answer. Please feel free to award of not award points for it and to close the question. In any case, according to KudoZ you should indeed wait 24 hours before doing that. Who knows, someone might come up with a better solution!
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Jack den Haan Netherlands Local time: 10:37 Native speaker of: Dutch, English PRO pts in category: 39
Explanation: Or ping-test (not to be confused with IP pinging).
Probably as unusual as 'spechten'. The honor goes to Jack for knowing what it is. I was just curious if there was an alternative for 'acoustic tapping' that comes closer to 'spechten', which led me to 'pinging'.
"Experience helps. I recall reading a story of a shop that builds big aparatus and the shop personnel would tighten large fasteners by hand then check the "tightness" by striking the fastener with a steel hammer and listening to the pitch of the resulting ping. Too low a pitch, not tight enough. Too high a pitch, too tight. When the suits (design engineers) came to visit out came the torque wrenches. One day a suit showed up unexpectedly and saw how things were being done. He used a torque wrench to test all the fasteners that had been done with the ping test and found them all to be well within tolerance, most within only a couple of ft-lbs." http://weldingweb.com/showthread.php?t=42393
Once the collar is swaged on, no additional tightening with a torque wrench is required. A simple sound test by pinging it with a hammer verifies the tightness of fit. http://bit.ly/csFO5O (pdf, page 2, 12 & 16)
Lianne Van De Ven United States Local time: 04:37 Native speaker of: Dutch PRO pts in category: 8
Explanation: It may sound odd, given the additional meaning of kissing, but a 'woodpecker' (the bird) is a 'specht' in Dutch, so 'pecking' might fit the bill. 'To peck' does mean 'to strike with a pointed instrument', too.
Michael Baeyens Belgium Local time: 10:37 Native speaker of: Dutch
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