Thank you to everyone for your input - appreciated :)
@SWComposites @Hydtools, yes this is a fuse pin to prevent overload being transmitted into an expensive, safety critical, section of the machine. The shear dia will indeed be set based on the critical force at which the pin needs to undergo...
Hi all,
I have been searching, fruitlessly, for good practice guidelines when it comes to shear pin design and the ratios to set the pin OD and shear dia to. We deal a lot with retrofitting solutions, so unless I can persuade the client to bush this particular lug the OD of the pin is set...
