Shock absorber spring washers and lock nuts

[Steve kay]

Thank you Dennis for making engineringdog acessible. I seem to recall many years, or perhaps decades ago, ongoing discussion in the Model Engineer about locknuts. Should they be different, should the thin one be inside or outside, I am far from sure that any definite agreement has ever been reached. One thing rejected by all would be putting washers, paricularly spring washers, between the nuts. I also take the same aproach to nyloc nuts. If I was building hundreds of cars then I'd want to save ha'pennies. With just one, the number and cost of discarded nylocs is minimal.