In Germany, weeping and gnashing of teeth is part of the trade. In other words, howling about dilapidated bridges, hospitals, mobile phone networks and roads. In principle, the grim Germanic is not entirely wrong – but he should take a trip abroad to see what broken infrastructure really looks like.
So driving down a corrugated dirt road where you can’t get out of second gear, holding your expensive cell phone up to a radiation-free sky or sitting in the gutter crying with bilious colic in front of the closed health station.
Because Germany has virtually no paved highways or dusty corrugated iron roads and vehicle manufacturers have learned a lot about securing bolts over the last 40 years, loose nuts or bolts are no longer a problem in this country.
Actually – because when screw connections are secured with wedge lock washers or lock nuts, there is usually a good reason for this: stabilizer bearings, brake force distributors or exhaust suspensions should remain on the beloved vehicle and not fly off into the grass verge of the freeway.
But what to do if the lock nut is worn out, the microencapsulated microencapsulation is worn out and the Loctite bottle is bone-dry and empty (damn it! It’s already on the shopping list!)?
In this case, the time has come to use the simple shred of fabric. A strip of cotton not only effectively blocks the primary drive on motorcycles , but also inhibits screw connections absolutely effectively. This even works formidably well with gnawed nuts and makes the vehicle fit again for 1000 kilometers of A7 with corrugated iron, gravel and bumpy roads.
