12-04-2010, 04:37 AM
If you take the upper limit as being 1.5 mm thick, then 4 would make it 6mm worth of necessary space. Having 6.5 would make it fit rather snug with some room to move about. As reported each link thickness is 2mm thus 4 links makes a total of 8mm worth of metal in a 6.5mm hole. This is not counting the small space in between each link. I do not think it would fit at all.
Now, using your numbers, if the original links are 1.5mm thick, then .5mm of corrosion makes sense as a whole so the entire structure seems plausible. One of the links has a rivet missing. It is possible it was never put in or it fell out. However, as corrosion built up the rings were getting thicker and increased the force on the rivet and it broke/popped off.
Now, using your numbers, if the original links are 1.5mm thick, then .5mm of corrosion makes sense as a whole so the entire structure seems plausible. One of the links has a rivet missing. It is possible it was never put in or it fell out. However, as corrosion built up the rings were getting thicker and increased the force on the rivet and it broke/popped off.
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