Thread: fiberglass frontend

Tweet

On a one piece front end most guys use dzus (never did know how to pronounce that word Kinda like the term au jus ) fasteners, also called quarter turn fasteners..........or sometimes hood pins. You mount a few spread around the one piece assembly so that when you pull the pins or turn the fastener they release. If you want it to flip up, like Dave said you either make hinges or buy a kit and adapt it.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

On a one piece front end most guys use dzus (never did know how to pronounce that word Kinda like the term au jus ) fasteners, also called quarter turn fasteners..........or sometimes hood pins. You mount a few spread around the one piece assembly so that when you pull the pins or turn the fastener they release. If you want it to flip up, like Dave said you either make hinges or buy a kit and adapt it.

Don

Don,

Not that this has much to do with the actual topic, and I am by no means trying to tell anybody how to pronounce the word, it is really just more of a realization on my part that I, and a lot of my colleagues, very well may have been pronouncing that word wrong for a long, long time now.

I'm not sure that it is the end all be all, true and correct pronunciation of the word; but, in the aviation world, we've always pronounced dzus as "zeus" (like the Greek God). I'm curious as to how you guys pronounce it.

Sorry not trying to Hijack the thread or anything, it's just one of those things that you never really think about it, and then when someone brings it up, you have to really think to yourself, "yeah, you know what, he's right, how is it actually pronounced?"

Cheers,
Dutch