JFZ, you said
If it was threaded, that would perhaps explain why 15mins may have mitigated the hazard (easy to spot, early indication of onset, probably take a while & several turns to fully loosen).
I do not know your background, but the only way to mitigate this hazard is not to fly. The only way that Nimrod's AAR hazard was minitgated was to avoid AAR. It took a long time to sink in with the RAF Chiefs, but that was the final solution.
The DECU is shown as having a threaded connector. Why did the BOI not go down this road, and why does it take a "retiredee" to discover it 17 years later?
DV