You skipped a step where you put a cheater pipe on the breaker bar.
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Just make sure you tell your kid how much torque that cheater pipe produces. I may have overtightened my dad's lug nuts with a cheater pipe that produced about 5000 lbs of torque at one time.....
I remember my dad jumping on a 6ft+ cheater pipe to break some lugs, grown-ass man grinning like a little boy
I started to add another additional step where after having snapped the head off the bolt you had to drill and use a Ezout to remove the rest of the bolt.
torque has units of force times length so it would be inch pounds or foot pounds. failing to specify a length unit makes your statement make no sense.
I don't remember, it was like a 5 and a half foot pipe, and this was ~~almost~~ slightly over 30 years ago
Edit: oh fuck.
I dont have a problem with the hyperbole, just the incorrect units. As an engineer it bothers me and makes people sound like they dont know what they're talking about even if they do.
Using a torque wrench to undo a bolt? That's a paddlin'!
Those just look like regular racheting wrenches and a breaker bar. But yeah I cringe every time I see someone do it at work but bossman won't buy a breaker bar, says "just use the torque wrench." Ok I guess, it's his wrench!
You're right, my bad.
I don't see any torque wrench in this pic ?
Using the wrong ThreadLok, that's a paddlin'.
Can you tell us plebes why not? Am guessing it messes up the quality of torque delivery when putting a bolt on?
They're expensive tools. Using them to untighten stuff can decalibrate them, which can lead to even more expensive mistakes.
Awesome thank you
Also, the function of a torque wrench isn't to apply a lot of a torque with less effort - that's the function of a torque multiplier.
A torque wrench is intended to apply a specific amount of torque to fasteners. Engineers and mechanics have specific torque values for threaded fasteners based on things like material, thread type, load types, and application, and a torque wrench is what we use to make sure that we hit those targets.
my favorite tool i owned is an electric hand screwdriver/torque wrench. It has a little knob that makes it cam out when it reaches [x] torque. AND I LOST IT
i was doing some unlicensed electric for a festival that helps out a charity so i don't really mind if they stole it, but c'mon dudes, that was my favorite tool.
Specifically, for adjusting tension on machinery designed to make big heavy things stop easily and smoothly, you really wanna be sure you have the torque correct. Those kinds of expensive mistakes.
There's a point in that process where you stop caring if you permanently damage things.
I had a bike where the stem of the seat was somehow permanently welded into the tube. Nothing I did worked. I took it to a bike shop and they said there was nothing they could do without damaging the bike. At some point I just gave up and was willing to sacrifice the bike's frame just to get those two metal parts apart.
Torque vs deleting the object.
Adding torque directly to each individual particle of the object
Get away with that lousy torch…
Heat around the bolt then rub wax which melts and wicks into the threads
Capillary action!