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[–] 38 points 5 months ago (6 children)

You skipped a step where you put a cheater pipe on the breaker bar.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    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.....

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [+] 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)
  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Can you tell us plebes why not? Am guessing it messes up the quality of torque delivery when putting a bolt on?

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  • [+] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Torque vs deleting the object.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Heat around the bolt then rub wax which melts and wicks into the threads

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    Get away with that lousy torch…

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    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.

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