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Originally Posted by Ultramaroon
Don't listen to old @ humfrz. He learned wrenching from his drinkin' buddy, Bubba. Now, ol' Bubba liked to think his hands were calibrated but every time he tightened down a fastener, he tightened just a little bit too much. That's why his nuts and screws always seemed to strip out after the fifth or sixth time he tightened them.
Use a torque wrench. |
Yep, @
btan219 , to clarify, it's a good idea to use a torque wrench when you start out wrenching. That's the way you calibrate your wrists...
Of course some of us "learned" the calibrations the hard way. If it's in July and you are in a hot hayfield on the back 40 and you break a part on the hay baler and have to fix it before the due sets in on the hay, you learn to do it right the first time. You walk back to the barn, dig through wooden fruit boxes and coffee cans of old rusty bolts or nuts till you find a replacement.
After walking back to the field, you replace the broken bolt/nut and you learn "tight-n-niff" real quick or you have to rinse and repeat …
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