Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

ohmigod, I have done many equally stupid things. Great ending. Glad it *cough* worked out.

My most expensive stupid one was when I set my torque wrench wrong and over tightened the head bolts on an engine build for my '78 GTI. Cracked the block.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

My most expensive stupid one was when I set my torque wrench wrong and over tightened the head bolts on an engine build for my '78 GTI. Cracked the block.

Augh! Fuck me.


That made me a little queasy.




Have you learned to trust your gut over the torque wrench? That's a huge leap.


Can you feel the difference between steel-steel and steel-aluminum when tightening?

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Augh! Fuck me.


That made me a little queasy.




Have you learned to trust your gut over the torque wrench? That's a huge leap.


Can you feel the difference between steel-steel and steel-aluminum when tightening?

I was a kid. It was an expensive lesson.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Good job getting it out. I can say in my wrenching i have done similar things more times than I care to remember.

Just last week I was taking the access panel off the front of the lotus to check the brake/clutch fluid and with my crappy hands dropped the allen wrench thru the grill over the radiator. It was dangling there ready to fall behind the radiator. I'm thinking, great, now I'll have to pay a grand to have the front clam r&r to get the wrench out. After a half hour of fiddling i too got lucky.

I once almost forced a mission scrub because, in a last minute fix, I lost a 1/16 allen wrench somewhere between the airplane, flight deck, and maintenance control.

After furiously looking everywhere I was working, with my cheek against the floor, sighting along with a flashlight, I found it in a crack between the floorboard and rear cabin wall. I jumped up to grab it just as the maintenance officer poked his head through the main hatch.


Wasn't even one of the tools I used.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Not that, but my scarred up hands are giving me trouble this week. They don't want to work. That isn't helping.

It's a 55+ thing. I hope they get to feeling better.

My hands don't want to work - and they ain't scarred up. -


humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by ZionsWrath

Maybe it's not up and that's his problem

Wait wut?

It's an age thing - you will understand when you get older -


humfrz

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

My most expensive stupid one was when I set my torque wrench wrong and over tightened the head bolts on an engine build for my '78 GTI. Cracked the block.

I thought your runied car was the most expensive mistake.

[MuseChaser]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

OH that shouldn't matter. If something breaks it is oviously the company's problem.
...

Oh yeah.. I forgot... personal responsibility for personal stupidity is no longer fashionable, required, or even expected. Thanks for the gentle reminder!

[MuseChaser]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

....Have you learned to trust your gut over the torque wrench? That's a huge leap.

No, but I've learned to NEVER trust my 3/8" drive Harbor Freight torque wrench and use it only as a hammer.

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Can you feel the difference between steel-steel and steel-aluminum when tightening?

I can feel the difference between "it's getting tighter" and "it's broken." I'll refine from there.

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

I can feel the difference between "it's getting tighter" and "it's broken." I'll refine from there.

Oh man, that cracked me up
The story of all my usage of any tools with some kind of torsion or torque involved, neatly summed up.
I've only snapped 3 or 4 studs on my car since i got it in '13, though. Kinda proud of that. Still the most looked after vehicle I've ever owned. By far.

Anyway, I've missed you guys. What's happening?

[spike021]

Is anyone around? I’m stuck in SF not with anyone and my car isn’t starting. The battery seems fine. When I try to start the car like usual it makes a slight whirring sound and then stops. It won’t fire or anything.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Sarlacc

Oh man, that cracked me up
The story of all my usage of any tools with some kind of torsion or torque involved, neatly summed up.
I've only snapped 3 or 4 studs on my car since i got it in '13, though. Kinda proud of that. Still the most looked after vehicle I've ever owned. By far.

Anyway, I've missed you guys. What's happening?

Same ol stuff with a relatively new crowd.
Hope you have been well.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by spike021

Is anyone around? I’m stuck in SF not with anyone and my car isn’t starting. The battery seems fine. When I try to start the car like usual it makes a slight whirring sound and then stops. It won’t fire or anything.

Does it actually turn over?

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Same ol stuff with a relatively new crowd.
Hope you have been well.

Thanks. Yeah, been keeping busy. Sold our house, bought a house on the northwest coast, moved a quarter of my stuff and paid for garbage removal on the rest. The penalty of living 12 years in an old house with enough storage space for a small hardware store. Or, in my case, a small junkyard. I won't miss any of it. But sorting out the gems was tedious. I've got a brand new junkyard going already, so normal life is about to resume. With fresher fish and fouler weather.

How about you? I hope you're still going strong as well.