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Dazharion lemmy.dbzer0.com Dazharion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Sisyphe lemmy.world Sisyphe@lemmy.world
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GalacticGrapefruit lemmy.world GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-30
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Using the wrong ThreadLok, that's a paddlin'.

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AeronMelon lemmy.world aeronmelon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-26
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Torque vs deleting the object.

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ArcaneSlime lemmy.dbzer0.com ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-30
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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!

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rockerface🇺🇦 lemmy.cafe rockerface@lemmy.cafe
Joined: 2025-06-29
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Torque vs deleting the object.

Adding torque directly to each individual particle of the object

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Cybersec piefed.social Cybersec@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-02-01
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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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Sisyphe lemmy.world Sisyphe@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-02-19
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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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MehBlah lemmy.world MehBlah@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-04-16
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You skipped a step where you put a cheater pipe on the breaker bar.

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HootinNHollerin lemmy.dbzer0.com HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-08
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Heat around the bolt then rub wax which melts and wicks into the threads

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AngryCommieKender lemmy.world AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-02
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You skipped a step where you put a cheater pipe on the breaker bar.

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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MehBlah lemmy.world MehBlah@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-04-16
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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 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.

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Cybersec piefed.social Cybersec@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-02-01
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Awesome thank you

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unbanshee lemmy.dbzer0.com unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-11-21
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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.

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applebusch (she/her) lemmy.blahaj.zone applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-11-11
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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.....
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GalacticGrapefruit lemmy.world GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-30
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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 t...

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.

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AngryCommieKender lemmy.world AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-02
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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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MinnesotaGoddam lemmy.world HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
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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 t...

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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VieuxQueb lemmy.ca VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-07-08
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I don't see any torque wrench in this pic ?

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zr0 lemmy.dbzer0.com zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-03-15
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Get away with that lousy torch…

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SCmSTR lemmy.blahaj.zone SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-07-24
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Heat around the bolt then rub wax which melts and wicks into the threads

Capillary action!

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merc sh.itjust.works merc@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-09
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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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JennyLaFae lemmy.blahaj.zone JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-03-14
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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

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