PSA[1]: 50% off Halford Pro Tool sets

Naturally

 

hehe. Butchernomics ...

Paul.

 

150lb/ft isn't that much - you certainly shouldn't have to stand on a
breaker bar to achieve it! We have plenty of 200Nm (~150lb/ft) torque
settings on our trains, and have wrenches of about 2 foot long that we
use for them. And they're not particularly expensive.

As for high torque, re-coupling class 377 coaches is amusing - the
castle nuts are done to 1500Nm with a 5 foot torque wrench...

 

Pffft. Melodrama.

Rear hub nuts on a 2cv - c.350lbft on a 44mm nut... which is then peened.

OK, you win.

 

Heh, M36 thread with a 55mm hex head. Heavy shit.

 

6" 6tpi Whit form, bolt heaters to loosen the nuts then a 3" square
drive 110psi impact gun to take the studs out. Proper engineering...

 

That's not exactly using them yourself is it?

 

Mew. Our trains only kick out 1.2MW of tractive effort each. I'm
pretty certain you beat that any day of the week...

 

500MW from each unit is about the average.

The 6" studs are only on the HP inner cylinder and they always cause
problems.

 

Neither is a breaker bar, and a heavy boot

Seriously, i've been torqueing by feel for over 25 years now. The only
bolts that I religiously torque are head bolts, as it's usually best
to get a consistent torque across the piece, particularly with
aluminium heads.

The only bolt I broke recently was using a torque wrench, as I was
bolting down the crankshaft bearing journals on Nige's old firestorm.
2 of the bolts stretched, needing replacements from Honda. I should
have used 'feel' instead

Paul.

 

whilst, in general, life's too short to proof-read Usenet, having a
typo in one's .sig is somewhat infra dig.

 

As opposed to the American spelling, as demonstrated to great effect by
yourself, above.

 

Aiiieeeeeee!

 

he's quoting an Italian - cut him some slack, FFS.

 

it's not really beholden of a founding member of the BHaLc to support
the views of a fascist, though, is it?

 

Myself is very grateful to your good self.

 

go and fucking wikigoogle him.

 

Are you sure Darsy wasn't talking about Pip?

 

Pretty much, yeah.

 

Not specifically, but there might have been a bit of oil hanging
around. A bearing journal is a pretty oily place, by design

Christ, 35lb/ft is some torque. Is that steel into aluminium threads ?
I just nip those up gently. Long practice from doing (old style) Mini
sump plugs.

No, they just kept on turning beyond what the rest of them did, but I
foolishly trusted the torque wrench :/

Paul.