On Mon, 03 Apr 2017 18:56:46 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2017 20:35:53 -0400, wrote:
On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 12:28:14 -0400, "Phil Kangas"
wrote:
A friend stopped by and had a question about torquing
a large nut left hand thread to 185 ft lbs. His wrench
only torques right hand threads. It's a clicker type.
I said I have one that'll do LH. He said no way, there
are no clickers available in LH. So I dug out mine and
showed him by clamping the square in the vice and
sure enough it'll do LH. He'll need an extension to do
the job so just use his 'upside down' on the extension.
That worked. Then the real question: can a clicker
that only torques RH be used to break loose a nut
without damage to the wrench? Like auto lug nuts for
instance. If the nut is too tight, can the one way
clicker be used to break it loose then re-torque?
These newer clickers ratchet both ways LH and RH
but only torque RH. My wrench is a 40+ year old
Craftsman clicker in good shape. I would never use
mine to break a nut loose. What do you think?
phil k.
WHY would you use a precision tool to break loose a tight nut????
And any torque wrench I've used (been using them for 50 years) wwill
torque either direction.
Same reason some people use a Starrett micrometer as a welding clamp.
And use a titanium pipe wrench as a hammer. It purely -sucks- to know
the type of person who does that, doesn't it? If you're like me, you
_used_ to loan out tools, only to have them come back damaged in
ungodly ways. The type of person who would leave tools out in the
rain and bring it back rusty, and when you griped at them for it, they
told you to clean the rust off yourself. The same guys would never
pay for damage, either. Get just 1 or 2 of those people and, from
then on, it's "What, you want to borrow a tool? Bwahahahahaha. NOT A
CHANCE!"
Of course, it can be fun to keep broken tools in stock to loan to
jerks like that. They'll be trying for half an hour before realizing
that it never worked in the first place. evil grinne
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