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QuarkMartial posted:Can I use a 1/2 inch (or maybe mine is 3/4in) torque wrench on spark plugs? Or is it too big? I'm thinking that the minimum calibrated setting of a 3/4" drive torque wrench is going to be WAY over the torque value for a spark plug...
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DethMarine21 posted:Clearly what we need is a Yeah, those would get expensive quick at $30 each. http://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-cap-screws/=14atyum
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Sep 24, 2016 03:35
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glyph posted:Yeah, those would get expensive quick at $30 each. The list price on a grade 8 bolt of the same size is $11.50. net price on those would still prob be $8-$10 to the regular bolt's $2 though.
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Sep 24, 2016 03:40
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cursedshitbox posted:Torque the important poo poo. armstrong the stuff that can't kill anyone. we had a fun failure mode on truck lugs at work the other day. Part of the weekly check that management mandates is you get the lug wrench out and run it over the lug nuts to make sure none of them move. Great in theory. Until you get a canter with left hand threads on the passenger side. Then as everyone goes around the truck checking the lugs without knowing this, every time they lean on that passenger front tyre they undo the nut juuuust a little bit. Add that up over several months and all of a sudden two nuts are missing and the other 3 are loose!
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Sep 24, 2016 04:07
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Model bloat. loving crash safety standards.
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Sep 24, 2016 04:30
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Mercury Ballistic posted:I had the idea for fasteners that had a designed shear failure at a set torque. You could install them, tighten till they sheared off and know they were at the spec'd torque. Then I asked my mechanical engineer brother who was doing an internship at Boeing about the idea and was informed that they are common in aviation manufacturing. BRB, patenting intentionally shearing drivers.
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Sep 24, 2016 04:40
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QuarkMartial posted:Can I use a 1/2 inch (or maybe mine is 3/4in) torque wrench on spark plugs? Or is it too big? As MrYenko pointed out, 3/4" is usually pretty hefty. Find the torque spec for your plugs and then shop for a torque wrench with that spec in the range. In the meantime only put in plugs finger tight.
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Sep 24, 2016 04:41
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Platystemon posted:BRB, patenting intentionally shearing drivers. Single use torque wrenches! The click is the head snapping off the handle.
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Sep 24, 2016 04:42
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You've never been to Harbor Freight?
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CharlieWhiskey posted:. In the meantime only put in plugs finger tight. Or hold your rachet like your throwing up the metal sign to Dio. It makes it so its harder for you over tighten. But you can still get a good amount of force. I use it when tightening small fasteners and i have never had one break or fall out.
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Sep 24, 2016 04:44
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CharlieWhiskey posted:As MrYenko pointed out, 3/4" is usually pretty hefty. Find the torque spec for your plugs and then shop for a torque wrench with that spec in the range. In the meantime only put in plugs finger tight. I typically use the 3/8" one from HF for my sparkplugs.
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Sep 24, 2016 04:48
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Mercury Ballistic posted:I had the idea for fasteners that had a designed shear failure at a set torque. You could install them, tighten till they sheared off and know they were at the spec'd torque. Then I asked my mechanical engineer brother who was doing an internship at Boeing about the idea and was informed that they are common in aviation manufacturing. Also the toilet seat I installed had them.
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Sep 24, 2016 05:43
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nm posted:Also the toilet seat I installed had them. Same, I thought it was kinda nice to have them sheer off when fully tightened.
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Sep 24, 2016 08:20
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Boogalo posted:Single use torque wrenches! The click is the head snapping off the handle. I had one of those. It cost me $15 at Canadian Tire and successfully torqued the 35mm nut on my bike's single sided swingarm, once.
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Sep 24, 2016 08:26
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CharlieWhiskey posted:Same. I use a torque wrench on my spark plugs after learning that aluminum motors are more mushy than steel motors, but I still just use whatever 4-way or breaker bar is laying around. This is why you use spark plugs that are supposed to last 100k. Next owner's problem! Mostly kidding... but the car I have now is the first one I've owned with taper seat plugs, installing those really hosed with my head. I'm used to crush washer plugs. I guess I'll find out if I overtorqued them in another 30k. 
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My friend finally gave me the link to the youtube videos he's taken of our ambos. They're all pretty terrible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKfLrm8dlyo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS_LMSXmu_s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkBEKSc3jIM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCS7vAabAZw
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Sep 24, 2016 10:10
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Raluek posted:"A pint's a pound the world 'round" innit? Plus, a pint is 16 fl oz, and isnt a fl oz of water 1oz weight? And there's definitely 8pt in a gallon. So where's the extra change come from? From that saying being nothing more than an estimate?
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Sep 24, 2016 18:39
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I'll just double check the range on mine and get a smaller one off need be.
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Sep 24, 2016 23:08
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Had an 04 Civic in because the tailights and parking lights didn't work. Found the fuse blown. New fuse blows right away. Dug into the car, traced all the wiring. Couldn't find any issues. Disconnected every single bulb. Still blows the fuse the second it goes in. After about an hour the customer calls and says that his kid put a quarter into the radio's CD slot - could that have anything to do with it? WTF dude? No! Then punched the dash near the radio. Radio clock just shut off. Put a new fuse in. Parking lights magically work! Radio dead now. The customer thought it was an okay trade and went on his way.
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Sep 25, 2016 00:43
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Mercury Ballistic posted:I had the idea for fasteners that had a designed shear failure at a set torque. You could install them, tighten till they sheared off and know they were at the spec'd torque. Then I asked my mechanical engineer brother who was doing an internship at Boeing about the idea and was informed that they are common in aviation manufacturing. HI-LOK fasteners. I'm not a metalpecker and don't really know the specifics of when and where they're used, but I do know that our sheet metal guys go through them by the bushel at times.
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It's worth noting that a UK fluid ounce of water weighs one ounce. But a UK pint is 20 ounces. 10 pounds per gallon. A US pint is entirely different and based on some historical nonsense with wine gallons and troy pounds and measurements that are hilariously off. So in the US a pint is not a pound and an ounce is not an ounce.
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Sep 25, 2016 04:03
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It's almost as if the imperial measurement system is complete trash from every perspective and we should have stopped using it 200 years ago.
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Sep 25, 2016 04:05
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Stop driving on the left side then, deal?
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Sep 25, 2016 04:48
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In the northern hemisphere, roundabouts really should be left-turning. Fighting the coriolis effect is wasteful.
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Dylan16807 posted:It's worth noting that a UK fluid ounce of water weighs one ounce. U.S. measures are weird but at least they’re the originals. The U.K. decided “let’s make the system ever so slightly more internally consistent” and ended up with the worst of both worlds. The relationship between units is still nonsensical, but now you have two units of the same name that differ by 20% and have to be differentiated via context‐based guessing every time they show up.  If you’re going to break with the past, make it a clean break. No half measures.
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Sep 25, 2016 05:46
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Is that an imperial half measure or metric?
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We don't use fractions with metric measures  Also I didn't use a torque wrench on my lug nuts and this is what happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YayFP8CxJok
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Platystemon posted:U.S. measures are weird but at least they’re the originals. The U.K. decided “let’s make the system ever so slightly more internally consistent” and ended up with the worst of both worlds. The relationship between units is still nonsensical, but now you have two units of the same name that differ by 20% and have to be differentiated via context‐based guessing every time they show up. There used to be a whole bunch of different gallons so at least they decided on one gallon. That's a huge improvement. Also uh have a tire that was being shaky on the freeway.  vvv Actually the US still used multiple gallons in different contexts. Having "the same gallon as the US" was an impossible goal from the outset, because "gallon" was ambiguous. The UK at least made "Imperial gallon" be unambiguous. Dylan16807 fucked around with this message at 10:58 on Sep 25, 2016 |
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Sep 25, 2016 10:15
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There are two gallons, though. gal US gal IMP
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mobby_6kl posted:We don't use fractions with metric measures Was yours the one that brained the guy with the sprinter van?  I wonder how Russians feel about the rest of the world using their atrocious traffic/vehicle safety standards as a spectator sport, or is it less embarrassing than the fact that almost every car NEEDS a dash cam in the first place?
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Sep 25, 2016 10:59
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They probably appreciate the theoretical YouTube dollars so want you to spread that link to every person you know.
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mobby_6kl posted:We don't use fractions with metric measures The curse chain the guy at 2:00 lets loose after that whole dual-wheel slowly makes its way to his car and bonks it is just magical.  And that dude with the white van got loving ruined got dang.
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Sep 25, 2016 18:05
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I think I read that he was killed instantly. 
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Do they not attach wheels in Russia?
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Raluek posted:I just thought the whole deal with fluid ounces was that, when the fluid was water, they weighed an ounce. I guess not?
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InitialDave posted:You're right that a fluid ounce is based on a volume which has a weight of one ounce, but it's not water, it's wine. No, seriously. Holy poo poo
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I mean, back when the unit was established, water was unmetered but people didn’t take kindly to you stiffing them on their booze.
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mobby_6kl posted:We don't use fractions with metric measures The half-liter is a perfectly acceptable beer measure.
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Computer viking posted:The half-liter is a perfectly acceptable beer measure. Yeah, if you're pregnant. pussy.
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mobby_6kl posted:We don't use fractions with metric measures Right around the 3 minute mark is from Dallas, Texas.
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