Tightening that SSA wheel nut.

[Ron1000]

Originally Posted by Mr Gazza

I've been told that rattle guns shouldn't be relied upon for an accurate torque. I've never used one for doing up, only undoing.
Apparently you can use a torque stick of a pre-set value to control the rattle gun's torque.
My quick search did not find one of 176NM or 130 lbft but I'm sure that one could be found?

They look like this..

Rattle gun on is a no no from me. If I was the law all rattle guns would be one setting and one setting only ‘off’

Torque wrenches aren’t mad expensive and most anybody in here will be able to put 200nm of force through one. So rattle gunning things on to 176 or so is crazy.

Imo.

I do like those torque sticks tho.

[Mr Gazza]

Originally Posted by Ron1000

Rattle gun on is a no no from me. If I was the law all rattle guns would be one setting and one setting only ‘off’

Torque wrenches aren’t mad expensive and most anybody in here will be able to put 200nm of force through one. So rattle gunning things on to 176 or so is crazy.

Imo.

I do like those torque sticks tho.

I'd have to agree with you Ron, but the torque sticks piqued my interest quite a while back when we used to run Winter and Summer wheels and tyres on a car, I thought they would make the bi-annual wheel changing chore a bit easier, but I didn't get round to actually buying one!
It does seem to be quite difficult to find one of just the setting that you need.. And then it will only do one thing, so you need to be using a lot of that particular torque to make it worthwhile. (Like 16 or 20 wheel nuts twice a year?)
I just wondered if anyone has any experience of them?

[slob]

Originally Posted by Ron1000

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I do like those torque sticks tho.

I have long thought about, but never got round to, buying a Topeak Nano Torqbar for doing up customers' engine casings etc. reducing the possibility of stripping a thread, although I've not been working since smashing myself up and have found experience means very few stripped threads anyway, unless they were on the way out and probably wanted a helicoil anyway.

[Luddite]

Originally Posted by slob

I have long thought about, but never got round to, buying a Topeak Nano Torqbar

I like that! What a neat design. I can imagine Q issuing one of those to 007...