[AT] 1/2" air wrench

[Larry Goss]

This thread was interesting from another point of view, John.  I suspect that many of us have experience in torquing lug nuts and various bolts in many adverse situations.  There are two ways of "doing it" -- turn it smoothly, or use a vibrating method.  Both are valid, but are needed for different reasons.  As a piano tuner, you learn to always vibrate or shock the tuning pin into final position so it will stay where it's supposed to, but if you want to get a fastener to a particular value, you have to rotate it smoothly.  That's one of the reasons that a piano tuning wrench is called a hammer, and it's correct to talk about knocking a tuning pin into position.  But that's enough OT "Good of the Order" information for a Sunday morning.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: john hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
Date: Saturday, February 26, 2011 23:25
Subject: Re: [AT] 1/2" air wrench
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Glad to see nobody has had any problems breaking off bolts with 
> the high 
> torque machines. If I can't get a rebuild kit for mine I'll look 
> for one 
> around 600#.
> 
> John
> 
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