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A lead guy in Wichita told me my torque wrench 'click' habit was wrong and it took me 3 months to admit he was right
He caught me pulling slow and easy until the click instead of smooth and steady, said that slow pull is exactly how you get a false click on a stretched bolt, and now I do four fast warm up clicks on a scrap bolt before I touch anything on the plane.
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andrewh954d ago
Man I used to pull slow and steady too because some old timer told me that was the "feel" you needed to develop. Took me way longer than 3 months to figure out he was full of it. Once you understand that a slow pull lets the wrench creep up on the spring instead of snapping over clean, it makes total sense why you get false clicks. That warm up click trick on a scrap bolt is smart, gonna steal that one.
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