[TowerTalk] more on torquing bolts with anti-seize

Jim Berry basalop@gte.net
Mon, 16 Oct 2000 06:40:51 -0700



If someone gives you a torgue wrench that clicks, FB, but a person
can get tired and jerk the wrench.  It will then "click" and give a
false reading.  Be careful.

73 Jim K7SLI

  Sears Craftsman sells a
> cheap torque wrench
> that is nothing more than a flexible wrench with an
> unloaded pointer connected
> at the socket end of the wrench and free at the other.  A
> plate is mounted at
> the other end of the wrench that relates deflection of the
> wrench to applied
> torque.  These are surprisingly good and cheap.
>
> -Greg
>


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