Fellow Motorheads,
This list is contributing to my education. I stand corrected. I wrote:
><< Let the kid use the air gun for taking off anything he wants to,
>they're
> great at that, that's what they were made for. >>
To which Nick from Nor Cal responded:
>
> Fellow Lug Nutters-
>
> They can even do damage takin the lug nuts OFF! >>
>
And Paul explained:
>This is very true! I worked one summer rebuilding the tracks that
>caterpillar bulldozers ride on. I would take them apart with an air wrench.
> These bolts were about the size of a wheel stud. The nuts came off very
>fast, but none of the hardware could be re-used, because the threads would
>spread. The nuts would go on a new bolt, but they wouldn't spin freely, and
>you could see bright marks on the thread of the new bolt, where the spread
>threads of the old nut had scored the thread of the new bolt.
>Paul
Oh, now I get it ! Tim the tool man's MORE POWER demand is a joke !!
You can break things, warp them, stretch them outta shape without hardly
trying, and the air wrench is a fine example.
And I thought that knowing a torque wrench from a hammer was enough...
Still climbing that curve,
Claude `Butthead' Hopper
SW Ohio
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