So I'm out working in my garage today and I have a paved ally so it gets a fair amount of foot traffic from people on their way to the park nearby.
Every once in awhile someone turns out to be a car guy of one type or another and will stop and chat for a bit about this and that.
So while chatting with him I was putting my front driverside wheel back on and after finger tightening up the lugs I start half assed looking around for where my torque wrench may have gotten too.
He asks me what I'm looking for, I tell him my torque wrench.
He starts with the you don't need a torque wrench for that line and I tell him I use my torque wrench because I'm not one of these "just make em real tight with a normal wrench" kinda guys.
He tells me I don't need one because he can do it to whatever torque I ask just by feel.
.........Ok, now I'm thinking he's a bit of a looney.........but I'm interested now.
So what do you mean I ask, and having now located my torque wrench I am now holding he says here, hand me your regular rachetting wrench.
I do so, he asks me to name a torque value and I say 35 fp, so he tightens up the bolt and tells me to check it with my wrench now. I set the wrench to 30 and it clicks before it moves, I set it to 40 and it doesn't click until I manage it to turn just a smidge then it clicks. Ok, lucky I tell him. And hand him my racheting wrench back and tell him 70fp.
I'll be damned! I tested this guys "torque by feel" as I call it work no less than 5 times and it was smack dead on every single time. Seriously I need to learn this skill. I ask him how he learned to do this.......
He just says, oh, about 45 years in an Oil and Gas machine shop and you'll have it down too...thanks me for the chat and that was that.
Damn, thats a freaking good talent to have without a doubt.
Every once in awhile someone turns out to be a car guy of one type or another and will stop and chat for a bit about this and that.
So while chatting with him I was putting my front driverside wheel back on and after finger tightening up the lugs I start half assed looking around for where my torque wrench may have gotten too.
He asks me what I'm looking for, I tell him my torque wrench.
He starts with the you don't need a torque wrench for that line and I tell him I use my torque wrench because I'm not one of these "just make em real tight with a normal wrench" kinda guys.
He tells me I don't need one because he can do it to whatever torque I ask just by feel.
.........Ok, now I'm thinking he's a bit of a looney.........but I'm interested now.
So what do you mean I ask, and having now located my torque wrench I am now holding he says here, hand me your regular rachetting wrench.
I do so, he asks me to name a torque value and I say 35 fp, so he tightens up the bolt and tells me to check it with my wrench now. I set the wrench to 30 and it clicks before it moves, I set it to 40 and it doesn't click until I manage it to turn just a smidge then it clicks. Ok, lucky I tell him. And hand him my racheting wrench back and tell him 70fp.
I'll be damned! I tested this guys "torque by feel" as I call it work no less than 5 times and it was smack dead on every single time. Seriously I need to learn this skill. I ask him how he learned to do this.......
He just says, oh, about 45 years in an Oil and Gas machine shop and you'll have it down too...thanks me for the chat and that was that.
Damn, thats a freaking good talent to have without a doubt.
