• MehBlah
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    You skipped a step where you put a cheater pipe on the breaker bar.

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      Just make sure you tell your kid how much torque that cheater pipe produces. I may have overtightened my dad’s lug nuts with a cheater pipe that produced about 5000 lbs of torque at one time…

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        I started to add another additional step where after having snapped the head off the bolt you had to drill and use a Ezout to remove the rest of the bolt.

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        torque has units of force times length so it would be inch pounds or foot pounds. failing to specify a length unit makes your statement make no sense.

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          I don’t remember, it was like a 5 and a half foot pipe, and this was almost 30 years ago

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            I dont have a problem with the hyperbole, just the incorrect units. As an engineer it bothers me and makes people sound like they dont know what they’re talking about even if they do.