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Vent: A sat diver in Port Fourchon asked why I still hand-torque my hat bolts, and I still hear it
He watched me at the dock one morning, said nothing for a bit, then asked if I torque my wheel nuts by feel too, and now every time I snug those bolts down I wonder if I am just getting lucky.
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gracewebb6d ago
There was a study floating around a while back about torque wrenches losing their calibration way faster than people expect, especially when they get thrown around in a truck bed. One shop tested a bunch and found some were off by 20 percent or more after a year of hard use. A guy I used to dive with swore by hand torque on everything until he cracked a flange on a job and had to eat the cost. Now I check my wrench against a known weight every few months, just a bucket and a bar. The feel thing works right up until your wrist has an off day.
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