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there is a saying in my country: to get a nut tight: Tighten it until it loosens, then back off a quarter turn. As it is pointed in the article, it really cre
by throwaway71271 3y ago
there is a saying in my country:
to get a nut tight: Tighten it until it loosens, then back off a quarter turn.
As it is pointed in the article, it really creeps up on you, and it is much harder to 'back off quarter turn' when the nut is broken.
- streakfix 3y agoHow do you tighten a nut until it loosens?
- viraptor 3y agoI read it as "something gives". Either you strip the tread or the nut breaks, or something else unexpected/unwanted happens.
- tremon 3y agoI've never been able to strip the tread off a nut using just the strength of my bear hands (:p). Sure, I've over-tightened screws into nylon walls plugs or even into wood. But to damage a nut just by overfastening the bolt? I'd need a pneumatic drill at least.
- lelanthran 3y ago> I've never been able to strip the tread off a nut using just the strength of my bear hands (:p). I have. small metric 10 nut. Also, with almost no effort you can strip the threads in spark plugs holes (aluminium head).
- doubled112 3y agoDifferent, but I have a habit of breaking valve cover bolts too, with just a screwdriver even. Click, swear, back it off a quarter turn. Often with vice grips. I've been lucky so far. Not great either is the way my impact gun is designed. You put it down on the wrong side, and the direction slider gets pushed so you're ramming it back on instead of taking it off.
- nmz 3y ago[flagged]
- qorrect 3y agoLefty righty, tighty loosey, am I doing it ?
- 6nf 3y agoYou break something
- ChuckNorris89 3y agoThat was my experience exactly. Burnout creeps on you without you realizing and only once it stops and you disconnect completely do you realize the mess you were.