Re: [ihc] My incredible bad luck and stupidity

["Nick" <scout@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What do you mean by guessing, I used a torque wrench that should have been
accurate, it wasnt.  I have since purchased a new one.

nick


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Hermann" <bearbvd@domain.elided>
To: "Nick" <scout@domain.elided>; "IHC Digest" <ihc-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [ihc] My incredible bad luck and stupidity


> At 5:30 PM 9/4/03, Nick wrote:
> >By the way I found out that the torque wrench I used to assemble it the
> >first time was way off. When it was set at 50 Iwas only getting about 30.
> >Thats probably why the rod bolt failed the first time.
>
> Nick, if you are only 'guessing' that this is why it threw a rod, you
> shouldn't be assembling the 304, either. :-)
>
> BTW--do NOT , repeat, _absolutely_ do NOT reuse any of the rod bolts from
> any of the OTHER seven rods that did NOT come apart--ANYWHERE !!! In fact,
> don't re-use the other seven rods, EITHER, without having the big ends of
> them reconditioned, and after magnafluxing them-- !!!
>
> Greg
> >
> >guess Ill go flog myself now.
> >
> >Nick