Dan_IN_MN
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I worked in various bicycle shops for 6+ years. When we would get a new guy in I would be ready to plug my ears when he would go for the air hose to inflate tires. If you don't understand that there is 100+ psi in that hose you'll blow the tire off of the rim. The experienced guys will give it short bursts to control the inflation.
Experience is one of the best teachers.
If you grab an impact wrench not thinking about the psi the compressor is putting out, not checking the power setting on the wrench, and not knowing the direction the nut turns, you are going to destroy something.
I can see how a piston stop could punch a hole through a piston or put enough force to bend a rod. I also can see how a flywheel key can be sheered by the inertia of a HOT impact.
An excavator in the wrong hands will easily punch a hole through a wall when used by an inexperienced user. Does this mean that excavators shouldn't be used to dig by a house because the guy down the block didn't know what he was doing and put an extra door in his bathroom? (that would wake up someone reading on the white throne!):biggrinbounce2::hmm3grin2orange:
Tools in the wrong hands will do wrong work. With a large enough impact, one can strip out lug nuts on cars. Think you know which way the nuts turn? Take my 58 Plymouth. It doesn't have lug nuts. It has lug bolts. AND, the ones on the left side ARE left handed. If you didn't know that, you would keep turning up the psi on the wrench until something gave. I bet if I took my 58 into a tire shop, the guys in there have never see left handed lug bolts, and have troubles with them.
With an impact, start with a low setting, know the direction of the thread (there's usually a bit of thread sticking up that one can use to determine the direction), and if it's not coming off, stop, think.......ask questions.
Dan
Experience is one of the best teachers.
If you grab an impact wrench not thinking about the psi the compressor is putting out, not checking the power setting on the wrench, and not knowing the direction the nut turns, you are going to destroy something.
I can see how a piston stop could punch a hole through a piston or put enough force to bend a rod. I also can see how a flywheel key can be sheered by the inertia of a HOT impact.
An excavator in the wrong hands will easily punch a hole through a wall when used by an inexperienced user. Does this mean that excavators shouldn't be used to dig by a house because the guy down the block didn't know what he was doing and put an extra door in his bathroom? (that would wake up someone reading on the white throne!):biggrinbounce2::hmm3grin2orange:
Tools in the wrong hands will do wrong work. With a large enough impact, one can strip out lug nuts on cars. Think you know which way the nuts turn? Take my 58 Plymouth. It doesn't have lug nuts. It has lug bolts. AND, the ones on the left side ARE left handed. If you didn't know that, you would keep turning up the psi on the wrench until something gave. I bet if I took my 58 into a tire shop, the guys in there have never see left handed lug bolts, and have troubles with them.
With an impact, start with a low setting, know the direction of the thread (there's usually a bit of thread sticking up that one can use to determine the direction), and if it's not coming off, stop, think.......ask questions.
Dan
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), it had little to no movement. A pressure and vac test showed it was good. A new vent and a new clutch (which I randomly found in a drawl) and that thing was running good. Still now 262xp or 036, but still very nice.
