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[-] Alteon@lemmy.world 133 points 10 months ago

A righty tighty will always be a lefty loosey. What you got there is a "torquey teary". Ease up on installation there Magilla.

[-] LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 29 points 10 months ago

Yeah this caption doesn't make any sense

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Had to scroll a while to find you guys. Thanks for noticing!

[-] ADTJ@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

Not to be confused with a "Torquay Teary" when your family trip to Cornwall goes badly

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I saw this and thought more like ‘head fally offy’ or ‘screw spinny spinny’.

[-] 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 10 months ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

I forgot the torque wrench, just fucking full send it.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago

Amazing, haha

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Sync for Lemmy ❤️

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[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 60 points 10 months ago

I heard someone saying something along the lines of "a bolt is tightened until the thread breaks and then half a turn back"

Some really take that as an advice

[-] Romeowns@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure I heard AvE say "tighten it 'til you hear the crack, then back it off a quarter turn" in one of his videos ;'D

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

I’m personally a fan of “that bolt has ugga’ed its last dugga.”

[-] StuffYouFear@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Another one we said in my old shop was "Tighten till it loosens, then back off half a turn"

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Torque to yield, then back a quarter turn.

[-] coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

It’s a quarter twist before snapping of.

[-] casmael@startrek.website 57 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Man living in a 120 year old house means it’s always wall roulette any time you want to hang anything. Is that a brick, or is it fake mortar with the consistency of hummus. Who knows let’s find out

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 23 points 10 months ago

I assume Humous is hummus?

[-] casmael@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago

Oops yup wrong kind of hummus

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[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Surprise, it's "C": a forgotten piece of romex on a 20A breaker.

[-] Hellstormy@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

No, it's "D": The cable that goes to your lights in the kitchen two rooms farther but some idiot decided to run it through the walls taking the scenic route.

[-] casmael@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

No no that’s the proper way to do it to maximise errrr likelihood of future damage by drilling

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Helicoil thread repair kits. Allowing me to escape the expensive consequences of my mistakes for years and counting.

[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago

The F150 used to come standard with a set

[-] normonator@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Probably for the damn plugs in those...

[-] LoraxEleven@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

An old army buddy of mine once said with the purest rage: "It don't matter which way I fuckin turn it! It ALWAYS COMES BACK TO LEFT!!" after hearing righty-tighty lefty-loosy for probably the thousandth time whilst givin er in the wrong direction once again..

He got out of the army as a heavy tank mechanic and went into concrete. I don't even think he owns any tools at all these days.. That's been thirty damn years ago and I'm still fuckin with him about it every now and again..

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 28 points 10 months ago

My favorite part of concrete is the lack of threads

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 10 months ago

Lots of things are better without Threads, including the fediverse

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Also women. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[-] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Bender disagrees

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Cries in Precast

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

I have never used righty tighty, lefty loosey in practice. It will always, always be an imaginary milk jug.

[-] Carvex@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

I'll try "Whats a torque spec?" for $500 Alex

[-] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 10 months ago

I discovered with much annoyance that torque spec can break old bolts, and old is a relative statement, the truck was from the 90s.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Had a 10mm deep socket the other day with a 1/4" socket size. Couldn't find a 3/8", so I found an old adapter and when loosening the 5th bolt on my intake manifold, got the old "hmm... that shit is moving to free to fast"

Thankfully a small screwdriver could poke the 1/4" adapter piece stuck in the socket out, so I can live to make the same mistake another day.

[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

And the answer is something easily ignored but vastly important.

[-] CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

Two ugga-duggas is close enough to spec, it'll be fine.

[-] Carvex@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

100 inch pounds is as hard as I can right?

[-] Zoot@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago

Ahh yes, the great inch versus foot pound conundrum

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Where do y'all find this elusive "Torque Spec"?

Even if I could afford a $100 click wrench. Where am I gonna lookup random bolt on whatever the hell I'm repairing?

[-] variants@possumpat.io 3 points 10 months ago

Usually depends on the size of the screw

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Damnit, I'm becoming a dad.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

I've found myself watching long youtube videos of people's DIY projects lately. It's happening...

[-] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 10 months ago

Was looking for a picture but I had a bolt for the valve cover on a pickup stretch to about an extra quarter inch while I was trying to get it to torque. One of those times where trusting my gut that things didn't quite feel right saved my ass.

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

In the world of gears and screws, they say, Lies a whimsical dance, a playful array. Righty tighty, lefty loosey, they decree, A rhyme of mechanics, a playful spree.

With a twist to the right, oh, the magic it weaves, Securing the bond, as it deftly achieves. Righty tighty, a clockwise turn to bind, A snug little twist, a connection defined.

Yet the left beckons with its whimsical call, A twist to the left, a loosening sprawl. Lefty loosey, a counter-clockwise flow, Unraveling secrets, it willingly shows.

Righty tighty, lefty loosey, they sway, A duet of motion, in their mechanical ballet. Twisting and turning, they whisper in song, A symphony of movement, where they both belong.

So heed their advice in your mechanical groove, Righty tighty, lefty loosey, a mantra to prove, In the dance of mechanics, they hold the key, A delightful rhyme, a whimsical decree.

[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com 5 points 10 months ago
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[-] Gingernate@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

Lefty loosey is fine, it's righty loosey that's the issue

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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I've got a better one for you: a certain piece of 11kV switchgear has little M10 steel bolts attaching the cable box cover. If you turn them too quickly with the cover under tension the steel heats up through friction and welds the fucking screw into the thread.

The latest version uses M13 and I think the problem has been mitigated a bit, but I'm sure it can still happen, and there's a metric shit ton of the old stuff out in the wild.

All full of SF6 as well, which is a very cool (I really want to inhale some and sound like Darth Vader) but also really bad greenhouse gas (20x worse than CO2), and with so much out there inevitably some of it leaks (with a 20 year time delay from a leak to the gas reaching the upper atmosphere), but we can't be having switchgear taking up more space and commercial enterprise profits diminishing to cover it so we just continue our global exponential growth in use of the stuff.

[-] Dettweiler42@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

We want German tight (gutentight), not Russian tight (brokenov)!

[-] chocolateo@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I picked a whole bouquet of oopsie daises

[-] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Nach fest, kommt ab!

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