Really cool! Has anyone out there used a Hydra-Torque? It is basically a
torque multiplier actuated by an electro-hydraulic pump. It has a reaction
bar like a torque multiplier that usually locks on an adjacent nut. Break a
stud? Have an ESD dude ready to disintegrate it without harming the
threads on cylinders, etc. I have known ESD guys who are booked up
for six months. An emergency callout is usually a money is no object
situation. I missed my calling, a 75k investment could have made me
a millionaire!
Yeah, outfit I worked for had to rent one once so we could replace the U Bolts on the rear leaf springs on a Mack Truck. 1 1/4 thick U bolts, torque spec was 1800 Ft Lbs. You could hear the bastards stretching.
Out fit I work for now has a pneumatic pistol type torque multiplier like this one, https://www.enerpac.com/en-us/pneumatic-torque-wrenches/pneumatic-torque-wrench-with-frl/PTW3000C
We have to torque some compressor head bolts down to 1800 Ft Lbs.
This thing works pretty slick except it has an electronic display that is a cheezy POS that won’t hold a setting.
“Electro Static Discharge”, a way of burning out out stuff without damaging the surrounding metal. Sometimes called EDM for “Electrical Discharge Machining”.
When I worked in aerospace it was used to remove things like broken taps and screws from very expensive machined aluminum parts.
It removes the metal by doing a High Voltage arc against the part, That takes away a little bit of the metal each time it arcs. It’s relatively slow, and the EDM machines I am familiar with were used by plastic mold makers to make the complex-curve cavities for injection molding keytops. Very slow, done in a liquid bath (which flushes away the metal particles), and pretty doggone precise. It’s neat to watch, what little I could see…
So, yeah, kind of a torching/”dissolving” technology!
Fuck, that explains it! Mine came a day early. Two of my fellow
geezer neighbors caught the Chniky Flu and are shacking up
in isolation. My lifelong developmentally disabled buddy woke
up sick this morning. If this is what the 12th looks like, I do not
want to fucking wake up tomorrow!
None taken… I was referring to the whole of 2020 and that this is the last Friday the 13th of the year and with the country trying to Implode, well, it may or may not be epic.
Being 13 is my lucky number ‘epic’ could be good if it happens. I just think of ‘epic’ as things like the naval engagement at Midway. Now everything is epic. What will the kids say about stuff that its truly epic.
Great idea and very useful – IFN you got the room to get it around the frozen nut. Butt- what if the problem needing addressing is in a very limited space, which more then likely will be and quite often in a blind spot. – Guess you’ll hafta break out the gas ax and mirror and prey your working blindfolded backwards skills are up to par…
I guess that’s one way to bust a nut
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Yep – reminds me of an ex Girlfiend (no, NOT a spelling mistake). She was a nut buster too.
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Lol.
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Really cool! Has anyone out there used a Hydra-Torque? It is basically a
torque multiplier actuated by an electro-hydraulic pump. It has a reaction
bar like a torque multiplier that usually locks on an adjacent nut. Break a
stud? Have an ESD dude ready to disintegrate it without harming the
threads on cylinders, etc. I have known ESD guys who are booked up
for six months. An emergency callout is usually a money is no object
situation. I missed my calling, a 75k investment could have made me
a millionaire!
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Yeah, outfit I worked for had to rent one once so we could replace the U Bolts on the rear leaf springs on a Mack Truck. 1 1/4 thick U bolts, torque spec was 1800 Ft Lbs. You could hear the bastards stretching.
Out fit I work for now has a pneumatic pistol type torque multiplier like this one,
https://www.enerpac.com/en-us/pneumatic-torque-wrenches/pneumatic-torque-wrench-with-frl/PTW3000C
We have to torque some compressor head bolts down to 1800 Ft Lbs.
This thing works pretty slick except it has an electronic display that is a cheezy POS that won’t hold a setting.
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We have those and HyTorc ones , some of the stuff gets torqued to over 2500 ft-lbs.
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So, what ever you are torquing, if fails, will kill you quicker then your wife or girlfriend catching you with that crazy girl from next door…
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What is an ESD dude? Estimated sexual deviant, what?
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“Electro Static Discharge”, a way of burning out out stuff without damaging the surrounding metal. Sometimes called EDM for “Electrical Discharge Machining”.
When I worked in aerospace it was used to remove things like broken taps and screws from very expensive machined aluminum parts.
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Thank you drjim! Hows does it accomplices this? By actually torching the part needing removed or dissolving it?
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It removes the metal by doing a High Voltage arc against the part, That takes away a little bit of the metal each time it arcs. It’s relatively slow, and the EDM machines I am familiar with were used by plastic mold makers to make the complex-curve cavities for injection molding keytops. Very slow, done in a liquid bath (which flushes away the metal particles), and pretty doggone precise. It’s neat to watch, what little I could see…
So, yeah, kind of a torching/”dissolving” technology!
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And me with a humble thread type nut splitter……Barely good to 3/4 inch nut if lucky. That is certainly a slick gadget.
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Easier to get into tighter places, I’ll wager. More useful on MUCH smaller machinery. Don’t knock it…
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OT, ya’ll do realize tomorrow is Friday the 13th in 2020… it could be epic.
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Fuck, that explains it! Mine came a day early. Two of my fellow
geezer neighbors caught the Chniky Flu and are shacking up
in isolation. My lifelong developmentally disabled buddy woke
up sick this morning. If this is what the 12th looks like, I do not
want to fucking wake up tomorrow!
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So stay in bed all day… I plan on it.
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Cederq, that must be why Deathray shouted me the airliner tickets! Make sure you answer the door at the secret knock.
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Nothing is epic. Sorry and no offense.
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None taken… I was referring to the whole of 2020 and that this is the last Friday the 13th of the year and with the country trying to Implode, well, it may or may not be epic.
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Being 13 is my lucky number ‘epic’ could be good if it happens. I just think of ‘epic’ as things like the naval engagement at Midway. Now everything is epic. What will the kids say about stuff that its truly epic.
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They will say it’s ” unprecedented “
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THEY WORK, IF it not made of junk. I have used them..EVEN years ago.
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Great idea and very useful – IFN you got the room to get it around the frozen nut. Butt- what if the problem needing addressing is in a very limited space, which more then likely will be and quite often in a blind spot. – Guess you’ll hafta break out the gas ax and mirror and prey your working blindfolded backwards skills are up to par…
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My thoughts exactly, when all else fails or it’s in a space too tight, it’s Blue-tipped Wrench time!
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