Re: Garage attendants...

[Robert Myers <rmyers@inetone.net>]

Oh Gawd no!  Not another Tor(que)sen(sing) thread!  Tell me it isn't true.
:-)

At 10:30 PM 11/04/1999 -0600, Mark L. Chang wrote:
>On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, geordie wrote:
>
>> My complaint here is the people who installed my tyres. I have no
>> problem with the tyres but with the fact that they cranked my lug bolts
>> on way way way too tight. I couldn't take them off with the silly lug
>> wrench audi supplies with their coupes, and in my opinion, if that won't
>> take them off, what good is my spare tyre?
>
>I just wanted to get this in the clear with people that are wrenches for a
>living.  I was told by a local shop that air wrenches/impact wrenches (you
>know, the loud cool ones) can have torque-sensing clutches or something
>built into them so that they don't overtorque.  Is this true or a load of
>BS?  At any rate, I don't think they are so accurate, because I was
>changing the brake pads and rotors on my fiancee's Neon and I bent the
>sh*t out of her crowbar getting them nuts off.  I had the full-on
>vein-popping sweat-beading light-headed-afterwards thing going on as well.
>
>Sheesh.  Torque-sensing my a$$.
>
>                               wind catches lily
>                               scatt'ring petals to the wind:
>                               segmentation fault
>                               -- Nick Sweeney 
>
>
>
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   Bob
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