You'll break something, but it may not be the Loctite. My boat's impeller gets locked on with Red. The threads are maybe 3/4". I have to remove it to overhaul the bearings. Without using the torch, I would definitely do some damage.

That was more or less my point. But 35mm is approximately 1-3/8", which is significantly larger than 3/4". Still, I have no experience with red Loctite on large threads.

 

All I know is that my impeller easy to turn when hot, and darn near impossible when cold. It's a fine thread with a lot of turns, and I can feel the Loctite cool off and cause it to be very difficult to budge with a normal socket wrench. Another touch of the torch, and it spins easy again. It's remarkable.

 

Verry interesting comments on red Loc-tite. In this case, a drive shaft spline is driving a disk brake hub. You must know it gets too hot to touch on an average day...hot enough to smell it burning off any misplaced oils on a bad day.

I don't think the nut can back off by itself, any way. I think it's just Ford Lawyers writing the shop manual. Nobody but the Ford factory has a 200 ft-lb continuous movement nut driver. The rules are impossible for nearly everybody. So, I guess I'll be a bit stingy with the Ny-loc substitute called red Loc-tite.

 

I remember buying some basic HF drill bits. I tried to use it on steel and it twisted.

I received a drill kit as a gift. Sharpest drills I ever saw, but the first time I tried to hog out a hole in a wooden 4x4, the bit snapped off. I think this is a case of too hard, to the point of brittle. So, that kit now works with the drill press where there are very small lateral forces.

 

Isn't the main purpose for a propane torch to heat up nuts that have been put on with red loctite?

 

Isn't the main purpose for a propane torch to heat up nuts that have been put on with red loctite?

That's probably the best purpose, but the main purpose is to burn the insulation off the wiring harness.

 

And to light your rafters on fire when you're trying to sweat copper pipe in a tight squeeze.

 

Isn't the main purpose for a propane torch to heat up nuts that have been put on with red loctite?

Or one's that are rusted up and seized, then give them a shot with WD40 or equivalent!
Max.

 

Just hang a luggage scales on the end of the extension. 34lb pull on the scales x 6ft = 204lb.ft. Simple.

At first I thought, "Why tell me? I know how to calibrate a torque wrench." Then I checked the price. $80 for the wrench to tighten 2 nuts!
I think I'll go with (4) one gallon jugs of water at 6 feet of radius.

 

I think I'll go with (4)

Is it really that simple? I mean, don't professional torque wrenches 'click' when its set torque has been reached, and by doing so, adds one final push to the nut that breaks the static friction in the thread, allowing it to rest properly?

 

Is it really that simple? I mean, don't professional torque wrenches 'click' when its set torque has been reached, and by doing so, adds one final push to the nut that breaks the static friction in the thread, allowing it to rest properly?

I don't think so.
But, yes. It is that simple. 8.333 pounds times 4 gallons times 6 feet is 200 ft-lbs of torque. Physics 101
There is no magic in this.
The click is a release, not a boost.

 

#12, There was a film made in 1942 about a very powerful wrench; The Torque Of The Town.

 

#12, There was a film made in 1942 about a very powerful wrench; The Torque Of The Town.

If I was in 1942, I would borrow it.

 

Is it really that simple? I mean, don't professional torque wrenches 'click' when its set torque has been reached, and by doing so, adds one final push to the nut that breaks the static friction in the thread, allowing it to rest properly?

Here is toy clicker to make that noise when you get to the right torque.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lady-Bug-Ti...054889?hash=item236a1bb069:g:ixEAAOSwoJZXRpqq

@#12

 

Here is toy clicker to make that noise when you get to the right torque.
@#12

Not needed. My knees click when I get to 200 ft-lbs.

 

Not needed. My knees click when I get to 200 ft-lbs.

And my shoulders do the same too... but at 12 N-m ... they work in the metric system, see...

 

And my shoulders do the same too... but at 12 N-m ... they work in the metric system, see...

Damn imported cars and their SI units.

 

Damn imported cars and their SI units.

Just out of curiosity, Gopher... do you realize how many countries in the world are still working in imperial units?

 

Just out of curiosity, Gopher... do you realize how many countries in the world are still working in imperial units?

Three.5?

You've got the US, Liberia (established by the US), Myanmar (aka, "the country formerly known as Burma"), and the UK where they like to say they are metric but still sell stakes by the pound, beer by pints and the speedometer of cars are still in miles-per-hour - other than than, they are "metric". But I think the weather is still reported in degrees-F last time I was there.

 

Now now now... no need to get violent here... why bring the sacred pints of beer into the argument???