Just make sure you tell your kid how much torque that cheater pipe produces. I may have overtightened my dad’s lug nuts with a cheater pipe that produced about 5000 lbs of torque at one time…
I dont have a problem with the hyperbole, just the incorrect units. As an engineer it bothers me and makes people sound like they dont know what they’re talking about even if they do.
I started to add another additional step where after having snapped the head off the bolt you had to drill and use a Ezout to remove the rest of the bolt.
You skipped a step where you put a cheater pipe on the breaker bar.
Just make sure you tell your kid how much torque that cheater pipe produces. I may have overtightened my dad’s lug nuts with a cheater pipe that produced about 5000 lbs of torque at one time…
torque has units of force times length so it would be inch pounds or foot pounds. failing to specify a length unit makes your statement make no sense.
I don’t remember, it was like a 5 and a half foot pipe, and this was almost 30 years ago
I dont have a problem with the hyperbole, just the incorrect units. As an engineer it bothers me and makes people sound like they dont know what they’re talking about even if they do.
I started to add another additional step where after having snapped the head off the bolt you had to drill and use a Ezout to remove the rest of the bolt.