Agreed. I wasn't disagreeing with you at all - it's a legit problem that shops do this. My point was that it would be easy enough to use an appropriate impact wrench to remove the lug nuts -and- to install them if it's designed to only spin them until they bottom out without applying a few hundred pounds of force to the lug nuts. Then you could just set it down and torque to spec without going through the hassle of bottoming the lug nut.
Oh yeah, absolutely. I've got a similar setting on my Flex impact that's super handy. I recently had an argument with my girlfriend's brother and father about not using an impact to torque wheels down, so I'm a little touchy still, sorry. "Torque specs don't mean ****" was about where we got with that.
Plugged the flat tire and pumped it up. Seems to be holding pressure. I hope it's okay, they're Michelins, not even a year old.
Also bought a proper x-form lug wrench and found a 3' piece of pipe just the right diameter to use as an OOOMPH! with the wrench. Tried to remove one of the lug nuts on the tire that's now on the axle. The pipe was needed to get enough leverage...I appreciate the guy who replaced the tire, but apparently he didn't understand that "proper torque" doesn't mean "tighten until you'd need Superman to loosen it."
What's behind it? Will you be painting that wall? The pleated filter will stop most of the paint, nearly all, but not necessarily absolutely all, I would think. I would expect the fan to need cleaning once in a while, and some paper on the wall behind couldn't hurt.
now need to get a pleated filter to put in front of the fan and a light.
And now and then the nuts don't break free before the lugs break off. I wouldn't mind the overtorquing quite so much if they'd just take the extra moment to put a dab of grease on the threads.
That carries the added risk of contaminating the mating surfaces between the lugnut and rim, plus from my understanding the torque specs are typically defined by manufactures for dry threads. It's probably fine if you're conscious about it and check in on your lugs from time to time, but I've always heard that refered to as a big no-no. I've never had an issue with locked up lugs when torqued to spec, but I swap them at least once a year for snows so maybe they don't get a chance to really seize up over time.
Depending on how strong you are you may or may not be over torqueing the lug and uneven torqueing is as bad as over/under torqueing. Uneven torque puts one lug under higher tension than the rest which can lead to failure, lug nuts should be evenly torqued. A decent torque wrench will cost less than I motor. I use the Tekton brand sold by Amazon and when they have been checked with a calibration tester (at work, I dont own one) they were consistently within 3-4% of the set value which is good.
I've got a partial roll of brown paper I used to cover my build table when I assembled subwoofers so I'm cutting a piece of that off taping it to the top brace under the Shelf and going to let it hang down to protect the wall from any overspray that might be ejected out the back.
Laptop cooling fan? Good idea! I made a cardboard spray paint booth and did the ol' air filter in front of fan thing as well, tho they were two cheap box fans cuz...rattle cans. I yank one of those fans and use it for the wind tunnel tooairbrush spray booth-collapsible
now need to get a pleated filter to put in front of the fan and a light.
I needed it to be a shallow of a fan as possible and that fit the bill.
That's a handy app.
