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    SmartBolts Assure Perfect Tightness Every Time

    Finger Socket Set: Tight Bolts and Compound Fractures
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/06/08

    In reply to SmartBolts Assure Perfect Tightness Every Time
    This is good news for Dr. Frankenstein. Those periodic neck bolt tightening sessions his monster had to endure were getting to be, well, a real pain in the neck...
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    Image of orangebluedevil orangebluedevil
    12/05/08

    In reply to SmartBolts Assure Perfect Tightness Every Time
    Direct Tension Indicators (DTIs) have been around forever now. They squirt out a colored gel when the correct tension has been reached. Easy to see from afar that all bolts are the correct tension. Here's an animation. On the bottom right there's more videos.


    [www.appliedbolting.com]


    They are the same idea, but have normal lifetime.

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    12/05/08

    @orangebluedevil:


    except they wouldn't be able to show if a bolt has worked it's way lose....


    So like I said, not the same idea, but close. ?

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/06/08

    @orangebluedevil:
    They're also not reusable, meaning that you have to drop a new DTI in every time you need to unbolt and rebolt something, where these Smartbolts might very well return to yellow when you loosen them up, meaning you should then be able to retighten them to the same tightness.
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    Image of HawaiianActor HawaiianActor
    12/05/08

    In reply to SmartBolts Assure Perfect Tightness Every Time
    if green, red, and black are the options, why does the pic have a yellow one? what happens at yellow?


    (unless it is just my work computer monitor looking funny)

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    12/05/08

    @HawaiianActor: aaannd i am a dumbass for not reading the link... yellow is the starting color. go me!
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    Image of Tachyon0118 Tachyon0118
    12/05/08

    @HawaiianActor: THis is actually a slight misprint; There are two different products, one that is red when loose and black when tight enough, another that is yellow when loose, Green when tight enough, and blue/black when too tight.
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    Image of HawaiianActor HawaiianActor
    12/05/08

    @Tachyon0118: yea, i saw that after i commented the first time and read the links for more info. i was trigger happy with my comment!
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    Image of Jeff_McAwes0me Jeff_McAwes0me
    12/05/08

    In reply to SmartBolts Assure Perfect Tightness Every Time
    This is pretty cool, but you could achieve much better results with a torque wrench, and the bolts would last for more than 20 years to.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/06/08

    @Jeff_McAwes0me:
    They point out on the site that torque wrenches don't actually measure how tight the bolt is, just how hard it is to turn them. You also need all the correct torque information from the manufacturer, and you need to have pristine working conditions before you can expect them to accurately measure whether the bolt has been properly tightened or not. Plus you kinda need to know WTF you're doing with a torque wrench, enough room to manouver it, and you're pretty much screwed if you want to use a power driver of some sort.
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    Image of PocketLint PocketLint
    12/05/08

    In reply to SmartBolts Assure Perfect Tightness Every Time
    Self-sealing stem bolts, about time they made it into the general public.


    Without them how will Jake and Nog be able to trade the Lissepian freighter captain 100 gross self-sealing stem bolts for 5,000 wrappages of Cardassian yamok sauce?


    Oh xrap, now I relize why my last gf left me..

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    12/05/08

    @PocketLint: If I wasn't mesmerized by the 103 inch monitor here at the Gallery, you wouldn't have beat me to this comment.
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    12/05/08

    @PocketLint: Nice!

    Self-sealing Stem Bolts FTW!!
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    Image of gnagle26 gnagle26
    12/05/08

    In reply to SmartBolts Assure Perfect Tightness Every Time
    I thought skinny legs assured tightness every time??
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    12/06/08

    @gnagle26:
    Paris Hilton would disagree with you, if she weren't too busy sitting on watermelons.
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    Image of Mandatory_Field Mandatory_Field
    12/05/08

    In reply to SmartBolts Assure Perfect Tightness Every Time
    On the other hand, to hate fucking moving parts would just be wrong.
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    Image of BigDogues BigDogues
    12/05/08

    @Mandatory_Field: I believe you meant to say, to hate moving fucking parts would be just wrong.
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    12/05/08

    @BigDogues: either way, just as long as there's movement.
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    10/30/08

    In reply to Finger Socket Set: Tight Bolts and Compound Fractures
    the only way for us to use this is to have extremely strong wrists. so, uh, what kind of wrist exercises are available out there?
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    10/30/08

    @Anonymoose: Cracking open brewskis..
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    Image of beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid
    10/30/08

    @Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: For some reason I don't think that is what he was bating us with... :)
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    10/30/08

    @beekerstudios: Well you've got to hand it to him for trying...
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    10/30/08

    In reply to Finger Socket Set: Tight Bolts and Compound Fractures
    the only way i can see this working is if you attach it to your finger at a 90 degree angle from where it's shown. that way you can apply the torque by curling your finger and just moving your arm slightly. the way it's shown would only work if you had the space to swing your arm around, in which case it'd just be easier to use a real socket wrench that also has a ratcheting mechanism.
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    10/30/08

    @stre: Or you could just use your other hand..
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    Image of godwhacker, your incandescent leader! godwhacker, your incandescent leader!
    10/30/08

    In reply to Finger Socket Set: Tight Bolts and Compound Fractures
    not really a socket, but something to hold a nut with while you thread the bolt into it. it would be useful when you are working blind under a ledge. or inside of a washing machine.
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    Image of DeLarge DeLarge
    10/30/08

    @godwhacker:


    I think you are correct, its a nut holder (no pun intended, ... well, actually yes).


    It would be complete if there is an attachment to hold the nut at the tip of your finger.

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    10/30/08

    @DeLarge: Isn't your hand one of those already?
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