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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
12/06/08

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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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orangebluedevil
12/05/08

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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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orangebluedevil
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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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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HawaiianActor
12/05/08

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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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HawaiianActor
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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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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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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Jeff_McAwes0me
12/05/08

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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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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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PocketLint
12/05/08

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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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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
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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strider_mt2k
12/05/08

@PocketLint: Nice!

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

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I thought skinny legs assured tightness every time??
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Purple Dave
12/06/08

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

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On the other hand, to hate fucking moving parts would just be wrong.
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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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Mandatory_Field
12/05/08

@BigDogues: either way, just as long as there's movement.
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