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April 12th, 2008

unixronin: Closed double loop of rotating gears (Gearhead)
Saturday, April 12th, 2008 07:38 pm

Things that suck:

Thinking you broke your torque wrench, while using it to try to loosen overtorqued lug bolts because it's the longest lever arm you have.  (Subsequently, I went and bought a new Kobalt-brand half-inch-square-drive breaker bar and fitted an extra 24" extension onto the handle, giving me better than a three-foot lever arm.  That finally did the trick.)

Things that puzzle you:

"Wait a minute.  I could swear I saw the case for this torque wrench in the storage cupboard down in the garage, which I can't get into right now because there's stuff stacked in front of it."

Happy things:

When you finally get enough stuff organized and moved to get into the storage cupboard, find the torque wrench case, open it ... and find the GOOD Utica torque wrench that you'd forgotten you had, which you bought as a replacement when the ratchet on the cheap Taiwanese one started slipping.

(This time, I threw the cheap broken one away.  "Won't get fooled again...")

In other news, with the assistance of a chain hoist and a strap hoist (both loaned by a friend), we finally got the 600lb safe moved to its intended location on the third floor of the new house, enabling us to move three desks, three computers and a laser printer into their intended positions.  Progress Is.