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Old Dec 5th, 2019, 22:40   #11
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what pikey wrench are you using. most 1/2 inch are 30 to 210nm
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what pikey wrench are you using. most 1/2 inch are 30 to 210nm
I have a Beta one that goes to 300 Nm, caravan hub nuts are 290Nm and it gets used to that every service of the caravan hubs/brakes. That one was £150.
There are Norbar ones that go that high also. All half inch drive.
The cheaper ones tend to be 30 to 230Nm, have a Draper one that cost me £42.that is in that range.

Technically a click wrench is a torque indicator, you can tighten past the click, a torque wrench breaks so that tightening above the set value is inpossible. That type of torque wrench tends to be expencive.

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...There are Norbar ones that go that high also. All half inch drive...
I have a diddly, little Norbar wrench that only goes to 20nm for doing up the head nuts on the Velo's, all 12ftlb. Not something to go tigher on
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I have a diddly, little Norbar wrench that only goes to 20nm for doing up the head nuts on the Velo's, all 12ftlb. Not something to go tigher on
My low range torque wrench is a 3/8 drive Britool that I baught in 1973 to tighten the cam shaft caps on my imp, 7 ftlb.

Are your velos water cooled? I remember an old chap used to run one back and forth to work when I was an apprentice, very quiet in comparison to the bsa bantams of the day.

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My low range torque wrench is a 3/8 drive Britool that I baught in 1973 to tighten the cam shaft caps on my imp, 7 ftlb.

Are your velos water cooled? I remember an old chap used to run one back and forth to work when I was an apprentice, very quiet in comparison to the bsa bantams of the day.

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No wonder those cam carrier nuts stripped , Torque is 6 lb/ft 🙄
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No wonder those cam carrier nuts stripped , Torque is 6 lb/ft 🙄
It was 40 years ago and Ive had a lot of sleeps since.
Yes you are right it was 6 ftlb. I did renew the nuts every time I set the tappets, turning the cam but hand with the head off the car made you realised they worked hard for a living so it was new when the job finished. 1/4 UNF if memory serves.
Still have a tobacco tin of shims somwhere in the shed, all thick ones of course. You could shave up to .015 inch off the top of the valve stem in extremis without cutting through the case hardened top of the stem. I had a mate who was a toolmaker and he surface ground the shims for me which was a whole lot easier.

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It was 40 years ago and Ive had a lot of sleeps since.
Yes you are right it was 6 ftlb. I did renew the nuts every time I set the tappets, turning the cam but hand with the head off the car made you realised they worked hard for a living so it was new when the job finished. 1/4 UNF if memory serves.
Still have a tobacco tin of shims somwhere in the shed, all thick ones of course. You could shave up to .015 inch off the top of the valve stem in extremis without cutting through the case hardened top of the stem. I had a mate who was a toolmaker and he surface ground the shims for me which was a whole lot easier.

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if you get down to needing a shim thinner than 0.075" there is a problem somewhere ! If you find the shims one day send them to me 🛠
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My low range torque wrench is a 3/8 drive Britool that I baught in 1973 to tighten the cam shaft caps on my imp, 7 ftlb.

Are your velos water cooled? I remember an old chap used to run one back and forth to work when I was an apprentice, very quiet in comparison to the bsa bantams of the day.

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No mine are all air cooled. The one you are thinking of is a Velo LE, often called a 'Noddy Bike' because the ploice used to use them. Great little bikes but boxy looking. A really low centre of gravity and with leg shields, they were very popular for a time.
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