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Finally broke down and bought a proper torque multiplier for the shop
It was one of those jobs on a big rig's hub where the spec is 500 ft-lbs and my 1-inch gun just couldn't get there without heating up. I dropped about $850 on a 4:1 ratio unit. The first time I used it on a stubborn axle nut, it spun it off like it was nothing, saved me probably two hours of fighting with a cheater bar. But now I'm finding I need a whole new set of sockets that fit the square drive, which is another couple hundred bucks. Has anyone else found a good workaround for the socket issue, or did you just bite the bullet and buy the set?
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kaid591mo ago
Wait, you think a cheater bar and some heat is a free solution? That's a good way to get hurt or break something else. My time is worth more than that, and fighting a stuck nut for two hours is miserable. The multiplier pays for itself by not wrecking my back.
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grace_allen1mo ago
Honestly sounds like a waste of money to me. You already spent a ton on the tool itself. A cheater bar and some heat would have gotten that nut off for free. Now you're stuck buying more stuff just to use it. That's how they get you, selling you the solution to a problem you made. Should have just borrowed a bigger gun from another shop.
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