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dolfinwriter
Oct 28, 2020Explorer
JIMNLIN wrote:
I used my 24" adjustable wrench and a four foot 1 1/2" sch 40 pipe...then jumped on it with my 220 lbs.
Working at the C-17 Tulsa mod center in '97. One big mil spec bolt into the wing spar had a 3400 ft lb torque. It took three 6' plus husky guys with a six foot 2" pipe on a torque multiplier to get'r done. The bolt could only be reached on top of the wing out on the very leading edge. Luckily I wasn't 6' tall.
I won't give numbers, but the torque required for head bolts on a submarine nuclear reactor cannot be reached without thermal changes, and normally only done in a shipyard.
Boeing didn't provide appropriate tools to do this wing job?
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