Shoutout to the old-timer at the hangar in Tucson who said he never uses a torque wrench on bleed valves

He told me, 'You feel the crush washer seat, then it's just a quarter-turn more, and I've done it that way for 40 years on Cessnas without a single leak,' which finally made me stop over-tightening and stripping the threads.

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karent7526d ago

But what if that old-timer just got lucky for four decades?

gavine4126d ago

Lol that's the kind of wisdom that costs you a few stripped threads to learn. I definitely went through a phase of thinking tighter was always better.