WTDist wrote:Yea FSD ones are good, Ive had others that like to cross thread under pressure. Not fun taking them apart with a hack saw. brand new 2" cross threaded the other day sitting overnight. was good one day shit the next after sitting :naughty:
My FSD ones never do that
WTDist wrote:set up the pot in the post the other day to water test it for leaks. left it st over 2 nights. tried to get it off and the bugger was cross threaded. went on perfectly fine, did up tight with some multi grips no probs at all, perfectly actually. then was cross threaded when i tried to remove 2 mornings later. got maybe 4 or 5 turns before i couldnt go anymore but as soon as i tried to get it off i new :angry-banghead: . . its one with a hole in the nut so there is less grip on the nut to the bolt putting more pressure on the thread that is on it.
macs go all the way through with more thread length/ contact or something. the ones with hole in them have half i would say.
its like a nut that's twice as short as another has half the strength or something.
EziTasting wrote:I'm sorry for your misfortune, but I've never used anything but my fingers to tighten our tri-clamps... We have no leaks so I'm wondering why you'd need to use Multi-grips?!?
Should I be using something to tighten out clamps more than what we are doing currently?
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