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Posted: **Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:20 pm**

I have easily over $2500 in tools. I buy them as I need them, which is usually when a boyfriend leaves to replace what I originally had.

I always get a manual for each bike I get as well.

Posted: **Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:01 pm**

muz wrote:hey Skier, can you give me some tips on your homemade carb-balancer? got a pic, or a link?

Yeah, in a few days I can post pictures and a guide. Stupid school!

Posted: **Sun Mar 20, 2005 8:16 pm**

All my tools are hammers and rasps. If it won't bang into place, file on it til it does. Oh yes, anybody ever seen a Vise-Grip torque wrench?

Actually, I would estimate I have about $10k in hand tools, plus another thou in electrics. I have never held back on buying tools when I need 'em.

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:00 am**

heheh I have something like your vice-grip torque-wrench John. funny how the most valuable tools are the ones you make yourself

Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:56 am**

down here we dont fool with them store bought tork renchs we just take a bolt and tighten it as tight as it will possibly go then another round and a half.

Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2005 2:28 pm**

9000white wrote:down here we dont fool with them store bought tork renchs we just take a bolt and tighten it as tight as it will possibly go then another round and a half.

So do you use German specs for tightening bolts (gutten-tight) or the "ratchet down until it snaps, then back off a half turn" approach?

Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:42 pm**

Tools scare me

Snap on owns me

I'll never get all this stuff paid for, got more $$$$ in tools than I have in my home.

I'm so nuts that I even have tools that I invented and then fabricated.

It's a sickness,,,,, HHHEEELLLLLLPPPPPPP

Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:49 pm**

Skier wrote:
9000white wrote:down here we dont fool with them store bought tork renchs we just take a bolt and tighten it as tight as it will possibly go then another round and a half.

So do you use German specs for tightening bolts (gutten-tight) or the "ratchet down until it snaps, then back off a half turn" approach

duuhhhh...what are specs????

Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:27 pm**

9000white wrote:down here we dont fool with them store bought tork renchs we just take a bolt and tighten it as tight as it will possibly go then another round and a half.

That's not how you do it.

Everyone knows you tighten it 'till it gets loose again, then back it off a quarter turn.

Posted: **Fri Apr 01, 2005 2:52 am**

I generally go for, tighten it, till the end breaks off, then shout a bit