Tool notes
Longer reads on torque and lug nuts, grease guns and bleeding air, load ratings on glass and stone, and cordless batteries, each one written from the tool in hand and the sources we read.
Garage
The impact wrench loosens, the torque wrench finishes. Lug nut figures from the published charts, the four steps the tire trade teaches, and what breakaway torque really means.
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Farm and fleet
A refilled gun hisses and moves nothing until the air is out. The bleeding routine, what the pressure is for, and the injury hand surgeons see from grease guns.
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Glass and tile
A rating is a figure for a clean pad on a clean surface. How a cup holds, where the rating comes from, which surfaces leak, and what to check before the lift.
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Workshop
Charge above freezing, keep packs out of a hot cab, take them off the charger when full, and retire a pack that swells or smells. The battery rules, with sources.
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