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Tools and Balancers 900 1995

posted by  spook on  Wed Dec 28 09:07 CST 2011
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Dear RepairmanJack,

Hope you're well. As you have the ear of the relevant folks at IPD, suggest they get take one of these tools, and find out if the steel has been properly heat-treated. The bending suggests the steel is "soft". Heat-treating adds hardness and springiness. If the steel indeed is "soft", then heat-treating might suffice to make this tool serviceable.

IPD might know a firm, that does heat-treating. Or, the tool's maker might be able to do that, or to have it done.

A heat-treated version should be tested, by going to a salvage yard, and deliberately torquing a B230 crank bolt, to say, 150 pound-feet (the maximum on most shade-tree mechanics' torque wrenches). If a heat-treated version doesn't bend when the bolt is torqued to 150 pound-feet - and when the bolt is loosened after having been so much over-tightened - then the tool should be serviceable.

Hope this helps.

Yours faithfully,

Spook






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