My torque wrench is bigger than yours

[navymech]

Besides the guys at work, I thought you all might appreciate this. Saw it on CL and couldn't resist. Who doesn't need a ridiculously large torque wrench?

Utica 1000 ft lb dial torque wrench. 1" drive. From what I've read, it's made by Apex here in the land of the free

Pictures of course:

 

[north]

Right on. Should be able to tighten those lug nuts just so.

I agree, a must have when the opportunity arises.

 

[eddie_fl]

That's big. We use a 3/4 that goes to 600ft and sometimes that isn't enough so we use a 3/4 - 1" multiplier to get to our required 1600ft/lbs.

 

[navymech]

That's big. We use a 3/4 that goes to 600ft and sometimes that isn't enough so we use a 3/4 - 1" multiplier to get to our required 1600ft/lbs.

What do you work on? I'm a helicopter powerplants mech, and the biggest one we use is a Snap On 120-600 ft lbs, and really that's only for attaching rotor blades... can't really think of anything else a 50-250 doesn't work for.

 

[kenburkholz]

The head bolts on 5,000 HP stationary engines was 1,600 ft lbs. we used a 1" drive torque wrench, with a toque multiplier. Ken.

 

[zkling]

What are you going to use it for?

 

[Rakoprtr]

That's pretty sweet I wish I had that in my box just to see the look on someone's face when they wanna borrow a torque wrench for plugs or something and I bust that out

 

[Farmall450]

Right on. Should be able to tighten those lug nuts just so.

I agree, a must have when the opportunity arises.

W/in 10-15 ft lbs

 

[navymech]

What are you going to use it for?

Nothing practical I can assure you lol

 

[zkling]

Anyone know what those large nuts at the base of tall highway lights are torqued to?

 

[bob15]

That wrench is from the Triangle Tool days (Utica & Bonney). Apex is NC, and Triangle was SC.

 

[navymech]

That wrench is from the Triangle Tool days (Utica & Bonney). Apex is NC, and Triangle was SC.

Interesting. I was wondering about the SC location named on the face... certainly haven't been able to find much information at all about this wrench.

 

[brownbagg]

my torque wrenches go up to 750 lbs, i pull around 450 most of the time. I got three of them. they are about 40 inches long. Mine are proto. I use them to check bolts on bldgs.

 

[Steinmetz]

Interesting. I was wondering about the SC location named on the face... certainly haven't been able to find much information at all about this wrench.

I own a Utica torque wrench like yours, but 3/4 inch drive to 350 ft.-lbs. torque. These tools are bulletproof, much like the old Snap-On Torqometers (not the newer CDI-made ones, which are pieces of ****, in my estimation).

 

[eddie_fl]

What do you work on? I'm a helicopter powerplants mech, and the biggest one we use is a Snap On 120-600 ft lbs, and really that's only for attaching rotor blades... can't really think of anything else a 50-250 doesn't work for.

Stabilizer fins for yachts.

These are the smaller fins that require 320, but the larger fins require 1400

 

[just a noob]

What do you work on? I'm a helicopter powerplants mech, and the biggest one we use is a Snap On 120-600 ft lbs, and really that's only for attaching rotor blades... can't really think of anything else a 50-250 doesn't work for.

Gang bolts on a disk harrow

 

[rlebroke51]

our truck tires at work are torqued to 550ft/lb

 

[oldldh]

I thought those big dudes were for Dental Implants....

We used to torque the Tower Mounts on the 1,200 ft tall, 1-Mega Pound (always wanted to write that!!!), Survivable Low Frequency Communications System Antenna at Silver Creek AFS, Nebraska to 750 ft/lbs....

(I'm old...my "ft" come before my "lbs"!!!)

 

[navymech]

This one is 51" long with both extension bars attached.

You guys have some crazy numbers though. I've got to try and find something I can torque with this thing... I can't think of anything I have easy access to that would be able to withstand anything close to the upper range. I mean, the tiny lines are in 20 ft/lb increments, so how accurate can you really be using a dial wrench with this kind of range?

 

[Professur]

I thought those big dudes were for Dental Implants....

We used to torque the Tower Mounts on the 1,200 ft tall, 1-Mega Pound (always wanted to write that!!!), Survivable Low Frequency Communications System Antenna at Silver Creek AFS, Nebraska to 750 ft/lbs....

(I'm old...my "ft" come before my "lbs"!!!)

Don't you mean 1-Kilo pound?

 

[zengarage]

The funny thing is that when the 1" won't do I go to the hydraulic torque wrench which is actually quite a bit smaller.

 

[Steinmetz]

I thought those big dudes were for Dental Implants....

We used to torque the Tower Mounts on the 1,200 ft tall, 1-Mega Pound (always wanted to write that!!!), Survivable Low Frequency Communications System Antenna at Silver Creek AFS, Nebraska to 750 ft/lbs....

(I'm old...my "ft" come before my "lbs"!!!)

That would be 750 FT.-LBS. Not "ft/lbs.".

 

[shanker]

we've got MUCH bigger Proto units than that on Drilling Rigs....but I don't know what they use them for...they use Hydraulic Torque wrenches for BOP's and stuff like that.

 

[oldldh]

Don't you mean 1-Kilo pound?

Nope---

A 1,000,000 pound solid copper antenna is 1 mega-pound....

1,200 ft high...had an elevator going all the way to the top...

The tuning coil, on the bottom of the antenna, was 6" diameter copper pipe, held in place with WOODEN nuts and bolts...

Transmitter put out 100Kw...

Amazing stuff, for 60's technology...

 

[Professur]

Sweet

 

[Charles (in GA)]

Besides the guys at work, I thought you all might appreciate this. Saw it on CL and couldn't resist. Who doesn't need a ridiculously large torque wrench?

Utica 1000 ft lb dial torque wrench. 1" drive. From what I've read, it's made by Apex here in the land of the free

I'll bet that one was made way before Utica became part of Danaher/Cooper/Apex whatever it is.

My big one is a 370-1100 lb/ft clicker made by Norbar. It is 3/4 drive but the head could be converted to 1" drive with new innards in the head. 81 inches with the handle extension installed.

Charles

 

[navymech]

I'll bet that one was made way before Utica became part of Danaher/Cooper/Apex whatever it is.

My big one is a 370-1100 lb/ft clicker made by Norbar. It is 3/4 drive but the head could be converted to 1" drive with new innards in the head. 81 inches with the handle extension.

You have me beat by 30"

Click types don't seem too crazy at these high torques, but I'm just thinking about this being a dial... If I were checking run off torque with limits between say 6-900 ft lbs, I don't know how I would read the dial at that moment if I were by myself. It's just so huge and such a high torque it seems real awkward to use for the situations you would be using a dial wrench for.

 

[BullfrogJohnson]

Nice find! We have several 1" torque wrenches in the tool room at work but they have been collecting dust since we got hytorq's.

 

[Steinmetz]

Nope---

A 1,000,000 pound solid copper antenna is 1 mega-pound....

1,200 ft high...had an elevator going all the way to the top...

The tuning coil, on the bottom of the antenna, was 6" diameter copper pipe, held in place with WOODEN nuts and bolts...

Transmitter put out 100Kw...

Amazing stuff, for 60's technology...

Small time stuff (LOL). Check out the Jim Creek Navy Radio Station near my home. 1.2 MW at 24.8kHz.