Torque wrench question

[Alpha5717]

Torque spec for the castle nut is 38-42 foot/pounds. Set your wrench to 40ft/lbs and you’ll be fine, even if the wrench is off a little one way or the other.

I use a mix of Tekton and Snap-On foot/pound torque wrenches, and I use the Tekton the most.

I recommend a torque wrench because one person’s “snug” and another’s can be wildly different. I’ve had parts that folks put on “snugly” that I ended up having to apply Kroil and heat, and even cut off, to remove.

Get a wrench an do it correctly, or take it to someone that can.

Would you use a 3/8ths or 1/2" torque wrench? I was going to take it to someone who could snug up the buffer tube stake the castle nut. It's literally a ten minute job. Some guy in the Gwinnett area quoted me $70. Multiply that by four weapons and that works out to $280 an hour. My career path is obvious.

 

[jpm2953]

Would you use a 3/8ths or 1/2" torque wrench? I was going to take it to someone who could snug up the buffer tube stake the castle nut. It's literally a ten minute job. Some guy in the Gwinnett area quoted me $70. Multiply that by four weapons and that works out to $280 an hour. My career path is obvious.

That puts you in the range of a 3/8”….. usually.

 

[BigMike]

One of the few times I've been in HF, a employee at the register told a man in front of me not to buy his torque wrench because they were junk. Couldn't believe he said that.

Just about everything there is junk.

 

[Fatal_Bert]

Would you use a 3/8ths or 1/2" torque wrench? I was going to take it to someone who could snug up the buffer tube stake the castle nut. It's literally a ten minute job. Some guy in the Gwinnett area quoted me $70. Multiply that by four weapons and that works out to $280 an hour. My career path is obvious.

Your simple math is looking at it from a employees perspective. Go buy/rent a shop, buy all the business licensing, buy thousands in tools and equipment, pay all the utility bills for said business each month, then you'll see nobody is getting rich charging $70 for a simple "10 minute job".

 

[cmshoot]

Would you use a 3/8ths or 1/2" torque wrench? I was going to take it to someone who could snug up the buffer tube stake the castle nut. It's literally a ten minute job. Some guy in the Gwinnett area quoted me $70. Multiply that by four weapons and that works out to $280 an hour. My career path is obvious.

I can't see it making enough of a difference. I use a 1/2"

 

[Gunanddoglover]

Would you use a 3/8ths or 1/2" torque wrench? I was going to take it to someone who could snug up the buffer tube stake the castle nut. It's literally a ten minute job. Some guy in the Gwinnett area quoted me $70. Multiply that by four weapons and that works out to $280 an hour. My career path is obvious.

Go to Home Depot and buy a torque wrench.

 

[palmettomoon]

Your simple math is looking at it from a employees perspective. Go buy/rent a shop, buy all the business licensing, buy thousands in tools and equipment, pay all the utility bills for said business each month, then you'll see nobody is getting rich charging $70 for a simple "10 minute job".

 

[Alpha5717]

Your simple math is looking at it from a employees perspective. Go buy/rent a shop, buy all the business licensing, buy thousands in tools and equipment, pay all the utility bills for said business each month, then you'll see nobody is getting rich charging $70 for a simple "10 minute job".

You have to remember that when I was growing up we had a LOT of people that made a good living off of fixing small things for a reasonable fee. Back then, not everybody expected to get rich. I have most of the tools it would take to work on an AR to do 90 percent of all repairs. That's less than 2 grand in tools.

 

[palmettomoon]

You have to remember that when I was growing up we had a LOT of people that made a good living off of fixing small things for a reasonable fee. Back then, not everybody expected to get rich. I have most of the tools it would take to work on an AR to do 90 percent of all repairs. That's less than 2 grand in tools.

And when I was growing up people didn't have to do crazy financing to buy a house, spend 8 years paying off a car or surrendering more than half of their earnings to a bloated, wasteful set of local, state and federal governments. Complying with governmental mandates including zoning, permitting, etc., is a costly bloody nightmare.

Nobody is getting rich charging a nominal fee to torque a castle nut. The shop owner has to go get his jig to hold your rifle, set it in the vise, clean the parts, go fetch the torque wrench, do the work so the owner doesn't freak out and start whining about it not being done "to my expectations!" and then he gets to clean up and put everything away. Unless he is waiting on that type of job every day and has all his shyte set up, you're probably looking at an hour where this is what the gunsmiff is doing, instead of working on jobs that are ALREADY on his desk/worktable with a customer waiting months.

Take your boom stick with the loose castle nut to Comradski Biden's Socialist Gunsmiff Institute and they may give you quick, effective and free or reduced cost service.

 

[Fatal_Bert]

You have to remember that when I was growing up we had a LOT of people that made a good living off of fixing small things for a reasonable fee. Back then, not everybody expected to get rich. I have most of the tools it would take to work on an AR to do 90 percent of all repairs. That's less than 2 grand in tools.

Yeah, a gunsmith back then would probably charge $10 for a job like that. And the price of gas, groceries, and his mortgage was about 1/7th the price too. Math is hard.

For most my customers I'd just handle something like that for free. But if someone I don't know called and wanted a quote it would be $60. That's just a my minimum for any job, and he's probably the same way.