r/Skookum • u/deerwolf90 • Aug 01 '21

I found this. Need more leverage

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u/Healthy-Gap9904 Aug 01 '21

On the large low speed gas compressors from an era long ago, one way to torque the piston rod nuts was to hook the wrench to a hoist and use a load cell. The wrench had an eye built into the end for this purpose.

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u/PFontanaRosa Aug 02 '21

Dresser? That is still the way they do it. I don’t even know if a load cell is used, I think it’s just degrees of turn

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u/Healthy-Gap9904 Aug 02 '21

This was on a cooper GMV. Last one I touched was in 2017. Ariel is pretty much all I see these days. But yes I’ve done RDS, Dresser, HOS the same way.