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SpartanPride
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After seeing a handful of busted domes I've been waking up thinking mine is about to commit suicide. How often do you tighten the bolts down? Is this an annual thing or something you need to do often? I'm still within year one of egging and wanted to see how often you should do this. Thanks, I appreciate the forum. Great info (and quite entertaining today!). Thanks!
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You should check them after a few cooks and do that two or three times. Then just a couple times a year afterward. I actually checked mine this weekend and all was good.
Damascus, VA. Friendliest town on the Appalachian Trail.
LBGE Aug 2012, SBGE Feb 2014
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I do it every so often... Esp after doing different temp cooks over a few daysMSV Chill Spot
Chester County, PA
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I check it a couple times a year. 10lbs of torque measured by a $20 torque wrench I got at Harbor frieght.Maumelle, Arkansas
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Randy1 said:I check it a couple times a year. 10lbs of torque measured by a $20 torque wrench I got at Harbor frieght.
Nice. I'll try that. I also don't want to go too tight as when I searched I saw some others that we're breaking them off. Thanks. -
I've never checked mine and they are fine after 5 years. Use it 2-3 times a week year around.Dan, Columbia,Mo.
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I said this a year ago. But if anyone's local to me, aiken,sc, I have a torque wrench and I'll check yours.
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Same as the bikes, once a year in Spring.BrandonQuad Cities
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After I tightened mine so that the bolts bent I then ran another nut up against the first. That is an old mechanics trick called double nutting. I haven't checked in years since I have never seen a problem...I'm dead serious!Re-gasketing America one yard at a time.
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I used to double nut when I was younger....
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Why did anyone ever say youth was wasted on the young?nolaegghead said:I used to double nut when I was younger....
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I'm proud...to be a double nutter; but still check annually along with the testicular cancer check.BrandonQuad Cities
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Some times you feel like a nut...
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Double nutting works good. You should try it @SpartanPride it'll help ya sleep at night!NW IOWA
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Well gosh. Bless the Interwebs!
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Ahh, perspective...
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You just made that Japanese!
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haha...except in the first one he just fertilized a pack of prom queens.
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Good pull, nola.
I have that on CD. Cerwin Vega made me a very happy teenager in high school with 6.5s and a 12 inch sub. How sub-versive of me while parked next to St. Timothys.
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Which one did you buy?Randy1 said:I check it a couple times a year. 10lbs of torque measured by a $20 torque wrench I got at Harbor frieght.#1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February 2013 • #3 Mini May 2013A happy BGE family in Houston, TX. -
@caliking Pittsburg I believe.....works like a champ. It has a lifetime warranty. I doubt it will see enough action to use the warranty.Maumelle, Arkansas
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@Randy1 - sorry I meant to ask which size - 1/2"?#1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February 2013 • #3 Mini May 2013A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
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