Old timer at the shop set me straight on torque seal application

Had a lead inspector at Delta pull me aside last month after my shift. He pointed out I was putting torque seal on before torquing the fastener instead of after. Told me I was just painting marks instead of actually verifying anything. Changed my whole process that day and been doing it right ever since. Anybody else had a simple correction like that totally change how they work?

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the_phoenix22d ago

Hold up. I'm actually gonna push back on this one a bit. In my experience, putting the torque seal on before torquing can work just fine if you know what you're doing and use it as a visual reference for final position, not a verification of torque. Telling a guy he's "just painting marks" is a bit dramatic, honestly. The real point of torque seal is to show if something moved after the fact, and whether you put it on before or after the final torque, you can still see if the fastener rotated. Also, there are plenty of torque-to-yield fasteners where you're more concerned about angle than final torque anyway, and the seal is just an extra check. Your mileage may vary, but this sounds like one of those "this is how we've always done it" rules that gets passed down without much thought.

uma_nguyen2422d ago

Putting it on after means you're actually marking the real final position instead of guessing where it ended up.