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Overheard a guy at the Port of Tacoma say he never checks his cutterhead bolts until something sounds off. That's a scary way to run a machine.
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the_riley1mo ago
My own rule is to check them right after I finish saying "it's probably fine." Gracej99 has the right idea about it being a safety thing too. That weird sound is the last piece of good news you'll get before a very bad, very expensive day. A few minutes with a torque wrench beats waiting for the machine to tell you it's broken in a really loud way.
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the_ben1mo ago
My old foreman at the shipyard had a rule about cutterhead bolts. We did a torque check every 250 hours, no matter what. Waiting for a weird sound means you're already in failure mode, and on that gear, a loose bolt can turn into a thrown blade real fast. It's just cheap insurance against a ten thousand dollar repair.
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