I’m a DIYer and love working on equipment and I’ve got a two-part question: are there particular jobs that home mechanics mess up that y’all end up having to fix later? If so, what things are usually wrong with what the DIYer did or missed that they should have done or should’ve done differently?
98% of my sheared bolts are from torque wrench misuse… “Hmmm this doesn’t feel right but it hasn’t clicked yet”
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
I’ve done this on my own designs. Never done it with anything that had a torque spec, but I made the mistake of looking at the wrong table for the wrong metal and stripped the threads right out of something I’d tapped. I felt like an idiot afterwards. :P