New Girl sets up YouTube Channel

[tamsenuk]

Hi All,

As a new girl I wanted to share my Youtube channel about bike maintenance- I have uploaded almost 50 videos ranging on everything from oil change, spark plug, ride outs, near misses and snapped bolts... I welcome your thoughts and comments.

The 4000 Mile service playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-O-EAxOcOa_qjMuSHuNXaPcgweifakgu

Clutch Cable replacement
https://youtu.be/Ucw5VFXdny8

Front Caliper Removal and Clean
https://youtu.be/t0k8Tcm2F-8

Funny Female Mechanic Moment!
https://youtu.be/hleOVGC6gKc

[Oldie]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

If this was a bloke they would have been karma bombed to buggery by now.

Equal opportunities and that.
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[chris-red]

[tamsenuk]

Well at the time I had no concept of newton meters, now if it said 25 NM I could give it a good guess and know roughly when to stop, back then I blindly kept going. I am happy to put my mistakes in, it may help others learn and made the team at work laugh no end!

[RhynoCZ]

And that is exactly why you do not use a torque wrench when you've got no idea of what you are doing. The lever is quite big with this one, so over tightening stuff if you set the wrench wrong is very easy. By the way, the caliper is quite possibly made out of aluminium, so there shouldn't be that much of torque on the bolts anyway. I use a small ratchet wrench to tighten stuff like this and I can be sure that with a small wrench I can't generate so much torque I'd snap a bolt OR ruin the thread in the caliper.

With a small ratchet wrench you can be 100% sure you gave it enough torque, yet you won't be able to snap the bolt. If you snap the bolt with the small wrench, then you are not a human, or you're an arm-wrestling champ.
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[ScaredyCat]

[Rogerborg]

Basic, useful stuff, no drama, a pleasant voice, no five-quarter-turns-in-a-circle, what's not to like?

Torque wrench fail is the perfect example of why I use a deflecting beam wrench and some mechanical sympathy.
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[Robby]

Howto bike fixing videos without constant reference to Jesus. Refreshing.

However, stainless bolts holding a caliper in place, do not like.

[WD Forte]

I also thought "new member? youtube channel? THERE WILL BE BLOOD !!"
But no, the boys and girls are playing nice today, must have just been fed methinks.

Well done fessin up to that torque wrench cock up, we've all made 'orrible blunders at times
but "Bugger?" really? is that all?
I'd have gone into a foul mouthed rant, spat me dummy and flounced off in tears
like a REAL BIKER !
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[Rogerborg]

It's in the right section, descriptively titled, and delivers exactly what it promises. Doesn't leave much to rant about.
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[tamsenuk]

Got to be honest, I love the comments on the forum so far.

The torque wrench was HUGE! and yes since I have bought 2 more of much smaller size. The great thing about as I was learning, was that I was able to borrow tools and advice from a good friend and then buy the right kit I needed as I went along.

I didn't swear or storm off in the funny video, however, the bit that got taken out in edit is the good 5-6 minutes I sit quite still staring at the park that was broken, a mixture of 'bugger' and 'how the bloody-hell am I gonna sort this mess out!' (also getting security clearance to get a replacement M8 bolt from a friends workplace at 8pm at night so I would be able to ride to work the following morning... lol!)

I have been upgrading bolts as I go, I went for stainless for the anti rust properties, it rains quite a lot here and I figured I would be better off replacing the bolts once!

Thanks again for all the nice comments, I would welcome any video suggestions... (try and keep it clean lads...)

[Robby]

Stainless is good for not rusting, but it's harder and more brittle than mild steel - so more likely to snap/shear. Not a good thing on brakes Particularly bad when you consider that the time it is most likely to snap is when you suddenly put a large force on it, by braking very hard.

It's also a pain in the arse for reacting with alloy and making the alloy thread corrode, and difficult to drill out when it does snap off, but those problems show up more with exhaust header studs.

[Vincent]

The videos are slick..........maybe a bit rudimentary in subject......but clear and concise. It's a good idea to focus on the parts of a procedure that you may get stuck on........a seized bolt for eg .....as there's a good chance that this is where everyone else doing the same job will have probelems too.
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[MCN]

[MCN]

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I use a 3/8 drive Draper torque wrench on the discs' used a 1/4 drive on the cylinder head nuts of my Aprilia at the specified 19NM & 1 of the stud bolts spun round at 14NM cost me another engine case as fixing with a helicoil didn't work. from that moment i stopped using a torque wrench on cylinder nuts, i just do that part & set the squish by feel with a normal 1/4 ratchet

[MCN]

[tamsenuk]

https://youtu.be/LJYQYWDoRo0

Right, thats all 14 points of the 4000 mile service up. Hope you all enjoy.

Got to start working on the next set of videos now. I dropped my bike the other day- was GUTTED!! Video on fibre glass repair me thinks coming!

https://youtu.be/v8IDhcVoBzc

[Ste]

[J.M.]

[monkeybiker]

I don't bother with a torque wrench on small bolts and just go by feel. Never had a problem that way.

[FlightRisk]

I have that exact same torque wrench (presume it's the same one as in the Torque Check SV650... video), and to be honest I don't entirely trust it. Nearly did what you did to one of my spark plugs.

Vids. Good.
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[MCN]

The torque wrench range is what is important.
Because most rely on a spring they are only really accurate near the middle of the range where the spring force is more uniform.

More expensive tools use a better spring with a wider force range so can have a more accurate use between the top and bottom of their scale.

The most accurate wrenches use an electronic load-cell and those are subject to the same manufacturing restraints as spring models.
There are problems with digital tools but if you know those limits then they are fine.

For real accuracy, if you need to, a smaller wrench is the tool. And for 'small' bolts like those caliper bolts 3/8"drive is fine.

1/2drive are not as accurate for small bolts. If it's worth torquing then why use something that's going to be +- 5lbs/ft? MAy as well hoi it tight by hand.
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[ZRX61]

It kinda sounded like it clicked as soon as you moved it.
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