hobbsy
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| posted on 19/4/11 at 08:07 AM |
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where to buy "torque marker pens"?
I'm not sure of the proper name for these which isn't helping. You use them to put a line across nuts or bolts to see if they are coming
undone. Most the ones I've seen in photos are Orange but what are they called and where do you buy them.
I've been doing the locost version by using tippex but if the proper stuff isn't much more I'd like that.
Clearly its not a substitute for correct torque and appropriate locking methods!
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Craigman9
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| posted on 19/4/11 at 08:11 AM |
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At work we just use paint marker pens (yellow), they work nicely 
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ReMan
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| posted on 19/4/11 at 08:14 AM |
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I just used nail varnish, handy applicator in bottle and lots of colours.
I think I chose hot lips 
www.plusnine.co.uk
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hobbsy
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| posted on 19/4/11 at 08:15 AM |
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The proper pens have a very fine nib though and give a far neater and more accurate line
But if they are silly money I won't bother!
[Edited on 19/4/11 by hobbsy]
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jollygreengiant
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| posted on 19/4/11 at 08:25 AM |
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I used to use Tipex. Also good for timing marks.
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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Bumble
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| posted on 19/4/11 at 08:35 AM |
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I used this stuff.......
Torque Seal - LEMON colour used on fittings,studs,nuts. | eBay UK
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hobbsy
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| posted on 19/4/11 at 08:44 AM |
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That's the stuff I was thinking of, just didn't know the name. Now found posts on here that are 5 years old asking similar questions!
Typical that its about a fiver here but under 2 dollars in the states (where it comes from I guess)
http://www.skygeek.com/f-900-torque-seal.html
[Edited on 19/4/11 by hobbsy]
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Bumble
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| posted on 19/4/11 at 08:56 AM |
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Or see here for UK supplier, £5 min order and then the postage killed it for me so I bought a single tube on e-bay.
http://www.lasaero.com/site/products/article?id=D03NIG85X
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 19/4/11 at 09:20 AM |
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I mind doing this with model enamel paint when I had a few nut fall off my last bike. Even the big chrome one on the top if the handle bars fell off,
almost gave me a heart attack!
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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Fred W B
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| posted on 19/4/11 at 11:15 AM |
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Any decent engineers merchant/industrial hardware supplier will have "paint marker pens".
But then maybe England doesn't have any left? Engineering that is.
Cheers
Fred W B
You can do it quickly. You can do it cheap. You can do it right. – Pick any two.
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speedstar
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| posted on 19/4/11 at 11:43 AM |
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Neat trick i learnt from the engine builders at work...
Use tipex to mark the bolt
Then scribe a line along the centre of the tipex (or pencil one in)
That way you can gauge accurately the roation
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