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what is "super nut"?

what is "super nut"?

what is "super nut"?

(OP)
my contractor said there are no tools available to torque the bolts as is and ask for super nuts. What's that? Nuts work with smaller sockets?
Thanks

MSc. Mechanical Engineering;
6 years EPC experience;
Oil & Gas industry in Canada.

RE: what is "super nut"?

For a while there I thought you were asking about a certain person vying for the Presidency.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia.)

RE: what is "super nut"?

The people in the clown van are known as wingnuts not supernuts.

RE: what is "super nut"?

Don't know, but seems like it will solve all your problems. Good thing to put in a spec.

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