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Unpopular opinion: the new guy who asked me why we torque to spec had a point and it bugged me
Had a helper on the line at our shop in Fort Worth last Tuesday ask me straight up why we chase torque values on connector shells when "hand tight plus a nudge" has worked forever. I gave him the usual line about the manual and moved on, but then I spent the rest of my shift thinking about it. Two of the intermittent faults I chased last month traced back to loose backshells that nobody wrote up because they "felt fine." He pulled the spec and it turns out we were overtorquing some of the smaller shells by about 15 percent, which is enough to stress the threads over time. I ended up printing the torque table and taping it to the bench, and he looked at me like I was the one who learned something. How do you all handle it when a rookie question makes you rethink a habit you picked up a decade ago?
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