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AXSR Action screws

tna9001

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Hello All,

How are you torquing the #2 action screw? It looks to me that you'd have to use a ball end bit but, wouldn't that make the torque required to meet the spec higher?

Saying it another way, do ball end hex bits apply the same force to the screw for a given torque setting on the wrench as a regular bit?

Thanks for the replies!


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Looking at the whole page of the manual, it recommends using a 5/32" ball end wrench for fastener #2 so I'd think if A.I. is putting it in their manual, they've determined it to be safe, just don't use a junky bit. I use an extended 3/16" ball end bit from Fix It Sticks to torque the action screws on my AX AICS chassis to 65 in/lbs and have never had any issues.

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Looking at the whole page of the manual, it recommends using a 5/32" ball end wrench for fastener #2 so I'd think if A.I. is putting it in their manual, they've determined it to be safe, just don't use a junky bit. I use an extended 3/16" ball end bit from Fix It Sticks to torque the action screws on my AX AICS chassis to 65 in/lbs and have never had any issues.

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I saw that, it’s just counter intuitive, not that my intuition means anything. It just seems from a mechanical standpoint that the applied torque would be different between a bit at an angle versus straight on.
 
The fix it sticks bits are trash. Limiters are great but their bits are trash. Replaced all of mine with either Milwaukee, Wiha, and Wera.

But fuck that bolt placement lol. Truth be told, I started to strip the bolt using the FiS extended ball but and should (aka need to) replace the bolt.

That said, just get a good ball bit and torque it to spec.


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Anyone have the AXSR action bolt spec?
 
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About the overthinking. I talked to two engineers I know, one structural and the other aeronautical. They both said the same thing (as I understood). Using a ball head driver will result in a decrease in torque for a given torque input to the driver because the torque is being applied off axis from the fastener, the greater the angle off axis, the greater the discrepancy.

So, the action screws on the AXSR are supposed to be torqued to 49 in-lb, if you set your torque wrench to 49 in-lb and use a ball head driver and the driver is off axis relative to the fastener then the fastener will be tightened to a value less than 49 in-lb. They also said that there isn't a standardized correction factor. My AXSR shoots just fine with that one fastener being set to an unknown torque setting, it just seems odd that a company like AI would create a design where a deterministic variable like a specific torque setting is now just another variable with no definition.