Old timer at the Tulsa hangar said to torque dry, my A&P school said wet, and now I have a bent opinion

Charles Garcia · 2026-09-22T21:10:03.631591+00:00

A guy named Ray with 30 years on King Airs caught me dipping bolts in oil out at a hangar in Tulsa and told me to knock it off, said the manual spec is dry unless it's called out wet. I argued because my school drilled wet into my head, then we went and looked it up and he was right, the torque table was dry and I had been over stretching hardware for months. Two weeks later I watched a young guy snap a prop bolt on a 172 with a wet torque and that kind of settled it for me. So which camp are you in, do you wet torque by habit or do you go straight off the table every time?

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