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Re:How We Email Hardware to Space by robodale on Thursday December 18, 2014 @01:54PM (#8768955)
As a (Mechanical) engineer, I would respond by saying you turn a bolt with a plastic wrench just like any other wrench, providing the moment of torsion provided by the person turning the wrench does not exceed the shear strength of the wrench material.
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Re:How We Email Hardware to Space by mschuster91 on Thursday December 18, 2014 @02:32PM (#8769197)
I'd guess the wrench isn't the problem - rather the nut which is in direct contact with the metal screw's edges and bound to fail very soon.

Is it possible to UV-harden the plastic maybe to give it a harder surface?

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