Originally Posted by Rusty

Let me know when you start playing around with 6" and bigger diameter bolts, nuts, and studs. Where you measure torque in the stretch of the stud. Measure the length. Heat it up. Measure again. Keep heating unit you get the length you want. Then screw the nut down.

Another one was to use a stud heater to heat the stud up after you had screwed the nut down tight. Then once the stud grew in length from the heat. You turned the nut down again. Counting the number of flats on the nut you turned. If you couldn't turn the number of flats needed. You kept heating the stud up until you could.