Your Torque Wrench?
Based on many posts here, it seems that many of you travel with a torque wrench. I have never owned or even used one, and I have turned many a nut or bolt with torque specifications just by guessing....
Forum Discussion
dave54 wrote:
For those that do their own bicycling wrenching, the newer bikes with lightweight alloy and carbon fiber components, a good accurate torque wrench is mandatory. On some of the screws the torque range is only 3-4 ft lbs wide, (foot inches in some cases). So your old torque wrench with a 3 lb error may ruin an expensive bike.
But if you put out the money for that kind of bike you probably also have a precision torque wrench made for bikes.
"foot inches"???
Ft. lbs, yes.
lbs/ft, yes.
inch lbs, yes.
lb/inches, yes.
and, of course the metric equivalents, whatever they are.
But foot inches is a new one.
