hi all, a bit of help please with this?
I've a torque wrench which is the two beam type with a scale and pointer on one beam like this:
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now, the instructions are a bit vague: "tighten until you reach the desired torque"
i can see two ways to interpret that. lets say im tightening a bolt on a stem and aiming for 5Nm. while tightening and while the bolt is still rotating the pointer can reach 5Nm. is this the time to stop? (bolt is still slowly rotating as the beam straightens itself)
or, is the correct torque reached later on when the bolt has stopped rotating, and just pushing past 5Nm on the scale starts it off again?
i think the latter, but i'd rather be sure!
It's the former.
With a long handled torque wrench and a small diameter (and/or soft metal) bolt the fixing would snap or strip the thread before it stopped turning!
Hi, just so I'm clear, youre saying it's when the pointer reaches 5 even if the bolt is still turning?
