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Am used to 40 Nm (tight) 60 Nm ('kin tight) and even 120 Nm ('kin hell) but 5 Nm? Is that like finger tight + one turn
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giveusaclue
Finger tight holding the short end of an Allen key.
Warm apple pie 🙂
it feels surprisingly gentle, and 7nm feels surprisingly tight.
Pick up a 5nm Torque Key from somewhere- it's an amazingly useful tool.
My proper torque wrench gets very little use comparatively.
And it made my reverb work properly- I was over tightening the seatclamp and stopping the post moving smoothly.
In fact I would say the two most important additions to my toolkit this year are the torque key and fibergrip. Now nothing is overtightened...
3.6 ft-lbf
The strength I would use to choke a small shrew but only to teach it a lesson. Any more and I think i'd hurt it. Yes I'm talking about your Mr Shrew enjoying my shed like it was no ones business. 7nm next time!
Tighter than 4nm but a little less tight than 6nm.
Buy a torque wrench. I picked up a Sealey one from Amazon for £23.99 and its been fantastic.
think 'nipple clamps' - tight enough to feel the benefit, not so tight that you start to worry about permanent damage.
Like warm apple pie
Like warm apple pie
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You'll need a 1.5m breaker bar and a 15 stone gorilla to hang off it. When both are at max, veins distended, eyeballs popping etc, that's exactly 5nm.
HTH.
A wee nip.
Racist ?
+1 for the ritchey torque key.
ok thanks folks 🙂
As always with anything (especially alloy) tighten it till you feel the threads strip and then back it off 1/4 of a turn.
What other 5nm torque key than ritchey?
What's wrong with the Ritchey?