black'n'yellow
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No, you had no point. You just gave an alternate, imaginary scenario and decided it was fact.
to be fair, you don't actually know why the bar failed - so your 'imaginary scenario' is just as worthless as mine.
No, you had no point. You just gave an alternate, imaginary scenario and decided it was fact.
By the time you gain this experience, you have potentially cost yourself well in excess of the price of a torque wrench in parts you have compromised!
I would learn to do without, if the consequences didn't cost me anything, however, when I am working with hundreds of pounds, maybe even thousands of pounds worth of my own cash, I would much prefer to just use a tool designed for the task.
aaarggh . you wont unless you are a ham fisted gorilla . I often wondered what thew UK would be like when engineering SKILLS died out. i think i might have seen it. programmers all sat with a torque wrench.
i think one of the best ones i have seen with a torque wrench was comebody confusing ft lbs and ft In so even using a torque wrench a spanner mangler will feck it up. feel is a great skill to posses. buy some bolts and have a practice . what we used to do on our apprenticeships practice, practice practice
BTW, I have worked as a fitter and electrician myself, we didn't use torque wrenches (and we weren't shy of putting a 6 ft bar on the end of a wrench either), but then again we were working on heavy machinery with bolts as fat as a babys arm, this is not relevant to the bike since those machines were not made of carbon fibre or heavily machined aluminium with tight tolerances and going to be hurtling along at speed with me or anyone else aloft. Choices are made according to the specific task. I don't go pulling out my torque wrench to assemble flat pack furniture either, but for my bike, yes I will use one.
Finally, someone whose opinion matches my own.
fixed that for you.
Getting a bit desperate now black'n'decker.
I work in inches in what I do for a living. I can spot differences as small as 1/32 of an inch with my naked eye. I still confirm with a measure. Why? Because I'm a professional, and errors will just ruin everything and make more work for myself. I could do it all by experience and judgement, but why? Some sort of ego trip? No thanks, I take pride in what I do.
Enough.....give it a rest both of you.