Newton Metres?

[Palaeodom]

Thanks for the advice, was worried about bolting the carbon stuff and not exceeding the torque tolerance.

 

Looks like santa will have to exchange the really cool little toys for a torque wrench.

[crasher]

With carbon dont take a chance get a torque wrench the first bars or post you damage (hopefully not frame) will far out weigh the price of the wrench.

 

I am less fussy with my alloy frame and components but take great care when tightning onto carbon.

 

Plus if you are OCD like me its nice to know when everything is torqued no worries of did I over or under tighten this or that bolt.

 

I find when checking carbon stuff I have always undertightned it by hand but I think thats the fear factor

[Shebeen]

would this work? not as accurate bu way cheaper

 

http://www.scalesonline.com/images/largeImages/PelouzeSportsman.jpg

 

say you need to tighten to 15nm and your spanner is 20cm long

 

then you would hook this onto the spanner (at 20cm from the fulcrum)

and pull

15/(/0.20) = 75nm roughly 7.5kg.

 

or am i barking totally up the wrong tree. physics 1 was a long time ago.

 

 

this example is only 9 bucks($$)

http://www.scalesonline.com/395/HangingFishing%20Scales/Pelouze-7826-Sportsman-Scale.aspx