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Old 06-17-22, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Iride01
Learn to tighten things just enough and you won't need a torque wrench. If what you tightened later loosens or slips then tighten it a little tighter next time.

Many of the torques specified are the maximum torque they don't want you to exceed. Not the torque you must be at.

It's a bicycle.

If you have to have two or three torque wrenches then figure out which you'll use the most and get a good one. The one you use the least can be a cheapo

Or, instead of the breaking torque wrench get a beam torque wrench which are accurate and usually inexpensive. Their only negative for me is sometimes they are difficult to read from the position you have to use them from.
I disagree with this advice, especially with carbon parts and bits

Once I got a torque wrench it was surprising to me as to what things I was over tightening, but even more at what I was under tightening.

I like the park for small stuff 4- 6 nm https://www.parktool.com/en-us/produ...y=Torque+Tools

is use this 3/8 for bigger nm but it is not currently available....https://smile.amazon.com/Pro-Bike-To...ef_=ast_sto_dp

also have beam for higher torques and while cheaper, it is more of a pain to use without a helper
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