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Torque and Tightening

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Request: How to use a torque wrench to tighten bolts on bicycle components.

Status: We need more parts and/or tools before I can produce this tutorial. Any bike shop or company who is willing to donate parts/tools for this tutorial will receive credit. Contact me if you are interested.

3 Requests for this tutorial:

  1. Matthieu on October 6th, 2009 5:01 pm

    I wanted to propose a tutorial on how to know how much force to apply when tightening everything down. Newton-meters don’t mean much to a newbie like me.

  2. Andrew on October 6th, 2009 5:01 pm

    Be sure to include a disclaimer as someone will no doubt destroy a $10k bike doing something stupid like over-torquing carbon.

  3. Keith on October 6th, 2009 5:02 pm

    I’m also interested in your perspectives on the use of torque wrenches and whether that’s genuinely necessary, or not.

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