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- Aug 30, 2018
An argument I'm having with a high end bicycle owner that the torque specs the bike manufacturer is giving out for non critical components on bicycles are just superfluous and only exist so customers can feel more " high techy". Naturally he is now furious and waving his 1/8 " torque wrench at me.
Things like seat post clamps, brake levers and just basic bolted on parts which are usually stainless bolts into aluminium fittings. I was taught that torque specs on the Diesel engines I worked on were only for the first set down, after that the metal had moved or the bolt stretched and the initial spec was then redundant?
What do you think ?
Things like seat post clamps, brake levers and just basic bolted on parts which are usually stainless bolts into aluminium fittings. I was taught that torque specs on the Diesel engines I worked on were only for the first set down, after that the metal had moved or the bolt stretched and the initial spec was then redundant?
What do you think ?