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Old 15th November 2019, 21:43   #11
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Another question you must ask yourself, if your that worried about accuracy, is "how will i get it calibrated every 6 months or yearly?"

If you're not that worried, don't bother and tighten them by "feel"
Precisely as they go out of calibration, I’ve never seen anyone torque small bolts and nuts
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Old 15th November 2019, 21:45   #12
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Brake bleed nipples are the ones I worry about most when tightening by feel - too loose and brake fluid goes everywhere, too tight and they can snap off or mess up the seating surface in the calipers. I have no idea at all what 5Nm (post 1) feels like.
Put your hand halfway down the spanner and nip up then a slight turn and no way will that leak and you won’t strip the threads either
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Brake bleed nipples are the ones I worry about most when tightening by feel - too loose and brake fluid goes everywhere, too tight and they can snap off or mess up the seating surface in the calipers. I have no idea at all what 5Nm (post 1) feels like.
me neither, no idea what so ever. I do them up with my fingers until I can no longer turn them and then use a spanner. Sometimes the nipple has just gone stiff and a spanner turns the nipple a few more turns but if I can feel the nipple is fully home 1it is feel but I doubt it is another 1/2 turn.
1/5 to a 1/3 may be. I think it varies

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Old 16th November 2019, 09:03   #14
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5Nm is just over 3.5 lbs ft. That means 3.5 pounds of pull on a foot long spanner. 3.5 pounds is less than 2 kilos (think of holding 2 x kilo bags of sugar).
That's a good point. It's 3.68 lbs ft according to this converter - https://www.unitconverters.net/energy/nm-to-ft-lb.htm That's 1.67kg on a 1ft spanner (or rather a 30cm spanner ).
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5Nm is just over 3.5 lbs ft. That means 3.5 pounds of pull on a foot long spanner. 3.5 pounds is less than 2 kilos (think of holding 2 x kilo bags of sugar). When you've stripped or snapped a few, you get the feel for it!!!
Tighten it till it shears off then back off 1/4 turn!
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