Torque wrench for chain adjustment

[Hairsy]

Public Service Announcement on behalf of the subset of the population who restore bikes that have been unloved for a few years

 

PLEASE USE TORQUE WRENCHES!

[Simon Davey]

14 minutes ago, Hairsy said:

Public Service Announcement on behalf of the subset of the population who restore bikes that have been unloved for a few years

 

PLEASE USE TORQUE WRENCHES!

 

Have you broken it? 

[Hairsy]

12 minutes ago, Simon Davey said:

 

Have you broken it? 

 

Not this one - yet.

[Fiddlesticks]

Was quite impressed with a recent episode of Matt's Off Road Recovery where he made reference to getting grief for not torquing up bolts. "I do torque them up", he said, "I just don't use a torque wrench".

One of his kids looked a bit skeptical, so tested his work with a torque wrench. It was spot on.

[curlylegend]

1 hour ago, Fiddlesticks said:

Was quite impressed with a recent episode of Matt's Off Road Recovery where he made reference to getting grief for not torquing up bolts. "I do torque them up", he said, "I just don't use a torque wrench".

One of his kids looked a bit skeptical, so tested his work with a torque wrench. It was spot on.

Engineers Feel !

[RideWithStyles]

Doesnt mean all or even some can do it let alone consistently. Now for frilly things you could get away with but for major thing like wheels, brakes, engines etc, no.

if it all goes wrong then the nugget has no excuse other than to say their a dick head that didnt use it, I got payed to do a job, should have used it, at fault then they are fully liable to it Not much use if they injured or killed somebody due to it is it?

 

young lad I know gave a simple brake job to a garage to do…failed to do it right- wheel came off a few miles down the road- luckily didn't hit or crash into anybody but damaged the car, they tried to blame him for it but not good nor excuse when they it had only just left their care…

[Hairsy]

6 hours ago, RideWithStyles said:

Doesnt mean all or even some can do it let alone consistently.

 

This is absolutely right.

 

Also in these days of exotic metals, strong composites, etc, very few people actually know exactly what the right torque setting is for every nut & bolt. Even if they could accurately get a torque setting within 1 Nm, do they really know what it should be in the first place?

[muldoon74]

Wasn't expecting a resurrection of the thread a few months on but....

 

Bought a "bar" style torque wrench from amazon and correct sized socket however..

 

Socket didn't have correct fitting (3/8th etc) so had to buy an adjuster bolt/socket thingy.. 

 

So having to then fiddle with the exhaust to move it out the way so I could use said tools I eventually got chain tightened as per specs (as far as manual adjustment goes..)

 

nearly 300 miles on (weathers been utter  crap here, not been out as much as would have hoped) it's probably time to do it again. 

 

At least this time I know the fidgety previously unknown bits..

 

I guess its all about learning. 

[RideWithStyles]

It will be quicker as you’ll get to know the best way like :

chock the tyre and raise it abit or more to help get it in or out, only need quarter or half a turn to make it have 5mm less slack to get it within spec, I need two wrenches as the axle has a habit of spinning around until it’s at 80% to torque …the little things.