Torque screwdriver !!!!!

[Soi disant]

Yet another resurrected thread, your insomnia is getting worse.

Ah - but this time an update with a valid point about a regulation which was new and not in force at the time of the thread ?

 

[Strima]

One of the bits of kit I'm installing at the minute is made in Mexico and the DC power studs are #10-32 with a recommended maximum torque setting of 2.26Nm.

I haven't snapped one yet as I'm using my torque driver but the customers own installation teams have snapped two off meaning each unit has to be sent back to the factory on Mexico to be repaired...

Glad I bought it now as it could get a bit costly snapping them off...

 

[Mike Johnson]

Prefer this:

 

[Soi disant]

One of the bits of kit I'm installing at the minute is made in Mexico and the DC power studs are #10-32 with a recommended maximum torque setting of 2.26Nm.

No minimum?

Just do them finger tight, then, and you'll be bound to be below the maximum.

No, but seriously - that's a madly exact figure, arrived at by some brain-dead conversion process with no concept of ± to some sensible metric value. If accuracy down to 10‾² Nm was really necessary then they'd have to specify adjustments for temperature. I bet that any value between 2.15 & 2.35 would be fine.

the customers own installation teams have snapped two off

Are they from Mexico too?