Torque wrenches are not necessary John. While they "may" be useful if you've never tightened a bolt in your life, they can also lead one right over a cliff if you trust "the numbers" without question. While number in themselves cannot lie, neither can they offer the truth. People's opinions about the numbers is where things go to awry, even "instructions" from someone you may trust. Oh how many times have I uttered and heard the ol' "all you gotta do is ..... "..... and seen the foolery of it.
Marketing is very clever as it suggests and emphasizes "a problem", that of course, they just so happen to have the "the solution" for. It preys on self-doubt and sells itself as offering all that you, according to them, lack. It's all bunk. Everyone has within themselves the very Brilliance of which no man-made-super-computer could ever even scratch the surface of. You know how to tighten a bolt John ! On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 6:08:46 PM UTC-4 John Phillips wrote: > Thank you for all your responses, and thank you George for the reminding > me of that earlier thread. I read the whole thread more carefully this time. > > So I pulled out a short torx head wrench and felt much more in control > relying on my fingers to feel my way. I'm just going to stick with my > pinkies from now on. I was installing bamboo handlebars in a Paul Boxcar > stem, and having no experience with either, I thought, "Don't take any > chances, use the torque wrench." > > That torque wrench is now $250 at REI, so it wasn't a cheap one. I must > have used my annual membership dividend to buy it, but I was hoping I was > getting what I paid for at the time. > > Thanks again everyone, John > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/88f91933-b163-483d-bedc-b7e1b2004550n%40googlegroups.com.
