by bgsengine » Mon Mar 25, 2019 4:55 pm
120 inch pounds ain't all that much really. can easily get well over 200 inch pounds just by average hand strength on a 10 inch box wrench. (You can "practice" a bit with ordinary wrench on ordinary bolts and "guess" your torque on some test materials, then check it with a torque wrench to see how much torque it takes to move it further, and develop a feel for torque that way too....You'd be surprised how much more torque you have applied to a screw than you think you have... I still have a particular set of wrenches and ratchets I'll use when I need to get my torque "in range" without using a torque wrench, and be reasonably confident it is pretty close... handy to have that "feel" developed over time when you are dealing with a tight spot or a field repair where you can't have your whole toolbox along...)
How poor are they who have not patience. What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? - Iago (Othello Act II, Scene 3)