Checking a Torque Wrench

[Triple Jim]

Because Foot Pounds are a unit of work as in 550 ft/lb per second = 1 horsepower

A pound foot is 1 lb force acting on a one foot lever - no work done

It's ok for the average guy to mix up his units but when it happens in engineering manuals and on tools it's too much IMHO

Absolutely!  Mathematically it doesn't make any difference which one comes first since multiplication is commutative, but doing it the way you stated is the convention, and allows a listener or reader to immediately know if you're talking about a torque or an amount of work.

[Triple Jim]

It depends on which post you read.  But in any case, "pounds feet" would be wrong.  Either the variable is pounds, in which case it would be pounds-foot, or the variable is feet, in which case it would be "pound-feet".  Mathematically they're the same.  I've never heard it or read it any way other than "pound-feet", which I suppose would refer to one pound exerted at a variable radius, in feet.

[oldbike54]

 So... if Peter Tork owned a company that made torque wrenches , wait for it





















  Could a monkey (monkee) use it  ::) ;D

  Dusty

[Triple Jim]

We old schools prefer (at least me) foot pounds to pound(s) feet (for torque).

I'm surprised to hear that.  A retired NASA mechanical engineer and family friend, who was about 80 at the time, made a very clear argument that torque is always pound-feet, citing the convention I mentioned above.  I'm only 57, and prefer not to think of myself as old anything yet.   :D

Edit:  It's interesting that with SI units, torque is always Newton-Meters, never Meter-Newtons.

[Larry_77084]

So... if Peter Tork owned a company that made torque wrenches , wait for it





















  Could a monkey (monkee) use it  ::) ;D

  Dusty

wouldn't that be a Monkee Wrench?
 

[oldbike54]

wouldn't that be a Monkee Wrench?
 

  :D :D :D :D
 Well yes , or the Tork Torque wrench  ;D

  Dusty

[clubman]

Glad I use bending beam torque wrenches. If it is zeroed, it is calibrated.
 :BEER:

:+1 Bought mine from Sears in '77 to torque heads on my first BMW. Seems to work pretty good on the Guzzi too! (still zeroed BTW)

[Kiwi_Roy]

You haven't used it as a breaker bar then  ;D

[rodekyll]

So... if Peter Tork owned a company that made torque wrenches , wait for it





















  Could a monkey (monkee) use it  ::) ;D

  Dusty

Quick, Dusty -- what's the plural of tech/mech?

[Chuck in Indiana]

Don't bite.. don't bite..  ;D

[oldbike54]

Don't bite.. don't bite..  ;D

 We need a pac man emo  :D Chomp chomp  ;D

 RK , foundered myownself on the plural of tech/mech this evening . bUUUUUURRRRRRRPPPPP P :food

  Dusty

[Chuck in Indiana]

We need a pac man emo  :D Chomp chomp  ;D

 RK , foundered myownself on the plural of tech/mech this evening . bUUUUUURRRRRRRPPPPP P :food

  Dusty

Dang! We shot horses when they got foundered..

[oldbike54]

Dang! We shot horses when they got foundered..

 Glad I ain't a horse  :o :D Fortunately , still upright  :P

  Dusty

[rodekyll]

We need a pac man emo  :D Chomp chomp  ;D

 RK , foundered myownself on the plural of tech/mech this evening . bUUUUUURRRRRRRPPPPP P :food

  Dusty

I told you before -- the plural is tex-mex.  Delicious!



OK.  So somehow I thought it related to the monkees when I wrote it.  Maybe I'm too sober . . .