Personally (and this is very bad advice, so ignore) I've been using the 'one vein in the neck, pulling a funny face & a loud grunt' method

 

Haha! It doesn't take a lot of torque for me to be pulling a funny face, I'll have to calibrate...

 

I'm usually about 1/8 to 1/4 turn accurate with my spider, so I don't always bother with the wrench.

Unless it's a car I'm unfamiliar with.

Then again, it's the simian-sensitivity massive over-tighteners I cannot stand.

 

Strange people not liking ft/lbs been used for generations. Still buy your beer in Pints don't you.

 

Only because the bar man is still stuck in the past too

 

Just the bar man stuck in the past is it. I thought the whole country bought their beer in PINTS. Get a life man.

 

You're right the whole country is stuck in the past...

That better?

 

The method i use is normally in the feel of my arm. but then i have been tightening bolts up all my life and do have good feel. On balance i tighten much more than the recommended torque.

But i really do think most people should use a torque wrench and it really is the best and safest advice that one can give.

But don't forget a torque wrench takes in to account all of the forces that act on the nut/bolt. Thread friction, dirt , dent's, scratch's, lubrication, the fit between both thread parts which all add to the pressure and friction between the components being joined by the fastener. So the worst case would be a nut not actually doing any thing to hold the 2 parts securely together.

Boring !

Mine is 26 fl ounces, please

Is that a pint ?

Or .6 of a litre

Don't dam well check and prove me wrong, its all a guesstimate

 

960 in-lbs for me.

 

Short spanners then