Torque wrench for scope

How do you abide this forum, or do you just feed off your own superiority?
The very idea of a forum, to me, is that people of like-minded activities get together and are able to share their experiences, build on other's and together provide a very useful knowledge base and connection of like-minded people.
You just seem intent to be superior to anyone who hasn't done the 50 years down the salt mine that has been your life, and it's getting wearing.
You must be new here, you get used to him.
 
All you need is a little conetrol and no tools other than those God given and designed to tweak the occasional nipple.

K
God knows how all the fine watches and time pieces were put together back in the day...

Hand skills are a thing of the past, however the sheep majority will need a tool for sharpening a knife lol
 
God knows how all the fine watches and time pieces were put together back in the day...

Hand skills are a thing of the past, however the sheep majority will need a tool for sharpening a knife lol
Tim your livelihood depends on the general population lacking a degree of hand skills.

I’m not sure why you expect most people to instinctively know what 10Nm feels like, but at least they’re trying to do it for themselves with the correct tool.

It’s all relative isn’t it, rough cutting wood; no need to even measure, but if I’m doing valve clearances then it’s feeler gauges and micrometers. It’s the same here, fixing your wheeelbarrow; crack on, but if the risk is a potentially knackered £600 scope, why not use the tool for the job.
 
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Tim your livelihood depends on the general population lacking a degree of hand skills.

I’m not sure why you expect most people to instinctively know what 10Nm feels like, but at least they’re trying to do it for themselves with the correct tool.

It’s all relative isn’t it, rough cutting wood; no need to even measure, but if I’m doing valve clearances then it’s feeler gauges and micrometers. It’s the same here, fixing your wheeelbarrow; crack on, but if the risk is a potentially knackered £600 scope, why not use the tool for the job.
I learnt valve clearance's and lapping valves from the age of 12/13 as Dad use to make and tune 350/500 JAP engines running on dope around 12-1 compression out in the sheds at the back of the house. The frames were made here all except the wheels and seats. The bikes were Finn Grass track bikes with Alf Hagon being Dads biggest competitor so I learnt from a young age thank you very much... He was a builder so knocking up a gauge of muck and running it to him in a wheel barrow doing extensions was second nature...
That bike is hand built and still in the shed, Dad is gone but what I learnt from him is still there, the other person in the picture is Tony Steggles




SO IF I DON'T WANT TO USE A TOURE WRENCH I WON'T SO CRACK ON. 🤫

Major Honours​

World Longtrack Championship
Qualifying Round: 1975, 1976, 1977.

European Longtrack Championship
Qualifying Round: 1970.

European Grasstrack Championship
Semi-final: 1979.

British Masters Championship
Appearances: 1982.

British Championship
500cc: Second 1978.
This man taught me how to turn and rode Dads bikes

Harry Godding​

Nationality: England.
Class: Solos.

Major Honours​

Eastern Centre Champion: 500cc 1971, 1973; 350cc 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974.
 
Wow. I’m almost afraid to post after the heated debate I’ve just read above.
I didn’t train as an engineer. I know what FT is, and not wanting to strip small bolt threads or mark scopes I use a torque wrench.
TOPEAK cycle torque wrench. Less than £20.
Dead simple and accurate. Been using one for the last 5 years.

 
I learnt valve clearance's and lapping valves from the age of 12/13 as Dad use to make and tune 350/500 JAP engines running on dope around 12-1 compression out in the sheds at the back of the house. The frames were made here all except the wheels and seats. The bikes were Finn Grass track bikes with Alf Hagon being Dads biggest competitor so I learnt from a young age thank you very much... He was a builder so knocking up a gauge of muck and running it to him in a wheel barrow doing extensions was second nature...
That bike is hand built and still in the shed, Dad is gone but what I learnt from him is still there, the other person in the picture is Tony Steggles




SO IF I DON'T WANT TO USE A TOURE WRENCH I WON'T SO CRACK ON. 🤫

Major Honours​

World Longtrack Championship
Qualifying Round: 1975, 1976, 1977.

European Longtrack Championship
Qualifying Round: 1970.

European Grasstrack Championship
Semi-final: 1979.

British Masters Championship
Appearances: 1982.

British Championship
500cc: Second 1978.
This man taught me how to turn and rode Dads bikes

Harry Godding​

Nationality: England.
Class: Solos.

Major Honours​

Eastern Centre Champion: 500cc 1971, 1973; 350cc 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974.


Great stuff. And what a way to learn.
My Dad was a miner and a semi pro musician. I never learnt to hew coal in a 2’ shaft as he did when a small boy, but I did learn to play a couple of musical instruments and have the ability to recognise most songs within the first two/three bars.
That doesn’t help me with deer stalking much !
 
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