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Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2014 6:03 pm**

meles meles wrote:It's going be a lot cheaper to get a colour chart and calibrate your knuckles, ooman.

Pink = not enough inch pounds
Magnolia = just right
White = too many inch pounds
Bright red with a bit of bone showing = finger slipped off the wrench and sliced along the receiver

Priceless!

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:24 pm**

I have one of these http://www.clasohlson.com/uk/Torque-Wrench/Pr408300000

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:26 pm**

Torque wrenches?

"Hand tight and a quarter turn" has always done me right.

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:28 pm**

That's the magnolia knuckle setting...

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:58 pm**

SevenSixTwo wrote:Torque wrenches?

"Hand tight and a quarter turn" has always done me right.

That might work with some stuff but I doubt that the poi would be consistent when changing barrels with that's method mate! Lol

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2014 9:04 pm**

Perhaps worth noting 1" lb is ~0.113Nm - perhaps something like one of these (although not a t-driver style) might be usable: http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/x-to ... -prod11142 or http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/cycl ... -prod32396

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2014 8:23 pm**

+1 on the clasohlson

TW

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2014 8:32 pm**

Dannywayoflife wrote:
SevenSixTwo wrote:Torque wrenches?

"Hand tight and a quarter turn" has always done me right.
That might work with some stuff but I doubt that the poi would be consistent when changing barrels with that's method mate! Lol

thats why God invented adjustable sights tongueout

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