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Originally Posted by texadelphia
The way I figure, I weigh 150 lbs and I was pulling down on the torque wrench so if it's about a foot long the most I could put into it would be 150 ft-lbs before I was doing pull ups on the torque wrench. Lol. But it might be a little longer than a foot. Still seems like there should be a bigger factor of safety on the hardware.
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Just so nobody makes the mistake of assuming their mass (weight) is small enough to hang on a torque wrench - the lbs in ft-lbs is pounds - force. You need to multiply your mass (150 lbs) by the acceleration of gravity to get the true force. I believe gravity is ~32 ft / sec^2. Thus, a 1 ft long torque wrench with you hanging off it would be 4,800 ft-lbs of torque.