QR2 and torque specifications
Pepito Pepito
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Hi, I bought the new QR2 for the DD2 base and two of my wheels, but I saw in the manual and in Fanatec videos, that for some bolts is specified a very particular torque figures. As you can imagine I do not have a torque wrench in my home, and the only ones I know for work are pretty big for this tiny bolts and levels of torque.
Personally, I do not see any sense to expect in a commercial product for general users to require a mini torque wrench to adjust these specific values, also probably 95% of the users will have no clue at all what is the meaning of that number and how they are suppose to get it.
Please could Fanatec tell me how I am supposed to get this very particular torque values required by their manuals?, or at least get some indication of how to get an aprox value by other means?, I do not plan to buy a specialized mechanical tool like this kind of little torque wrenches.
Comments
10 NM is approximately 10 kg of pressure at the end of a 10 cm hex wrench. Push down on a bathroom scale to get a sense of how much 10 kg of pressure is, and that should be good enough.
Small torque wrenches aren't expensive or hard to use, you have just spent a good amount of coin on some high end gear, I wouldn't skimp out on the proper tools to do the job.
it is called "newtonmeter" and not "newtoncentimeter" it is talking about a one meter long lever.
10 newtons are therefore a mass of just over 1 kg.
You've misunderstood. Torsten's calculation is correct.