[Shop-talk] Inch pounds

[neiljsherry at talktalk.net]

12 pounds at the rim will be way too much. If steering wheel is 15" diameter it will 7.5" radius and your 12 pounds will give 90 inch pounds, not 12!

On 24 May 2020 21:20:31 BST, Eric Russell via Shop-talk <shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:
>Maybe a fish scale would give you an approx estimate of 12 lbs pull at 
>the rim?
>
>On 5/24/2020 2:20 PM, Robert Nogueirao via Shop-talk wrote:
>> Folk I’m  rebuilding a steering box.  The manual says to set the peg
>thrust adjustment so it takes 12 inch pounds at the rim of the steering
>wheel to over come the “high spot” or resistance.
>> I have always heard of ‘inch pounds’ as a measure of torque. If so,
>would it not be measured from the center of the steering wheel?
>> Lacking a inch pound torque wrench my plan was to hang a one lbs
>weight 12 inches from the center of the wheel and make the adjustment
>until the weight can over come the resistance and falls.
>> Is this what you think the author meant?
>> Bob Nogueira
>
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