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Originally Posted by Nezil
It annoys me that when you buy torque wrenches here in the US, almost all of them have the primary scale as lb-ft rather than Nm...
Most fasteners have swapped to metric, as have the torque specs, so why are the torque wrenches labelled in simply numbers of lb-ft on the front, and odd Nm scales with each line meaning some fraction of a unit etc.
I resorted to buying my torque wrenches from Europe and importing them to solve this problem, but I wish US tool suppliers would offer at least the option for Nm primary scale.
... rant over!
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Even when the US tries to use metric...we fail. (e.g. USA: Liter, rest of the world: Litre
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