I will have to recheck my facts about the quill shaft and get back to you. Unfortunately the design is still considered classified since we are still using it today. So I cannot post pictures at the moment, but there may be an older design I can show. I had always believed the same about how...
I think you may have misunderstood my question, and yes I realized my units were wrong after I typed it. First, forget that you are even using a "Torque wrench" because it doesn’t matter what the gage reads or what the wrench breaks at, in fact using the click or breakaway type wrench would...
I am a Nuclear Reactor Mechanic in the US Navy, and I have run into a disagreement between my peers and I on the proper use of torque wrenches. The situation is simple... (NOTE: these numbers are arbitrary for consistency) You have a dial type torque wrench with a 1 foot handle and you apply...