My DIY edition is supposed to arrive today, and in my excitement, I began overthinking things. I have a small torque wrench, and figured “hey, why not get things as perfect as possible”.
I found a reddit thread (here) where the stated torque was 1.5-2.0 Kgf-cm. My torque wrench is labelled in inch lbs, but a commenter claimed to have done the conversion to 21-28 inch pounds.
However, every other source of conversion I can find is stating 1.3-1.8 inch lbs. which is unfortunately lower than my torque wrench can go, and also way lower than the commenter stated.
Can anyone clarify which is correct? I definitely don’t want to over-tighten by an OOM.
And yes, I realize that this is completely unnecessary and that simply hand tightening with the provided screw driver would be sufficient, but like they say: no kill like overkill!
~14.2 inch-pounds is enough to meet UL standards for #10-32 ground wire connections in certain electrical applications. 21-28 inch-pounds will likely snap the heads off some of the Framework fasteners.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure they commenter got the conversion wrong now (I hope they figured it out before breaking their screws!). Since my wrench’s lower limit is 10 inch pounds, I guess I’ll just be going with hand tight.
My dreams of completely, unnecessarily, precise construction are out the window!
Hey at least your laptop had all the screws/bolts unlike the door plug that was reassembled by the “Home BBQ Builders of America” team that was working on the Boeing planes!
“Hey Bob, you know what these extra bolts in this bag are for? … Ok I will just put them in the extra parts drawer”
