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Reassuring to hear, cheers! Every page I’ve come across when googling “can you assemble a bb without a torque wrench” said “no you’re going to end up using too little force” so I just figured how difficult it was to get the damn things off in the first place and applied an equivalent amount of strength the other way.. I did grease both threads and spindle (just a smidge) but so did my LBS the last time round so looking forward to taking it out the next time around. Presumably I shouldn’t go back and loosen the things?
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MCamb
You shouldn't need to stand on owt to reach 40Nm unless you're tightening it with a multitool or matchstick. As said, with a regular sized tool it's about as hard as you can without really fucking going for it.