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I’m about to start my build, and I’ve learned that my definition of “moderate force” would strip the threads. Luckily, I have a torque screwdriver-thingy I bought after stripping out a couple scope mounts…
Could someone let me know how hard to torque the screws down?
And for the record I did not break it, I was just testing its durability.
I had the same question in mind when I built my machine. I just winged it. For no reason in particular I picked 20 in-lbs. Torqued all the fasteners I could use the torque screwdriver on and the ones I couldn’t I tried to match the effort it took with the torque screwdriver. I used Loctite on everything.
So far, my use of the machine would be considered very light and it works well. I don’t know what is going to happen when I start cutting more difficult pieces.