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Subject:Re: Why my rear axle nuts got loose
From:Mike S
Date:Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:59:30 -0400

At 03:31 AM 6/12/2010, David Beierl wrote...
>If you get the wrench horizontal, and stand on the very extreme end
>of it with 180 lb / 82 kg that will give you the correct torque.  The
>wrench has to be horizontal.

Or have Isaac Newton stand on the end of a wrench 500 meters long.
That's how you get Newton.meters, isn't it? :-) I guess Newton is a
lightweight.