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Subject:Re: does mkp = Nm? (torque specs)
From:Derek Drew
Date:Mon, 5 Oct 1998 08:25:47 -0400

Thanks. Yes I ordred your axel nuts and they are on the way. It
might be a few more weeks however.

At 10:50 AM 10/3/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Derek Drew wrote:
>
>> I have a pile of torque wrenches here. Some of them are
calibrated
>> in mKp and some in cmkp. I do not know what these measurements
are.
>> Is it correct to say that 1 mKp is = to 1 Newton Meter (NM in
>> Bentley)? If so, then apparently 100 cmkp = 1NM.
>
>Hi Derek,
>
>My new torque wrench came with a conversion table which includes
CMKG.
>I will quote the formulas with CMKG:
>1 KpCM = 1 CMKG
>1 CMKG = .098 Nm
>1 CMKG = 13.887 IN-OZ
>1CMKG =  0.08677 IN-LB
>
>
>mKp is not included, however "MKg" is, as is "KpM."
>1 KpM = 1 MKg
>1 MKg = 9.80665 Nm
>1 MKg = 7.233 FT-LB
>
>The main conversion table includes "kilo-gram Meters" as "Kgm" or"
mkp"
>alongside Foot-Pounds and Newton Meters.   What are KpM?  Maybe a
typo
>for KgM.  mKp might be the same as KpM, no?  Now I'm confused.
>
>Hope this allows you to take that "pile" and line them up
somewhere.
>
>BTW, did you decide to buy those locking wheel nuts for the front
of the
>syncro ?.  I'm still in for 6, if so.
>--
>David Bogle
>
>'72 Campmobile 2.0L
>'87 Vanagon GL Syncro Westfalia
>

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