Colin Constant <PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu> wrote:

> I'm starting to do some things with stepper motors, and I'm trying
> to get just kind of an intuitive feel for torque specs.  Like, if I
> was tightening a nut on a 1/4 in. bolt, with just my fingers, about
> how many g-cm could I exert on it?
>
> I should mention that my confusion has nothing to do with the
> metric units; I'd be just as clueless in imperial.

Colin:

"Finger-tight" is around 5 lb-in.  453.6 grams in a pound, 2.54
centimeters in an inch... So 5 lb-in = 5760 g-cm.

-Andy

=== Andrew Warren -- aiw@cypress.com
=== Principal Design Engineer
=== Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
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