Torque question

[Huw Powell]

> That may be true but we are not applying a torque at the end of the 2079
> tool. This joint is not the rotational axis of the combined tool. We are
> applying a force that is measured as a torque by the wrench. The rotational
> axis is still at the socket end attached to the crank bolt.
>
> You're mixing things here so that's why things stay confusing.

And what of the joint in the middle, about which the torque is being 
applied, and exhibits motion between the two tools?

What is really needed here, of course, is less of us playing armchair 
physicist, and someone actually performing a simple expleriment or two.

Which, at the rate this discussion is escalating, I may be moved to do 
myself by this weekend... if I have stuff lying around I can perform the 
tests with.

-- 
Huw Powell

http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi

http://www.humanthoughts.org/