Torque Wrenches - my answer... (holy smokes!)

[Huw Powell]

>> This is the fundamental problem right here.  One camp sees this as a
>> simple lever arm lengthening, whilst noting that there is a potential
>> pivot point that has no bearing on the problem.  The other camp is
>> trying to complicate the problem by thinking too hard about the pivot
>> point.
> 
> I figured it out finally, without even getting my hands dirty.

The reason that all my thinking was a blind alley, of course, is that 
the torque wrench and 2079 *are* solidly coupled, as if they were bolted 
together.  For some reason I was envisioning the output nub on the 
wrench as rotating thingie, when of course it is locked in place tightly 
against rotation relative to either tool.

Uh well, mea culpa...

I think the lister who suggested that Audi forgot to mention the torque 
wrench handle length was right on the money.

-- 
Huw Powell

http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi

http://www.humanthoughts.org/