Pound Feet ??

[KIRCHNER]

ive been around engine builders, mechanics of all sorts my entire life, never heard the phrase, pound feet, when measuring torque. its been foot pounds for decades. W T F. who dreams this crap up? the purple hair geeks? the pound feet people need to pound salt..

[Chaz]

Kirchy, I'm with ya .. I kind of throw up in my mouth a little when I hear someone say, I just got my new SR20 headed 565 .. it held 870 pound / feet of torque long enough to go just past 1000 on nuts.

I think saying it bass ackwards started with (purple hair) magazine writers in the 90's. There is a place to use it that way, but even then .. I still say it as ft/lbs ..

On the Chaz grading system :

Ft/Lbs .. you been around the block ... a few times.

Lb/footsis .. purple dye newbie.

Newton/meters ... KIA , Subaru or EV ... specialist.


https://www.enginelabs.com/news/torq...ot-pounds-one/

[transomstand]

. who dreams this crap up?

The same people who suddenly renamed cavitation "blowout"

[berdes]

And I thought it was my memory tricks playing again.

[KIRCHNER]

I FIGURED they would have mile long answer to justify the azz ackward term. so its [pound inches] now too. or is it pound mm? hold on, i have to re-glue my eye lashes!

[oldschoolltv]

And a 2000 foot/square home?

[PanRonnie]

My skater was insured for a whole 2 weeks before somebody got a calculator to figure out what the speed was in km/hour at 90 mph

[keith scotton]

They come in all the time wanting COILPACKS for the 1982 outboard they are working on that has fire and runs just fine or so they say.

[KIRCHNER]

Sell em a crank trigger sensor [flying magnet] hee hee!

[HStream1]

Ive refrained from commenting but some time I just Cant hep myself. Pound Feet is actually correct. One has to move the weight (pounds) fefore one can move the distance (Feet). The correct measurement is lbf-ft or “pounds force foot”, which got shorten to lb-ft. The metric guys always have it right, when they express torque in terms of Nm, or Newton-meter. Never have I seen meter-Newtons, but somehow foot-pounds became common verbiage… Okay, lb-ft it is then.

[Chaz]

P/S. Happy New Year, Uncle BBQ ...

[HStream1]

Horsepower - Wikipedia












One mechanical horsepower lifts 550 pounds (250 kg) by 1 foot high in 1 second. I.E Lb/Ft

Hope you and your Deb had a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year as well!!

[FUJIMO]

...hold on, i have to re-glue my eye lashes!

...lol......

[OnPad]

Way to stir things up HStream1. That's how everything is listed in my merc service manuals, that I can't hardly understand.
Cavitation, blowout I thought that was just venting and they were supposed to do that!! Here hold my beer I got this. Oh chit I can't steer!!!

[Will hedrick]

So now we are supposed to stand up for #2 and #1 , man I'm lost..?